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The Boob Tube

The Boob Tube (1975)

Great Nudity!
  • Directed by: Christopher Odin
  • Rated: R
  • Home Release: 10/15/1975
  • Country: USA
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Review

Good lord, how long has it been now since I’ve seen a good movie? It feels like forever, and with garbage like The Boob Tube on my list, the future looks mighty bleak. A one-hour bunch of TV parodies gussied up to look like a movie, this rip-off of the 1974 cult favorite, The Groove Tube, is so cheap, unfunny, and poorly made that it’ll remind you of your dad’s home movies. You know the ones, where the title-cards are written in pen and the cast consists of your little cousin Sandy, your kid brother, the next door neighbor’s retarded son, and old uncle Horace? The only difference here is that the cast is marginally better looking and mostly naked. But as far as acting goes, old uncle Horace wouldn’t be out of place.The majority of this flick is a parody of a soap opera, consisting of a young doctor trying to deal with all the women who keep knocking on his door asking for sex. Way to explore the boundaries of the concept of narrative, writing team!But to really get to know how bad this flick is, you’ve got to hear some dialogue.Masseuse: Come back later and I’ll give you a massage on the house.Teenage girl: I’d rather have it on the floor!Wow, that’s pretty bad. How about this?Cheerleader: Hey Doc, you might have noticed when I came in that, on a scale of one to ten, I’m about a sixty-nine.BAM! See what she did? She said sixty-nine! Oh, delicious.As far as the production values of this film go, the writing puts them to shame. Every scene takes place in front of the same two blue walls, no matter where it’s supposed to happen and the lighting looks like it came from a $9 flashlight using secondhand batteries. In place of wall decorations, some scenes actually have pages of the newspaper ripped out and stuck on with tape. In others, they’re simply drawn on with crayon. Seriously.This kind of flick was produced, written, performed, and acted far better a few years later with The Kentucky Fried Movie, and maybe when this flick was released without the latter movie to compare it to, it passed muster… But I seriously doubt it. I dare anyone to watch this and not shake their head in bewilderment at how anyone could possibly have considered this material or these actors to be even close to worth putting to film. In all probability, those involved probably didn’t expect that we’d still be watching their crappy little 60-minute flick thirty years later, but that shouldn’t excuse such an awful lack of quality in every single aspect of the production.Christopher Odin, the writer/director of this mess, never worked in the film world again after this was released. That’s no shame, as it looks like only one take was used for every scene, no editing was done to cover up errors of bad focus, and comedic timing was something completely foreign to him. Amazingly, there was a sequel to this film two years later, The Boob Tube Strikes Again, but even on a project that ill-conceived, there was still no part in proceedings for Chris Odin.If you gave me $38, a pawnshop video camera, two large pepperoni pizzas, six unemployed people, and a set of blue walls, I could do better than this film in a single day of shooting.Heck, so could old uncle Horace.Nudity Report: Anyone female in this thing gets naked, starting with the yummy mummy Lois Lane, who shows a great set of supercans and a nice patch of Krypton curtains. Then there’s Lyllah Torena, playing a pre-teen girl, who shows her full compliment of private parts even though her face would stop a mule in its tracks. Then there’s the fake blonde glory of Elana Casey. How do we know she’s a fake blonde? Guess. Finally, Sharon Kelly, veteran of countless softcore T&A flicks, appears often and rarely in any state but totally full-frontal naked. Have mercy!Ratings: IMDB: 4.3/10, OZ: 1/100 - Oh yes, it’s that bad.Versions: CABLE TV – It’s tough to find this in any form. Grab an old VHS copy from eBay maybe, but good luck tracking one down.Written by: OZ