Much of Groove Tube is satirical so it would be nice for the viewer to have as many personal references, as possible, to that which is being satirized.There is no way to fully appreciate Kramp Easy Lube's kitchen segment unless you had to endure the original Kraft recipe TV segments. Shapiro's "way too calm" narration and hand movements are classic but the ridiculous directions are mostly funny because none of us could follow Kraft's original directions either.I give credit to those younger people that see the creativity in this film but I understand where many don't get it."Trying to tell a stranger 'bout rock and roll".As to Mr. Shapiro, I, too, have wondered for years how a perfect successor to Mad Magazine, and predecessor to SNL, can just drop off the map of creative irreverence. Maybe I don't want to know.In any case, Ken Shapiro's genius lives on in the digital world and this old baby boomer is grateful.

Remember when Robert Morse danced down the middle of a Manhattan street in HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING weaving between the other pedestrians? There is a sequence in this movie that mimics that and it's about the most hysterical thing in the film. Another sequence that is pretty good and inventive is the WATERGATE hearings done to a jazzy accompanying score. The rest of the film is spotty at best: some parts you may find funny while others you may find fall flat like a pancake. It's one of those types of movies you really have to be in the mood to see. It's offensive, obnoxious, weird, strange, bizarre and totally off the wall. Maybe the screenwriter was stoned when he wrote the movie and maybe even when he directed it. Cameo appearances are made by Chevy Chase and Richard Belzer (both are fairly funny in their individual bits). I howled at Belzer's Puerto Rican accent! A spoof of everything TV, Laugh-In style but not as funny; would make a great double feature with the uncut version of FLESH GORDON.

When you view this movie you should keep in mind that it was written and filmed in the early 1970s. Pretty dated but real damn funny for it's time.For those of you that are in your early twenties, it should give some of you an idea of what your parents thought was funny and in your face back then.Most people didn't have cable TV and those that did didn't have 100 stations to choose from and it was 7 years before Mtv was invented. Most of us were relegated to watching 3 channels if you watched TV at all.This is also why anyone over 40 will tell you the first 5 years of SNL are better than all of the others combined.The best segments are the Cooking Show, Brown 25 and KOKO the Clown.In any case you may find humor in some of the segments or not. It is still worth watching from a nostalgic or historical perspective.

A series of vignettes, most of them spoofing television of the 1970's, but also with some digs at the government and corporate America. One of the longest segments, "The Dealers" is not that funny to me and I don't know what it is parodying. Some of the others, though, are absolutely side-splitting. I particularly enjoy the cooking show segment. Most of the foul words I know are used in the movie, and, if you object to full frontal nudity, stay away.