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Multi-Part Article: Skidoo: the lost recap

· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 9, 2016

Skidoo (1968), the lost recap (part 14 of 14): Adieu, Skidoo

This non-comedy gets a suitable non-ending as all the plot threads we’ve been following for six months devolve into a terrible musical number and the strangest closing credits in history.

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 29, 2016

Skidoo (1968), the lost recap (part 13 of 14): A big beautiful blob of nothing

“Roger Ebert would often espouse the notion that there are no good movies featuring hot air balloons. I’d like to think he was watching Skidoo at the time he formulated this theory.”

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 5, 2016

Skidoo (1968), the lost recap (part 12 of 14): A garbage musical number

“This is the first time I can say that a writer probably got his lyrics out of a trash can, and be completely accurate.”

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 12, 2016

Skidoo (1968), the lost recap (part 11 of 14): And prison gets a little bit gayer

Tony and the gang give LSD to the entire prison with hopelessly unfunny results, and we learn there’s nothing like the love between Frank Gorshin and his seven foot tall giant.

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 28, 2015

Skidoo (1968), the lost recap (part 10 of 14): A good reason to drink aftershave lotion

Jackie and the gang hatch a plan to dose the entire prison with LSD, while Otto Preminger hatches a plan to torture the audience and calls it the third act of Skidoo.

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 7, 2015

Skidoo (1968), the lost recap (part 9 of 14): My father the torpedo

Tripping on LSD causes Jackie Gleason to turn over a new leaf, while back on Groucho's boat, we find out God's fatal weakness: cooties.

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 1, 2015

Skidoo (1968), the lost recap (part 8 of 14): A literal mind-screw

Jackie Gleason continues to trip on LSD and hallucinates a dancing Mickey Rooney and Zombie Arnold Stang, resulting in one of the most horrible GIFs ever perpetrated on humanity.