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One Got Fat: Scaring the Kids Straight

Feeling spooky? Well, One Got Fat isn’t really scary, but it’s certainly a creepy way of presenting a road safety PSA. These guys aimed for Dr Seuss and hit Creepy Cheap Netflix Horror Movie. Happy Halloween, ride safe, and enjoy the video.

Here’s what we wrote about it way back in 2006:

It was all fun and games until ONE GOT FAT (June 2006)

It’s time for some bicycle safety lessons, sixties style. For those of you who don’t know what “the sixties” were, it was a period of time so long ago that you could actually say things like “Slim knew that his big sack would be hard to handle” and it wouldn’t arouse a dirty laugh from your audience.

Tinkerbell McDillingfiddy — all girls looked like this in the 1960s

The video raises a serious dilemma — the guys who don’t follow the rules of the road die, but the one who does obey the rules gets fat. Eternity in a cold grave or a lifetime of being laughed at every time you take your shirt off? After some slight deliberation, we decided that we find death much more appealing than obesity.

We’ve certainly learned a valuable safety lesson from watching this: never go on a ride with some monkeys. Those guys won’t even slow down if a steamroller flattens you. Right? Right.

Don’t forget to check out Ranking The Spoopiest T-Shirts from Dark Cycle Clothing’s Halloween Collection for a real Halloween fix. That one has jokes and everything.