Dusty Media: Zapped!

zapped.jpgThe early-mid ’80s was the golden age of screwball teen sex comedies, and few stand out quite as poorly as the infamous “Zapped!“, featuring Scott “Chachi” Baio and Willie “Bibleman” Aames.

All the usual archetypes abound, from the smarmy popular bitch to the ugly duckling brainy girl, but at the centerpiece are fellow pathetically horny nerds Baio and Aames. Well, actually, at the centerpiece are lots of shots of boobies.

Plot? Sure, there’s a plot: Nerds never get laid, obssess over hot girls who won’t speak to them and ignore shrinking violets under their noses—nerd gains power, uses it to lots of horny shenangins and hijinks, (oh ho ho, so clever), fraught with lots of naked boobs and panty shots—nerd loses power but gains perspective, as well as a girlfriend who is now hot since she let her hair down and took off her glasses.

This dog of a movie grossed more than seven times its budget in national release, largely on the promise of seeing Heather Thomas’ breasts, but alas, she had refused to go topless for the camera, maintaining an attitude best summed up with her IMDB quote

I won’t take my clothes off because I can’t believe it’s necessary. You can be sexy with your clothes on just as well as you can by taking off your blouse.

Joke’s on her—in what actually became kind of a big deal back in the day, the producers inserted close up shots of a body double and simply tacked on a note to the the effect in the closing credits.


3 Responses to “Dusty Media: Zapped!”

  1. 1 ThinkandDrive

    Dang. I remember when they ran this movie almost every other night on USA up All night with Gilbert Godfreid.

    Then they went and made a sequel. . . . *shakes head*

  2. 2 Pete

    Heh, nice – dugg just because I didn’t realize Buddy Lumbeck and Charles were a “team” before the sitcom!

  3. 3 Mike B.

    “No more exploding clothes for the Telekinetic Kid”

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