The DVD arrived today. 
I actually saw this film at a drive-in. Later I made a VHS copy of a rental. It’s not a great film, but it has some good bits. ‘Amsterdam: The City of Cats and Canals. Which is a dangerous combination…’ ‘Yumping yimminy! You’re swimming!’ 
And of course…
Laser Bra: 2000
I’m glad to have the DVD now. I’ll watch it soon…
WARNING: The film you are about to see is shocking and repugnant beyond belief. It contains scenes of disturbing sexual practices and mindless violence. If older people with heart conditions are watching, or persons under psychiatric care, make them sit close so they won’t miss anything. Do not allow children of impressionable age leave the room. If they are sleeping, wake them up. Slap them. Give them hot coffee.
Does the DVD have Sid Vicious singing “My Way”? I know that was a point of contention for many years.
Sadly, no. It was there when I saw it in the drive-in, but not on the rental VHS and not on the DVD.
(I have it on The Great Rock’N’Roll Swindle, though. 
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Ah, nice! I forgot Klaus Nomi was in it! 
Thank you- I did not know this was available & I’ve never seen it!
Intro
Cat swimming school
Worshiping the Jack Lord
As I said in the OP, the show’s a little hit-and-miss. I’m not disappointed as the reviewer is though. I already knew about the copyright issue with My Way. (Incidentally, I did dub it onto my VHS copy. At least I think I did.) I’d forgotten about the intro to the ‘Jack Lord’ skit, which can be seen in the YouTube link above. The restored footage is footage I remember, but it’s been so long that I don’t know if I remember it from the film or the VHS. I do remember the Pat Nixon bit, and the ‘America’s Discarded Fads’ part was as I remembered it. (It looks like there’s a YouTube video of it called ‘The End of Mr. Mike’, but I didn’t look at it since it’s the end of the movie. I look at the ‘fad’ items and I think, ‘Oh, if I had that stuff now I’d make a bit of change on eBay!’) I’m not disappointed I bought the DVD.
It’s amazing how many references and lines I still use from this film. It’s stuck with me. It’s not everyone’s cuppa tea. I do have a bizarre sense of humour. Some of the bits aren’t funny, nor are they intended to be. They’re just strange and, as we would have said at the time, ‘experimental’. Like the guys in the Mao masks shooting radios and TVs. Or the Klaus Nomi aria, which is performance art and not comedy.
If you’ve never seen it and are expecting some hilarious SNL stuff… well, it may not be what you’re expecting. There are some really funny (I think) sketches, but much of it is bizarre for bizarrety’s sake. And I like that.
The Celebrity Deformities thread reminded me that Dan Akroyd shows his webbed toes in Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video. He prods the web (between his 2nd and 3rd toes) with a screwdriver to prove it’s real and not makeup. They did make up his feet, of course. I’d hate to think he’d really walk around with such grungy feet IRL! :eek:
I have not watched my copy for some time as it is on Beta and I no longer have a working beta machine.
I remember fast forwarding through some parts.
I remember laughing so hard it was difficult to control my breathing and bladder.
I’ve told this story on the SDMB before, but here goes:
Back when this movie first came out, I was an “SNL” fan who often went to the UA Astoria movie theater on a Saturday afternoon with no clear idea of which movie I’d see. I made the mistake of buying a ticket for “Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video.” As soon as the cashier handed me the ticket, she said something I had never heard at a box office before (and have never heard since): “No refunds.” (I later learned that at all previous showings, more than half the audience had demanded their money back- and rightly so!)
THAT should have been enough of a hint. I should have waved goodbye to my money and gone home. Instead, I actually went to see the movie.
For about 90 minutes, the entire audience sat staring at the screen in stunned silence. There wasn’t even an isolated laugh here and there. Just dead silence, punctuated every few minutes by “THIS MOVIE SUCKS,” which would get a smattering of applause.
To show you how awful it was, “Mr. Mike” Was preceded by a “3 Stooges” picture featuring SHEMP. Even a Stooges flick with SHEMP was infinitely better than O’Donoghue’s turd of a film.
Michael O’Donoghue probably committed suicide out of guilt for making this piece of crap.
Coming up next
The Funeral Of The Mouse Princess
and
Christmas On Other Planets.
Ouch.
Well, I disagree with you. I laughed my head off at the cat swimming school. The intro where it pulled back and MO’D was sitting with a gun in a room full of rabbits cracked me up. ‘Café No Americain’ is classic. (‘Donkey Pie…’) I loved the Dream Sequences. But then, I was more of an Addams Family fan than a Lassie fan. I’ve just always loved the outré.