After losing their jobs as security guards, best friends Ivan and Josh start a music video production company called “Video Aces”. When they meet their childhood heroes, 1970s soul duo Swanky Modes, Ivan and Josh concoct a scheme to give them a new audience by hijacking a Menudo concert, getting them to perform in Menudo’s place, and broadcasting it live across the country on a television satellite hook-up.
The movie also features a fake ad spot for a real Los Angeles restaurant, Roscoe’s House of Chicken ‘n Waffles. Notable appearances in the film include: Mary Crosby, of the soap opera Dallas; character actors Clu Gulager and Doug McClure; football player Lyle Alzado; 1960s actress Connie Stevens; Soul Train host Don Cornelius; singer Courtney Love; Navasota singer King Cotton; original “Human Beat-Box” Doug E. Fresh; ska-punk band Fishbone (who also perform the incidental score) as “Ranchbone”; The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church singer Stiv Bators; Ted Nugent; “Weird Al” Yankovic; and Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, in a cameo as an FBI agent.
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