In the grand tradition of horny teen sex comedies, Gas Pump Girls (1979) pads the running time with cheap gags and copious nudity—not that there’s anything wrong with that! It also boasts a familiar plot this sort of movie, with a band of plucky underdogs going up against a (supposedly) heartless corporate overlord. For all its T&A shenanigans, Gas Pump Girls is really a sweet story about a hot young niece roping in her equally hot young female friends, along with some studly young male friends/future lovers, to save her ailing uncle’s struggling gas station.
The girls devise an ingenious marketing plan that predicated on them wearing tiny halter tops and tight booty shorts while pumping gas. They also spend plenty of time making gas pump-related innuendo, like this one about the art of pumping:
Don’t worry, it’s just four easy steps: grab it, stick it in, squeeze it, and let it peter out.
As you might expect, sales skyrocket after the booty shorts brigade arrives. But the evil, corporate-owned gas station across the street isn’t going to go down without a fight. It’s all in good fun, and the overall vibe is sweet and innocent. If any movie where a woman goes down on a guy in an elevated car during a lube job (hey-o!) can be called innocent, it’s Gas Pump Girls. It’s harmless fluff that’ll intermittently makes you laugh and groan. Bonus points for starring Kristen Baker two years before she donned similar booty shorts as a Camp Crystal Lake counselor. The entire cast is game for the mildly raunchy silliness, including standout Linda Lawrence as the eye-rolling, seen-it-all hottie of the group, and familiar face Ken Lerner as a goofy member of a clownish motorcycle gang, clearly based on the T-Birds from Grease and Grease 2.
Gas Pump Girls is streaming on Amazon Prime.
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