Can oversexed, under-clothed vixens make it in the male-dominated world of mobile vehicular eateries? That's the question lurking behind 1980's Lunch Wagon, which explores a suspiciously underpopulated Los Angeles where hoods, busty businesswomen, and new-wave bands struggle to get ahead. Opening with the first of many Missing Persons-scored montage sequences, Lunch Wagon stars Playboy centerfolds Pamela Bryant and Rosanne Katon as employees at a garage where their leering boss keeps a close eye on them through a peephole next to their dressing area. After slipping into T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "We give good lube jobs," the women banter flirtatiously with the male members of Missing Persons within glaring distance of frontwoman Dale Bozzio. The sass costs them their jobs, but in a remarkable stroke of luck, kindly mobile-food maven Dick Van Patten gives them a fully functioning lunch wagon. After getting the wagon into proper shape during yet another Missing Persons-scored montage, the pair sets about finding a cook/business partner. When Bryant and Katon spy spacey bodybuilder Candy Moore lifting weights, they make her an offer she can't refuse: a free room and an opportunity to work in the rapidly growing lunch-wagon field. To sweeten the deal, they even offer to modify the wagon with exercise-friendly special features. Moore eagerly accepts, but when they send her to purchase supplies, she returns with nothing but health food. Undaunted, the trio makes the most of the situation by charging comically high prices and misleading customers with a tiny, hard-to-read menu. But this worries Bryant, who suggests, regarding prospective customers, "With this weird food and our far-out prices, we're gonna have to distract them." Looking for a place to set up shop, the women query a buxom colleague, who directs them to a spot where the men are "solid beefcake." Arriving at the promised locale, the women strut their stuff to such an extent that the locals are moved to overlook both the weird food and the far-out prices. Life for feminist pioneers is inevitably difficult, and while the Lunch Wagoneers ponder whether to share their beds with hunky construction workers or cranky musicians, crooks affiliated with a competing, less cleavage-intensive lunch wagon conspire to destroy the randy food cart. To that end, they dispatch geriatric guest-star Rose Marie, who kidnaps the wagon and takes one of its proprietors hostage. After Marie's reign of guest-star terror is brought to an end, the women triumphantly ride their lunch wagon off into the sunset. The members of Missing Persons, however, were never heard from again.
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