Meet the Small Potatoes talking head interviews with the band’s friends, manager Lester Koop (McDowell), and man on the street interviews with the band’s fans (all of whom are potatoes). The Small Potatoes’ trajectory roughly follows trends in American popular music through the second half of the 20th century: The Potatoes start as a country and western band in Idaho in the 1940s, before finding popularity first as rock and roll and then doo wop singers in the 1950s. They reach the peak of their popularity in the 1960s as a British invasion style act, followed by their experimenting with psychedelic rock after a
Meet the Small Potatoes children's photos in a Facebook contest to have their likenesses animated into the film as the Potatoes' fans in the man-on-the-street segments. Many of the songs are taken from episodes of the television show, here worked into the context of concert sequences. Tony award-winning composer Jerry Bock wrote some of the original songs, one of his final projects before his death. In keeping with the show’s educational nature, the film functions to teach children about the history of popular music in the 20th century. The film received mixed reviews; it currently has a 6/10 on Internet Movie Database and a