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Post by cahvaydweller on Apr 16, 2015 16:26:38 GMT -5
Johnny at the Fair, Mr. B Natural, Days of our Years, A Date With Your Family, and Once Upon a Honeymoon are my top 5. I actually recognized a clip from "Once Upon a Honeymoon" in a documentary on feminism! It was to show us young people how sexist the 50s were. I think Young Man's Fancy is more sexist. |
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Post by RedTom on Apr 23, 2015 0:14:02 GMT -5
The Gumby Robot Rumpus is by far my favorite short. Then there was the short before Teenage Strangler with the idiot girl running off with some guy. Then there is a very close second to my favorite the Shop Class short with the creep who loved carpentry. Good stuff. There's a long list of great shorts, but those are the three that really stick out.
Then there's a dark side. The worst short that I absolutely hate was that idiotic short about electric utensils before the idiotic movie produced by Ed Wood, I don't remember its name, I saw it a long time ago and didn't wish to indulge again. That one I don't think I'll ever watch again.
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Post by TV's Cowboy on Apr 23, 2015 12:09:19 GMT -5
For me probably Design for Dreaming due to the crazy musical presentation. Though Century 21 Calling is another good one
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Post by sol-survivor on Apr 23, 2015 12:49:43 GMT -5
I think the best shorts are clean ones...  Here are two of my favorite shorts that I sought out the uncut versions for just to see what got cut out:
Young Man's Fancy: and Mr. B Natural: As you can see by the times, quite a bit got cut out of both, but I can imagine plenty of riffs for the missing parts. Enjoy! |
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Post by nondescript spice on Apr 23, 2015 18:51:48 GMT -5
money talks is one of my top favorites. it's just too goofy. when mike, as ben franklin, says, "don't sass me, boy!" i just crack up every time.
others? pretty much all of them.
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Post by kidflash on Apr 23, 2015 21:03:20 GMT -5
1. Assignment Venezuela: Far and away my personal top all-timer, the most consistently laugh-until-I-hurt funny short I ever saw them take on. The running gag about judging the width and narrowness of roads, lakes, rivers, buildings, etc. busts me up every time: "Hey, it's Lake Man! Think you can wedge into our narrow office, Mr. Big Lake?" I know this is supposed to be "lost", but obviously it's not. Still, I've always wondered just what this one was intended for. Judging from the extremely raw homoerotic entendres and Nelson's riff "Christ, what a mess..." I'm guessing this was intended as an "extra" for a home video release rather than for broadcast. Ahh, Venezuela, proud jewel of the Adriatic. It was planned for the cancelled Voyager laserdisc game in the mid-90s. Once the LD market tanked, the game was shelved. The real lost short - Mylar and You, I think it's called - was also recorded for the game. When BBI went looking for both masters for the '96 Convent-O-Con, Mylar remained lost while they found Assignment Venezuela. Kinda surprised Rifftrax hasn't jumped on that and done the short, to be honest. |
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Apr 28, 2015 16:48:08 GMT -5
...and am I really the first one to bring up "Cheating"? "Cheating" is probably my #1 favorite short. Just love how dark it is. Well, it was Ingmar Bergman's first American film, if I recall. |
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Post by Who Let Servo Drive on Apr 29, 2015 11:14:09 GMT -5
I love any of the 50s shorts that hector young people to conform. The crushing social expectations are on full display. I can see those a hundred times and they never fail to make me shake my head and laugh.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on May 5, 2015 18:19:49 GMT -5
I love any of the 50s shorts that hector young people to conform. The crushing social expectations are on full display. I can see those a hundred times and they never fail to make me shake my head and laugh. I can't help wondering if my wife's and my generation grew up to be a bunch of sloppy hippies because of films like Posture Pals and Keeping Clean And Neat.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on May 5, 2015 18:27:50 GMT -5
A Case of Spring Fever from Ep. 1012 Squirm The skit Mike did with the Bots mocking it made it even better. Also enjoyed Century 21 Calling. Not only for the comments, but the nostalgia of the film itself. In the '60s and early '70s, my mother worked with network engineers at the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company (now Verizon) in Washington, DC. We had a really fun conversation recently about Century 21 Calling -- how many of the new and under-development technologies actually came to fruition, how many of them didn't pan out, and how even in 1962 the air was thick with hype about "smart homes". Pagers as shown in Century 21 Calling hit the market working pretty much as shown (only to be made obsolete by mobile phones), we got one of the first Touch-Tone phones at our house in early '64, memory dialing finally took hold in a far less clunky fashion than shown in '62 and, unfortunately, Call Waiting and Three-Way Dialing came out pretty much as shown -- I never could get a three-way call to work, and to this day I'm constantly accidentally disconnecting people. |
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Post by Treadwell on May 6, 2015 23:45:26 GMT -5
It was planned for the cancelled Voyager laserdisc game in the mid-90s. FIrst I've heard of it being for laserdisc. I've always seen it referred to as a CD-ROM project. |
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Post by kidflash on May 12, 2015 10:25:16 GMT -5
It was planned for the cancelled Voyager laserdisc game in the mid-90s. FIrst I've heard of it being for laserdisc. I've always seen it referred to as a CD-ROM project. No, you're right. Was thinking of Criterion. |
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Post by Mighty Jack on May 13, 2015 3:11:09 GMT -5
A few of mine...
1] ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON
All the components for the 'fun slice of strange' I enjoy. Plus there's a nice host segment where Gypsy gets everything she sings about.
2] CHEATING
Dark little story about a kid who once had it all, and lost it. The quips are really sharp and serve to compound our fallen hero's suffering -"Mother Theresa called... She hates you - Crow
3] WHY STUDY INDUSTRIAL ARTS?
Why? This short will tell you why, in painful detail. Riviting and erotic, the gang was in a silly mood for this one... "I can't get this thing back in my pants, Earl" - Crow
4] APPRECIATING OUR PARENTS
Tommy learns to pitch in around the house. Includes one of my all time favorite riffs... "Tommy's the lathe of Heaven" - Joel.
5] THE DAYS OF OUR YEARS
Bad things happen to several people. Very sad but Mike and the Bots make it very funny! The "Gentle pressure" skit is an added plus.
6] ARE YOU READY FOR MARRIAGE?
Well? Are you! Rubber bands become a rich source of comedy because of this short, as a couple seeks advice on whether they should marry. "Never make light of Boing, son" - Mike. There was also a hilarious skit involving the Mads and rubber bands that followed
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Post by Mike Flugennock on May 14, 2015 21:55:53 GMT -5
...Then there's a dark side. The worst short that I absolutely hate was that idiotic short about electric utensils before the idiotic movie produced by Ed Wood, I don't remember its name, I saw it a long time ago and didn't wish to indulge again. That one I don't think I'll ever watch again. Y'mean Young Man's Fancy? The one with the electric this, the electric that, electric the other thing? The one where Dad wants to grow 'shrooms, and Mom's in the Guardian Angels, and the spooky bacon-scarfing chick gets squishy? That one took forever to grow on me, but I'm finally starting to dig it. It helps that it's the opener for that idiotic Ed Wood movie I really like... damn, which idiotic Ed Wood movie was is -- that totally drooling moronic one, or that merely rock-stupid one? It was that nympho denuding girl gang flick, wasn't it? |
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Post by Mike Flugennock on May 14, 2015 22:06:52 GMT -5
Johnny at the Fair, Mr. B Natural, Days of our Years, A Date With Your Family, and Once Upon a Honeymoon are my top 5. I actually recognized a clip from "Once Upon a Honeymoon" in a documentary on feminism! It was to show us young people how sexist the 50s were. Whoa, jeezus, Once Upon A Honeymoon... I dig that one also, but, maaa-aaan, is that one twisted, weirded-out little movie. |
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