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Post by Skyroniter on Mar 5, 2010 19:43:36 GMT -5
Let's see if a thread dedicated to the shorts catches on.
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Post by callipygias on Mar 5, 2010 19:59:43 GMT -5
Call It Free, Part 2 came out today. Part 1 was excellent, and I'm excited to see part 2, but they'll probably release more shorts before Twilight New Moon comes out, so I'll wait a week or so. I hate charging 99 cents at a time with Paypal. 
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Post by solgroupie on Mar 5, 2010 20:57:48 GMT -5
this was a good idea, sky. you should have thought of this before!
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Post by Skyroniter on Mar 5, 2010 23:21:06 GMT -5
this was a good idea, sky. you should have thought of this before! Just popped into my head! |
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Post by Mighty Jack on Mar 6, 2010 4:21:15 GMT -5
Since they finally released part 2 I purchased and watched both and reviewed them here... Call It FreeOverall? Fair to middling. Not as steadily funny as Molly and her period. |
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Post by callipygias on Mar 9, 2010 19:41:22 GMT -5
Another one! Should be of particular interest to some of you. You know who you are.  More good news: this is another of their recent long shorts (20+ minutes), but instead of splitting it into two parts this time they're leaving it a single release and charging $1.99. |
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Post by solgroupie on Mar 9, 2010 21:27:34 GMT -5
i know who to listen to. it was a great short - the addict guy had the weirdest accent i've ever heard - sometimes it was a thick new yaaawk accent, sometimes it was a baaaston accent. get a load of the way this guy says the word "withdrawl." i don't even know how to spell how he said it. it was worth his addiction for that alone. and gee, you'd think a guy named moose would look out for your best interests!
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Post by Mighty Jack on Mar 10, 2010 5:23:46 GMT -5
Ah, my favorite subject (yes, if I had a superpower it would be the ability to ground a drug lords bones into power, which they'd snort for an eternity in Hell!) Ah em... anyway. Funny material, the non actors are a great help. My review Teen Addict |
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Post by Skyroniter on Mar 10, 2010 9:52:14 GMT -5
I'm glad to learn that this is an extra long short. At first I thought they had raised the price to $1.99 for a regular length one. That might have influenced me to wait for the compilation DVDs instead of doing the downloads.
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Post by solgroupie on Mar 10, 2010 10:55:04 GMT -5
TCM alert -
amazingly, TCM is going to run the 1970 short shake hands with danger, march 27th at 5:30 in the morning. this proves someone at TCM is definitely an mst3k/rifftrax fan.
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Post by cityofvoltz on Mar 22, 2010 21:15:21 GMT -5
Know for sure I had no idea from the title this was about the Syph. I mean i didn't read that poster in the intro i guess. The stereotypical italian family in the beginning is HILARIOUS! "call me when my wife gives a birth to chico marx" sums it up so well. The smoking doctor- "Jesus! its those Mic Cops" HILARITY C/o Shortsstravaganza Dvd- which arrived today in the mail  |
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Post by callipygias on Mar 24, 2010 10:24:47 GMT -5
They're still coming....  And here's what they had to say about it: Kids love to play games. It is an indisputable fact, much like the existence of former Yankee outfielder Oscar Gamble. But for a while, the only two games kids had to play were "Push a Hoop with a Stick" and "Hide Benjamin Franklin's whiskey." For obvious reasons, (in order: "This game blows" and "Getting sat on by a furious Benjamin Franklin"), kids eventually needed new games to play.
Enter Hungry, Hungry Hippos. For centuries, it was rightly regarded as the pinnacle of game-dom and children the world over entered the "Race" (and/or "Chase") to "hurry up and feed their face." However, recent revisionist history has begun to shift this perception, and a challenger to the throne is now regarded by some academics to be the greatest game of all time: The Following Instructions Game.
"How do you play," you ask? Simple: you do what adults tell you. "But wait," you say, "that doesn't sound like a game at all. It sounds like a thinly veiled scheme to get our stupider children to shut up and do what we want." And you would be right. But that didn't stop the makers of The Following Instructions Game from spending their substantial budget on a short film to convince children that Following Instructions could be just as fun as actually having fun. And oh what fun it is, as our hero, a dimwitted lad who is prone to coming into contact with wet paint, takes a clock to a repair shop before buying a loaf of bread! And there's an odd old man who speaks in rhyme! (Note: It is not Slick Rick, though that would have been awesome.)
Mike, Kevin and Bill somehow ended up getting sat on by Ben Franklin while playing the Following Instructions Game. We still don't know how that happened. |
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Post by callipygias on Mar 24, 2010 23:35:23 GMT -5
The Following Instructions Game was excellent. And what a fun game!
I love the 70's shorts; I hope they do more and more of them. This one was especially nostalgic because I had the exact same hair as that kid.
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Post by callipygias on Mar 26, 2010 18:38:17 GMT -5
Thank you sir may I have another!  For years, the skunk has been the butt* of many a joke in pop culture. Due to our society's inherent anti-skunk bias, roles for these malodorous mustelids have been hard to come by. Pepe Le Pew is the go-to guy if you need a skunk in your picture. This is in spite of the fact that he is A) a shockingly offensive stereotype and B) a touch rapey. And for a while in the 80s, Stinkor: The Evil Master of Odors was getting a lot of buzz, before his secret Febreze addiction was discovered. But before either of these skunks ever skittered down a red carpet, one pioneering stinker broke the stench barrier, paving the way for all future Hollywood skunks and/or cats who accidentally got a white stripe painted down their back. That skunk was Gregory, the star of Little Lose Scent. Gregory comes from a time when men were men, women were broads and our president was bald. Feisty and fetid, he's a putrid pugilist who won't back down from a showdown, be it with man, beast or heavy industrial machinery that at one point in time really looks like it comes about three inches from killing him. Dogs? Gregory lays the smack down, Old Yeller style. Cats? Forget Cheezburgers, Gregory can has their asses. Two grizzly bears? Yes, Gregory fights two grizzly bears at once. You have to watch this short! Mike, Kevin and Bill's Moose Baby posters now lie in a heap underneath their newly commissioned tapestries of Gregory. *Ha! www.rifftrax.com/shorts/little-lost-scent |
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Post by Mighty Jack on Mar 27, 2010 2:26:14 GMT -5
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