Rifftrax Shorts- Just finished watching...

[Mighty Jack]

I didn't care too much for the Reading short (aside from that great quip Calli quoted) but just posted my Geography review tonight, and found I enjoyed it much more.

[callipygias]

www.rifftrax.com/shorts/parts-speech

[Emperor Cupcake]

I'm watching "Parts of Speech" right now.

"This is a gay towel."

[callipygias]

www.rifftrax.com/shorts/watch-out-my-plant

[callipygias]

The next Rifftrax feature won't be announced until the 16th, but they gave us another short.

www.rifftrax.com/shorts/values-right-thing-do

[callipygias]

One more short before the next feature

www.rifftrax.com/shorts/family-teamwork

[Mighty Jack]

Posted reviews for the last 3 short Mighty Jacks Rifftrax Shorts

The one about Family Teamwork made me laugh the most, the one about the plant was a bit too dry.

[callipygias]

www.rifftrax.com/shorts/pearl-orient

[callipygias]

A long one. $1.99.

www.rifftrax.com/shorts/individual-differences


Meet Roy, elementary school student. Some children learn with more ease than others. Every child learns with more ease than Roy. He wants nothing from life except to be left alone: shy, silent, whittling off pieces of his desk in hopes that he’ll eventually find one that tastes good.

But his ill-tempered, hatchet-faced teacher (we’ll call her “Howard”) will have none of that. She goes out of her way to make an example of his dimness in front of the class, in order to teach valuable lessons to the other kids. These lessons primarily consist of new and exciting ways to make fun of Roy. She especially likes comparing him to his golden-boy older brother, George. Oh, you know George? Yeah, he is great, isn’t he! Just so smart, and strong, but still humble and decent...sorry, got lost in a “George” moment. It’s hard not to when he’s so much better than Roy. Roy really is the turd in the punchbowl of that family. You have to wonder what happened in the gene pool there...I mean, uh, being different is cool!

Join Mike, Kevin, and Bill as they ponder the horrors of Individual Differences! And don’t forget a bag of rotten fruit to throw at Roy’s piano recital!

For those of you who enjoyed Ruth from Each Child is Different, be prepared for the bar to be raised!

[Mighty Jack]

Damn, the first half of that short was my life story. Roy, just buy a guitar, grow out your hair and write an angry ditty about Mrs. Batchelder ;D

Reviewed the last 2 shorts Pearl of the Orient and Individual Differences

[callipygias]

www.rifftrax.com/shorts/whatever-weather


For years, The Weather has been the go-to topic for nervously discussing with your co-workers whenever you end up sharing an elevator with them after you fail to see them pull into the parking lot at the same time as you, leaving you unable to adjust your route on the fly. "Some weather we're having" you'll say, and they will grunt their assent. A few seconds later you'll notice that neither of you have pressed the floor button, and you'll lunge for it at the same time, then retract your fingers cautiously, before finally poking it with a vigor that instantly seems inappropriately emphatic. It would probably be less socially awkward for you to just kill and eat the co-worker right there, but instead, you chat about the weather. God forbid they end up leaving at the same time as you that afternoon.

Yes, The Weather has been discussed to death. And yet somehow, Whatever the Weather manages to bring a fresh new angle to the topic. Of course, in order to find a fresh, new angle, they just made up some crazy analogy regarding weather and hats. You're not really even sure it was intentional until they hamfistedly try to tie it together in the final seconds. M. Night Shyamalan movies operate under the same principal.

If you're a fan of weather, you probably don't get invited to too many parties, seeing as how that's an extremely boring thing to be a fan of. So while you're sitting at home, not partying, why not cue up the latest RiffTrax short, Whatever the Weather, with Mike, Kevin and Bill playing armchair meteorologist next to you? Forecasts call for a 60 percent chance of infectious laughter. Hang on, I'm being issued a correction. That should read 60% chance of severe thunderstorms. Take cover immediately.

[Captain Hygiene]

Jun 29, 2010 17:39:54 GMT -5 callipygias said:

If you're a fan of weather, you probably don't get invited to too many parties, seeing as how that's an extremely boring thing to be a fan of.

Those bastards.

[Mighty Jack]

^What? Next they’ll tell me that my favorite website… “Lets Discuss Dryer Lint”, is boring too?

[callipygias]

www.rifftrax.com/shorts/building-better-paragraphs


The bartender says "I was talking to the duck!" And, so it was finished, before it had even begun. She was a dark and stormy dame. Really, that's a badger? "Over there, behind the fake tree," she said. The record scratched at midnight, as it always does. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a terrible paragraph. If only it were possible to build a better one! But surely, a topic as pedantic and uninteresting as Building Better Paragraphs has never been covered by the dynamos at Coronet Films, has it? It has! Fans of crappy paragraphs, run and hide because Building Better Paragraphs is here to pummel your putrid paragraphs into submission! Building Better Paragraphs tells the tale of Susan, whose dog Major wins a prize at a dog show. Actually, it tells the tale of three children telling the tale of Susan & Major. While the rest of the class presumably learns important life skills such as the capital of Delaware, these three toil away at the back table, shaping their initial failure of a paragraph into something vaguely coherent. Can they build it into a better paragraph? Let's hope so, the bar was set awfully low. Can they shape it into an interesting paragraph? We're going to be honest, we have our doubts. Is one of the children in this short one of the strangest looking kids we've ever seen? We answer that with a hearty "Gahhhh!" Mike, Kevin and Bill have each built a better paragraph only to later find out the assigned topic was The Teapot Dome Scandal, not bacon.

[Mighty Jack]

I went and reviewed the last 2: Weather and Paragraphhs

I found the weather pretty boring (sorry CH) and not so funny, but the Paragraph's piece was a hoot, full of mean little jabs.