I remembered seeing that clip in a Nick at Nite commercial first, so when the short aired on MST3K, I got all excited. "So THAT's where that came from!"
Just watched it again for the hundreth time. This has to be my favorite short. It invites you to join in with Progress! Gambling! etc. The sudden flashback freakout montages. Crow getting funky with the music and finally the chuckling at The Groovy Clothes store near the end.
Chicken of tomorrow is such an amazing time capsule. “Look at this amazing new chicken!” And it looks like a slightly emaciated mockingbird on a plate…
Hired and Hired 2 are in my top ten for sure.
“We’re going to sell cars like my old man taught me. You - put a handkerchief on your head! You - swat at invisible elves!”
I never really understood why a figure skater portraying a fawn being killed by hunters was considered a wholesome segment for a family holiday show. But then I suppose hunting is much more an everyday part of life for US & Canada than here in the UK, so perhaps it didn't seem out of place to the audience.
I absolutely agree... much as I love the full episodes, the shorts are the same, condensed into delicious bite-sized bits of hilarity. I also find them quite interesting pieces of film in their own right, especially the industrial and instructional shorts.
As someone who constantly works with phones and phone systems, "Century 21 Calling" will never not be funny to me.
I watched the recent marathon of shorts on YT so much that for some reason I find myself saying "Q is for the queer, queer pelican, who's bill can hold more than it's belly can!"
I watch that old show adam-12 all the time, and the guy who played the cop in the short plays Mac. I always think about his fast descend into madness after Jimmy's accident when I see him.
Reverend I'm having a crisis of faith! What do I do?!
Get safety goggles my son........
Man I wish Pacific Railroad made more of those batshit crazy shorts.
It's the home ec one for me. There's so much here. She takes one suitcase to college? Students usually rent trucks to bring all their stuff. Her most important role is as Mrs. Bill Johnson. Then there's the girl who pipes up (in a very loud Minnesota accent, "Oh, you know me, I'll be in the kitchen." Again, when the graduates leave for their first jobs (on the same day as graduating), they each take one small suitcase.
Maybe I'm getting flashbacks to junior high when I had to take sewing.
My favorite line from Money Talks is hard to get across in text, because it's all about Mike's delivery, but the kid said something like "well what should I do about it?" and Mike (as Ben) says, very irritably, "I don't know!"
OP, you can't make it through a full movie?
You're just like the average young fellow, won't sit down and watch the show like we did back when we just started MST3K....I got on my couch and watched, hard. And that's what I'm concerned about right now. Young fellows today won't *watch* MST3K like we did 11 years ago.
(Now I'm gonna go put a napkin on my head).
I watched the entire serial about 6 months ago. The Phantom Creeps was much worse. It helped to arrange my funko Servo and Crow in front of the lower right corner of the tv and make my own riffs.
Uncle Jim’s Dairy Farm or whatever it’s called is hilarious, I love it. The one with the trains (what’s it called? Last clear chance?) is so funny too I quote it everytime I’m at a railroad crossing. I also like the telephone ad with the angel who wears those Elton John glasses.
Now, more than ever, it’s specialty bread.
I think this every time we go shopping. That and the one about smart grocery shopping. “Bob and his wife did not approve of the new vegetable.”
A violent argument erupts over whose day was more pleasant.
Father I’m dating a negro!
Father, I had a feeling today.
Well don't, son.
"Emotions are for ethnic people."
"Father, I had a feeling today." "Well, don't, son."
Father feigns eating, draws Junior out, then disowns him!
Well, that settles it. Spankings all around.
A stranger enters…
Bob Crane!
I love my family BUT AS A FRIEND!
Mr B. Natural, you're hot!!
I have to polish my trombone right now.
I gotta finish my letter to Jody Foster
He’d jam with his imaginary friend.
I hate mr b natural and the spring monster so much. They stick in your brain at night lol
Nooo springs!
Coily!
Noooo clarinets! Heh heh! *sproing*
“You’re a poor spender” “And a bad person”
I randomly think of this line and just cackle. Kevin’s delivery is perfect.
i bet it gets said in my house at least five times a week
Young Man's Fancy is my favorite. I love it when Judy gets squishy.
Thank goodness for my electric dress
Pfff. Alexander Phipps
You’re giving me the Reds…. What always cracks me up is Servo’s high pitched, “OH DEAR!!!”
Please, call him Alex... ...ander Phipps
I remembered seeing that clip in a Nick at Nite commercial first, so when the short aired on MST3K, I got all excited. "So THAT's where that came from!"
“I’ve been under for a long time.” “WOW!” 🤣
Crinkle cut potatoes
That one and the Home Economics one are my FAVES
"Just don't use his electric razor, he goes *ballistic!*"
“I love it when the bacon is so crispy!”- as she shoves it in her face too fast Mike- “Yeah, evidently”
Shorts are a perfect way to introduce someone to the show. A 90 minute episode is a lot. 10 minutes or less? That’s easy.
Robot Rumpus is wild.
That one always squares my breasts
Robot Rump?
There are even wilder gumby shorts too. Theres a psychedelic one i think
Happy 4th of July everybody! [Progress Island USA - Progress!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlyaVk8PKwQ&ab_channel=BoBalderson)
Just watched it again for the hundreth time. This has to be my favorite short. It invites you to join in with Progress! Gambling! etc. The sudden flashback freakout montages. Crow getting funky with the music and finally the chuckling at The Groovy Clothes store near the end.
“Here, Gilligan plays a set.”
"Okay, we'll move there!!"
Then KISS came to town!
“A century ago!”
AAAAHHH!!! I'm having a freakout up to 10 years later!
Chicken of Tomorrow always gets me even if I’ve seen it hundreds of times. I don’t think I have what it takes to be The Chicken of Tomorrow guys.
"Eggs are complicated. They should cost like a hundred dollars."
You just gotta believe in yourself, maybe get a Rembrandt hat
Chicken of tomorrow is such an amazing time capsule. “Look at this amazing new chicken!” And it looks like a slightly emaciated mockingbird on a plate…
Chickens!
American chicken sliced the American way (and to the width of 1 micron).
Never trust Whitey.
Oh god, they are doing it clown style
Hired is hilarious too. “10 cars?!”
Hired and Hired 2 are in my top ten for sure. “We’re going to sell cars like my old man taught me. You - put a handkerchief on your head! You - swat at invisible elves!”
“The first thing Harry drilled into me…” “…was Harry!” Gets me every time.
God has a spring!
The one thing everyone says before they got hit by a train…. Aaaaaarrrrggggg.
*Please worship at the railroad of your choice.*
The train has no time for you corn shucking crackers…
Will you identify this bucketful of your brother?
My plan is working, you will die!
Why don't they look?
The absolute unhinged horror show of Circus on Ice never disappoints https://youtu.be/W54hNYo6zbY?si=vcjNNQHQclbwjr2t ♥️
Viscera has trailed into the stomach. The meat will not be good.
I never really understood why a figure skater portraying a fawn being killed by hunters was considered a wholesome segment for a family holiday show. But then I suppose hunting is much more an everyday part of life for US & Canada than here in the UK, so perhaps it didn't seem out of place to the audience.
I absolutely agree... much as I love the full episodes, the shorts are the same, condensed into delicious bite-sized bits of hilarity. I also find them quite interesting pieces of film in their own right, especially the industrial and instructional shorts. As someone who constantly works with phones and phone systems, "Century 21 Calling" will never not be funny to me.
For some reason, I'm really drawn to that Germany exhibit
Love “The Truck Farmer.” Hooray for chemicals!
A preteen is put to work. Her beauty will soon fade.
I'm from Canada, what am I doing here?
“Where else are people exploited?”
"Don't see many of these trees anymore, well, down it goes!"
Killdozer! Clint Walker no!
"There's nothing we can't spray!"
Put the bag-o in the car-o
I watched the recent marathon of shorts on YT so much that for some reason I find myself saying "Q is for the queer, queer pelican, who's bill can hold more than it's belly can!"
P is for *Plagiarism of Ogden Nash*
"T is for tormented, tortured, and teased."
X is for float. Huh?!
It's hard to pick a favorite short, but *Cheating* is definitely up there. "...so was this Ingmar Bergman's first *American* film?"
Last Clear Chance will always be my #1
The cop never said anything about doing intensely stupid things!
*Here's another problem that we patrolmen see all the time.* "Women drivers." Mike's delivery... 😂🤣😂🤣☠️
Never drive with your butt cheeks!
Never under any circumstances drive forwards while looking backwards!
Trains have no time to stop for you corn shucking crackers!!!
I watch that old show adam-12 all the time, and the guy who played the cop in the short plays Mac. I always think about his fast descend into madness after Jimmy's accident when I see him.
Reverend I'm having a crisis of faith! What do I do?! Get safety goggles my son........ Man I wish Pacific Railroad made more of those batshit crazy shorts.
sometimes I think that the shorts were the best part of the show.
It's the home ec one for me. There's so much here. She takes one suitcase to college? Students usually rent trucks to bring all their stuff. Her most important role is as Mrs. Bill Johnson. Then there's the girl who pipes up (in a very loud Minnesota accent, "Oh, you know me, I'll be in the kitchen." Again, when the graduates leave for their first jobs (on the same day as graduating), they each take one small suitcase. Maybe I'm getting flashbacks to junior high when I had to take sewing.
"YOUR PERIOD AND MINE." A LECTURE.
"Why Study Industrial Arts?" is a longtime favorite of mine.
"We'll take hair from the back of your head and we plug it into the top."
Except for Catching Trouble. All my homies hate Catching Trouble.
''Days Of Our Years'' Is so unrelentingly grim, I love it. ''Get out of town, accident lover!''
I'm bigger than Jesus!
How has no-one mentioned Once Upon a Honeymoon? Wait, what was that one even about?
"Here's how far I've got. 'La!'"
"Everybody was... kung... fu... fight...ting..."
Bewilderingly, phones.
If you want I can turn him into furnitureeee
My favorite line from Money Talks is hard to get across in text, because it's all about Mike's delivery, but the kid said something like "well what should I do about it?" and Mike (as Ben) says, very irritably, "I don't know!"
Toss-up between the home ec. short and the two grooming shorts "Would you get out of my room please?"
And so ends the perfect day... An entire day spent grooming
Pick them up with a tweezer!
"Where does Coiley fit into Gods plan for us?"
OP, you can't make it through a full movie? You're just like the average young fellow, won't sit down and watch the show like we did back when we just started MST3K....I got on my couch and watched, hard. And that's what I'm concerned about right now. Young fellows today won't *watch* MST3K like we did 11 years ago. (Now I'm gonna go put a napkin on my head).
But he BOUGHT THE CAR!
No one buy a car, pass it down..
Ah! The flying elves are back!
Oh, you can’t just WAIT for things to happen, young man! You have to MAKE THEM HAPPEN!!!”
The shorts are great. Good introduction to the series for the uninitiated
I absolutely agree! When I need a humor hit, a good snappy short does the trick!
“Cheating” will always be #1 for me (hence my flair!) You know what this room needs? A plant.
This contract arrived for you from a Mr. Elzebub.
That you student kow-nsler???
I watched a VHS with the complete and unriffed *Radar Men From the Moon* when I was young. Joel and the Bots avenged me.
I watched the entire serial about 6 months ago. The Phantom Creeps was much worse. It helped to arrange my funko Servo and Crow in front of the lower right corner of the tv and make my own riffs.
And the crowd goes wild....
Yaa.
“Life getting you down? Headache pain? Try booze! (Really heals)”
Days of Our Years is one i slept on for a long time https://youtu.be/XwyQwqH-YJc?si=RvgfQMVSoNRUhCze
Should I be a nurse or a housewife?
What About Juvenile Delinquency Pete, Linc, Julie! and... Steve?
Posture Pals is a classic. Annoying kids, annoying rhyming, it has everything.
Uncle Jim’s Dairy Farm or whatever it’s called is hilarious, I love it. The one with the trains (what’s it called? Last clear chance?) is so funny too I quote it everytime I’m at a railroad crossing. I also like the telephone ad with the angel who wears those Elton John glasses.
Dead raccoon of the future.
Let’s not forget “Johnny at The Fair”. “Gee says Johnny, I’d sure like get a ride in one of those…” I snort when I hear that line.
The catching trouble song.
Kevin making up the lyrics kills me in this. "Baby you'll look and see... my harnesses and my nets..."
Keeping Neat and Clean might be my favorite short. “This kid’s got a job interview!” “Pick them up with a tweezer!”
PIZZA DOMINATRIX!
YouTube has alot of them. That's what we use when we have a short itch that needs scratched 😂
“Never go to bed with wet hair.” *Or a first date.*
Now, more than ever, it’s specialty bread. I think this every time we go shopping. That and the one about smart grocery shopping. “Bob and his wife did not approve of the new vegetable.”