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3x1
A Visit to Santa
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20, 2007
(1963) Just in time for the holidays, RiffTrax presents our take on A Visit to Santa, a Christmas short of unknown origin that most probably was the result of Santa's short-lived .. show full overview
3x2
Act Your Age
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01, 2008
(1949) Young Jim is caught in a shocking act of pencil-based vandalism, leading him to look deeply into the core of his soul and come to the inexorable conclusion that he is kind of a .. show full overview
3x3
Beginning Responsibility: Lunchroom Manners
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22, 2008
(1959) Meet Phil. Like all children from the fifties, he enjoys playing ball, building soapbox racers, and taunting his non blond-haired, blue-eyed classmates. Things are going great for .. show full overview
3x4
The Terrible Truth
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28, 2008
(1951) Heroin, it turns out, is bad. The Terrible Truth lays waste to the all-too-common myth that regular heroin use is a healthy part of a balanced diet. Professional scowler Judge .. show full overview
3x5
Why Doesn't Cathy Eat Breakfast / Petaluma Chicken
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07, 2008
At long last, the question of the ages is met head on. No facet of the issue is left unexplored. The philosophical, eschatological, teleological, epistemological, and cosmological .. show full overview
3x6
Coffeehouse Rendezvous
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14, 2008
(1969) The youth of today, no longer content to roll a hoop with a stick, play endless hours of mumbly peg, or work a lathe at a factory 14 hours a day for just pennies, need something .. show full overview
3x7
Safety - Harm Hides at Home
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28, 2008
(1974) Your home is crawling with hazards! You are not safe! EVERYTHING WILL KILL YOU! In fact, never mind, because you're already dead; killed by your stupid house. That, at least, is .. show full overview
3x8
Are You Popular
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08, 2008
(1947) It's time to face the question head on, to stop pretending that the crowds of people following you, jeering, throwing rocks and half-eaten burritos are there because of your charm .. show full overview
3x9
If Mirrors Could Speak
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11, 2008
(1976) Cruel self-assessment is given a new twist as vulnerable grade-schoolers are forced to look into the deep blackness of their own souls only to reach the inevitable conclusion that .. show full overview
3x10
One Got Fat
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18, 2008
(1963) Do you find that you're sleeping a little too well as of late? That your dreams are of the innocuous stripe, i.e., old friends turning into llamas and eating your baseball hat, .. show full overview
3x11
Drugs are Like That
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17, 2008
(1979) There are so many things to which drugs can be compared that to even attempt to catalog them would be an act of incomprehensible madness. Yet in this pastel colored, 1970's .. show full overview
3x12
Down and Out
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01, 2008
If you like your safety shorts served with a heavy dose of groovy, then this is for you! Down and Out lays out a litany of dangers inherent in your every move from one location to the .. show full overview
3x13
Patriotism
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03, 2008
When you hear the word "patriotism" what's the first name that pops into your head? Wrong! The answer is Bob Crane. And not "Hogan's Heroes" Bob Crane, but rather creepy, post-"Hogan's .. show full overview
3x14
Skipper Learns a Lesson
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08, 2008
Snoopy, Lassie, Cerberus, Rin-Tin-Tin: lovable canine companions are a dime a dozen. Which makes Skipper: The Racist Dog such a breath of fresh air! Tired of "PC" dogs who "like" .. show full overview
3x15
Buying Food
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11, 2008
Buying food - how hard can it be? You go to a store pick out a few items, and start mashing them into the side of your head, right? WRONG! That's a common misconception, but as Buying .. show full overview
3x16
Right or Wrong?
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15, 2008
Right or Wrong tells the gritty story of Harry, a boy who doesn't vandalize a warehouse and suffers the consequences for it. Harry, who resembles a younger, less handsome French .. show full overview
3x17
The Trouble With Women
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18, 2008
Women - what the hell, man? I mean, what's your problem? Thankfully, for all of us non-women, some very smart people have put their best be-crew-cutted minds into coming up with a .. show full overview
3x18
It Must Be the Neighbors
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22, 2008
Bill Duncan had it all until the day when he discovered that his garbage cans had been deemed unfit for use by the city sanitation committee. The deep shame of this incident drove him .. show full overview
3x19
Each Child Is Different
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25, 2008
“Each Child Is Different” goes the saying, and no truer words have ever been spoken. Take Miss Smith's fifth grade class for instance. While Elizabeth is withdrawn and silent because of .. show full overview
3x20
Kitty Cleans Up
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29, 2008
Years in the spotlight had left Kitty with fame, riches, and a drug habit to rival all but the Busey-ist of addicts. Hooked on catnip, Kitty quickly found herself alone on the street, .. show full overview
3x21
Why Vandalism
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31, 2008
Why Vandalism? It's the one question that kept parents in the fifties up at night. Why would my boy turn to vandalism for thrills when they could be listening to Burl Ives 45s or .. show full overview
3x54
Cork - Crashes and Curiosities
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08, 2008
If there's one thing that a small niche of people like, it's car racing! It's all there: the drama, the passion, the guy who for some reason shouts "Boogity Boogity Boogity." But we .. show full overview
3x22
Aqua Frolics
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30, 2008
If you were told you were about to see a film that contained turtles bigger than men, cliff-diving Mexicans and a family that eats Thanksgiving dinner underwater, you'd probably complain .. show full overview
3x23
Good Health Practices
Episode overview
24, 2008
Washing your hands after using the restroom - most of us only do so because a fellow co-worker is in the bathroom with us, and we wonder if he'll tell other people if we don't. But evidently, we should be doing this even when a co-worker isn't there.
3x24
Good Eating Habits
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31, 2008
For many of us, Good Eating Habits boil down to a simple rule: avoid any food whose name ends in "-ator" or "-o-rama". But fifty years ago, in an era food historians refer to as "Pre .. show full overview
3x25
Know For Sure
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21, 2008
You think you don't have syphilis, but how do really know? Has anyone you trust told you you don't have it? Have you been in contact with anyone from a big city in, say, the last year? .. show full overview
3x26
Christmas Toyshop
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22, 2008
Can't anyone tell me what Christmas is all about!? an exasperated Charlie Brown once asked. Well, pace Linus van Pelt, the true meaning of Christmas—according to Christmas Toyshop—is a .. show full overview
3x27
Shy Guy
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06, 2009
Shyness—for years it has prevented boys from becoming men and girls from landing men. How can shyness be conquered? By imitating those who are better than you: the popular children. This .. show full overview
3x28
Self Conscious Guy
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16, 2009
Do you find yourself in a constant state of niggling self criticism, e.g., "I bet everyone is laughing at me just because I have a waffle stuck to my back", or "I know it's the right .. show full overview
3x29
Overcoming Fear
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28, 2009
Fear: Most of us rejected it in the mid-90s by wearing trendy t-shirts emblazoned with slogans such as "Second Place is the First Loser." This national "No Fear" campaign almost .. show full overview
3x30
Playing Together
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27, 2009
"You would like to play with Donny and Duncan." So the narrator for Playing Together confidently tells us, and we have no reason to doubt him. But as the minutes pass it becomes clear .. show full overview
3x31
How Much Affection?
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20, 2009
It's a question we ponder every time we tip the pizza guy: How much affection? Is it necessary to set the box down before embracing him? How long do you hold him, knowing that he has .. show full overview
3x32
Your Chance to Live
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24, 2009
What happens when a public television studio realizes that it has to spend $2,000 of government grant money before Wednesday in order to qualify for full funding for the next fiscal .. show full overview
3x33
Understanding Your Ideals
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28, 2009
Pop quiz hotshot: Your father tells you that your grandmother has fallen and badly hurt herself. What do you do? Like most of us here at RiffTrax, you probably answered "Call an .. show full overview
3x34
As We Like It
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01, 2009
Ah, beer. Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast! (We think that's what the Swan of Avon was referring to...) Beer provides everything the .. show full overview
3x35
Going Steady
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03, 2009
It's the most important decision you'll ever make: should I eat the rest of this BK Stacker, or just trust my vague feeling of nausea and quit while I'm ahead? But put that aside now and .. show full overview
3x36
Carnivorous Plants
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07, 2009
Carnivorous Plants! Like Wii Boxing, they're one of those things that instantly becomes 1000X less cool the moment you bring it home and try it out. Rather than quickly earning their .. show full overview
3x37
You and Your Family
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17, 2009
You and Your Family. Much like gunpowder and an open flame, combining the two is not recommended (especially if mom's been drinking.) But every now and then a scenario arises where you .. show full overview
3x38
Primary Safety: In the School Building
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24, 2009
The follow-up to the smash hit "Primary Safety: In the Three Mile Island Cooling Tower", Primary Safety: In The School Building starts with a catchy name and builds from there. Personal .. show full overview
3x39
Damaged Goods
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29, 2009
Surprisingly, not a biography of Björk, Damaged Goods is a cautionary tale about a couple of young men who go on a harmless adventure in search of beer and girls and end up finding .. show full overview
3x40
Cooking Terms
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01, 2009
Mario Batali. Emeril Lagasse. Thomas Keller. What do they all have in common? Besides having seen Julia Child naked? That's right, they are all masters of Cooking Terms! Cooking Terms .. show full overview
3x41
What About Juvenile Delinquency?
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05, 2009
It can happen to any of us: we fall in with some free-spirited youths, get a few lime phosphates in our system, and before you know it we're rolling up our blue dungarees to impertinent .. show full overview
3x42
Snap Out of It
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08, 2009
The 50's are back with a simple message for you—Snap Out of It! "But," you protest, "I only—" Hey, the 50's are gonna stop you right there. Don't say another word. Doesn't matter what .. show full overview
3x43
Toward Emotional Maturity
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12, 2009
Featuring the beautiful but volatile Sally, a girl who loves Hank with all her heart one moment, and the next wants to cut him into thin slabs with her fencing épée and feed him to her .. show full overview
3x44
Alcohol Trigger Films
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22, 2009
When a short entitled Alcohol Trigger Films turned up at RiffTrax HQ, we jumped at the chance to riff it. After all, everyone who works here is a big fan of the subject matter: trigger .. show full overview
3x45
Back to School With Joan Miller
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14, 2009
Yes, it's that's time again—time to go back to school. And when it's time to choose with whom you'd like to go, the options are nearly limitless: your uncle Barney, Richard Simmons, that .. show full overview
3x46
Highway Mania
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17, 2009
Sometime between the invention of pyromania and the discovery of Beatlemania, the country suffered a frightening outbreak of Highway Mania. Accounts of the disorder are sketchy, but if .. show full overview
3x47
The Bill of Rights in Action
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21, 2009
It seems that forty years ago, one out of every three instructional films was about The Bill of Rights (the rest were about either syphilis and/or Mr. Bungle.) So it was only natural .. show full overview
3x48
Shake Hands with Danger
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23, 2009
The world of Safety Instructional Films breaks down into two distinct categories: Shake Hands with Danger, and everything else. If you like your hair feathered, your glasses huge and .. show full overview
3x49
Wing Claw and Fang!
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28, 2009
When we think back on the list of the great entertainers of the past century, a few names universally come to mind: Sinatra. Carson. Lohan. And Jimmy. No, not Jimmy Walker. And not .. show full overview
3x50
The Tale of Moose Baby
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11, 2009
Ladies and gentlemen: Moose Baby. Think of Howard Carter as first he gazed upon the freshly unsealed chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen; that should give you some sense of the awe .. show full overview
3x51
Flying Stewardess
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25, 2009
Flying Stewardess takes us for an airborne jaunt through the wild blue yonder. Hop on board a spacious plane, where you'll be treated like a king. Enjoy a delicious steak dinner, served .. show full overview
3x52
Constance Bennett's Daily Beauty Rituals
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28, 2009
Where should one turn when looking for beauty advice? To the fashion magazines that litter our grocery store checkout aisles, with their fresh-faced starlets with perky bods and millions .. show full overview
3x53
Teenagers On Trial
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04, 2009
Someone has to be on trial. It may as well be teenagers. And they deserve it, too, what with their shenanigans, the hell-raking, their common thuggery, rough manners and unkempt flat-top .. show full overview
3x55
What It Means To Be An American (Part 1)
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11, 2009
In 2009, if you ask someone What It Means To Be An American you'll get a simple response: a willingness to deep-fry anything and everything. But back in the fifties, before anyone had .. show full overview
3x56
The Case of Tommy Tucker (Part 1)
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15, 2009
This extraordinary film dares to do something no other safety short has ever dreamed of: killing its 9-year-old title character and sending him to hell; a hell run by two doughy, .. show full overview
3x57
What It Means To Be An American (Part 2)
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18, 2009
Several of us were left frustrated when What It Means to Be An American: Part 1 ended without answering the titular question. In fact, many of you noticed that it did not in fact appear .. show full overview
3x58
The Case of Tommy Tucker (Part 2)
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22, 2009
When last we left Tommy Tucker he had died and was just beginning an eternal stint on Safety Island, a particularly dull outpost in the vast Hell empire. The demon in charge of enslaving .. show full overview
3x59
Women In Blue
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25, 2009
Women in Blue tells the tale of one of baseball's most storied franchises, the Los Angeles Dodgers. Actually, that's not true. We just have an Oakland A's fan on our staff who remains .. show full overview
3x60
A Circus Wakes Up
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13, 2009
Contrary to what many of you are thinking, A Circus Wakes Up is NOT a wrenching adaptation of a short story by Philip Roth that recounts the heartbreaking tale of Bernard Circus, a .. show full overview
3x61
American Thrift (Part 1)
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16, 2009
American Thrift is a touching tribute to the “Woman American”, brought to you by Chevrolet. Just who is the Woman American you ask? Why, she is the one that those who sell and .. show full overview
3x62
Call It Free (Part 1)
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10, 2009
Fortunately, Call It Free brings all your grease monkey fantasies to life. A Dizzy Dame, whose husband affectionately nicknames her Hank (due to her resemblance to the legendary country .. show full overview
3x131
Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza! Live
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01, 2009
What do ice-skating reindeer, pipe-smoking santas and a parade of aquatic champions have in common? You’ll see them all in the RiffTrax Live: Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza! The stars of .. show full overview
3x63
Christmas Rhapsody
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18, 2009
George Bailey running down the streets of Bedford Falls. Linus explaining to a hushed audience what Christmas is really about. A desperate Arnold suiting up as Turbo Man for the .. show full overview
3x64
Christmas Dream
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22, 2009
Santa Claus, famous fat Saint, is best known for his advances in forced deer flight and his work as a firm-but-fair elf foreman. But the man is even more gifted than his great big sack .. show full overview
3x65
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
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22, 2009
The story of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer has been told and retold countless times, in film, TV and song. All of those other versions are better than this one. Even the cold war-era .. show full overview
3x66
The Night Before Christmas
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24, 2009
It’s the sunniest Night Before Christmas yet. Not a creature is stirring, not even the stuffed, mummified mouse that’s lovingly stapled to the floor. Sugarplums dance in the heads of .. show full overview
3x67
Three Magic Words
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30, 2009
Have you ever been on the Disneyland ride, "It's a Small World After All"? Wait, where are you going! Come back! This short isn't about that ride. It contains no references to that .. show full overview
3x68
Parade of Aquatic Champions
Episode overview
05, 2010
Aquatic Champions. For years their achievements went largely unnoticed, mainly due to the fact that everyone can quickly come up with a list of dozens of things they would rather do than .. show full overview
3x69
American Thrift (Part 2)
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26, 2010
For the past four months, there has been a gaping hole in Thrift-related RiffTrax content. After the release of American Thrift Part I, Thrift lovers everywhere were high and dry, left .. show full overview
3x70
Molly Grows Up
Episode overview
02, 2010
There are some conversational topics that most men will avoid at all costs. Guessing a woman's age, Barbra Streisand's Yentl, and the appeal of Justin Bieber rank high among them. But .. show full overview
3x71
Call it Free (Part 2)
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05, 2010
Call It Free Part 2 continues the madcap service station antics that viewers of Call It Free Part 1 demanded More, More, More* of! All of your favorite characters are back. Herb (not a .. show full overview
3x72
Story of a Teenage Drug Addict
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08, 2010
Lindsay Lohan's meteoric rise to fame, and subsequent collapse in the glare of its harsh spotlight, is just a recent iteration of a tale as old as time. Many are quick to judge her, but .. show full overview
3x73
Following Instructions Game
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23, 2010
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 .. show full overview
3x74
Little Lost Scent
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26, 2010
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 .. show full overview
3x75
An Aquarium in Action
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30, 2010
Aquarium. Translated literally from the original Latin, it means "boredom box". Every day, thousands of aquariums are completely ignored by passersby in our nation's dentist offices .. show full overview
3x76
Mr. Moto Takes A Walk
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02, 2010
Without knowing who Mr. Moto* is, you're probably slightly confused about why you would want to watch him take a walk. "I can watch Mr. Jensen, the bald guy four doors down, take a walk .. show full overview
3x77
Seat Belts: The Life Saving Habit
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06, 2010
Do you hate stuff that's designed to save your life? Does the inconvenience of having to flip the safety off your handgun before you use it to open a beer bottle drive you INSANE? Do .. show full overview
3x78
Drawing for Beginners: The Rectangle
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27, 2010
Can genius be taught? It is one of the great philosophical questions. With enough time, patience, and dedication, can the next Van Gogh be created? Or is the mastery of an artistic .. show full overview
3x79
Kittens: Birth and Growth
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30, 2010
Cats have a come a long way lately. They "hung in there", indeed, on the wall posters of America's cubicles. And now they are widely acknowledged as the foundation of the entire .. show full overview
3x80
Reading: Who needs it?
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04, 2010
Reading. Like it or not, (and as a people, we've cast a resounding vote for 'not'), it's something most of us have to do every day. Whether it's selectively combing news stories for the .. show full overview
3x81
Families: Food and Eating
Episode overview
07, 2010
The Families series of shorts is a beloved franchise with many proud, vital installments. Some other favorites: Families: Food and Failure, Families: Lies & Videotape, and perhaps most .. show full overview
3x82
Summer is an Adventure
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11, 2010
We all have a certain summer memory. One that we find ourselves fondly reminiscing over as the days get longer and hotter. A memory of a different time, when we still retained our .. show full overview
3x83
Beginning Responsibility: Taking Care Of Your Own Things
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18, 2010
Every now and then you meet a child who forever changes your perception of how stupid a child can be. There's your second cousin's boy, Leon, who spends summer afternoons .. show full overview
3x84
Reading Growth: Basic Skills
Episode overview
21, 2010
Reading: for now, it is the only way to experience the approximately four remaining books that have not been made into movies (three, after this summer's CGI heavy adaptation of Frog & .. show full overview
3x85
Geography of Your Community
Episode overview
28, 2010
Many times we find ourselves mocking the content of the educational shorts we feature here at RiffTrax. Most of the time it is quite deserved; if you will recall, not too long ago we .. show full overview
3x86
The Parts of Speech
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01, 2010
Parts. We all have them. Some of them are public, like elbows and unibrows. Some of them are private, like thigh pimples or the complete set of Bob Seger CDs that you pray your new .. show full overview
3x87
Watch Out For My Plant
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04, 2010
Consider: a young boy, growing up in an urban setting with seemingly absentee parents, purchases a special plant from a quirky man who has assumed the moniker "Papa Nikolai". The boy .. show full overview
3x88
Values: The Right Thing To Do
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08, 2010
One of the great questions ethicists have pondered over time has been "what is the right thing to do?" Meet Mr. Carson, who has never answered this question correctly. He's the man .. show full overview
3x89
Family Teamwork
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15, 2010
Do you ever stop to reflect on what an ungrateful, useless little puke you were as a child? Like when your father came home after his 60 hour work week with the new lunchbox he thought .. show full overview
3x90
Pearl of the Orient
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18, 2010
Join the middle-aged drummer as this thrilling documentary follows his exploits during Rush’s 2009 Asian tour. Leaving in his wake several bottles of FiberCon, completely unnecessary .. show full overview
3x91
Individual Differences
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25, 2010
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: .. show full overview
3x92
Whatever The Weather
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29, 2010
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 .. show full overview
3x93
Building Better Paragraphs
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02, 2010
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 .. show full overview
3x94
Are People All The Same?
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06, 2010
Teaching kids about the evils of racism in a clear, culturally-sensitive manner is a difficult task. Fortunately for us, it’s something the makers of educational shorts from decades .. show full overview
3x95
Mealtime Manners and Health
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09, 2010
You may think you know your Mealtime Manners, but much like the recent Kevorkian biopic that, despite starring Al Pacino, was sadly neither unintentionally hilarious nor full of rapid .. show full overview
3x96
Things Are Different Now
Episode overview
23, 2010
In honor of our new short, Things Are Different Now, we’d like to list some things that are different now. In 2004, Mel Gibson was featured in Time’s “Man of the Year” issue for the .. show full overview
3x97
William's Doll
Episode overview
06, 2010
It's every parent's nightmare: You're woken up at 3AM by a knock at your front door. When you open it, there's a somber looking policeman standing there, his hat in his hands. He .. show full overview
3x98
Decisions Decisions
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10, 2010
As any dorm poster covered in photographs of shots that no adult would actually order at a bar could tell you, “Life is full of difficult decisions.” Tommy, the hero of Decisions, .. show full overview
3x99
Library World
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13, 2010
School's out, and this summer, there's only one place to find elementary school children. No, not the basketball courts. No, not the movie theater. No, not the swimming hole, they cut .. show full overview
3x100
The Fad Diet Circus
Episode overview
16, 2010
In preparation for working on Fad Diet Circus, we here at RiffTrax decided to try out a few of the more popular fad diets. We started with the “Macho Man Randy Savage Diet”, which .. show full overview
3x101
More Dangerous Than Dynamite
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19, 2010
When the 1920's ended, America was left with a shortage of crazy fads. Goldfish went un-swallowed. Flagpoles went un-sat upon. Charleston's went un-charlestoned. Dozens of dead bodies .. show full overview
3x102
Alone At Home
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31, 2010
In honor of Alone at Home, we did a little research on a similarly-titled film only to discover that Macaulay Culkin recently turned 30. That’s right, the kid from Home Alone is 30 .. show full overview
3x103
Telephone For Help
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07, 2010
What would you do if you visited an elderly aunt only to find her injured on the floor? Would you regret that you had not been there when she fell from the stepladder, because if you .. show full overview
3x104
What If We Had a Fire?
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14, 2010
Some questions are as old as time. “Why are we here?” “Can love really last?” “Who let the dogs out?” “Is corn grass?” But there’s one ancient question that’s sure to chill you to .. show full overview
3x105
Seven Little Ducks
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22, 2010
When police inspector Launchpad McQuack receives a phone call that Huey, Dewey and Louie have gone missing, his initial inclination was to suspect the Beagle Boys - a suspicion that his .. show full overview
3x106
Cops: Who Needs Them?
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28, 2010
When we're deciding what shorts to screen here at RiffTrax, there's a 27 step, bullet-pointed criteria we use. Then we just pick the ones with the funniest title. More often than not, .. show full overview
3x107
You Can Do Something About Acne
Episode overview
05, 2010
Listen up, pizza-faced creeps! Until now, you’ve suffered shameful, wretched existences. Cowering in dark cellars. Adopting beekeeping as a hobby, just for the veil. Wearing a drug .. show full overview
3x108
Safe Living at School
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12, 2010
Safe Living at School pulls no punches with its straightforward title: This is a short which attempts to tell you how to make it through the school day unscathed. Your elementary .. show full overview
3x109
Behavior of Domestic Pigs in a semi-Natural Pig-Park
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15, 2010
You can't underestimate the importance of a good title. What would "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" be if it were called "Some Stuff That Good People Do Good"? Or if "Who .. show full overview
3x110
Monkey See, Monkey Do: Verbs
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19, 2010
In working on Monkey See, Monkey Do: Verbs, we came across a rare find: a behind-the-scenes audio recording from the making of the film! Before submitting the material to a museum, where .. show full overview
3x111
Don't Be A Bloody Idiot
Episode overview
25, 2010
Life in Australia can be extremely hazardous. There's Tasmanian devil attacks, lethal doses of vegemite and large, bearded, drunken men. And that's just in the Parliament building!* .. show full overview
3x112
Magical Disappearing Money
Episode overview
05, 2010
When we first received Magical Disappearing Money we assumed it was an M.C. Hammer biopic. Fortunately, it turned out to be something even more pathetic and strange! It’s the tale of a .. show full overview
3x113
Values: Understanding Ourselves
Episode overview
08, 2010
Values: Understanding Ourselves is the tale of three small boys who find a rusty hubcap in an abandoned lot and take turns rubbing it and wishing for it to turn them into a fellow .. show full overview
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The Calendar: How to Use It
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23, 2010
The Calendar. Whether you choose a Far Side page-a-day, an Anne Geddes year-of-horror or Twelve Months of Lifeguards that May Be Used as Flotation Devices, one thing is certain: none of .. show full overview
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Unto The Least Of These
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07, 2010
Our latest short takes its name from a famous quote from The Gospel of Matthew. Or maybe it was from the episode of Eek The Cat, "Eek vs the Flying Saucers." What's important is that .. show full overview
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Santa Claus' Punch and Judy
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18, 2010
When you ponder ideal Christmas entertainment for children, do you think of a centuries-old tradition of violent puppetry, complete with domestic abuse and offensive minstrel-themed .. show full overview
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Courtesy A Good Eggsample
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28, 2010
Do you like Courtesy? How about Egg Puns? After a few drinks, have you been known to expound at length about how Sheldon, the egg with legs, was truly the unsung hero of the US Acres .. show full overview
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The Being On Time Game
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04, 2011
Alfred Higgins Productions famously struck gold with their "demand for obedience masked as fun" short The Following Instructions Game. Flush with confidence and literally tens of dollars .. show full overview
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Basic Job Skills: Handling Daily Problems
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11, 2011
If you have Daily Problems at your work, the humanitarians at Coronet Films are here to help you Handle them. And assuming that most of your problems center around how ugly your 1970s .. show full overview
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Courtesy Counts A Lot!
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18, 2011
Some people would say that good old-fashioned common courtesy is dead in modern times. And we here at RiffTrax think those ugly jerks should keep their crusty mouths closed if they know .. show full overview
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Remember Me
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08, 2011
Meet The Customer, three time finalist for the title of Most Disrespected Man in America. No matter where he goes: the bank, the supermarket, even his job, somebody is waiting to ignore .. show full overview
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Walking to School
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11, 2011
Imagine you are a 1950s elementary school student, and you have just walked to school. Sure, you didn’t really want to go, but now you’re there and ready to learn. Maybe enjoy a vintage .. show full overview
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Improve Your Pronunciation
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18, 2011
Oscar-nominated film The King’s Speech focuses on a world leader who struggles under the burden of a devastating speech impediment (or so we’ve been told, we were gonna see it but .. show full overview
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Basic Job Skills: Dealing With Customers
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01, 2011
Your Basic Job Skills, or more accurately, your lack thereof, are why you are no longer employed at Long John Silver's. Yes, we know you've been telling people it's because your manager, .. show full overview
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The ABC of Walking Wisely
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11, 2011
Jaywalking! It's convenient, exciting, good for a laugh or two. But is it wise? To find out, let's watch The ABC of Walking Wisely, which weighs in on J-walking as well as the rest of .. show full overview
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Vision in the Forest
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29, 2011
Few would argue that Visions in the Forest rarely end well, especially if they’re brought on by the special chocolates the hippie left at your campsite before he scurried off, muttering .. show full overview
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A Badger's Bad Day
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19, 2011
A Badger’s Bad Day is the harrowing tale of a Badger who works as a middle manager at a cell phone case manufacturing plant. He returns home after a particularly exhausting shift to .. show full overview
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Families: Earning and Spending
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22, 2011
Anybody who strapped in for the thrill ride that was Families: Food and Eating probably assumes they got the whole story. Three families from three different countries prepared food, and .. show full overview
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Kangaroos
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26, 2011
Kangaroos - considered by many to be one of the top five marsupials in the world for drunken Irishmen to box, these creatures remain elusive and mysterious to most of us. (Exception: .. show full overview
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The Red Hen
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27, 2011
The story begins with The Red Hen’s brother and their parents being slaughtered by the evil Queen Gedren’s army because The Red Hen rejected the Queen’s sexual advances. The Red Hen .. show full overview
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Tooth Truth with Harv and Marv
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03, 2011
Most of us know the basics of dental hygiene. Brush after after every nine breaths, floss with a business card on public transportation, and gargle with Mountain Dew. So to be honest, .. show full overview
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County Fair
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06, 2011
Before going any further, we should stop to let you know that our new short County Fair was produced by ACI, the same acid-fueled company that brought us the notorious Grasses short. .. show full overview
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Prickly the Porcupine
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10, 2011
Quick! Say the first word that comes to mind when I mention porcupines. Ok... Sure, why not...That one’s not really what we're looking for, but keep 'em coming...Ok, that's a little .. show full overview
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The Mysterious Message
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07, 2011
The internet era is filled with mysterious, indecipherable messages. The comment “firsties” on an article - what could it possibly mean, and what purpose could it serve? An all-caps .. show full overview
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Beginning Responsibility: Being a Good Sport
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15, 2011
Sometimes it’s really hard to be a good sport. Like when your fifth grade basketball team gets embarrassed 41-17 on the court, so you convince all the boys on your team to hock a loogie .. show full overview
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Animal Homes
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28, 2011
Animals make their homes in lots of fun, interesting places! Some burrow into tree bark, while others burrow into the dense, matted armpit hair of a bench-napping Nick Nolte! Some gather .. show full overview
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Beginning Responsibility: Getting Ready For School
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01, 2011
Sure, great, here we go..."beginning" responsibility, and "getting" ready for school. Hey kids, how about for once you just GET responsible and BE ready for school? We’re tired of .. show full overview
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Adventures of a Chipmunk Family
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05, 2011
Who among us doesn’t love a good adventure? A chance to escape our routines and stimulate our minds and reinvigorate our sense of fun. Yes, there’s nothing like the thrill you get from .. show full overview
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Billy's Helicopter Ride
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07, 2011
GET TO DA CHOPPA!!! Many of us have heard these iconic instructions hundreds of times. They’ve been shouted at us during important life events: graduations, weddings, or most likely, .. show full overview
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Paper and I
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13, 2011
Yes, the short that brought the house down at RiffTrax Live, answering questions about paper that nobody was asking, is now available in a brand-new studio version! By now the sick, sad .. show full overview
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Aesop's Sound Fables - Frozen Frolics
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15, 2011
Aesop’s Fables. These stories, with their universal morals, have inspired us all. Tales such as “The Fox and the Grapes”, “The Lion and the Mouse” and “The Two Cat/Bear things that go to .. show full overview
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At Your Fingertips: Grasses
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23, 2011
Ever since this short debuted at RiffTrax Live, we’ve heard one question more than any other: “Why are you standing so close to me?” But a VERY CLOSE second to that is, “When are you .. show full overview
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At Your Fingertips: Boxes
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26, 2011
Let’s just be upfront: this is a sequel to the infamous Grasses short and you should buy it right away. Yes, the mad geniuses at ACI films have recruited a new group of children to .. show full overview
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Borrowed Power
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29, 2011
A cutting, thoughtful, and sober analysis of the coming world energy crisis, Borrowed Power affirms -- WAIT WAIT DON’T GO just kidding!! It’s really about an extaordinarily ugly teenager .. show full overview
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Eggs to Market
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12, 2011
There are lots of places you could take eggs. You could take eggs to a party! You could take eggs to the museum! You could take eggs to prom! You could take eggs to the workplace of your .. show full overview
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A Boy of Mexico: Juan and his Donkey
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16, 2011
Juan and His Donkey! Rockin’ your commute on KBLZ 105.3! Stay tuned because we’ve got our producer Timmy The Gimp in nothing but a kilt out in front of a funeral home, and a guy in a .. show full overview
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What is Nothing?
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17, 2011
It’s summer vacation! School’s out and you have all the time in the world to hang with your best bud and...ponder the meaning of nothingness? In What is Nothing? we join two youngsters .. show full overview
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One Turkey, Two Turkey
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20, 2011
When you ask a company like ACI, makers of the now-infamous “Grasses” and “Boxes” shorts, to create a film teaching kids to count to ten, there are three things of which you can be .. show full overview
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We Discover the Dictionary
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23, 2011
We Discover the Dictionary weaves the enchanting tale of three grade school children who discover the dictionary for the first time. And that’s all well and good: they use it to write a .. show full overview
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Feelings: I'm Feeling Alone
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06, 2011
When you see the title of our new short, Feelings: I’m Feeling Alone, you might think to yourself “Alone? That’s gotta be the saddest thing you could put after the words ‘I’m Feeling’ in .. show full overview
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Setting Up A Room
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09, 2011
Setting Up a Room is about two women setting up a kindergarten classroom. It lasts for 27 minutes. To attempt to explain anything more about it would be an act of futility. It is one .. show full overview
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Join Hands, Let Go!
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13, 2011
Many of the educational shorts we riff seem to have been designed not to teach children, but instead to confuse them into a state of dizzy, nauseous acceptance. Most try to hide this .. show full overview
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The Creeps Machine
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16, 2011
Do you ever get scared? Do you ever get the creeps? More importantly, are both of these questions wildly inappropriate for an educational short to pose to a bunch of nine year olds? .. show full overview
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Boy of India: Rama and His Elephant
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20, 2011
A discussion of great, important series would be incomplete without mention of Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Twin Peaks, and, of course, the “Boy of” shorts. We’ve previously presented A .. show full overview
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What Are Letters For?
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23, 2011
It's true that the educational shorts we dig up have been described as “less educational than an episode of The Jersey Shore” in a review from Bizarrely Contrived Comparison magazine. .. show full overview
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Making Sense with Sentences
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11, 2011
Meet The Wordsmith! Some say this wacky old gent has a way with words! Good thing, since he lives on the Island of Grammaria, where he runs a workshop teaching all the little boys and .. show full overview
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Jobs in Cosmetology
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25, 2011
For decades, the phrase “I’m looking for a job in cosmetology” has been a great, positive way to let your girlfriend know it’s probably in her best interests to seek a more compatible .. show full overview
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What Makes Things Float
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28, 2011
“What Makes Things Float?” It’s no longer just something for your stoned roommate to mumble before he spreads Nutella on a Chipwich. It’s also an educational short which features two .. show full overview
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Let's Pretend: Magic Sneakers
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08, 2011
There’s no two ways about it, Let’s Pretend: Magic Sneakers is a gleeful, brightly-colored, downright whimsical piece of insane evil. A young boy, grime-encrusted as a train hobo, has .. show full overview
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Beginning Responsibility: Broken Bookshop
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11, 2011
Every community needs a Broken Bookshop. You’ll find it in town square, over by the Moth-Ridden Mattress Hut, just around the corner from Shaky Sam’s Shattered Stemware Emporium. Because .. show full overview
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Corky the Crow
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07, 2011
What child wouldn’t want a wild crow as a pet?...is a question you might sincerely ask if you had never encountered children or crows before. Crows, the repulsive, squawking harpies of .. show full overview
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Reading From Now On
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03, 2012
Oh, you like reading, do you? You like reading just the way it is now, you say? Well tough, because here’s how reading is gonna be FROM NOW ON. From now on, reading will only be done .. show full overview
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Friends
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24, 2012
The 1970s were an exciting era in the world of educational shorts. The films shifted focus from “attempting to teach kids something practical” to “reminding them that life is a yawning, .. show full overview
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The Lemonade Stand: What's Fair?
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31, 2012
Running a Lemonade Stand is a childhood rite of passage, much like going off the high dive or finding a bloated corpse floating in the swimming pool right after you went off the high .. show full overview
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The Clean Club
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02, 2012
The Clean Club was created to teach kids about basic hygiene and washing habits, and it’s our dear hope that it will find new life as an instructional film shown at Comic-Con .. show full overview
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David and Hazel: A Story in Communication
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16, 2012
Sometimes, we find something special. Something so strange, so distinct, and so wonderfully sad that by the time it ends we’re curled on the floor, guts cramped from laughing, clutching .. show full overview
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Sailing a Toy Boat
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28, 2012
Why would you want to go outside and sail a toy boat when you could sit in a classroom and watch a film about other kids sailing a toy boat? The existence of Sailing a Toy Boat asserts .. show full overview
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Alcohol
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01, 2012
Drinking problems! In real life? Devastating addictions that can ruin careers and tear marriages apart. Clumsily depicted onscreen in 70s educational shorts? Hilarious! Chuck is the .. show full overview
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Cooks and Chefs
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08, 2012
We know what you’re probably thinking. “Cooks AND chefs in a single film?? Sure, you might be able to pull it off if we were talking one or the other. Just cooks, or just chefs. And .. show full overview
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Danger Keep Out!
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13, 2012
Danger Keep Out! is not just the sign any Taco Bell that carries the new taco whose shell is made of a giant Dorito is legally required to display. It’s also the name of one of the .. show full overview
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The Fish That Nearly Drowned
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10, 2012
The Fish That Nearly Drowned is about a fish who [SPOILER ALERT] nearly drowns. Whoops, guess that spoiler alert should have come a bit earlier. Forget you saw it! The titular fish in .. show full overview
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Nutrition: The All-American Meal
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24, 2012
Nutrition: The All-American Meal exists primarily as a guide to the wide and varied world of 70s hideousness. Throughout, a seemingly endless parade of unfortunate choices marches in .. show full overview
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The Toymaker
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26, 2012
Not to be confused with the equally-pathetic Superman villain Toyman, The Toymaker is a strange Scandinavian man who makes toys for all the children in his village. Well, presumably. He .. show full overview
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Dinosaurs: The Age of the Terrible Lizard
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03, 2012
Dinosaurs! They were fearsome! They were hulking! They were evidently quite poorly drawn! Yes, dinosaurs once ruled the earth, and if you need any information about them, you are .. show full overview
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Farm Babies and Their Mothers
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15, 2012
When you look back at your formative education years, there are a few flashbulb memories when even as a young child, you realized that the educational system was truly doing its job. The .. show full overview
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Jimmy of the Safety Patrol
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30, 2012
Like Tarzan of the Jungle and Nanook of the North before him, Jimmy of the Safety Patrol heroically swings from vines of proper bus etiquette and drives a sled of huskies that look both .. show full overview
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Joy Ride
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06, 2012
Our new short Joy Ride feels like beloved movie Dazed and Confused, but shortened dramatically, focusing on the minor characters, with less emphasis on keg parties up at the Moontower .. show full overview
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Love That Car!
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18, 2012
Love That Car! is a short about automobile safety narrated in the style of the “nnnnnYEEES?” clerk guy you’ll recognize from the Flintstones and the Simpsons. That sentence should really .. show full overview
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The Hare & The Tortoise
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30, 2012
You are of course familiar with the story of The Hare & The Tortoise. It is part of the grand tradition of children’s fables such as The Grapes & The Fox, The Cash & The Tango, and The .. show full overview
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Get That Job
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28, 2012
Get That Job is an instructional film that teaches adults all the secret tips for landing a high paying job. First and foremost, if a potential employer asks if you actually needed to .. show full overview
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Perc! Pop! Sprinkle!
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29, 2012
Despite the title, our new short is NOT about popping Percocets, though there’s a good chance the people who filmed it were doing just that. Perc! Pop! Sprinkle! Such a mysterious title. .. show full overview
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Choking: To Save a Life
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07, 2012
Choking: To Save a Life is merely one chapter in the wildly popular Choking series. It came hot on the heels of the legendary Choking: To Get Out of A ‘Couples’ Baby Shower and the .. show full overview
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Tic Toc Time Clock
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11, 2012
Another vintage 70s short in the “stuff your parents should really have already taught you at home” series (see The Calendar: How to Use It for further knowledge), Tic Toc Time Clock .. show full overview
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Say No to Strangers
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29, 2013
A short in the classic 1950s tradition of “let’s talk about a thing that’s terrible without REALLY talking about a thing that’s terrible,” Say No To Strangers presents a world that’s .. show full overview
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Live and Learn
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05, 2013
Live and Learn has an important safety message for kids, namely “Hey kids, here’s a bunch of ideas for cool stuff that would be super fun to do! Now don’t do any of the stuff, and how .. show full overview
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Safety with Animals
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12, 2013
Our short Safety With Animals features more hilarious child endangerment than the inevitable FOX series Celebrity Child Boxing! The short teaches kids important skills, like, which wild .. show full overview
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Ten Long Minutes
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28, 2013
Ten Long Minutes is the harrowing tale of one young man’s attempt to download a grainy .jpg of Alyssa Milano via CompuServe in 1996 before his parents -- wait, sorry, wrong story... just .. show full overview
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Ghost Rider
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05, 2013
Kevin is the new kid in class, and he’s got typical teenage problems. His mom obsessively hoards coffee pots and his dad has an insane inability to live without garlic salt. Oh, and he’s .. show full overview
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The Other Fellow's Feelings
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10, 2013
Jack is a youngster who has trouble respecting The Other Fellow’s Feelings. One day, the other fellow brings in a new bottle of perfume to show off to the ladies, and Jack bumps into the .. show full overview
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The Day I Died
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12, 2013
The Day I Died is a fun, groovy, totally 70s take on the tragic consequences of teenage drunk driving. Plus there’s a great Sixth Sense-type twist at the end where you find out that the .. show full overview
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Story-telling: Can You Tell It In Order?
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30, 2013
Those sick freaks at Coronet have done it again. Clowns. Just when you thought they’d run out of ways to spread a one minute lesson out over the course of ten minutes, they brought in .. show full overview
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Maintaining Classroom Discipline
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15, 2013
We can all agree that Classroom Discipline is great. But what good is it if you can’t maintain it? Fortunately we have this short, which comes with the delightful realization that “Wow, .. show full overview
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Rescueman
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17, 2013
Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s...a kid wearing underoos who’s way too old to be wearing underoos! This short tells us the story of Scotty, who is obsessed with a .. show full overview
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Goodbye, Weeds
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06, 2013
Our new short Goodbye, Weeds is a product of a different time, a time when a commercial for weed killer wasn’t just something you waited impatiently to click “Skip” on so you could get .. show full overview
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When Should Grown-ups Stop Fights?
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20, 2013
This short may just save you a lot of trouble! No longer will you have to be forcibly removed from the Expecting Parents Class at the local hospital for shouting “When should grown-ups .. show full overview
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Batman and Robin: Batman Takes Over
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16, 2013
We’re excited to present Batman Takes Over, the first installment in one of the earliest screen depictions of Batman ever made, the 1949 serial Batman and Robin! This is where we’d joke .. show full overview
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You're The Judge
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23, 2013
You’re The Judge tells the story of two high school girls who want to get the attention of two boys who would rather be bowling. In a world where Snapchat and sexting do not exist, .. show full overview
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Batman and Robin: Tunnel of Terror
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07, 2013
They’re back! With Batman Takes Over, the first installment of this vintage serial, we introduced you to obscure superhero characters “The Batman” and “Robin.” Not much is known about .. show full overview
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Batman and Robin: Robin's Wild Ride
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13, 2013
The adventure continues! In this third installment of the vintage serial, Batman: Robin’s Wild Ride, we find our heroes at Disneyland. After an ill-advised turkey leg and funnel cake .. show full overview
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Batman and Robin: Batman Trapped!
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18, 2013
Yes, it’s back to the famous gentle rolling hills and remote forest cabins of Gotham City for another installment of this classic superhero serial! Picking up immediately after Robin’s .. show full overview
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Norman Krasner
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06, 2013
A new short featuring the hapless NORMAN, as seen in our MANOS and BIRDEMIC live shows
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Norman Checks In
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06, 2013
As if to prove that Dunston wasn’t the only unpleasant, pest-ridden ape who knew how to Check In, here comes our old pal Norman! You’ll be pleased to know that Norman has finally .. show full overview
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Welcome Back, Norman
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06, 2013
Hey, did you hear the news? Norman’s coming back! Yeah, I know! Good ol’ Norman. He’s been away for - gosh, how long now? You’re not sure either? Well, we’ve sure missed him around here. .. show full overview
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Batman and Robin: Robin Rescues Batman
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06, 2013
If you’ve been following the Batman serial saga (in the same sense that your great aunt’s recent boil lancing was a ‘saga’), you certainly know what to expect by now: The event in the .. show full overview
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Mr. B Natural
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20, 2013
Hey kids! What’s the best way for a middle schooler to impress chicks, make friends, and just dominate the social scene in general? OK, I’m hearing ‘Be really funny,’ not the answer I .. show full overview
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A Trip To The Moon
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20, 2013
The oldest movie ever riffed! RiffTrax takes on the 1902 classic, Georges Méliès' A TRIP TO THE MOON.
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Batman and Robin: Target Robin
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03, 2014
This sixth installment in the thrilling serial takes an unexpected turn when the Wizard and his gang, who previously had been targeting Batman and Robin, begin to Target Robin! Oh, and .. show full overview
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Batman and Robin: The Fatal Blast
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10, 2014
In The Fatal Blast Batman’s world is nearly upended when ace reporter Vicki Vale finally begins to suspect his secret identity. “Are you Bruce Wayne?” she asks him. A hero of lesser .. show full overview
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Safety Woman - In Danger Out of Doors
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13, 2014
Safety Woman’s back, and she’s more out of doors than ever! Yes, everyone’s favorite crossing guard turned cosmic superhero Guardiana, seen first in the beloved RiffTrax short Safety: .. show full overview
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Batman and Robin: Robin Meets the Wizard!
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11, 2014
In this installment of the vintage serial, Robin finally meets the Wizard! Yes, the boy wonder teams up with Fred Savage, strapping on Power Gloves to win the tournament and the hearts .. show full overview
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This Is Hormel
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28, 2014
This Is Hormel is a short in the grand tradition of David and Hazel and Setting Up A Room, where you look at the time remaining on your media player and think “Clearly that has to be a .. show full overview
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Batman and Robin: The Wizard Strikes Back
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14, 2014
Fresh off of not actually meeting Robin in the previous installment, Robin Meets the Wizard, it’s only natural that the Wizard would be ready to not strike back in this episode, Batman: .. show full overview
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Norman Gives a Speech
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18, 2014
Think back on the all-time great great speeches humans have given. Martin Luther King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Honest Abe’s Gettysburg address. Marc Antony at Caesar's .. show full overview
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How To Keep A Job
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22, 2014
Nobody’s more qualified to tell people How to Keep a Job than Coronet Films, the company that managed to sleepwalk its way through making 99% of all educational shorts ever produced. How .. show full overview
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Health: Your Posture
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29, 2014
Health: Your Posture tells the tale of Adrilene, a young girl with a serious problem: her parents named her Adrilene. Tragically, her nightmare doesn’t end there, she also has to deal .. show full overview
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Writing Better Social Letters
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09, 2014
Writing Better Social Letters! The much lighter follow-up to Coronet’s disastrous Writing Better SOCIALIST Letters, which led to half the company being blacklisted and drummed out of the .. show full overview
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At Your Fingertips: Cylinders
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19, 2014
The cavalcade of madness that is the At Your Fingertips series marches on. In this installment: Cylinders! Turns out the tubes on the inside of paper towels and TP that you throw into .. show full overview
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Fashion Horizons
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02, 2014
Fashion Horizons! No, it’s not a plus-size clothing store at the mall. It’s a little slice of history, a travelogue from back when commercial airliners were new and shiny and filled with .. show full overview
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Batman and Robin: Batman's Last Chance
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09, 2014
Complete these lyrics: Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na… Batman? No, we’re sorry, those were the “na na na nas” from “Here Comes The Hotstepper” by Ini Kamoze.* Even .. show full overview
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Color It Clean
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13, 2014
Sure, short films about janitors and toilets are great. Everyone agrees on that. Literally everyone. But if there’s one thing most of these films lack, it’s a meditative, philosophical .. show full overview
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Batman and Robin: Robin's Ruse
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24, 2014
If you’ve been watching the Batman serials up to this point, you know to expect disappointment with regard to the actions described in the title actually appearing in the serial. For .. show full overview
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Read On! from Left to Right
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30, 2014
The "educational films" made by the lunatics at ACI Films have covered some dubious subjects: County fairs. "Doing words." And of course, making terrible crafts out of garbage. But .. show full overview
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Clean and Neat with Harv and Marv
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07, 2014
On a “People We’d Prefer To Only Encounter Once In Our Lifetime”, most of us would rank the guy who twirls the sign advertising Little Caesar’s $5 Hot ‘n Readys, Hitler (after travelling .. show full overview
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Willy Whistle
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24, 2014
Willy Whistle! Yes, he looks like the Bill from that School House Rock cartoon’s less successful brother, but he’s so much more than that. He’s an anthropomorphic flying whistle who .. show full overview
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Batman and Robin: Robin Rides The Wind
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12, 2014
After the shocking, pulse-pounding ending of Episode 11: Robin’s Ruse (rhymes with caboose), many Batman fans were left wondering how will they top that?! Will there be an episode where .. show full overview
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The Flying Saucer Mystery
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22, 2014
When you want facts, there’s only one form of entertainment that you can turn to: the documentary. Known for their unbiased viewpoints, documentaries like Fahrenheit 9/11, 2016: Obama’s .. show full overview
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Batman and Robin: The Wizard's Challenge
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05, 2014
As the latest episode of the Batman serial begins, Robin is speeding along in an...armored car? Hm, that actually sounds kind of cool… And it contains a remote control device called The .. show full overview
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Batman and Robin: Batman Vs. The Wizard
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16, 2014
In episode 182* of the Batman serial, The World’s Greatest Detective, star of Detective Comics, is forced to do some actual Detective Work! The Wizard has been shot in the hand and in a .. show full overview
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Batman and Robin: Batman Victorious
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19, 2014
Here it is, at last, the FINAL EPISODE chronicling Batman’s struggle against the Wizard! The suspense is thick, and everyone’s wondering: who will prevail and be victorious? Will it be .. show full overview
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Rediscovery: Puppets
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26, 2014
Crap! You’ve got some lying around the house, don’t you? Sure you do! Look under your bed or in the trash can. See! A whole bunch of crap in there. Now stick some of that crap to other .. show full overview
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A Case of Spring Fever
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24, 2014
What would it be like if all the springs suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth? One might think that the only change might be the relief of children who no longer had to .. show full overview
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Warty, The Toad
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07, 2014
Not just a cruel nickname for the kid in the elementary school cafeteria with an unfortunate skin condition anymore, it’s Warty the Toad! Quite possibly our wartiest short yet, and the .. show full overview
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At Your Fingertips: Play Clay
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21, 2014
Mike, Kevin, and Bill comment on yet another ACI Films educational short. This 1970 film showed how to combine flour, salt and water to make dough which can be used like modelling clay. .. show full overview
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Frustrating Fours and Fascinating Fives
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12, 2014
Frustrating Fours and Fascinating Fives! No, it’s not an epic film about Mark Wahlberg’s decades-long struggle to count all the way to ten. Instead it’s about dealing with the pesky .. show full overview
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Zlateh the Goat
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23, 2014
No one at RiffTrax will ever forget the moment we discovered Zlateh the Goat. A long day of screening dusty 16mm film reels was approaching its end. We cued up one more. Our hopes were .. show full overview
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Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen
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30, 2014
This beloved and baffling gem from our Santa Claus Conquers the Martians live show is now available as a studio short! When thinking of classic Christmas specials, it’s not long .. show full overview
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Duck and Cover
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03, 2015
At last, the classic nuclear safety short that put the “fun” in “fundamentally unhelpful advice in the case of a nuclear attack” is available as a riff! Nothing says “atomic death is .. show full overview
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Behave, Bernard!
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09, 2015
If only Bernie Madoff had seen this film, things might’ve been different. Oh he still would’ve committed massive acts of investment fraud, Behave, Bernard! doesn’t address that topic at .. show full overview
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Getting Angry
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27, 2015
Like it or not, every one of us gets angry. Maybe someone cuts you off in traffic, and you make an obscene gesture. Maybe someone doesn't clean up after their dog and you get a little .. show full overview
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Study Skills: Verbal Communication Made Easy
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11, 2015
Whether you’re delivering a speech to the UN general council or giving a toast at your cousin’s wedding, there’s one thing for certain: you’re probably boring the hell out of everyone. .. show full overview
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Starting School
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27, 2015
Fall is here and it’s time to start school! And what’s the most important part of school? Math? Reading? Arts and crafts? WRONG! It’s sitting quietly and watching educational shorts .. show full overview
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With an All-Star Cast
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17, 2015
The title of our new short, With An All-Star Cast, could describe all kinds of movies. Ocean’s Eleven, Love Actually, Cannonball Run, and however many of those Expendables things they’re .. show full overview
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The Myths of Shoplifting
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19, 2015
Shoplifting! Before they invented bittorrent, the five fingered discount was all the rage with the teens (second only to the storied AARP discount.) But there were lots of “myths” about .. show full overview
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Life In the Suburbs
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12, 2015
Riffing together again for the first installment in their new series: Bridget Nelson & Mary Jo Pehl! LIFE IN THE SUBURBS According to research, everyday more and more Americans are .. show full overview
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A Word to the Wives
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30, 2015
Riffing together again for the first second time in world history! Bridget Nelson and Mary Jo Pehl bring you... A WORD TO THE WIVES Bridget and Mary Jo get a few pointers in this “how .. show full overview
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Animal Antics
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14, 2015
Oh, animals. Whether it’s a kitten and a piglet becoming friends, a cute hamster stuffing Cheez-Its into his cheeks, or legions of plague rats devastating the population of medieval Europe, those wacky critters are always up to somethin’!
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The Relaxed Wife
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23, 2015
Bridget and Mary Jo do their very best to go limp all over by flip flopping their hands and drinking coffee. Sit back and relax as they Riff this important message from the fine folks at Pfizer’s.
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Consuming Women
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23, 2015
Today’s Woman. She buys stuff. She buys stuff in a groovy way. If more merchants knew this simple fact then they would understand that they should sell things to woman. This short film .. show full overview
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Naturally a Girl
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07, 2015
The sole plot keyword on IMDb about Naturally A Girl is “menstruation.” But Bridget and Mary Jo have plenty to add to this short health education film that tastefully and progressively .. show full overview
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Cindy Goes to a Party
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15, 2015
"One is apt to think of Etiquette as being of importance to none but brides or diplomats or persons lately elected to political office. As a matter of fact there is not a single thing we .. show full overview
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The Prom It's a Pleasure
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28, 2015
The Prom: It’s a Pleasure is a Jam Handy production whose very title is lies, all lies! Complete with emotional baggage for Bridget and Mary Jo, this short features the real live actual .. show full overview
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Oh, Boy! Babies!
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09, 2015
Oh, Boy! Babies! brings you face to face with feathered hair, over tweezed eyebrows and corduroy blazers as it seeks to answer the question: Are boys capable of babysitting? Weep .. show full overview
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The Snob
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20, 2015
The Snob is a horror/science fiction film about an alien amoeba that emerges from a meteorite which has crashed from outer space in the small town of Downington, Pennsylvania. The .. show full overview
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Halloween Party
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27, 2015
Ain’t no party like a Halloween Party, because Halloween Party is a LIVE short, performed and recorded on stage at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville! Now it’s ready to watch, whether you .. show full overview
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Measuring Man!
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06, 2015
By day, he’s a mild-mannered milkman with thick-rimmed glasses. But, when duty calls, he becomes something even less thrilling - Measuring Man! Does he remove the thick-rimmed glasses .. show full overview
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Dining Together
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25, 2015
It’s being called “Literally the most anticipated sequel that is coming out in the last two months of 2015.” Fans have bought their tickets months in advance, recreated the trailers in .. show full overview
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A Day of Thanksgiving
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25, 2015
(1951) When an Hour of Thanksgiving is not enough, but a Week of Thanksgiving is simply too much, may we suggest A Day of Thanksgiving? Gather ‘round the Thanksgiving table for a .. show full overview
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Have a Mary Jo Christmas and a Bridget New Year
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11, 2015
It’s very special RiffTrax special, featuring yourses trulies (Mary Jo and Bridget), and some very special guest stars! So gather ‘round your technology device, pour yourself a hot .. show full overview
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Marriage is a Partnership
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08, 2016
(1951) Bridget and Mary Jo learn a thing or two about marriage in this short’s frank depiction of bridge games and frosting cakes.
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Shapes We Live With
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15, 2016
Spheres, cylinders, pyramids, the whole shape-y gang is here, reunited at last. Ready for their close-ups, repeated close-ups, over and over, so many close-ups of shapes you’ll be .. show full overview
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William From Georgia to Harlem
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26, 2016
William: From Georgia to Harlem. At last, the prequel to RiffTrax classic Guy From Harlem the world’s been screaming for! Sure, we all knew he was from Harlem, but where was he from .. show full overview
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The Litter Monster
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29, 2016
One of the best things about litter used to be its versatility. You could just throw it anywhere! Plus, it encouraged improvisation: If you put your mind to it, anything could be litter! .. show full overview
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Phoebe
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15, 2016
Sex! intrigue! Canada! Hungarian political refugees living in Canada directing films about young Canadian woman who find themselves pregnant in the summer of 1964! This must-see short .. show full overview
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The Tiny Astronaut
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30, 2016
Imagine a tiny astronaut. No, tinier. Tinier still. TINIER. Are you thinking of a little white rodent yet? Good, then you’re ready to see his life put in grave danger in The Tiny .. show full overview
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** Should be a special ** Measuring Man (RiffTrax Live Edition)
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31, 2016
By day, he’s a mild-mannered milkman with thick-rimmed glasses. But, when duty calls, he becomes something even less thrilling - Measuring Man! Does he remove the thick-rimmed glasses .. show full overview
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Social Acceptability
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12, 2016
What’s your Social Acceptability Type? Take the quiz! Circle the letter that best describes you. A. Happy following your own pursuits? B. Lower class, but good with .. show full overview
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The Value of Teamwork
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22, 2016
The Value of Teamwork! No, it’s not the fourth Powerpoint slide in a seminar your HR manager required you to attend after your meltdown in the conference room last week, it’s our latest .. show full overview
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On Guard - Bunco!
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07, 2016
On Guard - Bunco! provides a hard-hitting and, if you take good notes, potentially lucrative look into the world of con-men! Scams covered include “The Encyclopedia Flim Flamica“ “The .. show full overview
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Don't Get Angry
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24, 2016
What are the three words most guaranteed to be followed by something that will make you angry? That’s right, Don’t Get Angry! As in, “don’t get angry, but I tried to clean some bricks in .. show full overview
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The Magic Shelf
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06, 2016
Were it not for the heroic labors of Dr. John T. Dorrance, the world might never have known this short film extolling the various applications of soup. Dorrance, a chemist with the .. show full overview
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Duties of a Secretary
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15, 2016
Welcome to a black and white nightmare of typing, filing, dictation, and interpersonal skills. This short film graphically depicts the harrowing journey of Miss Hayes, fresh out of .. show full overview
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Girls are Better than Ever
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29, 2016
We here at The American Dairy Association have teamed up with the President's Council On Physical Fitness AND The Lifetime Sports Foundation to form a girl empowerment complex that will .. show full overview
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Safety As We Play
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05, 2016
Keeping our children safe should be one of society’s top priorities. And who better to trust with such an important task than the lunatics who taught us the term “Fancy Headdress”, ACI .. show full overview
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Flash That Smile
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15, 2016
The American Dental Association advises all Americans to Flash That Smile. They are confident that by doing so you will reach your goals, touch the sky and be a star! Be advised that it .. show full overview
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Nobody Tells Me What to Do!
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30, 2016
Nobody Tells Me What To Do! is a film about peer pressure felt and applied, surrendered to, and defeated. A tale of triumph not to be missed. The story focuses on Zach, a quitter who .. show full overview
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At Your Fingertips: Sugar and Spice
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07, 2016
Christmas ornaments are not a hard thing to come by. You can get a box of perfectly good ones for like three dollars at CVS. Or if you’re really hard up, most people won’t notice if .. show full overview
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****************Dup**The Home of the Future**Dup ******************
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21, 2016
A 2016 Kickstarter reward. Should be located in Season 0/Specials
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****************Dup**Measure Metric**Dup ******************
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21, 2016
A 2016 Kickstarter reward. Should be located in Season 0/Specials
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****************Dupe**Truck Song**Dupe ******************
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28, 2016
Dupe of S0E58 Truck Song, an exclusive part of the Cyber Bonus Pack 2016.
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The Second Annual Bridget and Mary Jo Christmas Special!
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16, 2016
Bridget and Mary Jo are cooking up a holiday viewing feast and they’ve set a place for you. The main course is an expertly prepared short called Carving Magic, a mid-century tutorial .. show full overview
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Home of the Future
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27, 2016
See how many things the 1967 short film “The Home of The Future: Year 1999 A.D.” gets right. (Formerly available as Kickstarter)
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Katy
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04, 2017
Katy is the story of a young girl whose brother goes to camp leaving the responsibilities of his paper delivery route to her. It takes her a really long time to get dressed for her first .. show full overview
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Measure Metric
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13, 2017
This short is currently only available as Kickstarter. The metric system. You got an angry feeling in your stomach just thinking about it, didn’t you? The world has been trying to .. show full overview
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The Maturing Woman
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03, 2017
Are you mature? Identify as mature? Mature-friendly? Then this is just the short film for you! The Maturing Woman, circa 1977, appears to be a PhD project by a couple of Women’s .. show full overview
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Busy Bodies
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29, 2017
What do children exercising and animals lounging at the zoo have in common? They’re both extremely inexpensive to film. And the people who made Busy Bodies seized on that big time! .. show full overview
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Allen is my Brother
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28, 2017
Who is Allen? Allen Is My Brother. What is Allen Is My Brother? It’s a cry for help in the form of a short film, coming from an innocent young girl plagued by the cruel and endless .. show full overview
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American Look
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10, 2017
In appreciation of the stylists of America, Bridget and Mary Jo along with Chevrolet* present American Look. A tribute to men and women who design. You’ll see lamps, chairs, counter .. show full overview
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Truck Song
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19, 2017
When you think of truckers you think of a lot of things: CB Radios, speed, pee bottles, ridiculous arm wrestling training contraptions. Rarely would “The Uplifting Power of Song” be high .. show full overview
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Soapy the Germ Fighter
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26, 2017
Live show riff available for the first time! We riffed this sparkling sudsy gem of a short LIVE in Nashville before our Mothra show in 2016, and now you can soap it up at home! Uh, .. show full overview
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Farm Family in Summer
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30, 2017
Everybody in the station wagon, we’re headed to rural Wisconsin to learn about life on a farm! Ever considered the goings-on of a Farm Family? Well now consider FURTHER the same .. show full overview
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Boredom at Work
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03, 2017
Before this groundbreaking film, boredom at work was known as the silent killer. This black and white short from 1961 was part of a series of films produced by the Mental Hygiene .. show full overview
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****************Dupe**Six Murderous Beliefs**Dupe ******************
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18, 2017
Dupe of S0E56, Six Murderous Beliefs, which was a apart of the 2017 Kickstarter campaign.
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Farm Family in Autumn
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19, 2017
Mike said it was "Too close to home," but Bridget and Mary Jo LOVE home, so here we are! Escape to Wisconsin! It’s beautiful this time of year with its colorful leaves and brisk fall .. show full overview
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The Babysitter
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03, 2017
She comes at night. She watches television. She gives your child watered-down tomato soup. She puts your child to bed two hours earlier than needed. She talks on the .. show full overview
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The Hothead / The Forgetter
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08, 2017
There are those classic arguments every kid had growing up. Superman or Batman? Twizzlers or Red Vines? And of course, the biggest fight of all, “who’s your favorite industrial accident .. show full overview
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Let's Talk Turkey
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22, 2017
It’s Thanksgiving! Be sure to give your turkey a hearty thanks before cooking. It makes them ever so glad to be the meal. If you’ve never cooked a turkey or if you just want to hear A .. show full overview
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Farm Family in Winter
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26, 2017
You know ’em, you love ’em - and so do Bridget and Mary Jo! Our favorite agrarians from summer and autumn are back once again to tackle the icy chills of winter. It’s Farm Family in Winter!
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Gifts from the Air
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01, 2017
It’s the holidays, and you know what that means - time for weird old cartoons! And Gifts from the Air checks all the standard “weird old holiday cartoon” boxes: It’s got a poor .. show full overview
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Santa Claus' Workshop
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06, 2017
Peppy, Zippo, and Click. They may sound like rejected Pep Boys, but they’re really Santa’s elves. Didn’t know the elves had names? Well then you probably didn’t know that elves look like .. show full overview
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Spunky the Snowman
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13, 2017
Hey kids*! Ever wonder what the Whizzo the clown of snowmen would look like? “No?” “Of course not?” “How did you get in here?” Wrong answers kids! The correct answer is Spunky the .. show full overview
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Christmas Customs Near and Far
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18, 2017
Christmas! Whether you celebrate it with a traditional nativity scene, an ugly sweater party, or the increasingly popular “Chanukah” variant, one thing is certain: everyone celebrates .. show full overview
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A Day with Fireman Bill
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17, 2018
Every kid dreams of growing up to be a firefighter! Every kid, that is, except the kids who were forced to watch A Day with Fireman Bill, which makes the profession look about as .. show full overview
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Drawing for Beginners: The Square
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22, 2018
Sometimes the title of a RiffTrax short is confusing, misleading, falsely exciting to oversell the dull subject matter at hand. But not this one. With Drawing for Beginners: The Square, .. show full overview
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Harry the Dirty Dog
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24, 2018
Bridget and Mary Jo have stumbled across the rare hygiene film aimed at canines! Harry The Dirty Dog is the saga of a beautiful but conflicted border collie who runs away from the .. show full overview
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Six Murderous Beliefs
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26, 2018
Be warned: if you haven’t watched this serious and important 1950s safety short yet, YOU MAY ALREADY BE DEAD! ...So, please take a second to check. No? Still alive? Good! But if you .. show full overview
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People Soup
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29, 2018
People Soup is the first short we’ve done that has been nominated for an Oscar. (Yes, Henry Slinkman’s moving performance in Buying Food was rudely snubbed.) Evidently, when Alan Arkin .. show full overview
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The Water We Drink
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26, 2018
The Water We Drink is The Short We Riff, full of The Jokes We Tell to inspire The Laughs You’ll Laugh! This is one of those vintage educational shorts that breaks down the complex .. show full overview
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Farm Family in Spring
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28, 2018
Farm Family in Spring: Your number one resource for farm information in the tri-county area! There's cows, corn, trips to town, 4-H clubs, a birthday party and most importantly incriminating evidence about Grandpa! Grandma.. never.. knew.
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The Spring Collection
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06, 2018
The Spring Collection offers you three stylish shorts at one sensible price! Our offering includes Fashion for Go Getters featuring hunky Dartmouth jocks critiquing the latest trends. .. show full overview
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Glasses for Susan
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30, 2018
Susan needs glasses. We don’t mean like, “Oh, it’s hard for her to read a small font in a dark room.” No, Susan appears to be legally blind. Somehow she has made it to eight years old .. show full overview
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How to be a Friend
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23, 2018
This DIY video shows you how to build your very own friendship, step-by-step! Start with traits like courtesy, kindness, and honesty, then add buddies Bridget and Mary Jo to laugh .. show full overview
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Beginning Responsibility: Learning to Follow Instructions
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11, 2018
The “Beginning Responsibility” series from Coronet Films has already given us legendary characters like Mr. Bungle and Reggie the Dork’s Big-Lipped Talking Pillow. This next installment .. show full overview
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What Mary Jo Wanted
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06, 2018
Mary Jo wants a puppy. Mary Jo gets a puppy. Mary Jo's family can’t sleep because the puppy is confined to the kitchen and cries all night. Everyone is pretty fed up with Mary Jo and .. show full overview
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Building an Outline
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17, 2018
You probably think you know how to outline a high school essay. You’d probably even be arrogant enough to say that, once or twice in your life, you’ve “built” an outline. Well, Coronet .. show full overview
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At Your Fingertips: Floats (Live Edition)
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15, 2018
All good things must come to an end, and the At Your Fingertips series is no exception. We’ve covered grasses, cylinders, boxes… Um… Those little plastic discs that keep the top of the .. show full overview
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****************Dupe**Just Awful**Dupe ******************
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19, 2018
Dupe of S0E79, Kickstarter: Just Awful, which was a a part of the 2018 Kickstarter campaign.
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****************Dupe**The Troublemaker**Dupe ******************
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19, 2018
Dupe of S0E80, Kickstarter: The Troublemaker, which was a a part of the 2018 Kickstarter campaign.
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Ladybug, Ladybug, Winter is Coming
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24, 2018
The bug who happens to be a lady crawls around asking everyone she sees why it is so cold. She is told repeatedly it's because WINTER IS COMING and yet she persists in her willful .. show full overview
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Drawing For Beginners - The Triangle
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14, 2018
“Drawing for Beginners” may be the stupidest series of shorts we’ve riffed here at RiffTrax. The fact that we have riffed an entire series where kids make crap out of garbage should .. show full overview
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A Christmas Fantasy
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23, 2018
Originally released as part of the Cyber Monday 2018 Cyber Pack.
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A Song For Santa
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05, 2018
Because apparently “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” wasn’t enough for him, here’s A Song For Santa! It’s a classic Christmas situation ripped right out of your childhood! A small Texan .. show full overview
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A Christmas Carol (Coronet)
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07, 2018
Since every entertainment franchise that has ever existed has put out their own version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, it’s only fitting that the maniacs at Coronet Films decided .. show full overview
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The Shoemaker and the Elves
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12, 2018
The Shoemaker and the Elves, a cute little fairy tale about the rewards of doing a good deed, delighted small children for generations - then Coronet got their hands on it. Now, see .. show full overview
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Charlie's Christmas Secret
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19, 2018
What is fifth-grader Charlie hiding from his family, his classmates, the customers on his newspaper route? What is it that keeps Charlie one step ahead of the law and living in constant .. show full overview
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Wonderful World of Tupperware
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09, 2019
You think Jay Gatsby knew how to throw a party? Bridget and Mary Jo are just getting home from last night's celebration of plastic storage containers!
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Beginning Responsibility: Doing Things For Ourselves In School
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11, 2019
Coronet’s series of Beginning Responsibility shorts must be the largest franchise in film history. It might even be infinite. Every time we watch one short another blips into existence, .. show full overview
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Farm Animals
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23, 2019
Featuring the finest “newborn baby calf stumbling around” scene this side of City Slickers, it’s Farm Animals! It’s a vintage short from a time when films were needed to show people .. show full overview
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Jack and the Beanstalk
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25, 2019
That is how you might start copy for a version of Jack and the Beanstalk that wasn’t a stark, joyless nightmare. This one, on the other hand, is like a Dorthea Lange photo that decided .. show full overview
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Emergencies: What Would You Do?
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20, 2019
The most popular film genre in the 70s was clearly Robert De Niro’s Pre-Dirty Grandpa Phase, but a close second was Dumb Kids Hurting Themselves. Emergencies - What Would You Do? is a .. show full overview
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Tommy's Day
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27, 2019
ommy’s Day! Another fine short from the fine folks at the very fine Young America Films. If you’re not familiar, Young America Films are like Coronet Films, just a little more .. show full overview
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Toes Tell / Whose Shoes?
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03, 2019
This combo of two shorts about feet, produced by the Encyclopedia Britannica, will have you saying “I wish the Internet had killed encyclopedias sooner!” It’s psychedelic, it’s .. show full overview
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The Boy Who Didn't Listen
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12, 2019
Jimmy is a plucky ten-year-old who just can’t seem to follow directions, causing no end of disaster in his personal life. He has a dream in which he is accosted by a morally superior robber who teaches him a very important life lesson.
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My Mother Was Never a Kid
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12, 2019
During a subway-induced coma, teenager Victoria flashes back to her mother’s childhood and realizes, despite all their arguments, her mother had actually been a kid once herself. One .. show full overview
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Play Safe (Live Edition)
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22, 2019
It’s the 80s and loads of British kids are dying in substations! We’re not sure why they’re going into substations. Maybe to find out what the hell substations are? This is clearly .. show full overview
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What Mary Jo Shared
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16, 2019
The teacher is really putting the squeeze on the kindergartners to bring something to show and tell, and the pressure is getting to one little girl. Out of nowhere, plucky Mary Jo kills .. show full overview
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The Troublemaker
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29, 2019
Student Mel just loves to stir the pot at his high school, casting aspersions on one classmate’s virtue, and the football ability of others. He even goes so far to rat out the .. show full overview
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Just Awful
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29, 2019
James is on his way to school when he gets a small cut on his finger. And if you don’t for one second believe that that thin, thin gruel got turned into a seventies educational short, .. show full overview
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What is a Map?
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10, 2019
Some questions have plagued humanity for countless generations. What is the meaning of life? Can love last forever? What happens when we die? Is corn grass? Well forget all of those, .. show full overview
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Someday
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24, 2019
It’s the 70s! The pants are flared, the disco is thumping, and the educational shorts are meandering and pointless! In Someday we meet four children who discuss their plans for the .. show full overview
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Bridget and Mary Jo's Halloween Safety and Monster Movie Mash-up
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30, 2019
Just in time for trick or treating, it’s Bridget and Mary Jo’s Halloween Special! Your favorite riffing twosome is back with four seasonally appropriate shorts ripe for riffing. We'll .. show full overview
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What Will Bernard Do?
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22, 2019
Bernard is struggling in math class mostly because his teacher will not stop calling on him. After multiple failed attempts of trying nothing, Bernard turns to his friend David to teach .. show full overview
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Beginning Responsibility: A Lunchroom Goes Bananas
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22, 2019
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What Will Bernard Do?
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22, 2019
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Mother Goose's Birthday Party with Ronald McDonald
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01, 2019
A hilarious short featuring Ronald McDonald and his pals(?) Stinky the Skunk and Merlin the Magician, who you may remember from our Christmas with RiffTrax holiday short. Made available .. show full overview
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Mother Goose's Birthday Party with Ronald McDonald
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02, 2019
A hilarious short featuring Ronald McDonald and his pals(?) Stinky the Skunk and Merlin the Magician, who you may remember from our Christmas with RiffTrax holiday short.
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Festival of Fun Days
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18, 2019
Fun Days! All things considered, one of the better types of days. Beats the hell out of “crappy days” or “everyone you love contracts cholera days." One town loved Fun Days so much they .. show full overview
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A Very Merry Riff-mas (with Bridget and Mary Jo)
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20, 2019
Deck the halls with boughs of Bridget and Mary Jo in their latest RiffTrax Holiday Special! With fresh riffs for the 90s - the 1890s, that is. Featuring a Grandpa, a Virginia, a .. show full overview
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Banks: The Money Movers
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23, 2019
We know that, for all his other faults, Scrooge was good with money. What this short presupposes is: maybe he wasn’t? In Banks: The Money Movers, Scrooge, the ruthless financier, is not .. show full overview
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Squeak the Squirrel
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21, 2020
Squirrels. You see them all the time, and always the same question runs through your head: "Could one of these things pull a peanut out of a plastic tube with a string?" This short .. show full overview
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The Kids Guide to the Internet
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29, 2020
Remember what life was like before we all had the Internet implanted directly in our corneas? Families talked during dinner, strangers said hello to you on the street, nobody got doxxed .. show full overview
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Bicycle Safety Camp
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12, 2020
Every kid hates it when their parents ruin fun by telling them to wear a bike helmet and follow the rules. It’s been a problem throughout history. But then along came the 90s, with a .. show full overview
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A Green Thumb for Macaulay
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14, 2020
A Green Thumb for Macaulay - the star of Home Alone finds himself forever changed after he tries to hitchhike in a field of gamma rays... THUMB SMASH!!! Okay, it’s really a short about a .. show full overview
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Beginning Responsibility: A Lunchroom Goes Bananas
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24, 2020
There are a few certainties in life: death, taxes, and that we will never stop finding shorts from the multi-decade Beginning Responsibility series made by Coronet. A Lunchroom Goes .. show full overview
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Little Red Riding Hood
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11, 2020
Little Red Riding Hood is one of our most beloved fairy tales, and for good reason! It’s got a little bit of everything: child abduction, elder abuse, and muffins. So it was just a .. show full overview
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Arranging the Buffet Supper
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10, 2020
Are you considering having an informal gathering where people serve themselves the food you’ve prepared? NOT SO FAST. First, you’ll need to complete this course, Arranging The Buffet .. show full overview
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First Aid for Children - I Can Do it Myself
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23, 2020
Whether riding a bike, shooting some hoops, or just attempting to use paper, kids can find all kinds of neat ways to injure themselves. And the world is full of dirt and grime that’s .. show full overview
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Appreciating Our Parents
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21, 2020
Spoiler alert: Appreciating Our Parents does not turn out to be a cookbook like in that classic Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man. That being said, it’s still a pretty wild ride - a .. show full overview
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An Airplane Trip by Jet
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04, 2020
Sure, we’ve all taken Airplane Trips… Airplane Trips By Car, Airplane Trips By Foot, Airplane Trips By Your Nephew’s Razor Scooter That You Borrowed And Accidentally Broke. Now, brace .. show full overview
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Speak Up, Andrew!
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21, 2020
It’s Parents’ Night at Andrew’s school, and nerves are on edge. Andrew is a fifth-grader who has alienated everyone around him with his vague instructions and confusing driving .. show full overview
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Keeping Clean and Neat
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28, 2020
For some people keeping neat and clean is just a far-flung dream. But it doesn’t have to be! This short follows middle-schoolers Don and Mildred through their daily personal grooming .. show full overview
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
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11, 2020
The story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears has been retold countless times. But it took those mad bastards at Coronet to decide to inject some life into the tired fairy tale. How did .. show full overview
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The Big Yellow Fellow
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16, 2020
Timmy had Lassie. Calvin had Hobbes. Jackie, the little boy in this short, has… an actual school bus. That’s right, The Big Yellow Fellow is all about the love between a boy and his .. show full overview
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My Brother is Afraid of Just About Everything
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06, 2020
His brother Martin tries to help, but he gets more and more frustrated with his lily-livered little brother. The worm turns when Timmy discovers the one thing he’s not afraid of! Tune .. show full overview
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Am I Trustworthy?
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10, 2020
Am I Trustworthy? It’s a question that can only be answered by the person asking it... but only if they’re trustworthy, which is the question being asked. Confused yet? We’re knee-deep .. show full overview
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U.S. Elections: How We Vote
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20, 2020
Ah, elections. Seems like we Americans just can’t get enough of ‘em! Everybody loves elections, and they never cause any controversy or stress at all. But how do they work? It’s .. show full overview
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Voting at 18
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01, 2020
What young citizen doesn’t look forward to the freedoms that come with turning 18? Lottery tickets, cigarettes, being able to click “yes I’m 18” on websites with slightly less shame. Oh, .. show full overview
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Victory Squad
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02, 2020
Have you ever wanted to see how the Republican Party ran a local get-out-the-vote operation in the late 60s? You have?! Well then you’re almost certainly already familiar with Victory .. show full overview
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Tuesday in November
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03, 2020
It’s the first Tuesday in November, and it’s time to do your civic duty. It may not be fun, but it’s your responsibility. We’ve been doing it so long that sometimes we forget why, but .. show full overview
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The Munchers
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13, 2020
Munchers! It isn’t a new budget horror franchise from the makers of Feeders, but it’s almost as disturbing in its own way. The Munchers is a claymation romp about your teeth, which .. show full overview
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Alias St. Nick
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24, 2020
Alias St. Nick is a vintage Christmas cartoon. It’s from the golden age of animation, when all toys were required to come alive and just kind of bounce up and down, and all character .. show full overview
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December Holidays
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09, 2020
Ah, the famous December Holidays. We wait for them every year. After the exciting fall festivities of Toyathon and Geicoween, we settle into the colder months with the warm glow of .. show full overview
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The Snowman
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15, 2020
There’s nothing in the rulebook that says a snowman has to be friendly! While kindly old Frosty gets most of the attention, the Snowman canon is filled with monstrous examples. You’ve .. show full overview
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The Blessed Midnight
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21, 2020
Hooligan Teddy O’Hara shoplifts a cake from the local delicatessen to give to his beloved aunt for Christmas. Aiding and abetting him is classmate Billy, who knows of Teddy’s .. show full overview
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Santa's Spaceship
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23, 2020
Here come's Santa's Spaceship! Because, apparently, a magic sleigh that can fly all over the planet in one night wasn’t enough for him. Honestly, it just seems a little .. show full overview
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In Between
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04, 2021
All we know about this short is what it isn’t: it’s not Lauren Schwartzard’s New York Film Academy project. It’s not Kosovo director Samir Karahoda’s short about local architecture. .. show full overview
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Beauty and the Bride
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02, 2021
Don’t be fooled. “Beauty” is the red herring in this short about Racine, Wisconsin’s seamy underbelly. Yes, that Racine: S.C. Johnson Wax's headquarters and meddling .. show full overview
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Let's Give Kitty a Bath
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09, 2021
Cats. They’re famous for many things: mouse hunting, napping in sunshine, serving attitude, and, of course, cleaning themselves. They spend roughly 80% of every day licking their own fur .. show full overview
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How to Have a Money-making Garage Sale
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10, 2021
If you can suspend disbelief enough to think that Phyllis Diller ever had a garage sale, then you’ll appreciate the practical tips and corny jokes in this how-to video from 1987. It .. show full overview
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Fears of Children
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12, 2021
There are two kinds of RiffTrax shorts. The first are the straightforward ones, the ones where they teach a grown man not to use poisonous snakes as suspenders or a sentient belt .. show full overview
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Wonder Walks
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22, 2021
Rain. Skin. Fabric. Peanut butter? Your guess is as good as ours! Bridget and Mary Jo try to figure it out together, and you’re invited!
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Meet Mrs. Swenson
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13, 2021
When a family moves to greener pastures, it's up to one housemaid to bring the American dream to a screeching halt. Who is the mysterious Mrs. Swenson and why does she threaten to .. show full overview
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Keep Off The Grass
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20, 2021
Do you think it might be “groovy” or possibly even “outta sight” to try those funny cigarettes your friends have been smoking? Have you been tempted to “turn on” with the “real heads” .. show full overview
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The Lady and the Rocket
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30, 2021
She’s a lady. He’s a rocket. Can they make it work even though they’re different molecular compounds? A talent scout whose name we never get and his pal Flash are in search of the All .. show full overview
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The Talking Car
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14, 2021
he first thing you might notice about The Talking Car is that the title lacks the “!?!” punctuation made standard by A Talking Cat!?!. It also doesn’t have voice work by Eric Roberts .. show full overview
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Rhythmic Ball Skills
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21, 2021
Rhythmic Ball Skills is set in some kind of gym class purgatory nether realm. There, children are instructed by an offscreen presence to go through the motions of waving various balls .. show full overview
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The Box
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18, 2021
An amalgam of film footage in search of a narrative, The Box is a short film featuring a box in its breakout role as a box. You may never look at a square or rectangular container .. show full overview
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Masks of Grass (Studio ed.)
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28, 2021
Is corn masks? The freaks at ACI Films return yet again with a twisted spin-off of the classic At Your Fingertips short. The parents have signed the waivers and headed to a bar, .. show full overview
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Manners in School
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12, 2021
His name is Manners in School, but you can call him Chalky. Chalky the chalk demon, that is, with a little stick figure body and a big round Charlie Brown head. Chalky is accidentally .. show full overview
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The Baggs
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30, 2021
Sentient burlap sacks are running wild in our city streets, terrifying children and threatening to contain our yard waste! They dance, they ride horses, they generally just writhe in .. show full overview
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When You Grow Up
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13, 2021
When You Grow Up is a deeply 70s look at what becoming an adult and having a job might look like for kids in the 70s, from the 70s. Did we mention the 70s? This short is about what .. show full overview
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Chimp the Fireman
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22, 2021
In a world increasingly devoid of inspiration, firefighters are true heroes. Selflessly entering burning buildings, putting themselves in harms way to the ravages of wildfire, getting .. show full overview
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Frances and Her Rabbit
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29, 2021
It’s a rainy day, and the humanoid Frances and her pet bunny Hopper have nothing to do. After ruling out a cross-country bank-robbing spree, remodeling the kitchen, and space .. show full overview
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Why Study Science?
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09, 2021
A pleasant family camping trip goes horribly awry when Dad gets didactic about the virtues of science. In this 1950s nuclear family, teenager Jack wants to go to the moon some day; .. show full overview
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It's a Cat's Life
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29, 2021
What could be better than a box full of kittens? Puppies. Anyway, we digress. There are so many kittens in It’s A Cat’s Life, it’s practically a Russian novel of feline-ity. From the .. show full overview
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Halloween Safety 2: Even Safer
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31, 2021
Just when you thought it was safe to be safe again… Halloween is really about three things: candy, costumes, and complete paranoia. Halloween Safety 2 brings a strong focus to the .. show full overview
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Basketball is Fun
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27, 2021
The title of our new short Basketball Is Fun comes off a little desperate. Basketball Is Fun! Everyone should hang out with Basketball! Basketball’s mom thinks Basketball is really cool, .. show full overview
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The Magic Shop (Studio Version)
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29, 2021
The Magic Shop is almost definitely the only short we’ve ever riffed that was based on a story by H.G. Wells - though there are rumors his work was a major inspiration for Moose .. show full overview
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The Little King: Christmas Night
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08, 2021
he Little King was a comic strip that started in the 1930s and ran for decades, following the misadventures of a silent and extremely round monarch who seems to wind up in his .. show full overview
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Christmas Cracker
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13, 2021
Christmas Cracker may be the most pointless short we’ve ever done, and we’ve done a short about gluing pine cones to cardboard tubes. Made by the Film Board of Canada, possibly on a .. show full overview
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Beginning Responsibility: Taking Care of Things
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15, 2021
Beginning Responsibility: Taking Care Of Things is NOT to be confused with our other short, Beginning Responsibility: Taking Care Of Your Own Things. That one was made in the 70s and was .. show full overview
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Toyland
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20, 2021
One: a suburban 1950s family with two children eagerly awaiting the arrival of Santa Claus. The other: a demented black and white cartoon that feels like it came from some other .. show full overview
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Silent Night: The Story of the Christmas Carol
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24, 2021
“Silent night, holy night…” Yes, you’ve probably heard the famous carol dozens of times in your life. And every time, you surely thought to yourself “What is the story of this Christmas .. show full overview
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Play in the Snow
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01, 2022
You’ll be laughing your warm wool socks off (or should we say, on) as we follow Bill, Nell, and Charlie through a film that only an Encyclopedia could produce. Sure, you thought .. show full overview
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The Joy of Living With Fragrance
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10, 2022
There are times when you need to ask yourself: have you been realizing perfume’s full potential? Have you been living, breathing, eating, seeing, tasting fragrance in every way .. show full overview
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Ol' #23
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22, 2022
Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time. Proudly wearing the number 23, Jordan played 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six championships with the Chicago Bulls while .. show full overview
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Good Grooming for Girls
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12, 2022
Coronet, who had previously enriched our lives with insights into how to drink water, and how to keep a job, now tackles the herculean task of general hygiene. Specifically, Good .. show full overview
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Holiday From Rules
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19, 2022
Holiday from Rules follows four children who exist in abstract space, an empty void, a community theater set without any actual setpieces. These cranky, whiny kids are mad that rules .. show full overview
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The Adventures of Chip and Dip
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18, 2022
Romeo and Juliet. Shoes and socks. Ren and Stimpy. Wine and cheese. Dolly and Porter. Just some of the great pairings through the ages. And don’t forget: chips and dip. Courtesy of .. show full overview
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Look Like A Winner
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04, 2022
Think you’ve got the courage, discipline, brains, and physical acumen to be a woman in the armed services? Not if your hair and makeup aren’t perfect, soldier! This 1970 short is .. show full overview
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Front Line
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11, 2022
According to this short, some people call the local grocery store a battleground - people who have never heard of, say, the Revolutionary War. However! There is “a daily battle is .. show full overview
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Build Your Vocabulary
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25, 2022
Just in case the 1948 version didn’t drive home the point, here’s the second edition of Coronet Films’ Build Your Vocabulary! This time, Bill is an average joe who needs more words in .. show full overview
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Leadfoot
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24, 2022
Driving safety films tend to carry the same basic message: DON’T DRIVE, DON’T YOU DARE DRIVE, WHY WOULD YOU EVER THINK OF DOING SOMETHING AS EVIL AND TERRIFYING AS DRIVING??? But few .. show full overview
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Heroine of the Week
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28, 2022
A babysitter with basic survival instincts doesn’t let the house burn down, and might just be the local paper’s “Hero Of The Week”, despite the misgivings of a hard-boiled investigative reporter for the Neighborhood News section.
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Jack and Jill
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07, 2022
Golly, Jill would forget her head if it weren’t attached! Thankfully Jack is on hand to protect her from everything - everything - in an average ordinary day. Brought to you by .. show full overview
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The Grapevine
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14, 2022
You know you’re in for an action-packed, can’t-catch-your-breath thrill ride with a movie from the McGraw Hill Company in cooperation with National Office Management Association based on .. show full overview
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An Airplane Trip
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17, 2022
It’s the prequel you didn’t know you needed! See, a couple years back we riffed An Airplane Trip By Jet. It was packed with great 1950s travel information, but some astute viewers .. show full overview
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Are Manners Important?
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28, 2022
In this short from Encyclopedia Britannica, young Mickey would rather watch television than be courteous to his mother’s guest. As if that weren’t bad enough, his mother brazenly .. show full overview
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Magical Trip to the Denver Mint
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02, 2022
The title Magical Field Trip to the Denver Mint is a bit redundant, since obviously ANY field trip to the Denver Mint is going to be magical. What makes this particular journey to a .. show full overview
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Wanted: The Perfect Guy
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08, 2022
Thirteen-year-old Danny Coleman, played by 13-year-old Ben Affleck, thinks his single mother needs to meet a Mr. Right. Using personal ads technology, he and his industrious best .. show full overview
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Shoplifting Prevented
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12, 2022
Shoplifting: many of us already know that it’s a victimless crime, and a great way to get things you want but can’t afford. But did you know that it can also be quite fun? In this .. show full overview
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Last Clear Chance
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09, 2022
We’ve got a brand new riff of Last Clear Chance, a high watermark in the storied genre of “Driver’s Ed films intended to scare the crap out of you!” It was made in 1959, so the lessons .. show full overview
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Adventures of Captain Marvel: Curse of the Scorpion (Chapter 1)
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12, 2022
Shazam!! With one simple word and a puff of smoke, young Billy Batson transforms from an awkward dork with his pants up around his rib cage to a slightly older, doughier dork with his .. show full overview
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Bus Nut
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20, 2022
Bobbi is a middle-schooler who’s crazy about school buses. She plays with a toy bus; her t-shirt proudly proclaims “Bus Nut”; and there are six or seven actual buses in various .. show full overview
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The Juggling Lesson
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30, 2022
It’s the late 70s and Seattle is overrun with dweebs. And as you’d expect when a crowd of more than five dweebs gets together, some juggling is going to break out. This particular .. show full overview
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Chickenomics: A Fowl Approach to Economics
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09, 2022
For most of us, our knowledge of economics is limited to knowing that the guy who texts you “Is the non-working vacuum you listed on Facebook Marketplace still available?” will never .. show full overview
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This is Roller Skating
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23, 2022
Are you a wholesome teenager, child, Yankees outfielder, U.S Naval Academy cadet, former ice skater, old time inventor, youth pastor, grandma, grandpa or nerd from rural Missouri who's .. show full overview
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Patterns for Smartness
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08, 2022
Patterns for Smartness is not a TED talk about increasing your brain's ability to process information in a systematic way as we were all led to believe. Instead, it’s about something .. show full overview
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The $20 Miracle
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11, 2022
A long long time ago before the invention of sweatpants by Thaddeus P.J. Comfy sparked a worldwide activewear revolution, the American woman was considered the best dressed and most .. show full overview
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The Twenty Dollar Miracle
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11, 2022
A long long time ago before the invention of sweatpants by Thaddeus P.J. Comfy sparked a worldwide activewear revolution, the American woman was considered the best dressed and most .. show full overview
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Toothache of the Clown
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11, 2022
Encyclopedia Britannica wants you to know: clowns get toothaches, too! Scared of the dentist? Well, a hideous CLOWN should take care of that! Turns out the "this" in "Now I've got .. show full overview
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Toothache the Clown
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11, 2022
Encyclopedia Britannica wants you to know: clowns get toothaches, too! Scared of the dentist? Well, a hideous CLOWN should take care of that! Turns out the "this" in "Now I've got this .. show full overview
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Skippy and the Three Rs
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11, 2022
This is the story of Skippy Gordon, who, in the fall 1953, did unknowingly fall prey to the influence of Miss Temple and her nefarious cooperation in a federally planned routine which .. show full overview
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Adventures of Captain Marvel: The Guillotine (Chapter 2)
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21, 2022
Things got off to a Shazammy start with Chapter 1, the one where Captain Marvel uses his new superpowers to… shoot a bunch of guys in the back with a machine gun. Look, it was the '40s, .. show full overview
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It All Depends on You
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08, 2022
In this short film from the days of landlines, the great Jack Klugman does a lot of soul-searching about dialing long distance. A harbinger of the self-service evolution, AT&T blames YOU for not taking responsibility for your phone calls.
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The Christmas Deer
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13, 2022
Since a hilarious tragedy struck years ago, Nicholas (which can be abbreviated to NICK, by the way) has lived the life of a SAINTly hermit, but he still has GIFTS that he could give to .. show full overview
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The Christmas Tree
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15, 2022
One snowy Christmas Eve in a remote cabin in Ukraine, a family prepares for a big dinner of… well, mostly raisins? The boy’s only joy is looking forward to decorating the tree in the .. show full overview
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In Winter with Peter Jennings
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16, 2022
Who better to spread the word about the hip, happening, now-wow sport of snowmobiling than Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist - and native Canadian - Peter Jennings? Discover .. show full overview
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Big Enough to Care
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19, 2022
The draconian fun policy at Western And Southern Life Insurance no doubt drove many employees to quit for sanity’s sake. Actual work barely rates a mention in this recruiting video .. show full overview
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The First Christmas Tree
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21, 2022
Nowadays, it’s very common to set up a Christmas Tree inside your home, but did you ever stop to wonder: who was the first person to do it and how drunk they were? Of course, nobody .. show full overview
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God's Christmas Gift
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22, 2022
A Christmas Riddle: What has to do with the birth of Jesus, doesn't cost any money, is always welcome and makes folks so happy that they might even give it right back to you? Hmmm. You .. show full overview
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The Monster's Christmas
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23, 2022
When we say that our new feature is a fantasy adventure tale full of strange creatures, with a small but brave hero who quests across dangerous terrain, including a volcano, all while .. show full overview
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Adventures of Captain Marvel: Time Bomb (Chapter 3)
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27, 2023
Our story continues, which can mean only one thing: Captain Marvel somehow survived the electric guillotine in the previous chapter? But the ending led us to believe he’d perished! .. show full overview
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How Do You Know it's Love?
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14, 2023
It’s a big red flag for Nora when her boyfriend doesn’t order the Lobster Cantonese on their double-date with his brother and fiancée. The two of them didn’t even look at the menu .. show full overview
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Moose Baby Reloaded
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14, 2023
Not only did we discover a pristine film copy of this beloved RiffTrax short in an unmarked film canister we purchased from eBay, but thanks to our Kickstarter 2022 backers, we've riffed it - again!
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The Three Wishes
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17, 2023
Medieval peasants had it pretty good. Bold trends in seneschal headwear. Exciting new plagues. Early retirement (due to death, caused by aforementioned plagues.) Plus, you were never .. show full overview
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How to Succeed with Brunettes
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07, 2023
June 10 1967 – President Lyndon Johnson signs Proclamation 3700, designating "the week beginning June 11, 1967, as 'National Succeed With Brunettes Week' and directing 'the appropriate .. show full overview
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Gumby: Baker's Tour & Gumby's Concerto
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18, 2023
Gumby, everyone’s favorite malleable substance / god-king, is back in our first RiffTrax Gumby Double Feature. First, Gumby is lured into an oven by a sentient ball of dough. Looks .. show full overview
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Safety in Offices
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08, 2023
We all know you can Shake Hands With Danger on a construction site. But did you know that bountiful opportunities to greet danger exist in the standard American office?* Deadly .. show full overview
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Adventures of Captain Marvel: Death Takes the Wheel (Chapter 4)
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24, 2023
In the fourth installment of The Adventures of Captain Marvel, we get plane crashes, kidnappings, and high speed chases. Remember, this is one guy’s quest to track down some lenses. .. show full overview
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City Pets: Fun and Responsibility
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27, 2023
This educational short elucidates the fun and responsibility of urban pets, be they dogs, cats, birds, or rhinos. How deeply will rhinos factor into this short? You'll have to .. show full overview
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The Color of Health
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27, 2023
What is The Color of Health? Sort of yellowish, with lime green undertones and massive bright red bumps? Because if not, we'd better get to a doctor ASAP. The Color of Health is an .. show full overview
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Life in a Medieval Town
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21, 2023
We’re living in the age of the Seneschal, baby! Seneschal T-shirts, Seneschal themed restaurants, and we recently learned that Seneschal was the number one baby name in 2022, regardless .. show full overview
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Adventures of Captain Marvel: The Scorpion Strikes (Chapter 5)
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01, 2023
The Scorpion’s goons have left Betty spiraling. Not spiraling in an emotional sense: literally spiraling down the parking ramp while passed out at the wheel. She’s unconscious, but still .. show full overview
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Let's Be Good Citizens at Play
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08, 2023
We have to wonder how the filmmakers came up with the title for our new short, Let’s Be Good Citizens At Play. Mad Libs? Some primitive 1950s version of A.I.? Perhaps they threw darts .. show full overview
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School Vandalism
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19, 2023
Ever wanted to vandalize your school, but you weren't sure how? Hey, we’ve all been there! This helpful instructional short film will get you started with everything you need to know, .. show full overview
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The Number System
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22, 2023
RiffTrax shorts have covered a lot of rudimentary ground over the years such as how to bounce a ball and how to draw a square. But every time we think we’ve found the bottom of the .. show full overview
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Stoned
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25, 2023
It’s all fun and games until your older brother almost gets killed ‘cause you started hanging around with stoners in short shorts. Where were you on November 12,1980? Were you .. show full overview
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How Animals Help Us
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02, 2023
Not sure who made this short film claiming that lower order animals are actually useful to us humans, or why - but they are! Mostly in sandwiches! Little Jimmy is on a quest to .. show full overview
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Answering the Child's Why
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12, 2023
According to a Newsweek story “The Creativity Crisis” (no longer linkable), preschool kids ask their parents an average of 100 questions a day. By middle school, they’ve basically .. show full overview
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Do Words Ever Fool You?
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16, 2023
Words can be tricky. Do words ever fool you? Do they ever convince you to liquidate your savings into crypto and send it to a guy named "$enator Epicdoge" so he won’t release the webcam .. show full overview
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Don't Be Afraid
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24, 2023
Like most educational shorts from the 50s, Don’t Be Afraid is about a boy named Billy with a mother who wears a nice dress with an apron over it at all hours of the day. Unlike most .. show full overview
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Everyday Courtesy
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03, 2023
Ever have trouble speaking publicly? Well, good news - perhaps it's the listeners who are the problem!
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Fun of Making Friends
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03, 2023
Little Joey is tired of not having any friends, so he uses the strict set of rules from this short (and helpful advice from his mom) to try and make some new ones. [Released early to 2023 Kickstarter backers]
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Fun of Making Friends
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03, 2023
Little Joey is tired of not having any friends, so he uses the strict set of rules from this short (and helpful advice from his mom) to try and make some new ones.
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Everyday Courtesy
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03, 2023
From the mind of Educational Collaborator William E. Young, Ph.D., Director of Curriculum Development Center at The University of the State of New York, and in collaboration with Coronet .. show full overview
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Adventures of Captain Marvel: Lens of Death (Chapter 6)
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06, 2023
This sixth installment of the classic serial centers on the very thing everyone wants from a superhero story: lenses! Specifically the Lens of Death, like when a soft contact rolls .. show full overview
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A Conservation Carol
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05, 2023
It’s the late 70s and Ebenezer Scrooge is mired in a deep malaise. Not about Christmas: his coworkers are begging him to join their carpool. Usually Scrooge is an unsympathetic .. show full overview
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The Christmas Spirit
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08, 2023
The Christmas Spirit is set some time in The Past, an ambiguous era full of prairie dresses, wool caps, and men wearing wide ties too short to reach their belly buttons. The story .. show full overview
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A Present for Santa Claus
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11, 2023
“Santa” has hit a bit of a rough patch this year, and they should temper their gift expectations accordingly. Think “hotel soaps” and “a fistful of jelly packets from Hardee’s.” Does .. show full overview
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Koopa Klaus
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13, 2023
Sean and Conor were kids in the 80s, a time when pop culture was still figuring out the whole “Super Mario” thing. Was he a plumber who climbed ladders to fight an ape? Was he pro .. show full overview
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A Good Tree
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19, 2023
In search of just the right Christmas tree to soothe their mother’s aching heart, three seemingly wholesome Canadian siblings go all “daring heist” and filch a fir tree from a crabby .. show full overview
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Santa and the Three Bears
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22, 2023
From the makers of Santa and The Ice Cream Bunny comes Santa and the Three Bears. (Plus porpoises) When park ranger Uncle Hal (voiced by Hal Smith, Otis on Andy Griffith) tells bear .. show full overview
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The Little Match Girl
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23, 2023
This is the tale of The Little Match Girl - Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl, that is, not to be confused with Bram Stoker’s The Little Match Girl or the Spike Lee Joint .. show full overview
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Hansel and Gretel
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29, 2023
Hansel and Gretel, the beloved fairy tale of neglect, torture, and murder, is finally a film the entire family can enjoy! Because everything with these old shorts has to be needlessly .. show full overview
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Steamboat Willie
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17, 2024
With the landmark cartoon Steamboat Willie, Walt Disney showed his genius by setting up two core elements of the Mickey Mouse character that have lasted to this day: he’s always on a .. show full overview
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Everyday Courtesy
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30, 2024
From the mind of Educational Collaborator William E. Young, Ph.D., Director of Curriculum Development Center at The University of the State of New York, and in collaboration with .. show full overview
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Are You Listening?
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17, 2024
Are You Listening? From the educational minds of Educational Learning, Inc. Are You Seeing This? I Mean, Really, What Are We Even Looking At? should be the real title. Sometime during .. show full overview
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Gumby: The Glob and The Groobee
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13, 2024
First off, Gumby’s taken up sculpture. Already distressing, we know. But wait til you see what he’s making! It’s a horrific lump with razor sharp teeth, and much like Frankenstein, it .. show full overview
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Adventures of Captain Marvel: Human Targets (Chapter 7)
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23, 2024
As the episode opens, Captain Marvel is bested by his mysterious rival The Scorpion when he gets… electrocuted. Yeah, Captain Marvel goes down hard from a normal old electrocution. They .. show full overview
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Stay Alive In '75
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27, 2024
The year is 1975. Try as they might to “Whip Inflation Now,” Americans were feeling the devastating reality of the polyester embargo. Holiday Inn International decided that the only .. show full overview
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Superjock
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27, 2024
Superjock is a look back at a simpler time, when workout clothes didn’t need to “breathe” or “weigh less than twenty pounds” and doctors argued about which brand of cigarettes to .. show full overview
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Danny's Dental Date
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04, 2024
Lots of people are afraid of the dentist. Perhaps it’s because they have seen Danny’s Dental Date, a short film that tries to assure kids that the going to the dentist was nothing to .. show full overview
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The Skating Rink
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15, 2024
The Skating Rink follows Tuck, a farm boy whose family home seems to exist in the Great Depression, even though everything else around them is from the 1970s. Could it be a sci-fi time .. show full overview
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Feelings
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25, 2024
In the '70s, everyone started getting in touch with their feelings, probably because there was nothing good on TV. Embracing what makes you feel good, addressing what makes you feel bad… .. show full overview
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Fishing Vagabonds
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03, 2024
The Hell’s Angels. The Yakuza. The Five Points Gang. The Crips. The Bloods. None of these groups inspired as much terror in their communities than the subject of our new short: the .. show full overview
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All the Kids Do It
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05, 2024
He doesn’t have his drivers license, but Olympic diving hopeful and recreational beer consumer Buddy Elder (Scott Baio) receives a really rad car for his birthday. Yet despite .. show full overview
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Police Dog
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31, 2024
Before Turner got Hooch, before Jim Belushi met whatever the dog from K-9 was called, before Chase from Paw Patrol got written up for gross misconduct, there was… Police Dog! Police .. show full overview
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The Wizard of No
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10, 2024
Billy is a middle school misfit who can’t seem to get his locker unlocked. Things go from bad to worse after an awkward social situation with the cool kids. Walking home through the .. show full overview
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Safely Walk to School
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20, 2024
Grady and Lori need to get to school. Unfortunately, dangers abound along their walking route: radio controlled cars, breakdancers, the Grim Reaper. Sorry, those are the dangers that .. show full overview
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Student Court
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24, 2024
Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K. He knew he had done nothing wrong, but one morning he was arrested. No wait! Wrong story. Hmm.. Oh yes! Jennifer got busted for .. show full overview
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Trick or Treat
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12, 2024
It’s All Hallows' Eve and you’d better watch out for tricksters! You never know when one of those scamps might soap your windows, or jump out and scare you, or destroy your home while .. show full overview
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Introducing Video Toaster 4000
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29, 2024
Anyone with an advanced film degree knows that Video FX peaked in 1992 when Snoop Dogg turned into a doberman in the “What’s My Name” music video. But back then, if you wanted to .. show full overview
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Adventures of Captain Marvel: Boomerang (Chapter 8)
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09, 2024
Captain Marvel! Faster than the speeding bullets he shoots at fleeing victims! Able to throw petty criminals to their death in a single bound! Star of episodes whose titles have no .. show full overview
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Molly's Pilgrim
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26, 2024
The teacher tells everyone to do an art project about Pilgrims. Molly gets the crazy idea that perhaps Americans’ understanding of this holiday is facile, and that maybe by pointing out .. show full overview
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A Christmas Journey
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03, 2024
A Christmas Journey tells the tale of Kolya, a sweet boy who seems to live alone in a swanky penthouse apartment in Moscow. His father is away at Christmas because he is a weatherman in .. show full overview
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Sherlock Holmes in The Case of the Christmas Pudding
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09, 2024
At first glance, something as trivial as a Christmas pudding might seem beneath Sherlock Holmes’ concern, until you remember that he canonically used a lot of cocaine. Where will his .. show full overview
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Christmas Every Day
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11, 2024
Who doesn’t love Christmas? After all, it’s “the most wonderful time of the year” as someone, perhaps Gibby Haynes, once sang. Many of us, after one too many egg nogs, have wondered what .. show full overview
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The Santa Claus Suit
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16, 2024
Stripes and Spots: they’re cops. No, sorry, scratch that, bit of a habit! Stripes and Spots are clowns. Even worse, they’re puppet clowns. Even worse, they’re a type of puppet clown .. show full overview
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Crossroads: Our First Christmas Tree
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18, 2024
It’s a festive symbol of the season and a wonderful opportunity to exclaim “They cost HOW much now??” But it wasn’t always this way! Back in the 1850s, which is when this story takes .. show full overview
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A Cosmic Christmas
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20, 2024
The whole film feels like someone spilled bong water on a black light poster of Santa Claus in space: in other words, it’s pretty far out, man! The three aliens find the most normal .. show full overview

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