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 day but eventually she gets to the paper boy shack to pick up the papers she is supposed to deliver. Upon arrival the manager of the paper boys says “Hey! Where’s your brother?” To which Katy responds: “He’s at camp, I’m taking over while he’s gone.” At first the guy says NO! Girls can’t deliver papers. But then, he says YES! It just wouldn't be fair to give away any more of the crackling dialogue or outrageous situations Katy finds herself in. You’ve got to buy it to believe it!

If you’ve never been convinced to try the metric system before, don’t worry, this short won’t change your mind. The phrase “cubic decimeter” comes up a lot. Yeah, “cubic decimeter.” Imagine a world where you were constantly saying things like “cubic decimeter.” It sounds like a bad, bad world, so join Mike, Kevin and Bill in running these Measure Metric hucksters out of our decent old-fashioned measurin’ town!

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 Studies majors. No matter: it’s a useful primer for managing the aging women in your life. Enjoy it with Maturing Woman Bridget and Blossom of Youth Mary Jo!

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! Stitching together footage of kids and animals doing vaguely similar actions, the short is truly a masterclass in how to get paid to make something that kind of feels like something, but actually isn’t anything. Just ask the “lazy lion” who’s one of the main busy bodies in Busy Bodies. How can a lion be both lazy AND busy, you ask? Watch the film! You won’t get an answer, but it’s still worth watching. Get busy getting Busy Bodies, riffed with maximum busyness by Mike, Kevin, and Bill!

He’ll hose down the clothes you hung up to dry without blinking an eye. He’ll toss a block at the cat just because he thinks you might give him the wrong dipping sauce for his chicken nuggets at dinner tonight. He’ll draw another mustache on your favorite doll even though it stopped giving him a thrill years ago, now it’s just something to do. He’s Allen, and he’s your brother. Increase your chances of surviving any Allen-being-your-brother that might occur: join Mike, Kevin, and Bill and learn from Allen Is My Brother!

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 tops, tea pots, door knobs, bottles and tons of other regular stuff you have in your very own house. A narrator will say a lot about how Americans like the “look” of things, but you'll never quite understand what he’s getting at, and there are no Chevrolets featured which will confuse you a bit. On the bright side, this short is beautifully photographed in Superscope 200!

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 on your list. Truck Song aims to change that! It of course fails miserably. Trucking is no better subject for a musical than say, one of our slightly more obscure founding fathers, one who never got to be president but still somehow made it onto our currency. It doesn’t help that the titular song sounds like someone asked the janitor at ACI to write you an “ACI style song” and then recorded what happened when he was drooling on a synthesizer in confusion. Based on a book (Finnegans Wake, we think), Truck Song is quite possibly the only short in our catalog that you can get to honk if you do that pulling down arm motion out your window. Join Mike, Kevin, and Bill for the short that puts the F-U-N in “Ten Four, good buddy!” (Provided you rearrange the letters and add in a bunch of other letters.)

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 family in the summer! Sure, it's less about everyday farming activities and more about scoring some funnel cakes, but it's really the journey — not the destination (especially if the destination involves funnel cakes). Join Bridget and Mary Jo as they hang out with a Farm Family in Summer - doing everything from milking cows to wearing colorful shirts at the county fair!

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 Division of the Oklahoma State Department of Health. Watch it with Bridget and Mary Jo and learn how to recognize the warning signs. You - yes, YOU - may be at risk! (For best results, watch while at work.)

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 air. And be sure to swing by the Markham place for pie and lukewarm coffee! Mary Jo and Bridget are visiting and as soon as all the chores are done, they’ll show you what life is like for a farm family in autumn. Don’t miss Farm Family in Autumn!

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 phone. She plays record albums too loud. She is... THE BABYSITTER! She won’t be stopped. She can’t be stopped. But Bridget and Mary Jo will try to route the evil unleashed by THE BABYSITTER!

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from years of riffing industrial safety shorts, it’s that a job in any kind of factory is basically a death sentence. There are so many exciting ways to get hurt! For example, you might be a Hothead, or you might be more of a Forgetter. One of them loses his temper too easily, while the other can’t remember stuff. Which one’s which? Hmm, I can’t seem to remember, and that’s MAKING ME EXTREMELY ANGRY! They’re two injury-filled tastes that taste even better together, so yell at the safety goggles you forgot to put on and join Mike, Kevin, and BIll for The Hothead & The Forgetter!

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from years of riffing industrial safety shorts, it’s that a job in any kind of factory is basically a death sentence. There are so many exciting ways to get hurt! For example, you might be a Hothead, or you might be more of a Forgetter. One of them loses his temper too easily, while the other can’t remember stuff. Which one’s which? Hmm, I can’t seem to remember, and that’s MAKING ME EXTREMELY ANGRY! They’re two injury-filled tastes that taste even better together, so yell at the safety goggles you forgot to put on and join Mike, Kevin, and BIll for The Hothead & The Forgetter!

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 LOT of information about them then join Bridget and Mary Jo as they learn such terms as white meat, dark meat, giblets and viscera! Discover with them the many uses for America's number one flightless bird! C’mon, Let's Talk Turkey! You know you want to.

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! Warning: graphic images of winter in the Midwest.

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 orphan boy staring at toys in a window. It’s got those toys coming to life in terrifying bounce-up-and-down fashion. It’s got a cat being turned into an electric power source to run a bubble tree. It’s got Santa coming into a house through a radio to dump a bunch of toys in a stove. Okay, those last two might not be standard, in this or any universe. But that’s the magic of Gifts from the Air, it reminds you of Christmas without bearing any actual resemblance to any Christmas anyone has ever experienced. Riffs from the air on Gifts from the Air, with Mike, Kevin, and Bill!

Yes, poor Peppy, Zippo, and Click, who look like an Anne Geddes calendar that got Dorian Grayed, are here to help Santa deliver toys all around the world in one night. Perhaps they should have hired a logistics planner as well, because this short strongly implies that Santa returns to the North Pole to restock his sled with presents after every single house. Maybe he just wanted another look at Zippo, who is clearly a 1930s boxing palooka wearing an elf hat. Join Mike, Kevin, and Bill for an enlightening holiday look inside Santa Claus’ Workshop!

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 Snowman! He’s like Frosty’s dirtbag second cousin, the kind of snowman who’s had a tooth knocked out of his mouth at more than one wedding. Spunky’s like Frosty without the charm or the clean arrest record. Put it this way, when you hear him going “thumpity thump thump”, he’s not romping over the fields of snow, if you know what we mean. Join Mike, Kevin, and Bill for Spunky the Snowman. Now you’ve got something else to worry about.

Christmas Customs Near and Far takes a very 50s look at these ‘far’ places, using the always culturally sensitive device of “forcing some confused kids into ridiculous costumes and pointing a camera at them.” Several of these children have lit candles strapped to their heads. At one point they construct something called a Mitten Tree that even the deranged bastards at ACI Films would have taken a look at and gone “That’s a little too stupid even for us.” Whether you’re near, far, or some horrible quantum flux state of both this Christmas, Mike, Kevin, and Bill’s riff of Christmas Customs Near and Far will hopefully fill your home with warmth, laughter, and whatever the hell a Mitten Tree is.