Fun With Shorts: A Day of Thanksgiving

[randy95023]

Baby Janet is too young to be Thankful that she lives in a white Protestant neighborhood that excludes Negroes and Jews...

Oh, those 50's, good times!

[Oppeldeldoc1]

This episode has become a kind of Thanksgiving tradition for me, right along with Bob Newhart and Moo Goo Gai Pan!

[GoblinXXX]

What I want to know is how the hell the kids didn't know Thanksgiving was the NEXT DAY until the little girl happened to see it in the newspaper.

[bjornschirmer]

Fuck yeah, Norway!

[Adamgontierfan19]

Please consult your doctor or God before embarking on a thankfulness regiment

is it me or was the actor who played Dick in an MST3K short I'm thinking it was Cheating

[biggsguy]

...oh, and thank you Josh, for all the laughs you've given me over the years!

[biggsguy]

Ha Ha...the kid's name is Dick Johnson!!!!!

[TheIr0nMike]

"Like most men, I'm glad it was my wife and not me who had to break the bad news."

"America was canceled."

Explains all too much.

[simonimyours]

Susan annoys the fuck out of me, and so does Dick. The future of this family relies on Tommy.

[trickymutha]

And Tommy grew up to be a teabagger and got rid of the public library cause it was too expensive.

[classicphile]

Love your opening line: "A whole day? What about my tv shows?" Indeed, when I was a kid in the 1970s, part of the reason why I looked forward to Thanksgiving was not only the days off from school, and all the good food, but for all the classic tv shows and movies that the local tv stations (no cable tv back then) would air specially just for Thanksgiving.

[tomservo56954]

@classicphile And the day after Thanksgiving, we'd get a special showing of Saturday morning cartoons...a real treat when there was no Nickelodeon or Disney Channel.

[ZoeSquared21]

"I can poop wherever I want!"

I almost died.

[needles1987]

The striped shirt boy looks like DJ Conner.

[Newtwist75]

@needles1987 we will know for sure if we hear Roseanne shrieking from the kitchen.

[FrostbittenWolf]

Glen Beck attack.

Love it.

[Jcolinsol]

And William S. Burroughs even carved the roast beast.

[simonimyours]

Porn, Spam, Dirty Limericks and Alcohol; the REAL American Thanksgiving!

[Newtwist75]

Dont forget to Rat out your friends as Commies if they disagree with you about whether white or dark meat is better.

[ElveeKaye]

"We've had a lot of expenses this month, and your father and I have decided...well...to eat one of you. You'll have to draw straws."

6:21 "Now, we'll just staple this to your collarbone like SO, and you'll be all set for school."

"Dear God: I am thankful for my husband. He's not the best, but he'll do for now. Still holding out for a millionaire, though. Think you could arrange that? Amen."

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

Wow! This makes me grateful for being an Italian and not having Thanksgiving in my life!

[dream6cold6code6]

America, a land founded by Protestants which created its land through mass genocide of the Native indian people besides the Vikings. So on that note why should Americans even celebrate this fraud of a holiday? ridiculous.

[Trodlgrimm]

Wow, I just got grateful for my own poverty.

[tsnoopy76]

Josh, I love your films! I also loved when you mocked that kid---"same as always" lmbo, absolutely hilarious!

[GoblinXXX]

Dad works for J R "Bob" Dobbs!

[Newtwist75]

No Turkey..get dressed kids we're going to Denny's!

[Damaris1034]

"Suck on that Norway!" LOL

[Kahran042]

Dorkburger - I'll have to use that insult sometime. :-)

[thriwren]

Its been awile since I seen a "Fun with shorts". Always a hoot, Josh.

[IntroSpetful]

maybe mother didn't feel like preparing a turkey and just pulled a fast one on her dull witted family

[GoblinXXX]

@IntroSpetful Especially since they didn't seem to know that Thanksgiving was THE NEXT DAY, you're probably right. She could have made meatloaf and just told the dullards it was turkey.

[IntroSpetful]

@GoblinXXX If the little green guys up there actually catch these types of outdated broadcasts, I hope they're built with SOME sense of humor while analyzing this "turkey" otherwise they'd be doing themselves a favor blowing us out of the Universe before we get out there and wreck another planet or two-it's pretty scary to think that the original creators of this fodder were SERIOUS!!

[GoblinXXX]

@IntroSpetful I dunno, it will be interesting to see the Predator version of I LOVE LUCY, or the Klingon version of THE HONEYMOONERS one of these days when SETI picks them up. (Or maybe a Kanamit cooking show from their Food Network? Called, of course, IT'S A COOKBOOK!)

[Nezbitt]

The dad is definitely one of the bad speech makers from one of the MST3K Voice shorts.

[GoblinXXX]

@Nezbitt He should have made the knee test, and used more lip and tongue ation. (And not a wire rack to be seen!)

[insanedemonspaz]

Could Dad sound less enthused?

And as for no dried out turkey, these kids better be damn thankful.

[HelpLadyLiberty]

Wait, what was that ayn rand comment?

o.O

BTW funny shit!

[electrogeek77]

"Glenn Beck's Paranoid Thanksgiving" - now with twice the uncontrolable sobbing!

*sob sob*Pilgrims*sob*greatamerican­s*sniff*damnlyingindians*sob sob*deyturkurgunzwhitehousepho­ne*squeal*teabagging!*sobbing hiccups*

[DarkPascual]

Hope you're glad to live... IN AMERICA!!!

[StuH42]

Excellent riffing as usual, Mr. Way. This is indeed a very special episode: It's one of the few shorts that don't show the usual middle-class suburban utopia where everybody is obsessed with emotional repression and new household appliances, but a more blue-collar family. Brave GIs died in Korea so that dad has the freedom to clean other peoples Studebakers for minimum wage without fearing a visit from Stalin's henchmen who want to drag him to the Gulag. Vote Eisenhower!

[tomservo56954]

@StuH42 The first part is exactly what the person who posted the version without commentary wrote...that it didn't equate personal fulfillment and gratitude with material gain Show THAT version to Glenn Beck or a Tea Party gathering and watch the fun! (a small bit of which has been replicated by electrogeek77)

[grecomic]

Funny how they never explicitly say what protein source they had instead of turkey. Was it chicken? horse meat? a can of lentils?

[IntroSpetful]

@grecomic maybe PB & J obviously no imagination with this bunch! ooh, and a side vegetable of potato.......chips

[GoblinXXX]

@grecomic Ramen noodles and a can of turkey & giblets Friskies.

[IntroSpetful]

@GoblinXXX oh of course! Can't forget the Friskies-kitty shouldn't suffer because ma & pa are ignorant dolts !! At least their script makes them that way!!! I think they were showing these silly informational films when my MOM was in High School-

I sometimes hear a phrase from some of these shorts that sound eerily just like stuff she said to us growing up!!

[GoblinXXX]

@IntroSpetful I wonder when the first actual MOVIE like this was shown? I know they still showed us film strips when I was a kid, and I'm sure those were probably used in the 30s and maybe even the 20s, but the first real movie? I don't know. Google, here I come.

[snakes3425]

"All the freedoms that the Pilgrims gave us" Oh yeah that little thing called the American Revolution had nothing to do with anything, the Pilgrims did everything.

[GoblinXXX]

@snakes3425 England was glad to be rid of the stinking pilgrims, I'm sure.

[tomservo56954]

@GoblinXXX They actually relocated to Holland before coming to America...and the Dutch were even HAPPIER to be rid of them, because they kept trying to force Puritanism on their culture. In some ways, the Puritans were the original religious extremists.

[GoblinXXX]

@tomservo56954 Exactly! The biggest lie of Thanksgiving is that the Pilgrims came seeking "religious freedom".  They HAD that: What they wanted was the "freedom" to make the rules for everyone else!

[purpleshamrock17]

"I'm Bill Johnson...my life is a lie"

"Will you shut up?!"

"No turkey for thanksgiving?...What is this crap?"

"things the Pilgrims never even dreamed of...like porn and Spam"

"Come to think of it that was quite insulting wasn't it?"

"Did I read it good?"

"In fact I think I'm pretty damn great!"

[blugreen123]

"please consult God before embarking on a thankfulness regimen."

"Young America Films" wow, that's creepy

"America was cancelled!"

why did there always have to be a child named "Dick" in the books and films of this era?

"we'll have the heck out of it"

5:51, that kid is some actor!

the melodramatic choir music in the background is a nice touch.

apparently "mom" doesn't know "dad's" real first name

[SenseOrSensibility]

I wonder what "Dad" and "Mother" called each other before they had kids?!

[blugreen123]

you know, i don't know! maybe "husband" and "wife." or considering this is the patriarcal 50's, probably "Man" and "wife"

[Kahran042]

@blugreen123 Then what would they have called each other when they were courting? "Boyfriend" and "girlfriend"?

[GoblinXXX]

@blugreen123 "Master" and "Servant"?  ("Dom" and "Sub"?)

[thekidwithdog]

"i'm also thankful for magic the gathering"

[o216o]

Why doesn't mother get to vote?

Oh, right. Never mind.

[FEnM]

"...the freedoms the Pilgrims gave us"

Yeah, when I think of the Pilgrims, I think of "freedom"...

"There won't be a turkey this year..."

NOOO!!

"...oh, I'll still be making a pumpkin pie..."

Oh, well then what's the problem?

... Hmmmmm, pie...

[ShadesofScorpius]

"Blasted Lutherans!"

"America was cancelled."

"You're mad with power!"

"Oh, he's libertarian."

"Thank you American God!"

HAHAH!!! Awesome - I give thanks for Josh Way doing his amazing videos!!!

[Tareltonlives]

I'm thankful I'm not in Eisenhower's America.

[Tareltonlives]

Happy Thanksgiving, Josh!

[GusF]

"Did I read it good?"

[TomSFox]

I don't know, I think freedom is overrated. Everybody should obey me.

[889654]

"Filthy little Socialists" XD

[krudmonger]

Dude, how'd you manage a twelve-minute clip?! o_O

[Gjeorje]

....and so, next year they ate one of the kids. I thought I was watching "Freeman`s Mind" for a second there, I was waiting for him to pull out a submachine gun and blow everyone away. -and remember Centron Films says "shut up and eat your gruel"

[Kidcatdude]

ahahaha

[brrrenna]

omg these kids need to be slapped

[DispariScuro]

I'm not getting mashed potatoes this year. I better make a film about it.

[evanandr]

Nice Work Josh!

I'm thankful for you putting this up for free on youtube, if I had to buy it off Rifftrax I may not have been able to afford a turkey this Thanksgiving.

[Bear5177]

lol. Great vid!

[TANTAREANU]

ya i am thankful for not being an official slave and although 5 percent of the world have 90% of the money in the world i am thankful that i work 10 hours a day and i even can't get a fucking turkey once a year keep on sleeping world and god bless us all!!!!!

[TANTAREANU]

maybe they should used a condom and have only one or two kids and then they would have had turkey instead of multiplying like Africans and starve to death

[Iamafishproductions]

"The Indians took my house back!"

"America was cancelled."

"Mother performed an erotic Thanksgiving striptease!"

"Lord Xenu, we beseech thee..."

"It's Glenn Beck's paranoid Thanksgiviing!"

Ahh, it's nice to have a good old Thanksgiving riff- just like Mama used to make...

[insanedemonspaz]

Whee! New fun with shorts! Nice to hear.

[blugreen123]

I've missed you, Josh! you just made my whole day

[beth563]

"You'd never credit her with thinking beyond her dolls." WOW.

[GoblinXXX]

@beth563 Yes, she's dumb as a stump!

[beth563]

Looks like the tryptophan kicked in early at the table.

[TomSFox]

Man, you passed up on a great joke when he said: "I know, Dick."

[ImpudentInfidel]

"The freedoms the Pilgrims gave us..." WHAT? This narrator has a very odd idea of American history.

[Tareltonlives]

Or the word "Freedoms"

[Proxicon]

FUCK YEAH FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY!

[ElveeKaye]

@Proxicon THANKSGIVING! FUCK YEAH!

Comin' to save the motherfuckin' day now!

[founder287]

Yay, a Josh Way riff! Excellent work!

I guess turkeys were a lot more expensive back then! lol

[zeo285]

Wow, I'm a capitalist, but if I'd have to sit there as a kid and watch these kinds of films, I'd probebly turn into a commie.

Great riff josh!

[orgixvi3]

If you watch enough of them, one of these 50's short films are bound to get you. I can't even begin to think about what I'm thankful or else I go on a tangent in my mind going deeper then it needs to go... :/

[Steeple333]

Welcome back!

Wow, pointed American values. This really is from the 50's.

[Annausagi2]

".. we've got the right to talk about whatever we want to.... except for atheism, and homosexuality and..."

Lol, anyways, good riffing, keep up the good job. X> And a happy thanksgiving. (To those who celebrate it... no turkey for me. D8)

[GuardianKiune]

It's good to hear from you again Josh. That was great, and I hope you enjoy your turkey...if you're having any.

[grecomic]

Yeah, I'm thankful for the newspaper editor having the privilege of printing what his advertisers think.

[dolphin18coco]

hahahahahahahaahha, phenomenal, as always keep up the good work!!!

[061342]

First rate riff!

[DarkeRaven09]

Oh my god you finally made a new one! It's been so long since I last saw one of your riffs... seriously though, I thought you died or joined Scientology or was adopted by Angelina Jolie or something! Damn!! (Great as always, keep up the good work.)

[alexeidarling]

Wow, those kids are terrible actors. Great commentary as usual.

[Triceratops916]

That guy playing the Dad looks familiar. Did he do more of these 50's films?

[nomadcowatbk]

@Triceratops916

probably in other Centron shorts

[nomadcowatbk]

@Triceratops916

think the oldest kid was in other Centron shorts

[tsnoopy76]

@Triceratops916 I think I remember seeing the Dad in one of MST3K shorts titled "Speech".

[taigakirdape]

He's back! Good to have you back here, Josh.