Fun With Shorts: Good Table Manners

[1990ribs]

forget table manners when did i get magic powers?

[reubenthetadpole]

Son is 13. Dad is 38. Mom is 65. How the heck does that work?

[sillygrl23]

@reubenthetadpole The mother was a cougar?

[JohnnyCxviii]

Can't talk. Older self talking in my head.

[sillygrl23]

I have to admit, some of the things the future guy mention are not as bad such as "not talking while eating" and being civil, courteous, and polite at the dinner table are pretty straight foreward and good lessons to learn.

But then they get into the whole placement of silverware, what fork has to be used for what, the direction of spooning the soup, that is when it got a bit riduculous. Most people don't even use three forks for seperate meals anymore and they probably never did back then

[VMIFerrari]

Proper etiquette...When are we going to finally admit that most of this is just a bunch of useless crap that somebody made up. Seriously, all this "over the top" table manner BS is nothing more than an invented concept that doesn't even span international, nor cultural, boundaries. Just because some people say "this is how you should eat" doesn't mean they're correct.

[MysterySTForever]

When he says "Mealtime is a time for pleasure and relaxation," it reminded me of "A Date With Your Family."

[alanedomain]

My god, I used to have a sweater just like these guys are wearing. Or at least, the same but not in greyscale.

[HaileyVerge]

Looks like I have bad table manners. I hold a fork "the wrong way" and cut how the boy was cutting before his future self showed him the "proper" way.

[TheMrPits]

That sweater screams for a riff, could he really get a date wearing something like that, no wonder he needs to go date himself 5 years in the past.

"lets practice." " I'll be the girl."

"On and interveinous foods."

Classic!

[thevoodoosailor]

the dad looks like the 11th doctor who!

[simonimyours]

Dude..."How long before you'll be making your way into the world?", isn't that kid, like, ELEVEN or something?!

[tokyodave1982]

the hardest mashed potatoes ever!



[needles1987]

Future Chuck does not have good taste in women.

[Jcolinsol]

Chuck's immaculate American style table manners will all be for naught when he's transferred to the bustling open air street bazaars of exotic India.

[epicninja13]

Disgusting, all those years and he hasn't changed his clothes.

Hahahaha, I loved this video.

[simonimyours]

This is seriously funny dude! I hope I don't sound creepy, but I friggin' LOVE your voice. ^^

[MysticalChicken]

My brother and I watched this together a few years ago and he was MST3K-ing it as well, but the only thing I can remember him saying specifically is around 2:04: "I didn't know I would still be wearing the same shitty sweater after five years." Oh, also this at the end, paraphrased: "Wait, when did Future Chuck learn table manners in order to come back and teach Past Chuck table manners? Is it Back To The Future rules, Timecop rules, or Time Bandits rules which don't make any sense anyway?"

[MysticalChicken]

@MysticalChicken Okay, NOW I remember what my brother said, it came back to me earlier. FC = Future Chuck, PC = Past Chuck. "If FC came back to teach PC table manners, wouldn't PC at some point have to LEARN table manners in order for FC to TEACH PC table manners?" The rest of it was the same.

[MSkull01]

"I don't get no respect."

[emzkind77]

In the future you will still wear a lame jumper...

[sierra1nevada]

" So French Stewart was annoying as a kid too!" hahaha.....too freaking funny

[sierra1nevada]

" So French Stewart was annoying as a kid too!" hahaha.....too freaking funny

[Newtwist75]

Can we say anally rentitively formal? Its wonder anyone could digest food back then.

[MELONSCOFFER]

his older self would be better off letting him know about dress sense and women

[Newtwist75]

well his older self looks like he will have a "special friend " instead of a woman.

[Zekkron]

@MELONSCOFFER I get the feeling he's already teaching him everything that he knows.

[MELONSCOFFER]

you wouldnt get the position in the uk by using a fork only

[MELONSCOFFER]

the older chuck appears to be hiding a slight mexican accent

[keen14you]

Did anyone else notice that the mashed potatoes looked grayer once dad got hold of them?

[weirdblondgirl]

omg, this made me laugh so hard!!!

[45gunner]

"Thank you Admiral!"-LOL!

"FILTHY SOCIALISTS!"-LOL!

[Iamafishproductions]

Did anyone feel like the older kid was less white than the younger kid? His voice and face remind me so much of Ricky Ricardo.

If that is true, what happened to that kid between those two points in his life?

[problem49]

This short could also have been called "Which Sweater To Wear When You're Fresh Out Of Ipecac."

[problem49]

"Oh boy, ham!" That's what the casting director must have said.

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

I'm your future self and I'm here to depress you!

It's the demonic servant of Martha Stewart!

[castrodisticcowboy]

This could do w/o the commentary!

[CirqueDuCloud]

Dear god, I'm getting sick just watching this. O.O

[smellincoffee]

This is why teenagers and young adults were so radical in the sixties.

[OverlordPost]

Their future selves told them to do the things they did.

[kILLERcATSeATfACES]

demonic servant of martha stewart XD

[cllewis1]

"Oh boy, ham!"

I love ham....

[shihtzusrool]

lol!!!!!!but what do you have against europians?

[asnac]

the new commentary spoils it

[blugreen123]

who is so obsessive as to remember to dip soup AWAY from themselves. how did he know so much about "spoon manners?!"

[blugreen123]

it's interesting how encouraging parents were about their kids going to parties then

Creepsome!

[MadamGul]

That's true. However, I don't think teenagers today have their friends over for dinner parties anymore. The only food they'd serve to their friends is takeout pizza and beer.

[Heatherstormer]

Jeez, what a great commentary on American values.... most people today eat over the sink.

[Heatherstormer]

Whoa.... the shrooms are kickin' in!!! I cried!

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

The eyebrows of the kid and woman... whoa! Peter Gallagher has smaller ones, for God's Sake!

[WINDHAMMAN]

the guy doing the narration with the dumbass comments really sucks and he's not funny one bit

[frazzified]

Future Chuck has a faint accent.

[Spazman173]

Holy shit, when the dad started talking near the start, I lost it.

Fantastic video.

[MSkull01]

Hey, the future version of the kid is the same guy from Better Use of Your Leisure Time!

[choc113]

Do most Americans really use that seemingly awkward way of using a knife and fork? You pick up the knife to cut something and put it down again to eat one bite, then repeat? As a Brit it seems incredibly awkward to me.

[Woad25]

I didn't even know that was a rule! Who made this up? Far too inefficient to put the knife down and pick it back up if you ask me.

[choc113]

But are you American?

[Woad25]

Yes I am

[choc113]

Well that's strange then:) maybe you could ask some older relatives? I asked my my Mum who is about 60 and she was under the impression that all Americans used the awkward method.

[Steeple333]

Well, maybe that's the way Americans used to do it? This is a short from the 50's, so I imagine some change occurs. Actually, I think my Dad commented that the "American" method is to cut normally, then switch the fork to the other hand. I did it the other way and never noticed anyone doing it differently. So, I think it's just personal preference at this point.

[Steeple333]

Right-handed people?

[dfirest1]

Why does Chuck's dad have an Echo at the dinner table?

[chitoryu12]

I need to do my own series of this.

[DiBahi]

where do u get all these Coronet Films???

[doggans]

I JUST NOW realized why some of this short looked familiar...

A few clips were used in the Weird Al Show's "Mind Your Manners" educational short--a clip of the two Chucks featured the narrator saying "A polite host wears a sweater identical to his guest's", and the three forks bit was also used.

[MPizzal]

Future chuck sounds like one of those Eastern European sale man

[MPizzal]

disowned, chuck must sell himself on the streets to get by. fucking hilarious :P

[needles1987]

So French Stewart was annoying as a kid too.

[xerxes333]

Chuck looks like that kid from The Final Sacrafice.

[insanedemonspaz]

Rowsdower Mobile AWAY!

[insanedemonspaz]

And HP Lovecraft joke, awesome!

[insanedemonspaz]

Oh God, I'm having flashbacks to that episode of Penn and Teller's Bulls**t where they meet a woman who teaches table manners.

[Tareltonlives]

I have the hilarious mental image of Doc Brown sending Marty McFly to the past to teach his past self good table manners.

[sandrilene23]

"Ask Mom for a new sweater!" Srsly.

[GriffinKid2021]

He's the demonic servant of Martha Stewart!

[PensieveScholar]

What else has older-Chuck been in, aside from Better Use of Your Leisure Time? I'm sure I've seen him in another one of these shorts.

[bwkermadecs]

"my crippling fear of salad tongs." and

"there's my copy of the necronomicon!":

sweet Evil Dead reference, hilarious video

[steveasat2]

"Oh, I'll be dating white girls? This...really isn't how I pictured the future."

[steveasat2]

"Cripes, are gigantic collars STILL gonna be in style when I'm you're age?" "No way! But sartorial irony will be making a big comeback. Check it out, I'm also wearing mismatched socks, LOL."

[mjcanan]

great riffing

[wwwcoginkcom]

Hey Josh, Core here from the ICWXP boards. Great stuff man. Thanx for another great riffed short. See ya on the ICW boards and of course congrats again on your writing gig.

Core

[romeorhino]

Thanks, Core!

[jodiehays]

excellent. thank you.

[mst3k4life]

Keep up the good work, Josh and congrats on scoring the writing spot on ICWXP!!

[grecomic]

Not quite as good as some of the others. Some of the lines as the beginning felt a little forced to me. I kept wondering "when is he going to point out that awful sweater?"

[SAPProd]

Really creepy how they got someone to look like Chuck...and I think it's gonna take more than learning table manners to make the young idiot as cool and sociable as older Chuck.

[hydrophone]

"My voice will haunt you forever!"

"Feed a--fever!"

"Mother can never know I was here, Chuck."

"Filthy Socialists."

"Are these the shadows of things that may be, or the shadows of things that WILL be?"

"So is there anything I should knows about my future, or...?"

"Together we can make this the best seder ever!"

[hydrophone]

You spoon soup away from you? What? Seriously?

Absolutely brill.

I think "Oh boy, the shrooms are kickin' in!" can be said about most of these shorts.

"Disowned, Chuck must sell himself on the streets to get by.

"Oh and we hate you and you embarrass us and you'll never win our love!"

"Side effects may occur."

"Oop, didn't pay the utility bill."

[aCultResearch]

Awesome.

Your sound quality is better then the movie.

[DispariScuro]

Several years later, he's still wearing the same sweater.

[FEnM]

annausagi2 said: "Ah yeah... I litteraly went 'Wah??' when the future-dude mentioned the 'Europiean way' of table manners. XD!"

I'm not sure if you know this, but in (some?) European countries, they hold their silverware differently then we do in the U.S. There are also rules about use and placement of chopsticks in Asian countries, just fyi. Fun, huh?

[Annausagi2]

Just checked out some more information about it on google. I knew about the Asian table manners, but damn... you're right. 8D;;

I didn't find much information about Scandinavia though, but I read somewhere that we use the US-table manners as well. (Except for the praying, unless it's a especially religious family.)

But I'm confused as well.. I can't even remember in what hand I use my own fork. XD;;

D-does this mean that I just got PWNED by a educational short from the 50's? Nooooo~~~~ !

[javabeanrush2]

That older self is the BETTER USE OF LEISURE TIME dude. So he now uses his leisure time to freak out little boys while their parents are gone?

And he brought those awful sweaters from the SHY GUY set. Yuck!

[romeorhino]

Don't sweat it! They can't all be hits. Thanks for watching anyway.

[TheRealGentleman]

On the contrary, my friend. I've yet to see one I don't consider a hit, including this one. You might not be able to please all of the people, all of the time, but you can please some of them most of the time, and I'm one of those people! Keep up the excellent work!

[sgleason818]

Home run again, I thought.

[snakes3425]

Chuck: "Forget table manners, what was I smoking when I bought that sweater?"

[moz8957]

Awesome commentary! U never fail to make these things hilarious. "O boy the shrooms are kicking in!"

[sparticusjoe]

Wow, you've really been cranking these out as of late.

NOT A COMPLAINT, just pointing it out.

[BrianScottHarris]

I guess that's better than just "cranking one out," huh?

Heh heh. Sorry. Couldn't resist.

[reddyredd]

It's those Rifftrax bastards. Yeah, I said it. Of course, I semi-kid. But, dang if they aren't hogging up all of Josh's potential material. I'm just a little bitter about all the new Rifftrax Shorts.

[ScottFrostbender]

They did "Harm Rides at Home" about a day after Josh did.

[Annausagi2]

Great, you gave me something to watch while I was eating dinner. X)... by the computer. Table manners wtf.

I also agree that the poor kids needs to get a new sweater... he's still wearing it when he's an adult, ffs!

Ah yeah... I litteraly went "Wah??" when the future-dude mentioned the "Europiean way" of table manners. XD!