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  • Did your mom marry Mr. Rogers?

  • I think we should bring back home economics, and make it relevant to both genders.

  • I doubt people in the fifties put that much stock in these videos. Like the videos I watched in Health and Home Economics it's not a reflection on reality. :)

  • Just as a side note;

    If you've watched the 'Why Study Industrial Arts?' shorts when Crow mentions "This is the one the boys had to watch while the girls had to go to the gym and watch the 'OTHER' film!", this is the film he refers to. 

    Gotta love how they make references to other shorts and movies they watched before. :)

  • Feminism has destroyed the American Family,Women are bitchy,pissy,Man hating .everything is a mans fault.wells that pure Bullshit.,Id say roughly 75% of American Women arent wife material,thats why I would only marry a foreign woman.Hell id consider an illegal Mexican woman over most American Women.I dont have time or the patience to deal with the Fucked up,I dont need a man ,attitude.Fine Be by yourself ,your entire life,By some cats.put on a robe and nit,till ya fucking die,just my 2 cents

  • @BorderCityBandit I love a man who can pull statistics out of his ass! <3<3<3

  • @mzmudcat cant handle the truth,I meant every word I said,Id take an illegal mexican women over 75% of American women.bottom line, they at least know how to treat thier men, unlike most American women,where its all about them all the damn time,and ladies no we dont want yall in the kitchen.you would burn water and burn down the house,.I know thier would be some women ,that couldnt handle ,Real talk,LOL

  • @BorderCityBandit Your horrendous spelling is really convincing me of your innate male superiority. MST3k is too intelligent a show for a fan like you, man.

  • @Noordledoordle great another spelling Nazi,why dont you crawl into old German Oven.I am a huge Fan of the series,I dont need to justify myself to you,Or any damn body,I dont give a damn what you think.

  • @BorderCityBandit Well, don't make posts about treating women like chattel without expecting a little backlash. Particularly on a short like this one!

  • so she had to ask what her parents thought of her taking this class and her parents were deciding whether or not they should risk and sacrifice to send her to college? bet if junior there said he wanted to go, they would pull out the old checkbook and sign their lives away for tuition....sheesh good thing its not as bad today as it was then XP

  • Just walk in my dorm room and don't knock first

  • DAMN!

    I dont want my wife workin' Get me a beer

    What The Hell Is That? (why does he look like he really saying that with his facial expression) lol

  • Shut up granma your're lucky to have a job!

  • Your Period and Mine, if this chair I was sitting in OMG I almost had an asthma attack loool

  • 08:25 brilliant

  • @TheLazybandito That's my favorite part! Ever since we first saw this, my family and I have not been able to say "Well hi!" or "How ya doin'?" to each other without referencing that line.

  • Kegs will be tapped, men will be used.

  • @BlueEyes7452 And I hope I'm that fortunate...

  • 10:36 there's an edit. The version on the Compilation cut the teacher lifting a second container and Servo says, "This Is Mucus". It is there on the version of this short during the "Viking Women..." episode. Weird edit...

  • This film prepared these four girls for careers outside the home. Jean wanted to be a fashion designer because she loved working with fabrics and clothes. Helen wanted to be a hospital dietitian. Kay wanted to be a teacher. And Louise wanted to work with household appliances.

    Not all women back in the 50's, 60's, and 70's were housewives and mothers. They were either teachers, nurses, secretaries, office clerks, waitresses, or retail clerks. The womens' movement in the 70's changed all that.

  • "I'm strangely drawn to this mystic fountain"

  • "Thousands of people who eat out are her daily customers"

    So she runs a lesbian bar?

  • Why does every girl have short hair in this video?

  • @BionicTurtleWizard Because it was the 50s, everyone had that exact hairstyle back then.

  • "She got a real thrill out of dropping that letter in the box" XD

    and

    Is this the Polygamists recruitment video?

  • "Would she smoke thin black cigarettes and reject the Triune God?"

    Bwahaahaahaha!

  • I love how at 4:01 they all go boo....way to stand up for women!

  • Being a housewife is a job of its own, it doesn't make you lower than anyone else. It's just the mindset that makes it seem so bad. I don't agree that women should only have those two options but I don't think being a housewife would be so bad. Besides, you can always get a job if it drives you that crazy...

  • @Ravewithme19 I think most girls my age (28) feel that a house wife just sits at home and watches TV. My mom and most of the true house wives I know keep the home clean, make sure their children are well taken care of, do a lot of cooking and mending, etc. to keep costs down. I can't tell you how many "housewives" I meet have cleaning ladies.

  • No she didn't take shop class, but she saw "Mr Jhonson" using it to cut dead wood from a tree in the front yard. She just put 2 &2 together and trimmed a little dead wood herself.

  • College for Kay would mean sacrifices for mom and dad.

    "Human sacrifices."

  • So, were I a woman in the 1950's, even if I did elect to pursue engineering or mechanics of some sort, my only options are to major or Home Appliances or Bob Johnson?

    I'm going to go hug my mother now.

  • @MissesD123 Haha, majoring in Bob Johnson. Classic.

  • @MissesD123 No. My grandmother went to college in the 1940's and she was studying to be a doctor.

  • very important career of being Mrs.Johnson booooooooooo! LOL

  • window pain hahahaha

  • I died at "YOUR PERIOD AND MINE"

  • You know, home economics can be pretty handy. Less to "become Mrs. Johnson," and more for the ability to take care of yourself when Mom and Dad aren't around any more. My mom's going to teach me how to sew soon and I've been learning how to cook, not because my vagina dictates that I must but because it's basic life skills that come in handy. And when I have kids, I'm going to teach them how to do the same so they can take care of themselves when they grow up.

  • @0its0green0 I agree with you! However, it's obvious that's the intent of the video.

  • Screw this, I'm doing Law!

  • You can make fun of these 50's and 40's video's all you like, but also note that it is these video's that give us a great understanding of life in those times, a fly on the wall view of how times were and to what they are now, these video's I say should be preserved for all time, so future generations can see how far our world and times have come and to understand our past. Long live Archives.org!

  • ~1:25 "Your period and mine: A Lecture"

    ~2:50 "She still decorates -- for Bozo"

    ~4:05 "Kay's home would be like this -- a dungeon!"

    ~6:20 "It's from Ed McMahon, it says I am a winner!"

  • oh my god what a sad little life

  • would she smoke thin black cigarettes an reject the triune god. LOL.

  • "I don't want my wife working, get me a beer." 'burp.'

  • "Well, making a dream come true often depends on a very little thing..."

    "Windowpane" 4:49 ha

  • OH HI HOW YA DOIN'? WE'RE GONNA HAVE A GREAT TIME, WE'RE GONNA BE PALS

  • Well, at least they're encouraging girls to go to college

  • Decorating in the designer tapeworm motif...ooh la la! 2:40

  • College for paper mache and sewing? Yikes

  • Physics for Girls 101.  How cute.

  • The good ol' days where women knew their place in the world.

  • @crowtservo It's so much more fun for us women to have boys like you here in the present.

  • Ah, the good old days.

  • "Carol, who is now Mrs. Bill Johnson...". This depresses me so much! All of this skit is really down in the dumps. Oh man, to think how far behind society was relatively recently.

  • 9:39 had me in tears!

  • I can't believe they let "for the next four years they will see a lot of each other" slip by without adding something like:

    Crow: "Like in the shower?"

    Joel: "Oh WOW..."

  • It's just the way that sack of crap looks up at her, as they say on MST3K "he's got built in smug"!

  • Oh great, good job MST3K, when I heard, "this is Flem", my line I was drawing started looking like a manic worm having a seizure.

  • "Shovies"?

    "YOUR PERIOD AND MINE: a lecture" LMAO!

    "She consulted Robert McNamara and Ayn Rand."

    "Is this a real poncho or a Sears poncho?" Zappa reference FTW.

  • Kegs will be tapped, men will be used.

  • "Surprising how everyone can make such original and interesting designs"

    "While Kay struggles with basic motor skills" hahaha

  • Wait a second since when does Journalism fall under Home Economics

  • O.K. Once I lop his head off...you can have the body!!!

  • A college course on Household Equipment??? Uh you mean back in the 50s they actually had classes that did nothing except teach you the "proper way" to turn on your washing machine???

  • Home Economics is leaning how to use the phone to call for a pizza or a repair man because you somehow relocated your kitchen to the next county

  • So this is Sammich making 101?

  • You know some many of those jobs require other courses then just home economics

  • One person did not take Home Economics.

  • funny. they probably couldn't have made the gunman jokes after colombine.

  • @hatonbackward I thought it was referring to the Texas Tower sniper, whose shooting spree happened on August 1, 1966.

  • You know it's a sad day when all you learn in college is how to plug in your blender and how to turn on the stove

  • Is it me or is this short implying that women should always stay at home? Don't get me wrong. God meant for women to fall in love with great men and raise kids, but they can have a career and follow their own dreams too.

  • She consulted Robert McNamara and Ayn Rand.

  • Best. Short. Ever.

  • 7:37 I don't believe it. Not even a freaking hug good-bye?  Just a tap on the shoulder my Mom? Damn, this kid must've really been disliked severely (if not HATED) by her parents.

  • "Home Economics is all of this, and more, too." *weight comes apart on scale* "Damn...!"

    and I have learned not to drink cocoa while listening to MST3K.

  • No wonder my mom went insane.

  • "And large white haired ladies!" hahaha i <3 Crow!

  • Four years in college and however many thousand dollars to become a freakin' housewife?

    On behalf of my gender, I offer Womankind my most sincere apologies...

  • @scooteratreides But one hell of a housewife.

  • @scooteratreides We all know college isn't about learning anyway. It's about eating cubes of mescaline gello.

  • "Ahh, see you in four years, don't call. A friend always.

    Love,

    Dad"

    Too true..

  • "This one was for the girls only--"

    "OOoooooooooh!"

  • Damn, I am SO glad things have changed for women. Well, at least some things have changed. In the western world that is....

  • Yes, you are right abount not being able to change the way people think, and sadly it's as true today as it was in the past.

  • The sad truth of this short is that, this was pretty much all there was for women back then.Seems like the short is suggesting a life of servitude, rather then a career. I guess it's that or "become Mrs. Johnson"! I hate how he hardly looks up from reading his newspaper to see what she's made.DICK! Hope she waited for him to go to sleep, then cuts his head off with a bow saw.

  • @felson99 I agree this so called career study in home economics is nothing more than a manipulation used on woman back then to force them into a servitude existence to there husbands and men in general as you said, it truely is sick and disturbing, though its painted in glorified means.

    this probably explains female depression and the common use of Lobotomy and the drug craze of the 60's.

    I feel terrible for these's woman.

  • @dream6cold6code6 Yes, I agree, that's why the medical establishments answer to all problems emotional in the female population was, VALIUM!!!

  • @felson99 I suppose though even if you had a time machine and could go back in time, you still couldn't change the way people think in this strange time period, its just part of human evolution.

    though despite its problems and indecency to woman this time period is very fascinating because so little is known about it, especially to newer generations, and there perception on life is intriguing if not flawed to say the least.

  • @dream6cold6code6 That is why there is such a generational gap between my grandmother and I. She was the housewife and obedient mother her whole life and now once her kids are grown and left the house and her husband is dead, she has trouble making decisions for herself.

  • @felson99

    A little extreme, but I can roll with that. Would make for a more interesting short!

  • @neunerx I think you preceptions of this short will be related to your age. Regardless of how you view this it is a fact that women were treated in a far different way back then. As far as her cutting of his head, hey, it's MST3 K. That much was a joke..........

  • @felson99

    I don't understand why you're replying with such condescension.

  • @felson99 Then again, you didn't see many women studying engineering back then either. This was actually pretty progressive for its time. (Don't get me wrong, it still sucks. lmao)

  • @dantheman931 I don't think it was a option for them to be an engineer. It's a great MST3K short, but it indicates how women were viewed back then. Let's also remember that many women came out of the kitchen to build the wepons of WW II. After that women had their eyes opened to a world of possibilitys.IMO

  • @felson99 SHUT UP & FIX ME A SAMMICH!

  • @dsriggs Sure honey, what kind of sandwich would you like??? ..now where's that cyanide????

  • @felson99 The further sad thing is that this is a step *forward* for what women were permitted to do. "You guys sick of manual labor? Get an 'education'!" Which means that they assumed that this servitude was something to dream of. All women want to be glorified baby makers, right? These people were clearly ridiculous; on the upside, they were trying to be progressive. LOL.

  • @QueenOfSpain002 I'm sure at the time of the video, these were progressive women!

  • @felson99 I was thinking of dipping him in a drum of acid, but I like your idea, too.

    LOL XD

  • @felson99 Whoa, I was with you until the decapitation bit. I know you're just kidding but holy crap.

  • @felson99 Yes women should feel free to be psychotic killers if that's what they want to be! Haha

  • @felson99 You forget what was going on for the previous two decadse prior to this short being made. What people see now as 1950s society forcing conformity and women being repressed into gender roles was really a reaction to years and years of chaos and reversal of gender roles. There was the Great Depression where there was either men abandoning their families in times of want or in search of jobs, families migrating in search of food, families falling apart, then WWII with men disappearing

  • @felson99 ..in war, and women having to take their jobs. With the prosperity of the 1950s, suddenly everyone reacted with "Now back to 'normalcy' and in case you forgot what it was, here's how you do it." Hence these PSA films that seem so ridiculous to us nowadays. But don't gender roles are that far removed nowadays. Just look at TV commercials. It's not men obsessing over which paper towels are going to pick up the spill the best.

  • @felson99 you should see the MST3K short called a Date with the Family. That one basiclly demanded that women are lower then men. A few times.

  • @LadyCrazyMonkeyPants I have seen that one too, Date with Your Family is out of the same mold as this one.

    I suppose you can make the argument that people just didn't realize how absurd all of these shorts were. But I'm glad things have changed for the better.But MST3K made them all allot of fun!!!!!

  • @felson99 a bow saw? no, no--women aren't allowed to take shop class. only home ec.

  • @felson99 Hey, wanna hear a funny joke? WOMAN'S RIGHTS! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • @MrProfessorElemental An even funnier joke? Your chances of getting a girlfriend! HAHAHAHA!!!!!

  • @simonimyours I can give you some good reasons why it's better to be single than have a girlfriend, but I'm pretty sure you're too busy attention whoring to continue this conversation.

  • @MrProfessorElemental Actually, I'm too busy having a life. I just took some time out of my schedule to blast a sexist troll.

  • @simonimyours You want to be treated like a man? Deal with it like a man. There. There's your equal rights ya broad.

  • @MrProfessorElemental If I dealt with it like a man, I would be in jail right now for throwing your ass out a window. But instead, I'm stinging you with my comments and thinking with my brain, rather than with my dick. BTW, I'm sixteen. You're calling a teenage girl names, dude. Biiig victory!

  • @simonimyours And I'm 15. And good job resorting to empty threats of violence. Shows how unoriginal you are.

  • @felson99 Nice to see how bitter feminism has made the poor modern American woman. You've been conditioned to reflexively hate men, and you don't even know it.

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  • "Hi we're gunna be pals!"

  • 1:06 By this point, I would have cut my hair short, put on a baseball-cap and a jacket, and snuck into the boys' assembly to watch the film on industrial arts.

  • 8:43 It's the Golden Girls! Too soon?

  • lmao @ the iowa state comment and the "Shut up grandma, youre lucky to have a job!"

  • Why was she reading "Problems of American Democracy" at 5:20 ?

  • Robert McNamera lol!

  • "And while they were talking...'Two of the ripest tomatoes strolled in!'"

  • Your period and mine

    LOL

  • LOL @ Iowa State!

    Go Hawkeyes! ;)

  • @Dulcimerist Iowa state college: the high school AFTER high school

  • "Why does she have a picture of John Carradine on her nightstand?

    Oh, that's Mom."

  • "Like Pavlov's dogs they salvate at the sound of a bell."

    "Kegs will be tapped, men will be used"

    "While Kay struggles with basic motor skills."

    What a crappy dorm. So glad mine won't be like that. If my dorm did look like that I would cry.

  • the teacher at the podium: "Y am I dubbed??" I would think a school kitchen would B hell for a kid to ponder as a career. Did these films ever promote low paying jobs? Every time: High paying good jobs. Did they think of our future as a jobless apocolypse?

  • Announcer: At first it seems bare and unfriendly.

    Crow: Who, her roommate?

    LOL xD

  • 10:07 "Even the physics class was what a girl would like." Physics in the home! Boy oh boy!

  • "Early October, headed for an 8 o'clock class in home ec." Tragedy struck, a long gunman *PKOW PKOW*.

    LMAO

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  • Kegs will be tapped. Men will be used.

  • Titles by Frederick's Of Hollywood!

    I'M A Q-TIP, WHAT ARE YOU?

    Your Period And Mine: A Lecture.

  • "for the next four years, they'll see a lot of each other."

    "oh come on, they just met." XD

  • We're gonna be PALS!

  • Today I'd like to tell you about several girls I know very well....

    -And why I'm being fired!

  • Anybody know what a "chubby" is? 00:16 (or is it "shubby"?)

  • @camolanphy I thought they said "stubby" as in a drink? Or is that only in Australia?

  • @camolanphy I think he said "shovies".

  • @camolanphy I assume it's a euphemism for a certain feminine hygiene product...

  • hahahaha Horse Face, Ice Queen, high grade weed hahahahahahahahaha

  • YOUR PERIOD AND MINE: A LECTURE

  • The Woodstock of the '50s! Play Whipping Post! Whooo!

  • Did anyone else notice the book... problems with american democracy?

  • hi, uh, u gotta bong?

  • Tragedy struck, a lone gunman!

  • My grandma took Home Economics at Iowa State... this made me laugh.

  • i applied to iowa state and got rejected. it's true. :(

  • "I was boring until I got my Toni perm"

    "Then one day Kay fiddled with accounts payable, took a long drive into the country, and got cabin A at the Bates Motel"

    "Let's see...THE BELL JAR...OUR BODIES, OURSELVES...ah, here it is--GHETTO FREAKS"

    "So this is Pine City Vo-Tech"

    "You lost the draw...you'll be rooming with the ice queen"

    "I look at you and I go out of focus"

    "Thank goodness for Head & Shoulders"

  • I'm a Q-tip! What are you?

  • "That important task of being Mrs. Johnson"

    Booooooooooooooo :)

  • Princess Leia decorating at 2:50?

    I hate 8am classes. Unfortunately, a lot of colleges in my area of the country are just like high school after high school- go to class, work, then come home. As for me, being a poor college student, I work but don't make enough to live away from home.

    "Most of these classes fit together" they make it seem like kindergarten!

  • she decorates for bozo

  • "She got a real thrill out of dropping that letter in the box--"

    "MOOHOOHOOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHOOOO!­!!"

    XD!!

  • '...while Kay struggles with basic motor skills.'

    XD

  • Narrator: And what mom and dad would say?

    Tom: who knows, they only speak German.

  • Kay's home would be like this...a dungeon.

  • 4:08-4:18 is that pot plant

  • she was eating cubes of mescalin jello

  • Crow: That's her husband Jerry, with his new car.

    Servo: Escape...Escape...

  • Narrator: Who would be her friends?

    Servo: Who would be her blood enemies?

    Narrator: Wonder if she'd ever know her way around here.

    Servo: What secret societies would she join?

    Narrator: Wonder what her room would look like.

    Servo: Would she smoke thin, black cigarettes and reject the Triune God?