Fun With Shorts: Habit Patterns Part 1

[DarthElk]

Barbara also has a bad habit of moving between the front row and the third row in the classroom. If you see her from the back, she's in the front row, but if you see her from the front or the side, she's in the third row. The narrator should have called her out on that as well.

[1990ribs]

why doesn't the narrator just kill barbara if she hates her so much

[wingzofice]

Drumming her fingers was one of her bad habits, but isn't that what her mum is doing at the breakfast table? It's a vicious cycle!

[NekoKasumi]

Spiteful 50's narrator? More like GLaDOS Narrator!

[Lynn17]

I especially like how one of the Bad Problems with Barbara's morning was "no time for milk". OH NOES~! (I know milk-drinking's been rabidly encouraged for decades, but still. Helloooo narm~)

[thefaboloussob]

0:24 1. Oh, she's just having her period. 2. She missed her period.

[julesreverie]

Alas the dark days before Adderall...

[julesreverie]

Helen has severe OCD. Helen washes her hands 45 times a day because she thinks they smell like her father. Helen will one day drown her children in the bath tub because they drew on her perfect impeccably clean white walls with crayons.

[Sheri451]

Did they start their periods? Mom is lucky, she gets to stay home and do housework

[scryerofold]

Barbra was hot, I would have done her!

[ElJonesie]

I wish you would shut the fuck up so we can hear the classic video.

[Onasariel]

@ElJonesie You don't get the point of riffing do you?

[Igaaboo]

This is like...all of my adolescence. I WAS BARBARA. D:

[pdlbean]

"No, your mother was up." "And in a bell tower for some reason." XD

[misformurmur]

"She looks like Jughead dressed up as Veronica." I lost it!

[MissTristaAnne]

i died laughing when you started singing at the beginning

[orgixvi3]

Geez, both the narrator and the commentator get progressivley worse in their insults! XD

[captainstinky666]

each of the world's great religions have a teaching about you, Barbara

[dfirest1]

0:23 last time I woke up with my room looking like that was after downing 17 shots of tequila, so I know the feeling honey.

[emzkind77]

Barbara's hot, Helen's not. Sadly this will ultimately matter more than their habit patterns...

[ilikethecoke]

I'm so glad we don't have narrators for real life.

They wouldn't leave me alone. Then I'd be charged for murder.

[bruxbrux]

@ilikethecoke Helen has a habit planned so she doesn't have to resort to homicide.

[zachi033]

She must have been frickin SLAMMING her fingers on the desk to distract the whole room!!

[snakes3425]

Sheesh the CIA doesn't torture people as badly as that narrator

[snakes3425]

Will someone please kill the Narrator

[flitterella]

I want massive garish bluebells on my walls.

[reiterated]

I misread bluebells as blueballs. Whoops.

[horngatekeeper]

does anyone else's hate for the narrator burn with the red hot fire of a thousand suns?

[Damaris1034]

Wow. Helen looks like the "Romulans" from Girls Town.

[electrogeek77]

That thing on her sweater is less of a "spot" and more of a "giant fucking splotch caused by a seizure".

[GusF]

"Little lies are such a firm foundation for big ones."

Good advice. Thanks, spiteful 50s narrator.

[Iamafishproductions]

"It's the day of reckoning, and she loaded her gun before she went to bed."

"See how she even opens doors better than you?"

"You can at least ACT like you're not the worst person ever."

"You can't hide your sins from the narrator, Barbara."

[c3section]

If this was on MST3K, it would become a bigger staple than even Mr. B. Natural.

[barnesandnoblenook]

@c3section Mr. B Natural is an INSTANT CLASSIC!!!! A+++!!!

[westholmes2001]

Doesn't the narrator realize that Barbara is like all human beings, that we forget things, make mistakes, and want to be accepted in high school? The emotion in the narrators' voice and the background music seems like they held a huge resentment to her mistakes, and expect her to be perfect, like Helen. Throughout the short, the narrator, because of her stuck-up ways, doesn't say that it is okay to make mistakes from time to time, and that we can learn from them!

[DarkeRaven09]

It's from the 50's though... the closest humans came to becoming almost Borg like the way they droned out all forms of individuality and personality (if these shors are any indication).

[YaoiHuntressEarth]

@westholmes2001 Barbara has stuff she needs to fix but this is harsh.

[Pontifex]

"...and the longer you stick with the habit the deeper the rut gets." Right. Be a robot, but make sure you're a _good_ robot.

Great commentary on a really somewhat disturbing short!

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

At the beginning with all that emphasis on 'lateness' I actually blurted out 'What, is she pregnant?'

[RachelSummers777]

"Every time you hit snooze, the baby Jesus cries." Word. Snooze is for the weak--either get up or don't.

[Tareltonlives]

"Expressing individuality is just plain wrong"-Crow T. Robot

[bruxbrux]

"Let's start again, and find new ways to shame her."

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

You could at least PRETEND not to be the worst person ever.

"He used to enjoy that ride too."

Especially the part where he dropped you off and didn't see you for nine hours!

Wow, you're describing Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon, narrator!

[NekoKasumi]

Clearly Usagi is just a horrible person, regardless of how often she saved the earth, simply due to her procrastination and wrinkled clothing!

[wanderingmenstruals]

This is totally me! Down to the finger drumming. Screw Helen!

[rednaxela011]

Frank Oz! hahahaha

[linoleumcarving]

2:20 NO plastic coat hangers....the good old days ! ha ha

[hilby]

Looking for your tweezers, Helen? Can't remember where you left them?

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

Looking for your free will, Helen? Can't remember where you left it?

[deadacc64852]

Helen?  Was her last name "Kahlo" by any chance?

[zeo285]

6:30 , that a refrence to a clockwork orange?

[Kahran042]

I think that the scarf looks good.

[needles1987]

Barbara is crying because the narrator likes Helen better. The narrator has shitty taste in women.

[blugreen123]

had a "habit" planned? ummm, i think they mean "routine"

[JuCAbbi]

omg! she looks like Jughead dressed up like Veronica! rofl

[omgheartattack]

but helen is ugly

[Whatwhatomgwhat]

I love your commentary, it's splendid. :)

[needles1987]

It's the same teacher from Toward Emotional Maturity. And there's Sally sitting behind Barbara. It's a crossover.

[Tareltonlives]

Does that one have a sadistic narrator, too?

[dfirest1]

She must have had a fun time last night!!!!!!!!

[YesIwatchthis]

You must be awesome to hang out with

[DiBahi]

OMG! This had me laughing so hard! Its like Mystery Space Theater! I was looking for patterns for shorts!

[TANTAREANU]

i like barbara more she's cuter and she want to talk about guys and shit

[needles1987]

The narrator is so mean.

[needles1987]

The scene with Barbara's mother in the bell tower reminds me of Cinderella.

[MPizzal]

HOORAY FOR GUY FAWKES DAY!

[needles1987]

Helen has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

[azar96]

Perhaps one day dad will get PAYCHECK from his work at OFFICE.

Honestly Helen is the more likely to snap one day and be on a belltower mowing down the 'unclean ones' below.

[needles1987]

"See how she opens doors better than you?"

[insanedemonspaz]

Good habit patterns? Bull crap. I don't have good habits either and guess what? I have friends.

[needles1987]

Barbara is more attractive than Helen.

[needles1987]

Who cares about habits? She can get any guy she wants with her looks.

[theatrechick5]

"One day, your running late. The next, your killing hobos for kicks."

HA!

[PensieveScholar]

Love the Tommy reference.

[tomelifeisjustonebig]

I want to do Anne Toliver!

[needles1987]

That's funny. I have an Aunt Oliver!

[YeNguyen]

Edited for content? Oh dear.

[OelkerStudios]

"oh great, another spiteful 1950s narrator"

um, how is the WHOLE classroom distracted by her finger drumming?

[isidorus4222]

Though your comments are hilarious, this short is depressing like a french movie. Really: What were the producers thinking???

[ElveeKaye]

"Helen's car is filled with candy bars and hundred-dollar bills." And kittens. Don't forget the kittens!

[winched]

"But who are we kidding? This is *you* we're talking about."

[Tareltonlives]

Wow, I had no idea narrators could be so...vindictive. Great MSTing!

"Each of the world's major religions has some teaching about how horrible you are, Barbara"

"You were just chatting with Helen when it happened-" "You snapped and swore vengeance on the narrator"

[winched]

"she uses taste in selecting her clothes."

"what? does she lick them?"

[winched]

i love your videos. i haven't watched all of them, though.

[snakes3425]

To the Narrator: AH SHUT UP

[snakes3425]

"It's a Special Day" what is so special about it???

[snakes3425]

I think this one goes too far, even for the fifties, sheesh half of the people on the planet are like that

[Kahran042]

Half? That's an awfully generous estimate. :)

[OonaCanute]

I would have figured that covering stains with a scarf would be a GOOD and creative thing. What are you supposed to do when you have something you can't get the stains out of? Burn it? Man, Barbara has it rough.

[snakes3425]

Good point

[snakes3425]

Come on Narrator give Barbara a break, everyone has bad habits, and has extreamly bad days

[ElveeKaye]

She sounds a lot like me. "Wonder if these pants are clean enough to wear one more day.... Ah, what the hell, why not?" XD

[Healing2Suffer]

While she does have some bad habits, you really can't help but feel sorry for Barbara.

[Steeple333]

xD "Every tiem you hit snooze, Baby Jesus cries". Man, am I glad I don't have an alarm. =b

[reddyredd]

Ha Ha, there was a 'You Too' comment in one of your other shorts, and I thought, "No, Bono can be kind of a jerk." Too funny to now hear that U2 riff!

And this short needs a sequel: "But hey, you're totally hot, so you'll do just fine in life..."

[neurocidesakiwi]

She uses taste to choose her clothes, what does she lick them? LOL

[Dreadpirate46]

"It's the day of reckoning and she loaded her gun before she went to bed."

That's a great zinger. I love your shorts. Keep them coming.

[BlackNRA]

Good Stuff!

[Sgrubb1S]

"Oh, great! Another spiteful 50's narrator. Super."

"Objection, your honor, narrator is badgering the witness."

"You can't hide your sins from the narrator, Barbara!"

"You were just chatting away with Helen when it happened." "You snapped and swore vengance on the narrator."

[KaekoPuzifoot]

You missed, "Each of the world's major religions has a teaching on how HORRIBLE you are, Barbara!".

That line makes me laugh out loud, every time!

[Steeple333]

The "Objection" makes me think of Phoenix Wright. X3 And I squealed at the mention of Guy Fawke's day.

Is this the same narrator who scorned Sue's stubby fingers?