Fun With Shorts: How Do You Do

[DaliDahmerly]

When he said "everyone's gonna make a boner now and then" I thought it was the over voice guy.... 

[Kibonsensei]

DAYYYYYYYYYUM BAYBEH!

[thefaboloussob]

6:30 "F...K" lol I learned that from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

[ElveeKaye]

The 1950s must have been very, very boring. :o\

[DarthElk]

11:01: "When should a man rise?" It probably has something to do with 3:37, "We're all apt to make a boner now and then."

[1990ribs]

7:21 adressing the women first he said damn baby 

[randy95023]

She REALLY botched those introductions! What they don't tell you is that the two girls had snuck out the night before and went down to the docks to drink Tequila shooters and huff paint with sailors...

[sillygrl23]

lol, learning how to properly introduce your friends to someone isn't hard when you are not flakey XD

[UKISOCIETY]

But...How did they do?

[ZehnWaters]

'Your turn.'

[seventhsheaven]

In the fifties, everyone dressed like their parents :/

[robotrix]

I always take advice from a magazine that can't be bothered to design a cover...

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

I love your bloated, ineffectual security software, Dr. Norton. XD

[JohnnyCxviii]

"Don't hurt yourself, honey." Wow, great riff on this one. Just superb.

[adrianmarie1983]

Peggy looks like pure evil. Them wheels were turning, I tell you!

[sharper201curzonst]

"How do you DO?" "HOW do you do?" "How DO you do?" "How do YOU do?"

1947's "These pretzels... are making me THIRSTY!"

[TheLackofattack]

3:36 lets stop and think about this statement for a moment.

[StuH42]

What we learned about the fifties: A "committee meeting" (whatever that is) meant wearing a suit with tie and pocket handkerchief, meeting the parents and that every social interaction was governed by a complicate set of rules. Also, making a boner during introductions was considered embarassing, even for females.

[thefaboloussob]

0:01 Young America Films presents another smug falcon adventure!

[AnarchistGlitter]

DX Why the hell is Peggy so creepy?

[VMIFerrari]

I can't believe they created an entire short based on this one idea: How to properly say "how do you do". What a pointless waste of time. The fact that this short EXISTS is more than enough reason to make fun of it, regardless of whatever it was trying to tell us about "manners".

[ShadesofScorpius]

OH MY GOD. I've been doing it all wrong! MY LIFE IS A TRAGIC LIE!!!

Seriously though, I (involuntarily) read the other day that whatserface Kate (marrying teh Prince ooh ahh) Middleton's mother ALLEGEDLY ruined everyone's lives by, when addressing the Queen, saying "Pleased to meet you" rather than "How do you do". Seriously. This was in the news.

Good thing nothing ELSE has been going on in the world lately >.<

"I am a LADY. We're BOTH Ladies, aren't we Emily?" Little Britain win ^.^

[TheShortGirl666]

Peggy sorta reminds me of Judy Garland when she was in the Wizard of Oz....

[triniguy999]

I want soda cups like that!

[simonimyours]

Peggy kind of creeps me out.

[Oppledeldoc]

At about 12:20, the Peggy actress actually gives a sort of seductive look at the camera. And I think she really carries it off.

[dressupjesus]

Peggy needs to watch "Using Your Voice" so she can learn to drop her affected manner of speech.

[45gunner]

"NOW,,,,imagine we're all pirates!"-LMAO!

[Jcolinsol]

"They have a notion that, when people are met together, a short silence doth much improve conversation; this I found to be true, for during those little intermissions of talk new ideas would arise in their thoughts, which very much enlivened the discourse."

[FEnM]

"I should think watching other people you know have the correct technique should help"

And here is were I had pause for about two minutes to stop laughing...

[TomSFox]

Also, how do you do?

[thefaboloussob]

@TomSFox How do you do, TomSFox?

[TomSFox]

Considering this short contains the words "sex" and "boner," it is pretty boring.

[DGF2099]

12:37 To borrow a quote from Daniel Baldwin: I've been through divorce proceedings that were more fun than this party!

[DGF2099]

Good Lord!  I've done nuclear physics equations that were easier to understand than the sequence of introductions, and answering!

[visaman]

Seriously though, these films were made just after WW2 (the Big One) so that the returning soldiers could ease back into white bread society again. Imagine the films we would be seeing if the Germans had won the war.

[visaman]

That's all well and good, but how do you "How do you do", when everybody in the room is naked?

[visaman]

Why do I expect Mickey Rooney to make a cameo?

[ddgasm]

"We're both mammals!" XD

[Strannik01]

0:43 - It's young Michelle Bachmann!

[SaintBertholdt]

Such useful pieces of information and such nice young people.

The best cinema experience I have had all year.

[TackyRackyComixNEO]

This is the silliest short I've seen since "A Case of Spring Fever" and that coffee short that you'd riffed on a while back.

[HackneySack]

"...I forgot to write a riff here!" - awesome.

[Iamafishproductions]

"Men do shake hands, but not as if approaching a time bomb or hand-to-hand combat."

Hey, if you're not expecting a fistfight or a time bomb when you shake hands with me, you're in for two unpleasant surprises.

[thefaboloussob]

@Iamafishproductions How do u do, Iamafishproductions? I actually learned, funny enough, from the Mini Pages that historically men shook hands w/ the right hand to prove that he wasn't holding a weapon in that hand. Of course if a man held weapons in both hands, you would see that.

[Iamafishproductions]

@thefaboloussob I'm somewhat familiar with that custom. Frankly, if someone shook my hand while checking it for weapons, I'd be deeply offended by their mistrust.

Then I'd use the handshake as leverage to judo flip them, giving me enough time to withdraw the knife from my ankle holster and pull the pin on one of the live grenades strapped to my chest. And I always try to have a good one-liner handy to avoid getting mixed up and embarrased. You know how social functions are...

[ElveeKaye]

@Iamafishproductions This is the best etiquette advice I've ever read!

[DarkPascual]

For a second, I thought that the kid was gonna to introduce his parents to each other:

"Mother, this is Father"

[TheGreenDanger]

The "how do you do" part reminded me of the python "no time to lose" thing :D

[LadyOtacon]

I saw the porn version of this. It's called How do you do It?

[doggans]

From certain angles, Frank looks a bit like Abed from "Community", a character who has no grasp on social etiquette. IRONY!

[RozRuss]

Perfect!

[VulcanTrekkie45]

I thank God every day that this isn't relevant anymore. Doesn't matter who is introduced first or anything like that.

[AtomicSpike]

At 4:13 - Um, WTF? Is she actually trying to project a flashback with her mind?

[keen14you]

Who would think that introducing minor acquaintances to people you dread being around would be so hellish and involved??? McCarthyism at its best! My advice: IGNORE 'EM.

[Zeronightshade14]

"Listen Headcrabs!"

[TheIr0nMike]

This video really shows the importance of continuity editing, blocking, and possibly making a shot list.

[ilikethecoke]

Here's a challenge:

Every time they say "How do you do" take a drink.

[TomSFox]

@ilikethecoke You'll die of alcohol poisoning halfway through.

[mechanicallydeclined]

@ilikethecoke

Holy crap I'm drunk as ball now....!!

[thefaboloussob]

@ilikethecoke How about a "How do you do? May I offer you a drink?" Incidentally, how do u do, ilikethecoke?

[ilikethecoke]

@thefaboloussob I am sad, because of Randy Savage's passing.

[DGF2099]

@ilikethecoke I tried that...I woke up 3 days later under a bridge

[Woad25]

And to think all dogs do is sniff each other's butts..makes you wonder who's the smart species now.

[the8thPassenger]

Huzzah for the Sid Dithers impression!

[FinalGamerJames]

"I forgot to write a riff here."

Why was that the funniest thing? XD

[Kahran042]

Why do you have to introduce the woman first, anyway? That just seems so...outdated, I think is the right term.

[t3rr411]

i always meet people in the battlefield and in the back alleys I always meet people like buster and he sends me to the hospital with a wound and takes my wallet

[blugreen123]

"another squinting eagle production"

Young America Films...that's so creepy.

films like this are what make debilitiating agoraphobia so appealing

"I brushed my hair w/ a Garden Weasel"

"make a boner" tehe

we'll meet the hell out of 'em!

6:26 is Father wearing a yamulke? how very ethnice & exotic for Cold War America

that's some rip-roarin' party at the end, there

[iomis2001]

I didn't know there were so many rules to introducing people. 

[mabmao2]

I "like" these before I even watch them because I know I won't be disappointed.

[061342]

Dang woman!

[h0kis]

People in the 1950s had waaaaay too much time on their hands.

Lovely riffing, Josh. As always :)

[alwrig]

Did that guy off camera say "boner" at 3:38?

Who's she talking to, anyway?

[JPAUL7890]

Why did she cover her eyes!?? LOL!!!

[lonelysith66]

"This is why I just stay home."

LOL XD

[TruelySonicHOG]

"I forgot to write a Riff here..." Your wit shines again, Josh. Surprisingly, my comment is the first one here.