Fun With Shorts: The Show-Off

[sillygrl23]

lol, that takes me back when I was in High School, some dumb boy acted like a show-off in front of me and the principle caught him and haranged him about "showing off to impress the girls." I didn't care if he got in trouble because of it though, he wasn't one of our most brightest straight A students so he had it coming XD

[reubenthetadpole]

If you watch movies and these shorts from the 50s, everybody's parents were in their 70s. What's THAT about?

[taiyo888]

"Tonight we're gonna break TWO glasses!"

[rosrychaplet]

the show off attitude hasn't changed just the demographics.

[sillygrl23]

@rosrychaplet lol, its funny how the guy playing "the show-off/antgonist" looks like he is enjoying his part and giving off talented acting abilities compared to some of the more wooden performances of the other actors protraying "the good students".  The guy playing the show off seems to be having fun with this video.

[ElveeKaye]

How'd we get from the Feudal System to the Industrial Revolution in one class? I'd say the teacher skipped a bit.

That's going to be the WORST high school play in history.

"She's a show-off sympathizer!" Show-off enablers just make matters worse, don't they?

[DGF2099]

THAT was showing off? I got banned from a museum, pissed off a guest speaker, and drove a teacher to an emotional breakdown by showing off. This for me is a slow day!

[Newtwist75]

In the 50's it was like "Fun lurks everywhere...at home...in your school....in the malt shop"....like it some evil commie plan!

[emzkind77]

My best glass?

[Timewap]

"yea Juniors"

Man these people would spontaneously combust if they were transported to now.

[ElveeKaye]

@Timewap Is that what it says? I couldn't read it. I spent 7th grade at a school where kids routinely spray-painted on walls, knocked holes in doors, and dropped desks and chairs from the 4th floor down to the 1st from the top of the main stairwell. There were gang fights every few weeks. I don't think a big, hand-painted sign would have even been noticed.

[sillygrl23]

@Timewap I think the main problem was obviously a case of butt-hurt from the senior class.

[lonelysith66]

The parents are upset over a glass?!

:/

[IntroSpetful]

no wonder hippies rebelled

[pittland44]

@IntroSpetful Ah, the hippies were a bunch of douches who just wanted to get laid, get high and never work, they would have rebelled against anything even remotely resembling law and order.

[lonelysith66]

Thank you, Centron!

XD

[needles1987]

Dane Cook wasn't funny in high school either.

[qboy3]

These are fabulous. I love the Oklahoma reference:

"This year our class is in a terrible fix. "

"We cain't say no!"

[GuardianKiune]

If I were in that junior class, I would be embarrassed to have that poor excuse for a prank.

[OonaCanute]

I like how Jim keep doing minor things with other people, and getting blamed for it entirely.

[snakes3425]

Sheesh it's a practical joke, and it's a banner you can bearly read, it's not like Jim and his gang committed a murder or broke into the school and ransacked it.

[JPAUL7890]

Oh i don't care what anyone said when that kid fell over in the chair I was in stitches LOL

[45gunner]

in my day, when you were invited to a party...everybody was supposed to act like ladies n gentlemen...."PREDSIDENT ADAMS INSISTED ON IT!"...OMG-laughing so HARD it hurts!-LOL!!!

I mean inviting such ROUGH-NECKS into your home, what did they expect!-LOL!

[Oppledeldoc]

That last man at the meeting was dressed like a burlesque-type comedian. I kept expecting his bowtie to start twirling.

It's amazing what people considered a scandal back then! It's nice to know that people eventually started caring about REAL scandals, like Milli Vanilli, Roseanne and the National Anthem, Brittney Spears. Really dramatic things like that.

[Damaris1034]

We're in a terrible fix.."We just cain't say no!" LOL, had me on the floor on that one! XD

[ResettisReplicas]

Why didn't anyone think to just throw Jim under the bus at the end? Seriously, not even the teacher ratted him out!

[DarkPascual]

Gee, it's a banner!!!

Is not like they kidnapped a rival school mascot, decapitated it and put the head in a pike...

[nrrork]

Well, gotta save something for SENIOR year. (Sorry, accidentally hit the thumbs down instead of Reply. So, it's a false -1 you've got there.)

[Kahran042]

@nrrork Don't worry about it - I just made up for the false -1.

[Iamafishproductions]

8:37: Their principal is Burt Reynolds!

But seriously, they just hung a freaking banner! I can't imagine what grafitti would've gotten them.

[randomuser1111]

"I lost our signal, captain!"

[ShadesofScorpius]

<3 Josh Way!

[90210411]

"ha ha, tee hee, banter, etc."

[JBurdoo]

Great riffing on this one. But what does the sign say? I can only read the word "Junior."

[TANTAREANU]

why all the people playing this shorts are rednecks ? in fact you might say if your biggest acting ambition is to start in a short educational movie than you just might be a redneck

[myrobotpanda]

does anyone know why the teacher is wearing a clown sweater?

[averagejoe0073]

1000th view!

[StuH42]

Judging by these PSAs the fifties must have been a very depressing time to grow up...

[pittland44]

@StuH42 According to both my grandma's who lived during the depression and the war the fifties were actually pretty nice. Segregation was ending in the south, the economy was growing, computers were invented, television came about.

[StuH42]

@pittland44 Yeah, I don't actually think the 50s were that bad (especially if you consider the two decades that came before), I like a lot of stuff about that time. It's just these shorts that make them seem like a such a weird time. And that's what makes them so funny (and sad at the same time): They don't show how people (esp. young people) and society really was, they show how people and society were SUPPOSED to be. Kinda like an alternate reality.

[pittland44]

@StuH42 I got ya.

[tomservo56954]

@StuH42 That's EXACTLY what these films were for....to show people how they SHOULD be, after the disruptions of the previous two decades.

[bawoman]

God I wish I could go back in time and beat that girl up.then have sex with Jim in front of the entire school

[ResettisReplicas]

I wish I could beat up Jim and have sex with that girl.

[smartbunny]

yay@ Sound of Young America ref!

[gw197234]

I just love the voice-overs of these shorts...And this was was done on my birthday! Thanks and keep them coming!

[blugreen123]

"You're addicted to hemmoroid medicine too?!"

what's around the Miss Baldwin's neck @ 2:12?

"young roughnecks" pottymouth!

"tonight we break two glasses...or a plate!"

"It's the worst thing that could ever happen!"

"Chillax, braa..." HAHA

"Maybe I should shriek..."

"Another community destroyed by off-showing!"

[bas1010]

I think Sally's real problem is her pignose. Maybe they'll cover that in "What About Plastic Surgery?"

[withoutasong]

Kay Rel? I don't believe her either, wasn't that Superman's mom's name?

[needles1987]

Back in the 50s, high school students were thirty years old.

[MikuMech]

Wow, if the whole school thought Jim's banters were THAT bad, they'd have a heart attack if they looked at today's modern public schools.

"Alright guys, tonight we're going to break TWO glasses!" XD

[grecomic]

Hey Look! It's Sally from "What About Drinking"! Even the parties she hosts without her parents' permission are dry! "Hydration is evil!"

[withoutasong]

Dane Cook was never funny!

[AtomicSpike]

Quite possibly your snarkiest commentary yet. I loved it!

The gasp at 5:43 had me in stitches.

[VRMorrigon]

I'm loving the video and slightly amused by the related videos.

Damn keywords!!

[heisanevilgenius]

Honestly, I think the real monster here was the drama teacher. "People laughing in drama class?! I can't take this anymore. Nobody else gets to try out. Get out of my classroom."

[sillygrl23]

@heisanevilgenius I agree, I was in drama class and our teacher was fun and not so uptight like the teacher. In fact he would sometimes joke around more than we would. Sure he took his job seriously enough for us to put on good plays, but he never acted like a freaking nazi and lash out whenever we did some playful banter back and forth during rehearsals. Something tells me she wouldn't have made any extra-curricular activities any fun at all.

[insanedemonspaz]

"can you help us?" Um, unless I have a Tardis, I don't think I can do that, sorry girlie.

[heisanevilgenius]

Wow, the related links are so not related.

[jtklove]

I think the theater teacher is the nervous speaker from the MST3K short "Using Your Voice" (the one with the wire rack).

I should occasionally go outside.

[robotrix]

That's her. And "broken glass" Mom is Frances Feist....the landlady from Carnival of Souls and the "Don't you just adore flowers" lady from that same "Using Your Voice" short.

[061342]

They're A-holes! That riff really good, keep it up.

[Woad25]

You'd think with civilization on the brink of nuclear destruction back in the 50's and 60's that a banner that says "Yea Juniors" wouldn't be so scandalous. Just imagine the brew ha ha that would of ensued had somebody left the front door of the school ajar.

[Zekkron]

Yaaay!

[DoyleDogma109]

What did these kids do?! They didn't anything. A banner? Really? My schoolmates spray painted the whole school and they were barely disciplined.

[taigakirdape]

ok, the hemarroid medicine line almost made my drink squirt out my nose.

Note to self, don't drink while watching these. And, ah, don't drink warm Dr. Pepper. It burns.

[AstroZilla]

Great riffing, as always.

[EllaKiyaBeatleGirl]

I love these lol

[awkwardboy]

Bless you, Josh Way!