Fun With Shorts: You and Your Family

Silly commentary on this "interactive" ephemeral short featuring three very boring family situations and one very boring family. Except George. He's a little angel. Commentary by Josh Way, footage courtesy of archive.org.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• mst3k
• fun with shorts
• humor
• comedy
• rifftrax
• family
• short films icwxp
• cinematic titanic

[Steeple333]

What's the riff at 1:05? I've listened to it thrice and feel I should get it, but I don't. =(

[romeorhino]

"Speaking personally, I'd annex the Sudetenland." It's Monty Python line (and a reference to post-WWI Europe).

[bas1010]

Great riffing Josh, as always. It looks like the 1940's though, not the 1950's.

[romeorhino]

It was '46, to be exact. But "the 40s" didn't sound right.

[romeorhino]

Just noticed the audio is a bit quiet. I fixed it in the source file and DVD export, but I don't think I'll bother to re-upload it. I think it's OK for YT.

[romeorhino]

Thanks, everybody! I have another new short coming. Should be up this weekend.

[dfirest1]

Play the radio, dance, and make sandwiches? Good God! That is what I do on Saturdays!

"Some of the fellas are waiting for me down on the corner" Must be a fun town!

I like that they live in a house with a table directly in front of the stairs. Blue Cross must love them!

He has a friend called "Skinny?"

[blugreen123]

*Gasp* A new "fun with shorts" I'm gonna cry with happiness!'

the father is a d-bag in the dinner scene!

It's interesting and refreshingly frank that the mom asks her husband to help with dishes "for a change"

[Oppeldeldoc1]

Every time I hear the narrator say "Bill and George" I think "Anyone but Sue!"

Thank you, Johnny Cash.

[DGF2099]

Nice job smacking into the table at 12:45 in the morning! I've come home drunk at 3 in the morning, and made it into my bedroom without waking anyone else!

[jldraw]

It is interesting that a film that advocates open communication still has all the family members slotted into very archetypal roles. Generally speaking it wouldn't be until a generation or so down the line where parents began to effectively communicate with their children taking into stock their opinions and understanding that they could learn from them as well.

[jldraw]

Mary is kind of cute. Too bad she'd be in her mid eighties by now.

[randy95023]

As a child of the 50's what was strange, looking back, was that all these Sociology films were made and taken seriously. I was much older before I realized that most of the middle aged men in my life had been fighting in WW2 just a few years earlier. Those nightmares of burning "Japs" with flamethrowers and driving Tanks across the Rhine meant MILLIONS of American men had bad PTSD and alcohol problems. Oh yeah, the Nuclear threat loomed large. YIPEE!!!

[thefaboloussob]

5:03 "Here's another way." Apparently Bill's testicles have descended.

[thefaboloussob]

1:15 Wuss.

1:55 Pushovers.

[unfriendlyalberta]

2:13 to 2:18 MARY LANGUAGE, i fuken almost died hahahahahha

[YaoiHuntressEarth]

I prefer the fifth way...

Mary: I'm sure these photos with you and mom with that Mexican gardner will change your mind.