Fun With Shorts: Good Table Manners

Silly commentary on this 1953 short about a visitor from the future who knows an awful lot about forks. Commentary by Josh Way, footage courtesy of archive.org.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• mst3k
• humor
• table
• manners
• good
• 1953
• Josh
• Way
• rifftrax
• icwxp

[Tareltonlives]

I have the hilarious mental image of Doc Brown sending Marty McFly to the past to teach his past self good table manners.

[Spazman173]

Holy shit, when the dad started talking near the start, I lost it.

Fantastic video.

[1990ribs]

forget table manners when did i get magic powers?

[sillygrl23]

@reubenthetadpole The mother was a cougar?

[reubenthetadpole]

Son is 13. Dad is 38. Mom is 65. How the heck does that work?

[JohnnyCxviii]

Can't talk. Older self talking in my head.

[sillygrl23]

I have to admit, some of the things the future guy mention are not as bad such as "not talking while eating" and being civil, courteous, and polite at the dinner table are pretty straight foreward and good lessons to learn.

But then they get into the whole placement of silverware, what fork has to be used for what, the direction of spooning the soup, that is when it got a bit riduculous. Most people don't even use three forks for seperate meals anymore and they probably never did back then

[VMIFerrari]

Proper etiquette...When are we going to finally admit that most of this is just a bunch of useless crap that somebody made up. Seriously, all this "over the top" table manner BS is nothing more than an invented concept that doesn't even span international, nor cultural, boundaries. Just because some people say "this is how you should eat" doesn't mean they're correct.

[MysterySTForever]

When he says "Mealtime is a time for pleasure and relaxation," it reminded me of "A Date With Your Family."

[alanedomain]

My god, I used to have a sweater just like these guys are wearing. Or at least, the same but not in greyscale.

[HaileyVerge]

Looks like I have bad table manners. I hold a fork "the wrong way" and cut how the boy was cutting before his future self showed him the "proper" way.