Fun With Shorts: Better Use of Your Leisure Time

MST3K style commentary on this Coronet short extolling the virtues of working during your free time. As fun as it sounds! Commentary by Josh Way, footage from archive.org.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• mst3k
• humor
• leisure
• time
• Coronet
• Josh
• Way
• 1950

[thevintagerose]

Because women are only good for sowing, cooking, cleaning, etc....

And if just lying around is a waste of your life, how much more is it wasted if you narrate about someone lying around and wasting his life?

[romeorhino]

But then - what does that say about ME? Yikes!

[LordQuadros]

The narrator, on the other hand, spends his leisure time harassing teenagers.

[ShadesofScorpius]

"And besides - shut up." HAHAAH! I have to use that line more!

I can't believe they used to come down on you even about your damn leisure time! Whatever happened to just sitting alone and contemplating the exceptional beauty of your existence, or the meaning of life? Mebbe this is where we all went wrong... the 50s RUINED THE WORLD!!!

I feel like the narrator was gonna come out with something like "Ken, photography is for communies." There's no PLEASING him!

[DGF2099]

"Go down to the bowling alley, over to the drug store, none of the gang was there. All my friends are busy, so what's for me to do?"

I'll guess I'll go down to Starbucks on my 12 speed and a 900 page book that I'll pretend to read while all the time trying to convince people about conspiracy theories, and why Corporate America is the Devil...at Starbucks!

[girlofsummer489]

After seeing this short, I'm gonna work hard so I can get my own quill pen.

[tomservo56954]

By the 1960's, it would be industrial films asking us how we would use our leisure time in the future, when we all work 30 hours a week--the standard for a full-time job.

[mermaidmorrigan]

hey, isn't "Mother" also "Clara" on the Andy Griffith show?

[thefaboloussob]

9:43 Ah yes. Voyeurism is a swell hobby! & probably legal back than!

[thefaboloussob]

9:04 "Yeah, but I'm not allowed to read 'Catcher In the Rye,' 'Huckleberry Finn,' or 'Lady Chatterley's Lover.' My parents, though, say 'Mein Kampf' is permitted."

[thefaboloussob]

8:53 "Yeah, but I can't swim. & it's winter."

[thefaboloussob]

5:47 O Me? Well, after all those pot references, I admit that I don't use pot, (or @ least no where 2 find some.) But here's an =Ly good use of leisure thyme! W8 4 it - - playin' w/ my Ding-a-ling

[thefaboloussob]

7:23 Oh brother! In 2011, that's not leisure time! That's just stuff 2 help u get in a better college! Although, if Marge actually uses her leisure time 2 play the piano AND get high, she can make some incredibly fine jazz songs! (Avant-garde, probably?)

[thefaboloussob]

4:48 & as for what her mother would be like in 50 years? Simply a Desperate or a Real Housewife. U'no, 4nic8n' w/ the gardner, whining about her growing family, making damn good desserts while handling alcoholism & a gay son, (I dunno what Susan does), or blowing your brians out like in the pilot. BTW I haven't seen Real Housewives."