Fun With Shorts: Habit Patterns Part 1

MST3K style commentary on this harsh little short subject from 1954. Barbara learns the important lesson that she's bad, whereas her next door neighbor Helen is awesome. Commentary by Josh Way, footage from www.archive.org. (Part 1 of 2)

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• mst3k
• shorts
• humor
• habit
• patterns
• Josh
• Way
• Barbara
• Helen

[Tareltonlives]

"Expressing individuality is just plain wrong"-Crow T. Robot

[needles1987]

Barbara is crying because the narrator likes Helen better. The narrator has shitty taste in women.

[DarthElk]

Barbara also has a bad habit of moving between the front row and the third row in the classroom. If you see her from the back, she's in the front row, but if you see her from the front or the side, she's in the third row. The narrator should have called her out on that as well.

[1990ribs]

why doesn't the narrator just kill barbara if she hates her so much

[wingzofice]

Drumming her fingers was one of her bad habits, but isn't that what her mum is doing at the breakfast table? It's a vicious cycle!

[NekoKasumi]

Spiteful 50's narrator? More like GLaDOS Narrator!

[Lynn17]

I especially like how one of the Bad Problems with Barbara's morning was "no time for milk". OH NOES~! (I know milk-drinking's been rabidly encouraged for decades, but still. Helloooo narm~)

[thefaboloussob]

0:24 1. Oh, she's just having her period. 2. She missed her period.

[Onasariel]

@ElJonesie You don't get the point of riffing do you?

[julesreverie]

Alas the dark days before Adderall...

[julesreverie]

Helen has severe OCD. Helen washes her hands 45 times a day because she thinks they smell like her father. Helen will one day drown her children in the bath tub because they drew on her perfect impeccably clean white walls with crayons.

[Sheri451]

Did they start their periods? Mom is lucky, she gets to stay home and do housework