Fun With Shorts: Taking the X Out of X-Rays

Silly commentary on this GE short film featuring the inventor of the cathode something or other. It's edutaining! Commentary by Josh Way, footage from www. archive.org.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• mst3k
• humor
• xrays
• 1940
• Josh
• Way

[winched]

What did you say at 00:34 and what does it mean?

[romeorhino]

"Ach du lieber". It means "Heavens!" or "Oh my goodness!"

[TomSFox]

Du sprechen German?

[romeorhino]

nur ein wenig, sorry zu sagen

[StuH42]

I just did a little research. Looks like Dr. Coolidge died in 1975, aged 101. That means lifelong exposure to supposedly harmful radiation can in fact grant you awsome powers like longetivity and boring people to death by simply talking to them. Take that, tree-huggers!

Übrigens: Gute Arbeit, ich lach mich scheckig bei den Videos. Weiter so!

[thevintagerose]

It's the fifties. Gonads hadn't been invented yet.

[thefaboloussob]

Eventually, GE would make some better commercials & I'm not being sarcastic here. Some of the "imagination at work" ads were professionally well-done, along w/ the 1 w/ the Japanese song when their slogan was "We bring good things to life."

[thefaboloussob]

Here's another one. Don't watch this expecting bomb materials in suitcases, body scans, or a cool x-ray print like some long object planted in someone's cranium. Remember that guy who staple gunned his head & lived? Now that was pretty cool.

[thefaboloussob]

What would make 4 a interesting film about X-rays? Dancing skeletons? Watching food turn 2 ξλ!† as it passes through the alimentary canal? Finding bombs in luggage? Even the opening to one of the "Final Destination" films works (I'm told). There's a assortment of awesome things to do w/ x-rays. 2 bad this film sets a crappy example of what's interesting about 'em (if not awesome).

[Seth2378]

Am I the only one that understand this?

[WhiteTiger225]

@855h0le Troll detected! I see you read the Encyclopedia Dramatica article on trolling MST3kers eh?

[daken000]

ow this guy made me whant to kill my self from bordem...*falls asleep

[855h0le]

Ok- Where do I get this Clip without our commentary? I was actually enjoying this except for your commentary.. Well, maybe you could translate a old movie I have DAS JEW , jah?

[855h0le]

@StuH42 lol- Also Albert Hoffman the Inventor and regular user of LSD died at 102 ! Well, that means do acid and get a lot of SUN!

[emzkind77]

His tone of voice is a lot like Stephen Hawking, but Stephen Hawking has an excuse.

[Iamafishproductions]

"The "It's..." man at home!"

"By ze Ghostbusters!"

"Hey, it's got a USB port and iPod port!"

"And then some sciency stuff happens..."

"X-rays are like ordinary light-except on crack!"

"This is a 4 million dollar Etch-a-sketch."

"I invented shadows too, honest!"

"Can I get ze what-what?"