RiffTrax Shorts

The mad geniuses at ACI films have recruited a new group of children who are forced to make crafts out of common household garbage. This time, the waste product of choice is cardboard boxes. Yes, before Calvin and Hobbes turned a cardboard box into a transmogrifier, the children in this short were pretending to assemble crafts that were clearly made by adults when the camera wasn't rolling.

At Your Fingertips: Grasses. It's got everything! Arts & crafts so awful they would even disappoint Depression-era children, fancy headdresses galore, and child worship of a terrifying clay-faced god! Not to mention a certain inquiry about corn. While recording At Your Fingertips: Grasses, Mike, Kevin, and Bill kept something else at their fingertips: lots and lots of bourbon.

Frozen Frolics answers an eternal question, "What was it like when people took acid before color had been invented?" The answer? Lots of black and white cartoon animals that bob up and down repeatedly while a crazed mixture of consequence free violence happens all around them. Mike, Kevin and Bill learned a very important moral during their riffing of Frozen Frolics: cured meats are delicious!

Yes, the short that brought the house down at RiffTrax Live is now available in a brand-new studio version! By now the sick, sad tale of young Willie and his demented belief in a talking paper bag, whom he names Mr. Paperbag is the stuff of legend. Willie learns a lot from his creepy little friend, primarily about the meaning of loss as Mr. Paperbag crumples and dies before his very eyes!

Get To Da Choppa! Many of us have heard these iconic instructions hundreds of times. They've been shouted at us during important life events: graduations, weddings, or most likely, watching Predator hungover at two in the afternoon. Few of us ever take the shouter up on the Choppa-getting-to however. Except Billy! Make no bones about it, in Billy's Helicopter Ride, Billy gets to da Choppa.

It's packed to the brim with adventures, if you consider expanding a series of underground tunnels in preparation for winter to be an adventure. Also, a weasel shows up. You know what, we probably should have mentioned that first. Forget everything you just read and remember this: Weasel. Mike, Kevin and Bill tried to weasel out of riffing this short until they realized there was a weasel in it.

This short centers on two 1950s lads, Pete and Ricky, and their morning routines. One boy's home runs as smoothly as a Swiss watch, while the other is as disorganized and maddeningly chaotic as one of those Canadian watches you never hear about. Hurry up and join Mike, Kevin and Bill because the late bell already rang twice and if you don't get inside now all the good educations will be taken!

Mike, Kevin, and Bill invite you to join them for Animal Homes, which provides a window into the everyday lives of gophers, opossums, and other hideous rodent beasts that you usually only get to see on the side of the freeway, being very, very still!