RiffTrax Shorts

Bridget and Mary Jo take you on a tour of what your home could look like in 1989 - The Future! It's a sleek new world where men are men and women somehow still do all the cooking - only with robots of course.

Katy is the story of a young girl whose brother goes to camp leaving the responsibilities of his paper delivery route to her. Upon arrival at the paper boy shack, the manager of the paper boys says "Hey! Where's your brother?" To which Katy responds: "He's at camp, I'm taking over while he's gone." At first the guy says NO! Girls can't deliver papers. But then, he says YES!

An old-timey tonic salesman and his grandson roll into an Old West town and convince the locals the metric system will cure what ails 'em. Did the people who made this short realize that framing the metric system as a big con might hurt their message? They certainly did not. Join Mike, Kevin and Bill in running these Measure Metric hucksters out of our decent old-fashioned measurin' town!

Are you mature? Identify as mature? Mature-friendly? Then this is just the short film for you! The Maturing Woman, circa 1977, appears to be a PhD project by a couple of Women's Studies majors. No matter: it's a useful primer for managing the aging women in your life. Enjoy it with Maturing Woman Bridget and Blossom of Youth Mary Jo!

What do children exercising and animals lounging at the zoo have in common? They're both extremely inexpensive to film. Just ask the "lazy lion" who's one of the main busy bodies in Busy Bodies. How can a lion be both lazy AND busy, you ask? Watch the film! You won't get an answer. Get busy getting Busy Bodies, riffed with maximum busyness by Mike, Kevin, and Busy Bill!

Who is Allen? Allen Is My Brother. What is Allen Is My Brother? It's a cry for help in the form of a short film, coming from an innocent young girl plagued by the cruel and endless tortures of her monstrous little brother Allen who'll draw another mustache on your favorite doll even though it stopped giving him a thrill years ago. This is her story.