RiffTrax Shorts

Setting Up a Room is about two women setting up a kindergarten classroom. It lasts for 27 minutes. To attempt to explain anything more about it would be futile. It is one of the most baffling pieces we've ever encountered here at RiffTrax. No detail of the room-setting-up is unaddressed. We've already said too much. Join Mike, Kevin and Bill for the greatest short you will ever witness.

A whimsical, musical foray into the infinite sadness of childhood, Feelings: I'm Feeling Alone went the extra mile to bum out schoolkids, who were already pretty bummed out because they were watching awful educational shorts in school. And if you think the short builds to a resolution or offers kids any kind of hope for the future, you clearly haven't watched enough of our shorts!

In What is Nothing? we join two youngsters who, as all rascals do, sit around and contemplate the void. Whether they're journeying to the library to look up "Nothing" in the dictionary, or coming up with profound truths such as "caterpillars matter to caterpillars", one thing is certainly true: we want some of whatever these kids are on.

As far as discoveries go, "Discovering the Dictionary" probably ranks down there with Columbus "discovering" America in terms of least impressive feats. Turns out the dictionary, much like America, was already there the whole time. Sure, this isn't quite offering smallpox blankets to women and children, but monsters come in all shapes and sizes!

One Turkey, Two Turkey plunges the viewer gobble-deep into the hideous, squawking world of a commercial turkey farm. Juxtaposing images of these terrified birds awaiting execution with a cheerful, legitimately catchy song about counting is just the sort of special touch that only ACI could give. (note: other "special touches" given by ACI have resulted in criminal charges)

This tale of a poor Mexican boy who chops firewood for a living and longs for nothing more than to buy his donkey Pepito a new serape is quite dated and proves quite rife for riffing. Especially when a rich city slicker runs out of gas and Juan and Pepito stumble across him and Rock His Commute on KBLZ 105! Mike, Kevin and Bill are not rockin' your commute with traffic on the nines.

From filthy chicken cages to depressed factory workers to big goopy buckets of yolk matter, Eggs to Market is full of delightful behind-the-scenes egg-packaging fun! Mike, Kevin, and Bill enjoyed Eggs to Market, but it did nothing to change their view that eggs should primarily be used as bacon grease delivery systems.

A cutting, thoughtful, and sober analysis of the coming world energy crisis, Borrowed Power affirms -- Wait Wait Don't Go just kidding! It's really about an extraordinarily ugly teenager killing someone with his car! Or did he? That question is the raw mystery of this driving scare film, which brings to life the character of young, reckless, hideous Jerry, and his equally unpleasant friends.