Brace yourself. This is one weird mama-jama.
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This was part of the live Christmas show, I believe.
Not the Christmas live event, but one of the later ones. House On Haunted Hill, I think.
Oh my God, Van Beuren cartoons! And I’ve seen this one. Weird is right.
This one was part of the Reefer Madness show. Though it was the low point of the evening, IMO, as the other two shorts were a lot funnier.
I haven’t been able to see the preview of any of the Rifftrax samples, lately. I keep getting error messages. Pray for me.
Although the riffers presume that the two characters are father and son, a quick IMDB check would have revealed that they are Waffles the Cat and Don Dog. Certainly no one expects very much research on things like this, but a basic knowledge of the two main characters’ connection to each other — apparently kind of a Laurel & Hardy/Mutt & Jeff thing — doesn’t seem like it should have been all that much to expect. :-/
When there’s a big character and a little character that look similar, it’s a fair assumption they’re father and son, uncle and nephew, or some other variation thereof. (Possibly superhero and kid sidekick?) But apparently they’re interspecies, homosexual, sadomasochistic lovers whose relationship is strained to breaking by the trials of a woefully underprepared trip to the arctic.
@7: Sounds like something Jon Krakauer would eat up.
Sharktopus, you KILL me!
I have to agree. I really don’t think it damages the short in either direction that we have no clue what the large cartoon animal’s relationship to the small cartoon animal is. Knowing that it’s Don Dog and Waffles The Cat doesn’t suddenly make the short make more sense. You have touched no one’s life. Please leave.
I didn’t mean that not knowing was a big deal. I meant that GETTING IT WRONG was a, well, mild deal. If they wanted to riff on the characters’ relation to each other, they should have taken the necessary four seconds to find out what it was; if that was too much trouble, they should have allocated the relevant time to riffing on something else. IMHO. If you don’t agree with me, well, that’s okay.
I prefer it when they DON’T look up information on actors, characters, etc., and just take things as they appear to a casual viewer. Prior research seems a bit like cheating to me.
Oh, and I like this short, although I admit that I forgot about it until I got the live DVD. It got a bit overshadowed by other great riffs at the show.
#12: But the riffers aren’t casual viewers in the first place. They’re talented comedy writers who each know more about pop culture than any twenty casual viewers put together. I’ve lost count (well, okay, I was never actually counting to begin with, but nevertheless) of how many times I’ve seen MST3K fans — who themselves qualify as more than *casual* viewers — ask what this that or the other riff meant. Some riffs may remain a mystery to everyone but the Brains to this day.
Anyway, as noted, they had the option of simply not riffing on that particular aspect. But whatever. It was just a comment. :-)
Personally, I like how RiffTrax continues the feint that they’re viewing the film for the first time and making the riffs up as they go, even though we all know full well that it’s heavily scripted. It just feels more natural that way, like you’re watching a movie with some very clever invisible friends.
#6: Or it could be they were aware, but thought that riffing as if the characters were in an antagonistic, dysfunctional father and son relationship would make for funnier gags?
Just like they were probably aware Bix Dugan’s name wasn’t -really- “Big Stupid” in “The Girl in Lover’s Lane”?
It’s possible. *grin*
Fortunately, we own that short on the Rifftrax Live DVD from that show.
And I finally got around to Advance Ordering the 2 new Rifftrzx Shorts DVDs coming out in a couple weeks. And I used the links at right here to try and benefit everyone’s favorite MST3K news site.
On the topic of the Frozen Frolics short, it was pretty obvious to me on a repeat viewing or two that they weren’t father and son, that it was a buddy picture kind of like a bad Laurel & Hardy or such so one would think it would be obvious to the Rifftrax team too when they had to watch it repeatedly to write their script of jokes. The Rifftrax team seemingly did not spend much thinking about it or thought it was funnier to attribute something to it that wasn’t there. Either way, I’ll agree with another comment here that it was the low point of the evening in that it was the least funny of the films riffed on in that show. Not that it was bad, it just wasn’t as funny as the other material that evening.
I have seen the unriffed version of this cartoon years before the live show. For some reason the ending of this short was cut off during the live show where we see Don Dog is alive and well. Hopefully this version will have the missing ending. Also here is something werid, in Don’s and Waffle’s latter shorts they were changed into humans.