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Now what to do with these shorts? Do I buy it now or wait til it comes out in a DVD collection later? But what if it doesn’t? My brain hurts.
Well if you want to watch it now, you can pay the dollar and watch it. If you want a DVD collection with this on it, you can buy that…if and when it comes out.
This one is good, especially with the microscope scene
I usually love Rifftrax shorts, but I really didn’t care for this one. I think this short stands by itself as far as any humor is concerned.
I think the issue here is that, while the humor is pretty good, the subject matter is a downer.
Shorts that involve dead babies within the first three minutes sort of detract from the levity.
Nah, I think the best stuff is always the darker material (like the Memento Rifftrax). The jokes just didn’t really do anything except say “hey, this is dumb”.
“Nah, I think the best stuff is always the darker material (like the Memento Rifftrax). The jokes just didn’t really do anything except say “hey, this is dumb”.”
I think the dark stuff is funny if it’s coming from the Riffers in an otherwise (supposedly) lighthearted setting, as with Santa Claus-type specials and other seemingly innocuous fare. Then their own darkness contrasts in a humorously ironic way.
But when the actual subject material itself is dark, I find myself not feelin’ the humor vibes, unless it’s so thoroughly absurd that it can’t be taken with even a shred of gravitas. That’s just personal taste on my part.
This short’s riffing was so-so overall, regardless, but the first portion of the thing kind of kills the joy for later jokes (those based off more mundane depictions).
This is great that they are continuing to do these! I wont be satisfied though until there are a million of them.
Thats right, a million!
Now get to work guys.
There no reason that those three can’t put out another 5 or so before the year ends.
There were some real winners in that ‘July Shorts’ set they did. ‘If Mirrors could Speak’ and ‘One Got Fat’ are classics already, in my book.
I’d like to see that Bob guy from the Film crew involved somehow, too. He was pretty funny.
Peter Grave!, Ha!
As an artifact from another era in America, the Riffing skewers the ethnic stereotyping and the dangers of untreated syphilis, which is a good message, if you think about how some let this disease go untreated.
I enjoyed the Riffing. I thought they were consistently funny, but I enjoy their darker humor, and this is one dark mamma-jamma of a short. The unRiffed short would be “funny” in itself as it seems so ancient by today’s standards. Of course it’s an “ouch” kind of funny.
I buy any short the Rifftraxers serve up and find I am enjoying them all, though a few stand out for me. “Each Child is Different” is a bit like this short in its relentless dark character which the Riffers mine for the funny within the grimness of the subject matter.
More Shorts please, Rifftrax.