Another of the shorts from the Christmas show…
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This one is the one you can safely skip — only one laugh for the whole duration (the gender bender swimmer name).
It’s one that should have been left out of the live show.
That should be the last of the Christmas show shorts. Hopefully, they’ll now finish off the two parters they left hanging, “Call It Free” and “American Woman”…
Were’mt there some old commercials the guys did at the show?
You know, I wasn’t too sure about this one. It was obviously thrown into the live show just as a complete change of pace, which I was OK with, but it did seem kinda weak. Now that I watched it again and judged it on its own accord I thought it was pretty good. The water ballet is so odd, just two ladies swimming side by side doing the exact same thing. I think all the belly flop dives actually played better live with the audience reaction to them, but they were still funny. As mentioned above the gender bending girl diver is a funny bit. All in all I like it better with repeat viewing.
This was one of my favorites of the live show because of how pathetic it is. :wink:
The short itself, not the riffing. :cool:
I’ll be curious to see if the studio version is better than the live one, since I agree that this one was pretty weak both in-context and as a standalone.
“Were’mt there some old commercials the guys did at the show?”
Yeah, but they didn’t riff them, they just watched them and laughed.
Wasn’t their one more short? It was the first one shown with a father setting up a tree and falling. I can’t remember the name of it now.
“Wasn’t their one more short? It was the first one shown with a father setting up a tree and falling. I can’t remember the name of it now.”
The name of that short is Christmas Toyshop, and it’s been on Rifftrax for at least a year now.
Is it bad that I’m hoping they’ll release the Christmas live show on DVD so I don’t have to buy each of the shorts?
I hope they release the live show not because I don’t want all the shorts, but I want the live versions of the riffs. Let’s face it, nothing (and I truly mean nothing) will EVER top the Rudolf Reindeer/Santa line that left the audience howling and the boys dropping at least three or four lines (with Bill’s terrific ad-lib about it).
I’ll buy the shorts separately as well as any live show they release because they are indeed different — I was skeptical about this at first, but now I do think the comparison about music (with “live” albums being totally different beasts than studio albums) holds true. Just as I’ll buy the “Plan 9” live albu… um, DVD (haven’t gotten around to it yet since it’s still pretty fresh in my mind).
It was weird seeing stars from 8,000 years ago in color.