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Rifftrax Shorts Season 16 Episodes

32 Episodes 2023 - 2023

Episode 1

It All Depends on You

Mon, Jan 9, 202319 mins

In this short film from the days of landlines, the great Jack Klugman does a lot of soul-searching about dialing long distance.

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Episode 2

Toothache of the Clown

Tue, Jan 17, 2023

Scared of the dentist? Well, a hideous CLOWN should take care of that. Turns out the "this" in "Now I've got this to worry about" was gingivitis. There are two redeeming things about this short: 1) Nobody carves their initials into a young boy's fingernail, and 2) The clown does appear to be in quite a bit of pain.

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Episode 3

Adventures of Captain Marvel: Time Bomb (Chapter 3)

Fri, Jan 27, 2023

To refresh you: it's all about lenses. And gangsters. And a mysterious villain named The Scorpion who wears a hood and also stole... a scorpion. But like, a statue of a scorpion. Which is also where the lenses came from. Billy Batson has a very high voice. So does his friend, Whitey. They all have fistfights and car chases, and just a general good time. Oh, and now and then some guy called Captain Marvel shows up. Last episode's big reveal: young Billy Batson hosts a major radio program. This episode? He's also suddenly a pilot. With his own plane. If only he had the ability to fly in some other way. Especially since there may or may not be a Time Bomb hidden on his plane. You know, from the episode title. Strap on a half-cape and soar with Mike, Kevin, Bill and Adventures of Captain Marvel - Chapter 3: Time Bomb.

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Episode 4

The Twenty Dollar Miracle

Tue, Feb 7, 202310 mins

Bridget and Mary Jo make fun of a short film suggesting that American ingenuity lead to the opportunity for women to buy fashionable clothing that's still cheap.

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Episode 5

How Do You Know It's Love?

Tue, Feb 14, 202313 mins

Not to be confused with the 1980's straight-to-video production of the same name hosted by Justine and Jason Bateman, the two funny females of Rifftrax and MST3K fame make fun of the 1950 "educational" short film "How Do You Know It's Love?" Nora has been going steady with Jack and she begins to question whether her feelings for him can be trusted, especially when she finds out they don't like the same foods. Contains the usual parents as well as other couples in different relationship stages designed to cast doubts about the legitimacy of their love for one another.

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Episode 6

The Three Wishes

Tue, Feb 14, 20239 mins

Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett are back to make fun of a rare color short fairy tale film from the early-1950's that's supposedly about woodsman who free some tree elves, but looks more like a tale of bunch of freaks wearing wigs and meat. Even experts on Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm who reject watered down cinematic versions of their work would find this adaptation of the classic fairy tale disturbing.

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Episode 7

How to Succeed with Brunettes

Tue, Mar 7, 202317 mins

A mid-1960's U.S. Naval Department short film on dating etiquette for sailors and officers is the target of Bridget and Mary Jo.

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Episode 8

Gumby: Baker's Tour & Gumby's Concerto

Fri, Feb 17, 202310 mins

Mike, Kevin, and Bill make fun of not one but two episodes of the classic claymation TV series "Gumby."

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Episode 9

Safety in Offices

Sat, Apr 8, 202310 mins

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Episode 10

Adventures of Captain Marvel: Death Takes the Wheel (Chapter 4)

Tue, May 23, 202316 mins

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Episode 11

City Pets: Fun and Responsibility

Fri, May 26, 202310 mins

Bridget and Mary Jo make fun of a 1953 educational short displaying the fun and responsibility of owning a pet in the big city.

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Episode 12

The Color of Health

Tue, Jun 27, 202311 mins

If you're wondering where those "Balance of Nature" people got their ideas on how to sell medicine, look no further than this riff of a 1960 "educational" short featuring a teenage boy and a teenage girl with really short hair who face a narrator trying to convince them of the benefits of physical education, and a good diet, especially more bread. Luckily, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett are here to riff this semi-propagandistic film short to pieces. It's also a good thing that the short was shot in color when it was originally released, because there's no way it would make any sense, let alone be the least bit effective if it were shot in black-and-white.

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Episode 13

The Tale of Baby Moose

Tue, Jun 27, 202315 mins

Mike, Kevin, and Bill riff a re-hashing of "The Tale of Moose Baby," but this time, the narrator is calling him "Baby Moose." No, really. That's what this is.

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Episode 14

Life in a Medieval Town

Fri, Jul 21, 202315 mins

The ex-Satellite of Love crew make fun of an educational short film about the middle ages.

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Episode 15

Adventures of Captain Marvel: The Scorpion Strikes (Chapter 5)

Tue, Aug 1, 202316 mins

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Episode 16

Let's Be Good Citizens at Play

Tue, Aug 8, 202310 mins

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Episode 17

School Vandalism

Sat, Aug 19, 202310 mins

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Episode 18

The Number System

Tue, Aug 22, 202312 mins

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Episode 19

Stoned

Fri, Aug 25, 202327 mins

Bridget and Mary Jo make fun of the 1980 ABC Afterschool Special "Stoned" starring Scott Baio.

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Episode 20

How Animals Help Us

Sat, Sep 2, 202310 mins

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Episode 21

Answering the Child's Why?

Tue, Sep 12, 202313 mins

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Episode 22

Do Words Ever Fool You?

Sat, Sep 16, 202311 mins

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Episode 23

Don't Be Afraid

Tue, Oct 24, 202311 mins

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Episode 24

Adventures of Captain Marvel: Lens of Death (Chapter 6)

Mon, Nov 6, 2023

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Episode 25

A Conservation Carol

Tue, Dec 5, 202319 mins

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Episode 26

The Christmas Spirit

Fri, Dec 8, 202323 mins

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Episode 27

A Present for Santa Claus

Mon, Dec 11, 20238 mins

Mike, Kevin and Bill make fun of a 1947 short film about a brother and sister who find out Santa won't be coming over to deliver toys this year, and decide to pay him back for the toys they used to get.

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Episode 28

Koopa Klaus

Wed, Dec 13, 202314 mins

Rather than the usual ex-Satellite of Love Crew or the villainous ladies that some of them eventually married, we have two Rifftrax writers making fun of a Christmas TV episode of the past. Rather than make fun of a standard short from the post-World War II, pre-Reagan era, we have Conor Lastowka and Sean Thomaston making fun of only one segment of a Christmas episode of "The Super Mario Brothers Super Show," starring Captain Lou Albano and Danny Wells. The episodes consist of "Little Marios" and "Koopa Klaus." Take a guess which part this makes fun of.

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Episode 29

A Good Tree

Tue, Dec 19, 202324 mins

Bridget and Mary Jo return to make fun of a Canadian Christmas special about some kids who seek a worthy tree for the holidays in order to cheer up their melancholy mother.

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Episode 30

Santa and the Three Bears

Fri, Dec 22, 202349 mins

Bridget and Mary Jo make fun of a bad partially animated Christmas movie from 1970. How bad was it? It was made at Pirate's World, what does that tell you?

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Episode 31

The Little Match Girl

Sat, Dec 23, 20238 mins

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Episode 32

Hansel and Gretel

Fri, Dec 29, 202316 mins

Mike, Kevin, and Bill make fun of a 1966 version of "Hansel and Gretel" where twenty-somethings play the main characters, and the whole movie looks like something out of "Pirate's World," but it really isn't.

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