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Do you like Courtesy?  How about Egg Puns?  After a few drinks, have you been known to expound at length about how Sheldon, the egg with legs, was truly the unsung hero of the US Acres segments of the late 80's animated show "Garfield and Friends"? Yes?  You have? Then...

When you ponder ideal Christmas entertainment for children, do you think of a centuries-old tradition of violent puppetry, complete with domestic abuse and offensive minstrel-themed puppets thrashing each other? Well, you’d better--what’s that? That IS what you think of? Exactly that?...

Our latest short takes its name from a famous quote from The Gospel of Matthew.  Or maybe it was from the episode of Eek The Cat, "Eek vs the Flying Saucers."  What's important is that even though our newest short derives its title from one of these two important works, its...

The Calendar.  Whether you choose a Far Side page-a-day, an Anne Geddes year-of-horror or Twelve Months of Lifeguards that May Be Used as Flotation Devices, one thing is certain: none of us know how to use the damn things. Fortunately, five minutes before recording The Calendar: How to...

Values: Understanding Ourselves is the tale of three small boys who find a rusty hubcap in an abandoned lot and take turns rubbing it and wishing for it to turn them into a fellow classmate.  "Stop right there", you are no doubt saying. "If Hollywood decides to revisit...

When we first received Magical Disappearing Money we assumed it was an M.C. Hammer biopic. Fortunately, it turned out to be something even more pathetic and strange!  It’s the tale of a supermarket haunted by a witch, but not your standard-issue Hollywood witch. She’s more...

Life in Australia can be extremely hazardous.  There's Tasmanian devil attacks, lethal doses of vegemite and large, bearded, drunken men.  And that's just in the Parliament building!* Once you head out into the bush - just allow that to sink in for a second - the dangers of a vest...

In working on Monkey See, Monkey Do: Verbs, we came across a rare find: a behind-the-scenes audio recording from the making of the film! Before submitting the material to a museum, where it belongs, we've transcribed the conversation: Producer Norman Bean and Director of Photography,...

You can't underestimate the importance of a good title.  What would "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" be if it were called "Some Stuff That Good People Do Good"?  Or if "Who Moved my Cheese" had been called "How is this bottle of EZ Cheez...

Safe Living at School pulls no punches with its straightforward title:  This is a short which attempts to tell you how to make it through the school day unscathed.  Your elementary school is a virtual house of horrors, where an act as innocuous as opening a locker can result...

Listen up, pizza-faced creeps!  Until now, you’ve suffered shameful, wretched existences.  Cowering in dark cellars.  Adopting beekeeping as a hobby, just for the veil.  Wearing a drug store Ninja Turtle Halloween mask all year long, playing it off as an ironic affectation...

When we're deciding what shorts to screen here at RiffTrax, there's a 27 step, bullet-pointed criteria we use.  Then we just pick the ones with the funniest title.  More often than not, this leads to disappointment.  It turns out that Why Do We Still Have Mountains* was...

When police inspector Launchpad McQuack receives a phone call that Huey, Dewey and Louie have gone missing, his initial inclination was to suspect the Beagle Boys - a suspicion that his neighbor Donald Duck was only too happy to go along with.  But Donald seemed a little too ...