New Short: What it Means to Be An American (Part 1)

[Conor]

http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/what-it-means-be-american-part-1




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In 2009, if you ask someone What It Means To Be An American you'll get a simple response: a willingness to deep-fry anything and everything.  But back in the fifties, before anyone had invented deep-fried cigarettes, it wasn't as clearly defined.  School children, construction workers, zoo keepers, cosmonauts-in-training, gaffers, carnies, unemployed janitors, First Lady Eisenhower, TV Clowns, drifters, tight ends, falconry enthusiasts; none of them had any idea What It Means To Be An American.

Nowhere was this more clear than with the producers of the short, What It Means To Be An American.  Clearly the recipients of a Brewster's Millions-esque financial windfall that they were forced to spend within a certain amount of time or else lose it, they created the most incoherent and rambling testament to American-ness since the inaugural address where Grover Cleveland asserted that leprechauns were controlling the world's supply of tea.

Falconry enthusiasts Mike, Kevin and Bill team up to riff Part One of What It Means To Be An American, despite its appalling lack of falcons.



http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/what-it-means-be-american-part-1

[Conor]

This was a longer short, so we split it up into two parts.  Part 2 will be out next week.

[Thrifty]

I like the description.  Is it as meandering as "Technological Failures"?

[goflyblind]

This was a longer short, so we split it up into two parts.

drugs are like that, too.

[Conor]

I like the description.  Is it as meandering as "Technological Failures"?

Lord, I think it's at least up to the same standards.  It's length makes it seem like it may be even more so though.

[spaceforarent]

a willingness to deep-fry anything and everything

On the cover to the paper about the events and goings-ons of the New York State Fair, there's a picture of food and next to it it says "Deep fried pretty much anything"
I'd share the picture, but I don't know where my memory stick went, so it's kinda stuck on my phone for now

[Conor]

They had deep fried white castle cheeseburgers at the San Diego fair this year, among all the other usual suspects.  I sort of just stood and looked at that booth for a while.

[Thrifty]

Homer: "See Marge, I told you they could deep fry my shirt."
Marge: "I didn't say they couldn't.  I said you shouldn't."

[spaceforarent]

This was a longer short, so we split it up into two parts.  Part 2 will be out next week.

Sure, release it in 2 parts so we have to pay twice
Excessive emoticons are used to show that we aren't really serious, right? So:

Any chance a full length file we be available after you buy both parts?

[rebisaz]

So I just saw both parts this morning and I guess being an American means to live in places, and do things.

[Action Batch]

And you have to be a High School kid.

[rebisaz]

Sit up straight!

[Kerpes]

lol at kids fighting over potato chips. Is the name of the original clip what it means to be american or is that Rifftrax's name for it? 

[goflyblind]

when's part 2 coming out? i'm waiting for it 'til i do my next round of buying.

[Pak-Man]

It's been out for a while.

http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/what-it-means-be-american-part-2

Here you go.