New Short "Join hands, Let Go!" Now Available!

[Thrashalla]

http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/join-hands-let-go


Many of the educational shorts we riff seem to have been designed not to teach children, but instead to confuse them into a state of dizzy, nauseous acceptance. Most try to hide this deception with an authoritative narrator, some pretense of structure, or official-sounding “key terms.” Our new offering, Join Hands, Let Go! makes no such attempt, and in fact is so bold as to put contradictory instructions right in the title! Do we join hands, or do we let go? Who are the children in this film? Where are they going, and why? Is the mustachioed man with the wacky outfits connected in any way? Is he a good man or a bad man? He seems like a bad man. Will I ever go to college, or even learn basic math, if we keep watching films like this in school? The answer Join Hands, Let Go! provides to all these questions is a firm, definitive, “whatever.”

Too odd to describe, too useless to be believed, you must join Mike, Kevin, and Bill as they succumb to the brightly-colored nonsense brainfart that is Join Hands, Let Go!
http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/join-hands-let-go

[Russell]

How is this supposed to educate unless it's teaching the most vaguely surrealistic concepts
to children?

[MartyS (Gromit)]

What was that?  Really, WTF was that? 

This short must be a warning that the Gorgon has taken control of all children on earth and will drive all the adults insane...

That's the ONLY possible explaination for the existance of this short.

[CJones]

I don't usually use profanity on message boards, but here I think it's warranted:

WHAT. THE. FUCK!?

I think that was the strangest, most pointless thing I've ever seen. I kept waiting for some kind of explanation and it never came. Loved the 666's at the beginning. In retrospect, that seems pretty appropriate.

[Chimental]

I began watching this thinking it was some 'crossing the street' short. It would explain the title and maybe the fish lipped policeman.

How naive I was.

I thought County Fair was pointless, I thought What is Nothing was pointless, I thought the last short about MOVING SHELVES was pointless, but this one takes the cake.

[Russell]

I began watching this thinking it was some 'crossing the street' short. It would explain the title and maybe the fish lipped policeman.
How naive I was.
I thought County Fair was pointless, I thought What is Nothing was pointless, I thought the last short about MOVING SHELVES was pointless, but this one takes the cake.

What can I say? They took a lot of drugs in the 70's. I guess if you look at this short in a certain
way, the lesson is Don't do drugs... drugs drugs drugs... ask your mom or ask your dad! Joseph
Frost! He's so cool, he's so rad! I mean what's the point of doing a clip and then doing several
completely unrelated segue ways into CUPCAKE!

[RVR II]

What a way to wrap up my RT Shorts Volume 19 DVD..

[Rattrap007]

Where do you find these shorts?

Can we please go back to the time when shorts had a point like the Families: Earning and Spending  or  What if we Had a Fire? They were logical and had a good concept. These past dozen or so are simply insane. Please quit dragging us further into madness and let logic and sanity reclaim the shorts for a while.

In all seriousness, look at the past dozen or so shorts we've had:

This
Setting up a room: 30 minutes of watching two women set up a grad K classroom
At Your Fingertips: Grasses/Boxes - Two short on art projects made from crap
Nothing - two kids are high and ponder meaning of nothing
Turkey - How to count to ten with kazoo's annoying turkeys
Feelings - Doesn't discuss anything other than some kids feel bad

Oh for the days where shorts actually had a point. This shorts are hilarious and all, but how many of these things can there be? Seven or eight of the last twelve short had no point to them or were useless. The only one that for its time was educational was the Dictionary one. I beg of you please let logic run rampant once again. My sanity needs it.

[PontifexPrimus]

Try as I might, I can simply not come up with a situation in which showing this short unriffed to an audience would seem like the correct course of action. Seriously, can anyone come up with a scenario where a teacher would raise her finger in that I-have-a-clever-idea gesture, say "You know what, I have just the instructional film for this!" and proceed to spool up "Join Hands, Let's Go!"
I mean, the makers of this short must have had a certain audience in mind - they must have had a meeting, allocated resources, produced a script and shooting schedule, filmed, cut and copied this... thing and added it to their catalog. Who did they intend to reach with this? What were they trying to teach? Was that supposed to be some kind of bizarre entertainment? I've watched episodes of the teletubbies that made more sense and taught better lessons than this!

That said, I really enjoyed the riffed version, and it was nice to hear that the riffing team was as baffled by it as we were...

[MartyS (Gromit)]

 Searching around the web it seems the Encyclopedia Britannica made a series of shorts about games children play, I wonder if the others are as strange as this one?

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

I missed this release notice but that picture, yikes, this must be strange.

[CJones]

I missed this release notice but that picture, yikes, this must be strange.

Lets just put it this way. When the camera pulls back, it reveals he's directing slot car traffic.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

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