Cheating

[@XombieLejon66]

Jim (the boy with no ribcage) is the true villain of this short. He encourages Johnny to blow off his homework and then stabs him in the back during the closed student council meeting.

[@buckaroobanzai7063]

Jim is the true future politician of the group.

[@AdamWestish]

And true to form, all of humanity is ignorant of this until 72 years later, in the next century

[@AengusFallon]

"I don't think that anyone who cheats should hold office." Ah, bless.

[@KingoftheJuice18]

I know a few Senators who need to watch that film 1/24/20

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

This has aged well thanks to Trump.

[@BryanMorton]

I thought cheating was a requirement to hold office.

[@Chrissykat24]

Don't know much about politics do you son? lol Pretty sure lying, stealing and cheating are all requirements.

[@Timesmanify]

How does eating a hamburger take up a whole night?

[@inkygloves5197]

'Eating a hamburger' is a euphemism.

[@cindydott452]

@@inkygloves5197 For tossing a salad?

[@nanlisa]

Since this was made in 1952, Johnny and Mary probably graduated from high school in either the late 50's or the early 60's. Did they learn their lesson from cheating, or did it continue with them throughout their lives? Did they ever go one to college? Did they ever cheat on an exam there? Was Johnny drafted and later sent to Vietnam? Did he cheat on his military entrance exam? Or did they go on to lead normal productive lives? They should have done a follow-up film to this.

[@AsYourCruiseDirector]

"We really should be talkin' through our lawyers."

[@brucedunkle9136]

"By the way, have you seen my ribcage?"

[@CertifiedGooner729]

"You've made some powerful enemies, son."

[@luisreyes1963]

Happens to me everytime the subject of Super Smash Brothers Ultimate comes up on Reddit.

[@scottreacher4620]

"Mother Teresa called, she hates you." LMAO!! I lose it every time.

[@darkwulf23]

What the hell was on that note for everyone to treat him like that? John, you got me pregnant!

[@HenryvKeiper]

"Oh they did..." "They found the body huh...?" "You were busy keeping your grades up." "And your enemies DOWN!" "GIVE US BARABBAS! BARABBAS!" This is one of my favorite shorts. It was so overly dramatic, and the MST3K guys used that against it so well.

[@adamcolbertmusic]

7:29 "Spare some change?" 🤣

[@alexandracardenas5908]

"You went on as before--eating hamburgers while the world cried..." MST3K is the best.

[@DreamlandWarlord]

This is the Breaking Bad of the 50s.

[@buyvital]

"By the way, have you seen my ribcage?"

[@stoptellingmetolikecomment1624]

One of the best lines ever 🤣

[@jumbledfox2098]

@@stoptellingmetolikecomment1624 "if you want i could turn you into furniture"

[@albee1000]

Later in life, Johnny and his friends would have an interesting adventure at the Watergate hotel ...

[@homeequityloan1746]

“There aren’t enough bell towers in the world for Johnny” 😂 dark, but a classic line.

[@yvonnerousseau2238]

The ribcage line gets me every time.

[@MrBigcityal]

He needs one of those Posture Pal kids to help him.

[@yvonnerousseau2238]

Lol! Perfect!

[@MojitoMadness]

"I don't think anyone who cheats should hold the office," Oh, the sweet, sweet delicious irony.

[@TheOneTrueFingal]

Nice work, John. Your penny ante bungling will bring the heat on everyone. The kids running the big time cheating ring want a word.

[@champton3217]

After the short, not even the mob wanted to work with Johnny. He couldn't hold a job, was constantly thrown in jail and was disowned by his family and friends. He died a lonely cheating loser. The End - for Johnny at least, poor dope!

[@SoundDefenseRB]

"You know what this room needs? A plant." I love how they point out this random stuff that you'd never notice.

[@okey26]

And his parents officially cut ties....

[@debraprince4511]

" By the way, have ya seen my ribcage?" Cracks me up.

[@Valzahd]

Now if John was clever he'd have a fake note on hand to show the teacher, making it clear he wasn't getting the answers but it was ultimately harmless note passing... I might have given this too much thought.

[@TanzDerSchatten]

No, I like that idea. If you're going to cheat, might as well have a contingency plan in place.

[@theblackrosedaughter]

***** Hell in my math class we used to cheat all the time by hiding the test answers in our calculator cases. It's all about being discrete >:3

[@mattr.1887]

"Do you like me? Circle: YES NO MAYBE "

[@thetuftedpuffin1025]

"They're hanging you in effigy."

[@AliasUndercover]

No, he became a Senator.

[@dennisvargas6421]

Split it open, now!

[@MrBigcityal]

Did they film this on the Hamlet set? talk about dark.

[@menslady125eif2590]

"Put down your pencil and step away from your desk!"

[@Fulgrim2]

I get him catching some heat for cheating as student council member but jeez.

[@SisterRayVU68]

This short, and "Why Study Industrial Arts?" leave me laughing until I hurt.

[@nerikull]

"This contract arrived for you from a Mr L. Zebub..." "Oh, hi Miss Granby. O_O Ah-AHHHHHHH!! AHHHHHH!! GETITAWAY!!!" Awesome job from the MST3K crew, ripping another slice of 50's propaganda!

[@rabidrabbitshuggers]

“By the way, have you seen mah rib cage?” I lose my shit every time.

[@darkwulf23]

In our next video, John was caught skipping school and was labeled as a comunist

[@ElvenRaptor]

And the next video after that, he buys some fireworks for Independence Day and gets labeled an Anarchist.

[@YouSuckNoJutsu]

"Perhaps they felt that your cheating gave you an unfair advantage." NO! CHEATING gives people an UNFAIR ADVANTAGE?!

[@cannedcream]

I get the feeling that everyone in the film went on to have long, successful movie careers.

[@wendigos_eat_people7177]

What this room needs is a plant.

[@rickblaine5429]

Haha, Crow's head going back and forth with the rhythm of the tick-tock (0:24)

[@MutantLitherKhan]

"Right there sat your pal, Mary, with her head chock full of all the answers you needed." Split it open now!

[@jzcp99]

“There are not enough bell towers in the world for Johnny.”

[@senorkaboom]

Poor John. He got caught cheating. He should have blamed Mary for what happened. After all, she gave him the answer when he asked, she could have said no. But, NOOOOOO, Mary just caved and gave you the answer. Bad, Mary!! Bad!!!

[@CarryLarry]

4:46 Oh, hi Mrs. Granby-- huhhh AAARRGHHH ARGHH GETITAWAYYYY

[@luisreyes1963]

"That You, Student Counselor?" 🤨

[@BurniceWhiteZenless]

"Cheating is Bad, Richard Basehart is Good."

[@VerySourLemon]

"John? Bring it up here, please." Tom: Eghn! Eghn! Mike: Ding Ding Ding Ding Crow: PUT YOUR PENCIL DOWN AND STEP AWAY FROM THE DESK! I was in tears at that part.

[@typomanbros]

6:50 "PUT YOUR PENCIL DOWN AND STEP AWAY FROM YOUR DESK!!" One of my favorite MST3K moments.

[@tenchymuyo]

Oh, hi, Ms. Gramby- EH AHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHH! GET AWAY!

[@flyinspirals]

'Your salvation. On a doily.' and 'I have to bathe mother...' were my faves : )

[@steviechan139]

@flyinspirals Those were great riffs. The cheating alarm was pretty epic too.

[@cora1334]

"And you were really proud to take Jack Martin's place when he went out of town -" *under mysterious circumstances*

[@luisreyes1963]

Just like Jimmy Hoffa...⚰️

[@menslady125eif2590]

"They found the body, huh?"

[@Soultaker_For_Hire]

I loved watching this show.This is one of the funniest shorts ever.

[@imjelo]

"the foley must be calling..." hehehe foley mistake...nice commentary.

[@senorkaboom]

Poor John. Found out early about cheating. Next time he will know how to bury the bodies.

[@poetcomic1]

He obviously was learning Algebra as he only needed cheating help with one question, #9. I flunked out of Algebra twice but they didn't throw me out of shop class or the rifle club.

[@DTD110865]

"You worked her like a punch-press, Johnny." --Mike Nelson. "And she loved the way you worked her." --DTD110865.

[@Blyndtyger76]

"the jack Benny program!" I almost peed my shorts

[@luisreyes1963]

You're weird. 🙃

[@jtlee891]

For the first time, Johnny feels real power.

[@SGWolfieStreams]

HEY MARY, WHAT'S THE ANSWER?

[@teedup8995]

Yea, can he say it any louder?

[@FreshSpecimens]

🤣

[@tanit]

The first time Johnny feels REAL POWER!

[@orion1915]

This is my fave MST3K

[@HenryvKeiper]

I never noticed that before. Maybe Jim was hoping to move in on Mary? Or maybe he was trying to get another friend in on the student council? Or...wait, I'm trying to read WAY too much into this!

[@Adamguy2003]

Man, could Mary have been any more obvious in giving the answers on the tests? I think she WANTED them both to get caught!

[@thehermitwizard]

All this short taught me was to not have friends who suck at cheating.

[@CWinther95]

Crow: "Mother Teresa called, she hates you."

[@NerdyHippy]

"Riddle me this, Batman! Huhuhuhuhuhuh!"

[@luisreyes1963]

Turns out it was the John Astin version of The Riddler. 😂

[@Soultaker_For_Hire]

Mary gets no punishment at all lol that figures.

[@luisreyes1963]

"Jawohl, Mein Füehrer..." 💀

[@pronkb000]

She did get a 0 on the test and also had to see Ms. Granby after class.

[@daffers2345]

RIDDLE ME THIS, BATMAN! HOOHOOHOOHOOHOO! HOOHOOHOO!

[@NerdyHippy]

Frank Gorshin would be proud of how spot on Trace was with that laugh.

[@AdamAtYourService]

Honestly, I think most of the riffing they do on the shorts is funnier than the actual movies, lol

[@RingoandCarlin]

These shorts were always funny on mystery science theater 3000

[@electrogeek77]

"I don't think that anyone that cheats should hold an office." Boy, he knows nothing about politics, does he...

[@teedup8995]

15 people were kicked out of student counsel for cheating

[@ButOneThingIsNeedful]

"Should Mary share any of the blame?" -- "Shuuure." LOL

[@TimelordR]

Johnny never realized cheating is just a step towards from more heinous pursuits, like bondage...

[@luisreyes1963]

TimelordR I like the way you think, son!

[@TheDeadhead76]

Was that a shadow of doubt in mrs grambys face when she looked at you? Or was it lust?

[@2300DY]

Trace Beaulieu was so fantastic as Crow. I love the voices he does. "...because were cheating. Thank you."

[@SilasMortimer]

Johnny went on to have a successful career as Martin Sheen's son.

[@sillygrl23]

LMAO! I think that was pretty funny how they spreaded it around like a soul-crushing rumor that he was caught cheating, whereas there are far worst things to have kids spread rumors about.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Like being gay in the 50's?

[@craterspike]

"How to make it work for you at home and on the job". The creepiness isn't unintentional, the guy who directed this also made the horror classic Carnival of Souls.

[@thenovascotia]

"Or was it lust?"

[@funnyscares595]

"riddle me this, batman! hoo hoo hoo hoo!" Crow's the best

[@NerdyHippy]

Frank Gorshin would be proud of how well he nailed that laugh.

[@metfish]

“Mmmmmmmm let’s just cheat.”

[@BuddyNovinski]

According to the calendar in the background, this incident took place in October 1952. Don't they realize there's a war going on in Korea?

[@TalkernateHistory]

Hey! This is the episode where they read a letter from Eric Bauman.

[@4everasinger286]

this show is AWESOME! "PUT YOUR PENCIL DOWN AND STEP AWAY FROM YOUR DESK!!!!!"

[@snakes3425]

So let me get this straight...he was doing all these extra activities like they were expected of him, so he didn't study and in a panic cheated on a math test, yet no one noticed he was freaking out over the test, and all of his friends treat him like he just committed a murder, and decide all the good things he did before the test suddenly don't matter and now pretty much want nothing to do with him because he made a stupid decision...I mean jesus when did cheating on a math test suddenly become equal to high treason, give him detention and call it a day there's no need to kick him off the Student Council or anything

[@Klasper]

He was on speed the whole time.

[@wtfc4326]

Later that day an angry mob stormed Johnny's house and burned him at the stake

[@michaelseidenzahl1136]

See this is one of the many reasons why pre baby boomers and baby boomers themselves are the worst generations. Shorts like these although humorous with the riffing this alone made me realise how toxic psas were. I mean God forbid I cheated on a test just to scramble for a B so all my extra work can pay off...my parents would grill me like a whopper "yeah that was a pun to a riff* still I think in the 40s 50s and 60s everyone just couldn't understand the teenage mind.

[@almaelma11]

I know I'm super late to this comment but I think its more a look on his continued cheating, not the fact he did it only once. As the short says, he depended on her more and more until he got caught one day. Its overplayed to frig cus ya no one is gonna really care THAT much but if I found out someone i knew cheated almost a full year of there time in a grade it would be a hard oof from me but thats about it. But if someone found out you were cheating for like 2/3 the whole semester then thats a pretty big deal. If this was one time then ya what they did was waaaaay to extreme but its implied he continued for quite a while. How long though we will never know.

[@KingoftheJuice18]

@@michaelseidenzahl1136 There are plenty of older folks who, like you, think cheating is perfectly fine (since they are such very good people and such). One of them because our 45th president.

[@NeroMaddox]

I miss this show

[@napoleon32]

"Mother Theresa called, she hates you."

[@crowtservo]

Factoring. Something I learned in high school. Something I've not used in any job I've had during high school or in the 13 years since I left high school. I'm so glad I don't have to do algebra homework or study for algebra tests anymore.

[@notundercovercop327]

And remember if you cheat on a test you're automatically a servant of the devil.

[@cindydott452]

Anyone notice that he says "Hambugger"?

[@SoftBank47]

That kind of algebra was always a pain in the ass for me. This was definitely an old short, they probably didn't have writing on their hands back then, lol.

[@bluereaper75]

lol "youve made some powerful enemies son..."

[@ChrisRothbauer]

11 people got caught cheating.

[@Aabicus]

@runawayfreak : No, the problem is solvable. When you factor a problem like this, you find what two numbers add up to make the middle number, and multiply to get the third number. In this case, -4 and -5 work, so you get (x-4)(x-5), so X=4 or 5. Plug 4 or 5 into the equation, they work.

[@threestoogesfan2000]

Aabicus yeah easy peasy for you I absolutely SUCK at math (no joke either)

[@aguyandhiscomputer]

Mary sounds like a Charlie brown character.

[@aguyandhiscomputer]

Glad to see you're back. Great episode.

[@FreshSpecimens]

0:29 “Because they don’t LIKE you.” 🤣 5:40 😆 9:07 💀

[@floraposteschild4184]

The choice of subject was a little unfortunate. In algebra, you have to show your work, not just the answers.

[@TanzDerSchatten]

@Dojack There was probably a power struggle in the student council between Johnny and Ribcage Jim from day one. Jim was just making the most of an advantageous situation.

[@pmd467]

JUST one more thing.. “Neah stop the voices in my head, Neah..!” And there in front of you sat Mary, her head chocked full of the answers..”Split it open now..!” 🤣😂

[@NewGuy2534]

CENTRON! In the fifties, our name will sound all futurerific.

[@kydarr]

"Hello? Yes, this is John." "I saw what you did."

[@james193945]

Is that really John's friend (the ribcage guy) I thought he sounded substantially different from the guy on the phone. I thought he was just another student council member. If it is the same guy, yeah, creep :P

[@bashfulbrother]

"My name is Forrest, Forrest Gump. You can call me Forrest. Life is like a box of chocolates. I could eat a million of these."

[@F00dTube]

"By the waay, have you seen my ribcage?"

[@mikezylstra7514]

Reminds me of exams in physics 126 (electromagnetism with those formulae with 10 factors, etc) at U of M. Those kids had their notes on the floor and flipping the pages with their feet. Never saw so much cheating.