MST3K - Cheating

[@ozzieolin4157]

Servo screaming at the disembodied head of Mrs. Granby is one of my all-time favorite moments of the entire series.

[@AssdMusicChannel]

I'm 25, my dad raised me on mst3k and I remember this comment when it was 1 year old ha ha I am proud to give you the 69th like 45 minutes into 2024. My favorite's the Blur reference lol

[@curleed85]

@@AssdMusicChannelKevin Murphy was always the funniest screamer of the three guys.

[@Kyiverdam]

4:49 😛

[@cindydott452]

Johnny was also stripped of his Posture Pal privileges.

[@michigantrains1721]

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

[@cavalierfan1995]

is that yoou student counselor

[@SNESdrunk]

Crow's Riddler at the end is spot on

[@NerdyHippy]

Frank Gorshin would be proud.

[@Satellite_Of_Love]

Trace always did the best impressions.

[@LindsayHale65]

Considering how the Wild World of Batwoman is one of the most corny and painfully bad films to ever exist, no wonder there's a LOT of batman riffs in this episode.

[@jwbogacki]

The funny thing about the movie was that it was made in '74 and it was in b/w.

[@ericschilling9064]

"Well, why don't they call?" _Cause they don't like you_ That hit hard.

[@christophergargaro959]

“Your one mistake, you signed your test Mary Matthews” “For the first time, Johnny feels REAL power”

[@ingwersengrady]

holy shit, the no-ribcage dude is comedy gold.

[@youngrebels75]

"Was there a shadow of doubt in Ms. Granny's face when she looked at you?" Crow: ... or was it lust?

[@howoriginoah8343]

"Ding ding ding! Put your pencil down and step away from the desk!" Kills me Everytime!

[@schuylerberdan7836]

Awesome ding ding ding

[@TanzDerSchatten]

Every time an alarm goes off in any movie we're watching, we quote that line.

[@cavalierfan1995]

let me see that.... wow thats randy

[@TheBelieveit1]

"I don't think anyone who cheats should hold office." The irony!

[@nataliewaters7415]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@PokeDude011]

*politics intensifies*

[@noahkarpinski1824]

This only gets more ironic as time goes on

[@choosecarefully408]

It's amazing they can get away with it forever, what with all of you holding them accountable with your empty rhetoric.

[@madeleinebaier5347]

Indeed!!!

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

RIDDLE ME THIS, BATMAN!!!

[@tdickensheets]

Lol!

[@Roadvirus1]

Jim: I don't think anyone who cheats should hold an office. ...If only everyone thought the same way today.

[@uiscepreston]

"If you want, I could turn him into furniture." Ed Gein references are the best.

[@simonbasinger2572]

"Really should be talking through our lawyers" "you've made some powerful enemies son." Haha.

[@fanboyhex1555]

"oh hi Miss Granby, ahhhhhhhh!!! get it away"... lmao!

[@Dionysoshaman]

I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in my love for that part . Kills me everytime and never gets old! So I salute you good sir!

[@fanboyhex1555]

@@Dionysoshaman 😆

[@fanboyhex1555]

@@Dionysoshaman and I salute you for loving that bit as well good sir. It's my favorite part of this short (love Kevin Murphy) 😆... but then again the entire short is great!

[@Dionysoshaman]

@@fanboyhex1555 Same here brother and what the hell, Salutes all around!

[@MrMathesonk]

BONG! "Well, why don't they call? They've had plenty of time to decide." How about because it's ONE A.M.?

[@adiraiju9336]

4:47 I don't know about you, but having a ghost pop up every time I tried to cut corners on something like that would make me think twice about cheating on anything!

[@poetcomic1]

Cheating? I think he should be voted class president and most likely to succeed in politics.

[@randywilson2171]

His boy Jim threw John under the bus.

[@TheOneTrueFingal]

Yup, and this after enabling John's further bad behavior with The Hamburger Incident.

[@StarWolf_88]

​@@TheOneTrueFingal "The Hamburger Incident" lmao I love it!

[@jessmorgan6732]

"But now, with the honor of the job, went the necessity of keeping your grades up." "And your enemies DOWN."

[@orion1915]

"You commited a mortal sin"

[@dndboy13]

the Bergmann riff was so on point sorta half expected to see a dude in a cloak with a chessboard in johns room at some point

[@menslady125eif2590]

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

[@Whtxombi]

Its a shame they didn't include the host segments with this. They were hilarious! "Cheating is bad. Richard Basehart is good."

[@RaqioGnosia]

Me too. As painfully unwatchable, god-awful, and tortuous that batwoman movie is, the host segments make up for it, Servo being arrogant and nerdy about the short, Crow showing his mischievous side by plagiarizing Gypsy's essay and Servo wanting to EXECUTE him for it. Even Gypsy has a huge role in all of this episode's host segments, even with having more lines in them, so it's a go for me!

[@AsYourCruiseDirector]

“Now was this Ingmar Bergman’s first American film?”

[@KaneRobot]

The same thing happened to me in 7th grade. I was the "Mary" and the hot girl behind me was the "John." We got caught after a few successful cheat exchanges where I helped her out and we both got a zero on the assignment. I wasn't some student council nerd so there they were minimal consequences. She apologized repeatedly and also wrote that she "loved" me in the yearbook that year, so I'm gonna go with net positive.

[@travishimebaugh8381]

Johnny used those kids from the juvenile delinquency short to whack Jack Martin.

[@artistwithouttalent]

"Whack 'em. Whack 'em good."

[@senorkaboom]

I had an incident in 7th grade where a fellow student and I had the exact same answers to a geography test. Thing was, we sat next to each other. The teacher wanted to rule out we cheated, which we didn't, so she had us retake the test. We passed and got the grade from the original exam. Even though no cheating was involved, just having it hang there made me feel bad.

[@davidpancerev9658]

O, the trauma!

[@CassidyListon]

"A Centron Production-although we got the idea from a different company, because we're cheating! Thank you." God, cracks me up every time.

[@andyblargextra]

same.

[@tf2redpie]

"Thankfully your mob ties will get you off Johnny"

[@luisreyes1963]

Certainly worked for the Teamsters, eh? 😎

[@typacsk]

And if they leave him hanging out to dry, he can always accuse his parents.

[@RaqioGnosia]

I did that riff once on Super Mario Sunshine regarding Mario being wrongfully convicted in one of the most unjust kangaroo courts in all of fiction! "Fortunately, your mob ties will get you off, Mario."

[@i.m.strandedinsonoma1445]

5:09 -- You were busier than ever with sports. (Shaving points.) BWAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahaha!

[@TanzDerSchatten]

Doesn't John get a chance to speak for himself with the student council? Being tried, convicted, and punished in absentia doesn't seem like due process. While I don't know what kind of defense he could mount ("Yeah, I cheated plenty of times. Sue me."), maybe explaining the pressure he was under and throwing himself on their mercy would work. Calling a few of the council members out "Harper Valley PTA"-style might also work.

[@ArmageddonAngel]

He should have exposed the secrets of the other student council members.

[@pathutchison7688]

This is from the 1950s. All he had to do was blame communism, and point the finger at Mary for trying to recruit him to the communist party. Done deal.

[@StarWolf_88]

​@Pat Hutchison sad thing is, that would work.

[@gameman250]

You give this short film too much credit.

[@legionarybooks13]

Crow: "Mother Theresa called. She hates you."

[@RalphClassic]

5:40 "Hello?" "THIS IS JIM!" My god, who starts a phonecall that way?

[@crescentfreshbret]

Cherojack 25-year-old high school students.

[@crescentfreshbret]

Without ribcages.

[@davidpancerev9658]

3:18.."you committed a mortal sin!" Classic like the country fair.

[@BriGuyIL1980]

I will bring you down, Johnny!

[@clayton9380]

8:01 "By the way, have you seen my ribcage?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@JustSortaOK]

"And you went on as before" Eating hamburgers while the world cried!

[@snakes3425]

Jesus he cheated on a math test, and yet you treat him like he just committed a murder

[@aaroncalhoun337]

snakes3425

[@crowtservo]

Back in the 50’s it was like murder.

[@poetcomic1]

Collapse of all feelings of self worth at that particular age could lead to life long devastating repercussions.

[@favoritemustard3542]

@@poetcomic1 the rise in feelings of self worth being buoyed by the thrill of "I got away with it!" was always destined to fail

[@ChristaFrench320]

The 1950's really must've been a bad, sexist time, even if you do something minor like cheating once, they portrayed it like genocide.

[@eaglescout1984]

Back when the worst thing that could happen was you were downgraded in popularity status

[@tf2redpie]

"Eating hamburgers while the world cried" -tom servo

[@kylestubbs8867]

“John, this is Geography.”

[@fpg213263fu]

Johnny changed his name to Henry Hill, and started running with the Vario crew.

[@1987phillybilly]

Servo screaming made my day!

[@Roadvirus1]

Mrs. Grandby's ghostly appearances in this short reminds me of the dead woman in the movie Tormented (from MST3K's 4th season).

[@Kitschensyngk]

Roadvirus1 “JOHN TAYLOR KILLED ME! JOHN TAYLOR KILLED ME!”

[@cavalierfan1995]

TORRRRMENTED!

[@buckaroobanzai7063]

If Johnny had any sense he would have prepared a decoy paper slip to turn over in case he got caught. It could have been a fake love not. Or he could have just eaten the paper he got caught with and said it was a love note.

[@noahkarpinski1824]

I know. Any real cheater knows how to avoid getting caught.

[@talynbo]

1:55 "Mother Theresa called, she hates you." I will never stop laughing so hard even after all these years!!! It took me by surprise and was so shocking. I love saying that line whenever I can.🤣😂🤣

[@EricCVoice]

I hated Algebra. The textbook had the odd answers (#1, #3, #5, etc.) in the back and strangely those were the only ones I got correct!

[@dantheman8103]

My teachers always told us to only do the even numbers. It's like they knew.

[@genghiscan2918]

I think I had those same Saxon books. Our school replaced all of them with a worse series when I was a junior

[@Spooky1862]

I hated algebra too. The good thing is that unless you’re entering a scientific or engineering field, there’s basically no such thing as algebra.

[@rondohunter8966]

"Geez this guy could freak out Jamie Gumb." Classic! Excellent reference.

[@ericschilling9064]

"You worked her like a punch press Johnny."

[@millenium0chi]

GIVE US BARRABAS! 🤣🤣🤣

[@luisreyes1963]

Why, did Drumpf pardon him? 😑

[@brucedunkle9136]

3:45 So you decided to take a chance. "Pssst...HEY MARY! WHAT'S THE ANSWER?"

[@vivianmullis1017]

John... Mary... Jim... ........ Oh my god!

[@shenloken2]

04:47 - Priceless! Absolutely priceless! XD

[@James-Ram]

"You talkin' to me? Hey!"

[@idyllicaxiom2818]

Nowadays kids get bullied for not cheating on tests like ‘normal kids’. Nowadays it’s expected to cheat or else you you will be disliked and considered weird.

[@christieperry4361]

You made some powerful enemies, son. Will the senator please yield??

[@presidentsnow7315]

Split it open now....

[@diannemose244]

:38 " a young frank Kafka awaits his fate"😂

[@KaneRobot]

The Ronald Reagan at 6:30 is an overlooked highlight

[@HylianFox3]

Homer: He did say "well" a lot!

[@AmazingThor]

“If you want I could turn him into furniture.”

[@tdickensheets]

Crow: Busted!

[@Mazra42]

Riddle me this, Batman!

[@clayton9380]

4:47 Miss Granby's floating head? 👩‍🏫 AAAAHHHH!!!! 😱

[@ShaneMurphyHendrickson]

LOL

[@Dj-Ch33f]

Sweet Mary, nooo!! 🤣🤣

[@Soultaker_For_Hire]

Classic comedy.The Mrs. Grandby bit is so hilarious

[@anthrax2525]

You worked her like a punch press, Johnny!

[@nowaxtheory]

Keep your grades up, AND YOUR ENEMIES DOWN!

[@davidpancerev9658]

9:32..pure classic!

[@ericbush3597]

I have a theory, and this is it.... David Lynch was warped by a steady diet of these films in school. I'm not kidding... Oh Shush. Cheating-Eraserhead... Last Clear Chance- Mulholland Drive... Once Upon a Honeymoon- Wild at Heart... Blue Velvet... uh, okay so it kinda' breaks down at this point but hey, Hired coulda' been a Coen Brothers film for sure!

[@MutantSentry]

So is there a short that explains Twin Peaks? Maybe What to do on a Date?

[@ericbush3597]

MutantSentry Nothing EXPLAINS Twin Peaks... well maybe one or two Twilight Zone episodes. (certainly, Lynch Himself never came down off the mountain long enuf' to explain it) I think by the time of That Production Our Boy had graduated to a School of Thought that was all His own and had had His fill of indoctrination like, Appreciating our Parents! No, He'd moved on to Shop Class and was building Stuff that teetered and tottered but in some weird way, Held together long enuf' to get the attention of the Art Class and from there...?

[@Whtxombi]

+Eric Bush Twin Peaks can be attributed to Mister B Natural.

[@ericbush3597]

BRAVO, Professor *****! You have earned Tenure for your insightful... insight into the mind of, David Lynch! (and a permanent seat on the Satellite of Love!)

[@Whtxombi]

My bags are packed. I can bring my own Tom Servo too!

[@nonstopinfinitecringe3340]

You know, in all fairness to John, I had some trouble with factoring expressions. Unlike Johnny, I actually put forth some effort to learn it.

[@JaredsGaming]

When the grandfather clock is more interesting than the story.

[@BurniceWhiteZenless]

"Cheating is Bad, Richard Basehart is Good."

[@luisreyes1963]

"May I offer you a salted nut roll...?" 😅

[@matthewclark5612]

Fortunately, Johnny was able to cheat his way out of trouble.

[@JHATDRUMMER1976]

MRS GRAMBY:I WILL BRING YOU DOWN....JOHNNY

[@luisreyes1963]

1:45 A reference to the movie musical "Bye Bye Birdie" (1963).

[@AlcoholicBoredom]

5:44 Ah, once again the seductive allure of a hamburger at Sam’s proves too powerful a temptation for a mortal’s will to resist.

[@cindydott452]

Anyone else notice that Johnny says "Hambugger"?

[@Maxxx_Power]

psst HEY MARY! WHAT'S THE ANSWER?

[@curleed85]

I’d like to see a RiffTrax version of the full short. This one is actually abridged.

[@eblackadder3]

"I envision a cheating wing."

[@luisreyes1963]

Most colleges with a huge athletic program already have.

[@KaneRobot]

🚨 *PUT YOUR PENCIL DOWN AND STEP AWAY FROM YOUR DESK* 🚨

[@KaneRobot]

bY tHe WaY hAvE yA sEeN mAh RiB cAgE

[@parisknyght1212]

Lol.. at 3:48 actually happened to me in reverse. I was sitting next to a girl in 4th grade and we would get these reading assignments.. anyway she was wearing headphones one day (my teacher was very lax) and shouting out ("hey i'm done with mine! let me see yours to make sure i got the answers right!"). The whole class looked up.. luckily the teach was off smoking her usual bathroom cigarette so we were cool.

[@damien5138]

Have you seen my ribcage

[@danielsingleton3576]

ever notice all the shorts featured serial killers. I never realized how dark the gang was lol...

[@TimelordR]

+Saniel Dingleton Found out about that "Jame Gumb" reference, it's the real name of Buffalo Bill from Silence Of the Lambs.

[@jacobschweitzer1068]

By the way have you seen my rib cage

[@kharris3352]

Gee, kids. It's simple! Just find the factors of c and find the ones that will add up to b! See? Factoring's easy!

[@eblackadder3]

"By the way, have you seen my rib cage?"

[@diannemose244]

2:00 " there's not enough bell towers in the world for Johnny "😂

[@georgethefriend29]

Give us Barrabas! Barrabus!

[@JHATDRUMMER1976]

now how do you do it? LETS JUST CHEAT!

[@gonzaleo]

1-900-ALFALFA

[@NameNotAlreadyTaken2]

It just occurred to me I've forgotten how to factor quadratic equations... And I used to be such an expert at it I wrote a fucking program to do it in high school.

[@lisvender]

Really, why? It’s a technique that comes up so often in real life

[@kharris3352]

See, why did his buddy just sell him out like that?

[@SpyroTheGerudo]

"spare some change?"

[@Musicandlyrics2400]

Mary could at least try to be subtle when she helps john cheat

[@JHATDRUMMER1976]

CHEATING the tom brady story

[@Blyndtyger76]

(muffled) The Jack Benny Program

[@StarWarsHour]

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