MST3K - Money Talks!

From the episode The Beast of Yucca Flats.
Cast:
Crow - Trace Beaulieu
Mike Nelson - Michael J. Nelson
Servo - Kevin Murphy
© 2008 Shout! Factory, LLC

[@midwest9757]

"William... what are you doing in there? Your not talking to the founding fathers again are you?" Lmao

[@IsItModern]

"take that budget of yours.. AND SHOVE IT" hahaha, I never see it coming.

[@shenloken2]

"You must learn how to manage you money." "What money?" Mike: "Don't smart mouth me, boy!" One of the things I took away from this short; if the founding fathers come to haunt you, don't be a smartass around them.

[@PurpleWind64]

Better to be a smartass than a dumbass.

[@cigoLxeL]

I just love the thick and vaguely threatening way Mike that says it.

[@TheBrianJ]

This is one of those shorts where on it's own it's actually totally fine; a nice look at how to budget money, albeit with a weird framing device. But man, the riffing makes it hilarious.

[@TheLegend1800]

"Produced by imps!" oh god I can't breathe

[@artistwithouttalent]

I did the math, and assuming this takes place in 1951 (from the coin), he's earning an average of $65 a week in high school.

[@Zalgoglaz]

This is actually pretty solid advice. It's a bit corny, but it's a good lesson.

[@julieporter7805]

It's just packaged so stupidly. Not unlike the safety videos.

[@PaBa1984]

Whatever Greasy Scarecrow Kid! (J/k)

[@rs52594]

"Each week he went down to the bank..." And Robbed It! Lol

[@spaghettisultan5484]

"Why am I always broke?" "Maybe it's my crack habit" "Benjamin Franklin, eh" "Bite me, Franklin!"

[@emmybananaart1188]

I don't know why but the way Crow says "produced by IMPS" cracks me up

[@fireballil]

Bob had a goal...And two assists!

[@Tiggeralt]

Bob's in the red, but at least he's not squishy.

[@jamesfalcon4077]

ShyTenda you have to admit, Bob drives a real shafty convertible.

[@patrickramseyart]

As opposed to Bob the Tomato, naturally

[@vladt876]

Alexander Phipps!

[@luisreyes1963]

He's broke, not hormonal. 😕

[@GreatSwordNH]

"Could you have your slave press my suit?"

[@patrickdrazen2031]

My favorite riff: "Bob had a goal..." "and two assists."

[@clayton9380]

"Listen, little toad!" 5:40 LOL 😄

[@danwolff9643]

"Greasy scarecrow-boy not invited."

[@homeequityloan1746]

William... William, mah boi! Who’s that? Over here, son. “Directly in front of you.”

[@adiraiju9336]

On the one hand, the short actually does have a couple sound, simple economic lessons that some people could stand to hear... ...on the other hand, it's so blankety-blank CHEESY that those same people wouldn't be able to tell!

[@presidentsnow7315]

This is actually an incredibly well thought out and put together short. I wish this was still shown in schools today, (MST3K riffs included).

[@coolsomeXD]

Franklin: You receive two dollars every week as an allowance from your father something quite unheard of in my day. Crow: Fathers?

[@MrHmg55]

The best president we ever had!

[@kateorlando7092]

Ha ha it's easy to argue with that. He was never a president!

[@madeinamerica3620]

@@kateorlando7092 But if anyone other than Washington deserved to be...

[@Bucketroo]

"I don't get it..." "The appeal of Adam Sandler." You and me both, pal.

[@DerekPower]

Aww, alright son, I will go to the dance with you.

[@gameman250]

William later realized that his budget idea meant cutting back on all the fun things he used to blow his money on, settling for cheap-quality meals and being ridiculed by his peers for being so stingy with money. He swore off taking advice from dead historical figures ever again. Later he took up a career in hustling.

[@tibfulv]

"You're going to buy a dress?" Made me chuckle.

[@RazorsEdge1810]

A penny saved is a penny earned. "Thank you, I'm outta here!"

[@presidentsnow7315]

.....but it was too late. William filed for chapter 11.

[@albee1000]

This short would've taken a very dark and bizarre turn if Himmler had shown up to haunt William instead of Ben.

[@luisreyes1963]

Wouldn't the kid be paid in Pfennigs, not Cents? 🇩🇪

[@buckaroobanzai7063]

Ben Franklin sure does know a lot about this kids life. That kid should be terrified.

[@neugey]

"On behalf of all girls, none of us are going to the dance with you!" ... that girl would have saved me a lot of trouble in high school LOL

[@irwinisidro]

As funny as this riff was, I honestly learned a lot from this short. I work a minimum wage job that doesn't give me a lot of hours and I can honestly say I'm not broke like most friends who works longer hours or higher pay.

[@ThatAnnoyingBird]

4:57 "Does this silhouette make me look fat?" Made that myself.

[@davetreichel4308]

Years later he continued to buy even more grayer curtains.

[@jacobrapp2517]

"That was my darkest vision yet!"

[@anubis1751]

That Jack Webb Dragnet ending was cute.

[@robvonk9131]

Oooh, he had his chest excavated!

[@schaeferschaefer2624]

And “you-know-what” walks.

[@mr_nobody_000]

why must i be a young Cristopher walken?

[@mattschneider6773]

Even a huge Malomar doesn't help!

[@luisreyes1963]

Thought it was a fossilized dog turd. 💩

[@ElMattoGrande]

I was pretty baked when I first watched this, and when Franklin says "oh, and kill your parents" I thought I was going to soil myself

[@jackmiller2404]

I love how he just adds it in as an afterthought, lol

[@write-minded3921]

"Shouldn't take long to estimate 50 cents."

[@troublewiththecurve7655]

I PLAN on watching a lot of these ,they are jam packed with valuable life lessons !!

[@Serpentsevensix]

Dare we say they are...jam handy?

[@MiguelSanchez-gv1xb]

+Aerik Seven Keep your jam handy!!

[@Serpentsevensix]

Miguel Sanchez You know I will.

[@LMTR14]

one of the best ever

[@scitsalcoryp]

all high school students flocked to this movie in droves !

[@anubis1751]

Geez, that magazine he bought must have set him back 25 cents.

[@gargoyles9999]

i keep financial records like Bob and i'm not ashamed to say it. Besides it really does work

[@coolsomeXD]

Did a founding farther haunt you too?

[@gargoyles9999]

coolsomeXD You have no idea the things i've seen

[@IvarrtheSpineless]

+gargoyles9999 So do I, but I have an excuse. I'm old.

[@madeinamerica3620]

It's always great when one can combine genuine lessons with genuine laughs. 😉

[@mattschneider6773]

Lots of money!

[@murdock283]

Our federal government could learn a thing or two from this short.

[@peterkrug2327]

Come on, come on, love me for my money! Come on, come on, listen to the money talk!

[@BatSnakegirl]

Did the Ghost of Ben Franklin and Soapy the Germ Fighter go to the same school for educating dejected white male youths?

[@maxbrandt6]

Simple, sound advice that makes a lot of sense, especially in this day and age. I wonder why the US government can't follow these simple rules because if anyone is a poor spender, that would be the US government! (Eh, hem....F-35 JSF fiasco!)

[@IvarrtheSpineless]

"Poor spender"? He must have a Warhammer habit.

[@georgethefriend29]

"Come back, Ben Franklin! Come baaack!!"

[@sjbelew9204]

"Like Gumby." Oh, my god.

[@PaBa1984]

Greasy Scarecrow Boy Not Invited

[@squirrelguy2195]

Why must I be a young Christopher Walken?

[@racheledwards2352]

And talks and talks I cant get a word in edgewise

[@luisostasuc8135]

This was also at a time when the minimum wage, in 1955 since i couldn't find data from earlier, was equivalent to 8.49 in today's money(2023). Federal minimum wage now is still 7.25. For a 40 hour work week that's ~1360 a month in 1955 per inflation, and 1160 today. And it's worse calculating from 1956: the $1 minimum wage is equivalent to 11.15 today, or ~1780 a month. So these days it's much more likely that it's an earnings problem, not a spending problem.

[@jonathanwashington6083]

Yeah, like ol' Ben there would be standing around in silhouette like that instead of banging the handmaidens.

[@TheAnubis57]

According to inflation calculator for 2019 50 cents was worth around $5 in 1951. So $2 for the dance was around $20 (kind of pricy for a high school dance) So Bill was making around $60 a week.. BTW, Bob could buy that car because they were very affordable in the 1950s. After 1970s prices of cars went through the roof because of unions.

[@SeanP7195]

Money talks! Ohh I finally get it

[@larryaldrich4351]

At the working man's house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

[@alexcarter8807]

Plan your work and work your plan! And save some of your fucking money godamnit.

[@1rk3neditz]

thanks to this im saving up for a psp

[@TheInverseable]

Did you get a psp

[@JiveDadson]

Call it... Friendo.

[@adrianlackey5107]

2:55 "You'll have one thing to learn and then you'll have no problem". Take the safety off...

[@jasonmullins7115]

That Franklin half dollar would have a pretty decent melt value today seeing as it was silver and actually had some real VALUE. Thank you, Richard Nixon and the Federal Reserve for making us laugh at money...again.

[@yaywhewclips242]

yea Nixon trying to curb inflation by getting our money off the gold standard!

[@sandrafaith]

Money talks! BS walks! 🤣

[@paktype]

This is in the days before credit cards.

[@charles2241]

Notice that last item on his budget William? It's entirely in crayon.

[@StarWarsHour]

“I knew then I had to blow up the school” In todays climate, that’s scary

[@laurallewien2165]

Franklin and Hitchcock had the same silhouette, eek!

[@julieporter7805]

"He was the best President we ever had." "Just reach for the gun." "Something quite unheard of in my day...." "Fathers?" (Well Franklin had many illegitimate children so...) "You're a poor spender..." "And a bad person." 'You'ld like to be an architect one day..." "Forget it, soda jerk!" "Listen you little toad!" "Jay Gatsby!" "Bob's a better person than you are." "Bob had a goal...""And two assists!" "Keep. .. pretending to write." "Son, you're in deep to Mother and me." "Here's my weekly feigning of interest in you, son." "Take that budget of yours Dad....""And shove it."

[@krashlyboo]

Listen, Little Toad...

[@joypopoola6115]

9:23 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@alanbear6505]

OMG! Benjamin Franklin watches and judges us all from beyond the grave! …that makes “me” time much more awkward.

[@StandBackson]

Produced by _IMPS_

[@luisreyes1963]

So was AVATAR. 👺

[@visaman]

Franklin Savings and Loans went bankrupt.

[@MrAshCarr]

As cheesy and dated as this is, its still more then what schools teach now. Home Ec was basically just a cooking class now, if it's even included at all

[@charlesvannice8279]

You're gonna buy a dress?!?

[@rubystevens4593]

I wonder why ben Franklin never ran for president

[@adamsz415]

Probably because he died during Washington's term as president. I doubt Franklin would have wanted the presidency anyway.

[@christopherwall2121]

@@adamsz415 there is so much power Franklin would have had to have given up to become President.

[@Steel_Bison]

Surprised there was no reference to AC/DC's song Moneytalks

[@1rk3neditz]

Will you take me out to the dance?

[@fpg213263fu]

Your going to buy a dress.

[@RBEO22]

Vests and baseball hats do NOT go together.

[@RanMouri82]

The kid makes $6, which in modern money is nearly $80. 😮

[@SteveCarras]

the copyirght isn't seen, but the coin says 1951..so it must be from 1951..

[@IvarrtheSpineless]

+Steve Carras Unless... this film was made by time travellers!

[@limelightraver5690]

You know it’s ironically funny and ironically naïve about their joke “ can your slave press my suit” is that they probably aren’t even aware that Benjamin Franklin founded the first anti-slavery society on this continent. And don’t get me wrong the joke did make me chuckle but my laughter is more towards them for being historically uneducated because if you understand history then the contents of the joke literally make no sense and makes them look hilarious it’s a pity that joke wasn’t centered around Andrew Jackson because then it would make perfect sense and be genuinely hilarious considering that Jackson was one of the biggest slave holders in history

[@nathanielstein8904]

I know its been 2 years but I still gotta point out that Franklin, despite his abolitionist actions, did still own people. Just because he did some work against it doesn't excuse that fact that he had slaves. I don't see how this makes them look uneducated.

[@l.a.gothro3999]

I thought a budget was a little bird that people in the UK keep in cages?

[@nicky2coats]

This "lame" short contains many of the sound, soberminded advise that children could once learn from their elders to become men. Now kids learn about George Washington Carver inventing peanut butter.

[@SMAXZO]

Because peanut butter is waaaaayyyy important than learning about managing your money.

[@fpg213263fu]

Your going to buy a dress?

[@paxhumana2015]

...and bullshit walks.

[@c28baby]

0:48 Why is that kid wearing a wedding ring?

[@DerekPower]

Cara Miles Looks like it is a school ring.

[@weirdaljedifan2]

Ben Franklin on the half dollar? I thought that was JF- ooooooh, that's right. Wait, why did they change it to JFK in the first place?

[@DonnaBrooks]

+Christie Beck Probably the same reason they are going to put a woman on the $20 in 2020. Times change. Leaders emerge. Others become less relevant.

[@jamesfalcon4077]

+Christie Beck Ben Franklin was the best president we ever had!

[@midwest9757]

Donna Brooks a woman isn't going to be on the $20 in 2020 sorry Donna

[@adamsz415]

Because he got shot.

[@acholl980]

Money Talks...... ......but it don't sing and dance and it don't walk Neil Diamond

[@tsarstepan]

Why is the goober in shot 1:04 wearing a wedding band on his right hand? He's in high school (allegedly)....

[@DerekPower]

Stephen Atwood In all seriousness, it's very likely it's a school ring.

[@fakeplaystore7991]

>you earn one dollar or so in what you call "tips" Nowdays, if DSP earns just a dollar in tips, it's a national REEEEEEMERGENCY

[@The_Ballo]

Why do all these shorts have the same narration voice?

[@_REVERIE]

Lol money's worth less and less these days... In 2023 it's a DOLLAR saved is a DOLLAR earned... Maybe even a 20...

[@visaman]

Bob spent a

[@luisreyes1963]

Never take financial advice from someone who wanted the Turkey to be the symbol of our nation.

[@MrRentgould]

The comments by the ''audience " is beyond irritating !

[@luisreyes1963]

Says you, humorless Romulan.