Rifftrax 2016 Thanksgiving Special! (Fun in Balloonland & More!)

[@carmenmcalistet5452]

The narrator sounds like my Aunt Clara after an afternoon of cherry vodka.

[@Du-Masses]

Oh that’s a nasty 🤮 hangover….so I’ve heard.

[@Youngstown529]

She sounds like Big Edie from Grey Gardens.

[@enderpotato0088]

I wonder what her life was like after this

[@algomaone121]

There needs to be a “Fun in Balloon Land Where Are They Now?” special!

[@PetProjects2011]

Balloon Land is my favorite Rifftrax episode. The narrator alone makes it all worth it.

[@cubey]

Fun In Balloon Land makes Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny look like a big budget production.

[@bradforddillman7671]

Couldn’t be happier this was filmed close to home! Need a balloon of a 20-year-old Rocky running up the art museum steps

[@DecadeTheKarateBugman]

Throughout the entirety of Fun In Balloonland, I could only utter one simple phrase...God is dead.

[@bobf9749]

Let me just say that, If Salvador Dali had had a chance to see Fun in Baloonland , he would have said, “What. The. Hell?”

[@brianfuller7691]

Balloon Land is one of favourite Rifftrax episodes. Dorothy Brown Green is absolutely hilarious as the Narrator. When my wife was learning English, she watched this. And she thought it was a school project.

[@johnwhitehead7693]

Wow. The narrator and the guys riffing on it is amazing. I have not laughed that hard in a long time.

[@FaithsTake]

Yay! I'm glad it cracked you up! :)

[@alexdionisos]

The parade scene needed the silhouettes of Mike and the bots for pure perfection

[@zoeyrochellezhombie829]

The narrator is annoying.

[@williamcrowe2576]

I think what the father in the Thanksgiving dinner short was telling his kids is "Look, you're gonna eat like poor people this year and like it!"

[@edwardlozano8807]

Love the way Kevin was imitating the parade narrator....

[@FaithsTake]

That's my favorite part!

[@choosecarefully408]

Plus "THAT'S POETRY! _SUCK IT,_ T.S. ELIOT!!"

[@andrewpytko4773]

Bill's made up lyrics to "Old Macdonald" just kill me.😄

[@christieperry4361]

The dad is a gas station guy? Wait, that was my dad's job!! And yes we had turkey! His boss gave us a free turkey!!

[@jeffreycoogan09]

The narrator used the word ''Gay'' 7 times during the Parade.

[@cata.7323]

oh god, I hurt so much, but its a good hurt. that narrator, buy her a case of whatever she had during filming. that had me in tears😂😂😂 bless you faith, balloonland and rifftrax. I so needed that laugh.

[@FaithsTake]

No problem, Cat! I'm glad you got such a kick out of it! :D

[@adiraiju9336]

9:11 "So we settled upon something as old as the pilgrims." Wait, you're having eels for Thanksgiving dinner?

[@HisDudeness1972]

You know all this kids were probably on a milk cartoon after this.

[@Wildman-lc3ur]

18:46 "what a cute turkey, dog?,sheep?,horse?,alien thing?

[@DaWhiteWolffie]

$3 for a haircut on a kid back then? Heck no! Children got their hair cut for free - on a nearby farm - by a relative who was a barber for a couple years during the great depression. xD Good times!

[@codafett]

This is one of the weirdest things I have ever seen. I have nothing but questions about all of it.

[@nataliewaters7415]

Happy Belated Turkey Day! I remember seeing clips of Fun In Balloon Land on here before. With this one, I got to see even more horrendous and hilarious clips. That narrator was just an epic mess. XD

[@FaithsTake]

Thanks, Natalie! This narrator is worth the price of admission alone!

[@fantom5894]

Actually, in 1951 a $3 haircut would have been a style, wash and coloring.

[@earlenewallace8445]

Happy Thanksgiving 2019 to Faith and everyone who loves Rifftrax today 💗✌🍗🍗

[@FaithsTake]

I know it's late now, but Happy Thanksgiving to you too! :)

[@dougtaylor1740]

"Splaaaay that dragon... >hic

[@captain_hat6247]

">hic

[@mrkrinkle72]

This gave me 30 year old LSD flashbacks! WHEW WEE!!

[@thepoetryblade3047]

Those bratty kids whining cuz they can't have turkey for Thanksgiving, and I spent Thanksgiving this year sitting alone in my house eating corn out of a can. Boo freaking hoo. By the way I like your videos.

[@ilikethecokev2]

Yeah, my Thanksgiving 2 years ago wasn't much better. Evicted from my previous house, had to move into our current one on short notice, so not everything was unpacked by then, unable to do anything online because we didn't set anything up by that point, and worst of all freezing temperatures during a blackout. The one silver lining was we ordered out and got to eat pizza as a result.

[@randysmith7045]

i have this on DVD

[@kyleshiflet7932]

This is their best movie

[@adrianrobertoruizmartinez9325]

HAPPY YEARLY TURKEY MASSACRE!!

[@FaithsTake]

And to you, good sir!

[@adrianrobertoruizmartinez9325]

Faith's Take Thank you, nice lady

[@pikminfan6778]

18:37 And now, please welcome the "Didn't get invited to the Macy's Parade, in fact, Macy's called just to laugh at us" marching band!

[@sarahkay9144]

I hope you had a good Thanksgiving, keep up the good work. I love your channel

[@FaithsTake]

Thank you very much, Sarah! I hope you had a good holiday too! :)

[@dolfanatic314]

The kid in the golden boxers. Did he grow up to be the guy golden boxers in Rocky Horror Picture Show

[@DaWhiteWolffie]

At first I thought you said "Dying Together" and I was so excited because a short like that would be insane....then I read the correct title, and my hopes were forever dashed. :(

[@kyleshiflet9952]

19:03 I love the 1984 reference joke

[@Rubberbandman0529]

u did a good job, thanks for the video :)

[@ebwarg]

12:52 I recognize that pose from The Blair Witch Project!

[@christieperry4361]

Casey casem for the countdown

[@freakfoxvevo7915]

I want to know if the narrator got any more jobs after this movie. I'm in desperate need of more of her speech style

[@FaithsTake]

Haha! That would be incredible!

[@cata.7323]

Kevin "filling in" is the best

[@FaithsTake]

That's my favorite part!

[@fantom5894]

He'll always be Servo.

[@justincicconi759]

What was up with that guessing game?

[@fablethewolf825]

Those silly stories the drunk narrator gives the balloons aren’t made up by her. The story of the walrus eating the oysters and that ‘beat the sneezing child’ rhyme are both from Alice In Wonderland. Goes a long why to explain the absurdity, doesn’t it?

[@daelen.cclark]

Y’think she got drunk on purpose to fit with the absurdity? I think it was a coincidence.

[@loganfravel204]

I died at 27:45. 😂

[@adiahaalexander9359]

I absolutely love it but I would give up the dressing before the turkey. It's not Thanksgiving without turkey dammit

[@YouTube-tied]

Who the hell has soup on Thanksgiving? Or any holiday for that matter?

[@robokill387]

Scots have soup on Christmas.

[@pikminfan6778]

@@robokill387 So do those from the Czech Republic.

[@alexeidarling]

YAY YAY! I was waiting for this! And nice choices on the Thanksgiving shorts (hopefully you'll still cover them in the chronology) - I think it would make a great live show to do those three shorts followed by Balloonland. Maybe next year. Anyway, One Turkey Two Turkey is an absolute delight and probably my favourite Rifftrax short, Dining Together is just so hopelessly slow, but the riffs are fun, and as for A Day of Thanksgiving, well, I've seen it unriffed and it never sat well with me, not even Bill's political gangster impression can save the awkward feelings. And Balloonland. Good god, it's the most nonsensical thing to exist. No one involved in this movie can act, and that includes our narrator friend. But the riffs, especially in the last five minutes, are absolute quality. By the way, you didn't mention it, but the parade was by Gimbels, which is actually Macy's rival. Every time I see those signs, I think of that line from The Simpsons where Agnes tells Marge "Gimbels is gone, long gone!" As always, thanks for making these, and I'm looking forward to all the Christmas fun.

[@FaithsTake]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it! I decided kinda last minute to do the shorts. I figured Fun in Balloonland is under an hour long and I really wanted to have a fun, long special. I was actually trying to structure it the way I did with my live show reviews, and I'm glad you noticed. :) And you're very welcome! I've got lots of fun Christmas stuff coming!

[@FaithsTake]

I WILL be covering the shorts again, by the way! I forgot to mention that in the video, haha!

[@alexeidarling]

But can you imagine Fun In Balloonland live? Just think what the guys could do with the guessing game - I have visions of them holding up signs to get the audience to shout "YAY YAY" at random times.

[@FaithsTake]

It would be hilarious! I really hope they do it someday.

[@choosecarefully408]

I kept waiting for "Mr. B. Natural" to show up. I almost thought "he" _WAS_ the narrator years after that short, wondering where it all went wrong...

[@CrookedIproductions]

It's dickery dock o'clock somewhere!

[@jacksullivan4741]

I'm convinced that in the deepest darkest pit of hell this movie plays on an endless loop reserved for only the most evil of souls there is no beginning no ending only the balloons

[@shuttittuppitt9355]

You're idea of Hell is watching a Rifftrax-ed movie/short/whatever they decide to riff? Dude, the word for that is PARADISE!

[@jacksullivan4741]

@@shuttittuppitt9355 no i mean fun in ballon land without the riffs

[@calsavestheworld]

What do you think they do with all the turkey heads? I've never seen a headed grocery store turkey. Somewhere there must be a huge pit with just 7 million severed turkey heads, their eyes still open with a look of horror. At some point, a wild turkey will happen upon it and be so traumatized he will be stuck cycling from therapist to therapist, none of which can help, not really.

[@Nay-kp6uu]

umm.. why count turkeys? and why only up to 10?

[@JBurdoo]

I'm genuinely surprised that during the quotation from "Alice," ("Speak roughly to your little boy,") the narrator didn't add the chorus ("Wow, wow, wow!") which would really have thrown the crew for a loop! The walrus before it is also from Alice. Both are parodies of popular Victorian poems by Lewis Carroll. It's obvious the "guessing game" is intended to be the sound you make when you see the animal, but the narrator hadn't memorized her script...

[@justincicconi759]

Or she was so plowed she couldn’t read it.

[@TheAnubis57]

Couldn't the gas jockey father in the third short buy a whole chicken to roast --a less costly option.

[@silkyhank]

It sound like Sarah Palin narrating the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

[@omanimoves6312]

Actually, Sarah Palin was born in 1964, one year before the Thanksgiving Day Parade happened. The narrator is Dorothy Brown Green.

[@algomaone121]

I think the Walrus story is actually based on a dark Lewis Carol poem!

[@pauljames5826]

Yes, The Walrus and the Carpenter

[@choosecarefully408]

You know, I *already had* this theory, that Christian children never get over realizing they've been lied to by their parents about Santa. But even then, I can *_NOT_* figure out wtf that narration was trying to accomplish. The "marrying turkey?" I'd have gone home with _SO_ many questions in my head from that parade.

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

At 12:50 and 28:20, is that balloon supposed to be a woman in male drag? That's definitely what it looks like.

[@pikminfan6778]

Where was that enthusiasm for the marrying turkey?

[@quester09]

yay yay! fooey!

[@sapphirewingthefurrycritic985]

Oh boy, some of those turkeys are de-beaked. It is a cruel practice where people cut off the beaks of turkeys so they don't kill and eat each other. This sort of behavior only happens when turkeys are incredibly stressed out. The life of a farmed turkey is a cruel one indeed.

[@christieperry4361]

Is turkey really that expensive???? I mean, my dad was out of work, we had turkey?!

[@XanthinZarda]

Sometimes; I remember that we were so below the poverty line that the school would "award" us and other low income families a turkey. (Or maybe we were just stupid lucky and won the turkey raffles we entered.)

[@wyattharlow7026]

also, have a nice "lets give food to the people whos land we are about to steal from them" day Faith

[@KeithDec25]

Did he say "Myles Standish licked me or liked me"?.....

[@christieperry4361]

Peter Faulk

[@geoffreyshively6955]

This is the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen

[@BeowulfNorther]

Mike is not looking too great In the into, looks like he's a drinker with that face. Kevin and bill look exactly the same though hilarious riffs though as usual,

[@ValeriaStephanieFullington-t8d]

In 1965

[@cutiepuppy4427]

Yay Yay!

[@FaithsTake]

Make sure to wave to the marching band!

[@Humbledingify]

Are we winning?

[@andrewollmann304]

Phooey!

[@DrGregoryHouseIT]

Yikes, Fun In Balloonland. The one where a balloon fetishist comments a balloon parade... I kinda feel dirty hearing that voice, starting to being able to almost see her in the throes of disturbing pleasure.

[@FaithsTake]

Ewww!!! Thanks for that Thanksgiving image!

[@wyattharlow7026]

Fairh please keep up the good work. you are so fudging funny

[@wyattharlow7026]

sorry i meant Faith

[@FaithsTake]

Haha! Thank you very much! :)

[@feltongailey8987]

We done figgered owt here in the Souf that smoked possum is neer as good as danged turkey. And sometimes you aint gotta be the one to kill it....if yer lucky. (By the way, the further(est) north I've ever lived is middle Georgia, soooo, yeah I'm talking about me and my kin. And for the record, I have never tasted possum (but did try raccoon once...yuck).

[@robert8192]

A Family that can't afford a turkey is garbage . ? Hey .

[@Unknown-bq9id]

The narrator sounds like she was hanging out with Jake Roberts at the Heroes of Wrestling PPV...

[@devinthierault]

I'm so subscribed to you *knock knock* oh damnit it's a political gangster.

[@FaithsTake]

Thanks, Devin! :D

[@ValeriaStephanieFullington-t8d]

RATED TV-14

[@chillydawgg4354]

Why the terrible folk music? The 70s, that's why

[@tigerpournelle1020]

You....inserted your own comments into rifftrax. The hubris....

[@FaithsTake]

No hubris intended! Just discussing one of my favorite things with other people who enjoy it too! :)

[@adiahaalexander9359]

Faith's Take I enjoyed your contribution

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Tiger Quinn Hubris leads inevitably to nemesis.

[@dragonoidlover6164]

I remember the thankgiving rifftrax special on twitch, my favorite one was the thanksgiving dinner feat. Adam Savage. And on twitch; i am inkfiredragon900

[@zoeyrochellezhombie829]

Stop talking. That's what Mike, Bill and Kevin are for.

[@scifugitive2]

I love the list of stuff in your video. But why do you have to tell us about these shorts within the shorts? They are stupid, that's why they are fun, and the narration just takes away from it.

[@FaithsTake]

I like to actually review the stuff I cover. I feel like my videos are a cross between a review and a best of. I give my synopsis and personal thoughts about each short and movie, and I also use a lot of the riffs to give everyone an idea of it and whether or not they would enjoy it themselves. There are plenty of Rifftrax best of videos, but I like to give my personal take on everything (hence the channel name). :)

[@rickgrimes652]

Dammit, I keep falling for these fake videos

[@FaithsTake]

Dude, it's not "fake". It's a review. If you don't wanna watch it, just go away. Don't come insulting my hard work as "fake" just cuz you don't like it!

[@ilikethecokev2]

That narrator scares me...