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[@VectorParallax]

Watching this on the bus and suddenly realized that I'm wearing headphones so anyone looking over my shoulder just sees me laughinwg at a video of a slaughter house.

[@LchanOtakudom]

Well, at least you won't have to worry about anyone sitting next to you on the bus for a few years! Leg room!

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

We've all Been there.

[@favoritemustard3542]

Capt.@@jean-lucpicard5510 U.S.S. Meaterprize, is that you?

[@label_me]

There are at least 4 layers of comedy in this situation. Bravo, chaos, one of your finest works this week

[@yerabbit]

lol i relate to this comment so much

[@TheNzFox]

"boss, our video is really disturbing" "increase the music whimsy by 900%!"

[@srbrant5391]

Boards of Canada was founded upon that conversation.

[@VillemarMxO]

+10000 points for the perfect use of the sadly neglected word "whimsy". 👌💥

[@geoffelder2236]

@@VillemarMxO Good one! We also would've accepted the word "jaunty" to describe the music as well!

[@fuzztsimmers3415]

disturbing?

[@elonmust7470]

It's only disturbing if you're a petulant child.

[@ActionYakPolice]

I'm beginning to suspect that the answer to "wait that fake educational film from The Simpsons was based on a specific real one?" is always yes

[@debayeuxchats5607]

I re-watched this for the first time in years and it hit me just HOW accurate that was. Had to look it up just to make sure, and yep, Troy NAILED it.

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

I’m going to Bovine university

[@MxArgent]

No Springs!

[@tremorsfan]

Don't let the name fool you Billy, it's not really a floor. It's more of a grate where blood and other loose materials can slip through.

[@soapflakes]

Yeah it’s based on the one about if springs suddenly disappeared (zinc in simpsons)

[@brianmcgauley1804]

Keep in mind, this short came out 10 years after Disneyland first opened, and these boys chose to go to a meat packaging plant.

[@dzhellek]

This has a better gift shop.

[@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253]

They probably saw little difference between the two :)

[@tanimation7289]

The meat packaging plant was closer.

[@markiangooley]

Nowadays I’d rather revisit the SPAM Museum (run by Hormel, same town as the factory shown here) than any Disney property. Much cheaper and more pork products!

[@anglaismoyen]

@@markiangooley Probably a lot less queueing, fewer crowds, better good... What else?

[@williamglass2223]

14:34 “Then it rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.” Them pulling a Silence Of The Lambs quote caught me off guard the first time I watched this. Was laughing for a good minute.

[@Smok3yR1der]

Exotic spices... "Like salt and pepper." Oh god I'm dead

[@RobMacKendrick]

That wasn't a joke. They're from Minnesota.

[@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing]

@@RobMacKendrick I built an empire smuggling MSG to midwesterners. Don't ask where I had my mules hide it. The spice must flow.

[@dadoctah]

@@RobMacKendrick Relatives of my former girlfriend once explained to me that "spice it up" in Minnesota means "put gravy on it".

[@RobMacKendrick]

@@dadoctah There's a chapter in the book "Scandinavian Humor and Other Myths" (which is mostly about Minnesota) called "Food That Hurts and How to Avoid It." It includes a list of "food whiteners".

[@roringusanda2837]

@@RobMacKendrick I had that book! It was very handy...🧂🍚🥟🦪🥯🥪🥛

[@Pugiron]

I could smell that office waiting room. Leather, nylon, wood paneling and cigarettes.

[@brian_sipe]

I was safe until I read your comment, then I got hit with the smell of an old union meeting hall I used to have to visit when I was a kid.

[@kenthuang436]

You forgot the stench of Spam left out too long on a sampling plate!

[@DanaTheInsane]

Anybody born in the 60s or earlier knows exactly what that room smells like.

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

Dont forget cheap coffee

[@DanaTheInsane]

Everything smelled like cigarettes. Everything, hospital, florist, grocery store. movie theaters. There was no escape.

[@backedup39]

Accurate burn on the Vikings inside the first 30 seconds.

[@Bobsheaux]

My favorite shot from 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' (1974) is not actually FROM the movie itself, but a stock shot of a cow standing in (presumably) a slaughter house, waiting to meet its fate. It pops up into the movie for only a few seconds when one of the characters is explaining the process of how beef (or, more specifically, head-cheese) is made. This single bit of stock footage is the ONLY cutaway that happens during this explanation, but while it's happening, it makes you think "Oh dear God, how much of this are they gonna show??" and "No no no no, they aren't REALLY going to show this cow being SLAUGHTERED... are they?" It helps put you on edge throughout the entire movie, making you wonder how graphic it's going to be, when actually it doesn't REALLY show that much gore. And then this little educational short comes along and says "Hold my moonshine."

[@glarnboudin4462]

Holy shit I wasn’t expecting to see you here. Longtime fan of your work, dude!

[@bromodragone8405]

"Hi there, Bob! How're ya doing?" - Kevin Murphy, Batman (1949)

[@TheTrainFan9]

I actually watched TCSM a few days ago. The shot of the cows in the slaughterhouse is before the hitchhikers monologue about headcheese. But i still agree, it's extremely powerful footage.

[@DarkfireTaimatsu]

"'Weiners discharged' is all I heard."

[@RIXRADvidz]

Swinging Discharged Weiners

[@komalahayes1535]

😃😄😃

[@kyon813]

"'Free-swinging weiners discharged' is my take-away."

[@typacsk]

Carlos Danger nods in approval

[@yohei72]

When I was in the hospital, there was a sign on the nurses' bulletin board that read something like, "GOAL: 6 discharges before noon." I commented, "Sounds like my teenage years."

[@rgs8970]

I regret to inform you that Dale Rugg passed away in July 2020 at the age of 90 years old. (I'm not making any jokes.) He was survived by his five sons: Greg, Brad, Rick, Jeff, and Ross, his daughters-in-law, ten grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren! I hope he did get the chance to see his hat being riffed on before his passing. RIP Dale Rugg

[@drewvonawesome8851]

Is there an obituary online for him?

[@wareforcoin5780]

@@rgs8970 Wait... _that's the same place?_

[@melasnexperience]

I'm shocked to learn he & his family weren't actors.

[@Malamba4231]

His last words: “The tail horror! The tail horror!”

[@drewvonawesome8851]

@@rgs8970 Found it, it is genuinely interesting that they're all real people. Wonder how much they got for being in this.

[@nitrokid]

"All the sausages are hung here - " LOL the amount of sexual innuendo in this short is off the charts. I love it.

[@komalahayes1535]

See above comment😃😄😃

[@planescaped]

The wieners are discharged as they hurriedly shuffle towards slots... Underweight packages are rejected. A tale as old as time...

[@komalahayes1535]

@@planescaped Helps if they have nice personalities and can make you laugh...😁

[@zoeyrochellezhombie829]

And the best part is the innuendos weren't intended!

[@sandydee8003]

A “Mattress of Gelatin”??? Note: Buy new mattress…

[@nlpnt]

To this day Hormel Chili tastes like a 1960s Minnesotan's idea of "zesty".

[@sslocke]

I wanna meet the people that actually eat Hormel chili as a meal. It's our last resort for chili on a hotdog if we don't already have some we made

[@RobMacKendrick]

In my family, we call that "white man hot". (We're white, by the way. And also hot.)

[@andystegall7407]

It tastes like pickled ball sweat

[@bunnybismuth]

Signed. The worst of the canned chili except for Aldi

[@231mac]

@@RobMacKendrick How cute, you must be from the north.

[@marccolten9801]

Dear kids, what do you weigh and what's your BMI? Signed Hormel Department of Meat Acquisition

[@mmsL125]

Whatever the answer don’t worry, we can increase those numbers

[@ZERO_O7X]

I don't know, but I was raised on a strict diet of the gelatinous fat scraped off the tops of cans of Spam. 😂

[@NeptuneRising70]

"Mmmm...ingredient meat," sounds like a Homer Simpson line.

[@Nightweaver1]

"Daaad, sausage, bacon and pork all come from the same animal!" "Sure, Lisa, a wonderful, magical animal!"

[@himwhoisnottobenamed5427]

@@Nightweaver1 “It’s bad enough they’re all eating meat. They don’t have to rub my face in it….”

[@demonkingbadger6689]

I better not say too much. My late grandma would have salivated over those pickled pig feet.

[@tomservo56954]

@@Nightweaver1 Don't forget the Garden of Eden, where Homer Adam peels bacon off a live pig and it's restored

[@darkmerchant1]

Ah, yes! The Batch Master is picnic boning the ingredient meat.

[@antipanglossian]

"It's the automatic scaling line, we're sorting out some hams" I love when Kevin sings.

[@svenjansen2134]

It's his shtick.

[@formlessone2807]

Still my all-time favorite short. "The tail! The horrible tail!"

[@kaptainwarp]

I can't take this one. That being one reason among many.

[@scottogle672]

You're still thinking about the tail, aren't you?

[@sleepyhollow783]

@@kaptainwarp The "Chicken of Tomorrow" short I thought was enough. This short solidifies my need to remain vegetarian. I get why some people like meat. But I more understand those who do not or cannot. 😄 & 🤢 at the same time.

[@jonahfalcon1970]

For that, I'm moving you to the Hide Cellar.

[@paxhumana2015]

@FormlessOne, et al, enemies in Mario games know that feeling all too well, especially with the Super Leaf and Tanooki Suit.

[@ZERO_O7X]

This is probably my favorite short because not only is it hilarious to hear the guys riffing, but it's honestly an interesting look at how meat is processed and how little Hormel wastes.

[@raideurng2508]

I too enjoy watching emulsified mystery goo land majestically onto cold steel platters.

[@anthrax2525]

All to tasteful light jazz music

[@JamaicanCastle]

@@raideurng2508 It's not _mystery_ goo, they tell you exactly what it's made of.

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

Some kids dreamed of visiting newly-opened Disneyland. These two homely-looking boys dreamed of visiting a meat processing factory.

[@GrizDrummer25]

Some kids just know their callings.

[@Progearspec]

That's gotta be some kind of fetish "rolls eyes".

[@SgtSega]

It's free.

[@MkeKen67]

Some kids throw up on amusement park rides, others prefer to barf after touring meat plants.

[@TotallyNotRedneckYall]

This is what you get when you wish for a trip to Disney on a cursed monkey's paw.

[@BenCol]

Come on Jimmy, let’s take a peek at the killing floor!

[@KairuHakubi]

Don't let the name throw you, Jimmy.

[@AR-cp5dz]

@@KairuHakubi It’s more of steel grating that allows material to sluice through so it can be collected and exported.

[@ashlinbouwman7036]

@@AR-cp5dz Just ask this scientician

[@pja36]

Uhhhhh.

[@meumnomen]

Hartman ❤

[@lupinzar]

The lounge music throughout made this riff even more hilarious.

[@weekendmom]

The music towards the end of the film is the same music used in Larry Blamire's film The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra.

[@HylianFox3]

@@weekendmom I SLEEP NOW

[@troylowe814]

Hearing the tones of mallets hitting a vibraphone while animal carcases are being skinned made my week

[@blueseanomad7435]

"This is too much sodium, this is madness!" "Madness? THIS IS HOR-MEL!"

[@RichterPhallos]

Kids today don't know SQUAT about sodium. The shocking lack of sodium taught in schools today is, well, shocking!

[@MsTokyoBlue]

*Kicks USDA inspector off ledge into hide cellar*

[@bensirach3586]

Into the hide cellar he goes!

[@adey88splace]

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAAA

[@HiSodiumContent]

.

[@tritiumH3]

Oh. Oh no. Anyone who hasn't seen this, you're in for a treat, a meaty treat. It's an industrial advertising short, as imagined by Cronenberg.

[@KairuHakubi]

The sickly color of the film is what realllly makes it

[@kellysquirrelk]

1st time for me. Yikes.

[@dawnbreaker2912]

Yeah, that was pretty horrifying. Not enough to make me give up beef, though.

[@brian_sipe]

Look, I'm going to be real with you chief, this made me hungry and I dug out a can of Spam to make a couple of sandwiches. And to cry into.

[@lordscrewtape2897]

Saw only WISHES it were this disturbing...😳

[@JohnLee-ue6gy]

the subtle introduction of the quasi-mariachi horns during the chili segment aptly captured the authenticity of the product.

[@Jchavarro]

"Wait these are the tapeworms we pulled from the pigs" had me coughing with laughter

[@himwhoisnottobenamed5427]

“Eat Hormel!”

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

C'mon Jimmy, let's take a look at the killing floor... Don't let the name throw you, it's not really a floor, it's more of a steel grating that allows material to sluice through, where it can be collected and exported.

[@anon5263]

I have this CRAZY FRIEND who says it's wrong to eat meat. IS HE CRAZY?

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

@@anon5263 Hahahaha no, just ignorant. You see your crazy friend never heard of the food chain. *cut to scientician*

[@wongtimefunguy]

When I grow up I'm going to bovine university!

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

@@wongtimefunguy My cat’s breath smells like cat food.

[@himwhoisnottobenamed5427]

@@anon5263 Not only is your friend crazy, but ignorant.

[@diannemose244]

And the screams of animals packed shoulder to shoulder fade in the distance 😂😂

[@srbrant5391]

“Handling of oblong tins can often lead to picnic boning.” I’m dead.

[@jonahfalcon1970]

Ah... the infamous "THE TAIL!!!! THE HORRIBLE TAIL!!!!!"

[@fireriffs]

I noticed several people in the live chat replay were commenting on the lack of blood coming from the meat. That is because the blood is drained at the slaughterhouse because meat with blood in it would rot too quickly.

[@Supperdude9]

It's... the same logic for human bodies when they get embalmed.

[@thesmilingmercenary937]

That's ham facts!

[@markiangooley]

Removing blood is also part of koshering but of course this is mostly pork processing so koshering doesn’t enter into it…

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

Removing blood is part of meat butchery period. Doesnt matter if its halal, kosher, or just plain ol secular meat

[@srbrant5391]

@@LukeMcGuireoides "Plain ol' secular meat" is one of my new favorite sentences. Thank you.

[@marccolten9801]

"Skinless Wieners" was the name of my Hebrew school kickball team.

[@CookiesAndSarcasm]

Hahahahaha! Well played sir, well played.

[@shannondore]

😆🤣

[@kellyweingart3692]

😂😂😂😂🍆

[@komalahayes1535]

... Also a Porn name😋

[@patrickdrazen8411]

"Handling Oblong Tins" was the name of my high school New Wave band. And "Batch Masters" was the punk band that played my Senior Prom!

[@JonNargodian]

"Hormel pigs feet are delicacy items" "THEY GRACE THE TABLES OF KINGS!" I spat out my drink at that.

[@zoeyrochellezhombie829]

My grandparents had a gallon jar of pickled pigs feet. Sat on a shelf in the garage until the day my Grandmother died. Literally. God knows how old that jar was.

[@aaronlarson2330]

The dark and gritty "How It's Made" prequel no one expected.

[@marythomson511]

I was unfortunately mid--swallow of a soda at "ANCIENT SPAM BURIAL GROUNDS" -- I managed to aim away from my tech

[@AskALibbieist]

i could have happily lived the rest of my life without seeing a mattress of gelatin.

[@ChibiPanda8888]

Yeah me too

[@nickfarmer2452]

_Mattress of Gelatin:_ The new album from Skinless Wieners.

[@MyYTaccountName]

Same

[@GenerallyGeneralLee]

Then you probably wouldn't like spooning on mine, huh? Darn!

[@sonicsucks20]

@@GenerallyGeneralLee ???

[@ironheadrat3420]

This one is a real rollercoaster, it's in turns banal, horrifying and hilarious. It's also very quotable, I don't think I'll ever forget picnic boning or The Batchmaster.

[@anthrax2525]

Back to the Hide Cellar with you

[@kenthuang436]

The tail! The horrible tail!

[@ironheadrat3420]

What's Hormul?

[@Popebug]

Free swinging stripping machine

[@skug9bob]

Ted has lived in the hide cellar for decades: the workers pretend very hard they can't see him.

[@lonecycle4849]

"Mattress of gelatine" is 1. The fuel for my nightmares 2. A great shitty band name

[@nickfarmer2452]

3. Album title by a shitty band

[@BryonYoungblood]

@@nickfarmer2452 4. A cheap "B" movie's title.

[@friendly-nemesis4754]

3. The latest anti-vaccine-cultist's alternative treatment for COVID-19

[@RingshadowCat]

Honestly? This whole video fascinated me. Custom machinery running, skilled people, and a facility that looks spotless while having little to no waste. Good job, Hormel, I hope your current standards are like this!

[@Jenna-iw7bi]

That’s a good point. It truly does look like they’re using as much as they possibly can

[@chrisbennett6062]

4:30 "Dad has opted to dress as one of the Wizard's henchmen, possibly Gabe!" Ah , Gabe

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

"Future Doughy Guys!" Almost any joke that reminds me of "Teenage Crime Wave" on MST3K is a good thing.

[@blueseanomad7435]

I enjoy that movie with or without riffing, a classic.

[@GenY42]

...butter

[@JamaicanCastle]

Doughy Guys, duh-duh-duh-Doughy Guys!

[@Popebug]

He'll never touch you, Terry. You're dirt.

[@HylianFox3]

@@JamaicanCastle Doughy Guys, buttery Doughy Guys!

[@scitechian]

"Mattress of Gelatin" sounds like the finishing move of a Deep South circuit wrestler in the 1980s.

[@EddieHawkinsII]

Mattress of Gelatin sounds like Nick Nolte’s new bed after he moved in to the Hide Cellar.

[@zoeyrochellezhombie829]

Ew

[@williamjones2027]

"Don't get any ideas. We're dairy cows and we taste like horse." Finally, someone who understands why I laugh my butt off at those Chik-Fil-A "Eat Mor Chicken" ads.

[@timnor4803]

Dairy beef is actually very good. McDonald's buys lots of it.

[@Popebug]

@@timnor4803 Is that why McDonald's tastes like sad cardboard?

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

No, he said it was good. Mickey dees taste like shit because they sacrifice the cattle to satan

[@AncelDeLambert]

@@Popebug No, that's Burger King

[@ResoluteGryphon]

I actually found the process fascinating. We have such a disconnect these days about where our foods come from. And the RiffTrax guys made it hilarious. Double-win!

[@Cajek2]

Banal, horrifying edutainment

[@mikezylstra7514]

Total disconnect. Ground up chicken cloacas formed into little ovals and breaded. Yuck.

[@erikthewriter]

The moment Bill found his golden ticket inside his ham was a day of joy. He and the other winners will join Han Hormel in his meat Factory. Anything it possible!

[@kenthuang436]

How many of those guests will end up in the giant meat grinders?

[@nickfarmer2452]

"She's turned into a giant cranberry!" "Quick! Take her to the saucing machine!"

[@matthewmitchell5636]

man I would kill to see a Willy Wonka x Soylent Green movie

[@EddieHawkinsII]

@@matthewmitchell5636 Sadly, the closest we’ve gotten is either Consuming Passions or the Willy Wonka sequence in Epic Movie. On the upside, in the latter, we get the treat of Crispin Glover as Willy Wonka.

[@ericstoverink6579]

I can only imagine the horror of the Oopma Loompa songs.

[@thomaspalazzolo5902]

Oh god no. Thanks guys! But, oh god, no. The hide cellar. The hide cellar. The hide cellar.

[@TheMrMeng]

The fleshing machine. That sounds like something straight from a horror movie.

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

The hide cellar

[@timnor4803]

Paused to subscribe when I heard "as a typical Minnesota farmer he can easily start as a quarterback for the Vikings" 😂😂😂

[@MiddleAgedNerd]

Having already seen this dozens of times on Twitch, I'm just here to pay my respects to dad's hat.

[@theodorelehman]

RIP Dad's Hat.

[@christopherwall2121]

o7

[@riconui5227]

I suspect it left Minnesota in various cans of Spam...... Which likely improved that batch. We'll ask the "Batchmaster".

[@TTony-tu6dm]

“The tail! The horrible horrible tail!”

[@donkrouskop1743]

"ingredient meat" pushed me over that MST/Rifftrax/Film Crew/Cinematic Titanic 2:30AM "everything's funny now" ledge.

[@dianesylvester156]

I went over that 2:30am Everything Is Funny ledge one night watching Friday The 13th. I still can’t look at Freddy without laughing.

[@racingfootball]

my bff and I watch this at work one night when we were slow... THIS IS hilarious ~

[@jacknewman9256]

Obscure reference to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Nice!

[@Big_Tex]

By God look at all that stuff, pigs are absolutely magical creatures.

[@dawnbreaker2912]

Sure, Big_Tex, some wonderful... MAGICAL animal.

[@johngulyas695]

Yes, magical AND delicious!

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

Especially when grilled on propane

[@docdave15]

15:00 Their reaction to this part never fails to get a laugh out of me.

[@Awol138]

The cartoon dog joke is extremely underrated. 10/10

[@Concetta20]

“Each one ready to be cried into by an aging bachelor.” 😂😭

[@andylindsaytunes]

The humor was an excellent salve for the trauma of the endless skinning scene.

[@jamesmorris1657]

Thanks. I think I’ll check out now!

[@AmyLSacks]

So... much... pigskin, and yet no one was READY FOR SOME FOOTBAALLLL!! o_0

[@brian_sipe]

The skinning had me giggling the whole way through, but then I rewatched it with the volume turned on.

[@kenthuang436]

The men skinning the carcasses of those cows should be called the *Real* Buffalo Bills.

[@lhaviland8602]

@@AmyLSacks "But back here at home we've been waiting a long time for this!"

[@dullaham8444]

I tried to use this as background noise to fall asleep to, and every five minutes I either laughed or gasped in horror at what the narrator describes

[@rainofflame]

For the love of god, for SO MAMY REASONS, why would you even try??

[@tsmith7070]

"Big meat is in the pocket of big saran wrap". ... upvote and followed.

[@sabbaadams8638]

I love Kevin's lounge singing! And yes, the story of bacon IS the greatest story ever told! I love how not one single employee is wearing gloves, hair nets, or anything. Eat Hormel, folks.

[@himwhoisnottobenamed5427]

The cameras back then weren’t that great, but I’m sure there’s a good measure of sweat in there too.

[@zoeyrochellezhombie829]

It was the 50s. Nobody cared.

[@gnussyflarkin]

I'm not going to lie; I appreciate how informative this is.

[@foxbutterfly-eden8715]

Me too. Really appreciate the insight into how industrialization has been used to disconnect us from our food 😳 I’m sure I’ll catch shit for this but, holy shit! This is a “good” viewing of how we treat these animals as if they’re nothing but consumables. Fuck

[@funnyman8161]

@@foxbutterfly-eden8715 I'm just happy to see how much of the animal they use, waste not want not and all that

[@anglaismoyen]

@@foxbutterfly-eden8715 They are consumables though.

[@ThePsho]

I wonder, though, without industrialization if we'd even have the internet, KZbin, rifftrax etc. to have this conversation. I'd think some of the people involved with the development of those things would have otherwise been busy with boning their own meat all day, so to speak.

[@ryant282a]

At the grocery store I work at, I once had an elderly couple ask me where the "Hormul" products were located. I said, "Hormel? That's on aisle 5." The man paused, grinned, and said, "It's a hoot that you Southerners call it Hormel. We're from Minnesooooota, and it's pronounced Hormul, now doncha know?" I told them all the commercials here pronounce it Hormel, so that's why we call it that. They walked away looking defeated and shocked for some reason.

[@kimifw58]

I will always be baffled by people mispronouncing brand names despite hearing the correct pronunciations in commercials.

[@DanaTheInsane]

Did they go back to Prairie Home Companion? Nobody has talked like that here in about 50 years.

[@iunnox666]

@@DanaTheInsane You bet.

[@winstonmarlowe5254]

@@DanaTheInsane They do, you just can't hear it. Extremely obvious to outsiders, though.

[@Backinblackbunny009]

@@DanaTheInsane powdermilk biscuits aren't halfbad....

[@belseygell9258]

Imagine the audience reactions if this short was ever riffed live. (I highly doubt it ever would be riffed live, but it’s fun to imagine the volume of such horror.)

[@luisreyes1963]

I imagine a mixture of raucous laughter & violent retching. 🤣🤮

[@captaindunsel2048]

"Batchmaster" made me think of Boggy Creek 2... "Mike, his batch!" 😂

[@paintedbymatthew]

Nothing beats a good night's sleep on my mattress of gelatin.

[@joelius1]

PETA only dreams of filming something this disturbing.

[@kenthuang436]

What about Quentin Tarantino?

[@soangry]

@@kenthuang436 not enough feet

[@rosehuynh1572]

"Meet Your Meat" was probably the most horrific factory footage I've ever seen...

[@joelius1]

@@rosehuynh1572 I would have agreed with you -- right up to the moment Hormel skins the cow.

[@KyleRayner12]

@@soangry Pigs' feet don't count?

[@LchanOtakudom]

You know, I went into this short thinking "uh oh, this is gonna be tough, I don't know if I have the stomach for this short!". I'm 8 minutes in and I REALLY WANT SOME BACON!!

[@luisreyes1963]

Mmm...Bacon...🥓

[@srbrant5391]

“This film is a machine! A machine for pigs! Fit only for the boning of picnics!”

[@TheLichruler]

Me watching this: "OSHA! OSHA! Good lord someone get OSHA in there!"

[@jmjon9]

this video is proof that you never actually want to see how the sausage gets made

[@MarkLipka]

@jmjon9 --- ♦️ *If this short doesn't make you a vegan, maybe nothing will.* ♦️

[@luisostasuc8135]

im fascinated with medical stuff, so it's more knowing the suffering that the animals go through before theyre brutally slaughtered that makes me not support the meat industry as much as possible

[@elizabethsmith7224]

What do you mean this is fascinating

[@kbbrown8154]

I'm more curious about how Mr. Rugg takes his two sons to Spam Land for vacation and comes home with four. Did he pick up two more in the gift shop?

[@ashlinbouwman7036]

and it only cost him a hat!

[@MacTechG4]

A combination of the Fixed Blade and cloning technology

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

@@MacTechG4 the fixed blade pierces the shield

[@timnor4803]

Isn't that where they come from?

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

@@timnor4803 this is where you tell your kids that babies come from when they are being bad. The stork is for good kids

[@christopherwall2121]

I never thought I'd be so happy to see an accounting office or a machinist's shop

[@brossichi1988]

Timeless short. This and "At Your Fingertips: Grasses" are perfection. "Each pig foot a STUNNING work of art!"

[@fangjokerLS]

Man, STAND BY ME is very different than I remembered.

[@nickfarmer2452]

"Hey, you want to see LOTS of dead bodies?"

[@burtknighten1873]

Imagine living somewhere that this is considered entertainment as a child

[@raekuul]

Imagine living somewhen that this is considered infotainment for a child

[@captainyossarian388]

The 70s was a very weird decade, trust me I lived through it.

[@christopherborum6551]

Have you ever been to Austin, MN?

[@alexcarter8807]

@@captainyossarian388 This film is more like 60s but yeah, my local kiddie show (every metro area had a locally produced TV show for kids, where I was, it was the "Checkers & Pogo Show") had a thing called "On The Go" where they'd explore such fascinating places as .... the water treatment plant. And we kids ate it up.

[@csmead209]

It isn't?

[@pharmboy730]

Absolutely NO safety devices ANYWHERE... All the guy separating the pigs feet has to do is sneeze and it's "Hello, Lefty!"

[@srbrant5391]

"An ancient Spam burial ground."

[@wolfgangallanalhazred802]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm invested in the compelling plot of "This is Hormel."

[@DJHolte]

The name of the farmer sounded familiar to me (I think I was actually thinking of Paul Rugg, who was the voice of Freakazoid). But anyway, I looked up the name and one of the first results was an obit of a Dale Rugg who died in 2020 -- comparing the pic there to the dad in this video, and seeing that the obit mentions he was a dairy farmer, I'm pretty sure it's the same person.

[@karnerblue7658]

Huh, that’s interesting. 🤔

[@stevem7192]

Its the same Dale Rugg. I also looked it up and Paul Rugg was born in LA. Maybe a cousin.

[@krombopoulosmichael]

This one is tailor-made for the lads to riff on. I love how Kevin couldn't help but make phallic jokes.

[@zoeyrochellezhombie829]

Could you?

[@joylesstiger]

I found my new cb handle! This is batchmaster coming up on your back door, headed for Beantown.

[@EddieHawkinsII]

Well hopefully you can keep the black marks off my mudflats. It’s Buffalo Bill here, howdy!

[@roringusanda2837]

🤔😣that sounds dirtier than I'd like to think it was

[@Monkofmagnesia]

Jor-el. Kal-el. Horm-el. Do you need me to write the super jokes for you?

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

🎶”Quality, freshness and flavor . . .”🎵

[@jamesanthony8438]

I was thinking about those guys while watching this, too. =)

[@luisreyes1963]

You won't find them here! 🤮

[@mrmonty86]

Some kids dream of going to Disneyland, Comic-Con, or summer camp. These kids want to visit the Hormel plant.

[@ChibiPanda8888]

As they say... follow your dreams, kids.

[@Zara-Bari]

Narrator: "The skins are fed into a grinder and shown emerging here." Me: "But what if... we didn't see them emerge though? I'm just saying." I've never been disturbed to witness this process before. I think it's the jaunty music that does it.

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

This is one of those shorts that keeps getting funnier everytime you watch it. I'd lease my soul to see this and Fun in Balloonland riffed live together.

[@Aldaboy]

I'm watching them slice those pig carcasses and thinking "Did they show this to kids?!"

[@TheAwmoody]

This had to be the inspiration for the Simpson's Bovine University with Troy McClure lol.

[@Nickel_The_Wise]

Hormel Batch Master might have to be the name of my Luchador identity.

[@emmagrove6491]

Billy is slightly dismayed as a careless worker accidentally severs his arm in the band saw.

[@Eisenwulf666]

Ah, Hormel's Magnifico, the typical italian salami that, if offered to an italian, would make them vomit and weep at the same time

[@markrook6085]

“Ingredient Meat” would be an AWESOME band name….

[@deandupont5503]

Wait, isn't Ingredient Meat the rhythm guitarist for GWAR?

[@joriankell1983]

I play Bass, let's do it

[@Skrimpish]

Follow your dreams!

[@joriankell1983]

@@RadicalMaddie I like it. So who here plays drums?

[@ashlinbouwman7036]

Watching this for a second time on a full stomach - inadvisable.

[@0pyrophosphate0]

The "hide cellar" sounds like a Diablo level.

[@mmsL125]

Stay awhile and listen to screams from the cow-peeler

[@suchiuomizu]

FRESH MEAT!

[@matthewpaul6904]

I can't believe you couldn't get Weird Al back for this one.

[@stevem7192]

He's a longtime vegan. Probably not ideal for him.

[@AmyLSacks]

Al is still in therapy after "Three Magic Words." At least we know he can afford the best therapy money can buy.

[@mechachrist]

Thes guys have been lifting me out of depression since 89 or 90.

[@CaptOrbit]

And you could tell that Hormel was so proud of all of that footage. It's like they wanted you to share in their joy.

[@oljimeagle]

Seeing all those cow legs stacked up in the corner really just reminds me how I dont want to know where my food comes from.

[@JohnnyBurnes]

Funny, educational, AND terrifying. Rifftrax has it all!