This isn't about maps, it's about interior decorating. We've been had.
@srbrant5391 Жыл бұрын
A great way to grey up your foyer.
@jeffaltier5582 Жыл бұрын
You would think a movie called "What Is a Map" would include more stuff like maps and not spend 8 of the 10 minute movie on bedroom floor plans.
@KairuHakubi Жыл бұрын
I guess he really thought the concept was fuckin OUT there, and we needed to be eased into it it's only fair I guess, in a time before video games and jet aircraft, you didn't really get to see things from above to understand what they are. it might as well have been molecular models
@MrArgus11111 Жыл бұрын
Further reinforcing that these films for classes were just a scam to get government money
@user-os7ec4dm8x Жыл бұрын
What are you talking about, I've just looked up the definition of 'map' and it says vague representation of little kid's bedroom including starkly drawn outlines of elderly ladies' furniture. I mean have you ever been to a map store? It's full of that shit!
@KairuHakubi Жыл бұрын
@@MrArgus11111 that basically describes the entire school system.
@ian_b Жыл бұрын
@@KairuHakubi Yes, it's not like they had buildings with more than one storey.
@CyberKnight1 Жыл бұрын
If only we could see some kind of educational short to learn how one might set up a room....
@kevinblount7142 Жыл бұрын
Better than one about setting up THE room…
@thelostone6981 Жыл бұрын
Better than “how I filmed the Room”…
@skeetsmcgrew3282 Жыл бұрын
Please no, I can't take that again
@louisdellalucca8969 Жыл бұрын
@@kevinblount7142 oh hi children I’m your new substitute teacher
@gl15col Жыл бұрын
Thanks, now I'm having flashbacks about wooden blocks and where to put easels...so many easels.
@thomaspalazzolo5902 Жыл бұрын
"What is a map? A miserable pile of sea-charts!"
@phoenixlich Жыл бұрын
"For what profit is it to a man if he gains the world, and loses his own soul?" -Austin 3:16 I believe
@raphaelturtle4146 Жыл бұрын
Nice
@natebetts9426 Жыл бұрын
"But enough geography: have at you!"
@jeremy____5747 Жыл бұрын
This comment made my toilet start flushing counterclockwise
@JonathanRobertAlexander Жыл бұрын
"Your atlases are as empty as your soul. Mankind ill needs a cartographer such as you!"
@coreyvicesassistant4403 Жыл бұрын
3:42 "Legolas, what do your elf eyes see?" "Table lay here, and a lamp. There was even...a couch..."
@jeremy____5747 Жыл бұрын
They're taking the couches to Isengard!
@greenranger8884 Жыл бұрын
Roflmao
@lizishmathuser Жыл бұрын
As a literal map maker, this was almost too much to sit through.
@deirdre108 Жыл бұрын
A "literal" map maker versus a "figurative" one?
@ian_b Жыл бұрын
Is the claim that "maps are fun to draw" true, or is the film telling us lies?
@spacenerd9499 Жыл бұрын
I work in land records and GIS. 🤣 I now how you feel!
@Tony_Cardoza Жыл бұрын
@@deirdre108 A hyperbolic Map maker.
@Tony_Cardoza Жыл бұрын
@@ian_b lol
@tuckerbowen4626 Жыл бұрын
I gotta say, this sequel to "Setting Up A Room" just fails to capture the magic of the original
@Gappasaurus Жыл бұрын
I like to think that it’s actually a _prequel,_ where Betty is the older teacher as a young girl and we are witnessing the origins of her obsessive floor plan drawings and mania for setting up rooms 😅
@daffers2345 Жыл бұрын
They need a corner for blocks!
@shwahgamer11 ай бұрын
@@Gappasaurus Finally, some proper lore for Setting Up a Room.
@cannedcream Жыл бұрын
The great thing about these informational videos is that I always walk away knowing a little bit less, and feeling a little more dead inside.
@Zara-Bari Жыл бұрын
Okay, but I'm seeing a lot of shapes I haven't learned to draw yet. This must be the advanced course.
@raphaelturtle4146 Жыл бұрын
Rectangles are tricky. It looks kinda like a square but it's not. It's a little longer or something. Idk man. It's like he's making it all up as he goes.
@dynamicsketch Жыл бұрын
You need to watch the Drawing for Beginners series then. Rifftrax did three of those.
@ian_b Жыл бұрын
@@raphaelturtle4146 I did a University degree in Shapes but I never really got the whole rectangle thing.
@Gappasaurus Жыл бұрын
NGL, that table looks just like the flat end of a cylinder when viewed from above, so i’m a bit confused now 😵
@raphaelturtle4146 Жыл бұрын
@@ian_b shut up, really? Very cool. I got a masters in my ABCs. But that's easy stuff. Elemeno and whatnot. I can't wrap my mind around this shapes stuff. I'm not a rocket scientist
@dsprocks Жыл бұрын
@3:52 - "Looks like a crime scene where all the furniture was recently murdered." - Kevin Murphy, not afraid to pull jokes out from the dark recesses of his mind.
@PuffKitty Жыл бұрын
.. or ass 😏
@Northingmuch Жыл бұрын
"Thanks robot voice," exclaims the man that voiced a robot.
@DemonicNightmare Жыл бұрын
The prequel to Setting Up A Room we never knew we didn't want
@patrickf.4440 Жыл бұрын
Take yourself back to that wonder year of MCMXLIX. You are a grade schooler sitting in a classroom trying to listen to this film over the clattering sound of a 16 mm projector, which is probably louder than the narration, a film that is telling you something that your teacher could have told you about. That's old school education! Thanks for posting this. Pat, in Chicago
@jeremy____5747 Жыл бұрын
Anything is better than pandemic Zoom school.
@donfisherjr.2404 Жыл бұрын
Getting to watch a movie in class was the best part of school for me.
@outtheredude Жыл бұрын
Later on it was a video saying 'Just say NO (to drugs)' to "let the VCR do the teaching while I quietly consume a coffee with a Twinkie in the darkened room to satisfy my caffiene and sugar addictions". ;-)
@setharnold9764 Жыл бұрын
No doubt many naps were taken and doodles were drawn during this pile of sadness.
@Tony_Cardoza Жыл бұрын
@@outtheredude I see your point. Twinkies and coffee ARE just like heroin and crack cocaine. The hypocrisy of these teachers!
@kevhead1525 Жыл бұрын
Betty would go on to direct the setting up a room "short". Then, therapy.
@cylondorado4582 Жыл бұрын
It’s funny to me when an old film explains something we take for granted nowadays. Like when Goldfinger explains to James Bond what a laser is, or when this narrator explains representing a real world object in two dimensions on paper.
@chuckhush916 Жыл бұрын
This flick needs a dead founding father, or an androgynous singing fairy, or a talking spring. Or anything!!! PLEASE!!
@LeCrosse Жыл бұрын
"The big chair is in the corner" "Tears for Fears are writing songs from it" 😂
@PuffKitty Жыл бұрын
That went by so fast 😅
@strawbarry7834 Жыл бұрын
Thousands of dreams were crushed that day, as little kids got home from school, eagerly planned their new bedrooms, drew up the plans, then asked Dad, who promptly said "No", and so then they cried all night.
@EmilyTheManx Жыл бұрын
7:05 She's essentially kept in the attic all day, considering her room doesn't have doors.
@HylianFox3 Жыл бұрын
To be fair, the living room map didn't bother to explain what windows or doors were either despite being clearly marked.
@QuixoteX Жыл бұрын
@@HylianFox3 What are windows and doors?
@DemonicNightmare Жыл бұрын
@@QuixoteX There's probably an educational short explaining that.
@seattlefloyd Жыл бұрын
That's covered in the sequel "what is an escape plan?"
@cyborgraptor1778 Жыл бұрын
5:25 "Now you don't need the real furniture." You can sit on the floor and pretend you have furniture! Also, man I miss Space Ghost C2C.
@abitofabitofabit4404 Жыл бұрын
That was a legitimate business plan until recently.
@Bobsheaux Жыл бұрын
"Now, class, what did we learn from this short?" "What were we SUPPOSED to learn from this short?" "..."
@collegeman1988 Жыл бұрын
I had an awful flashback watching this because I remember seeing this educational film in fourth grade well over 40 years ago.
@setharnold9764 Жыл бұрын
COOKIES!
@spacenerd9499 Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣
@seanboggs215 Жыл бұрын
I guess sesame street didn't have much going on back in the day.
@andyjay729 Жыл бұрын
Dang, they were still showing filmstrips from the '40s in schools in the early '80s?
@collegeman1988 Жыл бұрын
@@andyjay729 wrong. It was about 1977, and I was in the 4th grade.
@IdeaBox-dk5vj Жыл бұрын
"Williams Street..." "Home of Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Aqua Teen Hunger Force!" I was actually thinking the same thing as soon as I heard that street name.
@CookiesAndSarcasm Жыл бұрын
Thank God, I watched those shorts about drawing shapes or I'd be totally lost!
@EdwardClayMeow Жыл бұрын
This short made 'Drawing For Beginners: The Square' feel fast paced and exciting.
@deanfiora4227 Жыл бұрын
Betty grew up to be a kindergarten teacher. She specialized in setting up a room.
@DanFloresII Жыл бұрын
Thank you, gents, for that Williams Street reference and for naming Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and ATHF. ❤️ Beautiful work as always. PS As funny as the joke was, I really hope Mike's Google prediction never comes true. 😬
@theoldladygamerishere384 Жыл бұрын
Everything but a door. The perfect kids room.
@RobotoSan Жыл бұрын
Bold idea for an educational film, posing a question about maps and then showing us how to diagram a room/town.
@skeetsmcgrew3282 Жыл бұрын
But they didn't teach us that! They taught us room diagram theory, something I never even knew existed until to say. Apparently practical application is part 2
@abitofabitofabit4404 Жыл бұрын
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 They're setting up "Setting Up a Room".
@outtheredude Жыл бұрын
This is not the Way! ;-)
@chriswest6988 Жыл бұрын
I don't know why children need to learn to draw floor plans, but on the assumption that they do, they probably need to include doors. I know the sets and dollhouses used to film this don't have them, but given the amazing scope of a child's imagination, I have to think they could have handled "pretend this bedroom has a door you can't see."
@ccjuju Жыл бұрын
To be fair this is a very advanced instructional video. It goes from object permanence to central planning in a matter of minutes.
@daveydoodle52 Жыл бұрын
Put this on a loop without the riffs and you have solid, sleep-inducing ASMR.
@Mr1234512 Жыл бұрын
Aqua Teen made it into a Riff! I’m so happy
@Merylstreep1949 Жыл бұрын
Betty neglected to draw the pentagram in the middle of her room , the one she used to summon the dark ones she uses to do her bidding and control the citizens of Betty's Town, a heretofore unknown sequel to Thornton Wilders Our Town
@evenberg8499 Жыл бұрын
Whimsical 1950's education. Throw random stuff at the pupils, and see what sticks.
@mikesilva3868 Жыл бұрын
Narrator: Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project, known as QUANTUM LEAP. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Doctor Beckett, prematurely stepped into the Project Accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time was made through brainwave transmissions, with Al, the Project Observer, who appeared in the form of a hologram that only Doctor Beckett could see and hear. Trapped in the past, Doctor Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, putting things right, that once went wrong and hoping each time, that his next leap will be the leap home quantum leap 1989 classic 😊
@KorenLesthe Жыл бұрын
Oh boy
@mikesilva3868 Жыл бұрын
@@KorenLesthe thanks love the 1989 quantum leap tv series 😊
@rikrob Жыл бұрын
That plot twist with the moving couch was almost too much excitement! Now Betty, seeing as you are such the great little map drawer, do the one from "How To Setup A Room", you have 10 minutes & aren't allowed to watch the video first!
@andyjay729 Жыл бұрын
Maybe Betty is the glasses-wearing teacher as a young adult. Hey, the times and ages kinda line up.
@rikrob Жыл бұрын
@@andyjay729 very good point! Mystery solved on that one. Who'd have thought she'd go onto such great things from setting up a bedroom to assisting with the organisation of a whole classroom!
@DJHolte Жыл бұрын
Man, I did NOT see that 2nd act twist coming when they moved the couch to the other side of the room!
@Suetsumu Жыл бұрын
SPOILERS!!!
@michaelhuguet5415 Жыл бұрын
I just hope we find out if corn is grass.
@Evil0tto Жыл бұрын
We will never know.
@UlshaRS Жыл бұрын
Somethings are too great for us
@cylondorado4582 Жыл бұрын
First you must draw a map of the farm. First imagine the farm if you were looking at it from above. Then, draw the shape of the barn. Next, draw a line around the cornfield.
@outtheredude Жыл бұрын
Educational movie says: "No closure for you! Moa ha ha ha!"
@Edward-jn5pl Жыл бұрын
Is a map grass? That's what I want to know.
@darrinfromvault801 Жыл бұрын
It's weird all the maps say there's a Great Salt Lake in Utah, but when I go outside lately, there is only a dried up pond and a bunch of salt
@eviljoel Жыл бұрын
The Mormons are hiding the real lake, clearly.
@jeremy____5747 Жыл бұрын
Barely Adequate Salt Lake
@beebs312 Жыл бұрын
This is giving me flashbacks to my Crime Scene/Forensics classes
@KidMetairie Жыл бұрын
Shake hands with a map!
@EmilyTheManx Жыл бұрын
Ba-daw, baw-ba-da-daaa! 🎸
@MeganKoumori Жыл бұрын
If I were a teacher, I'd show this, sans Riff, to my students to punish them.
@jadenova Жыл бұрын
"Thanks robot voice," says Tom Servo.
@evelynwilson1566 Жыл бұрын
Wow, they really thought that school age children had never seen any sort of map and were completely unfamiliar with the concept of maps😆. Like the ones on the classroom wall for instance.
@Mr72Dolphins Жыл бұрын
We only had 2 dimensions back then
@TheNzFox Жыл бұрын
I am more worried by WHY 'Ann' wants or needs a map of Betties room, are we 100% sure 'Ann' is her cousin?
@gl15col Жыл бұрын
Now people would be suspicious this "Ann" was actually a burglar and Bettie is really giving them the locations of all the valuables...
@AuroDHikoshi Жыл бұрын
Given we know where she lives and where her school is...
@TheNzFox Жыл бұрын
@@gl15col have to admit, that is a far more innocent scenario than what my mind went to ...
@kingfish4575 Жыл бұрын
Loved the space ghost coast to coast reference!
@ckok77926 ай бұрын
That same room again joke was pretty relatable. I appreciate that rifftrax. As someone said a joke has some truth to it. I’m glad I ain’t the only one who struggles with waking up doing the same old same old every day.
@RedHeadKevin Жыл бұрын
This movie sounds like it's sending coded messages to The Resistance. "The Couch is against the wall." "The Lamp stands by the Couch." "The Radio is by the wall." "The Big Chair is in the corner."
@stephenclark6236 Жыл бұрын
Yarr. They'll never find me treasure now I've got this trick up me sleeve.
@meowistforlife Жыл бұрын
0:11 I see Young America and I know I am in for a time, these people decided that we needed to learn about triangles
@tdn6457 Жыл бұрын
I'm so glad you posted this, I've been wondering what a map is all day.
@Mr72Dolphins Жыл бұрын
What is " a day"?
@PaperbackWizard Жыл бұрын
This short is 80% over before we see anything *close* to an actual map.
@kevincherry4989 Жыл бұрын
Freaking out about missing table legs now has to be a running gag in other Riffs
@valentine_puppy Жыл бұрын
Good god, did you all see the size of Betty's room? That kid has some wealthy parents. Bigger than my room.
@eviljoel Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure she actually has parents
@andylindsaytunes Жыл бұрын
3 chairs!
@FreakyRufus Жыл бұрын
Having a giant radio set in her room did surprise me, actually. I thought it was pretty common for families to only have one in the entire house, especially those floor models.
@HylianFox3 Жыл бұрын
3 chairs and a radio, but no toys or books. Or even a closet.
@TheNzFox Жыл бұрын
@@HylianFox3 or doors
@rudylittlewolf Жыл бұрын
7:26 - YAY for the Houston mention!! My current and home town! Betty's "drawing" of her bedroom sure looks like she has a degree in architecture! Better than some professional blueprints I've seen!
@jackv2244 Жыл бұрын
I believe Kevin meant Ray Parker Jr. Instead of Cuba Jr. The group Raydio, this is Betty's town and we're just living in it 😂😂😂
@dewdropfaery10 ай бұрын
I'm glad to see that the prequel to "Setting Up a Room" is every bit as tedious.
@HanMasho Жыл бұрын
We don't know why Betty keeps chanting the phrase, "swingin' a chain, swingin' a chain," but it seems to make her happy, so her mother and I have decided that we won't be getting doctors involved until it becomes a problem.
@Scribblerjohnny Жыл бұрын
It's time for Betty's nap! Nobody wants to lose a toe!
@elizabethhouse94549 ай бұрын
Floor plans & one map in 1949. Love the humor of Rifftrax (& mst3k). That's a wealthy family to have a radio in a large bedroom & one in the living room... This girl would be 84 years old now.
@colinr0380 Жыл бұрын
As the seminal band Death Grips say in their lyrics to their Culture Shock song: "Useless information occupies every open space inside your skull / You know whats going on every day, every night every which way, you're so international"
@PuffKitty Жыл бұрын
I like that (of course it's crammed in my skull now 😏)
@trentlytle7289 Жыл бұрын
To see the table, look at Table 1 and you'll find the table on the Table labeled Table 1. Take the table on Table 1 and label it Table 1, to avoid confusion.
@Pygar2 Жыл бұрын
"'Put that down in your copybooks!"
@Cole..... Жыл бұрын
"First, we'll drawn lines to show where the town limits are." - so the bank knows where not to lend money for undesirables to buy homes.
@5roundsrapid263 Жыл бұрын
6:04 That’s the first thing I thought, too! 😂
@katthawthorne1027 Жыл бұрын
This film walked so that "How To Setup A Room" could run.
@theshadowknows...9120 Жыл бұрын
We demand "What Is A Map?" - The Snyder Cut! NOW!!!!
@HylianFox3 Жыл бұрын
Pretty sure the two gals from "Setting Up A Room" were forced to watch this "A Clockwork Orange" style, it would explain a lot...
@tonytins Жыл бұрын
Thanks. I now know how to make this room in The Sims.
@LeshaAnn Жыл бұрын
Forget that infamous hammer-and-sickle in the eagle's eye, what's with that cartoon monster-face in the dollhouse window? 🤣
@lindamortensen7835 Жыл бұрын
This was torture. I hope you guys made it out alive.
@bobriemersma Жыл бұрын
"Robot Voice" - nice one!
@ArtyFartyBart Жыл бұрын
This is how Lars von Trier got the idea for Dogville
@DouglasJohnson. Жыл бұрын
Hahahaha!😂
@tophers3756 Жыл бұрын
Is a map grass?
@stephen3164 Жыл бұрын
2:42 “…and that’s how Japan’s flag design came to be, and why you should always double check the address when mailing a letter.”
@questionablehumor2800 Жыл бұрын
. o O ("a crime scene where all the furniture was murdered"... jeeziecreezie Kevin!?! 😅)
@ckok77926 ай бұрын
Oh my goodness the old style pens. They took skill to use. I remember a couple years ago a friend of mine had one and some ink, and man it was difficult and I thought i had reasonably well hand writing.
@luisostasuc8135 Жыл бұрын
That last part reminds me of people who give directions like "it's just off of Bonneville." Like, Street, avenue, boulevard? Because one of those cuts uninterrupted through town and east or west at least 10 miles outside of town. Like, you're telling me where you are because I *don't know* where you are, ffs!
@hawaiidispenser Жыл бұрын
Please let there be Map Safety Tips.
@katiekinsman4917 Жыл бұрын
As soon as the doll house furniture appeared on the screen, I was that meme of Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the screen. I was saying "RENWAL! That's Renwal doll house furniture!" though.
@ShannonSmith-qj4nb3 ай бұрын
The most interesting thing in this video is the arrow.
@undoneonion90 Жыл бұрын
"The legs cannot be seen." "WHERE DID THEY GO?!" "We'll draw a line around the table like this." "HOW DOES THAT HELP US FIND THE LEGS?!"
@Oppeldeldoc1 Жыл бұрын
Thanks to those first two, I always want an education film on RIFFTRAX to be made by Alan Arkin, with Matthew and Adam in it.
@jeremy____5747 Жыл бұрын
Alan Arkin, Alan Alda, Anakin Skywalker, A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Anime, Anemone, Enema, Abelone, Abelard, Ermine, Hermione, Ergo Sum
@doslover Жыл бұрын
Wow, I remember movies being a nice break in school but in this case... I'd rather do math.
@sidviscious83814 ай бұрын
@ 3:34.... "I LOVE LAMP!"
@DarkFleurofIra Жыл бұрын
Boof, sometimes I wonder who needed to watch these old 1950's-60's shorts when they were first released
@craftergin Жыл бұрын
That was some Deep Hurting.
@TheP3NGU1N Жыл бұрын
The prequel to Setting up a Room
@ckok77922 ай бұрын
I remember needing to same thing but on an old mac computer in middle school. I wish i knew these jokes at the time.
@drewgeraci8434 Жыл бұрын
Wow, I'm having flashbacks to grade school when we'd watch these slow, monotone shorts. I'd nod out when the teacher wasn't looking.
@robertwalker-smith2739 Жыл бұрын
'Is a map grass?'
@christophercrane9540 Жыл бұрын
That Tears for Fears reference is such a good, deep, dumb cut.
@daddydavey Жыл бұрын
And it's sequel.. How to re-fold a f*cking map !!!
@srbrant5391 Жыл бұрын
Now you’re ready to play D&D!
@HylianFox3 Жыл бұрын
Needs more graph paper.
@calsavestheworld Жыл бұрын
Two days?! But I want a map now!
@classiclife7204 Жыл бұрын
The filmmakers couldn't get past the whole "we gotta make them understand spatial resolution FIRST!!!" thing. It's like trying to teach someone chess, and spending hours on general geometry
@luisreyes19638 ай бұрын
I surmise this was the kind of film the teacher puts on to numb the kids as she sneaks out of the classroom to grab a smoke. 🚬
@altohippiegabber Жыл бұрын
"What is a MAP?" With a title like that I hope this video wasn't sponsored by NAMBLA!
@SomeOrangeCat Жыл бұрын
Is there a map that leads me to corn, which might be grass?
@djgizmoe Жыл бұрын
Deeeeep hurrrrtttiiinggg. Bejezeesus H. Christ can you imagine the target audience of elementary school students excited about getting to see a movie in class and getting THIS?
@alanbear65055 ай бұрын
Listening to Kevin freak out over not seeing the table legs I was thinking it will be better when he develops object permanence. Then again, given what he’s seen he’s better off without.