RiffTrax: On Guard - Bunco! (Full FREE Short)

[@lizd2943]

You can tell these Bunco artists used to work for Chevrolet, because they know the importance of having a good list of prospects.

[@charleswoodward9225]

That comment went deeper than James Cameron.

[@tomflorio3639]

Bravo

[@mrterp04]

Yeah but did they swat at imaginary elves?

[@shuttittuppitt9355]

Does anybody know the name of the woman starting around 9 minutes in (encyclopedias)?

[@dzhellek]

Fortunately, Harry wasn't too busy to make them good men.

[@thomaspalazzolo5902]

Ms. Hastings' tiny weird-ass car makes me so happy. It makes me think she lives in a Gumby world.

[@tomh.2405]

The only thing that would make it better would be if she were to engage in a chase scene with one of those weird-ass little electric-floor-polisher things from "Space Mutiny." That would wind up being one of those scenes you could re-watch ad infinitum, like the U.S.S. Indianapolis monologue from "Jaws" or the coffee-shop scene from "Heat."

[@RobMacKendrick]

I'm pretty sure I've seen Huckleberry Hound driving that car.

[@thomaspalazzolo5902]

@@RobMacKendrick I'm pretty sure I've seen Mr. Bean abuse that car.

[@RobMacKendrick]

@@thomaspalazzolo5902 That's actually a Reliant Robin, which is (and I'm not chaffing here) a much more substantial vehicle.

[@Nightweaver1]

@@tomh.2405 "Battling fool!"

[@stevenalexander7309]

I got curious and started searching for the car. Went way down the rabbit hole, but it is an Electra King. You're welcome!

[@DemonicNightmare]

I love that you didn't need to specify WHICH car, because the car being *the* car was so apparent by it sticking out so much 😂

[@animatrix1490]

Apparently it was electric, too! Top speed of about 18 mph. Electric cars in the 20s were marketed toward women because they were quieter and didn't require cranking. This is the second period piece I've seen where a little old lady drives an electric car (the other was a Perry Mason episode) so who knows--the marketing might have worked!

[@josephpatterson985]

Wait, they named a James Bond villain/Bond girl after THAT?

[@diannemose244]

Thanks

[@maxbrandt6]

Thank you, I was wondering about it.

[@bwriddle6650]

She’s the Granny from Looney Tunes who had Tweetie Bird. Same car and hat. Good lord 😂

[@MarcColten-us2pl]

It's basically a golf cart with doors

[@kenthuang436]

If only she had a talking canary who is constantly being chased by a talking cat who gets routinely pummeled and foiled by a bulldog named Hector.

[@redsox1973jd]

Lol the encyclopedia salesman was the guy who Scotty and McCoy give the formula for transparent aluminum to in Star Trek IV and the Husband in the same segment was the Captain of the Excelsior in Star Trek III LOL

[@paulbunch8388]

I am very impressed!!!

[@Nobody_Special310]

By law, a bunco artist must point at their victim and shout "You got bunco'd!" whenever they finish a bunco. If they don't, report them to their local bunco union.

[@HarpsiFizz]

And what happens then? Do they get kicked out of the union, or debunked?

[@edkorian]

Just a bunc' bruh.

[@NathanTarantlawriter]

@@HarpsiFizz They take them out to one of those pools of quicksand in the desert that was all over back then and toss them in.

[@ramseydoon8277]

It's things like this that make me glad to be a member of the Better Bunco Bureau.

[@srbrant5391]

Bless this thread.

[@alexgutierrez3500]

As someone born in Barstow, CA, I can personally attest to how beige everything is.

[@leroypreston2973]

This short actually still holds up. Lots of old people face scammers taking advantage of their lack of knowledge of modern technology and scam techniques. These scammers view them as senile moneybags

[@predcon1]

It's kinda scary to think how little has changed in the con game since this film came out. Why, the film itself is just now old enough to be one of the victims!

[@FreakyRufus]

These scams don't seem all that different from the ones now claiming your computer has been hacked or that you are due a refund for something you know nothing about, etc.

[@predcon1]

@@FreakyRufus I've been getting ones claiming to be "Undeliverable mail" from a fake automated postmaster. Even includes an attachment of that 'email' that's almost definitely some kind of dataminer if not ransomware.

[@Adamguy2003]

Another scam that some scumbags like to pull on senior citizens goes as follows: 1. The scammer identifies a potential target (Almost always a senior citizen who lives alone, most likely widowed), and via a bit of hacking, gains enough basic information on the victim to learn a little bit about them and their family members. 2. The scammer calls the would- be victim on the phone and says something along the lines of, "Hi, Grandma/ Grandpa, it's me, (Would- be victim's grandson), and I'm in a lot of trouble and REALLY need your help! I got arrested, I'm in jail, and Mom and Dad won't pay my bail! Could you PLEASE wire me enough money to cover it?" This one a- hole tried pulling that scam on an old friend of my family's, but fortunately, she was too clever to fall for it. She said in response, "Oh, yeah, sure, I'll send you however much money you need! But, first, there's something I've got to ask you: What's your middle name?" The scammer immediately hung up.

[@HarpsiFizz]

I absolutely despise those scammers. The elderly should be protected. We're all going to get there one day (At least most of us will). Thank goodness for the youtubers who target and harass scammers.

[@MildStallion1]

Nice to see the homeowner got a job running WKRP in Cincinnati.

[@mattyboyanderson]

And later as a bored Maytag repairman!

[@wraithstrongopark]

haaa! you saw him! a few famous actors in this short.

[@claudiadarling9441]

He's on the run from Mama Carlson, hiding out under an assumed identity in Southern California.

[@dawa7267]

...and a bicycle shop to 'entertain' young black kids...☹️ 'YOU JUST LEFT DUDLEY THERE!'

[@originalambival]

@Ramon Reyes Nothing else needs be said. ("Pigeon drops hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!")

[@ZERO_O7X]

Alternate Title:"How to do a Bunco" Written by' H.R. Stealin'stuff

[@michaeleverett2597]

I haven't heard the word 'bunco' since I was a kid...now I've heard it said enough in this one short to last me the rest of my life.

[@typacsk]

Always makes me think of "Boardwalk Empire" :)

[@ebwarg]

I’ve never heard it outside of “Dragnet.”

[@hew2356]

I've never heard it outside of crime dramas like "Hawaii Five-O" and "Murder, She Wrote". "Fraud'' or "confidence games" are far more common terms for the same idea.

[@leroypreston2973]

@@ebwarg same here. I can't think of the word without thinking about dragnet

[@DaveJOHAZ]

Bunco!

[@HylianFox3]

"Ophelia Dinsmore? That's a flat-out Monty Python name!" "Pinchbeck's Multiplex? Sounds like the world's nerdiest wrestling move."

[@TheCoolTube]

Dinsdale ... The guy Spiny Norman was after

[@JamaicanCastle]

@@TheCoolTube Doug Dinsdale, owner of the Dinsdale Dinnadone?

[@robertwalker-smith2739]

This makes being a bunco artist look as effortful as a legitimate job.

[@theboombody]

It probably is. I think most crime actually takes a lot of effort.

[@kathleenmorrison2908]

I guess the real profit comes from not having to pay taxes (or alimony, child support, etc.) for this money. You could amass tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and none of it goes to funding our schools or paying operatives to break into the Watergate.

[@theboombody]

@@kathleenmorrison2908 I guess tax enforcement agencies like the IRS are really just glorified methods the government uses to fight against the ever-crafty bunco artist.

[@steveharvey2102]

It is.

[@animatrix1490]

This was before you could just set up bots to do the legwork

[@Psychodermia]

Not her life savings! She was saving for a lift kit for that sweet ride.

[@captainyossarian388]

24:03 "Just don't answer the door ever." Works for me!

[@Rexerman89]

Only if you show off your sexy legs do you open the door that is!

[@kanna-san.]

I do and it does work

[@zacjumpman209]

Not gonna lie, I actually laughed when the guy disappeared after the woman asked if she could read the contract over with her husband.

[@troywright359]

She was just imagining some excitement into her life for a change, dearie.

[@BERTMARCH]

"Tonight on 'Bunco!' the Bunco Squad are caught up in a deadly game of cat and mouse."

[@jaycee330]

9:58 "Can I interest you in something called 'Transparent Aluminum?'"

[@RotundRager]

I love how one scene mentions that oral contracts are completely unenforceable and the next scene the dumb ass gets conned by people threatening him with an oral contract nobody else heard.

[@pixietwitch]

It's so nice of them to make an educational film on how to scam people!

[@goldenagenut]

I definitely got some good pointers! 😁👍

[@Nightweaver1]

"Now that you've all heard exactly how to scam people out of thousands of dollars... DON'T DO IT."

[@leroypreston2973]

Next up, they'll teach us how to make meth and Crack and how to sell them and avoid the cops.

[@graemesmith6721]

In all fairness, it also showed how to recognize and avoid such scams.

[@versebuchanan512]

That's what I've been doing wrong, I completely forget to check my victims against my Bunco-brand Crime Map.

[@karnerblue7658]

And you call yourself a bunco artist. 😤

[@angbandsbane]

The Bunco app is really great too, as long as you remove all the Spyware first.

[@tskmaster3837]

Two guys offer to do work on your house? It absolutely demands calling the cops on them. "Work... for pay? Sounds suspicious, we'll be right over."

[@jamarehire2011]

I never knew how to scam people, thanks for this instructional video! I can't wait to begin my new career!

[@rifftrax]

You're so welcome!

[@Alfje17]

Make sure you pass on a percentage to the RiffTrax gang!

[@gohawks3571]

@@Alfje17 🤣🤣🤣

[@steveharvey2102]

I think you would be better off investing in a mad scientist kit instead. That way you could take over the whole world! I could introduce you to my friend Dr. Forrester if you're intereted, just lmk.

[@johnjamele]

just become a Realtor, a Life Coach, or a Nutritionist. Then you can scam people like crazy and still be within the law.

[@StarShipGray]

I was searching every frame of this short for Joe Friday and Bill Gannon.

[@edwardicus4]

Ok, that car was adorable. I need one now.

[@roringusanda2837]

It's an Electra King!

[@DemonicNightmare]

Rifftrax making me try to figure out what "Bunco" is when whether or not corn is grass still hasn't been answered.

[@DemonicNightmare]

(in case anyone was still wondering that, corn *is* grass. someone please inform that 40+ year old short.)

[@wolflord9455]

My grandparents would get calls all the time from people, lots of them trying to pull some version of the first scam. One of them even told my uncle “one day you won’t be here and we’ll get them” I think they had to cancel all their credit cards at least once. Those scammers can have a special place waiting for them

[@gohawks3571]

"One day you won't be here"?! These people have nerve😔😒 They will never, ever worry about being cold....

[@vwgirl]

What really sad is that construction scam still happens. I worked in a office where at least once a week guys showed up with "leftover" asphalt from a nearby job and if the boss paid them a couple hundred they'd redo our parking lot area. We'd say no and next week different fys same scam. Went on for years there.

[@johnjamele]

I get people pulling up to me in traffic offering to sell me the "extra stereos" they have in the back, too. At least once a year.

[@MWSfan18]

@@johnjamele I had one of those tried on me when I worked at Walmart. One of my coworkers and I were walking back to our cars when these two guys in a van were trying to sell us "high end speakers" for pennies on the dollar. I did the smart thing and went back inside to "get money from the ATM" and let one of the managers know. Never was able to get a license plate number or anything though. My coworker thought it was totally legit. I smelled bs from the start. Also, he has an engineering degree, I barely finished high-school.

[@tekbarrier]

@@MWSfan18 I was at a large flea market once and one person had a blanket laid out on the ground with a bunch of car stereos they were selling. Yeah, nothing suspicious about that.

[@brianfuller757]

This short really still holds up in 2022. To be blunt the elderly were and are viewed as easy marks ie senile moneybags. Grifters are quite good at what they do and many old school scams still work today. Spot on that it's difficult to actually convict con artists or even prove a crime.

[@thepayne7862]

I don't think I have seen a short where I actually recognize so many of the actors. The husband of the wife who bought the books is James Sikking who was in Hillstreet Blues played the commander of the Swat Team and he has been in a bunch of other stuff. ia m pretty sure the guy sellling the books is Alex Henteloff who was in the MASH Episode, Dear Dad Again, where he plays a guy pretending to be a doctor. He was in a lot of TV shows in the 70's and 80's They guy who they are trying to con into getting the roof done is Gordon Jump who played the station manager in WKRP In Cincinatti.

[@kd4pba]

As God as my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly.

[@thepayne7862]

@@kd4pba such a classic episode. Not a Gordon Jump line but a Les line "It's like they were organized."

[@billcoady4333]

Alex Henteloff has 97 IMDB credits, so surely everyone has seen him somewhere. But we Misties might remember him from Code Name: Diamond Head where he played Dr. Edward Sherman (do I hear an Allan Sherman riff???)

[@pieyedapple]

Yes, it's like old home week!

[@thepayne7862]

@@billcoady4333 That's right he was in that.

[@svenylford4047]

Casual racism, weird little cars, low grade oil, this short has everything!

[@infinimineyt9700]

It’s rare to get the trifecta!

[@kenthuang436]

But where’s the magical being? This short needs that to have that in order to have everything!

[@Salmonator2000]

I need to know how the world would look like without bunco, damn it!

[@mattyboyanderson]

7:55 I actually exclaimed "WTF IS THAT?!?" when the old biddy got into her "vehicle".

[@kamildrews3517]

She found the golf cart to be too flashy and dangerous. 🤣

[@roringusanda2837]

It's an Electra King! Sounds like a stove, I know...

[@jaycee330]

@@roringusanda2837 Didn't that thing require like 4 car batteries and maybe got about 30 miles on a charge?

[@roringusanda2837]

@@jaycee330 before my time...I think if it was any good it would still be around 😕

[@marcuswalters8093]

Wow, robo calling was much more classy back in the day.

[@Popebug]

I wish modern scammers would at least put on a suit first

[@Rexerman89]

"22:55..I didn't know Conan O'Brien's dad acted, WOW? lol!"

[@melasnexperience]

Thanks to this short, I've realized just how many times "5-letter word for a hoax or scam" is an answer on crossword puzzles and been able to get it every time. Also, there are still dudes who come around doing that construction scam - had a guy doing "leftover windows" last week.

[@halfling49]

Leftover windows, yum 🤤

[@SodaPopBarbecue]

Leftover Windows? I KNEW the OS was powered by a hamburger sammich with all the trimmings!

[@JamaicanCastle]

But was it an Anderson window?

[@montanalife3530]

13:30 David Kochner is immortal and has made himself look just below middle-age for 50 yrs.

[@heidistieber]

Hahaha so true! I could not get him out of my head as to who this actor was, but I KNEW it was NOT him and it was driving me nuts!!

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

Maybe someone's brought it up, but the English actress is Marjorie Bennett. Almost any time American TV wanted an English "dowager" type actress they would get her.

[@BenVarkentine]

FWIW, I was completely wrong in the chat about the Encyclopedia salesman. It wasn't Josh Mostel, it was an actor named Alex Henteloff. You might remember him as the Plexicorp plant manager in Star Trek IV.

[@TheNakedSilo]

"Not NOW, Madeleine!"

[@richmcgee434]

The transparent aluminum guy? That's kind of hilarious.

[@BenVarkentine]

@@richmcgee434 That's the one.

[@Froggievilleus]

I knew he looked familiar. Also, that definitely looked like Gordon Jump as the homeowner who got scammed with the roof routine.

[@rogerallen6644]

You’re right! I recognized him but couldn’t place the name.

[@MrWolfTickets]

13:22 Gordon Jump before WKRP and the bicycle store pervert on Diff'rent Strokes!!

[@TanzDerSchatten]

9:30 That guy played Captain Casey on an episode of MASH!

[@kalistapaige2768]

Bill's joke "the cast of Too Wong Foo aged terribly" cracked me up! 👤

[@sethstor]

Interestingly, the short itself is actual well-done. It provides actual useful info (although somewhat dated) and seems well produced

[@thepayne7862]

And has some actor i actually recognize that went on to have decent TV careers.

[@daffers2345]

I thought the same thing, and actually some of them are very similar to modern ones (especially the banking one). Got to admit that the quotes are side-splittingly funny though. "They're scamming the Crypt Keeper!"

[@billcoady4333]

Sitting with my friend who works in a credit union who kept saying, "Basically they still use this one," through the whole film.

[@StephenGillie]

This feels eerily similar to information security training. One part of the bunko team runs the suspicious website, while the other runs the phishing email server. Would love to see some recent phshing training videos get riffed.

[@JamaicanCastle]

Technology gets more sophisticated but users are pretty much the same dumb SoBs. :/

[@lelandfranklin3487]

As God as my witness, thought turkeys could land on his roof...

[@diannemose244]

😂

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

14:44 And God as his witness, he thought turkeys could fly. I work in fraud investigation and recognize all of these scams, but it's the first time I've laughed about them.

[@matthewbarry4464]

Nice to see a couple of new at the time actors in public awareness shorts before they made it big.

[@gearheadgregwi]

I was just thinking the same. They had a bunch. Wow.

[@georgegonzalez2476]

James Sikking was the encyclopedia husband.

[@RobMacKendrick]

@@georgegonzalez2476 Now if I could just remember who the salesman was. UPDATE: Someone below nailed it: Alex Henteloff.

[@aquilaprimedesign]

Is Gordon Jump the roof treatment homeowner? If not, he has strong GJ vibes.

[@RobMacKendrick]

@@aquilaprimedesign That's the guy. The Big Guy, to be specific.

[@MegaTempo22]

What I wasn't expecting from this short was the star power. I instantly recognized Gordon Jump from WKRP in Cincinnati. And I think another famous actor here was from Hill Street Blues. This is obviously the humble beginning of their acting careers and they simply had to accept whatever work they could get. But I will always love The Big Guy from WKRP.

[@roringusanda2837]

If you watch Barney Miller you'll recognize the encyclopedia salesman as the pushy shyster attorney who shows up quite a bit. He's great in that role!

[@jordanbridges]

​@@roringusanda2837He's also the guy that invents transparent aluminum in Star Trek 5

[@wormskull2454]

“Now go to Target & buy as many $100 gift cards as you can…”

[@TheRogueWolf]

I'm honestly impressed that they managed to resist the temptation to make a mascot named Bunco.

[@SodaPopBarbecue]

"Hi, I'm Bunco-y, the Bunco Spite!" "You mean Sprite" ".;)" "You mean SPRITE, right?"

[@JamaicanCastle]

@@SodaPopBarbecue Bing-bong! Noooooo bunco!

[@kazuoyumeno1759]

Funny enough, Blanche and Sophia fell for a pigeon drop on an episode of Golden Girls.

[@carrieorsel1340]

Holy moly, that's a pre WKRP Gordon Jump, isn't it?

[@MiTBender]

I was thinking David Koechner

[@carrieorsel1340]

@@MiTBender we must find out!

[@Shicksalblume]

23:12 Damn these bunco artists! They've invented emergency teleportation systems and have been keeping them from everyone else. There's the real swindle!

[@moretoknowshow]

It’s Doogie Howsers dad and captain of the USS Excelsior, James B Skking!!

[@thepayne7862]

That's right he was Doogie Howser dad i had forgotten. Star Trek 3 right? I always think of him as Howard from Hill Street Blues

[@thexsoar]

Well, let's bunco in the junco Well, that's all right by me

[@typacsk]

Ornithologist here -- the thought of doing anything in the junco worries me, they're very small.

[@UlshaRS]

It was a lot harder to do this when the only gift cards were for major department stores. You can only resell so many diswashers and sofa sets before the cops start to wonder if you either have the most space inefficient hording habits or are fencing goods for the mafia.

[@JamaicanCastle]

3:28 Oh, the bunco artist also sells Chevrolets!

[@pieyedapple]

Gordon Jump is so young, in the third example...

[@Rexerman89]

"11:23..."Hill Street Blues" James B. Sikking noo lol!"

[@graemesmith6721]

This short is full of actors who went on to greater fame. The phony encyclopedia salesman is played by veteran character actor Alex Henteloff, who appeared on many TV shows, and was also in Star Trek IV as the plant manager Scotty shows how to make transparent aluminum. And the husband is played by James B. Sikking, who was a regular on Hill Street Blues as Lt. Howard Hunter. The homeowner who falls for the roofing scam is Gordon Jump, who played Arthur Carlson on WKRP in Cincinnati.

[@MICHAEL-vy3ch]

Yeah, for some reason IMBD thinks Alex Henteloff is Stuart Pankin, but I recognized him immediately from MASH and from Star Trek IV. Jame B Sikking has ties to Star Trek as well. He was Captain Styles of the Excelsior in Star Trek III. The black lady in the money drop scam looks familiar as well, but I can't place her.

[@pulsecodemodulated]

I swear the salesman @9:15 is the Plexicorp guy in Star Trek IV. "Not now, Madeline!"

[@PhilBagels]

I remember actually seeing this in school as a kid!

[@jaycee330]

15:01 "As God as my witness, I thought Buncos could fly!"

[@Frazier03]

The encyclopedia salesman is the scientist form MST3K's Code Name: Diamond Head!

[@SodaPopBarbecue]

And he's from Star Trek IV: The clue is "NOT NOW, MADELINE!"

[@Rexerman89]

"9:59...........This dork looks soo familiar?.......Hmmm? He's sooo Stuart Pankin like lol!"

[@obiejerusalem8587]

16:53 I legit had to pause the video to laugh for almost two minutes.

[@daffers2345]

I pretty much did the same thing at 4:06 XD

[@rodriguez1025]

I’m fairly certain our narrator is the late longtime Los Angeles broadcaster Ralph Story.

[@patrickmuhwheeney6518]

Yet another career opportunity my high school councilor never told me about...

[@RavnerRavner]

12:45 that Chevy truck is pure fire 🔥🔥🔥

[@aw7248]

One of the upperclassmen got me in a Pinchbeck's Multiplex during tryouts and I've never lived it down

[@UnclePengy]

23:29 She was Endora all along. Now only if she could make Derwood disappear as easily.

[@Tcoldsteel]

On behalf of all Nigerian princes and Microsoft engineers worldwide may ask if ‘Bunco!’ is trademarked? This question is time-limited so please reply today or this once in a lifetime offer may be missed.

[@richmcgee434]

There is an actual honest to goodness World Bunco Association with their own website and everything - and if you mess with their business, they will END you. :)

[@gohawks3571]

Lol!

[@dadahyena]

Speaking of Monty Python, shouldn't that encyclopedia salesman have gone flying out the window?

[@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing]

Phone scammers were _way_ classier back in the day. They really had that personal touch, ya know? Ever since they sent those jobs overseas, the whole enterprise has really gone downhill.

[@classiclife7204]

A genuinely cool short, made better by RiffTrax. Kinda have to respect a guy who puts in hours of labor spraying a roof to make the scam work. The "casual racism" in the last bit is also pretty clever for the time. In 1970, that old white woman's open disdain would be totally believable, throwing the victim even further off the scent. Oh wait - it would work today too, in some areas. :(

[@strawbarry7834]

9:50 origin story of the "Influencer." Who knew some nerdy guy from the 60's started that awful trend.

[@Filmation77]

"Homeless Felicia Rashad " im going to hell for laughing at that.

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

That bag of cash scam is the craziest, most ultra specific scam Ive ever seen. If they wanted to explain every possible scam this video would be 30 hours long, what was this teaching us?

[@noahkarpinski1824]

As weird as it is, schemes like this are seasonal Maybe that type of scam was just way more common at the time, or there was a high profile story

[@predcon1]

@@noahkarpinski1824 Like those scams that come out during graduation time, trying to get parents to buy one of those "Who's Who" books to put their kids in.

[@HylianFox3]

@@predcon1 Like the one Marge Simpson fell for in 'Bart the Mother'

[@tomservo56954]

@@predcon1 My high school principal told me not to buy it, but feel free to put it on a resume.

[@UlshaRS]

These were the most common scams run on citizens according to police statics of the time. It is a social informational for that time, but many of these scams are still used to this date, if updated for technology and financial access methods.

[@marshallblythe7240]

13:22 "Todd Packer takes the bait."

[@UnclePengy]

13:22 Holy crap, it's Mr. Carlson!

[@msgfrmdaactionman3000]

In our next episode we take a look at the Vice Squad, oh yeah baby!

[@adamfowler350]

7:57- LOL I wonder if she lives in an igloo or tree house too...Anything to match her ride.

[@TanzDerSchatten]

13:30 Gordon Jump of WKRP in Cincinnati fame!

[@RobertPilla]

Gordon Jump from WKRP was the eager home owner.

[@roddmatsui3554]

24:33 confirms that this was probably all filmed in Los Angeles…….there’s even some street sign info in the pigeon drop segment.

[@jamesremington8056]

nice of them to show us how to commit one of these schemes.

[@favoritemustard3542]

Why limit yourself to only one? We're having a limited special of 3-for-1 today only sign now ~ don't miss out!!

[@DarkVaati13]

15:38 been watching Arrested Development and honestly that sounds like it could have been an episode plot lol

[@wickedmuffin76]

I never understood how anyone would fall for the "pigeon drop", why would you need to show X amount of money to split found money?

[@carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679]

10:00 - STUART PANKIN! Where's the transparent aluminum!

[@BigGrim87]

These scammers suck. The guy on the phone didn’t even promise to tell them each and everything!

[@tomservo56954]

24:32 No KFC at that number in either of the major L.A. area codes.

[@thomasbuckley6175]

was the husband on hill street blues and the book buncoer(?) was on bj and the bear a few times? why yes! - james sikking and stuart pankin star in this short so 70s it voted for jimmy carter (and yes i had to look up pankin's name)

[@austinlawler3739]

13:22 the guy looks just like David Koechner

[@thelostone6981]

Or Kurt Fuller? Or the love child between David Koechner and Kurt Fuller?

[@austinlawler3739]

@@thelostone6981 oh my god, YES!

[@MasterSanders]

@9:19 Look, it’s the guy that invented transparent aluminum!

[@dmrr7739]

I think the encyclopedia salesman was Alex Henteloff, who was in Star Trek IV and a billion other things. The encyclopedia husband is James Sikking.

[@algomaone121]

Mrs Hastings is actually the well known granny-owner of Tweety Bird!

[@daveandreahoward8203]

Mr. Carlson! The guy from Hill Street Blues! That other guy!

[@heidifedor]

That’s Gordon Jump.

[@FreakyRufus]

That’s what I thought too. I even spent 10-15 minutes trying to find the cast of this, but wasn’t successful.

[@heidifedor]

@@FreakyRufus I’m pretty sure that’s him.

[@jamesland69]

The encyclopedia salesman will try to sell you transparent aluminum in a decade or so.

[@ngobleus]

I keep forgetting that bunco is also a bad term. Growing up, the only bunco I knew was the card game that housewives would gather to play. My mom would host those games several times a year, the others would bring snacks for themselves and I had to either stay in my room or in the TV room downstairs.

[@williamcole2778]

Hey, the roof homeowner is Mr. Carlson from WKRP!