RiffTrax: Am I Trustworthy (Full FREE Short)

[@yuvgotubekidding]

Eddie’s first mistake was trusting his barber.

[@jackmonaghan8477]

Well with a haircut like that, you have two career options. Boy desperate for the approval of his peers or asshole newspaper editor with an irrational hatred of arachnid-themed superheroes.

[@raghu5657]

😂😂😂

[@jjwubs1638]

True

[@ITILII]

Eddie went to the "barber shop" where he was the only one there not of color....so they said, we gonna give this here lil cracka a right propa fade, cuz he bes a lil white devil, yall know whut I is sayin, yo ?👨

[@KentheDeer]

“People are willing to trust someone who has proved he can do the job.” “Does not apply to politics…”😂😂😂

[@SaturmornCarvilli]

Later, Eddie learned that trustworthiness was not nearly as important, lucrative or satisfying as projecting power and charisma, forming secret alliances and maintaining a spy network to get dirt on his enemies.

[@ian_b]

Oh right, thanks for spoiling the sequel!

[@chrisnemec5644]

It helped prepare him for his career in politics.

[@danielgreen6302]

Yes, Eddies inability to keep secret plans secret, allowed me to launch an early preemptive strike blowing his but to Butte.

[@kenthuang436]

@@chrisnemec5644Or as a cult leader!

[@HylianFox3]

@@ian_b "Trustworthiness: Who Needs It?"

[@tuckerbowen4626]

I've noticed that all of these films are made to instill morals and lessons in children that actual adults don't have

[@cujoedaman]

And the irony is they too become adults and still don't have these morals and lessons they were taught.

[@michaelcirco3948]

I guess Coronet was a massive failure

[@theadaptationstationmaster]

Well, better to instill ideals to which it's hard to live up than no ideals at all.

[@richmcgee434]

@@theadaptationstationmaster Theses films don't achieve anything except to give children a deeply ingrained awareness of hypocrisy when they see it.

[@chrissmith6097]

Maybe it’s because the adults realized not having those morals was a problem and made these films as a way to course correct as it’s easier to install them in children than fully grown adults.

[@FlintIronstag23]

People do not want to entrust their money to someone who has a cowlick. That is message I got from this film.

[@AGirlofYesterday]

The cowlick, and the "Lil' Hitler" haircut doesn't help.

[@analezaa6306]

"I'm going to be trustworthy by being a robot because I need to behave in a way to make others happy.".

[@Zara-Bari]

As someone who has operated a broom before, that was some very untrustworthy sweeping.

[@AtheistPirate]

The only thing keeping Bob from joining his friends for ping-pong was his obsessive desire to know if corn was grass.

[@deanfiora4227]

This can't be the '50s; dad wasn't smoking a cigarette.

[@scottlarson1548]

Eddie is the reason why you shouldn't let Mom cut your hair.

[@andrewforbes1433]

At least she's getting some use out of that extra hand blender.

[@elderlypoodle9181]

I think John Lydon would embrace this cut today…..

[@evenberg8499]

It's hard to earn trust from a family that doesn't unwrap the cellophane from their lampshades.

[@sidviscious8381]

@ 9:18 "Gee Dad, who squared your tie with scissors???"

[@whachikan]

This would be so much better if Trusty the Trust Sprite had shown up to teach Eddie

[@DemonKingBadger]

No, no no no no no If I have a nightmare tonight, I will blame you

[@cavalierfan1995]

NNNNO TRUST AH AH AH AH WHEE-HOO

[@garrettcarter5622]

I love how Eddie's "best friend" won the election, and all he can think about is himself.

[@andrewforbes1433]

For God's sake, tell me how they set up the classroom!

[@Zara-Bari]

Can they easily get to the bathroom? It's very important for me to know this!

[@daffers2345]

The corner had blocks.

[@raghu5657]

​@@Zara-Bari😂😂😂

[@AGirlofYesterday]

Despite the moral lessons he learns here, I can't shake the vision of Eddie getting hoodwinked into a racketeering scheme as an adult.

[@cullensmith1817]

Didn't you hear? Getaway driver for the Lufthansa...oh. Eddie wound up in a dumpter.

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

"You see, if you get three of your friends to invest, and each of them get three of their friends to invest..." And that year Eddie learned that actually trusting people is a bad idea

[@noahkarpinski1824]

You mean a bunco scheme?

[@AGirlofYesterday]

@@noahkarpinski1824 Eddie wasn't On Guard against Bunco!

[@Sarutaru06]

I'm glad Rifftrax sticks with 50s educational videos rather my generations. I prefer impossible moral standards that I don't even care to achieve to the "please don't kill people and wear a condom" of my school years.

[@deanfiora4227]

We must be about the same age.

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

I agree, killing people while wearing a condom is extremely inappropriate behavior

[@dwdyer]

Gonna tell the kids that’s Powers Boothe. They’ll just say “who?” But dammit, I’ll know what I’m talking about.

[@robsmith2087]

I feel like this short actually made me understand the concept of trustworthiness less, because their definition was all over the place

[@ikr9358]

I think instead of 'trustworthy', the meant 'dependable'.

[@Huskrrrr]

Plastic on the lampshades. Boy, that takes me back.

[@diannemose244]

😂

[@AvidCat5000]

If he's going into politics, all he needs is the appearance of trustworthiness.

[@deanfiora4227]

If at first you don't deceive, lie, lie again!

[@TheeJosephSantos]

Thank you guys for every laugh over your long career.

[@strawbarry7834]

Eddie seems like that one kid that Pennywise the Clown regularly visits, but nobody believes him because he's not trustworthy.

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

Bob the treasurer then blew the entire budget on coke and hookers.

[@heatherstarling1653]

“Not sure The Wind’s of Winter was worth the wait, George” slay 😆😆😆

[@HylianFox3]

It's been three years since this short released, and that joke's still relevant.

[@heatherstarling1653]

@@HylianFox3 this joke will always be relevant. It’s never going to be released and if it is, than they hype will 100% not be worth it.

[@MeganKoumori]

A young George McFly becomes obsessed, filling up dozens of notebooks with charts, graphs, and lists on how to attain the ultimate level of trustworthiness. Years later, when his teenage peers are sticking kick-me-signs to his back and kicking him in the rear, this is why.

[@manicpixiefangirl4189]

After all these shorts I just wanna know if kids in the 50s REALLY cared THAT much about student council.

[@tiredmdntblggr]

"We trust Eddie with lightbulbs."

[@HylianFox3]

"What can we use as an example for our Trustworthiness short... cleaning your room? Making your bed? Taking the garbage out? Feeding the dog? Nope, let's settle on repairing a lamp. That's something most parents task their 8-year-olds with, right?"

[@kathleenmorrison2908]

Then Eddie read “All the King’s Men” and realized it was all a lie

[@jeremysmetana8583]

That kid has a shark fin coming off his head. A very... furry shark fin. Yeesh.

[@FreejackVesa]

I wouldn't be surprised if Ted Kazynciski showed up as a child actor in one of these.

[@roringusanda2837]

😮I'm trying to figure out where I've seen the father before...

[@Raymond13557]

3:36 "Be sure to look at the camera, son. Let them know WE are ADDRESSING THE VIEWER, no matter how far into the future, too!"

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

Absolutely no one on this production thought about getting the protruding shock of hair on the back of Eddie’s head under control.

[@mrmonty86]

Alfalfa got a massive makeover.

[@diannemose244]

😂

[@bengrauartwork]

I remember a film they showed me like this at school with the moral "be yourself" with the moral being that you will d13 screaming if you try ti be someone you are not... man I miss school in the 80s and that trauma inducing film projector. They also showed us children slowly passing away from hunger to show us how ungrateful we were.

[@Ihartwalrusguy]

“Am I Trustworthy?” The Answer: Well yes, but actually no.

[@thelostone6981]

Try, try as they might; I refuse to give into their tactics to get me to do any self examination! Muwahahahaha!!!

[@paulherman5822]

You can go blind, with hairy palms, according to other 1950s wisdom, doing that.

[@tfromcleveland3741]

Combing the back of your hair would be a good start

[@mekugi]

Laugh out loud funny.

[@daishi4531]

All RIGHT! Bring on the Coronets, these are comedy gold! 👍

[@ajs3994]

Apparently Eddie's Mother trusts him to fix a lamp. 🤔 Reminds me of another short where a teenager electrocutes his Mother. (six murderous beliefs)

[@shwahgamer]

That was done a lot back then. Unless it was a huge appliance that required a professional, you tended to fix as much as you could yourself around the house to save money. And nobody cared if you had the actual knowledge to do it right.

[@HylianFox3]

The origin story of ELECTRO-MOM!

[@weekendmom]

Eddie then learned what extortion was and how to apply it to teachers and classmates.

[@Cole.....]

I didn't know 5th graders needed to do so much accounting back in the 50s.

[@JamaicanCastle]

At least that guy who had Ben Franklin haunt him because of his bad accounting was a teenager.

[@paulherman5822]

THAT explains the number of accounting nibs on older fountain pens! Child labor!

[@Merylstreep1949]

Eddie went on to be trustworthy after a 50 state thrill kill spree, many naked women and lots of hard drugs, alcohol and electro shock therapy

[@TheRogueWolf]

Were prepubescent children in the '50s expected to be able to maintain electric appliances? Or does Dad just foist all the small jobs Mom gives him onto Eddie?

[@Dayvit78]

Getting electro-shocked builds character. Pansies these days.

[@HAM209A]

Alexander Phipps!

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

It's not rocket science. Honestly as long as you are cool about it when the kid inevitably fails to fix it, that's probably a pretty effective way to teach repair work. Learning through taking stuff apart, seeing how it works and then promptly breaking it permanently

[@kristinatellefson4149]

My Dad had to learn how to fix a lamp in 4-H back then.

[@collegeman1988]

Mike’s right. Trustworthiness does NOT apply to politicians.

[@tekbarrier]

"Eddie's Tootsie Roll bribes had failed" 😂

[@basecode8]

I don’t trust all them rolling widgets… just rolling along there

[@Dayvit78]

Marc Anthony; lend me your ears! Romans: Can we trust you?

[@YolandaAnneBrown95726]

If you knew me, you know not to even ask if I'm trustworthy. Just a twisted cat lady that will rat you out in a second, unless you pay me.

[@josephpatterson985]

The moment I saw the Coronet logo I instinctively expected to see three silhouettes coming in from the right side of the screen to take a seat.

[@Merylstreep1949]

Kitty!!!!! -Crow T. Robot

[@mikesilva3868]

❤😊😊Batman, Batman, Batman Batman, Batman, Batman, Batman Batman, Batman, Batman

[@Rexerman89]

"8:36.....Love it when Mike cracks Kevin up off script lol!"

[@mikesilva3868]

Look at what's happened to me I can't believe it myself Suddenly I'm up on top of the world It should have been somebody else😊

[@Auryanne]

That certainly is some hair style on that kid.

[@josephblumenberg6574]

Somehow I knew this was going to be a Coronet Film 😂

[@patrickf.4440]

Acting trustworthy simply to get ahead is certainly not a good example of following Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative.

[@deanfiora4227]

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable.

[@patrickf.4440]

​@@deanfiora4227 But nothing to beat the king of them all, the King of the Forms himself: Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed; A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!

[@89horizon]

Dad: "Let me get that Richard Nixon haircut all the cool youths of today are getting." Barber: "Say no more, fam!"

[@Ishtarru]

With a title like that, this would have been a great opportunity to Rickroll us.

[@Trilaan]

Next time, Am I Trustworthy 2: Flashback Boogaloo!

[@bobf9749]

We hope we can trust you. We can, can’t we? Because we’re watching you. It would be very unfortunate if we found you couldn’t be trusted.

[@drdreddmanofmystery9482]

'Trustworthy?' What the fuck does that mean?

[@kazumahazeuzumaki]

Uh, I think it means being worthy of trust. Don't quote me on that.

[@paulherman5822]

Eddie Johnson grew up to become the father of Gus and Sven Johnson, thereby raining chaos on the internet. 😂

[@hrrproductions553]

Man, "RiffTrax" never fails to make me laugh, their riffing on many movies, cartoons, education shorts and TV episodes are always hilarious in my opinion! 🤣😂😉👍

[@alanbear6505]

I would trust anyone whose hair sticks out in back like that.

[@estoy1001]

Back in the day the name "Eddie" was synonymous for "Goofus".

[@Pygar2]

And "Bob" was "Gallant"!

[@paulpizzlewizzle]

Poppies!!!

[@pal5683]

Does this remind anyone of the Bob Crane patriotism short? Basically anything can equal being trustworthy or patriotic.

[@davidlundquist1979]

Except white pants. Or putting walnuts in brownies.

[@cups3]

The Eddy Duchin Story the early years

[@andyjay729]

0:37 ... and boys over the age of 10 wore three-piece suits to school.

[@dougjb7848]

1:20 He was walking home from school. Was he supposed to sprint?

[@sarysa]

The documentary is missing one thing: If you mess up while trying to build trust, even if not out of malice, move somewhere else and try again. It's the Internet way.

[@richmcgee434]

Apparently schools in the 50s had classroom sizes of twelve students. Quite the teacher:student ratio going on there.

[@calsavestheworld]

This is basically Hamlet.

[@Hobosmalls]

But Bob spells his name backwards.

[@kanna-san.]

And vertically

[@andyjay729]

3:46 Wait, the "rabbit's foot experiment"? Umm, aren't those girls a little young for that?

[@tylersnard]

Bill is my favorite.

[@mattpierce5009]

Rifftrax: Free back-catalog riffs for all! Reasonable subscription costs, or buy only the riffs you want! Years of excellent content! Coronet! Somewhere else in time and space: multimillion dollar fundraiser time again! Then once the writers come back we'll get right on it? You guys are an example of how to do it right. It IS time for Rifftrax

[@sejembalm]

Got an easy Roman year conversion on this one. MCML = 1950

[@dennismitchell5414]

Thanks for yet another classic guys 😂😂😂 and as usual 👍👍

[@ThePageofRage]

look, if you were really trustworthy, you'd be able to tell me that corn is grass, yes?

[@buzzawuzza3743]

You guys make me laugh out loud.

[@Mxlsptlk]

9:31 ... Congress, telemarketing calls, hedge funds, pharmaceutical company shareholder meetings, payday loan offices, insurance company board meetings, unsolicited emails, NFT marketplaces, pop up ads on websites, back alleyways in cities at night, and casinos.

[@dougjb7848]

0:53 The hairdo doesn’t help.

[@5roundsrapid263]

Being treasurer doesn’t mean you’re trustworthy. Judas was the treasurer for the Apostles…😂

[@Kneon_Knight]

That Woody Woodpecker haircut makes me unreasonably angry for no good reason at all. What did Eddie do, comb his hair with a pencil sharpener?

[@MissSallyB1]

alternate title: "Are we trustworthy to behave in the comments section so it can be left open?"

[@deanfiora4227]

So far, so good!

[@kenthuang436]

“Am I trustworthy?” No. No you are not.

[@zoeyrochellezhombie829]

I find it interesting that Rifftrax talks about things that are current, whereas with MST3K, you'd hear things current with the 80s and 90s.

[@livelifeincolour]

I know, its surreal to hear thoae robot voices refer to modern technology and pop culture

[@deanfiora4227]

That's because MST3K was *produced* in the '80s and '90s! (I don't consider Joel's pathetic revival worthy of being affiliated with the original series.)

[@alfje5492]

I'm not sure Eddie Johnson was a good choice to play Eddie Johnson, I just don't trust him to play the role well.

[@HylianFox3]

Ah yes, people are voted for because they're trustworthy, and not just because they're the loudest and most obnoxious person in the room.

[@waukegangreen]

Did Eddie cut dad's tie?

[@pong86r]

i always wonder who watched these and had their life changed

[@ZERO_O7X]

You know, I've been a real piece of sh!t for years. But thanks to this film, I have seen the error of my ways.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

I'd answer that question, but I just don't think I can be trusted to give an honest answer.

[@sgtmajor5700]

Eddie Johnson had not seen the teamwork video.

[@KidMetairie]

Eddie should’ve made Bob his political puppet.

[@richmcgee434]

What kind of parent relies on her kid to do electrical repair?

[@kevinblount7142]

No new slogan for Coronet? 😢

[@ernestcruz6316]

Coronet Films: Sure we're simplistic and pedantic, but we're also easy to riff on. Amateur snarkists, rejoice!