RiffTrax: Busy Bodies (Full FREE Short)

Stitching together footage of kids and animals doing vaguely similar actions, the short is truly a masterclass in how to get paid to make something that kind of feels like something, but actually isn’t anything.
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[@KIRA-EL]

You can pinpoint the moment the people who made this short figured out they didn't have enough material.

[@gaywizard2000]

2:10?

[@craftergin]

Most of the wild animal footage was filmed at the San Diego Zoo. We were there all the time when I was a kid. The producers could have at least gotten the names of the animals correct. A Big Horn Sheep is not a goat and a Thompsons Gazelle is not a deer.

[@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc]

Thanks for the insights! Been way too long since I've been able to visit the SD Zoo and -Wild Animal Park- Safari Park.

[@graemesmith6721]

Yeah, I was about to say "That's not a goat, it's a sheep!"

[@shrews12001]

"Busy Bodies" the story of my mother and her friends during the neighbors' divorce.

[@abbycross90210]

THAT GOSSIP WON'T SPREAD ITSELF.

[@planescaped]

Literally if anything is happening at all in the neighborhood my dad is rubbernecking. XD

[@Nightweaver1]

"I can too fly! R. Kelley said so!"' "Timmy I told you to stay away from him!" 🤣

[@HylianFox3]

Yes, nothing says "busy bodies" like a sleeping cat.

[@flawed1]

It’s ironic that the educational film came off like some half assed school assignment where you had to go way off topic to even get enough padding to make it an acceptable length

[@KyleRayner12]

Well, I can't say I was terribly impressed by the stock footage parade, but my cat was enthralled.

[@elafimilo8199]

Well worth it, then

[@DR-420-69]

mine too!

[@jeffashley5512]

Vic Perrin is the narrator. His voice immediately put Star Trek Original series in mind (voice of Nomad/Metron...etc.). He did four episodes. He also did countless TV/Cartoon works.

[@cryptodentist]

Gosh he was in a hundred episodes of Gunsmoke

[@gspendlove]

I wonder if Sarek's wife on TNG was named after him?

[@jeffashley5512]

@@gspendlove 🤔

[@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc]

🤖 -{ Your data is faulty. I am Nomad. I am perfect. )

[@scottlarson1548]

"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture..."

[@furrybogard9724]

5:36 Eyebrow mites are one thing, but I still can't get over Mike causing the great eyelash mite war of MST3K819. So many innocent lives lost that day...

[@dawa7267]

'...defending a blasted little patch of Nelson's T-zone, known as Follicle Hill...' 😁 9:15 funniest part for some reason...🤣

[@Bobsheaux]

Here's a couple of reels of random stock footage. I want an educational short on my desk by Friday. GO!

[@wendysgarden4283]

What the "right foods" are will change dozens of times in your life. Yup.

[@johnjamele]

busy bodies eat the right kind of food and get plenty of exercise and sleep, getting boys ready for Vietnam.

[@StephenGillie]

People used to call my mother a busybody, but this wasn't what they meant.

[@mstcrow5429]

Still, what I thought this short might be about.

[@RocketboyX]

Your mom went to college.

[@Eisenwulf666]

we know, everybody knows her. Biblically

Today we call that a Karen.

[@kanna-san.]

WE ALL SLEPT WITH YOUR MOM. THERE.

[@DR-420-69]

I'm trying so hard to figure out what this is supposed to be teaching anyone. it's like something you'd show an alien that comes from a planet where nothing moves.

[@demonkingbadger6689]

So, just like all other rifftrax shorts

[@graemesmith6721]

It's teaching kids to exercise.

[@aaronz7056]

Vic Perrin, the narrator on The Outer Limits and the voice of Nomad on Star Trek.

[@lauranolastnamegiven3385]

getting him was probably the biggest expense in the budget of this thing

[@luisreyes1963]

Guess he had some overdue bills to pay.

[@himwhoisnottobenamed5427]

@@luisreyes1963 That or gambling debts.

[@Billinois78]

Busy bodies? You mean like Pitch trying to get Lupita to steal the doll?

[@kanna-san.]

Lupita nooooo

[@ClayLoomis1958]

IMDb gives this 2.6 out of 10 stars. Seems a little high, much like the producer of this short must have been when he thought of it.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

@Dean F. You bet. Frankly, it's hard to find any movie or short that doesn't have an entry these days. Busy Bodies has 5 entries. The first is from 1928. Then there is the Laurel & Hardy short from 1933. The Busy Bodies shown here is from 1969, and the latest is from 2012. IMDb is pretty much packed to the rafters with useless information.

[@racheledwards2352]

OMG, a Richard Scarry reference 😉😆😁

[@strawbarry7834]

I'll never tire of hearing "such as seals" references.

[@markiangooley]

Stock footage of animals. Someone was thinking like Ed Wood… That, or they blew the budget on filming the kids and had to pad things out somehow.

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

At 8:45, that girl definitely wants to break into the movies after this short.

[@biltrex]

1:19 - I felt this so deeply.

[@WCtheComedian]

My life will never be the same after seeing this. I shall drink water immediately

[@favoritemustard3542]

Don't forget your catnaps!

[@Billinois78]

6:58 "aaand Action!" 8:12 "Hey knock it off guys! I'm wearing leg braces" "Ooh look at me, I'm Timmy. I walk like this"

[@wraithstrongopark]

"i can too fly, r. kelly said so!" bwahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa

[@Monkofmagnesia]

Iic Perrin is the narator for the opening of The Outer Limits and was the voice of Nomsd in the Star Trek episode, "The Changeling."

[@alanbear6505]

"the kid they cast to be especially not perfect" grew up to be " the agony of defeat"

[@gaywizard2000]

I eat plenty of the right things but way more of the wrong things! But a hydrating gorilla? Yeah, gotcha 👌

[@carmovision]

4:10 - kevin is briefly possessed by the spirit of james nguyen

[@toddh4491]

Oh boy, I think I watched this as a kid. Getting old.

[@briansmith2163]

Oh, darn. I thought it said Busty Bodies.

[@luisreyes1963]

Sorry this wasn't a Russ Meyer flick. 🤭

[@Merylstreep1949]

Damn, I thought this film was gonna be about Edna Kravitz from Bewitched

[@craftergin]

Gladys Kravitz

[@Merylstreep1949]

@@craftergin yes! Don't know where I got Edna lol

[@RobotoSan]

Oh sure, stay in motion at all times outside and you're a busy body. Do it too much in the house and it's a hyperactivity disorder.

[@Ammeeeeeeer]

What a wonderful cure for insomnia 😇

[@lafcursiax]

That's not even a goat! It's a sheep!

[@bradmad8346]

I still don't want to see its junk.

[@calebtate4994]

Well, you heard the creepy narrator, start flapping your arms like pelican

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

He was also the OUTER LIMITS narrator, so he had a lot of experience being creepy.

[@Sitharos]

I did and my wife looked at me like I lost my mind 😂

[@gamingchinchilla7323]

anybody else notice how in every single one of these educational shorts the kids are always drinking milk? I mean Big Dairy truly had a moooonopoly back then, huh?

[@jakepullman4914]

So... now I have many examples of movement. In case I had any misunderstandings they're cleared up.

[@KairuHakubi]

1:18 preach it also penguins aren't waddling! it's just most of what looks like their torso is either neck or shins.

[@shuttittuppitt9355]

The fact that they have some of the shortest legs ever doesn't help either.

[@KairuHakubi]

@@shuttittuppitt9355 well that's part of what I meant, they really don't. okay, their thighs are very short. but if you look at the skeleton you'll see they have nice long shins and long feet, like any regular bird.

[@noelliebtsie]

Oh dear, the short maker decided to make the whole thing about his depressing ass trip to the zoo. At least we have our riffers to comfort us through this hellscape. Lol, I swear people misunderstand and project things on cats. I don't think they feel contempt or indifference. they might find humans bizarre but we kind of are.😹

[@graemesmith6721]

No, they don't feel contempt or indifference. They have no ability to imagine what other creatures are thinking or feeling (including other cats). Other creatures are just things to them.

[@weekendmom]

A documentary for the heavily sedated.

[@lindaeasley5606]

So we went from children on a playground to a school of fish under the ocean

[@g-rated3514]

Glad our grandparents'/parents' tax money paid for these shows. Now if they would only pay for more Rifftrax or MST3K

[@chrisnemec5644]

If anything, this short makes me want to be a couch potato while binge watching Rifftrax.

[@Electronzap]

That is a great way to spend time.

[@CarletonTorpin]

Seconded.

[@kanna-san.]

Everything makes me want to do that

[@himwhoisnottobenamed5427]

What do you think I’m doing right now?

[@doolally1478]

​@@kanna-san. me too, big time.

[@WaffleDragon]

1:36 This sliding has been sponsored by Volkswagen

[@DavesArchives]

hahaha most excellent!

[@diannemose244]

And that was the day Flo Jo quit cutting her fingernails 😂

[@pressureworks]

7:35 missed Riff opportunity: And get sucked into a jet engine!

[@Wymorence]

Wait. You're supposed to exercise while you drink water? All I've ever been doing is lapping at that little ball at the end of the tube!

[@Raymond13557]

9:46 ah the ancestral summoning of pac-man.. very nice

[@markalexander3659]

I feel very attacked about my inability to exercise

[@jaybat1184]

I love you guys! Thanks for all you do for real it keeps me going sometimes.

[@kalistapaige2768]

great 💩flinging material Rifftrax ‼‼

[@PhilBagels]

Don't tell me to get more exercise! Mind your own business! Don't be a busy body!

[@luisreyes1963]

3:06 Still think "The Hungry Caterpillar" is a cute name for a child's book? 🐛

[@daddydavey]

I'm not so sure about this exercise thing guys. The tortoise, you've shown,can live up to 200 years. Their slow movements are half the reason for their longevity. So maybe Rifftrax and exercise are killing us. Save yourself people.. sit down !

[@yakiclone1]

Frank and Jerry lol

[@albrown7977]

Does anyone else think this short was about nosy people when it was labeled Busy Bodies? Or is that just me?

[@jamesremington8056]

cool

[@Mr.TrouDeCul]

1000% better then the newer mst3k

[@voidcadet]

Kevin: "Except this boy, he just died." Me: lol Bill: "Except this cat, he just died." Me: "Damn onion ninjas. Where doge? Need doge meme."

[@altohippiegabber]

Such as seals

[@markalexander3659]

1:25 - bro went a little overboard on the highlight

[@John14-6...]

Such as seals!

[@graemesmith6721]

Actually, an ape uses his body ALL the time, since it's what's keeping him alive.

[@jenniferguthrie5588]

Are busy bodies grass?

[@abelq8008]

Is it corn?

[@thelostone6981]

Um….there was a shot at the playground that the cameraman lingered on waaaaaaaay too long.

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

Yeah that was definitely an 'Erm...what's going on with that cameraman?' moment!

[@thelostone6981]

@@the_once-and-future_king. Right?!? It made me so painfully uncomfortable.

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

@@thelostone6981 Obviously produced by Harvey Weinstein!

[@gaywizard2000]

Timestamp darlings!?

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

@@gaywizard2000 Er...WHAT??

[@rutha6260]

Fecal revenge 😄

[@pressureworks]

Except this boy, this cat, he just died.

[@adamfowler350]

These shorts they find man...Jesus Christ....lol

[@Trojanponey]

Need to grab some good stuff to watch from y'alls website for the October season. Any recommendations?

[@marcherwitch9811]

tourist trap is a good one for halloweenyness... farm family in autumn, of course... She is kinda spooksome but not really a horror film...

[@gaywizard2000]

Heavier on the THC, less on the CBD!

[@RIXRADvidz]

the Roman Numerals say, 1969, the film is perpetual the idea that everyone must fit into a size 1 costume is a fallacy created to instill fear in the populace, ignoring completely the variety in species that insures survival, EAT THE COOKIE

[@rowsdower6950]

Frank: "Oh my god jerry! I just realized we're nude!" Jerry: "Wait what?! We are? Well stop touching me frank!" Frank: "I'm not sure if it changes anything." Jerry: "It absolutely does. Get out of here! Put some pants on! Wait frank, does our fur count as clothes?" Frank: "I don't know jerry. I'm still coming to grips." Jerry: "Well, stop touching me!" 😅

[@stevenalexander7309]

i didn't get the FloJo joke. What am I missing?

[@asareubenwallace4032]

Are you a busy body

[@RobotoSan]

Sometimes. Other times more like an idle body in motion.

[@mikem2849]

You keep saying "busy bodies." I don't think it means what you think it means Mr. Narrator.

[@tfmaster96]

7:18 don't you mean "amader"?

[@502deth]

at first when i read this i thought it said "busty bodies". imagine my disappointment.

[@alanbear6505]

"we can pretend to swim like a fish.". Ummm, isn't "pretending to swim" another way to say " drowning"?

[@markalexander3659]

1:02 - anyone else creeped out by the gratuitous upshirt shot of a CHILD that went on for uncomfortably long? And that shading makes it look like she's going commando

[@bradmad8346]

Yeah, uncle pervert was shooting this segment, just a normal day at the park.

[@showaltermicro]

500 likes

[@planescaped]

So this video was made of nihilistic and depressed 5 year olds or something?