In November 1991, I tuned into Comedy Central one Saturday night and saw this short. I was intrigued enough to keep watching (the main film was "The Unearthly") and thus my two-decade plus love of MST3K began. Thanks for the upload.
"*gasp* He's in the wrong house!" "Beer cans everywhere!" "Magic's easy once you know Mom!" "Trumpy, no!" "But Tommy calls many men Dad." Some of my favorite quotes. XD
Its funny, my mom actually would want to be a homemaker not because she was raised that way but because she spent half of her life in the workforce when she raised us as a single mom, and now that she is married to a great guy (^____^) and has grandkids so she loves acting like suzy homemaker and fixing food for him and sewing little baby clothes for her grandkids.
good riff as always ! though, this actually seems to be the most useful, least dated, and least creepy, of the 50's Public service Announcements, mainly because it's actually about good life advice and not "proper social conduct".
Oh yeah, that is weird. I feel like that's common though, you try to tell a lesson in a very simplistic (almost fairy tale kind of) way. But as a filmmaker, you just have to cast kids who are older and out grew the material itself.
Directed by Ted Peshak and the little boy Tommy was played by his son Skip Peshak, according to imdb most of these public info shorts were directed by Ted. Many of the actors were friends or family. Still it gives us many funny episodes for MST3000 to use. 😄
Gotta love how this kid is so damn clueless to the obvious-ass fact that it's his mom cleaning up after him xD Also....the dad ain't too bad look'n either....damn men back then were snazzy as hell ouo
He only does a half baked job on that mirror. He's one of those kids you have to stay on top of or he'll just start slacking off again. THAT WON'T HELP HIM IN VIETNAM!!!!!
Fortunately for Tommy, his drill instructors patents payed off and he graduated from jump school. He went on to be assigned to the Green Berets. He later served with distinction under Colonel Walt E Kurtz in Cambodia.
***** Are you sure about this? When last heard of; Tommy was serving with the Green Berets in Cambodia under the command of Colonel Walt E Kurtz. The army records have him listed as disappearing after the fall of the Kurtz compound. Unconfirmed reports have him working as late as 1980 as a mercenary in South East Asia.
my young daughter was watching and cracking up at some of the jokes...but I also reminded her that she has taken more responsibility this year in doing some of the things tommy was doing (ie keeping her own room clear). Very funny at times but very good lesson for young kids to take more responsibility in helping around the house.
As dated and silly as this is, it does teach a good lesson to kids. Namely get off your lazy ass and help out around the house. You could do this same short today and all you'd have to change is maybe his mom working outside the home and Tommy instead sits around staring at his Ipad or texting his friends and wants to ask his parents for an Xbox One or PS4.
+Adiraiju Good luck with that. Money from today looks nothing like it did back then. That's why Doc Brown carries a suitcase full of money from different time periods.
+The Dork Knight That's why you bring sacks of spices back to the middle ages and sell them. The relics alone would be worth crazy amounts, though you may need to make a stop in the 19th century to forge some archeological documents so you can legit sell them in the present. Yeah, I know, I've given this too much thought.
The problem is the aging process. You could get the relics, but you better have some place secure to store them. If you bring them to the present they would look like a very accurate modern recreation.
They had so many chores for Mother and then some vague manly-sounding excuses for father. I love that the whole video is guilting this kid into not asking for 25 cents more per week.
"It's Tommy's connection! Coming up the walk!" "Here comes Tommy's father, 'but Tommy calls many men dad.'" "Today is the day Tommy is to receive his a his allowance. 'Here's a penny, happy birthday.'" "Tommy will get to see what mommy and daddy do after supper. 'And what all the yelling is about.'" What they do after supper alone is funny, but Joel's line after is great. xD
"Tommy calls many men dad." OMG that kills me.
" When Tommy's train track broke,he fixed it himself, killing 400 commuters." LOL
"NO, HELP, THERE'S AN ANNOUNCER UNDER MY BED!"
I laughed my ass off there.
In November 1991, I tuned into Comedy Central one Saturday night and saw this short. I was intrigued enough to keep watching (the main film was "The Unearthly") and thus my two-decade plus love of MST3K began. Thanks for the upload.
"as she chokes back the bile of resentment" lmfao
At 03:45,
"And Tommy will get to see what Mother and Father do after supper."
The jokes really write themselves here.
"....and what all the yelling is about!"
Now the faces of those he's wrong flashes before his eyes.
"When a piece of train track was broken, he fixed it himself. Killing 400 commuters." LOL
"It's called guilt.......and boy does it work!"
"Magic is easy once you know MOM!!"
So remember kids, always listen to the voice in your head and do whatever it tells you to do
Which one?!
"There was the bed to be made."
And the maid to be bedded! *ba-dum tss*
Setting Sun The basis behind every anime made since the 2k's.
Lol!
"yeah ya wouldn't want that penny just sitting out" LMFAO !!
Tommy showers only half his body to save water.
"*gasp* He's in the wrong house!"
"Beer cans everywhere!"
"Magic's easy once you know Mom!"
"Trumpy, no!"
"But Tommy calls many men Dad."
Some of my favorite quotes. XD
"Trumpy, no!"
lol!! LOVE it! XD
"Goodnight."
"NO! HELP! THERE'S AN ANNOUNCER UNDER MY BED!!"
"Oops! Almost forgot something important."
"To pay homage to Gorto!"
"Here's a dollar, go buy yourself something pretty."
I laughed hard at that!
"Save money. Remember, someone has to work to earn it."
Buy Porky some pants!
"Dad pulls the lever at the big house."
BZZZZZT!
"tommy's dad pulls the lever at the big-house."
awesome
8:11 "see how neat Tommys room is" pffft it's the 50s, everything was neat! Not to mention swell!
And "keen"...🤭
"hello master"
"heres a penny, happy birthday"
"Well, I isolated that nucleotide today!" :D
One of the best tv shows ever. Me and the family always watched it every Saturday morning.I can't stop laughing.
Pay homage to Gorto! 👺
"Here's a dollar, go buy yourself something pretty" XD
"Hey Ruben Hill you still walk the fertile fields of my mind."
Its funny, my mom actually would want to be a homemaker not because she was raised that way but because she spent half of her life in the workforce when she raised us as a single mom, and now that she is married to a great guy (^____^) and has grandkids so she loves acting like suzy homemaker and fixing food for him and sewing little baby clothes for her grandkids.
Now the faces of those he's wronged flash before his eyes!
good riff as always !
though, this actually seems to be the most useful, least dated, and least creepy, of the 50's Public service Announcements, mainly because it's actually about good life advice and not "proper social conduct".
Oh yeah, that is weird.
I feel like that's common though, you try to tell a lesson in a very simplistic (almost fairy tale kind of) way. But as a filmmaker, you just have to cast kids who are older and out grew the material itself.
~1:10 Joel: "Tommy's the Lathe of Heaven!"
-ref. to science fiction novel about a man who reshapes reality with his dreams.
Thanks, Captain Obvious. 😅
I need to look this book up 🤔
"Here's a dollar, go buy yourself something pretty."
O, ty!
Directed by Ted Peshak and the little boy Tommy was played by his son Skip Peshak, according to imdb most of these public info shorts were directed by Ted. Many of the actors were friends or family.
Still it gives us many funny episodes for MST3000 to use. 😄
I'll believe that they were friends or family. Asking me to believe that they were "actors" is stretching it!
Simon Tingle Thanks for the information.
Mother is tired
Tired of Tommy
HERE'S A PENNY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
To be honest, back in the 50s you could buy yourself a big home and hire an oriental to serve as the butler for this penny
"while suppressing her hopes and dreams"
LOL
"Magic's easy once you know Mom!" HILARIOUS!
Gotta love how this kid is so damn clueless to the obvious-ass fact that it's his mom cleaning up after him xD
Also....the dad ain't too bad look'n either....damn men back then were snazzy as hell ouo
Yeah, I think the real problem with Tommy is that he's not lazy. He's rock stupid.
Shannon Ongley lmao yes x'D
Poor Tommy was traumatised when he found out it wasn't all being done by Santa working a side job
They smelled good too. I think it was the Aqua Velva.
My mom would clean my room as a kid, and I would always get annoyed by it. It's amazing what you take for granted and don't appreciate.
"Tommy is the lathe of heaven!"
They made an ursula k le guin joke?! Amazing!
"G'night Oedipus!" Brilliant!
Dad gives his son money and Crow says-
Crow/Dad: Here's a penny. Happy Brithday.
And as for me I go-
Me: Bahahaha!! 😂
"I can't sleep! There's an announcer under my bed!"
He's in the wrong house!
Beer cans everywhere
Except for his mind
In a prison break
Guilt, boy does it work
Someone stole everything
She knows Tommy's appetite is getting bigger and bigger --while his brain gets dimmer and dimmer.
So true.
Is it just me, or does Tommy look like an eight-year-old Joe Don Baker?
(0:32) "*Gasp* He's in the wrong house!"
(9:11) "Get Porky some pants!"
Those are my favorite lines! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOL XDDDDD
@ 2:54
"good night father"
"good night mother"
"good night Oedipus"
HAHA!!
"Hello, master!"
"Good night, Oedipus!"
"There's a bed to be made, and a maid to be bedded :P
Tommy’s The Lathe Of Heaven!
Thank you for that.
"It's Tommy's connection coming up the walk" lol, he does drugs.
He only does a half baked job on that mirror. He's one of those kids you have to stay on top of or he'll just start slacking off again. THAT WON'T HELP HIM IN VIETNAM!!!!!
Fortunately for Tommy, his drill instructors patents payed off and he graduated from jump school. He went on to be assigned to the Green Berets. He later served with distinction under Colonel Walt E Kurtz in Cambodia.
***** Are you sure about this? When last heard of; Tommy was serving with the Green Berets in Cambodia under the command of Colonel Walt E Kurtz. The army records have him listed as disappearing after the fall of the Kurtz compound. Unconfirmed reports have him working as late as 1980 as a mercenary in South East Asia.
jesus what a rollercoaster of a comment thread that was
I CARRIED AN M-16 AND YOU! *YOOOOOOOOOOOOU* CARRY THAT... THAT... 50'S ANNOUNCER!
Damn that got dark.
Did they get the same narrator for all of these shorts or did everyone just sound the same back in the 50s?
the second one, from what i've seen it was similar with the BBC where everyone seemed to be posh as anything
They just told them "Try to sound like Bing Crosby but if he had never had sex or a personality."
a couple years late, but Reuben Hill did a lot of shorts that MST3K covered, due to their general corniness and ample material to riff from.
"Tommy Is The Lathe of Heaven." Hee hee. Nice nod to Le Guin.
"First he straps gophers to his feet."
"He can help mother by putting things away...like his hopes and dreams."
Tommy has more insight than a lot of adults I know.
my young daughter was watching and cracking up at some of the jokes...but I also reminded her that she has taken more responsibility this year in doing some of the things tommy was doing (ie keeping her own room clear). Very funny at times but very good lesson for young kids to take more responsibility in helping around the house.
Many of these shorts are very easy to criticize, but this one less so. I think the essential message still holds true.
Dad pulls the leaver at the big house! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
Made the bed and bed the maid
3:53 _"Mom? Dad? ....... _*_OH MY GOD, THAT'S DISGUSTING!!! OH"!_* Lol!
As dated and silly as this is, it does teach a good lesson to kids. Namely get off your lazy ass and help out around the house. You could do this same short today and all you'd have to change is maybe his mom working outside the home and Tommy instead sits around staring at his Ipad or texting his friends and wants to ask his parents for an Xbox One or PS4.
Katie Baily wait, so kids really get this kind of cushy treatment? In my house if we didn't pick up our own things, they would get thrown out
@@tuckerbowen4626 Tough parents!...but fair.
@@landonmiller6943 well, we DID get a warning first, and that was always enough
@@tuckerbowen4626 Meant what they said too...smart parents!
And eliminate the dad from the script.
"As she chokes back the bile of resentment."
6:10-"Dear, there's a bill from the Ritz-Carlton for a double room?"
To be fair, a nickel in 1950 is like two bucks today.
+TOASTEngineer ...note to self: the minute I get a time machine, head back to 1950 with a couple hundred dollars and invest in Real Estate...
+Adiraiju Good luck with that. Money from today looks nothing like it did back then. That's why Doc Brown carries a suitcase full of money from different time periods.
+The Dork Knight That's why you bring sacks of spices back to the middle ages and sell them. The relics alone would be worth crazy amounts, though you may need to make a stop in the 19th century to forge some archeological documents so you can legit sell them in the present.
Yeah, I know, I've given this too much thought.
Shannon Ongley
Nothing wrong with giving it thought. It means you'll be prepared if the situation ever presents itself, no matter how outlandish.
The problem is the aging process. You could get the relics, but you better have some place secure to store them. If you bring them to the present they would look like a very accurate modern recreation.
"Tommy is 'The Lathe of Heaven'!" Woooow... They sure were literate.
"When a piece of train track was broke, Tommy fixed it himself="
"-Killing 400 commuters."
XD
Guess Tommy's not The Lathe Of Heaven. 😱
I interpret the tone of this short as incredibly sarcastic.
You didn't pay homage to Gorto, did you? 👺
("Boy, that last scene was GOOFY, I'm glad we weren't in it!")
They had so many chores for Mother and then some vague manly-sounding excuses for father. I love that the whole video is guilting this kid into not asking for 25 cents more per week.
"You do the voice and I'll work the jaw, honey". LOL!
"So he punts a football through the window."
"Here's a penny. Happy birthday."
I like Tommy's roomcleaning bowtie... very fashionable.
"Oh look heres Tommy's father home from work."
"Tommy calls many men dad."'
Oh wow........
"We're having cat today."
"MEOW!"
"and the maid to be bedded!" lmao pricless
"Goodnight, Oedipus."
Narrotor: Dirty clothes, toys on the floor...
Mike: Beer cans everywhere!
Narrotor: Now everything was straightened out.
Mike: Except his mind!
"Well, I isolated that nucleotide today."
"Can you guess what he's thinking?"
"What a dump!"
"We're having cat today" LMAO
"Tommy wants to be a part of that team."
"So he punts a football through the window!"
I couldn't stop laughing!
daddy throws the lever at the big house, hilarious
"Tommy's wondering what happened to all his dirty magazines."
"At home, before supper, Father worked on the family budget.."
"Oh man, we're in trouble...!"
I couldn't stop laughing at that. xD
Having to decide between shoes or food, eh? 😟
"Here's a dollar. Go buy something pretty." xD
"he can rejoin the village people now!"
haha perfect!
"by having a job..
a lousy job.."
Clothes scattered about... Toys on the floor..."Beer cans everywhere!"
I remember watching this short before I watched the actual episode and wondering "the hell happened to Crow?"
"magics easy when you know Mom!"
I said this to my mom and she agreed
Thank you for this. It's been too long and I forgot how hilarious they are. Hey, I want that kids bedroom wall paper !!!!
Tommy ended up in prison doing a 25 to life stretch.
"Someone stole everything!"
Dad: "My oh my, does this job blow...
...hmm, that gives me an idea for later . . ."
Here’s a penny. Happy birthday.
"It's Tommy's connection! Coming up the walk!"
"Here comes Tommy's father, 'but Tommy calls many men dad.'"
"Today is the day Tommy is to receive his a his allowance. 'Here's a penny, happy birthday.'"
"Tommy will get to see what mommy and daddy do after supper. 'And what all the yelling is about.'"
What they do after supper alone is funny, but Joel's line after is great. xD
Complete with hecklers!!!
Does this show just ever stop being so funny and original? :)