I am a huge fan of MST3K and i have finally found some of my Fav Shorts from the show. When i first saw this on TV ( Back in the Comedy Central days) i was literally it tears laughing.
In the 4th grade I wanted to play the saxophone; parents went with me to the local music store, my dad said "What's the cheapest instrument?" They bought me one pair of drum sticks and a practice pad, about 5 bucks. Well, I'm still playing drums 40 years later, no regrets
Bruce Podewell, who played Buzz, was Professor at Tulane University in New Orleans. He had been active in theater education and production, often as a director, for at least 30 years. He also occasionally played banjo professionally at various music venues around the city. Passed away from lung cancer in 2013.
And that would get you a bitch slap from Buddy Cole. Then again, Buddy wasn't that impressed by Oscar Wilde, either, as I recall from a sketch on Kids in the Hall...
"They were all there, with all their young energy. The first time I really met Buzz Turner, including Jeanie, the cutest girl in school... including Buzz."
According to Wikpedia, this film was the apex of Betty Luster's career - it's showing on MST3K (1991) finally, after 50 years of trying, it put her on the map (but not in the way she planned on).. Poor thing. I think she actually had talent.
Mr. B Natural as a woman reminds me a lot of the Peter pan musical plays were peter was played by a woman, which kind of made sense as you need the high-pitched voice to emulate a child singing, and most children aren't talented enough for big-scale production musicals, but here it makes no sense. Granted, she isn't a bad actor (hokey, but not terrible) and you can tell that she's having fun.
This is old news but Betty Luster only died in 2011. She's on Wikipedia and IMDB. When I was a more active MSTie, nobody could track down anything about her.
"Oh wont you buy some crap from us! You know you want to! And the white race will salute you, as you prance and dance along!" I first heard that jingle when I downloaded this short from Napster all those years ago... and its been a sort of ear worm ever since. Thanks MST3K!
It would be funny if there was a behind-the-scenes shot where the B Natural woman messes up a line, the director yells "cut!", then she says angrily, "Who wrote this shit anyway!?"
Am I the only one who noticed that Buzz never got to be with the "cutest girl in school"? Some other fool got her and now he learned the trumpet for nothing! :(
I went to an all white grade school and remember watching this. While there was little to no racism towards me at any time, I remember thinking "Mr B Natural scares the Hell outta me!" Yes, race unrelated. Just scared me.
@@mikezylstra7514 i mean im sure a lot of gay people play the trumpet, and yeah I play the flute, but the joke was that they said the trumpet represented pride and cuz im gay im joking that it ruined pride
@@gremlinwc8996 "Gay" by definition, always means "out." I'm sure a ("closet") hobo, bi or two might've. All the trumpet players I knew from school were definitely straight and usually Methodist.
Mr. B Natural dropped in at Dr. Forrester's lab in "Night of the Blood Beast", but I seem to recall that he/she made personal appearances on other episodes too. Were there others or was that just a false memory?
If anything, as someone who can be socially awkward too, I know how Buzz felt initially about being around others. That's at least what the idea basically is, of trying to find your place, besides the fact of being all about selling musical equipment. XD
In the 4th grade I wanted to play the saxophone; parents went with me to the local music store, my dad said "What's the cheapest instrument?" They bought me one pair of drum sticks and a practice pad, about 5 bucks. Well, I'm still playing drums 40 years later, no regrets
Bruce Podewell, who played Buzz, was Professor at Tulane University in New Orleans. He had been active in theater education and production, often as a director, for at least 30 years. He also occasionally played banjo professionally at various music venues around the city. Passed away from lung cancer in 2013.
That’s kind of a shame.
I’m glad he had a good life up to that point.
“Oscar Wilde only wishes he was this gay.”
That line with Joel’s deadpan delivery is one of the funniest things I have ever heard.
And that would get you a bitch slap from Buddy Cole.
Then again, Buddy wasn't that impressed by Oscar Wilde, either, as I recall from a sketch on Kids in the Hall...
The fact that someone saw the finished product of this film and decided, "This can be taken seriously," is proof mental illness is nothing new.
Do you have a Mr. B Natural costume? 😄
This is definitely one if the best mst3k shorts..
paul Z In the MST3K book, they refer Mr. B. Natural as a succubus.
An insult to real succubi everywhere.
Jeanie: Wanna come? We can dance.
Crow: Don't hit me.
😆😆😆
"They were all there, with all their young energy. The first time I really met Buzz Turner, including Jeanie, the cutest girl in school... including Buzz."
Glad someone else caught that
Absolutely, hands down, the greatest segment MST3K ever produced.
According to Wikpedia, this film was the apex of Betty Luster's career - it's showing on MST3K (1991) finally, after 50 years of trying, it put her on the map (but not in the way she planned on).. Poor thing. I think she actually had talent.
I just looked her up on Wikipedia, and she passed away in 2011.
She was sexy 😍
A BOY TALKING LIKE THAT BLASPHEMY!
SPANKING TIME!
AHHHHHH!
"Oh, excuse me, sexless man-woman."
Mr. B Natural as a woman reminds me a lot of the Peter pan musical plays were peter was played by a woman, which kind of made sense as you need the high-pitched voice to emulate a child singing, and most children aren't talented enough for big-scale production musicals, but here it makes no sense. Granted, she isn't a bad actor (hokey, but not terrible) and you can tell that she's having fun.
Mr. B Natural has great legs.
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Mary Martin as Peter Pan
Betty Luster was one of the leading Pans of her time.
"The cutest girl in school .Including Buzz "
What the ....?
Yes, being in the high school band is JUST like being a member of the football team.
Actually, it's better.
actually, its gayer (as in festive)
Crow: Oh my God, *_PLEASE_* say this isn’t happening…
"i'm bucking for first chair"
"oh do you DARE?"
Everybody in this short is first chair. I was in a JH/HS orchestra. Only 1 in 10 ever got first chair - usually transiently.. Fact of life.
So Joel thinks Mr. B. Natural is sexually attractive. Now we know the effects of being in space far too long.
dem hips tho....
Dem legs.
Dem eighth notes.
"That's nice.....MOOOOOOOM!!!"
Oh, poor Crow
Servo's "MOOOOOOM!!!" a bit after Crow did that was golden too!
On a lighter note, apparently the kid in this short wound up actually picking up the trumpet, and would grow up to become a teacher of music.
"Betty Luster. Was she married to Martin Sheen?"
Hmmm... Might explain why Charlie's so messed up!
One of their best worst puns.
That woman's eyes work independently, like a chameleon's.
extropia, a form of strabismus.
This is old news but Betty Luster only died in 2011. She's on Wikipedia and IMDB. When I was a more active MSTie, nobody could track down anything about her.
I know she did a couple shows on Broadway in the 40s and 50s. Prior to that she was a showgirl in Miami and London.
With legs like that you can tell she was a showgirl
....the faces of those he's wronged float up at him.
One of my favorite lines from this short.
HE'S GOT A GUN !!
"How's that?"
"It stinks!"
At 16:27 I almost passed out from laughing. The whole bit is pure brilliance.
Flight of The Bumble Bee..riot!
"no, I'm in marketing." that one had me in tears
I made a Robot Roll Call w/my pets included.
"Forget music! I wanna DANCE!"
Mr B: "A boy talking like that! Blasphemy!"
Joel: "Spanking Time!"
"Oh wont you buy some crap from us!
You know you want to!
And the white race will salute you,
as you prance and dance along!"
I first heard that jingle when I downloaded this short from Napster all those years ago... and its been a sort of ear worm ever since.
Thanks MST3K!
"Know your father I did!" Hilariously creepy: )
Shannon Ongley hey leave my father out of this!
Know him, he was delicious
Peter Pan and Dr. Frank-N-Furter has a child.
Robert Diotalevi Oh, the horror...
@@luisreyes1963 😂
a lot of work goes into making a trumpet for a kid thats never played a trumpet before
My fav line was "bad touch"
11:43 The bad thing is that we were sold this bill of goods in the 70's regarding the saxophone. Mr. B Natural gets 10% commission.
Mr. B Natural, if you don't C sharp you'll B flat, oh, I love that one....
The Lulla-Baby-Bye! GO AWAY!! 😜
This trumpet is flatlining! LOL!!!
It would be funny if there was a behind-the-scenes shot where the B Natural woman messes up a line, the director yells "cut!", then she says angrily, "Who wrote this shit anyway!?"
"Bad Touch!"
the first, abstract draft of Stephen King's IT
Oscar Wilde only WISHED he were this gay is my favorite line ever...
"You awakened me."
"So I like guys now?"
ZING! 🏳️🌈
"You've seen me do *everything*!?"
Mr. B Natural makes Liberace look like a cage-fighter...
07:03 And why is he visiting with 8 year olds?
“How’s that?”
“It stinks”
@@robertdiotalevi285 The 50's weren't as innocent as one was led to believe.
@@luisreyes1963 I’m too young to remember, Luis! 😂
The lady playing him is over the top perky too!
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!'
We need some meatloaf!
"See Buzz, It's really fun to be psychotic!"
"This man does things he's not proud of..." haha!
Candyman's got nothing on the unrelenting terror of Mr B.
Mr. B Natural has better legs.
And now, I'll sing HITTING ON A YOUNG BOY in the key of inappropriate...
Mr. Natural B. Natural should be arrested for seducing a male under the age of 18!
Am I the only one who noticed that Buzz never got to be with the "cutest girl in school"? Some other fool got her and now he learned the trumpet for nothing! :(
Feeling sebaceous, are we? 😝
@@luisreyes1963 All day every day!
He's literally just a background feature while other people make memories.
“Well it’s not mutual.”
Some of Crow's best riffing ever.
He’s a natural B cup alright.
Eww...🤮
"Oh Mr. B."
Back when being in the school band or orchestra made you popular...!
"If you get near a song ... play it"
Groucho Marx said that. 😁
OK Mr. Lady!
Petition Blizzard to make a 'Mr. B Natural' skin for Tracer
RoyalFlush270 You sicko...
I unironically like that idea.
If Blizzard won't do it, I probably know a r34 artist or three that can be commissioned to do it.
I went to an all white grade school and remember watching this.
While there was little to no racism towards me at any time, I remember thinking
"Mr B Natural scares the Hell outta me!"
Yes, race unrelated. Just scared me.
It does make your story's context very very funny tho!
You know, I kinda see this being freaky to some. Just like some people find clowns creepy-scary.
Those are the most subdued "energetic" kids I've ever seen.
Extra value is what you get when you play the coronet.
Conn's made some great stuff over the years. This film is not one of those things.
I don't think Conn made it, they just paid for it. lol But ya
My parents took me to the Conn factory on a vacation back in the early 1960s.
COOONN!
09:18 Every Danny Kaye movie every made.
20 years later, I still love this
Oh hey, it's Joy from Inside Out!
I wish I could.... "Wear tights and prance around."
Why not? Most Republican House members do. 😅
You know, it's characters like this that helped me discover my pansexuality. Thanks Mr. B, you androgynous Rhythm Elemental, you.
it's things like this that made me afraid of girls.
AM I the only one that doesn;t think this short is as disturbing as everyone says it is. Its silly but not frightening.
I think they're just mock disturbed. It's the MST3K way.
Let's talk man-to-man, boy....where do you keep the tampons?
5:07 He reaches for the spiwit! The bwavado! The dewwing-do!
Do you find it WISIBLE? 😅
Mr. B Natural for President 2020!!!
MAMA... Make America Musical Again
Make
Anal
Moist
Again
I played in the school band, but she didn't show up in my bedroom
linkone11 Consider yourself lucky.
I think you mean he
Naw, I was a per-CUS-sionist. I bought my stuff from a non-horn brand, which had its own summoning demon show up in my bedroom, lol...
Makes the Humunculous from Shadow Of Destiny seem cute and innocent o -e
One of the best!!
I thought this was a short about being yourself.
Then I remembered what time period this was from.
"WERE REALLY REALLY WHITE!"
why is my kid such a dud? I was popular!
She's wondering what's really inside that stack of "books" that he's bringing upstairs to his locked room.
13:46 He's stroking his horn a bit too much here.
Hey, Now! 😉
@@luisreyes1963 😂
My gosh, that outfit and she's over acting. I luv this campy stuff.
Don't forget how she purrs "Vivace!" 😽
They obviously perceived a future MST3K when they made this film.
"You look hot!"
One of the funniest ones I’ve seen
One of my favorites. Thing singing along starting @ 0:30 always cracks me up.
I know, I literally laugh out loud every time
16:51 "IT STINKS!"
"That's very clever.. Mom! Moooom!"
"See Buzz, it's fun to be psychotic!"
Well, the old clock on the wall says "that's all" from the STRIDEX medicated band-hour.
12:20 kills me every time I come back to this video lolol
mister B ruined pride for me with the trumpet and I am GAY
I've never heard of a gay guy playing the trumpet; flute maybe, but not the trumpet.
@@mikezylstra7514 i mean im sure a lot of gay people play the trumpet, and yeah I play the flute, but the joke was that they said the trumpet represented pride and cuz im gay im joking that it ruined pride
@@gremlinwc8996 "Gay" by definition, always means "out." I'm sure a ("closet") hobo, bi or two might've. All the trumpet players I knew from school were definitely straight and usually Methodist.
@@mikezylstra7514 i mean you can be gay without being out, and even then gay and trumpet player arent mutually exclusive traits
@@gremlinwc8996 Not really. Gay is out, by definition. It is a socio-political orientation, not the sexual orientation.
Early androgyny at its finest.
Mr. B Natural dropped in at Dr. Forrester's lab in "Night of the Blood Beast", but I seem to recall that he/she made personal appearances on other episodes too. Were there others or was that just a false memory?
Mr. B. Natural makes me wonder when Mr. J. Marshall's gonna show up and save the world.
At least I gave you credit for this video, Mystery Science Theater 3000 kicks ass
@UCXOz7eGqOObci8zWxV5W3Lw Nope just seen it at least lets me know that you have taste in comedy. I'm just shocked that you actually like it
oh, was this part of the final grade?
now i'm going to stick my head in a microwave "HOT POCKETS!!!!!"
DON'T HURT ME!!!!
“....the faces of those he’s wronged, float up at him...” 13:22
Homestar Runner brought me here.
Homestar Runner was Mr. B. Nstural.
Yeah. I liked it when he turned into a note. The reaction from the other characters was priceless.
Senor Cardgage is the original Mr. Natural.
When did this happen?
One of the more recent halloween toons. Like 2016.
@@alexcarter8807 Senor Cardgage knows how to talk at you like you're a lady.
Never look Mr. B directly in the eyes
Too late...🧟♂️
I need a cigarette and a shower now. 😂🌋
MOOOOOOOOM!!!
If anything, as someone who can be socially awkward too, I know how Buzz felt initially about being around others. That's at least what the idea basically is, of trying to find your place, besides the fact of being all about selling musical equipment. XD
05:53 What kind of acid trip is Buzz on?
The brown kind they warned the Hippies about at Woodstock. 😵
@@luisreyes1963 🤪😂👍