MST3K - Century 21 Calling...

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @TakaComics
    @TakaComics Год назад +19

    1960s: Maybe you can call your air conditioner in the future!
    2023: Dammit my phone won’t connect to my air conditioner and my refrigerator just sold my secrets to Facebook.

    • @menslady125eif2590
      @menslady125eif2590 Год назад +2

      That's nothing. Not only will my phone not connect to my air conditioner, but my oven posted my most embarrassing photos on Twitter and my dishwasher booked porn in my browser!

  • @DoktorStrangelove
    @DoktorStrangelove 6 лет назад +56

    I finally visited Seattle last year, and when I visited the Seattle Center and saw the old World's Fair buildings, I clearly and involuntarily said, "THE CHURCH OF SCIENCE."

    • @favoritemustard3542
      @favoritemustard3542 2 года назад +2

      Here's hoping you bowed your head & bent thy knee: 🤞

  • @ClayLoomis1958
    @ClayLoomis1958 8 лет назад +87

    I can't be the only one that thought this short was going to be about Century 21 Realty. No matter though, funny as always.

  • @necrosunderground
    @necrosunderground 5 лет назад +30

    "These monorail designers, they have a one-track mind."
    "Why do you lash out like that?"
    I've started using that lash out line with my daughter whenever she makes a pun. Thank you, MST3K!

  • @mrterp04
    @mrterp04 Год назад +12

    “Now let’s say you want to call your mother who lives in Des Moines”
    “WHY?”

  • @eaglescout1984
    @eaglescout1984 2 года назад +22

    In conclusion, in the 21st century, you can:
    -Take your phone with you- Carry a bulky plastic box that you then have to call your home or your office to get the message/phone number to call in a payphone.
    -Dial the phone with tactile or touch keys- Use clunky buttons to dial.
    -Use a directory and speed dial on your phone in seconds by using integrated chip technology- Keep a list of your close contacts by the phone and wait while the slow transistors in the central call center look up then dial your number.
    -Call waiting and put calls on hold with the touch of a key- Okay, same thing but with a switch instead.
    -Conference call- Use specific number strings to add a line to your call.
    -Use WiFi to control appliances- WiFi? The hell is that? Use longer more complicated number strings from a payphone to control your appliances. Uh oh, running out of time, better put in a nickel to finish up. Oh, you've only got quarters left? What a shame. Okay, insert the quarter, finish the number strings, hang up. Phew! Wait, did you just turn on the lawn sprinklers, or set the oven to 450°?

  • @KlunkerRider
    @KlunkerRider 10 лет назад +65

    5:10 Wow a pager and its only the size of a brick!

    • @BryonYoungblood
      @BryonYoungblood 4 года назад +1

      And for only 4 easy payments of $49.99!

  • @BryonYoungblood
    @BryonYoungblood 5 лет назад +32

    Crow: Well, I’m glad to know that the future has *CONSTANT ORGAN MUSIC!!*

  • @giraffemonsoon
    @giraffemonsoon 10 лет назад +27

    "I'm in the phone pavilion dear and I'm wearing a fright wig".

  • @kahlesstheunforgettable9136
    @kahlesstheunforgettable9136 8 лет назад +18

    "Come on! Let's go grope th st Eskimo!"
    Easily one of the funniest lines ever delivered on this show.
    XD

  • @johnholland9371
    @johnholland9371 Год назад +12

    I wish I could live in the 21st century, it sounds AWESOME!

    • @diyac9554
      @diyac9554 11 месяцев назад

      Hahahahaha😂

  • @kellyweingart3692
    @kellyweingart3692 3 года назад +14

    “Here is a world of communication”
    “Who are you?” 😂

  • @guilmon182
    @guilmon182 9 лет назад +30

    PUSH BUTTON PHONING!!!!

  • @classiclife7204
    @classiclife7204 3 года назад +16

    Of course, the big thing missing from all this futuristic hoopla is the modern cellular phone, which was invented by a guy who worked for Motorola back in 1973. Oh and the first cellular network was first laid in Japan, not in the "Century 21" USA. As I recall, AT&T (Bell) spent the majority of the 80s and 90s finding clever ways to charge people for long-distance calls. You have to be in your 40s to remember all the "long-distance plans" we were constantly pestered with. Luckily, Bell didn't have a monopoly on the future.

    • @JamaicanCastle
      @JamaicanCastle 2 года назад +4

      Well, they took away Bell's monopoly on the future with a _big_ ol' lawsuit.

    • @princeofcupspoc9073
      @princeofcupspoc9073 Год назад

      The cell phone was NOT anyone's invention. It was a logical evolution from "pagers" to "texting" devices to audio messaging to full fledged phone.

  • @theycallmetundraboy
    @theycallmetundraboy Год назад +6

    "These monorails designers - they have one track mind!"
    "...Why do you lash out?"
    "...I don't know...."

  • @adafrost6276
    @adafrost6276 10 лет назад +17

    I really like the idea of using card suits to explain nucleotides, I'll have to remember that one.

  • @shenloken2
    @shenloken2 5 лет назад +17

    03:17 - "Ren and Stimpy music....."
    Given the music used in this short is similar to tracks used in Ren and Stimpy; it's a hilarious contrast between the reality of the short and the insanity of the cartoon.

    • @Axisoffear94
      @Axisoffear94 Год назад +4

      The one playing at 4:29 actually was used in Ren & Stimpy. For the titlecard for the episode "Fake Dad".

  • @RoyUnit
    @RoyUnit 9 лет назад +26

    That thing about controlling your air conditioning remotely actually came true. There are thermostats you can control with a smartphone app.

    • @minorshan
      @minorshan 8 лет назад +12

      And security system and lights, sprinklers, etc. It's actually nice to see a couple of these old predictions come true.

    • @elafimilo8199
      @elafimilo8199 7 лет назад +3

      Plus, you know, the air conditioner in my parents' apartment that is about 10 years older than smartphones and has a remote control. Just sayin'.

    • @jaohonaxa
      @jaohonaxa 7 лет назад +4

      Yeah well the irony of it is that just about every innovation they talked about before that. Transferring calls, changing the line, etc. was made unnecessary/obsolete by cell phones.

  • @christieperry4361
    @christieperry4361 7 лет назад +15

    The quips always get me laughing. The lady's talking and in the pause
    "I'm Sharon Lawrence"

  • @GalapagosPete
    @GalapagosPete Год назад +4

    4:51 “Who are you?“ Why, that’s Dick Tufeld, voice of the Robot and narrator/announcer of Lost in Space (1965).
    6:29 And in spite of the fact that touchtone was actually cheaper for the phone company than rotary dial.

  • @AJF786
    @AJF786 11 лет назад +32

    Don't you love how all of this is obsolete.

    • @MrTommyg024
      @MrTommyg024 9 лет назад +3

      Lily B As is the Pacific Science Center. . .

    • @mikeb8674
      @mikeb8674 7 лет назад +4

      Of course! Why, there's nothin' on earth like a genuine, bona-fide, electrified, six-car monorail!

    • @SuperChochip
      @SuperChochip 7 лет назад +3

      What'd I say?

    • @tackyman2011
      @tackyman2011 7 лет назад +3

      MONORAAAAAAILLL!!

    • @SuperChochip
      @SuperChochip 7 лет назад +4

      What's it called?

  • @TheSolarWolf
    @TheSolarWolf 9 лет назад +16

    To think this stuff was once super high tech.

  • @lisledre
    @lisledre 9 лет назад +35

    12:25 - ~and you're seeing it all..."at the Annie Sprinkle show!" Years after I saw this episode I stumbled across exactly who Annie Sprinkle is and well...the line is a hell of a lot funnier now!

    • @mikeshelogowski434
      @mikeshelogowski434 2 года назад

      A deep joke.

    • @johnnycats5157
      @johnnycats5157 2 года назад

      yeah one of my all time favorite lines from the show for sure

    • @tomryan914
      @tomryan914 Год назад +1

      @@mikeshelogowski434 'Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle'.

    • @HarpsiFizz
      @HarpsiFizz Год назад

      I was lucky enough to have discovered MST3K about a year after a women's studies class my freshman year in college, so I was really delighted to see that joke.

    • @minxstole93
      @minxstole93 Год назад

      Dumbass here *points at self* but can someone please tell me who Annie Sprinkle is. I'm too lazy to look her up right now. 😛

  • @JamaicanCastle
    @JamaicanCastle 7 лет назад +10

    For some reason, "well, andante, maybe" is still the funniest part.

  • @femoman
    @femoman 8 лет назад +38

    "Just listen for dial tone, insert a number card and press the start button."
    "THEN RUUUUN!!"
    Cracks me up every time!

    • @techboysf
      @techboysf 5 лет назад +2

      Me too! Runs through my head often when I click what used to be known as "Start" on Windows.

  • @Fuzy2K
    @Fuzy2K 3 года назад +13

    10:32 -- Wow, they predicted those silly Internet of Things devices nobody really needs. If they show a fridge with a built-in TV, I'm gonna pee myself...

  • @adiraiju9336
    @adiraiju9336 8 лет назад +69

    Welcome to 2016, where the cell phones can do anything but get a decent call signal.

    • @juancarlosmiguelsantos3105
      @juancarlosmiguelsantos3105 7 лет назад +8

      It's 2017 and they are no better.

    • @allenharper2928
      @allenharper2928 7 лет назад +5

      Juan Carlos Miguel Santos They're slightly better here in 2193.

    • @henshinman
      @henshinman 7 лет назад +6

      It's 2243 and we finally get decent signals

    • @garyfrombrooklyn
      @garyfrombrooklyn Год назад +1

      It’s 10,191 and I still can’t get a decent signal to Arrakis

    • @minxstole93
      @minxstole93 Год назад

      ​@@allenharper2928😂😂😂

  • @luisreyes1963
    @luisreyes1963 8 лет назад +21

    All that technology is OUTDATED. But at least, some of those ideas actually exist in some form such as remote control for household appliances & video conferencing.

  • @kelvintorrence5994
    @kelvintorrence5994 Год назад +3

    Wow it's 2023 and all this is now,plus listening to these nuts is a plus,I miss the original mst3000 crew.

  • @artistwithouttalent
    @artistwithouttalent 9 лет назад +32

    That night, the oppressive cloud of the phone company hung heavy over the world

    • @jackattack17
      @jackattack17 7 лет назад +2

      artistwithouttalent oh you mean apple?

  • @paktype
    @paktype 9 лет назад +7

    I remember those rotary phones with the plastic dials. We had them in my parents home in the 1970s.

  • @YogSothoth24601
    @YogSothoth24601 10 лет назад +34

    I wonder how many inventors jumped off tops of buildings after microchips were invented..

    • @princeofcupspoc9073
      @princeofcupspoc9073 Год назад +5

      That makes no sense. Engineers were GLAD to get rid of tubes, which were folding back technology. The only ones who still like tubes are audiophiles who want "smoother" sound.

  • @MarlonOtakubrother
    @MarlonOtakubrother 10 лет назад +27

    WOW, the 21st Century looks amazing =D

    • @snowbeast4463
      @snowbeast4463 7 лет назад +5

      I can't wait until I can carry a brick around in my pocket...Wait...

  • @undoneonion90
    @undoneonion90 7 лет назад +12

    "Hello grandma!"
    "Where's my money?!"

  • @coasterrebel9956
    @coasterrebel9956 8 лет назад +19

    "Is it time to phone grandma?" "Well lets see" NO

    • @kylestubbs8867
      @kylestubbs8867 5 лет назад +1

      CoasterRebel I don’t know why, but that part gets me every time.

    • @HamburgerMolester
      @HamburgerMolester 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@kylestubbs8867same here lol

  • @pollyfoofoo8703
    @pollyfoofoo8703 5 лет назад +11

    I guess i'm a nerd but that looked like a lot of fun to me. 🙂

  • @SpamNapkin
    @SpamNapkin 8 лет назад +34

    PUSH BUTTON PHONING

    • @hirightnow
      @hirightnow 8 лет назад +17

      Sure, the phone company talks a good game, but I'll believe it when I see it.

    • @lkrnpk
      @lkrnpk 8 лет назад +9

      This will never catch on

    • @tysontaggart7246
      @tysontaggart7246 Год назад

      "Push button phoning" is probably the strangest way they could've described having a phone with buttons on it lmao

  • @michaelmartin9022
    @michaelmartin9022 9 лет назад +18

    In the future, there will be colours that are not purple and green!

  • @kathleenmorrison2908
    @kathleenmorrison2908 4 года назад +9

    God, I remember the Bell Atlantic commercials that ran when I was a little kid, before the national carriers we know and are stuck with took over. I think Bell was forcibly split up into regional bits by monopoly laws actually.

  • @dndboy13
    @dndboy13 7 лет назад +6

    I like how this is about 1/4 over before Ol Ma Bell starts its spiel

  • @GoldenLegionHoney
    @GoldenLegionHoney 8 лет назад +18

    Hi grandma! where's my money....

  • @Addamsfn120
    @Addamsfn120 7 лет назад +6

    Here, you tell mom I'm pregnant. 😂😂😂

  • @steveairport
    @steveairport 9 лет назад +18

    PUSH BUTTON PHONING!

  • @rndmpinkiepie64
    @rndmpinkiepie64 6 лет назад +13

    *Anyone else feel awkward watching this on your phone?*

  • @NerdyHippy
    @NerdyHippy 4 года назад +5

    Yeah, how do you like it when the lawn piddles on you?

  • @BeowulfNorther
    @BeowulfNorther 8 лет назад +6

    haha it's funny, it took another 50 years but we can control the oven, AC & sprinklers from our cell phones now

    • @JoeKaye-hn5dt
      @JoeKaye-hn5dt 7 лет назад +1

      And in 50 years Seattle is so overrun by bums you'd get robbed in 5 minutes walking on its streets.

  • @thunderguyer
    @thunderguyer 8 лет назад +17

    1:47 this guy is about to get fucking decapitated

    • @suzycreamcheesez4371
      @suzycreamcheesez4371 8 лет назад +1

      hey you got to use the F word! Just like a real jr high kid!

    • @thunderguyer
      @thunderguyer 8 лет назад +4

      suzycreamcheesez Would "This guy is about to get decapitated" or "This guy is about to get fudging decapitated" be funnier? Also it's true. Look at him. He is MILIMETERS away from that saucer ride.

    • @suzycreamcheesez4371
      @suzycreamcheesez4371 8 лет назад +1

      I'm sorry you're embarrassed. You do wish to be taken seriously. Correct?

    • @thunderguyer
      @thunderguyer 8 лет назад +5

      suzycreamcheesez Uh,no? I wrote a youtube comment in a MST3K video about a guy being so close to the saucer that it was about to take his head clean off.

    • @thunderguyer
      @thunderguyer 8 лет назад +2

      suzycreamcheesez Did you just delete and re-wrote the message just so that i can see it? See my ignorance to the last time you wrote it as the following message:You took the joke too seriously and got stuck on a word that almost everyone,even people that don't speak english,know and use daily

  • @ScroggsOVision
    @ScroggsOVision 6 лет назад +10

    "Wait, that phone's hanging on the wall, what'll they think of next?"
    "The phones, they're coming!"
    Also, so, are those two (blindingly white) kids supposed to be a couple, or brother and sister, or what?

  • @Tustin2121
    @Tustin2121 5 лет назад +5

    4:00 - Hey look! It’s the precursor for all mobile phone games in the modern age!

  • @davidb4715
    @davidb4715 9 лет назад +7

    I have been looking for movies about the Seattle's world Fair, and now that I have seen it, Seattle has went down hill.

  • @apassionatenerd.3564
    @apassionatenerd.3564 2 года назад +2

    "Oh, *Scoffs* yeah great, Gifts From Germany... Braunschweiger, Cars with heaters that don't work and Identification Papers."

  • @PetProjects2011
    @PetProjects2011 7 лет назад +6

    INTRODUCING THE ROTARY PHONE!!!!

  • @jadenova
    @jadenova 4 года назад +9

    Interesting how they didn't predict cell phones.

    • @scino55
      @scino55 2 года назад +3

      And yet they have a primitive pager.

    • @JamaicanCastle
      @JamaicanCastle 2 года назад +3

      @@scino55 And you saw how big it was even though the only message it receives is "buzz now!". It's hard to imagine how much transistors have improved since then.

  • @jackmonaghan8477
    @jackmonaghan8477 Год назад +2

    Century 21 was also the name of Supermarionation pioneer Gerry Anderson's production company.

    • @cindydott452
      @cindydott452 8 месяцев назад

      That flying needle thing in his logo scared me when I was little!

  • @wp4708
    @wp4708 7 лет назад +18

    "You're a laaadyyyy"
    But you can't escape DEATH!

    • @Loogaroo1
      @Loogaroo1 3 года назад +1

      That's "You're elated".

  • @davohna
    @davohna 7 лет назад +3

    Fav lines. Mike says. Wait, that phones hanging on the wall. Mike: What will they think of next. Little girl says..Is it time to telephone grandma? Crow (No!)

  • @Smudginator2000
    @Smudginator2000 9 лет назад +5

    I love the Monorail I wish we had more.

    • @princeofcupspoc9073
      @princeofcupspoc9073 Год назад

      Monorails have many downsides that were not recognized until people actually built ran working runs. Having 4 wheels solves most of those problems.

    • @JamaicanCastle
      @JamaicanCastle Год назад

      @@princeofcupspoc9073 I hear those things are awful loud...

  • @mommakat71
    @mommakat71 10 лет назад +14

    just mow down the old people, that's fine kids.

    • @jimmyjim170
      @jimmyjim170 9 лет назад +8

      audrey king "Hey, we're young and perky, get the hell out of our way!"

    • @mommakat71
      @mommakat71 9 лет назад

      if it were not for old people, then we wouldn't have young dumb and don't know what to do with their lives kind of people running around.

    • @jimmyjim170
      @jimmyjim170 9 лет назад +3

      I hope you realize that was a quote from the short and not a jab at old people ^^;;...

  • @veelalynne
    @veelalynne 6 лет назад +2

    2:31 Asian Lady: "Uh...guys...I'm not part of the exhibit...what're you doing? WTF just happened?"

  • @cindydott452
    @cindydott452 3 месяца назад

    05:50 This phone was featured in an episode of the Mission Impossible TV series. Mr. Phelps switched the cards, so when the office manager called for their regular computer repair service, she reached Barney instead!

  • @suzycreamcheesez4371
    @suzycreamcheesez4371 10 лет назад +21

    here you tell mom I'm pregnant!

  • @dubbie17
    @dubbie17 10 лет назад +7

    "in a BODYBAG" lol

  • @angrynoodletwentyfive6463
    @angrynoodletwentyfive6463 7 лет назад +2

    10:41 public telephones in the 21st century...
    You can't play candy crush on that.

  • @timmckee6340
    @timmckee6340 6 лет назад +1

    i was in seatle at the museum of flight and they had this short on video, I instantly thought of this.

  • @AJF786
    @AJF786 10 лет назад +17

    Gifts From Germany, braunschweiger, cars with heaters that don't work, and identification papers...

  • @chelseab3049
    @chelseab3049 8 лет назад +8

    i just really seem to be drawn to that german exhibit....

  • @helpimarock66
    @helpimarock66 10 лет назад +7

    The telephones of tomorrow, aka, 35 years ago :P

    •  7 лет назад

      I don't know, they had beepers: it was like a really shitty 1990's in a Nirvana video minus the irony.

  • @metropod
    @metropod 9 лет назад +3

    this only re-enforces my appreciation of my iPhone.

  • @jackal59
    @jackal59 7 лет назад +1

    2:59 -- And it really does sound like an imitation of Herbert Windt's soundtrack for _Olympia_ .

  • @wildbrad
    @wildbrad 7 лет назад +4

    "Then you can go off with your drinking and pill popping!"

  • @FolderBoard
    @FolderBoard 9 лет назад +9

    Am I the only person who thinks the girl is dressed WAY too formally for this? Especially compared to everyone else.

  • @snakes3425
    @snakes3425 9 лет назад +10

    It's 2015 and the Phone Company's Customer Service is still shit

  • @Beobout6
    @Beobout6 7 лет назад +7

    And now in the twenty first century we have more convenient ways to TALK than ever, but no one is LISTENING!

  • @erik_arman
    @erik_arman 3 года назад +2

    The phones! They're coming!!

  • @KWCline91
    @KWCline91 9 лет назад +27

    Celebrating pride week at the fair. I'm GAY!!!
    I feel good about me!

  • @spivagirl936
    @spivagirl936 6 лет назад +3

    Wow early beepers. And to think much of the cell was invented by the actress Hedy Lamar.

    • @jadenova
      @jadenova 4 года назад +6

      That's Hedley.

  • @JoeKaye-hn5dt
    @JoeKaye-hn5dt 7 лет назад +1

    Wow! Seattle before it got taken over by bums. I remember those days. Quite nice.

  • @MrJonnyPepper
    @MrJonnyPepper 7 лет назад +1

    Love this one

  • @cavalierfan1995
    @cavalierfan1995 6 лет назад +2

    3:18 REN AND STIMPY MUSIC

  • @ms-qp3pw
    @ms-qp3pw 9 лет назад +6

    "call me later, toots"

  • @jonathankleinow2073
    @jonathankleinow2073 4 дня назад

    "Ever been invited out for an evening--"
    No.
    "...and had to turn it down because you're expecting an extra-special call?"
    NO!

  • @julianmastri9605
    @julianmastri9605 6 лет назад +2

    THE PHONES! THEY'RE COMING!!!

  • @HylianFox3
    @HylianFox3 3 года назад +1

    This is a 13 1/2 minute short, yet it takes nearly 5 full minutes to actually get to the phone stuff.

  • @linkmaxwell
    @linkmaxwell 3 года назад +2

    10:42 Google: WRITE THAT DOWN!

  • @cindydott452
    @cindydott452 8 месяцев назад +1

    "We're crushing pigeons, *IT'S FUN!"*

  • @BXVAce
    @BXVAce Год назад +1

    The phones! They're coming!

  • @citizenofcorona8783
    @citizenofcorona8783 2 года назад +3

    This looks like Disneyland from the 50s

  • @PlasmaCoolantLeak
    @PlasmaCoolantLeak 7 лет назад

    I rode that monorail (the one there in '94, that is)! There wasn't any music playing, the jerks.

  • @BloodylocksBathory
    @BloodylocksBathory 8 лет назад +2

    at the Annie Sprinkle Show!

  • @HystericalWoman
    @HystericalWoman 8 лет назад +18

    Rifftrax should redo this short.

  • @therealhardrock
    @therealhardrock 7 лет назад +4

    4:18 that's bound to trigger a lot of people these days.

  • @PhilBagels
    @PhilBagels 8 лет назад +1

    A 13:23 long video where they take up the first 4:48 before they even start to try to get to the point!

  • @cindydott452
    @cindydott452 8 месяцев назад +1

    I googled Annie Sprinkle and almost died laughing!

    • @Charon.1
      @Charon.1 6 месяцев назад

      I still don't get it

    • @cindydott452
      @cindydott452 6 месяцев назад

      @@Charon.1 use Google. Muting you now

  • @LakeFX
    @LakeFX 7 месяцев назад

    I spent 13 minutes waiting for a real estate reference that never came

  • @robertplatt643
    @robertplatt643 3 года назад +1

    The beginning of America's great dumbing-down. A great advance in technology - NOT having to remember your phone numbers!

  • @moorek1967
    @moorek1967 7 лет назад +1

    Since it is the 21st Century, he should have said "look, there's Justin Bieber".......Wow. We went from Pearl Jam to Bieber, that should be the alarm signal.
    So in the 21st Century our remote control apps are going to be pigeons? And wow, I can't wait for push button dialing. That will save the touch screen getting our dirty fingerprints all over the screen.

  • @eddieavilia2299
    @eddieavilia2299 11 месяцев назад +1

    I feel good about meeee! 🤣🤣😆

  • @Tiggeralt
    @Tiggeralt 10 лет назад +3

    Is it just me, or does everyone in this short look like The Hulk?

  • @cavalierfan1995
    @cavalierfan1995 6 лет назад +1

    BEEPERS!

  • @cindydott452
    @cindydott452 8 месяцев назад

    Fred, next time you're in town, bring Helen!