RiffTrax: Drugs Are Like That (FREE Full Short)

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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024

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  • @ArtemyMusha
    @ArtemyMusha 2 года назад +226

    Remember, whenever you're precariously reaching for the cookie jar, you're shaking hands with danger.

  • @brainfat1
    @brainfat1 Год назад +18

    Legos are like drugs...but more expensive.

  • @dereksteed2030
    @dereksteed2030 3 года назад +322

    Now that little girl with the cookie jar will need opiates for her back pain after falling. Drugs are like that.

    • @HylianFox3
      @HylianFox3 3 года назад +36

      I like how the mother is more annoyed than "omfg my kid just split her head open"

    • @Zara-Bari
      @Zara-Bari 3 года назад +21

      @@HylianFox3, yeah, assess amount of injury first, and then decide how to respond. Also if they've already deeply traumatized themselves, it seems like you being upset about it isn't going to make them less likely to do it in future.

    • @waysilentbob6976
      @waysilentbob6976 Год назад +4

      "I want my lawyer"

    • @UnconsciousCompetence
      @UnconsciousCompetence Год назад +4

      Sugar is the gateway drug...

    • @shanac5536
      @shanac5536 Год назад +1

      She now lives on skid row

  • @CyberKnight1
    @CyberKnight1 3 года назад +198

    Habits are hard to break, like spending all day watching RiffTrax. Drugs are like that.

  • @nishsingh8553
    @nishsingh8553 3 года назад +156

    That kid put together a complex technica-Lego kit without looking at the instruction leaflet.... drugs are like that

    • @daelen.cclark
      @daelen.cclark 3 года назад +9

      and like toenails and cereal.

    • @tgiacin435
      @tgiacin435 3 года назад +12

      I love how they shifted a piece that had nothing to do with the main structure, and it frakin explodes and smokes. Drug are like that too

    • @planescaped
      @planescaped 3 года назад +5

      @@tgiacin435 I just put an m80 in your lego thing for kicks

  • @rgs8970
    @rgs8970 3 года назад +437

    this short truly does simulate the tedium of trying to tell your sibling a boring story that neither of you care about

  • @scottparkinson3058
    @scottparkinson3058 Год назад +9

    Videos like this are the reason that drugs won the war on drugs

  • @cryptodentist
    @cryptodentist 3 года назад +32

    The kids conversation is like a bad Abbot and Costello routine, spoken by one person

  • @TrashHeapCustodian
    @TrashHeapCustodian 3 года назад +66

    I'm 100% on team "Mike is frustrated with these dang kids"

  • @AmyLSacks
    @AmyLSacks 3 года назад +275

    If I had a dime for every narrator in a short who gloated when a kid was hurt or miserable, I could... uh, afford some *really* good drugs!

    • @Zara-Bari
      @Zara-Bari 3 года назад +42

      Drugs are like a narrator gloating over the torment of a child.

    • @Sitharos
      @Sitharos 3 года назад +15

      Drugs are like that

    • @nonprofitgirl
      @nonprofitgirl 2 года назад +1

      Ooh, can I come over, Amy? Um, I like good drugz and (we all know “drugs are like that...ha ha!” says a narrator when a kid is possibly GRAVELY INJURED!)

    • @Edward-jn5pl
      @Edward-jn5pl 2 года назад

      @@Zara-Bari Hahaha! Then I need to get me some!

    • @andyjay729
      @andyjay729 Год назад +1

      If I had a dime for every narrator who sounded like they were on drugs...

  • @Youcifer
    @Youcifer 2 года назад +28

    These kids have short term memory loss. Drugs are like that, too.

  • @guyvizard549
    @guyvizard549 3 года назад +49

    "Well?"
    "What?"
    "Who?"
    "Whadya mean?"
    Drugs are like that.

    • @XXhite
      @XXhite 2 месяца назад

      I honestly don't know why this is funny.. but phuck if it didn't make me chuckle🤣💯💯💯.

  • @fangjokerLS
    @fangjokerLS 3 года назад +92

    Drugs are also like pipe wrenches, free range chickens, Telly Savalas, line division, and the DC-10 engine assembly mount.

    • @daelen.cclark
      @daelen.cclark 3 года назад +19

      Not to mention drugs are like enchiladas, alligators, coffee mugs, Mylar, the ark of the covenant, meatloaf, and those little blood stains you find on motel bedsheets.

    • @RichardX1
      @RichardX1 3 года назад +19

      Strangely enough, the one thing that drugs are NOT like is drugs.

    • @rd30000
      @rd30000 3 года назад +7

      Like what?!

    • @Dirt_Master
      @Dirt_Master 3 года назад +12

      You really hit the nail on the head with the Telly Savalas thing. I've been saying that for years. And now that I think about it the head of a nail is like drugs too.

    • @daelen.cclark
      @daelen.cclark 3 года назад +9

      @@Dirt_Master
      Screws are like drugs, too.

  • @Afaustianbargainbin
    @Afaustianbargainbin 3 года назад +178

    Lead poisoning in the 70's was no joke, those poor kids :(

    • @Mike-rt2vp
      @Mike-rt2vp 3 года назад +8

      Yeah they should have shut down the whole country.

    • @lordhirudo5311
      @lordhirudo5311 3 года назад +21

      I heard that the average IQ in the country went up about 20 points once they got rid of leaded gas.

    • @howiegruwitz3173
      @howiegruwitz3173 3 года назад +4

      The shooting range should be DOWN HILL from the berry farm

    • @andrewlemerond4688
      @andrewlemerond4688 2 года назад +5

      Drugs are like that

    • @julieporter7805
      @julieporter7805 2 года назад

      Or maybe they are now the Strom Thurmond age biting his nails, pulling her hair, and having stimulating conversations that consist of "What?" "What's that?" and "What do you mean?"

  • @Popebug
    @Popebug 2 года назад +23

    Nothing says the seventies like an educational drug film where the creators really go out of their way to never tell kids to not do drugs.

  • @fluffyman85
    @fluffyman85 3 года назад +36

    "Put drugs in cereal to start your day!"
    My favorite part, works so well.

  • @hhairball9
    @hhairball9 3 года назад +15

    "You mean funny ha-ha, or Dane Cook funny?"
    (I can't breathe!)😂

  • @06mustangCE
    @06mustangCE 3 года назад +89

    "Samuel Beckett wrote this, right?" "Yes, if by Samuel Beckett you mean Scott Bakula in that episode of Quantum Leap where he was a chimp."

    • @Zaneyboy2_0
      @Zaneyboy2_0 3 года назад +9

      "It was the best of times, it was the BLERST OF TIMES!?!? OH, YOU STUPID MONKEY!!!"
      ...Drugs are like that too

  • @jimminybunkwhack5706
    @jimminybunkwhack5706 3 года назад +45

    The gear the girl swapped around literally played no role in the workings of the machine.
    Drugs are like that

  • @michellegray7892
    @michellegray7892 Год назад +10

    The fact this had ads for THC gummies makes this riff perfection.

  • @ZERO_O7X
    @ZERO_O7X 3 года назад +8

    Lol at the Moog synthesizer joke.

  • @guyvizard549
    @guyvizard549 3 года назад +16

    I get it. The twist is that the boy with Legos has been stoned this whole time.

  • @tgiacin435
    @tgiacin435 3 года назад +124

    I love how the mom just taps her foot at seeing her kid on the ground crying surrounded by broken pieces instead of making sure she was alright. “Oh you got hurt doing something you weren’t supposed to do? I hope you get brain damage.”

    • @robokill387
      @robokill387 2 года назад +22

      Drugs are like that.

    • @dynamicsketch
      @dynamicsketch 2 года назад +3

      @@robokill387 Drugs are also like parent of the year.

    • @demonkingbadger6689
      @demonkingbadger6689 Год назад +1

      Gotta toughen them up.

    • @popuptarget7386
      @popuptarget7386 Год назад +9

      1970s parenting. If there is no visible arterial blood or protruding bones, then quit whining.

    • @danodamano2581
      @danodamano2581 Год назад +1

      Absolutel, they need to see you break up at predicament and cry louder than they do. Then, promise them they'll never fall again and make sure they can stuff their fat bellies with all the cookies they want on their road to diabetes. Then promis that nothing bad will happen to them for the rest of their lives while living with you until they have someone else or government program to mooch off of. Eternal victimhood!

  • @CinnamonGrrlErin1
    @CinnamonGrrlErin1 3 года назад +132

    Spending all day watching Rifftrax and MST3K? Drugs are like that.

    • @Jangobadass
      @Jangobadass 3 года назад +11

      What? They help take the edge off after a hard day, okay?

    • @suedenim
      @suedenim 3 года назад +11

      I learned it from watching YOU, Dad!

  • @Omnywrench
    @Omnywrench Год назад +4

    This feels like the lesser known prequel to "Skinamarink"

  • @WhoopDeeDamnDoo
    @WhoopDeeDamnDoo 3 года назад +93

    It's amazing how much it didn't say about what drugs are actually like

    • @krikeydial3430
      @krikeydial3430 3 года назад +13

      This made me feel like I was on drugs just from watching. The creators were on lsd for sure.

    • @SkolneyVikings
      @SkolneyVikings 3 года назад +14

      Drugs are like THAT. What more do you need to know?

    • @jackjones4248
      @jackjones4248 3 года назад +5

      Drugs are like that

    • @ThatDudeWithBoobs
      @ThatDudeWithBoobs 3 года назад +3

      It be like that sometimes

    • @skeetsmcgrew3282
      @skeetsmcgrew3282 3 года назад +10

      If as an adult I had trouble figuring out where they were going with this shit, kids had no chance. If you really want to break it down, they were actually teaching moderation. Its not like they were saying swimming, eating cookies, and playing sidewalk games is inherently dangerous.

  • @arbknight12
    @arbknight12 3 года назад +253

    Short: “This is a baby.”
    Mike: “Is this an instruction manual for martians?”

    • @WobblesandBean
      @WobblesandBean 3 года назад +12

      Yes. We all heard him say that. Very good.

    • @suchiuomizu
      @suchiuomizu 3 года назад +22

      @@WobblesandBean And no one asked for your childish whining.

    • @ilikethecokev2
      @ilikethecokev2 3 года назад +7

      "Ba-by. Ba-by. Yip, yip yip yip, yip, yip!"

    • @HylianFox3
      @HylianFox3 3 года назад +19

      @@WobblesandBean You know what's more annoying than people who quote directly from the video? People who bitch about people who quote directly from the video.

    • @RichardX1
      @RichardX1 3 года назад +7

      No, it's a center for ants.

  • @andrewnostvick3275
    @andrewnostvick3275 3 года назад +18

    "Eye on Pensacola" gets me every time

    • @williamcrowe2576
      @williamcrowe2576 3 года назад +1

      Are you sure it's not "High on Pepsi Cola"?

    • @HylianFox3
      @HylianFox3 8 дней назад

      It's Kevin's giggle that really makes it

  • @dunbar9finger
    @dunbar9finger 3 года назад +88

    So for the "change one little thing" part, they ignored the many relevant gears the motion depends on which would actually make the machine stop working, and instead removed the gear that's purely decorative so they had to make a silly effect to fake the machine failing.

    • @daffers2345
      @daffers2345 3 года назад +20

      I was wondering why it magically started smoking :B

    • @donkrouskop1743
      @donkrouskop1743 3 года назад +32

      Drugs are like that.

    • @TehDarkOn3
      @TehDarkOn3 3 года назад +10

      @@daffers2345 drugs are like that.

    • @fuzzballzz36
      @fuzzballzz36 2 года назад +7

      Not to mention adding Moog computer noises you would NEVER hear from a Lego set.

    • @eaglescout1984
      @eaglescout1984 2 года назад +4

      LEGO machine destruction sequence written by someone on drugs.

  • @williamcrowe2576
    @williamcrowe2576 3 года назад +154

    So to recap, drugs are like the following; a baby's dependency on a pacifier, a silly kids game that's habit forming, absently making yourself dizzy, sneaking into a cookie jar without permission or approval, a lake that's not all it seems, and making a slight alteration to a mechanism just to see what'll happen. Good job, PBS and Lego. Good job.

    • @sclarin2
      @sclarin2 3 года назад +25

      This short actually caused thousands of kids to start doing drugs due to the traumatic levels of confusion

    • @daffers2345
      @daffers2345 3 года назад +19

      What the heck happened in that lake? Why did the guy just drown all of a sudden?

    • @Jangobadass
      @Jangobadass 3 года назад +7

      Thanks! You just explained the metaphors than the short itself! NOW I (think) I get it! 👍

    • @howiegruwitz3173
      @howiegruwitz3173 3 года назад +6

      All we remembered was the drugs, and the legos

    • @maouprier
      @maouprier 3 года назад +8

      @@daffers2345 I think the swim was too far/ too long and he tired out. That's my guess anyway.

  • @jims.2274
    @jims.2274 3 года назад +11

    "She's not supposed to go for the COOKIES!" ["So her guardian angel tries to KILL HER!!!"]

  • @shenloken2
    @shenloken2 5 месяцев назад +2

    🎵Put drugs in cereal to start your day!🎵 😂

  • @finfrog3237
    @finfrog3237 3 года назад +166

    Grass is like corn. The lawn is also like corn. Therefore Mowing is drugs.

    • @bleedlifedry
      @bleedlifedry 3 года назад +12

      THE WHOLE DAMN YARD IS ON A COBB!

    • @straker454
      @straker454 3 года назад +6

      I'M FREAKING OUT, MAN!!

    • @utility63
      @utility63 3 года назад +18

      Wait, is corn grass?

    • @finfrog3237
      @finfrog3237 3 года назад +1

      Hehehehe

    • @finfrog3237
      @finfrog3237 3 года назад +8

      Drugs are also like old parmesan grated cheese on the rug.
      ~Some Important guy's son

  • @jacksullivan4741
    @jacksullivan4741 3 года назад +13

    drugs are like a confusing overelaborate metaphor for drugs

  • @observationsfromthebunker9639
    @observationsfromthebunker9639 Год назад +4

    This so-called educational film makes "Jus say no!" seem like a stroke of genius.

  • @srbrant5391
    @srbrant5391 3 года назад +26

    Drugs are also like Moorhouse College, Faberge Eggs, thatching, elbow pasta, forklifts, handheld radios, Warren J. Harding, durians, engine manifolds and the 2013 census of Alpha, Wisconsin.

    • @louismonnichii7619
      @louismonnichii7619 2 года назад +4

      Don't forget the entirety of the Trump administration. Drugs are like that too

    • @srbrant5391
      @srbrant5391 2 года назад +2

      @@louismonnichii7619 Very much so.

    • @psycher7
      @psycher7 Год назад +1

      @@louismonnichii7619 What if I DO want to forget that? Can drugs help?

  • @nickfarmer2452
    @nickfarmer2452 2 года назад +56

    "Aahh, you stupid children! Stupid! Stupid!"
    And thus Mike gains a deeper understanding of and empathy for the aliens of Plan 9 from Outer Space.

    • @HylianFox3
      @HylianFox3 25 дней назад

      "Your STUPID HUMAN MINDS!!! *STUPID!!! STUUUUUPIIIDDDD!!!!"*

  • @HylianFox3
    @HylianFox3 3 года назад +54

    This short taught me that grown men get addicted to Step on A Crack.

    • @Oppeldeldoc1
      @Oppeldeldoc1 3 года назад +2

      Especially if they resemble Sorrell Booke or Allan Sherman.

    • @TheFreshcorn1
      @TheFreshcorn1 3 года назад +1

      Drugs are like that, too.

    • @oneearrabbit
      @oneearrabbit 2 года назад

      Back at it like a crack addict.

  • @LuxAeterna22878
    @LuxAeterna22878 3 года назад +27

    This video can be summed up in one word:
    "WHAT???!!!"

  • @amystaudte9855
    @amystaudte9855 Год назад +5

    What are drugs like? Watching this short. I feel high af.

  • @uthertheking
    @uthertheking 3 года назад +95

    I've heard it so many times, but I still get frustrated hearing the goldfish twins reset their conversation over and over.

    • @HylianFox3
      @HylianFox3 3 года назад +13

      Who? What?

    • @Popebug
      @Popebug 3 года назад +13

      Honestly, drugs would do those kids a world of good.

    • @srbrant5391
      @srbrant5391 3 года назад +6

      A _whaaat?!_

    • @AmyLSacks
      @AmyLSacks 3 года назад +9

      @@Popebug Sounded to me like they were already very familiar with drug consumption.

    • @Youcifer
      @Youcifer 2 года назад +4

      "the goldfish twins" lmao!
      >inb4 "Actually, the notion that goldfish have poor memories is apocryphal."

  • @MrGroove1970
    @MrGroove1970 3 года назад +87

    “It’s the Lego William Burroughs starter kit” had me pause the video to laugh for a whole five minutes! 👍

    • @judgem0rt1s23
      @judgem0rt1s23 3 года назад +11

      That one flew over my head, until I got up to get a drink, and saw my copy of Naked Lunch on my dresser.

    • @srbrant5391
      @srbrant5391 3 года назад +7

      @@judgem0rt1s23 It shot a glass off my head.

    • @choosecarefully408
      @choosecarefully408 2 года назад +1

      It was the "hair" -oin joke that did it for me. The listless way Kevin said it...

  • @tonyjackson4078
    @tonyjackson4078 3 года назад +28

    So...everything is like drugs? Quit living life. Just do drugs and cut out the middle man. Solid message writers.

  • @agentonyx
    @agentonyx 2 года назад +4

    “We’ll give you methadone instead.”

  • @thomaspalazzolo5902
    @thomaspalazzolo5902 3 года назад +508

    First Riff is free man.
    Drugs are like that.
    But seriously, thanks for the free stuff!

    • @DemonWarp65
      @DemonWarp65 3 года назад +10

      Thanks for the what?

    • @howiegruwitz3173
      @howiegruwitz3173 3 года назад +6

      In cooperation with the corporation, man

    • @mfraye12
      @mfraye12 3 года назад +7

      @@DemonWarp65 The free stuff! Drugs are like that, too.

    • @AlcoholicBoredom
      @AlcoholicBoredom 3 года назад +5

      I hope they’re getting ad revenue

    • @DemonWarp65
      @DemonWarp65 3 года назад +9

      @@AlcoholicBoredom getting what?

  • @aikisteven0616
    @aikisteven0616 3 года назад +102

    Originally saw this way, way back in 2nd grade. Until seeing it here, I only had vague memories of the class cracking up at 'step-on-a-crack' business guy, and I'm pretty sure that was the only part that held any interest to our sugar-addled, 8-year-old brains.

    • @icemachine79
      @icemachine79 2 года назад +14

      Did you notice the narrator? Anita Bryant, the singer turned mouth-foaming holy rolling anti-gay rights activist who was famously pied on television.

    • @srbrant5391
      @srbrant5391 2 года назад +4

      @@icemachine79 The narrator was _her?!_

    • @icemachine79
      @icemachine79 2 года назад

      @@srbrant5391 Indeed.

    • @caturdaynite7217
      @caturdaynite7217 2 года назад +1

      No, Miss Anita Bryant. Not, Ms. Anti-Bryant. She probably just had lunch with Phyllis Schafley.

    • @Tony_Cardoza
      @Tony_Cardoza 2 года назад +2

      @@icemachine79 Anita Bryant rules.

  • @ArchibaldClumpy
    @ArchibaldClumpy Год назад +4

    That Phil Spector joke was some vintage MST3K shit.

  • @AReallyBadSN
    @AReallyBadSN 3 года назад +61

    "ok, ok, Funs over guys, give me my nook. come on guys, i really need that nook! im getting the shakes, ok This isnt funny anymore, give me my nook! oh god im dying here, here comes the DTs, Spiders! SPIDERS!!!! ERRGGGGHHH"

    • @WobblesandBean
      @WobblesandBean 3 года назад +1

      Remember when people had independent thoughts, instead of just directly quoting other people word for word and expecting attention for

    • @Kirkklan
      @Kirkklan 3 года назад +21

      @@WobblesandBean Drugs are like that.

    • @CreepyPersonCube.
      @CreepyPersonCube. 3 года назад +13

      @@WobblesandBean This is a RUclips comment section. It's either this or rampant real racism and rampant "funny ironic" racism. Given the choice, I guess I'll take the people quoting their favorite joke.

    • @dynamicsketch
      @dynamicsketch 3 года назад +3

      @@Kirkklan So drugs are like quoting jokes from a film short and complaining about those jokes being quoted.

    • @Kirkklan
      @Kirkklan 3 года назад +1

      @@dynamicsketch :)

  • @LakeFX
    @LakeFX Год назад +3

    4:54 The Ministry of Silly Habits

  • @HersheyHemi1
    @HersheyHemi1 Год назад +5

    What are Drugs like again? I forgot.

  • @deanfiora4227
    @deanfiora4227 Год назад +3

    "It's the Lego William Burroughs starter kit." Love it!

  • @TheGourdKing
    @TheGourdKing 2 года назад +3

    "Gloria Steinem! Janet Reno! Strom Thurmond!"

  • @darronjonesii637
    @darronjonesii637 3 года назад +26

    Rifftrax: You get a riff! You get a riff! Everyone gets a riff!

  • @DrowinMJ
    @DrowinMJ 3 года назад +37

    "Drugs are like your toys! They're like your toys!" and "Put drugs in cereal to start your day!" have lived in my head, rent-controlled, since this first came out.

    • @Schornforce
      @Schornforce 3 года назад +2

      Same. lol I find that a lot with the musical bits in Rifftrax and MST3K. Another example in this short for me is "rissleti rossleti meow meow meow." I have no idea what that's from or what it means, but I find myself singing it for no reason often.

    • @Jude300c
      @Jude300c 3 года назад +1

      @@Schornforce Alfred Hotchcock's the birds. Those school were singing it

    • @Schornforce
      @Schornforce 3 года назад

      @@Jude300c Oh wow! Thanks, June300c! :)

  • @lisacoleman4389
    @lisacoleman4389 3 года назад +124

    Thank you, "my boys." And thank you for being my main sanity stabilizer for 20-plus years. I truly dont know what I'd do without you. ❤

  • @curleed85
    @curleed85 3 года назад +57

    Since when were things like a game of “step on the crack” and spinning on a swing addictive like drugs?
    Also, if those kids kept saying, “What do you mean?” to each other, it could literally go on forever.

    • @hoomanm6807
      @hoomanm6807 3 года назад +21

      Step on a crack is no joke, it's a gateway drug to more serious addictions like spinning or Persian poetry.
      I should know. I used to do that as a kid all the time and now I inject five marijuanas and smoke a beer every day.

    • @stephaniemorrissey123
      @stephaniemorrissey123 Год назад +4

      @Hooman M I really, really hope that the "Persian poetry" comment is a reference to The Music Man. If so, that just made my week.

  • @Lady_Flashheart40
    @Lady_Flashheart40 Год назад +2

    I've seen many ineffectual PIFs about drugs (a lot of them from PDFA), but this one really takes the cake.

  • @StanleyFlinn
    @StanleyFlinn 3 года назад +23

    No way are two kids gonna dump a big box of Lego on the floor and then proceed to sort all the pieces by shape and color without being on some kind of upper.

  • @l.a.gothro3999
    @l.a.gothro3999 3 года назад +18

    Just in time for Sir Ringo's 81st birthday!

  • @goflyakitefilms
    @goflyakitefilms 3 года назад +3

    Me smoking a Spliff for this Riff? Drugs are like that

  • @demonkingbadger6689
    @demonkingbadger6689 Год назад +2

    Drugs are like a box of candy.

  • @Lethgar_Smith
    @Lethgar_Smith 3 года назад +4

    As someone who began their education in Florida in 1969, I saw the fuck out of this movie all the way through elementary school and even on TV a few times.

  • @youreviltwin
    @youreviltwin 3 года назад +38

    Narrator: "Never mind what they look like they'll do it's what they might do you have to worry about."
    Kevin: "Diagram that sentence, I dare you."

    • @daffers2345
      @daffers2345 3 года назад +5

      It ends on a preposition! NOOOO

    • @Jude300c
      @Jude300c 3 года назад +7

      My old english teacher would be livid it she her that

    • @elafimilo8199
      @elafimilo8199 2 года назад

      1) Missing a period in there.
      2) Even so, what a _bad_ pair of sentences.

    • @typacsk
      @typacsk Год назад +2

      "If we learn to care for others to respect others we'll learn how to care for to respect our country." -- Bob Crane

  • @FPwLola
    @FPwLola 3 года назад +72

    The director on this meant to make a cohesive story with dazzling visuals and riveting dialogue but instead he made this.
    Drugs are like that. 😉👌

    • @choosecarefully408
      @choosecarefully408 2 года назад +2

      You _said_ it, Mr. B-Flat!

    • @lindaeasley5606
      @lindaeasley5606 Год назад +1

      It turned out to be a confusing mess because they failed to tackle the actual subject of drugs and how dangerous they are.
      Instead kids came away equating illegal drug use to toddlers eating cookies and babies with a binkey

  • @TPrower
    @TPrower 3 года назад +9

    Constantly and flatly asking for clarification on what they were just talking about?
    Drugs are like that, too.

  • @ngobleus
    @ngobleus Год назад +4

    Thousands died that day, and all around the world people asked the same questions: "Huh?" "What's that?" "What lady?"

  • @pixiepianoplayer114
    @pixiepianoplayer114 3 года назад +53

    Replace every " What?" With a LiL Jon " WhAaaT?!"

  • @daffers2345
    @daffers2345 3 года назад +11

    Dude, that LEGO set ... lovin' those old-school pieces!

    • @maxxam3590
      @maxxam3590 3 года назад

      I don't know much 'bout LEGO. They don't make those pieces no more?

    • @daffers2345
      @daffers2345 3 года назад

      @@maxxam3590 They haven't for YEARS. They make all licensed stuff now, with very specific pieces that are different colors.

    • @EvanCWaters
      @EvanCWaters 3 года назад +2

      @@maxxam3590 I mean they make the basic blocks in those colors but I haven't seen any gears or engines that you can use to violate the laws of thermodynamics.

  • @danodamano2581
    @danodamano2581 Год назад +2

    Ironical how every other commercial on tv tells you, got a problem? Got a drug for that.

  • @whyherewhynow7418
    @whyherewhynow7418 3 года назад +75

    This is the result of the production company being told "Make an anti-drug film for kids, but we don't want to upset the parents so don't actually talk about drugs or portray drug use in any way."

    • @petergray7576
      @petergray7576 3 года назад +21

      "Also its the 1970s, too. So try to do it in an auterish way like a big budget Hollywood production like the Godfather or Deer Hunter. But we don't have anyway near that much money to afford that, so just hire a recent film school grad to direct, and make the film drip with pretentiousness and unintended irony."

    • @zoeyrochellezhombie829
      @zoeyrochellezhombie829 3 года назад +3

      Just like teaching sex Ed.

    • @Popebug
      @Popebug 2 года назад +11

      It also feels like they really don't want to tell kids to not do drugs. It's less "just say no" and more "look, just make sure you get clean needles and you'll be okay".

    • @typacsk
      @typacsk Год назад +1

      Sounds perfect for the new Florida educational standards!

    • @speedgriffon2504
      @speedgriffon2504 Год назад +4

      "But DO show a totalled car with the driver's dead body spilling out onto the highway. Because drugs are like THAT too."

  • @kenjohnson7682
    @kenjohnson7682 3 года назад +13

    Yes! I asked them to pretty please add this full short on Twitter the other day. I didn't know I had this much power! 🤣 And you're welcome everyone else who loves this one and wants to make all your friends and family watch it. 😂

  • @classiclife7204
    @classiclife7204 3 года назад +13

    So many laughs in this one. Gotta say, in Miami-Dade in the early 70s - where and when this short was produced - they didn't seem to take drugs all that seriously. I've seen, via Rifftrax/MST3K, more alarming safety films about bicycle-riding.

  • @notme222
    @notme222 3 года назад +34

    Possibly my favorite of all their shorts.

    • @teresacarosella7624
      @teresacarosella7624 3 года назад +1

      Mine too.👍

    • @WobblesandBean
      @WobblesandBean 3 года назад +1

      It's my first time seeing it, and you know what, I agree, this is brilliant 😂

    • @bdeamon1
      @bdeamon1 3 года назад +2

      mine too and it's the one that introduced me to rifftrax

  • @pavo1394
    @pavo1394 3 года назад +22

    My favorite short. Actually saw this as a kid in school in the 70s.

    • @daelen.cclark
      @daelen.cclark 3 года назад +1

      Did you laugh at it then, too?

    • @sweetcinnamonpnchkin
      @sweetcinnamonpnchkin 3 года назад +1

      Probably did

    • @pavo1394
      @pavo1394 3 года назад +6

      @@daelen.cclark It was Catholic school, so no laughing allowed.

    • @mario0318
      @mario0318 3 года назад +6

      @@pavo1394 oh yeah. Damn. Thank you. I almost forgot today what Catholic school was like with their God-sanctioned mission of undoing God's work in avoiding the very things that make us human through habit-inducing punishments and the myriad ways of fear-mongering with just the right dose of negative feedback to further recede any self-esteem you may have acquired during the summer.
      Perplexing to say the least.
      Drugs are like that.

    • @crs290
      @crs290 3 года назад +4

      @@mario0318 So just quit touching yourself. Problem solved.

  • @jakepullman4914
    @jakepullman4914 3 года назад +2

    11:47 That's an argument against doing ANYTHING! "It might look like a good idea, but what if it's NOT?!"

  • @spudd86
    @spudd86 3 года назад +10

    As a source material for a riff this is a greatest of all time contender.

  • @beckyriddle6650
    @beckyriddle6650 3 года назад +25

    Not sure who’s dumber. Rod from Birdemic or the adult dying from stepping over cracks.

  • @cometkite
    @cometkite 3 года назад +31

    If anyone wanted the lyrics to the theme song, here you go:
    Once you start some things, you just can't stop
    And drugs are like that too
    You pick it up and it's hard to drop
    And drugs are like that too
    Like a baby going through a phase
    And like a player playing in a daze, yeah yeah
    You break a rule and you have to pay
    It may not hurt, but then again it may
    Drugs are like that too, you know
    Drugs are like that too, I know
    Drugs are like that too

    • @peterd.9522
      @peterd.9522 Год назад +1

      I wonder if Anita Bryant was one of the singers?She WAS the narrator 😂 She’s in the credits.

  • @straker454
    @straker454 3 года назад +15

    One of my favorites! Right up there with "Good Eating Habits" and "One Got Fat"!

  • @LordmonkeyTRM
    @LordmonkeyTRM 3 года назад +7

    Drugs ARE like that!

  • @PyroDrake1134
    @PyroDrake1134 3 года назад +17

    This was my favorite RiffTrax short for the longest time! This, One Got Fat, and Kitty Cleans Up! I’m so glad y’all are releasing these on RUclips for everyone!!!

  • @foxymetroid
    @foxymetroid 3 года назад +112

    "What are drugs like?"
    "Yes."
    Also, there's no way these kids don't know what drugs are like. They sound like they're on something.

    • @builderdex
      @builderdex 3 года назад +6

      When you are "high on life", but it's 70's suburbia.

    • @pryingeyes1551
      @pryingeyes1551 2 года назад +2

      @@builderdex
      Misspelling the '70s? Drugs are like that.

    • @builderdex
      @builderdex 2 года назад +3

      @@pryingeyes1551 I was speaking of a very specific suburbia that happens to be owned by my good friend 70.

  • @niknik6655
    @niknik6655 3 года назад +3

    “Original music, by Charles Manson” 😂🤣

  • @anonagain
    @anonagain 2 года назад +5

    PBS was involved in this?
    I'm giving back my tote bag.

  • @Jarumo76
    @Jarumo76 3 года назад +2

    "Drugs are like that, kids. Like, bad. Mmmmmm,kay ?"

  • @Nightweaver1
    @Nightweaver1 2 года назад +6

    I can stop RiffTrax any time I want!

  • @MrYTGuy1
    @MrYTGuy1 3 года назад +3

    Some of the things might look terrible but turn out to be great. I half expected her to say drugs are like that

  • @bluorangefyre
    @bluorangefyre 3 года назад +10

    I didn't know we'd get a Silly Walk in this short.

  • @joshuablack8221
    @joshuablack8221 9 месяцев назад +1

    “Drugs are like your toys, your toys, your toys…”
    🤣🤣🤣💀

  • @JamesAcrossAmerica
    @JamesAcrossAmerica 3 года назад +21

    This would be funny except I'm genuinely addicted to Riff Trax

  • @demonkingbadger6689
    @demonkingbadger6689 Год назад +2

    Never seen a guy in a business suit playing dont step on a crack.
    But, if i do i will ask to share his drugs.

  • @ethzero
    @ethzero 3 года назад +5

    I've watched these shorts so many times over the years. Rifftrax is like that.

  • @streetsmart1164
    @streetsmart1164 3 года назад +2

    Invisible mom, " Kids!, time for dinner, be sure to pick up all of those Lego's, and please, re-rake the shag carpeting"

  • @cfd796
    @cfd796 3 года назад +3

    11:00 "Or piss up..."🤣🤣🤣

    • @donkrouskop1743
      @donkrouskop1743 3 года назад

      The best joke in this short that almost nobody mentions.

  • @thedarksiderebel
    @thedarksiderebel 3 года назад +5

    This is easily one of the funniest riffs these guys have done

  • @LordQuadros
    @LordQuadros 3 года назад +3

    🎵Drugs are like your toys🎵

  • @Jangobadass
    @Jangobadass 3 года назад +16

    And I thought D.A.R.E was an epic anti-drug fail...

    • @daelen.cclark
      @daelen.cclark 3 года назад +2

      It was when it started, at least.

    • @ryanjacobson2508
      @ryanjacobson2508 3 года назад +1

      Well, drug use did go down a lot in the late 80's and early 90's, so people were listening to the anti-drug crowd.

    • @kendromeda42
      @kendromeda42 3 года назад

      Why not both?

    • @christopherwall2121
      @christopherwall2121 2 года назад +1

      DARE was never meant to stop drug use, it was to get kids afraid of cities and black people.

    • @Tony_Cardoza
      @Tony_Cardoza 2 года назад

      @@christopherwall2121 What an idiotic statement. As if the majority of people in DARE, a program mostly done in inner cities and public schools, wasn't largely aimed at keeping black children away from drugs, as they were the most at risk. It was created with good intentions.

  • @rjakobi
    @rjakobi 3 года назад +8

    This is the closest Rifftrax will ever get to having a Lego crossover.

  • @thisismyname1940
    @thisismyname1940 Год назад +2

    Drugs are like the Superfund site we live on that leaches memory-impairing chemicals into our brains

  • @ralphsattler8014
    @ralphsattler8014 3 года назад +7

    It's the side effect of the ritalin line that had me rotf lmao because i had to take ritalin as a kid 🤣😂