8:43 “Anytown, USA) is actually Denver, Colorado, looking north on Broadway from just a bit south of 11th Ave. A whole lot of Denver has changed but that block is remarkably very much the same in 2023. Check it out from Streetview sometime.
I kind of wish this had been the joke back at 10:00, when they were discussing someone called Robert Bainbridge and the cop shows the farmer's son some paperwork: "Why are you showing me a picture of a bucket full of spaghetti sau--OH MY GOD!"
Those big old ones could take 1-2 miles with the breaks on before they would stop. So basically, DON'T GET IN FRONT OF A TRAIN, BECAUSE THEY PHYSICALLY CAN'T STOP. I saw a documentary about it on tv, the poor train conductors have problems with PTSD because of all the splatter deaths they see driving the trains. All they can do is put on the breaks, watch, and wait for several minutes for the train to finally stop. :/
Fun fact: the person playing Frank Jr., William Agee, later became a big business man, even being president of, of all things, a railcar builder (Morrison-Knudsen). He's still alive, even.
+BNSF1995 Tim Bosworth, who played younger brother Alan Dixon, was killed in a single vehicle rollover accident on Interstate 84 in Nampa, Idaho in the early 1980's. William Agee died of natural causes at the age of 79 in December, 2017.
Not necessarily. I ended up in a ditch after one icy storm-I hit a slick spot in such a way that I slipped into the ditch backwards. After the car was towed out, it still ran for the better part of a year, and the corner of the trunk was pointed at a 90-degree angle. But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself. After I slipped in the ditch-and I wasn’t traveling fast in the first place, the road had become pure ice, and I spun around and I slipped in the ditch almost gently. I wasn’t injured. I got out of the car through the passenger side, and the woman who lived in a house across from where I entered the ditch ran out to help. She was an emotional wreck, and immediately offered use of her home phone (yes, this was before everybody had cell phones) and a place to get it back together. She even offered me a beer, and swiftly wisely changed her mind-after all, I would have to speak with a policeman! It was the only time I ever drank a Dr. Pepper. I finally found out why the woman was so stressed: the driver of the last car that went into that ditch died! I can believe it! Remember the damage I described that happened to the trunk! If I hadn’t entered the ditch backwards, I might’ve ended up with the engine block embedded in my stomach!
"You see, son, we all die alone and afraid." "MY LIFE IS A LIE! Oh." "Trains are blameless, holy creatures!" "I'm repulsed by your touch!" "Well, I'd tuck you in, but... you're dead." This is one of the best MST3K shorts. Never gets old.
"Trains are blameless, holy creatures." I say that when watching stuff about train safety when it's told "Trains can't stop quickly and they can't turn out of the way of something."
99% of the time they are, you wouldn't believe the number of people who get killed walking along train tracks with headphones on and get clipped by one. I mean seriously let's walk a good three inches from the rail?
On a business trip to Boise a couple years ago I actually tracked down the location of the "brand new tractor" scene from 2:07-3:10. It's in Meridian Idaho, West of Boise. I was bummed the UP Depot was torn down years ago but the mill from the tractor crossing tracks part is still there. If you type 598 N Main St Meridian, Idaho you can see what it looks like today!
"Hi, I'm actor Troy McClure! You might remember me from such drivers ed films as 'Alice's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass' and 'The Dacapitation of Larry Leadfoot'."
So speeding is an act of "near-insanity", but blowing through a stop sign at a four-way intersection is just a "little violation"? Ok, officer, whatever you say.
And the younger brother driving without a license is only a "Technical violation.". So this cop character is lenient when someone he knows commits a driving offense, but when it's a stranger doing it he becomes a hardass who hates acts of "Near Insanity.". Gee officer, maybe if you hadn't just let frank Jr. blow through that stop sign with no repercussions he wouldn'tve blown through that train crossing like a troglodyte as well.
I'm amazed that guy stayed on the road long enough to get hit by the train. He had to have driven for several minutes without looking at the road. I would have probably gone into a ditch long before I reach the tracks (which ironically might have save his life).
It's some really impressive good bad driving. Bad good driving? In any case, a lot of effort went into that guy getting himself crushed like a beer can. Kinda impressive.
Lol I can't help but list my favorite quotes "Kill the wabbit" "Will you please, please leave!" "Good-bye!!!" "Jack Kervorkian throws a tailgating party" And my favorite: "Will you identify this bucket full of your brother?"
LMAO at: 'i have no feelings for you!' 'WHAT?' 'this is a loveless relationship, i want out!' 'WHAT?' 'i'm repulsed by your touch!' 'WHAT?' 'LET ME OUT RIGHT HERE I HATE YOU!'
My all time favorite short! Ya gotta love how it spends most of its runtime talking about what causes car wrecks and how to avoid them...and then Frank Jr. is killed by pure stupidity! XD
Big & heavy? Yes. Death traps? BULL S***! Whether you get killed (or live) through a traffic accident depends on how well you (& the other drivers, if any) handled your vehicle when it happens. If you're not a completely NEW driver, & if you're paying attention (so that your responses are quick enough), your chances of surviving will be better no matter what vehicle you're driving.
@@shuttittuppitt9355 Even in a slow moving accident, the glove compartment door could fall open and slice open the gut of the passenger. Banging your head on those big hard steering wheels could kill you. And the sharp edged visor falling down could slice your head or neck open. In. SLOW. ACCIDENTS. In major accidents, you died in horrible ways. I call that a death trap.
The cop is played by "Mac" from Adam-12. I can't believe that the MST3K writers, who are well-known for their knowledge of obscure trivia, didn't notice this.
Interesting fact: this short was edited for time since MST3k only has about 100 minutes. There's a section in the full version where Trooper Hal explains how stuff like horse-drawn carriages and old-timey bicycles were not so long ago, within the lifetime of folks like Grandpa Dixon in fact, not merely museum exhibits, but a regular fixture of the roads. He contrasts this with the then-modern four-lane highways, and says that even though cars and roads are safer now, people are still as fragile as ever.
So, one of Alan's classmates, young Robert Bainbridge, was killed in an accident, and he never heard about it? I thought something like that would get around a small community pretty fast. And if it had just barely happened the night before or something, that's a pretty insensitive way for the cop to break the news.
Speaking of accidents he described ... The one where he stated that it was “first one he ever had, but it was his last one too”, he also says that “he took one little chance too many”. 1) How do you know what he did prior to it? and 2) Why did you assume it was his fault? Not knowing the specifics, maybe it was a case where he was always a good driver but was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Hey, he finally went back and ran over Kissinger!
So glad I'm not the only person who thought of this. May he burn for eternity 😊
How many years have you been waiting to make this comment? 😂😂😂
@@Flaggboy42 Wouldn't say I was WAITING. I just remembered it after seeing the news.
Best comment here. 🙃
8:43 “Anytown, USA) is actually Denver, Colorado, looking north on Broadway from just a bit south of 11th Ave. A whole lot of Denver has changed but that block is remarkably very much the same in 2023. Check it out from Streetview sometime.
“Would you identify this bucket full of your brother” is so dark but it cracks me up every time
I kind of wish this had been the joke back at 10:00, when they were discussing someone called Robert Bainbridge and the cop shows the farmer's son some paperwork: "Why are you showing me a picture of a bucket full of spaghetti sau--OH MY GOD!"
"Trains are blameless, holy creatures"
Those big old ones could take 1-2 miles with the breaks on before they would stop. So basically, DON'T GET IN FRONT OF A TRAIN, BECAUSE THEY PHYSICALLY CAN'T STOP. I saw a documentary about it on tv, the poor train conductors have problems with PTSD because of all the splatter deaths they see driving the trains. All they can do is put on the breaks, watch, and wait for several minutes for the train to finally stop. :/
@@DaWhiteWolffie Go on.
No Train has ever harmed a soul, should you be injured in the proximity of one, it is your fault.
All hail Union Pacific!
Lol.... That's fuc*ing hilarious.
😂
"Looks like the prequel to In Cold Blood."
"And yet, many people who have lived through a crossing accident will say..."
"AAAAAH!"
"And yet, many people who have lived through a crossing accident will say...
...I miss having sex"
“Don’t make the same mistake as them. Don’t die.” Why is that statement so funny
Larry was fired from the force 10 years ago but still goes up to strangers to give them an hour talk about traffic signs.
Phantom 409...
in full cop cosplay
😂😂
Everybody needs a hobby.
Fun fact: the person playing Frank Jr., William Agee, later became a big business man, even being president of, of all things, a railcar builder (Morrison-Knudsen). He's still alive, even.
+BNSF1995 Tim Bosworth, who played younger brother Alan Dixon, was killed in a single vehicle rollover accident on Interstate 84 in Nampa, Idaho in the early 1980's.
William Agee died of natural causes at the age of 79 in December, 2017.
At the risk on being an asshole, the fact that the brother who didn’t die in this film died of a vehicle accident is super ironic lol
@@PerfectKirby Unfortunately I was thinking the same thing.
@@hwyfan where did you find this info?
Interstate 84 is in Connecticut, not Idaho.
Given how long Frank was looking back and waving at his brother I'm amazed he didn't drive into a ditch... which ironically would have saved his life.
Not necessarily.
I ended up in a ditch after one icy storm-I hit a slick spot in such a way that I slipped into the ditch backwards. After the car was towed out, it still ran for the better part of a year, and the corner of the trunk was pointed at a 90-degree angle.
But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself. After I slipped in the ditch-and I wasn’t traveling fast in the first place, the road had become pure ice, and I spun around and I slipped in the ditch almost gently. I wasn’t injured.
I got out of the car through the passenger side, and the woman who lived in a house across from where I entered the ditch ran out to help. She was an emotional wreck, and immediately offered use of her home phone (yes, this was before everybody had cell phones) and a place to get it back together. She even offered me a beer, and swiftly wisely changed her mind-after all, I would have to speak with a policeman! It was the only time I ever drank a Dr. Pepper.
I finally found out why the woman was so stressed: the driver of the last car that went into that ditch died! I can believe it! Remember the damage I described that happened to the trunk! If I hadn’t entered the ditch backwards, I might’ve ended up with the engine block embedded in my stomach!
"Now where did that train come from?
"The station??"
Such a simple joke, but such a hearty laugh.
"I surrender, officer! Ha ha! What's the charge?"
"Ho ho...MANSLAUGHTER!!!"
I love the sound of MANS LAUGHTER.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That driver finally went back and got Kissinger. Bless.
"You see, son, we all die alone and afraid."
"MY LIFE IS A LIE! Oh."
"Trains are blameless, holy creatures!"
"I'm repulsed by your touch!"
"Well, I'd tuck you in, but... you're dead."
This is one of the best MST3K shorts. Never gets old.
It's good to see that you grasp the essentials of the humor.
Yes, we all watched the same video.
This is my second favorite short, my number one fav being A Case of Spring Fever. But I do really love this short too!
"Quote from the video to show I recognized a funny part!!!"
Will you identify this bucket full of your brother? - Best
Oh man, forgot about this and it really made me lol
TheJuli1241 My favorite line!!
I'm surprised they didn't make squishy sound effects as characters walked around on screen at that point.
"you know son, 15% of all accidents are..."
"Oh shut up, will ya?"
"Would you identify this bucket full of your brother?"
Oh God, that's his pacemaker!!!!
I'm surprised they didn't make squishy sound effects as characters walked around on screen at that point.
@@johnrussellpelt9091 🤣
"Trains are blameless, holy creatures."
I say that when watching stuff about train safety when it's told "Trains can't stop quickly and they can't turn out of the way of something."
99% of the time they are, you wouldn't believe the number of people who get killed walking along train tracks with headphones on and get clipped by one. I mean seriously let's walk a good three inches from the rail?
gargoyles9999
How about, let's not go near the rails at all?
"i thought we were all paid up"
"gonna need another 50, real shame if something happened to this land"
"You see, when a man loves a car very much he slides the seat back and....."
On a business trip to Boise a couple years ago I actually tracked down the location of the "brand new tractor" scene from 2:07-3:10. It's in Meridian Idaho, West of Boise. I was bummed the UP Depot was torn down years ago but the mill from the tractor crossing tracks part is still there. If you type 598 N Main St Meridian, Idaho you can see what it looks like today!
"I can say goodbye from here"
"GOODBYE!"
cracks me up every time
This was a happy, wholesome family until the cop showed up.
"Whoa!!! I almost ran over Kissinger. I'm gonna have to go back." Wow.... hahaha.... ☺😃😄😆😅
"Would you identify this bucket of your brother?" I just spewed food.
"Hi, I'm actor Troy McClure! You might remember me from such drivers ed films as 'Alice's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass' and 'The Dacapitation of Larry Leadfoot'."
18:13 Mike: “You know, Son, 40% of all accidents…..”
Servo: “Oh, shut up! Will ya?”
Funniest part of the skit
Especially with "Would you identify this bucket full of your brother?"
Really? Mine just happens to be: "ALL NUDE GIRLS!"
18:13 really was the highpoint 😂
But all of it was so good. Up there with A Date With Your Family and Once Upon a Honeymoon and the bread guy one.
Cop: You keep in mind that advice I gave you at the stop sign.
Frank Jr.: I will.
A mere 5 minutes later...
+TanzDerSchatten Frank Jr.: Too stupid to live.
Natural selection in action.
Having grown up with a little brother I can safely say that this is normal for boys. Girls tend to be smarter, just sayin. OxD
A mere five minutes later they are hosing down the engine.
Exact words.
"Hey, the cop never said anything about doing _intensely stupid things!"_
So speeding is an act of "near-insanity", but blowing through a stop sign at a four-way intersection is just a "little violation"? Ok, officer, whatever you say.
This was probably filmed around the same time Lucy Ricardo got taken to jail for tearing through town at 15 mph.
And the younger brother driving without a license is only a "Technical violation.".
So this cop character is lenient when someone he knows commits a driving offense, but when it's a stranger doing it he becomes a hardass who hates acts of "Near Insanity.".
Gee officer, maybe if you hadn't just let frank Jr. blow through that stop sign with no repercussions he wouldn'tve blown through that train crossing like a troglodyte as well.
STOP THE NEAR-INSANITY
@@tysontaggart7246 Troglodytes don't blow through train crossings. They can't drive. And they only have like 2 hit dice, they'd never survive it.
"Would you identify this bucket full of your brother?" Bahahaha!
Best line in this short.
Michael Beaudoin Hahahaha!
"Never, under any circumstances, drive with your buttcheeks!"
Sound advice that has never steered me wrong.
Woah, Almost ran over Kissinger, gonna have to go back LOL
ashland1977
My favourite line 😂😂😂
Yes, save thousands of American lives!
@@scottlarson1548 and tens of thousands of foreign lives
He’s somehow still fucking alive, against all odds
He was good at what he did. Gives a hell of a speech too.
Well, do you know him like THIS?
No, No, AAAHHHH!!! Dear God, who are you? WHAT are you?
+Jordan Freeman :'( I'm gonna throw myself in the thresher!
"You know son, 40% of all-"
"Oh Shut Up!"
😂😅😂That Was A Hilarious Voiceover Line😂..The guy was looking back like he was saying that.😂👍🏾
"We need you to identify this bucketful of your brother..."
Can I have your room?
When I drive, I always make sure to keep an eye out for Kissenger
Ach, Mr. President, please watch where you're going!
I'm amazed that guy stayed on the road long enough to get hit by the train. He had to have driven for several minutes without looking at the road. I would have probably gone into a ditch long before I reach the tracks (which ironically might have save his life).
It's some really impressive good bad driving. Bad good driving? In any case, a lot of effort went into that guy getting himself crushed like a beer can. Kinda impressive.
My earlobes won't stop growing!
"Would you uh, identify this bucket full of your brother?" lol, Oh jesus...
Lovely imagery, there. 🤢
"These are fruits you must not taste."
I am waiting for the day I can use that line at work...
That was yesterday! You missed it!
Dang it! So close.
On the Enterprise?
He's off the ramp
Such a line must indeed be used, each and every day !
"Would you identify this bucketful of your brother?" I still remember the first time I heard that line. I laughed on and off for a half hour.
Folks, we disavow having anything to do with that officer! In fact, he was fired years ago.
Wow. 10 years ago this was posted and is still popular as mst3k is awesome.
Pretty impressive.
Fifteen now.
Never gets old. I've probably watched / listened to this 500 times already. Mst3k is my happy place. 😻
This was posted to TH-cam so long ago that it pre-dates the 10-minute video length limit that was in effect, and is now basically forgotten about.
10:16
I'm crying with laughter. God I love this show.
"Will you please, please LEAVE?"
"You're going to spend the night in the barn with your crazy cousin." How did I miss that line the past 17 times I've watched this?
you see son, we all die alone and afraid xD
There's only a big, black nothingness.
You know son forty percent of all..
Awww shut-up will ya!?
"Oh my God, he's snapped, he's a bad cop on the loose." That section made me laugh for years. I can't hold it in when I hear it, even now.
"Do you know him like THIS?"
"AHHHH, AHHHH, dear God who are you?! What are you?! I'm gonna go throw myself in the thresher...."
They're dead, they're dead, they're dead, they're diddle diddle dead...
And that, kids, is why crossing gates were invented.
BNSF1995 And when that wasn't enough the Union Pacific Railroad had this short made.
@@jamiekamihachi3135 and still almost 1000 people die a year by being hit by trains
Eh, people don't pay attention to crossing gates, either. They drive around 'em.
@@menslady125eif2590 , 🎶 "Drive around the boom gates at a level crossing...
Dumb ways to die-ie-ie, dumb ways to die" 🎵
"Whoa! Almost ran over Kissinger... I'm gonna hafta go back."
Hands down the funniest short they did!
CAN I HAVE YOUR ROOOM??
Lol I can't help but list my favorite quotes
"Kill the wabbit"
"Will you please, please leave!"
"Good-bye!!!"
"Jack Kervorkian throws a tailgating party"
And my favorite: "Will you identify this bucket full of your brother?"
"When you cross...Floss!"
This and “Days of our Years” are my favorite MST3K shorts.
"They're dead, they're dead, they're dead, they're d-d-d-d-dead, they're dead, they're dead..."
Be thankful Disney wasn't involved with that flick. ☠️
LMAO at:
'i have no feelings for you!'
'WHAT?'
'this is a loveless relationship, i want out!'
'WHAT?'
'i'm repulsed by your touch!'
'WHAT?'
'LET ME OUT RIGHT HERE I HATE YOU!'
You forgot the, "Ding, ding, ding, ding..." part at the end!
My all time favorite short!
Ya gotta love how it spends most of its runtime talking about what causes car wrecks and how to avoid them...and then Frank Jr. is killed by pure stupidity! XD
I REGRET NOTHING!
yeah, I buried the victims over there... right over there!
i'm so glad there are other people who loved this show!
You're deep, Ernie
Back when gas was cheap, and cars were big heavy death traps. xD I do miss the cheap gas, though.
Big & heavy? Yes. Death traps? BULL S***! Whether you get killed (or live) through a traffic accident depends on how well you (& the other drivers, if any) handled your vehicle when it happens. If you're not a completely NEW driver, & if you're paying attention (so that your responses are quick enough), your chances of surviving will be better no matter what vehicle you're driving.
@@shuttittuppitt9355 Even in a slow moving accident, the glove compartment door could fall open and slice open the gut of the passenger. Banging your head on those big hard steering wheels could kill you. And the sharp edged visor falling down could slice your head or neck open. In. SLOW. ACCIDENTS. In major accidents, you died in horrible ways. I call that a death trap.
Don't miss the lead in the gas, though.
"Who gets killed at the tracks?
We ALL do!"
"I can say goodbye from here" GOODBYE!!!!! Lololol
17:35 "WHAT?! WHAT?! WE CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE TRAIN!"
"Jack Kevorkian throws a tail-gating party!"
"Save some for me!"
Like my driving instructor says, it's a miracle anyone survives their teens. Why we give them drivers' licenses is beyond me.
Haha. I'm the impish officer of death
The cop is played by "Mac" from Adam-12. I can't believe that the MST3K writers, who are well-known for their knowledge of obscure trivia, didn't notice this.
They missed Maile Nurmi, aka Vampira, playing the Hag in Magic Sword, too.
"Some people actually resent traffic signs and traffic laws." Tea Party guys.
Traffic signs are fascist government oppression from the UN!
People! I WAS NOT SERIOUS!!! Geeper-Creepers!
I need a safe space after that joke
Lol at old stupid political comments that no longer have relevance.
Seems every video comment section has an idiot who makes one.
Oh, did the tea party members finally go extinct? I hadn’t heard.
If I learned anything from Union Pacific films, Cops and Preachers are the grim reaper.
"I'm going to grab a little bit of lunch"
"Where's the traffic signal?"
"In your pants."
That line kills me every, single, time. Especially the way Mike mutters it.
There's a 40% chance this is my favorite MST3K short. :D
"But I just couldn't do it..."
"Because of the tear in the sprocket hole!"
Awesome.
"Will you identify this bucket full of your brother."
I laugh everytime!
"Before Too Long!" - Easily the MST3K joke I quote most in life
Interesting fact: this short was edited for time since MST3k only has about 100 minutes. There's a section in the full version where Trooper Hal explains how stuff like horse-drawn carriages and old-timey bicycles were not so long ago, within the lifetime of folks like Grandpa Dixon in fact, not merely museum exhibits, but a regular fixture of the roads. He contrasts this with the then-modern four-lane highways, and says that even though cars and roads are safer now, people are still as fragile as ever.
Yeah I had to watch the full unedited version in Drivers education class.
What a time for railroad engineers to get philosophical. 🚂
"You're spending the night in the barn with your crazy cousin."
A young Dwight Schrute...
11:40 - Whoa! Almost ran over Kissinger, I'm gonna have to go back!
“Can you identify this bucket full of your brother?!”
Man, I laugh and gag at the same time at that line!
"Woo, almost ran over Kissinger! I'm gonna have to go back..."
"The world made sense an hour ago..."
"You're not ready for the high-life yet. These are fruits you must not taste."
Stop the near insanity! ❤️ these guys!!!
"You can guess, there's much going on in this town"
Hahahaha! Good one
"Can I have your room?!" That has to be the best line ever!
"Anybody know this guy?" I'm dead as Frank Jr.
Jack Kervorkian throws a tailgaiting party.
Misty OjaiGirl
Save some for me.
I wanna drive the Pepto bismol car
Hey, William Boyett (RIP), Sgt. MacDonald from "Adam-12".
"My life is a lie!" LOL
"Why don't you get married Malloy?" Oops, that was Reid.
So, one of Alan's classmates, young Robert Bainbridge, was killed in an accident, and he never heard about it? I thought something like that would get around a small community pretty fast.
And if it had just barely happened the night before or something, that's a pretty insensitive way for the cop to break the news.
Well he went to a different school. Could be a county or two away.
Yeah, I could see that being the case.
Yeah, it sounds like he says "Oh, I know him. He's from Merdian High." Or something like it.
"I ran against him in track..."
Speaking of accidents he described ...
The one where he stated that it was “first one he ever had, but it was his last one too”, he also says that “he took one little chance too many”. 1) How do you know what he did prior to it? and 2) Why did you assume it was his fault? Not knowing the specifics, maybe it was a case where he was always a good driver but was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.
"It hasn't got time to stop for you corn-shucking crackers!"
LOL @ the "mother duck/duckling" sounds made when the teacher took the kids across the walk-way.
So cute and funny!
"But where's the traffic signal?"
"In your pants."
" You know, son. 40 percent of all acciden.."
" Oh shut up, will ya?! "
4:28 - Isn't that the old man who wore a handkerchief and waved at imaginary elves in 'Hired!'?
No, it's just some other insane old man that found his way into an uneeded short.
@William Hubert I recognized the police officer from playing a mechanic in “call it free” another short they did about antifreeze and car repair.
“Can I have your room?” Hahahaha!! Too funny! Great post!
"Can I have your room?!"
One of my favorite MST3K shorts!
This is the seminal short for MST3K
A lot of this stuff STILL applies today!