If in the7th grade, first week of school in September, you weren't corralled into the "little auditorium" to watch this gem on a clickity-clackity projector, 60 years ago, you ain't lived.
There was no time for details. They had originally cast Mr B's part to Dom Delouise but they couldn't fit him in the locker, and the staff broke when he threw his legs in the air.
Was there ever a "wandering eye" superstar that the wandering eye wasn't glass? Sandy Duncan, Sammy Davis Jr., --- wait, yes, Marty Feldman (google "She Had Marty Feldman Eyes") video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-avg-fh_lsonsw&hsimp=yhs-fh_lsonsw&hspart=avg&p=she+had+marty+feldman+eyes+dr+demento+songs#id=2&vid=57b9ffd08769c9fb91e5679bd37f0869&action=click
We had a 'CONN' organ. I don't know when they got it, but the one of the keys was broken, so when you turned it on the key was down and playing a note and you couldn't get it to to stop unless you wedged something under it the key. :)
You referring to Mr B Natural? Betty Luster. I think she was quite talented, but unfortunately, not television material. This was done 15 years into her "career" and is the only thing she ever did that got credited. What's worse it would take another 35 years for it to even make it to the general public and finally put her on the map.Bad stars for that star (obviously had an afflicted 5th & 10th house).Betty died in 2011 at age 89.
And thus one of the earliest appearances of Bridget that created a subset of MSTie that was....really really weird. At least until she appeared as Nuveena.
Judging by the number of wrecked vehicles they found back in the hills, the giant must have been doing this for a while. But the local sheriff acted like this was the first missing truck that had ever been reported. He should have heard about at least some of those other vehicles going missing, right?
"You're concerned about your brother. Can't you just leave it at that?" "Why don't you find something else to get your mind on?" "You look tired, Joyce, isn't it time you went home?" As unfeeling and unhelpful as that Major is, imagine how he'd act if the sister wasn't at all attractive. He might have her pitched off the premises into the roadside sticker bushes. She's funny taking his boredom with her quest for devotion and sincere help.
Colossal Beast has the most abrasive characters and audio. Crackly angry shouting, screaming and growling through the whole thing. I can’t relax when I watch this one.
What bugs me is how the Colossal Man has less echo on his voice than a normal person with a megaphone. Like...his voice should be booming across the landscape, instead it's just...flat.
@@christopherkelley1664 I'm not blaming the kid. The guy should be concerned about hiring an unlicensed minor across the border! Nowadays he'd get arrested or shot for that, by our own guys!!
5:33, OMG, I love the MInnesota Maves that show up at Brunch, just like the Monty Python Ladies. Tom and Crooow do a ''Brunch'' with Joel as the waiter, they really are an original character
Awesome ! I discovered this only now, thanks to google algorithm (this time it worked). The show, the jokes, irony and humor is so good, the type used in Police Squad series and Robot Chicken. Thank you for upload!
Good God. Is there *any* reason they made Betty Luster be "Mr." B Natural? I mean, they didn't even *try* to hide, or even slightly downplay, her voice or figure. It's not like a musical note has a body to start with, much less a sex, so they could have done whatever they wanted too. And before anyone (I'm looking at you, Crow...) brings it up: I know Peter Pan is always played by a woman on stage. But that's because he's supposed to be prepubescent and a grown man's voice is out of the question. Pan is *not* a "Mr.", no matter what the guys who directed 'Mr. B Natural' seemed to think...
The short is so unintentionally demented that they didn't have to do much riffing about it! Most of the MST3k shorts are dull to the point that you have to be sleep-deprived or high to get any laughs out of them but this one is classically 1950s BAD. This is one of those shorts you don't UNremember after you see it just like the "Mr. Bungle" educational film that they used in the original "Pee-Wee Herman Show" on HBO (the predecessor to the CBS morning kid's series)!
"Los Angle-ese"??? That always cracks me up, it sounds so bizarre, NOT like it's said with any attempt at an accent! I adore this show, it's like being 10 or 11 again & talking crap about everything with your friends just to make things funny.
The reason was the original actor (Glenn Langan) who played Glenn Manning, didn't want to reprise the role, so a different actor (Dean Parkin) became the Colossal Beast.
18:27
Mr. B Natural: "You gotta inspect your horn boy"
Crow: "and wash it every day!"
I'd rather have B Natural inspect my horn.
I recorded most of these episodes on VHS and I pretty much got through college by studying and doing coursework with this show in the background.
Literally what I'm doing now. Sure helps
I did that for writing my thesis, and I do it for lesson planning now! Why does this work?
might sound goofy, learned how to code with this on.
ksu?
@@estatesales9818 One state over. University of Colorado.
Mr B Natural is truly the king of all shorts.
If in the7th grade, first week of school in September, you weren't corralled into the "little auditorium" to watch this gem on a clickity-clackity projector, 60 years ago, you ain't lived.
“I didn’t see no footprints, I didn’t see no giant, I didn’t see anything”
AND I DIDN’T STEAL NO BIKE NEITHER!!!
Mr. B Natural's eyes that point in different directions haunt me to this day.
There was no time for details. They had originally cast Mr B's part to Dom Delouise but they couldn't fit him in the locker, and the staff broke when he threw his legs in the air.
hence the David Bowie joke
I've never had a bad acid trip...I'm assuming Mr b natural is lurking there
That's good to know . Not that I believe you
How do ya manage to not get 'em ? All I get are "bad" acid trips. Isn't it the important part of the trip ?
@@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253 that's what I was gonna say, "Bad Acid Trip" is an oxymoron lol
“Call me if he speaks again.”
“AAAAAAAAAAAGH!”
“He spoke again.”
Joel reading Dr. Bronner's soap bottle like a old newscaster had me dying.
It's the shizniggle
I thought that’s what it was. Came here to see if someone confirmed it. 😆
KTLA was a real TV station in Los Angeles. The newsman in Griffith Park is Stan Chambers, he worked for KTLA for over five decades.
Bread what's in it? Chicken, corn, green peppers, chili, *sigh* onions.
"Sorry to be so long."
"Bragger".
Oh my GOD, Mr. B Natural. This short is legendary.
"He's calling out for his mother. Her name is AAAAAGGGHHHHH!!!"
Even the Riddler would find Mr. B Natural weird.
Which Riddler? Frank Gorshin, Jim Carrey or John Glover?
Was there ever a "wandering eye" superstar that the wandering eye wasn't glass? Sandy Duncan, Sammy Davis Jr., --- wait, yes, Marty Feldman (google "She Had Marty Feldman Eyes") video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-avg-fh_lsonsw&hsimp=yhs-fh_lsonsw&hspart=avg&p=she+had+marty+feldman+eyes+dr+demento+songs#id=2&vid=57b9ffd08769c9fb91e5679bd37f0869&action=click
@@hamursh you left out John Astin
@@tommylitz4543 As well as Robert Englund.
@@hamursh Don't forget John Michael Higgins and Rob Paulsen!
someone somewhere has done the opening monologue of mr. b natural as an audition piece, i just know it
Some poor boy, forced by his vaudevillian parents.
His/Her jacket is pretty fly though.............Mommmmm!
They did manage to accurately depict band geeks. On a completely different note, I used an old Conn french horn in high school.
@MicrowaveGamer
I also used an old Conn French who....are you sure it was French?
We had a 'CONN' organ. I don't know when they got it, but the one of the keys was broken, so when you turned it on the key was down and playing a note and you couldn't get it to to stop unless you wedged something under it the key. :)
I used a Conn trumpet but that short was so painful to watch
too dumb to just transpose each piece into that key?@@alexr4208
Man, Mr. B Natural sure was inspiring! And thought provoking! And irritating as a chihuahua barking its stupid head off at 4 AM! What a piece!
Mostly just gave me a newfound fear of music.
@@demonkingbadger6689 in Newfoundland?
Must have watched Mr. B 20 times, laugh my head off every time ,... MOM !
Crow: Oh, my God, PLEASE say this isn't happening...!!
Servo: Please accept our sincere apology for ALL of this....please
"Come on and buy some crap from us..." has been stuck in my head for 20 years
The good old days of Capitalism.
I like that average folks actually remember hearing about a giant man in the previous film.
"A little musical nightmare from the heart of whiteness" I love this description both for its comedy and accuracy.
the funny thing is, that actress was an excellent dancer
You referring to Mr B Natural? Betty Luster. I think she was quite talented, but unfortunately, not television material. This was done 15 years into her "career" and is the only thing she ever did that got credited. What's worse it would take another 35 years for it to even make it to the general public and finally put her on the map.Bad stars for that star (obviously had an afflicted 5th & 10th house).Betty died in 2011 at age 89.
“Eat your fajita and shut up.”
Classic.
47:35
I haven't had thorazine waffles in years. Happy memories. I wonder if the hospital is still looking for me.
So fukin delicious, brings back such fond memories from growing up in the sanitarium.
"BERT I. GORDON STICKS IT TO THE MAN!!"
So we had Barney to serve as nightmare fuel, and our parents had Mr. B Natural. Guess that balances things out.
Kinda funny how in the last movie, Glenns fiance said he had no family and in this movie, his sister's the one looking for him.
Carol Lied
irwinisidro
Well considering its a different actor playing Glenn Manning, it kinda makes sense he has a sister now if u dnt think about it. 🙄
yeah, pretty much nobody from the first movie is in this one
LA in da 50’s dude
That was ANOTHER Glen Manning who was accidentally irradiated into turning 60 feet tall. This is Glen Manning from Iowa.
That breakfast bazooka though...
OK, how can 71 people NOT LIKE this ?? It is Mr. B Natuiral folks. A pop-cultural icon !!!
Maybe, they were the ones visited by Mr B
Mr. B Unnatural: he played the devil's tritone.
"Do I look funny?"
"You look hot!"
Yep, Joel's been in space too long. 💫
More like "Minor Incident of the Colossal Beast, in which a Little Bit of Property Damage was Done"
I laughed so hard my eyes watered!
Doesn’t quite have the same marquee value lol
21:44 - Most hilarious part of the short: that insane arpeggio out of nowhere, and all the riffs that came with it!
The callback at 22:22 is the BEST riff! 😂🎺😂
At least we know where James Cameron got inspiration for the makeup of a battle damaged T-800.
rocky! Again? ROCKY!! AGAIN??? THEY TRIIIEEDDD TO KILL HIM WITH A FORKLIIIIFT!!!
mr. b natural has size b naturals
''There's nothing much wrong with Buzz''
''Except his hair''
lol
"You might have better luck when he's awake". Hee hee.
And thus one of the earliest appearances of Bridget that created a subset of MSTie that was....really really weird. At least until she appeared as Nuveena.
I actually used my old trumpet mouth piece as a joint holder, you could smoke the roach all the way down without burning your lips.
Brilliant!
"That saxophone would make a great bong." - Homer Simpson
This was the movie that plagued me as a little innocent girl. Im still traumatized 60 years later
There,there…☺️
I feel the same way about Bambi, Dumbo and The Hand that Rocks the Cradle.
I remember actually watching this in the 2nd grade.
mr. B natural is having a serious identity crisis
I'm gettin' me a good lawyer, and if one ain't enough I'm gettin' two!
This was the 1st MST3K episode i watched
Wish I knew for sure what mine was. Manos stands out in my mind, but it might be Alien From L.A.
Mine was Fugitive Alien.
I swear, every single little skit Mike does before he becomes the host is beyond hysterical. The Gamera one especially, such a genuinely great actor.
I love the one where his character is at a party with mr b natural and starts chatting "her" up, trying to seduce "her"
I hadn't realized how far back Mike had been with the cast before he was with the 'bots.
Judging by the number of wrecked vehicles they found back in the hills, the giant must have been doing this for a while. But the local sheriff acted like this was the first missing truck that had ever been reported. He should have heard about at least some of those other vehicles going missing, right?
Glen had him on the payroll.
RIGHT!
Am I the only one who wonders where the giant got his pants?
"You're concerned about your brother. Can't you just leave it at that?"
"Why don't you find something else to get your mind on?"
"You look tired, Joyce, isn't it time you went home?"
As unfeeling and unhelpful as that Major is, imagine how he'd act if the sister wasn't at all attractive. He might have her pitched off the premises into the roadside sticker bushes. She's funny taking his boredom with her quest for devotion and sincere help.
Colossal Beast has the most abrasive characters and audio. Crackly angry shouting, screaming and growling through the whole thing. I can’t relax when I watch this one.
What bugs me is how the Colossal Man has less echo on his voice than a normal person with a megaphone. Like...his voice should be booming across the landscape, instead it's just...flat.
7:21 -- Wait, did Mr B Natural just say, "Knew your father, I did"?
Is THAT where Yoda got that line?
7:23 "Hey, leave my father out of this."
DON'T RUIN STAR WARS FOR US! ...dang it, too late.
@@snorpenbass4196 rian johnson may be the one thing more demonic than Mr B
Got to love how every governmental department did not want anything to do with the giant.
It's almost like Bert I Gordon really wanted to make that scene, but he needed the rest of the movie in order to give it context.
"Glen was 60 feet tall!" That lines kills me every time.
I was gonna post the exact same thing...😅😅😅
"Oh, cripes we gotta work faster...hurry up Marjorie." Love their everyday people jokes
Okay, a guy hires an unlicensed minor to drive supplies across the border from Mexico, and he's worried about ...the TRUCK?!
The kid tried his best.
@@christopherkelley1664 I'm not blaming the kid. The guy should be concerned about hiring an unlicensed minor across the border! Nowadays he'd get arrested or shot for that, by our own guys!!
Things were different then.
@@jessicajayes8326You think they cared then?
@@zoeyrochellezhombie829 You're right, they didn't care. "They took our jobs!" That didn't happen for another 40 years!
Oh ya this is the time when they had a cocktail with every event, meeting and discussion.
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That Mr. B Natural is the stuff of nightmares
Well, we found the 60 foot tall man. But if we look away for even a second he’ll disappear.
I'm not gay or nuthin' , but.. Mr. B can get it.
"Mr. B, you're hot!"
"beware the dwarf". I love the subtle references, my wife not a movie buff, often doesn't get the subtle jokes.
younghoss
FOUL PLAY was a brilliant little comedy thriller!
There's at least one website that goes through all the cultural references in MST episodes and gives the background. I've learned a lot.
I wish there was a compilation of all the times the robots debate. 😂
"The man who made these footprints would be about 60 feet tall"
"Glen was 60 feet tall"
Ipso facto.
so he is 60 ft tall and no one can see him?? haha classic!!
Mr b natural........ car crash sound effect
5:33, OMG, I love the MInnesota Maves that show up at Brunch, just like the Monty Python Ladies. Tom and Crooow do a ''Brunch'' with Joel as the waiter, they really are an original character
So "Minor Disturbance Of The Colossal Beast."
What kind of death scene was that!? He just *lol nope'd* out of existence!
Guess Mr. Gordon couldn't afford a decent death scene, much less come up with a plausible one.
But he could afford to colorize it...
As a former band student that Conn ad is too painful to watch
My neighbor was shown "Mr B Natural" in a marketing class in college.
"He's crying for his mother. Her name was 'ARRGGHH!!'"
B natural had some tig bittes
pre-moob era
War of the Collosal Breast!
@@sammhaynes3143 Oh holy shit that made laugh!
Mr. B Natural is It. Beware Pennywise.
"The point, sir, is BREASTS."
You make an excellent point there, and it is hard to argue with that.
Da-- huh?!
War of the Colossal Breast - errr, Beast.
@@JamaicanCastle I laugh EVERY time Crow says that XD
That's actually two points.
Attention all Los Angeles residents, a large 60 foot bald disfigured white man is roaming Griffin Park, please stay away, your life is in danger.
I want that brekfest bazooka !!
Awesome !
I discovered this only now, thanks to google algorithm (this time it worked).
The show, the jokes, irony and humor is so good, the type used in Police Squad series and Robot Chicken.
Thank you for upload!
The B natural short was hilarious lol I miss this show so much
100 Years of Solitude 100 Years of Solitude take one down pass it around!
Buzz: Where'd you come from?
Servo: Bellevue
funniest riff.
Joyce on the phone "Give me the police." Maj. Baird " But I haven't tried anything yet.."
Mr. B is the best short they ever did.
Agreed, and it's not even the full cut of it! I checked it out on Rifftrax too and it had some awful new scenes.
Good God. Is there *any* reason they made Betty Luster be "Mr." B Natural? I mean, they didn't even *try* to hide, or even slightly downplay, her voice or figure. It's not like a musical note has a body to start with, much less a sex, so they could have done whatever they wanted too.
And before anyone (I'm looking at you, Crow...) brings it up: I know Peter Pan is always played by a woman on stage. But that's because he's supposed to be prepubescent and a grown man's voice is out of the question. Pan is *not* a "Mr.", no matter what the guys who directed 'Mr. B Natural' seemed to think...
The short is so unintentionally demented that they didn't have to do much riffing about it!
Most of the MST3k shorts are dull to the point that you have to be sleep-deprived or high to get any laughs out of them but this one is classically 1950s BAD.
This is one of those shorts you don't UNremember after you see it just like the "Mr. Bungle" educational film that they used in the original "Pee-Wee Herman Show" on HBO (the predecessor to the CBS morning kid's series)!
No! A Case of Spring Fever is the very best, I love Coily and his army of darkness!! But Mr. B Natural is a very close second. 😋
Coily's more horrifying for sure.
I like the opening song. I heard it once and it's been stuck to my head during the week.
The quote from The World According To Garp is great.
1:13:03. I start laughing so hard I can't breathe. Maybe the vodka has something to do with it, but I prefer to think it's more Joel's genius.
OH WE"VE GOT MOVIE SIGN!!!
RIP Bert I Gordon, 2023.
"Hey hold the bus!"
Mr. B.... get off my bed.
"Los Angle-ese"??? That always cracks me up, it sounds so bizarre, NOT like it's said with any attempt at an accent! I adore this show, it's like being 10 or 11 again & talking crap about everything with your friends just to make things funny.
Why does Glen look like a 60 foot Mike Nelson if he shaved his head?
The reason was the original actor (Glenn Langan) who played Glenn Manning, didn't want to reprise the role, so a different actor (Dean Parkin) became the Colossal Beast.
I got a bus ta move.
Half of that KTLA sketch is from the Dr. Bronner's bottle. All mild, all one!
"He's eating a la carte!"
Channeling Francis Farmer, I'm dying here 😭
Its interesting that the Mr.B debate was comedy in 1991 and dead serious in 2022
Meanwhile, the Midvale police visit his locker to find out why they call him "Buzz".
If you get near a song, play it!
Buzz is all of maybe 6 weeks older and he's already playing like Manfred Moch.
dude where is my truck?? hahaha
@50:25
In which the heroic army guy dislocates Joyce’s shoulder.