This is a 1981 Horror flick with Linda Blair, Vincent VanPatten, and Peter Barton. Four college pledges experience initiation by spending the night in a deserted old mansion. Haunted? Who knows. The acting is fairly decent (well, ok, at least better than Birdemic). IMDb gives it a 5.8.

Ripe for the Riffing cause ... well, it’s a 1981 Horror flick. Also, it has lots of no-dialog scenes (for tension & scare factor?) just begging for great Riffing and bantering ... the kind that RiffTrax does so well!

**** Night can currently be streamed Free on Tubi and the Roku Channel (and on Amazon Prime video for Prime subscribers).

It aired April 21 st 1990. I remember all the kids excited about the greatest crossover in history. Muppet Babies and Winnie the Pooh, Garfield and Alf, Michaelangelo of the Mutant Turtles and Bugs Bunny, Huey Duey and Luey and Alvin, Simon and Theodore. For a thirty minute anti drug special that ended up being heavy handed and sobering instead of being fun. Funded by McDonald's, George Bush and even Joe Biden promoted the special. It definitely needs the crew of Rifftrax to give it the treatment to gently remind us of what happens when conglomerates and politicians force beloved Saturday Morning Cartoons into the dark reality of the war on drugs.

Again from Young America, the companion piece to MST3K's "Why Study Industrial Arts?" Just as in that film, a high schooler consults with the home ec teacher, who seems to be convincing herself more than the audience of the need for her classes. You have to love the 50's sentiment of the high school girl who is convinced that she's going to be a "homemaker all her life," and that her first home may be (gasp) a TRAILER (!!!) And I love the unexplained southern accent that the girl's sister speaks with (and what is up with her hairdo?)

The short can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFbXdp4QtTA

This very weird animated feature from 1975 takes the following tack:

1. Take the most well-known operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan (along with a few of their lesser-known ones) and throw their plots and characters in a blender.
2. Turn what comes out into an animated musical.
3. Get British cartoonist Ronald Searle, who has a broadly caricaturist style, to design it and oversee the animation.
4. Re-write most of the lyrics and arrange them in an EXTREMELY 1970s pop style.
5. Somehow expect this to appeal to people.

It's not that the idea of a Gilbert-and-Sullivan-themed animated musical is BAD in and of itself...if it had focused on adapting a single work, and had a more appealing visual style. (Ronald Searle's style is very good for newspaper cartoons, illustrations, and the opening credits of the movie musical Scrooge, but in animation, it looks ugly and off-putting.) Plus, throwing Every. Single. Gilbert. And. Sullivan. Character. EVER. into the same plot, not to mention cobbling together said plot from all these different works, makes the whole thing look entirely too overstuffed. It's amazing that Bill Melendez, who directed the Peanuts specials which are known for being simple and straightforward, helmed THIS. And those 1970s orchestrations...ai-yi-yi!!! (Unfortunately, this wasn't the last time G & S would be warped onscreen...The Pirate Movie came along seven years later.)

This review from Musical H-E-L-L, a YouTube series that slams on awful filmed musicals, gives you an idea of what to expect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlpl8uPECS8&t=321s&ab_channel=MusicalHell

(It seems that the filter won't print a certain nickname for Richard, so I had to edit the title.)

This was a movie done in the '80s to cash in on the second ​resurgence in the popularity of the Three Stooges. It's about a Stooges-obsessed man who's so crazy for the boys, that he starts hallucinating them. It's not doing his relationship with his fiancee any favors. He ends up in Stooge Row, where all Stoogemaniacs go, and then gets thrown in Stooge Hills, a sanitarium for Stoogemaniacs, following a raid of a Stooge arcade. Also, since this was not endorsed by Columbia or the trademark holders of the Stooges, footage from the four Stooge shorts that are in the public domain are heavily used. Some of it is even colorized! Anyway, it's a utterly bonkers movie and EXCELLENT Rifftrax fodder.