Rifftrax Year: 2014 (Live Performed), 2015 (Released On Website)
Riffers: Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett
Originally filmed for Rifftrax's 2014 Live show Anaconda, yet due to rights issues with the film used they were unable to release the entire show for streaming. However, the Rifftrax website had no copyright issues with the short film they used so they released it the following year outside of the actual show.
This short is about a family getting ready for Halloween but the young son's costume (read: paper bag that was drawn on) was destroyed by the dog. The mother then brainstorms a new costume for him to wear in a flash.
This short is really short, only about five minutes or so, but it's breezy and suitably wacky. The initial Halloween "fun" featured in the short is about as forced as you can get, and there isn't really much of a payoff to it, seeing how it barely has a story at all. I assume they were going for the idea that the kid's second costume is better than the first because of improvisational magic, but since the kid's first costume was just a paper bag literally anything would have been better.
The riffing is fairly solid for such a kooky short full of manufactured family enjoyment, though there are some missed opportunities with the children's costumes at the end. There is literally a child in blackface that they don't comment on, all the while they're more interested in the fact that the boy's second costume is a "lady scarecrow," though they had already rode that joke a bit too hard when there are fresh ones to make. But this strange beast of a short is solid and it's great to have it as a part of our library even if the rest of the show is not with it.
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