Going Steady? (Rifftrax Shorts)

Rifftrax Year:  2009
Riffers:  Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett

Going Steady?

Well...ARE you?

This short tells the tale of two teens who find each other totally keen and date constantly.  But...are they going steady?  And even if they were, should they be freaked out about it?  Even if the answer is yes, they're going to be anyway.  Monogamy is for chumps.

I'm not entirely sure what the point of this short is.  Perhaps it's trying to verbalize the complex feelings teenagers might have over dating and the possibility of seeing only one person as opposed to many.  Maybe it just seems so much simpler in my adult years, but it feels like this is making a simple situation more complex than it needs to be.  In fact, it almost seems to be warning teens against going steady at times, making me think this short was put together by swinging bachelors trying to promote as much meaningless casual sex as they possibly can.

But the short has a 50's quaintness to it, which means Mike, Kevin, and Bill are here to dirty it up the best they can.  They take the verbal thoughts and lectures and twist them into something less innocent, such as a father learning his son might be going steady to which Mike has him respond "Well, I always figured you were a fruit."

The riffing makes this dated short fairly delightful.  Going Steady? turns a simple situation more complicated than it needs to be while the boys at Rifftrax deconstruct that complication and make us laugh about it.

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