The Frustrating Fours and Fascinating Fives (Rifftrax Shorts)

Rifftrax Year:  2014
Riffers:  Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett

If you thought it stopped at the Terrible Twos this short is here to set you straight!  Journey as we look a little Johnny turning four and acting like a spoiled brat.  Here he hogs his toys, gets in the way, and pushes his cousin around.  Later we venture as Johnny turns five and begins to be more inquisitive, making more of an active attempt to learn how the world works.  Unfortunately he'll learn all the brutal stuff way too late.

This short film is geared toward parents and attempts to let them know that certain phases in a child's life won't last and needed to be guided through.  It works for the most part, though times have obviously changed since it was filmed.  But it's a fascinating capsule look into 50's parenting.

Mike, Kevin, and Bill really embrace that capsule and they usually play up the old-timey-ness or infuse it with a more modern take.  The results are usually quite hilarious.  One part that caused me to roll with laughter was when the short pointed out the father was refraining from beating his child, to which Bill responds "The important thing is that he CONSIDERED the beating!"

This short is pretty much non-stop laughs at parenting and bratty kids all the way through.  I'd dare say it's one of the funniest shorts in Rifftrax's catalog.

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