Rifftrax Year: 2009
Riffers: Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett
In this companion piece to Shy Guy, Marty is a self-conscious teen who struggles when he is forced to give a speech in front of his classmates. He begins to become aware of how self-conscious he is and looks at ways of improving it.
The advice in this short ranges from under-developed to mediocre, though I suspect half the intention of the short was to push students into seeking more thorough advice from teachers or guidance counselors. There's not a lot to really say about this short as a result because it's pretty self explanatory and not really that noteworthy. It does however come up with an adequate portrayal of self-consciousness, which is maintained throughout the short. Sometimes one can even feel it in the points where our main character isn't supposed to be self-conscious, but that might be attributed to stiff acting by performers who just might be, ironically, self-conscious.
The riffing is par for the course on Coronet instructional shorts like this. There is not a lot of lines that go above and beyond, but the laughter is there to make it worthwhile. There are jokes at the expense of Marty's self-consciousness (as expected), as well as embellishing the rewards of working past it ("The result: Two chicks at once!"). Self-Conscious Guy is worth watching, though don't expect it to be anything extraordinary.
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