Rifftrax Year: 2018
Riffers: Bridget Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl
This'll cure all them sheltered freaks. How to be a Friend is a series of staged friendship moments that are designed to teach youth about the meaning of friendship. The purpose of teaching it...I'm not sure. Perhaps to help the viewer know what a healthy friendship is as opposed to a poor one, though everything the short shows is positive, so...to be honest I can't see anybody learning a damn thing from it. It's watered down, and the folk music is pretty annoying.
The riffing doesn't always hit its mark. Every once in a while Bridget and Mary Jo will get a good shot at it but mostly just jus hover around mild amusement. A lot of their comments of the short's music is fairly funny early on, though they steadily decline in laughs when the short uses it more often, probably since it's less of a surprise later on. The friendship portions all seem to have one segment per pairing that the duo can turn hilarious, but that only accounts for a third of the short.
As such it's hard for me to fully recommend How to be a Friend. The appeal of riffing this short is obvious, though the end result is uneven. This one just doesn't do it for me. It does have one of the best closing lines of any Rifftrax however...
"Mary Jo, seeing as we're good friends, I made you a mix tape of all this short's music."
::repressing rage:: "Oh you...shouldn't...have..."
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