Riffers: Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett
This short was originally filmed in front of an audience for the Santa Claus Live show, and has been sliced off and presented here without the rest of the show bogging it down. Why? Dunno. The Santa Claus show is readily available on Rifftrax's website and since that particular film is in public domain it's not like it's in danger of disappearing. Unless someone pulled some sort of trademark win on Santa Claus as a character. DAMN YOU, DISNEY!
This is another short in the line of At Your Fingertips arts-and-crafts series, which teaches children to create whatever-the-fuck out of every day objects in the house. Who needs Legos and Play-Doh when you have a lot of sugar in your pantry that you can waste? I'm sure you mother would be thrilled and will absolutely love cleaning up your mess.
In this particular entry shows off the easy ways you can compact sugar into easy molds and create shapes. This is great if you want to pretend it's Easter and you're making a fake egg. After all, who wants to eat that hard boiled crap when you can have a lump of sugar that you can lick without it being weird and rubbery? As always, the things being made are pretty cute, all things considered. This one seems a little more restricted because you're a slave to the product your using and sugar can only do so much. But it looks pretty sweet. PUN!
We already know that At Your Fingertips provides plenty of opportunity for the boys by now, and Sugar and Spice is no different. There is plenty of obscure crafting going on, leaving Mike, Kevin, and Bill a little lost on what's going on. Final products aren't very immaculate either, opening them up to deduce just certain artistic intents, including the final appendage on a snowman ("Let's just hope that's his arm."). They also point out that the short shows off that sugar can be used to create a glue-like paste to help craft but doesn't exactly show how it's made, which probably would be useful. And of course, when the narrator points out that these crafts may make a tasty snack, they tell the kids to enjoy their "instant diabetes." At Your Fingertips is usually a winner for Rifftrax despite base similarities between the shorts. This one is par for that course.
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