Get That Job: Line Up Your Interview (RiffTrax Shorts)

RiffTrax Year:  2012

Riffers:  Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett

Our main character, who I assume is Abraham from The Walking Dead with a football helmet knitted out of red hair, needs a job.  But how does one get one?  Join him as he goes through the steps of the application process and covers what businesses will be looking for in their applicants.  And if you don't get the job, there is always OnlyFans.

Anybody who has done any amount of adulting in their life knows that getting a job can be intimidating, especially if you desperately need one.  Some of the advice given here is pretty universal, though it's a very dated presentation of it.  This short is very stuck in the 70's, not just with its styles but also with the advice given.  Traveling to a secretary service to type up a resume is probably not advice anybody heeds anymore fifty years later.  An updated version of this short would likely play a bit different.

Will all this advice succeed?  Maybe, maybe not.  But people just don't want to work anymore for less than a living wage, so what can you do?

The riffing is quite hilarious for Get That Job.  Mike, Kevin, and Bill look into a lot of the different scenarios seen in the short and play with the casual stupidity featured in it.  There is a scene with a woman working in a dress store that briefly has a flashback to her doing the exact same thing she's doing at that moment, which Bill can't help but observe the pointlessness of.  Bill also objects to the narrator distracting a mechanic while he's working on an airplane engine, which got a huge laugh out of me.

Like a lot of shorts with narrators, a lot of mileage is also gained out of expanding on the narration.  The narrator states he has two things left in order to apply for a job, to which the response from our team is "To take out the competition and get some stamps."  That's a lot of what you can expect from Get That Job, and it's certainly funny enough.

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