Product Details

• Actors: Trace Beaulieu, Joel Hodgson, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Rhino / Wea
• VHS Release Date: January 30, 2001
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000058TIZ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,814 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best one, but a good laugh, December 25, 2001

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Willow Polson "writer and whatnot." (Groveland, Calif.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mystery Science Theater 3000: Shorts, Volume Three [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I love MST3K and especially the shorts. This collection features 7 rather dated and odd snippets of life in the last century:

Speech -- Using Your Voice: The host of this educational short for executives who don't know how to speak in public is a bit of a car wreck, but nothing too gut splitting here.

Aquatic Wizards: Nothing to see here. Not even skin. But there's a few good lines sprinkled around.

Is This Love?: Featuring what must be the oldest college co-ed ever, it's the prudes versus the swingers. Okay, but not too high on the amusement scale.

Design for Dreaming: This is the bright gem of the tape -- a bizarre mix of modern dance, push-button appliances, and autos of the future. "Ahhhh! The bridge to the future is out!!!!" Very very funny, almost as good as my fave, Mr. B Natural (not on this tape). This short alone is just about worth getting the video.

The Selling Wizard: Yikes! Plastic magic scary smiling woman selling freezer units!

Out of This World: Why an angel and devil would care about a bread salesman is beyond me. A few good moments and laughs.

Once Upon a Honeymoon: If someone can explain what the point of this short is, I'll give them money. Some funny spots.

So, that's them. Nothing too hysterically funny, but well worth the few bucks for the tape. A must for any die-hard Satellite of Love junkies.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Plenty of lip and tongue action, August 25, 2002

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Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mystery Science Theater 3000: Shorts, Volume Three [VHS] (VHS Tape)

MST3K Shorts Volume 3 is inferior to the previous two volumes, but the tape does include seven shorts from the classic series of experiments--two with Joel and five with Mike. The Speech short is famous for one thing only--the line about the importance of "plenty of lip and tongue action." Beyond that, it basically just makes fun of the way a lot of people talk. Aquatic Wizards takes us to a school for water skiing--it's even more boring than it sounds. The embarrassingly ludicrous Design For Dreaming may well explain why foreign automobiles became all the rage in America. The video features a strange woman and a masked man in a tuxedo singing and dancing about the cars and kitchen of the future. I don't think the mask was part of the script; the guy was probably so embarrassed about the job that he wanted to hide his identity.

How many nights have you lain awake wondering just how ice cream merchandising works? Really! Um, well, wonder no more. The Selling Wizard (in the guise of a mute caped woman wearing a tablecloth vest) will tell you everything you need to know about selling ice cream hand over fist. Here's a secret everyone may not know--refrigeration and freezing units. That's all I can say here. Interestingly, this riveting video comes from Annheiser Busch. This is probably the least funny short in MST3K history. The guys basically just watch the video and randomly make comments about the difficulty of choosing the right model for themselves.

Out of This World is a truly weird one. I don't know if there is a patron saint for bread salesmen, but there is a demon and an angel who oversee the careers of all purveyors of fine baked goods. When one inefficient salesman learns the error of his ways, the demon bets the angel that he will slip back to his old ways. We basically watch the bread truck guy go on his rounds, fostering grocer goodwill and talking grocers into selling more bread more prominently. I have no idea why, but I find the video itself quite interesting, and there are some funny moments, but this isn't really a stellar short. Then, we have Once Upon a Honeymoon. I have no idea what it was supposed to be about. A songwriter and his wife have waited a year for their honeymoon; when the boss calls and says a song must be rewritten, it is up to a goofy angel wearing kooky glasses to save the day, which he of course does by tempting the wife with modern home appliances.

Fortunately, this video has one saving grace, the classic "Is This Love?" short. Peggy and her man decide to marry after three months of dating; her parents want her to wait a year to finish school, but she throws a temper tantrum and elopes. For contrast, we have Peggy's college roommate Liz, a 50-year old Romulan woman, and her goofy boyfriend Andy. These old-fashioned (and just plain old) kids are taking the traditional route to marriage, waiting until school is over and they are sure they are compatible. There are plenty of humorous comments in this one.

All in all, this is a fairly weak collection of MST3K shorts. There are some funny bits throughout, of course, but they are relatively few and far between. The first two volumes of MST3K shorts are more enjoyable, but any MSTie will definitely want to add Volume 3 to his/her collection, as well.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, as usual . ., February 23, 2001

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"mr_nasty" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mystery Science Theater 3000: Shorts, Volume Three [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The third volume of shorts in the highly successful "shorts" compilation videos from Mystery Science Theater 3000. The two funniest shorts included are: "Speech - Using Your Voice," a hilarious short (featuring Joel!) narrated by an elderly professor who advises using "plenty of lip and tongue action" when making a speech; and "Is This Love?," a laugh-out-loud 50's short for teens about love and dating. The other shorts featured on this video are "Design for Dreaming," "The Selling Wizard," "Out of This World", "Once Upon a Honeymoon", and "Aquatic Wizards". The only thing that could've made it better, in my opinion, would've been the inclusion of "Mr. B. Natural", definitely the oddest (and funniest) of the shorts the guys have ever done.