The guy Joel calls Ed Nelson looks to me more like Michael Berryman with hair.

I was surprised how long it took me to realize that was Robert Vaughn. I guess 'cause I've never seen him that young.

Strawberry Quik alone is enough to make me puke.

I love when Servo says "Teenage Caveman... WE'RE ALL CAVEMEN!" The second I saw the title, I thought of Baba O'Riley and "Teenage wasteland. We're all wasted!"

1:04:38 - Tom Servo's a King Crimson fan? Awesome!

This film actually was not too bad. I actually got drawn into the plot. Robert Vaughn is a solid lead actor and the story is fairly solid. Some tweaks could have made this a good film:

1) You'll accept some bad science as acceptable breaks for reality for story contrivances, but the coda talked about monsters and dinosaurs having come back, for no reason at all. I'd have taken the radioactive long-lived anthropologists as tragic and a key plot figure if not the rest of the garbage.

2) The message speech at the end was way too sanctimonious. Need to dial that back a bit.

3) Too much padding with scenes of people just wandering around, or chasing stuff with no purpose. Some of that can be effective and artistic, but only when there's an actual point to it, which isn't here. Less of that, and more development of relationships between characters would have helped.

4) Silly usage of stock footage...but that's unavoidable to some degree with the budgeting.

5) The accents....eesh. Something that stands out a bit less to our ears and is more consistent among the cast should be a goal.

6) Those dogs really needed to look much less like pets.

Did anyone else notice that Tom and Crow were on one of the artist renderings?

If it makes anybody feel any better, everyone involved in the making of Catching Trouble is dead.

This is one of my all time favorites...and the two shorts are easily in the top 5...Hysterical from start to finish...Wild Eagle from F Troop vs. The Man From Uncle...this shit writes itself

The Children's Wonder Book Of Rainy Day Ipecacs

Like all of you when I heard Corman and Vaughn had teamed up my expectations were off the charts. And it had all the beloved Corman trademarks, plenty of disparate stock footage, sparse and repetitive locations, Jonathan Haze, etc…and the haunting look away gazes of Vaughn lore, but somehow it just did not all come together. One must blame America International for changing the title from the more esteemed original Prehistoric World. A 26 year old teenager? Indeed, what must they think of us?

I really liked this episode, tho I've never really been let down by the MST3K crew....... HOWEVER the main character, the teenage caveman, is way to intellectual and intelligent..... he sounds more like someone who was living in the DARK AGES....

What really gets me is that short MUST have been at least partially staged: Only a suicidal moron would go after two bear cubs without at least a tranquilizer gun. How could Ross know he'd find the cubs alone? And what mother bear would leave her young not only alone and helpless, but be so far away she couldn't hear those ear-splitting shrieks of terror her cubs let out?

Either those were trained cubs, which doesn't seem likely given the aforementioned shrieks of terror, or Mama Bear was killed before this travesty was filmed.

I don't expect perfection in an MST3K flick, but that Joe Cocker caveman has a New York accent! And since when were cavemen clean shaved? Forget about using dull flint knives... THEY HAD NO MIRRORS!

After that animal cruelty short I watched #615-Kitten with a Whip. I needed a home made ipecac. Kitten with a Whip is better than toothpaste and orange juice!

"We leave you with this question: If you enjoyed Catching Trouble in any way, there's something wrong with you."

I love how Joel and the bots handle uncomfortable footage.

The Mads' Fight Scene would not have been complete without the synthesized "Amok Time" music. Cherry on the top of a great scene!

natoonea may be right, it's grainy footage of what "could be" Adolf.
The bunker MAY have been one of history's BIG cover ups.

"I going to kill you!" --Frank
"You're gonna have to kill me first!" --Dr. Forester

Also, interesting backstory on the pre-film slur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_jumping_bean

Has anybody experimented with their own ipecac recipes? I imagine boiled corn meal mixed with grain spirits would definitely do... anything more humane about?

The moment of Greg Proops at the beginning of the current link cracks me up, and it conjures a whole 90s Comedy Central to mind. Hey, time for Kids in The Hall! Oh man, Janeane Garofalo is gonna be on Dr. Katz! etc.

0:11:45--that really looks like hitler. freaky.

Chad Slambody, along with Johnny Longtorso, were the other two nicknames I considered using for this site. I'm not going to admit just how difficult a decision it was, to do so would prove what a huge nerd I am.

Robert Vaughn looks like what would happen if Johny Cash and Bill Pullman had a child.

A short that makes you want to join PETA for life. Roger Corman. Middle-aged adolescents in loin cloths. Roger Corman. Alley-Oop anthropology. Repeated blows to the head by a 40 lb moral hammer. Filmdom's worst ever T-Rex costume and filmdom's most bizarre ghillie suit. Roger Corman. Enjoy!