A laid-back, goofy, enjoyable episode. this is one of my favorites to watch when I just want to chill. And isn't Todd also Seymour Krelborn from Little Shop of Horrors?

Does anyone else think that the Grimault leader looks like he's wearing the same outfit the fire monster in Phantom Planet is wearing?

Ok...who else out there remembers the Calgon reference? "Ancient Chinese secret huh"?

I should know better than to watch this episode when I don't have waffle mix in the house...

"...and coming 'round the club house turn it's Apartment House with plenty of room, and Girdle in the stretch, Bird Poop on the track and coming up the rear is Feitlebaum". (I thought it was Beetle Balm but looked it up and this is from a radio show by Doodles Weaver. Got any other horse names?

They called the femmy prince guy Freddie Mercury. I think he looks more like Frodo Baggins.

I love the fight between Frank and his knife-wielding, reanimated fryer.
Of COURSE your creation will try to destroy you; have you learned NOTHING, Frank?

I gotta say, as cheesy as this movie is, you have to give Corman credit for some non-stereotypical characters. That prince is SOOOOO wimpy, and his father clearly knows it. He was positively shocked at thinking his son could have killed a boar. The women are the strongest characters, even if they're not the deepest characters.

"Look, she's left-handed. Can't trust a leftie!" Makes me proud to be sinister, we get a +2 bonus in life! Lefties unite!

On another forum, I found out that Patty Marvel, a member of the Yahoo MST3K group, apparently sent a letter to Iowa State asking exactly this question...here is their response.

Dear Ms. Marvel,

Our office received your inquiry about the promotional film called "The Home Economics Story." According to sources here the reference in the film is to a "five-pound party." Apparently there was an old sorority tradition to have a party and bring a 5-lb. box of candy when you announced your engagement.

Sincerely,
Sandra Gartz
Assistant to the Director

...so, now we know...

"can I borrow your baby for my home ec project?"

This was the only time I was disappointed to see Roger Corman's name attached to an MST3K film -- only because I expected it to be a Russo-Finnish co-production

"don't tell the others I'm here, please!" and where is he planning on hiding on this tiny sailboat for the whole duration of the trip, hmmm?

Joel mentions, with an obvious "eye roll" in his voice, endurance swimmer Diana Nyad, saying she's "attempting to swim the English Channel. Again." In September, 2013, after 4 attempts over her lifetime, she finally managed to swim from Florida to Cuba. It took her 53 hours and she was the first person to complete that swim without the protection of a shark cage. She was 64 years old at the time.

My favorite part of this movie is easily the 30 minutes of VCR blue screen at the end.

God, this Albert Glasser score is the worst.

I think I maybe have seen the movie once, and not all the way through. But the short? Too many times to count. One of my favorites. Maybe if Beverly Garland was a Viking?

...Okay, now I'm in the mood for waffles.

"... ... ...Waffles. WE GOT MOVIE SIIIGN!" 47:04-47:16 Best. Buffer. Ever.

"Even the Physics class was what a girl would like." *barfs*

Waffle-waffle-waffle-waffle. lmao Gypsy. Does anyone else think that looks slightly like Crow riding a bike at the very beginning (I think its really a commerical before the show starts) reminds me of the 24.2 extra when joel trace and frank (as Servo? lmao so weird, josh or kevin wouldve come you know they would) and Crow is riding the bike. (One of the few times we see crows full body / feet)

So why does the home ec short have a male narrator?

"Pancakes, oh I blew it...I'm sorry"

Waffles! Not a bad movie at all for a Corman but why was Todd there alone with all the women and not with the rest of the viking men on there journey? I would be boiking all of them and not be going off looking for there men at all lol. Trivia time: Grimwald King is The Devil in "The Undead" and the guy that keeps on whipping Todd is Apollo in that Star Trek episode "Who Mourns For Adonis". He was Leonard Nimoys acting coach and he got him the Apollo gig!

I like waffle CONES, or better yet, ChocoTacos

Wow, Roger Corman manages to flawlessly capture that 'flip the board when you're losing' quality so many douchey guys really do have.

smh. I see Corman subscribed to the "Bury Your Gays" style of film. Or, in this case, Burn Your Gays... And Then Burn Them A Wife For The Afterlife.
Sorta taking a leaf outta the Mormon Doctrine and Covenants

I can't think of any other film the guys have done that features straight-up human sacrifice!

1:25.23

I'm sure it's just weird lighting, but I swear that Joel's hair looks purple!

Pancakes.

Hey, guys...

Waffles.

the home ec short - appx 16 mins into full link 1: I've watched the cheerleader portion 5 times now; it's hilarious yet also on it's own, flipping weird. cheerleading in the modest days seems smarmy

Willy the Waffle sure sounded a lot like Coily the Spring from the Squirm episode in Season 10. This proves it. MST3K writers are psychic.

The "no waffles" skit with the waffle sprite is a reference to the spring short.

Todd seems to have more of a DEX-based build than a STR-based one. So of course he's gonna jump around.

I'm a woman, and I want to major in Engineering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNij98ArEjU
For all you fans of waffles.

I've always kind of agreed with Doc F. about the waffles, and my mom just came up with a recipe for maple syrup cookies that so damned good. I may never eat waffles again.

I'm actually kind of sold on home economics now. There's something about industrial ovens, steam and hairnets that makes me wish I had spent my time in prison more constructively. I mean, who needs a getaway driver with a 2005 Stanza?

It was Glorfindel that took Frodo to Rivendell, not Gildor. Though Gildor is generally considered a more obscure character so it's still impressive.

42:31 "Oh no, it's the RINSE CYCLE!" That's an appliance reference, isn't it?

Well shoot, now I've gotta go to the store and get some waffles.

I love Corman's enlightened, rational, peaceful Vikings: Vedrik SPARES the life of the Grimauld Chieftain???

Gimme a break! A REAL Viking would have had his dusky, non-blonde head atop his battle standard--and wouldn't leave until the Grimauld's homes were raided for valuables, their crops burned and the land salted, the men slaughtered like cattle, the women ravished, and the children enslaved.

That's how a ViIKING rolls!

The school shooting riffs would be considered so inappropriate nowadays.

Here's a brain teaser: who looks more baked in the opening segment---Joel, or TV's wisecracking Crow?

Mmm... waffle shakes.

Ok, ok, wait a minute, wait a minute. You capture Vikings, an unlikely event but ok, and the next day you give them horses and spears. How are you not dead immediately? I mean, suspension of disbelief or not...

Call me crazy, but I think every one of Joel's waffle recipes sounds stupendous.

Ha! 47:10 "Waffles!" Oh, Joel.
You know, guys, all I remember from this movie is the waffle serpent and that the waffle ship was pretty small for all those waffles. Oh, and the fact that the waffle vikings were all the whiniest, pathetic, poorest excuses for Viking waffles that I've ever waffled. But besides that, I can't remember much of waffle-thing...

[At 49:12] "Get Your Filthy Hands Off Of Her, You..." - DAMN DIRTY APE!

In the intro song, during "Robot Roll Call" did I hear them call Crow a cracker? Just wondering. Thought it was kinda funny.

Do you really need to take classes to know how to do laundry or cook for multiple people?

21:05--50's brainwashing show: "For after all, we live in a world where people are more important than things."
Me: *vomiting sounds*

I hate incomplete credits. No one and I mean NO ONE got credit for playing the rejuvenated chicken.

I'm hungry for waffles now... not sure why.

"Carol, who is now Mrs. Bill Johnson..." Ah, so she finally got that gender reassignment surgery after majoring in home economics. Good for her (him?).

So a woman goes to college and gets a degree to be a better housewife?

Another unfinished episode for me. It isn't a terrific feature, but I have no idea why I was able to finish "Teenage Caveman" and not this one.

The short is the star of the show, of course. It's no Mr B Natural, or Hired!, or Is It Love?, or A Date with Your Family, but it still makes me laugh.

One of the incidental benefits of MST3K are the glimpses of the former world we get through the various shorts and features. The Home Economics short is one of the most rewarding examples. The world of 1950 is most decidedly not the world of 2014. We can learn this fact from dry history textbooks, but we can see it, hear it and feel it in a filmstrip such as this.

And make mock while we learn. I love you, Best Brains!

Arrgh! It's "eck-o-nomics", not "ee-co-nomics!"

It's more like The Viking women with guest appearance by the sea serpent.

They can't get to Valhalla by being burned at the stake! They'll see each other in Hel!

Somebody took Joel's waffle idea and ran with it- http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-27/taco-bells-waffle-taco-arrives-dot-how-does-it-taste

All I can hear is the narrator saying, "...five-pound potty..." What the hell does he actually say?

So these "tough" Viking women set out to retrieve their men in a boat barely big enough for them, and manage to get there rowing against the wind. Everything went downhill from that point, but the riffs were great. As for the short, soooo dated, but even more so hilarious. I was craving waffles, but I realized I didn't know enough about electricity to use the waffle iron. And I don't think I've seen a funnier sight than Frank and the chicken in a knife fight! I could watch that clip over and over, and its the reason I'm giving this episode my laugh.

Some of their riffs are way beyond being a stretch. At exactly 50 minutes when Joel says the guy looks like Freddie Mercury, really? I watch at least a part of an episode a day but sometimes the emperor has no clothes. I blame Mary Jo.

They were dressed a little scantly for their climate.

I agree, waffles are awesome and I think anytime IS the right time for waffles.

"iowa st. college, the high school after high school" ha

So why are they so close to shore they can still take Todd back, but so far from it they cannot go back for the oar?

0:09:02 - "Damn." has been playing over and over in my head and has had me laughing hysterically now for over 12 hours.

Release the Hounds!

"But for Fran Tarkenton and the Minnasota Vikings there would come another day." Can someone explain this? They use it often with different football teams, like Vince Lumbardi and the Green Bay Packers in Space Travellers. What is it from?

Now that I know most of the riffs by heart I'm watching what the Joel & the bots themselves are doing. Watch for Joel pretending to push Tom into a meat grinder on the screen during the short! ;-)

Mmm…that Abby Dalton (Desir) could make an old Norseman give up the pillage and keep his longboat docked close to home!

Oh, my. A Diana Nyad reference.

What a stupid movie... It had so much potential too.

What a ridiculous lampshade...

wow I can't believe how demeaning the short is to women.

0:30:33 Crow is "ashamed" to know Lord of the Rings references? This changes our relationship.... ;)

The premise of this film is awesome: The Great Escape with Vikings! Instead, Corman gives us Hairless Beach Bodies Get Saved by their Girlfriends.

Normally I can excuse the characters in a film inexplicably speaking English, but Corman just takes it too far. This is one of his better written films, but he relies on the old cliches of overly-Shakespearean dialogue and the hero(ine)s speaking in American accents while the villains sneer in smarmy English accents. 2/10 for Roger, which is a freakin' Oscar nomination for him.

I'm pretty sure the brunette has scale-mail printed on her top.

I actually was genuinely curious whether Todd and the one who he had the slight romantic chemistry hinted at ended up together...

Best short ever! Some of the funniest riffing going on in there. Had me busting out all the way through.

I've gotta applaud Joel here: the prop guys gave him a right-handed baseball mitt, and he wears it left-handedly anyway.

Ram Chips - Bad things: King Grimwald's extensive vocabulary for "A few words I learned from your countrymen." and the brute who plays Zarko; he really whips Desir in the face and is un-necessarily rough. Good things: Raven haired Inger's change of heart and Dr. Forrester's corn-fed, Minnasota mam-a jam-a.

You gotta love the Norse karate.

Vikings weren't known for their baby-faces or their penchant for surrender.

Penalty on the riff. Too many consecutive Green Acres references. First down for the offense.

The "Crotch Cheer" is now my own personal anthem.

I love this ep to pieces. Always have. That is all.

'windowpane'

I'm waiting for the next version of Frank's machine: The Beyond Meat Re-animator.

This tribe came right out of a Star Trek episode. I expected them to start feeding Voll. "Voll hungers. We must go to him." Jim, remember the prime directive!

One of the best shorts ever done by MST3K. It never gets old...

Stark (evil dad) is the love child of Abe Vigoda and Joe DiMaggio. "It's Tessio. He always was the smart one." "Tell Michael it was just business. I always liked him."

In rare form during the short, one of their best. Numerous references to sex, drugs, and violence. Oh yes, and Bob McNamara and Ayn Rand.

The complete title of this film (0:29:09) is the best Charades stumper ever!

"Hellloooooo, girrrrlssss."

Look, I don't mean to imply anything--but that Grimauld Prince makes Truman Capote look like Charles Bronson...

This short film is four stars hilarious, one of my all time favorites!