It's been quite the holiday season for Rifftrax.
It started with a trip to Balloonland that was really a warehouse filled with really ugly balloons, followed by footage of a holiday parade with an odd-sounding narrator. Then, thousands of people saw the re-riffing of the 1959 Mexican movie Santa Claus in theaters.
Last night, it premiered its second Total Riff Off on Nat Geo Wild, where the crew mocks nature programming and one host in particular. The first half was another episode of Man V Monster with Richard Terry, where he searches for legendary monsters that usually aren't. This was the "Mekong Man-Eater" episode where something is biting people in shallow water in Thailand. At first, he thinks it's a cobra that's responsible. However, it's really another animal that he winds up respecting. The show plays up how much danger he seems to be, but isn't. Unlike the "Demon Bat" episode, this one seemed like an animal version of Law and Order, where the culprit at the start of the episode changed twice before the end.
Some of the riffs:
"I, Richard Terry"...
finder of non-existing bats
Terry is crawling in some underground caves
He really puts the "lunk" into "spelunking"
Terry mistakes a log for a snake as he tries to get to a submerged pagoda.
"That's a log, but for a split second, it got my heart going"
Richard Terry summed up in five seconds.
Terry meets the suspected monster, a King Cobra, which is the longest venemous snake around
A veritable Manute Bol of death
Terry finds a catfish who could be the real culprit
"Some of these species of catfish can have really sharp barbs."
Some other catfish just trick you into dating them online.
There's also riffs on Batman, Chris DeBergh, Keith Richards, Andy Griffith and Rob Ford.
The second half was a parade of animals behaving badly and strangely. There's a cub climbing in a garage at Lake Tahoe, chimps attacking racoons, a turtle having sex with a shoe, a deer and a dolphin getting too frisky, a woman from India nursing a calf, sheep stampeding inside a cycling store, an orangutan who smokes way too much, and a sea lion snacking on someone's head.
The highlight, however, was seeing a pregnant elephant give birth, then kicking her newborn to wake it up. It's pretty graphic, as are the riffs.
Something's not right at the chimpanzee enclosure at the local zoo
Nick Nolte keeps stealing their food.
A horny buck gets too close to a blonde woman
He has Warren Beatty Syndrome
A leopard takes a dump into a Jeep
Still not as gross as any one minute of Real Housewives
A water moccasin is on the hood of a moving car
He's a teenager. Friends dared him to ghost-ride the whip.
A turtle has a passion for a show that looks like a female turtle
Yeah, call me Dr. Scholl, baby
An elephant gives birth then kicks her baby to revive it,
I was wondering when you were going to squeeze my trunk and kind of whip my head around
An orangutan goes nuts at a zoo in Taiwan
He's mad about his bitter break-up with Clint Eastwood.
There's other riffs on The Godfather, Paula Abdul, Guardians of the Galaxy, Seal, Wallace and Grommit, and Johnathan Lipnicki.
It was another very funny Total Riff-Off, and some fans think it should be a weekly show. That may not be likely because Rifftrax doesn't have the time and Nat Geo not enough shows. Having this more often than twice a year would be a good idea. Imagine a holiday Total Riff-Off with reindeer behaving badly.
The two new Total Riff Off episodes are now available, along with last April's episodes, at Rifftrax.com/tv.
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