NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Lee Eisenberg If there's a hokey educational film out there, you can bet money that "Mystery Science Theater 3000" has heckled it. Such is the case with "The Home Economics Story". The point of this happy-go-lucky short is basically that girls in fluffy dresses should take home econ so that they can either get good jobs or become June Cleaver clones. Pretty eye-rolling in an era when millions of grads are doomed to spend their lives paying back student loans (assuming that they can find jobs). Sure enough, the guys have a lot of fun tearing the short to shreds, even mentioning Abbey Road in one scene. Basically, it was a very cruel act to force the Satellite of Love crew to watch this, but they had fun with it.I wonder if anyone ever heckled these shorts when they first got shown back in the '50s.

Clay Loomis This short is pretty darn funny all on its own when viewed today, although the MST3k treatment definitely bumps it to a 10. This short was never shown in theaters, but was shown at high schools to girls to reveal possibilities for their lives (other than marrying the high school quarterback and becoming Mrs. Dirk Squarejaw, housewife and mother).When you younger kids see this you might wonder how things could have been that bad for women less than 60 years ago. But the fact is, humans are an incredibly adaptive species. If you'd have told just about anybody in 1951 that a black man would be elected President of the U.S. in 2008, they'd have laughed their butt off. But here we are- Black President, and women Senators, astronauts, and race car drivers. Who'd a thunk it? But back then, Home Economics was a woman's choice, until her husband ordered her to quit her job and stay at home (tee-hee). But look at it this way, modern humans have been around for at least a couple hundred thousand years, but in the last 100 years we've positively rocketed into the future. If you could bring somebody back who died in 1909 to the year 2009, they'd never even recognize the place, or understand how a woman could be a cop or plumber. Hell, back then women could only vote in 4 of 46 states! But back to our short.......The high school girls are taught that learning to cook, sew, decorate, teach nursery school, etc., will prepare and qualify them for the most important job of being Mrs. Squarejaw. Maybe you could even be a nurse or fashion designer. If you showed this thing to modern high school girls they would never believe you were serious. They believe their tattoo artist is the only one that needs to know how to decorate. It may seem shocking to today's youth that wives in the 1950's didn't even have tramp stamps.So, since those tough old birds that were married in the 1950's (and my Mom was one) paved the way for you young girls, you can now be judges, jet pilots, doctors and ice road truckers. Congratulations. Also, we have come far enough along to laugh at how things were for women in 1951. If you can, check out this short. It's funny, and available on Youtube.

icehole4 ***Spoilers***This 1950's propaganda about how women should be obedient servants to their husbands is quite dated and definitely doesn't stand up to the test of time. Iowa State College (now Iowa State University) was trying to recruit young women into going to their school and taking courses, probably to keep the male population happy. Everyone is lily white and the narrator is obscenely cheerful.

Mitora-san One of my first MST3K shorts I have seen on MST3K. "The Home Economics Story" is basically propaganda to turn any clean cut girl into a Suzie Homewife Barbie doll, as well as disguising itself to offering equal rights oppertunities.Like said, I would hate to live in 1950s. Not much to do besides a giggly homewife with a house full of brats. *LOL*Glad MST3K tackled this short. If did not, I would wretch.