History Film / YoungMansFancy

'''Young Man's Fancy''' is a 1952 industrial short produced by JamHandy for the Edison Electric Institute. Essentially, its obscure purpose is to promote how wonderful electric appliances are for the house, even in 1952.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Shockingly... averted. They go on about things most households still depend on, such as refrigerators, temperature-controlled ovens, dishwashers, washing machines. The thing is that all of the manual household chores, like manually washing clothes, was still the majority in 1952 - all you need to do is watch ''TheHoneymooners'' with Ralph and Alice's icebox.

This was featured as a short in MysteryScienceTheater3000 episode 610 ''TheViolentYears''. [=MST3K=] recap [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E10TheViolentYears here]].

This was featured as a short in MysteryScienceTheater3000 episode 610.

* AccidentalInnuendo: Viewed a certain way, this can be an effective premise for a porn film, when considering the dialogue.
** The whole plot is about seduction, not sure that's an accident.

* HoYay: The dialogue in the movie could give one this implication between Bob and Alexander.
** Alexander is in the bathroom shaving as Bob takes a shower.
** He did stay under for quite a while.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Shockingly... averted. They go on about things most households still depend on, such as refrigerators, temperature-controlled ovens, dishwashers, washing machines. The thing is that all of the manual household chores, like manually washing clothes, was still the majority in 1952 - all you need to do is watch ''TheHoneymooners'' with Ralph and Trixie's icebox.

!!YoungMansFancy contains the following tropes:

* TotallyRadical: Judy's slanging seems to peeve her mother a slight bit.

This was featured as a short in MysteryScienceTheater3000 episode 610, with the movie TheViolentYears.

-->'''Crow:''' ''[as Bob]'' No. Don't.

-->'''Crow:''' ''[chuckling nervously]'' Has, uh, has nobody else noticed that the daughter is ''PSYCHOTIC?!''

-->'''Crow (as Alexander):''' You can hardly see where you bit me.

-->'''Crow:''' Thank goodness for my electric dress!

** Alex is also "a real cool Jonah" who isn't like the "trips" she goes to school with.

!!The MysteryScienceTheater3000 presentation contains these tropes:

* ActorAllusion: Due to his thick-rimmed glasses, Bob gets lots of FranklinDelanoRoosevelt riffs.
* [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS Brought To You By The Nerd Council]]
* FullNameBasis
-->'''Alexander Phipps:''' The name is Alex.\\
'''Tom Servo:''' ...zander Phipps.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Double-bag it, son!"
** Also growing mushrooms in the basement.
--->'''Crow:''' And avoiding the narcs!
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore
-->'''Alexander''': Hey, what's a four-letter word for "nuisance"?
-->'''Crow''': Standard sitcom joke landing on runway 7.
-->'''Mike''': *imitates plane landing sound while waving imaginary marshalling wands*
-->'''Bob''': Oh, that's easy: J-U-D-Y.

** Alex is also "a real cool Jonah."

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Shockingly... averted. They go on about things most households still depend on, such as refridgerators, temperature-controlled ovens, dishwashers, washing machines. The thing is that all of the manual household chores, like manually washing clothes, was still the majority in 1952 - all you need to do is watch ''TheHoneymooners'' with Ralph and Trixie's icebox.

-->'''Mike''': *imitates plane landing sound while waving imaginary signaling wands*

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Double-bag it, son!"