Rejected RiffTrax Live 2019 slides! (Patreon)

Hello Traxians, you ladies and lords of the land of Trax. RiffTrax writer Sean Thomason here, with a little “red-band” material - that’s right, UNCENSORED REJECTED CONTENT!!! If this were a DVD case, there’d be a big red stamp on the front to let you know it might be a little naughty.

For every live show, we put together a slate of pre-show slides for your entertainment as you settle in to the theater and ponder which snacks to buy. Conor and I write the jokes, with some help this year from contributor Zach Shatzer. RiffTrax artist Jason Martin designs the backgrounds for the slides and makes them look cool. 

Then, we ship the slides off to some folks who have the power to reject them from the show for content reasons. Why do we do this? Because we love the sick thrill of rejection! Or maybe because we’re required to do so by movie theaters. Either way, we always get a kick out of seeing which ones they reject, even/especially when we don’t understand the reasons.

So without further ado, here’s this year’s crop of Too-Hot-For-The-Cinema rejected slides!

From the Octaman show:

It’s kinda funny this one got rejected, since it’s really just taking a dirty scene and making it less dirty. Maybe they were upset we called her “the old woman in the deli” instead of specifically pointing out she was played by director Rob Reiner’s mother. Maybe Rob Reiner personally rejected the slide? We’ll never know for sure.

This one’s a no-brainer, some people understandably hold Carrot Top sacred and won’t tolerate any jokes about him. Honestly, we should have seen this rejection coming.

It’s probably for the best that this one wasn’t shown in theaters, just so we didn’t have to try to explain what it means to our parents.

There was only one reject from Giant Spider Invasion:

Can’t imagine what was wrong with this one. We were merely implying that one of the Muppets drives a Ford Probe in the movie. Oh, maybe the problem is that we didn’t capitalize “probe”? Some people are such sticklers for grammar and capitalization!

There weren’t any rejected slides from the Star Raiders show, guess we’ll just have to try harder next time. Hope you enjoyed this peek behind the rejection curtain! 

Speaking of Conor and myself, we’ve got our very own Writer’s Picks Sale coming out soon, featuring some of our personal favorite riffs from over the years, so keep your eyes peeled! 

Thanks, and keep on Traxin’, Traxians!