Kyle Mooney Roasts Terrible VHS Tapes From the ‘90s
Keep your Criterion Closet. For pure entertainment value, we’ll take Kyle Mooney’s Plastic Bag O’ VHS Tapes. Rooney showed up on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night to promote his movie Y2K, and in keeping with the ‘90s theme, he ridiculed some of his favorite VHS tapes from back in the day. Here are some of the gems in his collection, both from last night and other Mooney appearances over the years:
Moviemakers could have chosen a title like Fantastic Future or Back in the Day, Mooney said, but instead, they decided to go with the most unexciting choice imaginable: Present Time. The producers also targeted a very narrow demographic: ages 8 to 13. “So if you’re 7 or 14, sorry, guys,” Mooney said.
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“They’re like, ‘Trust me. At 14, you think this movie stinks,’” laughed Meyers.
What, Meyers wondered, are those kids doing with the paint guy?
“They learn about baggage transport,” Mooney said, reading from the back of the box. “‘Into: Airports is your passport to a hilarious travel adventure.’”
“For those of you who don't know Prayer Bear, he’s an animatronic bear who helps you learn when is the right time to pray,” Mooney explains. “He loves spumoni ice cream. He’s just a really fun guy to have around.”
“Boo! Boo!” jeered Mooney, encouraging the crowd to berate Mr. Nasty. “This is a fascinating video because Mr. Nasty speaks directly to you. He talks to the camera, and he just insults you,” Mooney said. “That’s the whole video, just him telling you that he doesn’t like you.”
Meyers wanted to know which actor played Mr. Nasty, which was the wrong question.
“No,” Mooney responded. “I think it’s the actual Mr. Nasty.”
“How do I describe this?” said Mooney. “You're on a date with this woman. And so the perspective is just you. The camera is your eyes. And let’s just say that things end up going pretty well.”
Meyers, unsurprisingly, wasn’t familiar with the “Grublets” series of videos.
“The Grublets are — I think they’re a family,” Mooney explained. “They take junk, and they turn it into nice things. And Nathaniel the Grublet is the focus of this story, and he’s seemingly played by a 40-something woman.”
Mooney had little to say about Bibleman, other than “it’s religious” just like Nathaniel the Grublet and Prayer Bear. But Bibleman is also known as a starring vehicle for Charles in Charge sidekick Willie Aames, renouncing his sinful Hollywood past and taking on the role of “a wealthy man who turns to God after he finds a Bible in some mud.”
A panelist on the British show You Have Been Watching got a load of Bibleman. “The thing that struck me most about it is quite how badly it is made, to the extent that you must think it’s been made by anti-Christian people to make Christianity look as discouraging and artless as possible.”
