Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill Nye the science Guy!
It’s the 6th grade. The girls are taken to the gym for a presentation about menstruation. Us boys are put in a room with this cart to watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Or some shit about shop class.
First grade, they piled all the classes together, because it’s 1993 and we only have one laserdisc player, and we need to watch a video on pollution. Main topics were acid rain and smog and that shit has been with me for 30 years, I will never forget it.
Ferngully
https://g.co/kgs/uNhJedM Toxic Love
Oh shit hexxus waddup
In class it was always
- Shrek
- Shrek 2
- Remember the Titans
- Jurassic Park
- Any Rando Jim Carrey Movie
Although in grade 9 law class we got to watch Heat, Dirty Harry and My Cousin Vinny, that teacher was cool
You got to see real movies? All we ever got was, like, PBS Nova episodes or A&E documentaries. No worksheets; but I got to learn about Ray fuckin’ Kroc years before they made a movie about him.
Oh yeah we had those too. I totally forgot about A&E, those tapes were around for sure. And a lot of stuff from the National Film Board, I think the schools in Canada got that stuff for free or something.
Butting into your conversation to leave a wee link for any film lovers scrolling by. The NFB’s a public producer and distributor, and the catalogue’s free for everyone.
You need a license to use it in class or have a public showing, but you’re right - many schools have that already set up. Buying DVDs for the classroom will cost you, though.
Watching the teacher get irritated.
I still have one of those somewhere!
“Only 90s kids will get it”
As a kid, I enjoyed seeing teachers struggle with those.
Now as a parent, I got to see teachers struggle with a beamer, same joy!
321 Contact.
And MathNet
Beauty and the Beast.
But it’s Spanish class. So La bella y la bestia.
Señora Lopez has a hangover and she just ain’t doin shit today.
I’m sure somebody had to watch that. Not me, but somebody.
Oh man, a friend and I were the AV crew for a while in high school in the late 90s. Basically we’d deliver these TV & VCR wheeled stands to the teachers needing them in the morning. If there wasn’t any need, we got to hang out in the equipment room instead of home room.
We got to use the elevators and even wield “the key ring” from time to time.
We had Monty python’s life of Brian. The teacher forgot he already played it for our class once. Nobody mentioned that to him.
The teacher didn’t forget
He did ask. But I think indeed it was a win-win situation
Beakman’s World
Bill Nye
Reading Rainbow
Edit: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Mr Wizard, or Antiques Roadshow are also possible outcomes.
BILL NYE
