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BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY!
My middle school was a stupid place that looked like a prison on the outside, but on the inside, the classrooms had no back walls and were separated by accordion dividers. Occasionally, they would open up the dividers and show the whole three-classroom block a video on three of those carts all chained to one VCR.
The one I remember was on a fun day where we all got to watch Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, which had just come out on video. They fast-forwarded through Napoleon's, "Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde!" being translated as, "Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit!" in the subtitles, but we could all see it and we were all like 13, so it was pretty funny.
Here is the school. It still exists. Batchelor Middle School in Bloomington, Indiana. I hear the inside has been renovated and there are now actual walls.
And I'm not exaggerating when I said it looks like a prison. It's not the most comforting sight the first time you go.
Honestly, as far as brutalist architecture goes, that one's not too bad. I kinda like it, especially the cantilevers.
Yeah, that's brutalism done right.
My school’s bus, which was used only for sporting events and trips, was an actual prison bus. It still had restraint attachment points and the bars on the windows.
It was brilliant for psyching out the other football teams.
My elementary school was an old Timex watch factory. It was a "temporary" building that ended up lasting 13 years. The only windows in the building were in the office and kindergarten wing. Last I checked, which was over a decade ago, the building had been turned into a firefighter training course.
So, school being a prison? All I have to do is remember my elementary school days.
This is obviously not that bad, but there was a continuous rumor going around the school that it was going to be a women's prison but they decided to make it a school instead.
Don't need to see sunlight if you're making watches right?
I went to a similar looking middle school, but each grade was in one giant room probably the size of a gym. No class had an actual wall unless it was on the edge. Probably 10-11 classes in each big room for the grade. The only dividers between classes were like rolling bulletin boards and maybe a metal cabinet or two. I couldn't imagine having to teach in those conditions because it always was pretty noisy.
I also remember the school's gym had a full locker room with showers but students weren't allowed to use the showers and none of the bathrooms in the school had stall doors. And the stalls were those short ones were your head was higher than the top of the wall. It was super weird.
I don't get the idea. Prison on the outside, anarchy on the inside. Who came up with that concept?
1970s build?
Windows are terrible at efficiency. Yes, even modern ones with three panes and filled with argon. A building with minimal windows is generally going to have better thermal efficiency than one with lots of them, and that started to be really important during the 1970s oil crisis. The result was a bunch of schools like this that look like prisons.
If you get some local mural artists to paint the concrete in bright, whimsical images, it fixes a lot.
Only problem is that the paint fades eventually, and if no one cares to redo it it'll end up looking like those sad old fading Soviet murals.
I had a Shakespeare class in high school and we convinced the teacher to let us watch 10 Things I Hate About You because it's very loosely based on The Taming of the Shrew. She turned it off with the dick drawn on the kid's face.
Looks like it might have been a county lockup at one point.
Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill Nye the science Guy!
“You can never go back. YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK!”
oh my god yes
i thought Scarface's name was Carface when I was little and obsessed with this. had a stuffed animal named Mr Carface (I obviously couldn't 'steal' the name Carface, I had to be original) that would watch the movie with me all the time. 16 years later and I still have them lol
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.
Hell yeah.
I watched a VHS dupe my father had made of this so many times. I don't think I've ever seen the proper cover art of it.
'See you later, navigator!'
Probably DS9 on repeat. Nothing hits the spot like hopeful 90's Star Trek.
Mhm yes I love a good occupation, terrorism, war, genocide and religious fanatics in the morning.
The fantasy is the competent opposition to all of those things.
The Bell riots are on the menu, boys!
Don't forget Chester!
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.
Watching the teacher get irritated.
I still have one of those somewhere!
The first thing that came to mind (assuming this is being wheeled into my classroom) was that 90s birthing video they used to show in sex ed. It culminated in them showing the baby's birth; though the poor thing probably got rug burn coming out.
Yeah I think that's the one
"Only 90s kids will get it"
Depending on the year/grade, could be Harriet's Magic Hats, could be Brave Little Toaster, could be creationist propaganda.
Fun fact about me, the first time I watched the original Star Wars trilogy was in high school. My teacher didn't really want to teach us anything, so he put on episodes 4, 5, and 6 over the course of a few days.
Your teacher may or may not have been on a bender.
Well....maybe, but my original teacher stopped teaching in the middle of the school year. There were rumors of him getting a BJ from a student and being fired. He might have just retired. You know rumors. They moved in a couple different temp teachers to fill in for the last half of the year. One of them was bored one week and just started playing the trilogy. Good old 'principles of technology' class.
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
With what happened in the US .... they wheel in the big ol' CRT to the front of the class where I'm sitting, the strap breaks and the 150 lb 36" behemoth lands on top of me.
This is being wheeled in to our geography class because the main teacher is sick. It's gonna be Jurassic Park.
Do they test you on where the island is located?
Costa Rica bitch! Always getting an A in JPark.
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.
Ah the first 40 minutes of The Princess Bride countless times through K-12.
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
I wore out 2 copies of Short Circuit. I could start working on a third.
I'm pretty sure I was in first grade, but for sure no older than third grade, when our sub put on The Blob (1988 version). That sure left a mark on me and I was pretty freaked out showering for at least months afterward.
Awesome. I like the 2000ish version. In elementary school a very cool spelling teacher let us watch one of the Pumpkinhead movies for Halloween. So hilarious and great. I'm honestly surprised some little bitch kid didn't get their parents to start shit.
Once when we were studying in biology class, when I was maybe 14 or 15, the teacher leaves the room and comes back with this sort of telly on the wheelie stand thing; he was trying to surprise us with an educational distraction from textbooks and, it was good on paper.
He must have forgotten to rewind the VHS or something, of a nature documentary, and the entire class got an immediate scene of two wildebeast trying to repopulate the Savannah by themselves.
I mean it did work, since it was a great distraction whilst he frantically Goku punched the Stop button as fast as he could, before pressing rewind.
Voyage of the Mimi
Ok that thing? Probably reading rainbow or nova
Does anyone remember Channel 1? They made contracts with schools to play the propaganda every day and they put a shitty TV on an arm in every room. I don't know who paid Channel 1. This would be late 90s.
Nothing, that thing obviously doesn't fit a LaserDisc
Wishbone! Ghostwriter And bill nye the science guy.
Add in The Roots for the 17th time this semester.
Late 90s Chicago, I don't recall this happening much, but I did have a social studies teacher in 7th grade that let kids take their lunch period in her classroom and the AV cart would usually be tuned in to the Maury Provich show.
For critically-panned movies that are arguably good, I recommend a scroll through this thread: [Meme] Which movie was this for you?
It's interesting to see what everyone's opinions are. I've already downloaded a few of the suggestions out of curiosity.
Voyage of the Mimi
Ben! Ben! Ben! Ben!
Oh man I haven't seen this comp in 20 years. Thanks!
Pat Paulson had this bit on his show where he was the science guy and he would torture the young guy guest and try to make out with the young girl guest.
Aww yeah it's time for some Eyewitness.
MTV!
Through the Dragon's Eye
Through the Dragon's Eye
