Ben Stein was not meant to be on screen, but as he read the script off screen, the student extras were laughing so much, Hughes asked him to teach a real lesson on camera even though he was not an actor. Stein said the kids were laughed because it was so boring - he came home saying it was one of the happiest days of his life. Love how this worked in the film.
@Savagewolver Жыл бұрын
Stein seems like an awesome person to be around. He’s spent years as the smart guy with the funny voice, but people have really come to appreciate his intellect which I appreciate. Dude deserves respect.
@missqueenbeezk Жыл бұрын
That what made me love this movie so much!
@INDLIS2 ай бұрын
He was on The Mask, Casper and of course the Original Wonder Years
@INDLIS2 ай бұрын
He was on The Mask, Casper and of course the Original Wonder Years
@stevis82644 жыл бұрын
John Hughes told Ben Stein to teach something that he knew. The result was this scene with a classroom full of students bored out of their minds. Comedy gold!
@marioiacolucci4 жыл бұрын
The students are stoned
@tylerwedell37504 жыл бұрын
Thats exactly right.
@stevenmeengs55863 жыл бұрын
Love it!!
@Simonellistitches4 жыл бұрын
Just listened to Ben say there was no script and John Hughes told him to improvise whatever he wanted as if he was really teaching an economics class 😂😂
@joel85834 жыл бұрын
Those poor kids. They sure looked miserable!
@jkholtgreve2 жыл бұрын
Much like how R Lee Ermey improvised the dialogue in Full Metal Jacket, though I believe there it was improvised, then written and performed verbatim so they could block and shoot it properly.
@marktabla54343 жыл бұрын
Showed this clip to my kids on their first day of school. 35 years later, it still resonates.
@AbrahamLincoln42 жыл бұрын
what was their reaction
@triclon4 жыл бұрын
Back when I taught, we were encouraged to constantly query the class for answers to keep them engaged. Ben Stein knows what to do.
@codswallop3214 жыл бұрын
In my teacher training, this very clip was used to show us how not to do it!
@rachelle_banks3 жыл бұрын
@@codswallop321 Amen
@chadr.13404 жыл бұрын
That chalkboard scrape at 1:40 makes my cry every time it is so hilarious.
@johnp40084 жыл бұрын
Right. I was lucky enough to be 19 when the movie came out & I believe that moment had me spitting my soda.
@AbrahamLincoln42 жыл бұрын
the only thing that cried was my ears
@eggomaniac2895 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who found this interesting?
@robert-rv8lo5 жыл бұрын
yes you are
@scott41705 жыл бұрын
@@acccs659 Shut up the joke is literally just that he has a monotone voice and is teaching something most teenagers dont find interesting
@reece30675 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@kingofdeath90124 жыл бұрын
Yes
@kingofdeath90124 жыл бұрын
@@acccs659 it's not his experience, teaching styles or education that makes him boring. It's his monotone voice and bland teaching that makes him boring.
@tomfriel27283 жыл бұрын
Ben Stein should be an energy vampire in What We Do In The Shadows
@willsjaime5 жыл бұрын
Something D O O economics... Best line ever. rofl.
@garylobo348 Жыл бұрын
Yes the Senior Bush hated Reagan's VooDoo economics. Until he became his VP, that is.
@Gynecologist4 жыл бұрын
Funny how he ad libbed a class where he was asking for class participation. That pretty much sealed the deal for the scene. Zero responses.
@danielhoover23943 жыл бұрын
I know we make fun of Ben Stein, but I for one love this guy and would love to sit through one of his lectures and learn a bunch of stuff.
@peterkrug41242 жыл бұрын
Never trust a guy to teach you anything if he is a creationist.😛😜🤪😝
@ceilconstante6402 жыл бұрын
@@peterkrug4124 Evolution is a lie
@Savagewolver Жыл бұрын
@@peterkrug4124 someone needs to go back to school.
@kenlandon6130 Жыл бұрын
@@peterkrug4124 never trust anyone to teach you anything out of their area of expertise
@kenlandon6130 Жыл бұрын
@@Savagewolver creationism is religious dogma not science
@rocketsurgery9126 жыл бұрын
I’m 33 years old, just going to college for the first time, and I have a chemistry teacher juuuuuuust like this. Whew, this is going to be brutal. 5 hour class, too.
@madmystic79316 жыл бұрын
Lol!! Great thing your starting though I as well am starting college next semester at 26. What do you plan on studying? If you don't mind me asking
@rocketsurgery9125 жыл бұрын
I’m just getting my gen ed classes out of the way right now, but then I’ll be going into the nursing program. How about you, what’s the plan?
@P1983sche5 жыл бұрын
5 hour class? Yeah right. Probably a 2 hour lecture and a 3 hour lab right? There’s no way he’s lecturing for 5 straight hours. Get out of town...
@eggomaniac2895 жыл бұрын
@Rocket Surgery How did the semester go?
@normanbates24864 жыл бұрын
I had a teacher with a monotone voice in my Jr year, thought it would be hell, but as it turns out he was one of the funniest teachers I've ever had... I remember once he was saying "Thursday Im not going to be here-" I cut him off yo say "Where are you gonna be?", without missing a beat he said "I have a date with your mom"... I laugh about it to this day, 20+ years later
@ThioJoe8 ай бұрын
This is way funnier knowing he completely improvised the lesson and when the crew literally applauded him afterwards, he thought it was because they were thankful for learning so much 💀
@dddripz8 ай бұрын
Didn't expect to see Joe here randomly 💀
@hexistenz7 ай бұрын
Seriously? 😂😂😂
@peterkrug41244 жыл бұрын
If no one had said anything, would the teacher have just kept saying "Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?" until class was over?
@itsjustnopinionok6 жыл бұрын
These kids are now grand parents.
@quartratic23895 жыл бұрын
Steven C No they’re not. They were highschoolers in 86.
@ilovemusicnbabes10894 жыл бұрын
This movie is 30 years old. Some prolly are but they’re like 55.
@codswallop3214 жыл бұрын
I was 15 in 1986, and no, I'm not (yet) a grandparent...
@DR-mq1vn3 жыл бұрын
Nope! I was the same age as these kids. I was a teenager when this movie came out. Saw it in the theater. I'm 52. Not a grandparent yet.
@zpushy633sora3 жыл бұрын
You're a liar
@jayfelsberg19313 жыл бұрын
It is interesting that Ben Stein covers the Laffer Curve because his economist dad, Herbert Stein (who I knew when I interned at the American Enterprise Institute in early 1981) hated supply side economics.
@uruiamnot3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Simone Adamley is *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (Kristy Swanson), and, like Ben Stein, is a Republican. "Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious."
@christina123119793 жыл бұрын
lmao.
@garylobo348 Жыл бұрын
Boy was she hot! And her little speech was soooo HIGH SCHOOL!😂
@primak3655 Жыл бұрын
😄 the drool. Always got me 😄
@MattInTaiwan2 жыл бұрын
Lmao at the fact there’s like 20 kids with “a” named before “bueller” and then the next kid alphabetically is “fry”
@sn7miller Жыл бұрын
I wish my professors, high school and in college were this nice as to ask the students a question, give up in .05 second and then give the answer; instead, i got teachers that said "Mr Miller...please stand up. Can you answer this question?..go ahead and freeze, i have all the time in the world. You and the class will stay here until YOU give the right answer"
@spiritof66634 ай бұрын
Yes, I had a high school Spanish teacher who was just like this. Even worse, she would ask the question in expert Spanish and then you had to stand up in front of the class and answer her, and like with you, you couldn't sit down until you gave the right answer, which would often involve total embarrassment as she corrected each wrong word or mispronunciation in front of everyone and then made you say it again until you got it exactly right. I lived in terror of that class every day.
@samuelbarber61773 жыл бұрын
It must take a lot of effort to desperately not react. I’m not even joking, that is actually impressive.
@Lurker19795 жыл бұрын
John Hughes told Ben to act like he was giving one of his economic lessons he would give to his college students.
@sirmoros89514 жыл бұрын
My APUSH teacher did a solid impression of the teacher for like half the block. Best teacher ever!
@WyrmwouldАй бұрын
I practically had this movie memorized as a kid.
@ScottyNapaa5 жыл бұрын
when i was the students' age my behavior would have been exactly like theirs, now i read up on economic shit like the laffer curve in my spare time for fun...
@reece30675 жыл бұрын
Im 13 and this is deep
@rigrag78764 жыл бұрын
I'm 19 now and I did absolutely nothing during most classes apart from daydream but when it came to exams I'd revise and do well. Now during the coronavirus and staying a home for months all I've done is read up on economics, finance and history for fun like you.
@mapleham56332 жыл бұрын
old head
@oilersridersbluejays2 жыл бұрын
37 years old and I’m practically the same. I couldn’t hardly give a crap about economics, politics, or history and now they are my main talking points.
@wiisalute2 жыл бұрын
Ben stein always with that Stephen Wright voice
@TurtleSauceGaming Жыл бұрын
"Hello is your mother home?" This guy's cadence is just hilarious.
@gastonforde21212 жыл бұрын
He did the voice of the Pixies from Fairly Oddparents.
@laurieschultz14949 ай бұрын
Ben Stein’s best work. Such a classic
@jasonlieberman46064 жыл бұрын
Like half the students have last names starting with an A. This class is alphabetically top-heavy.
@wemartin124 жыл бұрын
That might have been a separate homeroom class.
@OldSparks2 жыл бұрын
Top-heavy women are great
@johnnyb95912 жыл бұрын
The best part of the movie for me. Ben Stein is that great
@davidmehnert62065 жыл бұрын
This is off the Laffer curve ... deep voo-doo comedy gold .... 💰
@martlet5306 жыл бұрын
This economic lesson should now be a Public Service Announcement and broadcast frequently for the benefit of Washington politicians. Please note that Ben Stein was a speech writer for Presidents Nixon and Ford. Also the lesson was unscripted and composed completely by Mr Stein as the camera was rolling. Ben, if you are reading this - any chance you can visit Washington again to teach this lesson privately to anyone who doesn’t know the history on tariffs?
@kenlandon6130 Жыл бұрын
It's not exactly rocket science. It is part of the AP US History curriculum and is taught in most high school on level history classes.
@martlet530 Жыл бұрын
@@kenlandon6130 I sincere thanks for your reply, something I would have nodded in agreement prior to my comment. Perhaps AP US History should be a complementary course provided any future resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
@joel85834 жыл бұрын
That guy looking at Kristy Swanson is really into her! 0:28
@07wrxtr15 жыл бұрын
Relevant today with the China Tariffs.
@andynowicki453210 ай бұрын
When you're young, you watch this scene and laugh at the teacher; when you grow up, you watch this scene and laugh at the kids.
@weirdsearchhistory58762 жыл бұрын
I hear that the best of his students would face off with the teacher in an academic showdown at the end of the year for a chance to win 5 grand of his money.
@backstreetfan28873 жыл бұрын
What I always wondered is why were there so many students in the class that had a last name that started with A. And then no one between B and F.
@kellyhughes14892 жыл бұрын
That was crazy, wasn't it? The A names just kept coming! 😆
@garylobo348 Жыл бұрын
Actually there was 1 between B and F.... BUELLER? BUELLER?? BUELLER???
@PERC_ANGLE.964 жыл бұрын
I was getting a Harold Ramis vibe just watching this
@garylobo348 Жыл бұрын
Boy I miss Harold. He called himself a Faux-Buddist, cause he was too lazy to be a real one.
@davidmehnert62065 жыл бұрын
1:03 « Ben Stein’s Monet »
@c.simmons21473 жыл бұрын
When they eventually come out with a remake, they should make the lesson about the Laffer Curve and its use in all the tax cuts that hurt the economy.
@zregime2 жыл бұрын
And “they” should also cast you as the kid with drool coming out of yer mouth. 😂😂😂
@elwoodblues96132 жыл бұрын
Then they'd need to invent some fake evidence, because the tax cuts kept the money where the lower class could finally meet their obligations, the middle class could buy more things and stimulate the economy, and the rich people used the money to make more money and also needed to hire more people to meet the demand, resulting in a booming economy. What hurt the economy was the excessive spending by the politicians that gave us a national debt that they'll never be able to pay off.
@jeffmotsinger82035 жыл бұрын
The argument is over the shape of the curve, not its existence.
@paulienuti80312 жыл бұрын
I just saw this movie last night awesome movie
@samthetank67624 жыл бұрын
The real teacher from The Peanuts
@tarp11z4 жыл бұрын
Hah! You should have a thousand likes. What's wrong with these people?
@samthetank67624 жыл бұрын
@@tarp11z they don't appreciate original clown made humor
@BenJabituya3 жыл бұрын
"WHAA WHA WA WAH WA WAH!"
@Lanijiro4 жыл бұрын
Love it!!
@Mateo-et3wl5 жыл бұрын
Is that John Cusack drooling?
@andrewkramer40212 жыл бұрын
Ha haaa that girl at 1:24 leering at him like she hates his guts
@yogurtcat.96072 жыл бұрын
Oh it's Rosebud!
@pleaseenteraname11032 жыл бұрын
I can’t imagine you saying to him all day.
@tofutoph11 ай бұрын
0:12 a matrix reference before it existed lol
@Nyrua Жыл бұрын
Hawley Smoot Tariff act didn't work? How come?
@garylobo348 Жыл бұрын
Generally tariffs don't work because the country being hit with them, they hit right back. Harder.
@kittson83855 жыл бұрын
0:46 oof
@echolot Жыл бұрын
Kristy Swanson was such a smokeshow
@pk164511 ай бұрын
Who could find the Laffer Curve boring? Anyone? Anyone?
@jeffoliver74913 жыл бұрын
Loads of the kids here have surnames starting with A, this is written so there can be build up prior to him calling 'Bueller' - as he is obviously going alphabetically. Strange how there are no other B's and that the first B is towards the end of the B-scale and is a 'Bu'. It then jumps a huge distance down the alphabet to F, you hear him call 'Fry'. Odd that there's no C, D's or E's. Lol.
@garylobo348 Жыл бұрын
Yeah. Real odd. 😂
@TroyGoodwin3 жыл бұрын
Walker Bueller of The Dodgers brought me here.
@victoruribe24652 жыл бұрын
Today, it’s voodoo economics 2.0
@KetwunsGamingPad3 жыл бұрын
Lol he didn't try hard to probe the questions to the class lol!
@shigshug8581 Жыл бұрын
The older I get the more I understand.
@TheMoni7002 жыл бұрын
Kids should be introduced to this kind of torture.
@SOffenbach3 жыл бұрын
I high school teacher threw an eraser at me and hit me on the head because was reading the text book and not listening. My hair was covered in white chalk and everyone was laughing at me. Great role model teach. You left a scar in me for life.
@carultch2 жыл бұрын
Sounds kind of like a middle school teacher I had, except she wouldn't throw erasers to punish you. She would have us read a textbook out loud to the whole class, and switch people in the middle of a paragraph with no known pattern of who she'd call on next, so that you'd have to pay attention to exactly where the reading place was. Even if the text tells you to go look at a picture, and you do, you'd still get in trouble if you weren't ready when she calls on you.
@mpppolyglot28866 жыл бұрын
this is like Ben Stein calling out CNN for fake news.
@punkassbitchesstolemymuffl64204 жыл бұрын
R A I S E D
@kylestubbs8867 Жыл бұрын
Allegedly what Gym Leader Larry sounds like.
@JadeAkelaONeal6 ай бұрын
20 a's 1 b and then no C's, D's or E's lmao
@joeyclemenza7339 Жыл бұрын
you know... you laugh, but this is actually really interesting lecture on reagan era econ policy and the trickle down economics that have become a corner stone of the republican party.
@kbrewski1 Жыл бұрын
And was a complete failure as Bush and Ben Stein aptly pointed out. Lmao 🤣 The Laffer Curve is Trickle Down Economics. You must have failed Economics. 😂
@garylobo348 Жыл бұрын
Yes and Bush the Elder calling it VooDoo economics. Until the Great Communicator tapped him to be his Veep, that is.
@kbrewski1 Жыл бұрын
@garylobo348 Bush was right. You can't drastically cut taxes on the rich (while screwing the middle class and working man), drastically INCREASE Defense spending, and balance the budget. That's why the country went into a deep recession in the early 80s with very high unemployment. It didn't work.
@LauraC-hq7sm Жыл бұрын
I suppose all of these students are my parents age now. That was a real tongue twister what the blonde girl said. I wonder how many takes she had to do for that.
@lisarodrigues61314 жыл бұрын
Adams is my cousin.
@michaelstetson87443 жыл бұрын
Bring back Ben Stein's money!
@GeorgeThomas-dt2up18 күн бұрын
Teaching to future Trump voters.
@JPMcFly19853 жыл бұрын
0:14 Anderson looked more like a late 90s teen
@tomfriel27283 жыл бұрын
he should be an Energy Vampire
@Gynecologist4 жыл бұрын
“Smoot”. Can’t make that stuff up
@KonElKent4 жыл бұрын
Reed Smoot was the Senator from Utah who sponsored the Tariff Act of 1930.
@garylobo348 Жыл бұрын
@@KonElKentNice.
@Arkae2 жыл бұрын
Is this the Beverly Hills Hotel?
@David_7171 Жыл бұрын
Simone is cute. Teacher’s pet, but cute
@rick374720 күн бұрын
Bueller, Bueller, Bueller.....
@archdornan8013 Жыл бұрын
Hello my fellow truthers
@tassymccormick3 жыл бұрын
This was all improvised
@christina123119793 жыл бұрын
0.13-0.19- LMAO!! poor kid.
@INDLIS2 ай бұрын
1:39 chalk
@LouisL19633 жыл бұрын
Anyone.. Anyone? 🤣🤣🤣 pmsl
@BLUECHET2 жыл бұрын
Anyone ?
@alextorres9832 Жыл бұрын
Ben stein say anyone anyone
@moonshine5884 жыл бұрын
Is the the OG Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
@uruiamnot3 жыл бұрын
Yes. ferrisbueller.fandom.com/wiki/Simone_Adamley Simone is the Slayer.
@MarcDufresneosorusrex2 жыл бұрын
anyone?
@P1983sche5 жыл бұрын
So. History is repeating itself. “Voodoo economics” and “Hawley-Smoot tariff” Trump fell asleep in this classroom. 😂
@drakewalters26185 жыл бұрын
NES 83’ it’s clear to see that you fell asleep in economics. He rose tariffs to challenge China’s dominance... not to raise tax revenue...
@coashddjj2945 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure Obama got ANY economic classes in Kenya.
@elwoodblues96132 жыл бұрын
Since you wrote this, Creepy Joe has shown how to really tank the economy.
@carultch2 жыл бұрын
@@coashddjj294 Obama didn't grow up in Kenya. Obama senior did, but he was dead, long before President Obama even became a state senator.
@MrMisterChiliPepper883 жыл бұрын
0:28 omg 😳 what??
@lucaslopez20913 жыл бұрын
this prof. hates his life
@europa_bambaataa8 ай бұрын
Something d o o economics
@micaholson72934 жыл бұрын
Anyone.....anyone.....great depression
@elwoodblues96132 жыл бұрын
Like we have in 2022, Son Of Great Depression.
@garylobo348 Жыл бұрын
No one.
@markhilbertrossetti17964 жыл бұрын
Civil Procedure
@jasminnemcdonald94A2 жыл бұрын
Welcome to Snoresville! Population: you.
@yitz283 жыл бұрын
Ben Stein must have the most boring voice ever.
@zekecasperanddeadpoolzgroovyst3 жыл бұрын
(Ezekiel) Zeke Hamish Beckley: Indeed! Benjamin Jeremy Stein-(Ben Stein’s) voice is so boring it just makes me....💤💤💤💤💤💤
@LouisL19633 жыл бұрын
Pmsl..🤣🤣
@Brandon-lw1wx2 жыл бұрын
01:10-01:39 What it’s like listening to Joe Biden make a speech.
@elwoodblues96132 жыл бұрын
except that Mr. Stein makes sense, and Creepy Joe is mumbling about, um, that thing.
@fsmoura6 жыл бұрын
Joke's on them, the Laffer curve indeed _is_ voodoo hocus pocus positivist claptrap flawed right down at the epistemological level.
@emw19945 жыл бұрын
Not an argument
@oilersridersbluejays2 жыл бұрын
Fair statement. I won’t disagree.
@garylobo348 Жыл бұрын
You sound like the blonde girl in the clip and make about as much sense.