Family Guy - "Can you help me with my math?"

From the episode "When you wish upon a Weinstein".
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[@BlaketheBlock]

I like how the guy looks down mid-sentence because Chris started getting on the ground

[@FreddyKruegerTheDreamDemon]

i love the little details

[@yoooneat7766]

No that was just the end of the question

[@NoriMori1992]

You're right, that's a good detail.

[@Medachod]

@@yoooneat7766 Negative. His eyes are going back and forth then eventually start looking down.

[@FeedingFrenzy91]

Good eye. God bless you.

[@TurbinationE]

Student: "Will I ever use this math in real life?" Teacher: "No, but one of the smart kids might."

[@chaunceybillups5436]

BURNNNN

[@NoriMori1992]

This is the actual answer to this question, which no one ever gives because it wouldn't actually help.

[@juckya9660]

@@NoriMori1992 the actual answer is that you will, it's called any form of problem solving, math is used to teach your brain how to problem solve better and you showing you can do math shows you can problem solve.

[@alephnull4044]

Oof

[@StuckonStupid84]

​@@juckya9660Ok, then how about we just call it problem solving instead of associating it with the bullshit they teach us at school that I've never had to use in my life. And I'm a fucking manager.

[@jdx4174]

I never noticed that you can see the exact moment when Chris gets on the ground just by looking at the farmers eyes while he gives the directions to Chris.

[@bowmaj8666]

It's the little details in the older episodes that you've got to admire. Nowadays there are moments where the characters don't even blink.

[@Sai4651]

This is Seth's way of saying most Math has no actual purpose in real life.

[@MrSirFluffy]

If you become an engineer, math is life :)

[@orhunkars5154]

Meth*

[@wilhufftarkin8543]

Math teaches you logical thinking and problem solving. It's one of the most important subjects if you ask me.

[@nicolathing]

It and science are fundamental for advancement in technology and society. Saying it is useless is probably just cause one is upset that they don't understand it :)

[@DrMakak]

Yeah dude, as much as metallurgy or phonetics. Or ore mining knowledge. But the great part of living in modern times is all those things are absolutely useless for 99 percent of humanity. They're fundamental, but useless for average person. Like high school math.

[@TheStewieOne]

That's pretty much me when it comes to math.

[@tylersczublewski6166]

I have no idea what the fuck he just said.

[@mrmolamola6163]

You'll go down a grid-based road with a road that plows through the grid. X is 5

[@kylenetherwood8734]

Tyler Sczublewski This is pretty basic.

[@tylersczublewski6166]

+Kyle Netherwood it's hard for me.

[@Michael-vd4qg]

x is not 5 and you know it

[@CabbageSandwich]

Apparently he is saying we are going to come across a junction of four roads, where two roads travel along next to each other while another one crosses straight across both, and apparently he is saying that we will also come across a highway that travel straight through it at a 45* angle which luckily in this case makes the direction obvious as it could only have two directions and we already know it's going to be the one opposite to us. From what he is saying I can only presume we are on one of the parallel roads from his description and that the bisecting 45* degree road is going through the junction either on our right or left and that the same road must cross at a similar 45* angle at some point in front of us. Solving for X doesn't apply as no specific equation was given nor a particular angle, area, or distance. It's mathematical mumbo jumbo is what I'm saying.

[@joshuasmall2076]

how I feel about algebra

[@Michael-vd4qg]

just don't be a bitch and study

[@dontyouhateitwhen...8312]

Algebra was easy for me. Geometry though fucking sucks.

[@thevapingpig]

Just like the solution for x, you'll never know the solution for k4.

[@sinoroman]

oh boy.. wait until you get to linear algebra..

[@robertisham5279]

How I feel about statistics

[@Dark_Tale]

"Its not like you are going to be walking around with a Calculator in your pocket all the time!" I bet my middle school math teacher is eating those words now.

[@TheBcoolGuy]

But do you know how to use it?

[@addisonwelsh]

@@TheBcoolGuyIf he doesn’t, he can just google how to, since that calculator is also a computer.

[@shadowwatcher3957]

@@addisonwelsh And an instant porn machine, so even if he still can't get the correct solution, he'll still be having a good time.

[@RealGateGuardian]

I learned Russian and Spanish in high school. I never fucking used either language. I've had to use both math and science as I'm a cook. But, I do think my teacher's feel dumb knowing calculators are basic programs now

[@hateusometimes1375]

@@shadowwatcher3957ok porn addict

[@alisonoconnor6864]

But what is x? Is it an angle? A side? What kind of shape is it? Without information it is impossible for even a mathematician to get the right answer.

[@Tyke91]

This is my major problem with TV show writers who make jokes about math - many TV show writers got into writing because they hated math in school. They just write gibberish made of terms you'd learn in grade 5 and they think it's a funny joke :c Compare to the simpsons/futurama where the writers actually have math degrees. They've made jokes about the millionth digit of pi (and actually calculated that far, a computer in the early 90's did it for them and they were mailed the full list) and in one episode of futurama dealing with body swaps, the writers actually got a legitimate paper published dealing with how they solved the question in the show, and even put the proof on prof. farnsworth's blackboard.

[@radgoncan]

+Vypadkovyy X intentionally makes no sense. Its part of the joke.

[@alephnull4044]

Vypadkovyy Exactly my thoughts. I was going to make a very similar comment. The guys who produce Family Guy are extremely talented, no doubt about that, but it is clear they are not particularly good at maths because their 'maths jokes' are very basic and fail to sound genuinely complicated, instead they're just nonsensical. Whereas, like you said, in the Simpsons the maths jokes are genuinely funny because the writers, many being mathematicians, know maths.

[@stevejobs5488]

I think you're overthinking this... The man clearly wants ecstasy.

[@mekhiwright6604]

X is a variable

[@moonpower8]

THIS ISN'T HOW THE WORLD WORKS TEACHERS!!

[@JRABFILMS]

Government*

[@n8corner261]

JasmineMalone it actually does... followed a guy who told me something like this and i got to my destination

[@cameron2348]

they know but they still have to teach it

[@mr.mondomacho6815]

Chris’ teacher is Mr. Shackleford... Dale Gribble’s alter ego is Rusty Shackleford... Oh yeah, it’s all coming together.

[@Renix360]

Now we just need some pocket sand and we’ll be set!

[@yoooneat7766]

I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY THAT

[@letsgoBrandon204]

I need an adult!

[@JRABFILMS]

I AM AN ADUUUUUUUUULTT

[@BBarker34]

I’m Batman

[@Wren_the_Bird_King]

BBarker88 No, no you're not.

[@BBarker34]

Wren Dean Shut up, Meg...

[@brandenhauser1635]

"You are an adult." "I need a BETTER adult!"

[@basedokadaizo]

those truck stop hicks sure do know their geometry.

[@shooby9496]

This is what it felt like when people gave me road directions in places I'd never been in the days before GPS.

[@BangMaster96]

The only People who need to learn Math are STEM graduates & Finance Degree graduates. Everyone else can use the calculator from your smartphone and that's about all the Math you'll need in life.

[@jango7889]

Ehh it gives the kids something to do.

[@100salman1]

Mocked the early-level education system pretty well.

[@gorrow1990]

Not going to lie, this would be me if I couldn't use the GPS on my phone.

[@dassnek4728]

Reading a paper map really isn't that difficult

[@NathanielLewis]

Solve for X lol 😂

[@Ookami20]

Lol how my math teachers’ think I’ll use math in life lol

[@ZERO-ue2mx]

0:21 Exactly how I react to any math in general.

[@aeronblack9249]

I can relate

[@Antiven1n]

As soon as I hear 'solve for x', I would do the same too

[@ShenDoodles]

Funnily enough, the higher algebra is actually far easier because they ask you questions that make sense. Instead of keeping it abstract, they just give you an actual situation it would be used in.

[@gmcnewlook]

Mr shackelford? Hmmm I wonder if his first name is rusty 😂

[@yoooneat7766]

maybe..

[@VinnieGer]

Math is one of the few things an alien from another planet would completely understand. Think about it.

[@SirVyre]

He didn't ever tell him to turn, just to keeping going until he found the highway that bisected the other roads at a 45 degree angle, i.e. x is the distance from here to that point, and Chris's destination is roughly at that same point as well. :D

[@mono-no-aware.Lem.]

how teachers and parents made the real world out to be

[@chesterstevens8870]

Theyll try to teach you how to calculate the square root o a quadratic wave form, but absolutely blanch at the thought of teaching you how to balance a budget.

[@93BigShane]

I always hated story problems in math, they can so confusing

[@WayToDawn72]

X=45 degrees

[@gametimewithjamie]

I'll have to take your word for that I never listened in math class because I could never understand

[@WayToDawn72]

@@gametimewithjamie a triangle as 180 degrees. A right angle is always 90 degrees and the guy said the highway bisects at 45 degrees. ×=180-90-45 X=45

[@Tinandel]

I did have a calculus teacher once try to tell me, a computer science major, that mathematics were crucial to programming and that I'd be in a sorry state without them. That was ten years ago, and it's been eight since I started my software engineering career. Still have yet to need any math more complicated than basic addition.

[@Diabolicgoat]

It isn't quite the same as programming, but using vision software and creating custom checks and setups for automatic part detection required an awful lot of trigonometry. I didn't need to do the actual math, but I did need to know the formulas to program it properly which would have been an absolute nightmare without the trig knowledge from school.

[@TheBcoolGuy]

How's your company doing?

[@alexG106]

Without mathematics and physics, your career would be so much thin air. As would most peoples. Sure, we've advanced because of the math done by those who came before us, who made your career choice possible, but advanced mathematics is what gave us so many advances in physics, electronics, engineering and just about everything else that makes a world with over 8 billion people possible.

[@spacebearcadet746]

Program optimization relies on the fewest number of functions to get the desired result. Knowing the correct result beforehand, and knowing which functions perform the same role as multiple, is important.

[@crypto66]

HOW THE FUCK CAN TWO ROADS BESIDE EACH OTHER BE BOTH PARALLEL AND PERPENDICULAR???

[@boxlytedd1394]

crypto66. means there is one rd that cuts between the 2 parallel road. dame!!

[@mitchelljulius5875]

You could see when Chris collapsed from his hrain shortcircuiting.

[@jordanloux3883]

Mr. Shackleford? Dale got a teaching job in Rhode Island?

[@franktrevinoDUH]

"depends if he stops to see his hoe" "That's what we call a variable"

[@gferrol118]

This is so true. It happens to me all the time when I ask for directions

[@DissentingDogLevi]

Dudes tell you go north like I got a skyrim hud irl

[@zelda12346]

So... There is a line AD with B and C colinear with AD (letter arrive in alphabetical order). At point B, there is a line, BE (giggity), such that BE is perpendicular to AD. We can let point E also be along line CE. CE is a line that bisects BD at C such that angle BCE is 45 degrees. BCE is an isosceles right triangle. All principle angles in the polygon can be discovered. The length of CD is equal to the length of BC and BE. There is not enough information to determine the length of AB. The graph is not Euler.

[@Tadicuslegion78]

This is what he said you're going to go down the road, you will pass a house. you will see the road you are on and then another road that crosses it, then you'll see the highway exit at a 4 way intersection

[@hkayakh]

Like that Caleb city skit. “What’s the Pythagorean theorum?” “A^2+B^2=C^2!”

[@dannygjk]

Chris seems to be accurately representing the current crop of high school students.

[@beezelsub]

It's gotten worse.

[@xxscrublordxxx5652]

​@@beezelsubAsk em how many moons the Earth has.

[@sabersin7694]

He represents everyone who ever went to school and learned math.

[@dannygjk]

@@sabersin7694 He represents the current dysfunctional school system results but not every student.

[@poyloos4834]

This is absolu just nonsense. Average intelligence of the population is and always has been steadily climbing. Each new generation of students is learning stuff earlier and getting faster than the previous one.

[@EpicFableBean]

I hate when fucking teachers tried to use this as a justification to learn this shit. NO ONE talks like this

[@EnchantedSmellyWolf]

Unless you are in a company or lab at work.

[@addisonwelsh]

@@EnchantedSmellyWolfSo a specialized field that most people are not in. Got it.

[@1cioda]

I am deeply confused where there was an X in that equation

[@alonzo9772]

You only need to know advanced math for the following careers: math education, engineering, accounting, and chemistry.

[@dannygjk]

Too many for me to list in an hour.

[@nomooon]

Swap out accounting for finance. Accounting only needs basic math.

[@GHC3]

What about management information systems? That’s my concentration

[@fizpop01]

Julian All sciences, not just chemistry.

[@RacingCart]

Julian Computer Science?

[@nicaln5104]

The thing about mathematics is that it’s the best way to make anything cut-and-dry. Literally math is a building block and a universal language any sentient being can use. Granted I hate math with a burning passion and I believe most Mathematicians are soulless problem solvers with very little humanity. However my opinions are my own, but I respect math as a unsung hero to problem solving and creating a foundation. As a science major I can tell you most math I use is conversions of units of measurement and temperature and I struggle with math severely mainly geometry which is pure aids. Basically you use math everyday it just varies. Kids learn math please pay attention Jesus Christ I regret not paying attention, you’ll end up in a low level course with some robotic foreigner teaching you shit you should’ve learned in high school. This concludes my rant! -Love your friendly neighborhood health care provider.

[@fukumarkzuckerburg]

math is applicable in all fields, even if you hate it. i work as what amounts to a fancy bodyguard, and i use ballistic equations quite often when deciding how effective less than lethal ammunition is and if i should use it or not, in addition to my hobby of gunsmithing. i hate math, but god damn, its useful.

[@runstarhomer2754]

"I believe most Mathematicians are soulless problem solvers with very little humanity." I know you're probably joking, but the exact opposite is true. I enjoy math because solving problems is satisfying, but I love mathematics because it is, honestly, the most beautiful thing that anybody could ever possibly imagine. There are a million flaws in the way we present math to young students, the biggest of which is that we spend the first 5-6 years of math education doing practically nothing other than arithmetic, and we tell them they're doing math. Nobody likes arithmetic, but that's not really math, there's no problem solving, no logic, just an algorithm to memorize. By the time students actually get to learn some real math, they've already decided they hate it, which is tragic because they haven't even been exposed to what mathematics really is. And even when they do get exposed to some more interesting concepts, students are rarely asked to think critically and work things out. Teachers hand out formulas and shortcuts like candy, and reduce the rich and beautiful universe of mathematics into a list of facts to memorize. It's shameful, and it's created generations of people who not only are uninterested in math, but are actually actively averse to it.

[@Itachi1621]

Rusty rusty shackleford

[@JonwithnoH0823]

Math, don’t tell us to help you with your X, that’s your own problem! Don’t ask us Y either.

[@MrBiyi]

i would do the same thing after hearing perpendicular jeeeezzz

[@raymondmesa8258]

If only math was used like that

[@addisonwelsh]

It’s funny to watch all the math guys in the comments reaching desperately to justify teaching pointless advanced math when most people never use anything beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

[@CinemageddonReviews]

Now I remember why I quit college in the first place

[@aarkproductions]

Ok WHY Am I getting these older obscure clips from this show

[@kevinc2061]

Rusty Shackleford? Dale Gribble has entered the chat

[@Taika_talvi]

Took me over 5 years to figure out that X is 0,91

[@haden636]

Very accurate 😆

[@slendersera]

I've used algebra to solve for wages from net wages before because it wasn't written on the check stub. I felt very clever at the time. Ridiculous.

[@lepopcornnaisseur546]

Formerly Chuck's.

[@mikephilly6748]

My question is. Where’s the “old Johnson place” or is that the X I have to solve for

[@clericofchaos1]

Oh i just heard the guys name. Mr. Shackleford...and relation to Rusty?

[@zachturner7737]

I would appreciate directions like that. Very clear and precise unlike most people who talk ambiguously.

[@thestone30080]

Pump This! ⛽

[@rosskerr1439]

His math teacher’s last name is “Shackleford”?

[@Kardia_of_Rhodes]

I mean based on the equation, the answer would be "Null" because there's still critical information missing.

[@BarbusCraft]

I still have never had a real life need for Algebra.

[@runstarhomer2754]

There's literally no way that's true. You probably just dislike math so when an opportunity arises to use it, you don't recognize it.

[@RudeRabit]

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen an early Family Guy clip that involves showing complex math being used in the most mundane situations, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.

[@veneratlazulum2033]

In Germany, they split kids into different kinds of junior highs. There is no reason for someone who sucks at math/science and will never use it in real life to continue studying it when they could be getting skills that would actually help in the real world. Instead, they could allow the kids who will use math/science in their career to take more advanced classes much earlier. That way, will both kinds of kids will be helped.

[@ViVenVel]

Junior high is an early age to decide someone can just not bother with those things, though. You're basically locking them out of the more technical career paths in the future based on how they as a thirteen year old feel about math class.

[@Cardlimits]

he was actually making sense until he said "solve for x"

[@tornadoenpuntog]

right, like an equation

[@darkstardarin]

Shackleford. I see what you did there Seth.

[@RegularInvader]

I did not need math when it came to accomplishing a job at stater brothers during the pandemic. After I quit, I got a new job assisting brain injured adults at a day program.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Al Jabr: **snickers while writing something** Friend: “Al Jabr, what are you doing!?” Al Jabr: “Juuuust ruining Math for everyone!”

[@JoeyZilla555]

His literally me 😂

[@FlyingAndy145]

Damn and I was hoping for a meth - math joke after seeing the thumb

[@kenonifty]

In Australia if you ask someone how far a place is away they will reply in the time it takes to drive or walk there not in kilometers or miles.

[@SketchBookShortFilms]

what is the point of bringing up the parallel road. Parallel lines don't intersect!

[@muhammeddavis3637]

I have no idea what he just said 😨

[@64man100]

Who else remembers this in 8th Grade Math Class?

[@whYLiE09]

Algebra/geometry in a nutshell.

[@ericsiegel2058]

0:04 "Mr. Shackleford says if I don't learn it, I won't be able to function in the real world."

[@mikkelnpetersen]

"...solve for X."

[@kxmode]

Sounds like the SNL The Californian's skit

[@DeanW56]

Yeah it does a little bit 😂

[@Sly88Frye]

Such a clever joke

[@user-qp5yu1zq1m]

The world would be terrifying.

[@alexconn7473]

Most people don't use much math when they've graduated from school and are out in the real world well aside from usually the most basic forms of math everyone needs to be able to do at least that

[@totalposer]

Damn, remember when chris had an earring?

[@AnnoyingNerdLoL]

Just look in the back of the book

[@OmegaChase1002]

what math teachers think real life is like.

[@brandon0627]

Gas station guys hat says Pump This lol

[@StuckonStupid84]

Moral of the story: 80% of what they teach you in math class you will never use unless you're going into a specific field. And even if you do, in no way will it be like how they teach you. It will be way more simple to the point where it borders on common sense.

[@MrYaniv99]

People who talk like that are the same ones who can’t perform basic subtraction to give me change at the supermarket

[@StuckonStupid84]

@@MrYaniv99 That's the other 20%

[@addisonwelsh]

@@MrYaniv99Thankfully it’s not the sixties anymore, and most cash registers tell you how much change to give

[@MrYaniv99]

@@addisonwelsh Funny how people still struggle to add up the change

[@addisonwelsh]

@@MrYaniv99 And what does that have to do with any of the pointless advanced math classes like trigonometry or geometry? That's basic addition, something they teach in elementary school. That proves that those people are poorly educated, not that advanced math is important.

[@betobasefortunas]

'Pump this'

[@callumh4991]

Wait do I take the perpendicular road or the parallel road?

[@uploaded113redone]

neither you just keep going til the fork in the road and then find x , which would be a railroad crossing

[@targettwentyone]

Family

[@dondriggers1091]

Gas Station Attendent is played by Seth Macfarlane?

[@gierer797]

yes

[@masterchief9177]

When I am in a Math class. *"The NUMBERS Mason! What do they mean!"* When I'm listening to a familiar 2000s song I used to listen to but don't recognized the band just yet. *"WHAT IS THIS MELODY!"*

[@deathcamp1]

pretty much

[@12171010011010]

The only people that say maths has no place in the real world never learned it in the first place

[@O1391]

The stuff most teachers SAY belong in day-to-day life tends not to be though; like, when am I EVER gonna need matrices and high end functions if I was a communications major? or a masseuse? etc... I think one only REALLY needs arithmetic, and some basic algebra and geometry to follow MOST paths in life(save for the obvious jobs that need the tougher stuff).

[@fuckablepancakes1969]

12171010011010 your name tells us

[@surprisedchar2458]

Still waiting for the day I need to employ the fucking pythagorean theorem to buy some groceries.

[@NorthernNorthdude91749]

Never once in all my years did I ever use anything math class taught me. It teaches you useless crap that is of no value to most people.

[@runstarhomer2754]

Unless you've spent your entire life in one room, you have definitely had countless opportunities to use algebra or geometry concepts in real life. But, since you (presumably) dislike math, you don't seek those opportunities out or recognize them when they arise. Of course, there are plenty of things in math classes that you really only *need* to understand if you're going to have a career in STEM, but at the very least, everybody can benefit from the logic and critical thinking skills that doing math teaches you.

[@NorthernNorthdude91749]

@@runstarhomer2754 Wrong. Sorry but you really don't know what the hell you're talking about kid 🤣

[@labyrinthmind2951]

I have a degree in math and I've used about e% of it in the real world.

[@TraustiGeir]

I miss these jokes.

[@dbzking02]

How can there be 2 roads with one being parallel and one perpendicular? Isn't that a contradiction?

[@gierer797]

no because it’s possible

[@SoldiesBC]

Is there an actual answer to that though?

[@robertruelas3455]

Only that math is the lesbian sister of biology

[@superior_nobody07]

there cant be. Theres not enough information to formulate any type of answer.

[@dillonkinder9296]

It’s too overwhelming for him

[@steelsamurai2822]

So true with me with math