Interesting Theories - John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme

[@VonBlade]

The teacher's laugh before using "bloody" is so perfectly observed.

[@louloureads3953]

I have been teaching today (not Macbeth!) and had a greater than usual proportion of Interesting Theories with which to contend, so this really made me laugh. (Clearly I need to find someone who will let me cover their maths lesson for a bit of light relief!)

[@forev55]

i love you souvenir programme sooo much I've listened to it over 10 times and cabin pressure even more!!! I'm from America tho

[@danturner3895]

These are a treat. So good.

[@vxmlives]

"that's just completely interesting" lives rent free in my head

[@nennia]

Loving these. Inspired me to make a re-listen on Audible. Have heard it so many times, still makes me laugh. Thank you :)

[@avouleance]

There's a coda to this one right? I remember a follow up where the maths teacher takes over for English.

[@johnnye87]

"In this scene Macbeth is 50% remorseful, 30% bloodthirsty and 20% ambitious"

[@alfje5492]

This was a very interesting sketch!

[@acu01136]

Just finished a listen through off ALL 9 SEASONS! I am not sure that was a very sane thing to do 😮

[@bobbyfeet2240]

There is no saner thing to do in the world today.

[@fabulousmyriad267]

The student and teacher dynamic is soooo painfully accurate. Poor John's ESL teaching days must have inspired this skit😅

[@frankowalker4662]

Excellent.

[@kayevans2964]

I can so relate to this 🤣

[@rocketboysmc]

V = 4/3πr^3 is the volume of a sphere

[@bobbyfeet2240]

Very interesting sketch. Also, pleased to see the Minnesotan use of "interesting" has spread out to the world...

[@Alexand3ry]

It was probably the other way around. In the UK in the 1930s, there was a (probably apocryphal) ancient Chinese curse saying "May you live in 'interesting' times" -- so the sarcastic use of interesting was already seen (in the UK) as old and global back then.

[@Electroceratops]

If you can actually back up your weird interpretation, it is a pretty good way to annoy a disliked English teacher without them being able to do anything about it. An even better way is to notice something in the text which they'd missed... (I only managed that twice, but it was glorious both times.)

[@MaterialSquid]

so this is the viewership that BBC media gets in the wild.

[@majordendrocopos]

Does your comment mean anything at all? Please explain if you can.

[@MaterialSquid]

@@majordendrocopos thanks for taking the bait. it means, in 2 weeks this has 4k views. It means defund the BBC.

[@majordendrocopos]

@@MaterialSquid Oh, you are a BBC hater. Sorry I asked, I thought your comment might have been interesting.

[@restlessmosaic]

​@@MaterialSquid1) That seems pretty good for a single sketch that came out 12 years ago (and where this upload isn't a BBC upload but an upload of BBC material, possibly competing with other uploads after this amount of time). 2) It appears to be your position that a single piece of 2012 BBC media is a) representative of typical BBC media and b) a reason to defund the BBC in 2024. Why is this one representative over a more popular one? If this got 4 million views in the listed time period, would you pivot to wanting to fund the BBC? Or would you find a different BBC clip with fewer views to state your claim instead?