Plagiarism - SNL

Teacher is well aware of students' history paper plagiarisms. Aired 05/03/03
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[@ladyinthelocker]

You think this is comedy until you start to teach

[@ladyinthelocker]

Just a Girl and Her Books if you are a researcher who has to do teaching as part of the contract then I say do it[ basically professors in colleges and something similar] It’ll be fun when you get to experiment things on your terms. But if you are teaching high school or under-systems that follow a much more rigorous curricula and teaching is all you get, i would not say don’t do it but know that you need to have tons of patience and it’s more draining than rewarding.

[@biggysmalls2163]

I think I know you... i man ?

[@biggysmalls2163]

I’m probably wrong butttt

[@ladyinthelocker]

Emiii Kim I don’t know but I hope not. Lol. Imagine run into someone you know in the comment section on KZbin.

[@mdhall04]

Even at university, insane amount of cheaters

[@Jackpl]

I took a Research and Writing class at Augusta University. The entire grade depended on the paper you wrote. One student submitted a paper. The professor, Dr. Calahine, was grading papers when she came to this student's. She read about half-way down the page, put an "F" on it, and went to the next paper in the stack. After she had passed back the papers, the student in question went to her office angry and demanded to know why she got an "F." Dr. Calahine reached back, took a book off her shelf, and showed the student were she had copied word-for-word. The book...was written by Dr. Calahine.

[@kellster333]

That's an amazing story.

[@natsudragneel9619]

Lol

[@felipedamm3172]

and then everyone clapped

[@Kazuma_kiryu311]

Oh daaaaang!!!! Busted!!!!

[@tokyojuul9987]

Based Professor

[@mgg5418]

True story: high school kid who tries to pass the lyrics to « Imagine » by John Lennon for his own poem 😂😂😂

[@shamdai16]

I do an Iambic Pentameter rap assignment and every year I get at least 5 copies of Eminem's "Lose Yourself"

[@jhilditch12]

Wowwwww, good taste tho lol

[@PersonInPurple]

@@shamdai16 I’m assuming your a teacher? That’s really funny

[@marguskiis7711]

True story from 90s Estonia. In a kids TV show school teams had to write their own song about their school. One school just covered Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop" with Estonian lyrics, but "Hi Ho Lets Go" remained the same. There was a prog rocker in a jury but he did not get the cheat! He just said "Good, catchy song!!

[@snoopypal]

There was a guy in my class who nearly got away with passing off U2's 'One' as their own poem. The teacher liked it so much he had him read before the whole student assembly, then he was nailed

[@makeadifference4all]

I'm a professor who has seen it all, just like in this skit. Once, a COLLEGE student submitted a paper to me with the watermark of the essay-writing company across every page. I'm guessing it was a free sample.

[@thedarkoverlordofall]

That’s genuinely hysterical

[@anirudhsardiwal3471]

So funny!

[@NVNCVL]

I wish I was surprised.

[@user-hs4ih8zp7e]

Well considering they're trying to get rid of standardized testing for certain ethnic groups this doesn't surprise me.

[@RKar2009]

Lol.

[@notfontenot8540]

who else noticed at 5:10 he straight up caught that phone that was impressive

[@UnrealGemini]

yeah that was smooth

[@theworstmaid]

That was sick

[@mint-flvr]

Ultra instinct meme is dead but this guy is

[@notfontenot8540]

@@mint-flvr ?

[@justawildgengar]

It’s easier to see at 5:08

[@withtrees]

I had 2 students turn in the same paper once.

[@AlexanderSmith-tp9de]

Lololol

[@trishs706]

Liz: I had 2 students who took a test near each other and both had a bizarre (and misspelled) answer to one question, with most answers the same wording/spelling as well. When I showed them both the tests, they immediately looked at each other in shock and exclaimed, "You cheated off my paper!" The principal said I couldn't pursue it with the parents at all since I couldn't prove which one cheated, so I had to give them the same grade and 'forget about it'.

[@stt.9433]

@@trishs706 normally you would give both an F, wtf.

[@maureenlaneski4309]

@@trishs706 Ugh. Feels familiar! And when you do mark them down, parents are mad and wonder why their kid is sucking, THEN argue that THEIR kid wasn't cheating.

[@trishs706]

@@maureenlaneski4309 I think that's the hardest part of teaching. Parents who think I'd lie about their child cheating, but their teenager afraid of getting in trouble is telling the truth. I don't even blame the kids, testing boundaries and trying to get out of work is normal, but parents not accepting it and dealing with it's really frustrating.

[@allthingswavy6420]

When I taught community college English I would buy an essay from the web, hand it out and we'd score it together. Always earned a D or F from them. "No need to cheat when you can do better than this, right?" The plagiarism stopped.

[@hambos]

Very smart! Teachers who Care make a difference

[@genesisbustamante-durian]

and then everybody clapped. /r/thathappened

[@aydenduke2556]

@@genesisbustamante-durian there are cooler things to lie ab bro, i doubt this is one of them

[@pepperflaked5404]

@@genesisbustamante-durian of course! Nothing remotely cool ever happens!

[@cookiecam6100]

@UCZHYZQX3xZ0hMyGyQiFDVTw man shut the fuck up, some teachers do care about students. You're just unlucky r/nothingeverhappens

[@Android-jy9hz]

Wow, this is like the calmest teacher ever in this situation...

[@Kazuma_kiryu311]

He reminds me of my geography teacher actually who is also pretty chill

[@Chemtekmain]

There was a girl at my old highschool who painted a portrait for a project and was proud of it so she uploaded it to a website before she turned it in. she was suspended for plagiarism. eventually she told them its her painting and the name of the account that they thought she plagiarized from was literally her name.

[@KnoxvilleRailfanProductions]

Did the School Apoligize?

[@xrrgr]

@@KnoxvilleRailfanProductions yeah, did they ? also they can’t read and see it’s her name?

[@KnoxvilleRailfanProductions]

@@xrrgr Thinking about it a bit more id say they DID read her name and ignored it to power trip and / or exercise their authority.

[@randompersonontheinternet6312]

What happened next? I NEED SOME DAMN CLOSURE

[@xrrgr]

@@randompersonontheinternet6312 i agree

[@jenniferb.awesome]

When I was in highschool I had a huge essay to write so I decided to use my older sisters essay that she had written when she was in my grade. The funny part is that I got an A on it while she got a C, it still pisses her off to this day whenever I bring it up.

[@JodiBoda]

Same teacher?

[@jenniferb.awesome]

@@JodiBoda No she had a different teacher. I guess her teacher was much more strict when it came to grading.

[@NihilSineDeo09]

@@jenniferb.awesome Either that, or the academic bar had gone down from the time she was in your grade (at least that's what I would have said if I were your sister lol)

[@Isabel-cm7vj]

@@NihilSineDeo09 I doubt it tho because education usually gets more and more competitive and harder as the years go by. Maybe it doesn't apply to the USA.

[@NihilSineDeo09]

@@Isabel-cm7vj The reverse applies in USA lol

[@liamcoulter9627]

The teacher staying calm and not getting angry is what makes this sketch

[@donjones4719]

I wonder how Keegan Michael-Key would have played this! (Thinking of his skit about the substitute teacher and name pronunciations.)

[@michaelbarnes5372]

I like how Parnell is playing the teacher. He isn't over selling it or trying to steal the scene with his character. Each person is playing off of each other. Nice work and believable!

[@llarmstrong783]

He was briefly a teacher in real life.

[@ellace41]

Dude snl had their lines LEARNED back then

[@thegingerx]

Ellace yeah it never seemed like they were reading cards. Impressive

[@ellace41]

Jess Batson right?! its like when you grow up you think everything was better when you were a kid but you don’t know why it just was, well this was why, granted they do less cocaine now so they probably can’t carry the same work load 🤣🤣🤣

[@JulianneHannes]

@@ellace41 all Mad TV sketches had zero cue cards and let the actors (including Jordan Peele) do improv and play out the scenario

[@OverSeer909]

@@JulianneHannes nothing will ever be better than Mad TV lol, that is literally the classic of them all

[@itswherethecomedycomesin8864]

right???

[@johnrotten3268]

DAMN, seth nailed the douchey early 2000's look so well.

[@ALF3Y]

Too bad his sketch is fucking horrible

[@ScottishRebel]

@@ALF3Y its alright not the worst sketch they have done would have been better if the dumbass ashton kucher plays was acctually a genious just paranoid that he would be accused of cheating

[@rebeccasimpson7966]

John Rotten !

[@Alienkiwi730]

Nah this is how douchebags looked in 97-99, the style just went on in the 2000s

[@groovywoovy6751]

yeah coz it was made in 2003 dont r/woosh im dumb i know

[@ronniechilds2002]

When I was in college, I paid a friend of mine, WHO ALSO TAUGHT ENGLISH AT THE SAME SCHOOL, to write a literature essay for me. The paper got an A minus. I was thrilled--he was pissed off about the minus.

[@thedarkoverlordofall]

@MissX W lmao chill out dude, who the fuck cares??

[@balyss4833]

@MissX W The only disgusting thing here is your attitude. Not every single person here has the same type of mindset regarding school, and cheating is way more common then you may think. Just because you were able to pass effortlessly doesn’t mean other students have that same ability. I have never cheated during college (I mean, so far) but I don’t mind if other students do. We should all want to help each other out, and if cheating helps them pass and get a successful job then so be it.

[@wordsculpt]

@@thedarkoverlordofall Honorable people care, and rightly so.

[@thedarkoverlordofall]

@@wordsculpt yeah, well guess what? Some people have other shit going on. I grew up in an extremely abusive household, and I simply didn’t have the ability to do homework or focus in school like many others did-is it better to cheat or to flunk high school and end out a dropout?

[@Ahsatan-vw3ok]

@@ella-louisewhite7938 i agree here. I feel like plagiarism is lying, and I can't stand lying, so I personally haven't cheated and never will. I'd rather honestly earn a bad grade by turning something in late (that's usually my problem, I know what I'm doing and I do it well, but I get too distracted or have other things going on). Sometimes you need a little time for yourself doing something fun, especially in colleges like mine that are rigorous, but for no real reason since its not a well known school. I mean most of us are nearly alcoholics because school gets so stressful, so I can understand why people cheat (though I still don't condone it, and my school has an honor code anyway so you can get suspended, fail the class, etc. if you do cheat)

[@williamdavidfrancavilla7388]

I once had a student put a random sentence in the middle of a paper that claimed I didn’t read all of the papers turned in. The student was trying to see if I would catch it. The sentence was technically correct but I would never admit it.

[@michaelreilly6874]

But did they plagiarize?

[@lilylock-hall3896]

Ashton Kutcher is literally just playing Kelso from that 70s Show

[@llarmstrong783]

Lily Lock-Hall maybe Kelsos son

[@atrainofthought99]

LL Armstrong kelso jr

[@brxnnxn7261]

What 70's show?

[@beatm6948]

@@brxnnxn7261 wut? It's a show made in the 2000s I think, mocking the shoes in the 70s

[@prakashkanthan958]

Bbbuuuurrrrrnnnnnn

[@Kym_190]

"shouldn't read other ppls emails dude." 😂😂😂

[@ilovedragonball2435]

@Peter McGill damn! where did I go wrong?

[@lemon-vy3mj]

@@ilovedragonball2435 mm think it’s pretty clear where you went wrong

[@mohammadabdulfarooqi3068]

dude where's my car?

[@flappynautintheocean8824]

This isn't where I parked my car.

[@ilovedragonball2435]

“You shouldn’t submit them to teachers. You also get an F.”

[@kdubs1126]

They totally nailed the reactions teenagers have when you confront them with solid evidence.

[@AndyFieldVoiceActor]

I was a 7th grade science teacher in 1997 and during our unit on the animal kingdom, I had each student do a report on an animal. I had a student stand in front of the class and read word-for-word the encyclopedia entry for "Wales". Worse, no one in the room but me noticed that he wasn't doing a report on "Whales." He talked about Welsh customs and architecture and stuff like that. I wasn't the best teacher in the world; it was my first semester.

[@tommyhill199]

I think Seth's biggest mistakes were either printing in color... or his hair.

[@branon6565]

Tommy Hill ......his being a piece of shit unfunny libtard is another of that assholes mistakes....

[@mattdeaver6850]

@@branon6565 holy shit, he must have really hurt your precious feelings lol

[@ChandlerTingle]

Branon Fontaine rwooooosh

[@shigsho]

Or his face.

[@kaiasmith5404]

LiberalsAreWorthless awww ur feelings have been hurt by his facts. So sad

[@cliffordgreen8349]

My first year teaching, the first plagiarized paper I caught was - no joke- an essay on ethics.

[@selectivelysocial7117]

Irony at its finest.

[@greenlampshade8909]

In a society that reeks of unethical behavior being rewarded (Hey, it's just business. If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'.), it's obvious the student already knew the value of ethics.

[@keenanloucks769]

That's Ironic.

[@sorensieber3767]

Students in my class submitted essays on digital copyrights - copied without citation from the internet. I wish I'd kidding.

[@ginkodragon]

So true! I experienced this while teaching college! It was so bad that I collaborated with the librarian to create a mini class on plagiarism. I made them take the class on their own time for credit. It did help.

[@lucaspenha4046]

imagine being a teacher but also owning a website that provides written work papers for the same assignments that you give... You would have some wonderful days at work

[@FatherManus]

5:10 He actually didn't cheat, he just blatantly didn't do the assignment.

[@toontownrules413]

True, but he still continued to take credit for something that wasn't his

[@riripari2042]

It still qualifies for an F since he didn't do the assignment.

[@yusufayaz2356]

at 5:10 something more remarkable happens. He is able to catch the phone without even lookin at it.

[@jpx8793]

He's guilty of both, not doing the assignment, and taking credit that wasn't his.

[@m1trek860]

@@yusufayaz2356 actually, you're cheating! you copied off one of the top comments. plagiarism is bad, kids.

[@liamosburn9824]

“Because you like to be wrong”

[@serenabean868]

Liam Osburn I read this right as she said that!!!!

[@mistajish]

The opposite of this happened to me. When I was in senior year, I submitted a digital self portrait (made from tiny images of my favourite CD covers, like pixels to make an image of my face.) It was not the best thing ever, but for the 2000s I thought it was pretty damn good for a teenager. My Art teacher was old school and thought digital art was bullshit, my final grade was a D... The kicker... The very next year, after I graduated, my little sister brought home the new Student Journal, and on the front cover was my dumb face looking all inquisitive into the distance... THE SAME SUBMISSION THEY THOUGHT WAS BAD ENOUGH TO GRADE A D, THEY THEN THOUGHT WAS A GOOD ENOUGH TO REPRESENT THE ENTIRE SCHOOL THE NEXT YEAR...

[@fionalilly543]

That's so cool, I love the concept. It's really shitty they did that to you.

[@maxrochful]

I guess now you know how it feels to be ahead of your time lol

[@communicationbreakdown256]

Now that's some plagiarism. You should have called them about your D graded work. 🤣

[@WinkLinkletter]

Reminds me of how Salvador Dali was ostracised by the surrealist community for his fascination with fascism only to later attempt reclaiming him after his rise to greater popularity. I myself was not encouraged whatsoever at home to pursue art, really more discouraged, and so took no art classes in school until being forced by graduation requirements, councillor error and class availability to join an ART 2 class. A guaranteed pass due to the error not being mine, I still applied myself and made many works. As it turned out, nearly all of these pieces, which I left behind, were later displayed prominently and enduringly in the school and a couple were used in their literature. Sucks being vindicated too late, but at least it was in our lifetimes, reward or not!

[@sq7238]

Ashton and Seth make the perfect naughty duo in any school setting

[@sonictheporcipine]

Ahh the days before turnitin.

[@superbeavers7645]

*WE DON'T SPEAK OF THAT HERETICAL PLACE HERE*

[@guilhermecastrolimadasilva7611]

I got 41% similarity index with turn it in once, for no good reason. The teacher literally had to apologize to me for failing me.

[@launch_0147]

@@guilhermecastrolimadasilva7611 I had classmates with 32% ratings get top marks... I got the same marks too but the fact that someone who clearly did not properly do their work can still succeed seems very unfair... sorry for venting

[@Oridux]

Three people in my class submitted with Turnitin, and I clearly knew they were plaigirizing because I was able to directly copy the text into Google and came up with first-page results! They got 0% similiarity indexes! WHAT!?

[@steveaustin1995]

@@Oridux Check for quotes around the essay. Apparently, Turnitin doesn't check words inside quotes for plagiarism (for obvious reasons) so if you put quotes around the entire essay and change their text color to white, it shows up as 0% similar. I've only heard this though, I'm not sure if that actually works, I doubt it still does.

[@SirPhysics]

I just wish when my students knew enough to remove the hyperlinks from text they copy off the internet...

[@Robert_St-Preux]

What about requiring students to write and turn in drafts of papers? Of course, there might be a way around that, too.

[@sharpnova2]

you teach a class in which your students write papers and your English is that bad? resign immediately

[@kennethkennethson4991]

@@sharpnova2 their english isnt bad. Its slang i assume.

[@IndigoPhlogiston]

I wish mine would change the font and color when they copy and paste...

[@bossHogOG]

Incomplete statement

[@profhowell1913]

In college lab classes I teach, I have had students copy, verbatim, what I wrote in the lab manual (an entire paragraph) and turn that in as part of their lab report (somewhere near the middle), even though I've told them in no uncertain terms that they must submit their own work and can't copy anything. Apparently they thought I wouldn't notice my own writing.

[@xs8002]

It's amazing to see how far these actors have come.

[@CallMeSharms]

Amy Poehler And Ashton Kutcher look so Young.

[@oceansides8076]

Yeah

[@ethanwilliamson902]

That's not Ashton Kutcher. It's Kevin Mallone.

[@ethanwilliamson902]

Equally handsome. Equally smart.

[@elcheapo9444]

This was 16 years ago. Kutcher doesn't look too different today but Amy looks much, much older.

[@RandomShowerThoughts]

So does Seth lol

[@ricktherrien8235]

“Maybe they copied my paper” “I don’t think they did”

[@diehardrvdfan22]

To be fair, that's either a good argument or the only argument you actually have in this situation.

[@yafaveleog8524]

What about da date of publishing diehard xd.

[@hmm8445]

Plot twist: they did

[@jacobh9344]

3:40 that backhand hi five looks hella hurting bros

[@kellyludovicm]

I have actually lost count on how many times I’ve watched this 😂😂😂 hilarious

[@johnnycarnevale]

Chris Parnell was an underrated SNL cast member in my personal expert opinion

[@JoesMusicandMemes]

Johnny Carnevale hell yeah. He’s a terrific character actor.

[@stellanam1128]

Agree.. I always find him so talented and funny

[@TheGenericCereal]

I thought that's who that was.

[@micahphilson]

I had no clue until now that he was ever even on SNL, but I love Parnell, so I guess I get to see a bunch of great sketches now!

[@elcpato]

You mean Cyril Figgus?

[@pyrobryan]

Parnell's voice is just buttery smooth. I could listen to him read ingredients for cereal.

[@williamfisher74]

Something Jerry and Cyrill would do well

[@llarmstrong783]

Could you listen to him talk about a system for ensuring you have the right amount of milk without telling him to get a job?

[@user-hs4ih8zp7e]

Creepy

[@BeverlyHighland]

It’s 2023 & ChatGPT walks into the room.

[@tylerthompson1842]

There was a tiny window of about 5yrs you could get away with this. 97’ to 02’ this is when many of the teachers from the 60’s and 70’s were just about to retire and had zero computer skills lol

[@llarmstrong783]

That was when I was in high school. Wish I had known lol

[@DavidfromBA]

I'm reminded of a class I took a long time ago. We had to read our persuasive essays in front of the class. Some jock figured he'd be slick and plagiarize someone else's work. However he couldn't even be bothered to at least take a few minutes to skim through it before class. In the middle of presenting views which were supposedly his own, he paused for a moment and said "Well, I don't know about THAT." Another brilliantly conceived plan that inexplicably failed to work.

[@lemon-vy3mj]

I’m wheezing

[@BeezowDoodooZopittybop-bop-bop]

What a moron!

[@adriansherlockdamondark.1094]

One of my male students turned in a paper he'd gotten from the net in which the author talked about what she did with her husband. So I asked him "how's your husband?" in front of the whole class. He said "I don't have a husband!" Then I opened his paper and read it out. After the laughter died down, I told him he shouldn't be copying essays off the internet without reading them properly.

[@bigbrother3855]

Great. Make gays the butt of the joke. So hilarious.

[@mr.stauffersnaturechannel4016]

@@bigbrother3855 Gays the "butt" of the joke. That was hilarious.

[@alphared8028]

No need for public shaming, that’s immature

[@darkinferno4687]

@@alphared8028 ur immature

[@tonibauer2949]

Awesome! And definitely not homophobic if you know he doesn’t have one.

[@alecaquino4306]

As a former teacher myself.... this was so well done! And accurate!

[@llarmstrong783]

Except for the last one, I'm sure

[@quinnmarchese6313]

in high school, i was in AP English my last 2 years and we had to churn out an essay in 40 minutes often. Timed writes are a part of the AP exam so we had to really get good at improvising a literary analysis

[@bryceb1889]

No joke, my English teacher actually had us watch this when we were talking about plagiarism in our writing pieces; I still watch this to this very day 😂

[@loomiangleamer4434]

Same here 😂

[@donjones4719]

But did your teacher claim to have written the skit... 😂

[@Yukeeei]

same

[@sareenab1000]

At 0:57 I was genuinely expecting Ashton to say 'BURN!!!'

[@DavidMartinez-be8wt]

Same

[@bentheperson2413]

Yep

[@clevelandcbi]

And Randy from season 8's real brother is next

[@lottesmit8893]

That seventies show 😍😍

[@escutus]

Reminds me when some guys copied my homework when I was a little kid. They were standing behind me and thought I didn't notice. I made 4 math problems wrong on purpose. I erased the answer and corrected when they left. One idiot asked the teacher why I had all right but he had 4 wrong without looking at my graded paper. Lol

[@allthingswavy6420]

This reminds me of the old joke about a kid who writes on a test question, "I don't know," and the kid cheating off that test wrote, "I don't know either."

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

@@allthingswavy6420 hahaha

[@carolynthornton8017]

IN MY VIEW Funny and true-to-life teacher student interactions. I loved this skit.

[@faithfulforever6331]

As a former teacher, this is a pretty accurate representation of what goes on in classrooms. It really isn't comedy; it is reality.

[@faithfulforever6331]

Only difference is that most students wouldn't even take the time to plagiarize because that would take some effort. They wouldn't turn in anything and then at the end of the term, their parents would call wanting to know why the teacher failed their child. Then the parents would tell the principal that their child's failure is due to the fault of the teacher because the teacher couldn't teach. The teacher is ALWAYS at fault and all the children are little angels.

[@dropkickmurphy4114]

@@faithfulforever6331 I suspect because the parents can't tolerate the thought that they might be failures as parents!

[@rabbiteen17]

what high school did u work at 😭 jesus i’m in high school and nobody does this

[@christafox13]

Damn what state and which terrible school district did you work for? I’m in one of the top districts on the east coast, this wouldn’t even fly in elementary school 😂 here, plagiarism is automatic suspension and recommendation for expulsion, with a faculty honor code committee that holds trials. Submit something as dumb as this skit and you’re not coming back lol

[@honorladone8682]

See teachers need to have a sense of humor. The children would be more attentive. Perhaps you didn't motivate them like you should have?

[@Bs60182]

I refuse to believe that grad school professors actual read 50 page papers from a class of 30-40 students. All they do now is run them through the plagiarism checkers. My thesis was absolute crap and I still ended up with an A in the class.

[@KhoaLe-tr3cg]

Brian PRM there are teachers who care about their class. I had some of them

[@favoritemustard3542]

It's called: Teacher's Assistant.

[@pupisuci]

My teacher said she only checked for thesis, three points and evidence. I believe her too because I got a 99 on an essay where I used the same sentences from my intro for my conclusion

[@beverlywilcox4349]

Actually, we do. At least some of us.

[@skatardrummer1]

Some do and some dont. Also some of them will choose certain students to read. I had a professor that hated me because I made a respectful suggestion that would help us and he didnt really appreciate it. He picked my papers apart sentence by sentence every time. I was an English minor and was getting A's in all my English classes and this was a music history class. Another student literally put a fake quote by Bach with cuss words in block quotes and never got called out. There are other professors who really do care about the success of their classes as well and will read everything. I kind of respect their dedication.

[@Packerfan130]

In one of my college math courses, the professor made our final a take home exam. Immediately, one student posted the question on a math forum site and the professor replied to it. It was so funny.

[@llarmstrong783]

Did the student die?

[@berkeleycodingacademy7015]

One of my writing mentors got bad grades on his poems in school. So he turned in one of Allen Ginsberg's as his own. Got the same bad grade. (Fun note: he also went on to become an award-winning poet)

[@Crazyjedi2]

Back when Amazon was just an online book store lol

[@BelleFlower15]

See, the last time I told people Amazon used to just sell books, they called me a liar.

[@jsoftcheck]

I'd like to say this is an exaggeration, but I've really had plagiarists who genuinely were this mind-numbingly stupid and worse.

[@trishs706]

I had a D level student turn in a film report in which he claimed to have watched Shoah - a 9 hour documentary about Holocaust survivors. I've been unable to watch much of it. His paper used college level words I knew he couldn't even give a definition for. A quick google search gave me the word for word review from a university website. His response to his zero was outrage. Everyone else got a way with it, why should he suffer?

[@regnash9441]

If you have seen worse, then this may not be an exaggeration.

[@trishs706]

@Pink Alien It is by it's nature very sad and being almost entirely interviews of the elderly, it is very slow paced. It was a very important project to document primary accounts for history, but not an easy thing to watch all the way through. It weighs you down quickly.

[@limp6129]

John Softcheck what’s crazy is a teacher believed i plagiarized when I did not at all. She had no evidence but believed it because it the essay sounded “too smart”

[@AmonsRealm]

@@limp6129 same here sometimes grades doesn't always reflect a student's intelligence

[@Voileen]

I used to write papers for students in high school to make money. Usually around $25-$50 a paper depending. One of the ones I wrote was really good and later in college I went back, found it, reworked it a little and submitted it since it was aplicable to the class / assignment. I had forgotten it was one of the papers I had written and sold and apparently the student I sold it too had uploaded it online to one of those websites where you can buy papers so HE could make money off it. My teacher (sort of) discovered this. I couldn’t really explain that it WAS my own paper and words because I probably would have just incriminated myself further. Plagiarism inception.

[@cosmocola8674]

thats actually insane lmfao

[@nikitaschulz3680]

Had some people in my programming class that were really smart. We received instructions and examples what the output should look like. They hardcoded the examples and expected a passing grade.

[@justcallmedevil267]

I'm not going to lie, but this is one of the best skits ever.

[@haztac5973]

*Tbh I gotta agree*

[@DantheManMarino13]

Huh??

[@siractionslacks890]

How? What comedy was there? A better take is m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4ioiWWgjbisfLs

[@dannyr333]

Yeass

[@jawadaziz5139]

Noooooo

[@katieboo4211]

Am a college professor. Can confirm this happens on the reg. Often just as dumb.

[@danielponder690]

define college

[@drServitis]

She should also define professor while she's at it.

[@thedarkfrost2351]

I’m guessing you teach at a shitty ass JUCO where most of the kids barely graduated high school or you teach at a college where your an athlete first and then a student.

[@choirfandomcookingrantsand496]

I never done pleagerisim

[@skatardrummer1]

@@choirfandomcookingrantsand496 I believe you. Plagiarism would be spelled correctly. 😂 I'm just messing with you

[@user-sb6tv7jj4t]

I have actually lost count on how many times I’ve watched this hilarious

[@Cuythulu]

I once had a student who handed a paper copied and pasted from wikipedia, he did't even delete the hyperlinks.

[@isaacgruver7061]

My chemistry teacher my junior year had everyone write a research paper on the periodic table, and kids did stuff almost exactly like this. Including things like "see graph below" with no graph in their paper

[@chrishubbard64]

I always enjoyed them not removing those little numbers in wikipedia articles that are all over the place. like "Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the Cretaceous period, about 140 million years ago, and diversified after the rise of flowering plants. More than 12,500 of an estimated total of 22,000 species have been classified.[5][6] They are easily identified by their elbowed antennae and the distinctive node-like structure that forms their slender waists. "

[@ajp4860]

chris hubbard LoL. Best comment here.

[@greg3284]

@Pedro Gunderson Uh, actually I teach high school chemistry and I make my kids do full five-part science papers (abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, and discussion sections with a full bibliography and in-text citations), along with their labs. Six major labs and a scattering of minor labs per a semester. This, at a inner-city public school full of 1st gen. immigrants. Sorry, your school wasn't very good.

[@kennyrogers1243]

Greg mayonnaise sound like a shitty teacher

[@josephsuarez9594]

“Because you like to be wrong?” I died at that part. 😂

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

I feel like she wrote that line for herself, it's so Amy

[@lindsayalisonstevens3592]

I love how this went from plagiarism to impersonating a photographer 😂😂😂

[@ianjharris]

Honestly I didn't think the video was funny until that joke at 6:09- literally made me fall over laughing.

[@eshelmen]

8 years later, this is still my go to guideline for "How not Plagiarize for dummies".

[@JulianneHannes]

Google translate to to spanish and translate it back to English and see if it reworded it enough to not show up in google search

[@helenah.4314]

haha same. it's 1:30 am, and i need to turn in an Essay about Othello in tomorrow. i'm trying to get some inspiration from the internet, without making their mistakes✌🏼😂. I think i'm gonna copy an essey and just rewrite it sentence for sentence.🥴

[@omeraydinmike]

@@JulianneHannes holy shit. that's clever

[@boofstain1508]

I like how he even gets frustrated at how little they try to even cheat

[@willferrara8413]

This teacher deserves a raise

[@google999yearsago6]

The best SNL skit ever.

[@fnxph03n1x]

My student submitted a paper to me that had this phrase inside, "to purchase the book by abc author on xyz topic, click here". Another student submitted a paper to me with those reference numbers in brackets [23] etc, and I asked him in class, "I did not see the citations associated with the numbers, and also the numbers are not in order," Of course he had no idea what those numbers represent, just wanted to know if I could get a funny response in turn. Also, during university, my classmate was short of material to meet the total wordings in his essay. So he started quoting a cricket match that he had seen. He didn't expect the teacher would actually read through the 100+ submitted essays. So, when his essay was read aloud in class, we had real fun.

[@amandalynn4979]

During online school this year, we had to do presentations on the different Native American tribes. This one kid had the Wompanog, and the second the started, everyone saw the reference numbers and the links. He copy lasted and didn't even think to delete the links. Everyone burst into laughter and the teacher immediately gave him an 0.

[@noamto]

Well, lower limit wording quotas are bad and should not exist in the first place. They encourage bad writing practices and devalue the content.

[@Daniel_He09]

lol, that last part is familiar to me, my grade 5 teacher told me when he was in uni, he had a teacher who was quite old and always didn't fully read essays, just skimmed them, so my teacher's classmate once wrote some very inappropriate things about the teacher's wife's body parts in the middle of the essay. He got very unlucky though, as the teacher actually read that part and nearly had a heart attack reading it

[@bobbyfeet2240]

Kinda have to give props for the cricket. Would give more had it worked. (Some blame goes to the professor for creating a word or page limit. I never, ever do that. I give a ball-park length and tell them that if they can do the assignment in fewer pages clearly and thoroughly, great. I like shorter papers, they're easier to grade. I do usually give fairly strict maximum lengths though; I like my students and I like hearing their ideas, but I also like getting a change to sleep at a decent hour.)

[@ashleyharris7467]

I’m showing this to all of my students next year.

[@drcl7429]

Make your own skit!

[@katiebonus9990]

hiii mrs.H.....

[@patricktsai2303]

My teacher showed me this last Wednesday 😂

[@tonibauer2949]

Pink Alien you don’t seem to know the meaning of the word. Plagiarism.

[@thenewgeneration2378]

I freaking hated English class😂 Creative writing was fun, but those book reports! There's only so many ways I can rephrase "Johnny went to the store" and talk about it for a 1,000 words.

[@SkillSMB]

the irony of this lmao

[@adanactnomew7085]

2:50 Took me a long to recognize that was Seth Meyers

[@naurnaurnaurnaur792]

that hair dye xd

[@lucscott3631]

Wait what the fuck that’s Seth meyers

[@IndubitablyIndeedi]

​@@lucscott3631a rare sketch appearance for him. He was not in many before starting update

[@whowantsabighug]

One of my students plagarised an essay, what I did was circle each section and just wrote the website URLs next to them.

[@Jhymnbeau]

Savage

[@cohenkane2148]

You get a beer. Proust!

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

They should have included two students submitting the same paper.

[@jenniferlee9577]

Amy and Seth are just amazing i love their chemistry

[@B3burner]

Amazing how even though this skit aired in 2003, it’s all still relevant today in 2019. What I mean is, not a single website entity he referenced is defunct or sounds dated today. I assumed this maybe aired around 2014/15... so I was surprised just how old it was.

[@mattbounds]

Hotmail has been outdated for at least a decade, my dude

[@ZZ-vl5nd]

@@mattbounds nope. Many people use it.

[@alpur214]

@@mattbounds I still technically have a hotmail account. Although it might be Windows Live now or something.

[@FahimAhmed-xj9lq]

The only thing that gave it away was the video quality.

[@sekite2]

@@mattbounds i also still use hotmail. i even still have my original msn adress

[@palerideryt1206]

Little did we know kirsty would turn herself around and become parks commissioner of Pawnee

[@HypeReflection]

I scrolled for 5 years to find this comment

[@llarmstrong783]

She has shared a scene with two Jerrys. Lol

[@rahileshanbi5551]

The best city in America.

[@munt368]

Running away again? I’m disappointed in you shinji

[@isabellamorfitt841]

I was just about to comment that 🤣🤣🤣

[@bnicethegaynerd6025]

Chris Parnell makes this skit. He’s a freaking legend

[@jubileebaby0]

It’s Jerry from Rick and Morty!!

[@nepalidude]

That pretty much sums up the US high school education.

[@mr.stauffersnaturechannel4016]

This coming from a guy who plays fortnite.

[@henryconner780]

@@mr.stauffersnaturechannel4016 What's that have to do with anything? lol

[@georgexatz4162]

@@henryconner780 Well he aint exactly the BRIGHTEST star

[@PSonak]

No it doesn't, quit being a turd.

[@stt.9433]

@@henryconner780 no only if they play fortnite

[@johnchessant3012]

2:38 He's writing that down. :D

[@groblezep5548]

Thats the joke

[@blueberrywitheyes4934]

There should've been more laughter

[@obbor4]

The really hysterical part is when kids believe that they are actually smarter than their teachers. Even when I was in school I knew how genuinely stupid that was.

[@TheodoreRizzo]

The way Amy poehler passes the phone been very discrete and careful not to draw any suspicious from her teacher 6 feet in front of her 😂😂😂

[@timothywilliams1359]

I wish my students cared enough to plagiarize. As it is, I have to read their stream of consciousness gibberish of disconnected, amorphous, half-formed thoughts.

[@lonewolflolol8182]

Timothy Williams 😂 I would do that sometimes I actually only did no more than 4 essays through out my highschool so I had zero experience on come up with something clever

[@timothywilliams1359]

@@lonewolflolol8182 I'm talking about college students, incredibly...

[@-JaggedGrace-]

I don't think increasing the amount someone cares would result in them resorting to plagiarizing

[@gabriellek7390]

Well at least they're trying

[@lonewolflolol8182]

Timothy Williams I also went to college, community college to be exact,I had to write an essay and that shit was hard fail and the something happen when I redid that class and decided to quit on college for now(?)

[@Steve27775]

I'm sure this is all too painfully true for some teachers and professors.

[@salwaaj1356]

It's how teens looks to the adults when they are being too obvious but think they are outsmarting them

[@cekojuna6930]

I remember I took the fall for my classmates because 7 of them handed the same paper. Even though I took the fall, I didn’t lose my grade because my teacher is smart enough to figure out that my writing is too flowery. So he didn’t mark the other five and gave me a barely passable grade with a 65% with a note that said written on the last page “Good job but it could’ve been an 87%”. The one person that did get mark’d also got a 65%, only because he was smart enough to edit some paragraphs, comments etc. Though he left the core the same, which the teacher picked up. Long story short; if the Teacher knows your character. They’re going to know if you plagiarised and they keep that to themselves most of the time.

[@TheFuriousfunk]

We didn't have the internet when I went to school but a jackass classmate of mine stole a program I wrote in 1986 in the 11th Grade and turned it into the Dean of Engineering in college for his Senior Project. I found out because I was going to turn in the same program, it was awesome as hell, I wrote a graphing program that did some Electronics problems that normally takes 2-3 pages to do and it turned out it that in the process of doing it, I created a program that did all Algebra problems and graphed them. I went to do my presentation for the project to the Dean and he told me someone else had already turned it in . To prove it was mine I had him load the program, the idiot that stole it hadn't noticed that I sign my programs by making the first letter of each REM statement spell my name. I spotted it instantly and asked the Dead to write down the first letter of every REM statement. He knew I was telling the truth but he wanted me to make something different anyway instead of turning in something I wrote in high school. I presented the Menu program I wrote for DOS that gave a beautiful menu instead of a prompt when the computer loaded. I had written that for myself years ago as well. Got an A

[@ozzDeveveloperOpenForWork]

Ur classmate told you he turned it in? Or the dean said u both had the same thing?

[@TheFuriousfunk]

@@ozzDeveveloperOpenForWork The Dean noticed that my high school classmate had turned it in the year before. He had gotten my program from the high school teacher. He had to convert it from Apple IIC Basic to standard IBM Basic but it only entailed changing the Clear Screen command and he changed my colors. That guy was an asshole throughout school, he used snitching as a form of bullying. I still get pissed off about it

[@TheCombo88]

@TheFuriousfunk wow you are amazing

[@TheFuriousfunk]

@@brodybarr5194 The jackass went to school with me from Kindergarten all the way through college. I changed majors 3 times so I went an extra year in college before I graduated. The jackass had graduated and had a job at the college. The Dean told him to resign the next day then he found out that the Jackass wasn't doing his job anyway, he had the student assistants doing everything while he watched TV all day in his office. That jackass was always a sack of crap, he's a fancy nurse now making $120K a year, I guarantee he doesn't know what he's doing. Jackass cheated constantly and used snitching as a method of bullying.

[@jenniferb.awesome]

I'm glad he got caught and you got the recognition for it. I feel bad for the patients that have to have him as their nurse, he sounds like a complete idiot!

[@davidpoole3945]

Loved Seth Myers in this! The AP might be "some kind of machine" haha!!

[@apjoeapjoe]

When a student goes from C- and D's to A level work overnight you're going to do a google search. Especially when said paper suddenly stops mid sentence at the bottom of the page. What really blew my mind was when I confronted the young man in question he claimed he had no idea what I was talking about. When I showed him the paper he had submitted with a side by side comparison to the original text he just looked at me with dazed bewildered eyes. His story was that "somehow" more than 3/4 of his text was word for word exactly the same as the one I found on the Internet. He had no explaination for why his text suddenly cut out mid sentence. I suggested a botched copy/paste be he was SURE it couldn't be that...

[@PurplePisces228]

This reminds me of standing outside my English class before a test and seeing students reading the spark notes on their phones because they didn't read anything we were about to get tested on.

[@SpaghettiNachos]

Is this the school Toby Maguire's spider-man went to?

[@williamfisher74]

yes

[@gaberodriguez7938]

Dmitri Shostakovich they’re all 36

[@MrBruh281]

Gabe Rodriguez lol

[@sargestriker2770]

Is this the school Joe Biden went to?

[@MrBruh281]

@@sargestriker2770 ?

[@tealvampyre]

Damn, teachers and professors today have their work cut out for them if they want to catch cheaters. Much respect to these thankless professions!

[@Akina023]

tealvampyre nah it’s still this easy. I had two girls turn in the same paper...IN THE SAME class

[@stevenk6579]

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[@jenniferb.awesome]

They have websites and programs that teachers use that will detect plagiarism, so their job isn't that difficult when it comes to cheaters.

[@maryl8614]

Catching them isn’t the hard part. Convincing admin to let them have a 0 is where it gets difficult. “But Johnny didn’t mean to purchase a paper for $19 and turn it in as his own! It was an accident.” And somehow that is what admin chooses to believe.

[@Lige]

@@Akina023 This happened to me as well...four weeks ago. I dropped 2 F bombs. BOOM!

[@alexbollinger3255]

my mom taught spanish at colleges. she once got a paper written entirely in portuguese from a student who did not speak portuguese.

[@thealchemist41499]

That "oh, nice" has my heart!

[@jonathanpowell9979]

Then the professor gives exams that are 100% on quizlet verbatim. When the entire class gets A's on every assignment there might be something going on.

[@Andytlp]

I bet schools do that knowing the students will cheat and it'll look great for the board that funds the school when they look at the student grade statistics. Better grades = more money. Schools pump out inept individuals the country slowly derails itself. If stupidity is normalized in u.s it wont end well. People arent supposed to get offended by being called dumb, it should be embarrassing for starters.

[@nope53926]

I had a professor who did this, was only 1/3 of our grade. Was a boon as the other 2/3 of your grade was completely subjective and mostly just up to how he was feeling that day.

[@beckaronibean]

Quizlet makes me so mad!

[@dragonflies6793]

I had a teacher who knew about the quizlet thing and did nothing, so everyone who used the quizlet would get great grades while the rest of us actually studied (I would have felt too bad if I used it)

[@chronic_bronchitis]

My APUSH teacher got 90% of our tests from quizlet

[@nuggetillustrations383]

If you’re gonna cheat Cheat well

[@Kazuma_kiryu311]

Exactly 😂

[@sstaners1234]

I wrote all my wife’s college papers. It was funny watching her trying to explain her paper to the teacher that she hadn’t even bothered to read, let alone write.

[@supernerd2333]

I actually like writing essays because they're actually pretty easy once you get the formula down.