Thornton Mellon brought his real world business experience into the professor's classroom. The professor couldn't handle it.
@jacobrobles474
Жыл бұрын
Those who can't do... teach
@johnnyguitar6639
11 ай бұрын
@@jacobrobles474 Which is probably why he says there are two types. The quick & the dead.He doesn't look like much fun
@mvol5973
4 ай бұрын
Why I didn't like college. I was working in my field of study, it didn't take long to see how they were not teaching real world, just theory garbage
@AnvilMAn603
Жыл бұрын
one of the best examples of theory vs practice on film
@cityhawk
Жыл бұрын
Completely agree. Experience is the best teacher.
@charlesgebhart2024
Жыл бұрын
Or the best realization of classroom and field. Nice to think everything the professor THINKS encompasses actual business class, but he needs to listen to a businessman. Otherwise the man(professor) is talking out of his ass.
@johnmantovani7285
Жыл бұрын
I miss Rodney more than I can sometimes imagine... RIP... king of comedy...👍👏👏👏👏🙏
@andrewburgess-linden9612
Жыл бұрын
I thought Rupert Pumpkin was the King of Comedy
@cchavezjr7
3 жыл бұрын
His look when he noticed students were taking notes from Melon was hilarious
@SamBrickell
Жыл бұрын
😂
@kencummings953
Жыл бұрын
And later on Marge Sweetwater was taking notes FOR Melon.
@johnleeson6946
11 ай бұрын
@@kencummings953 Did she get all the pencils out of her hair? Oops, this was before she working for Mr. Rooney… Sorry.
@brents.8972
Жыл бұрын
I've been in logistics for 31 years and it's always funny how Administrators and Sales people think every thing looks grand on paper but then they can't figure out why it doesn't work in reality lol
@floridapmi
3 жыл бұрын
"How about Fantasyland"... One of the greatest zingers in movie history.
@ronaldshank7589
Жыл бұрын
This guy, (Professor Thornton), didn't know what the real world was all about, did he? He was sooooo arrogant, sooooo very smug.....and soooo totally wrong! I loved watching Mr. Mellon embarrass this clown!
@Youdontknowwhatliterallymeans
Жыл бұрын
@@ronaldshank7589 An arrogant academic prick being hyperspecialized in one field and having no idea what the world's like? Wow, imagine that.
@mrparkerdan
Жыл бұрын
Then the professor dropped his pointing stick 😂
@thejamesasher
4 жыл бұрын
bribes and kickbacks=licenses and permits
@user-su2sh9ve7g
Жыл бұрын
You forgot, 'Zone Changes'.. 😉
@josh24441
Жыл бұрын
And they always seem to “expire” at random and unpredictable times.
@User-nx7rs
Жыл бұрын
And the more money you have the more the expensive and more often those problems occur.
@aristidastankus8043
Жыл бұрын
RIP Paxton Whitehead, the actor playing the economics professor in this scene
@jamesjohnson-ny3jl
Жыл бұрын
Thorton Mellon was telling the real truth how real life business is run. All these kids go to school and learn theory not reality
@Lovethemusic385
5 жыл бұрын
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. You'll never go broke selling this story to people. We never get tired of it.
@keegankelly326
8 жыл бұрын
How about fantasy land. Lost it lol lol lol.
@ANTHONY0808able
3 жыл бұрын
Then there's the long term costs such as waste disposal. I don't know if you're familiar with who runs that business but I assure you it's not the boy scouts. HAHAHAHHA !! LMAFAOOOOOOOO !! Absolute best line in the movie delivered PERFECTLY by Dangerfield. I DIE every time I see this scene.
@HENSLEYMB
3 жыл бұрын
I’m a retired army sergeant and semi retired from the police. I used to substitute teach at public schools mostly high schools. Most of the teachers went from being students to teachers without ever working in the real world. When studying for my law enforcement degree, my instructors all had “smelled the powder” so to say and were great teachers. In high school I had a math teacher that was a CPA for an oil field company. He was tops as a teacher.
@emptyhand777
Жыл бұрын
I was just telling this to my wife. Most teachers have always had their summers off.
@raybon7939
Жыл бұрын
In the glory days of the 1960s 1970s up to the 80s. The teacher would be the most respected members of the community.
@ChargerBullet
Жыл бұрын
Being a cop is not exactly "working in the real world". Nor is an Army Sergeant. They both are government jobs.
@emptyhand777
Жыл бұрын
@@ChargerBullet - I've worked both private and public sector. It is night and day.
@jackson5116
Жыл бұрын
@@raybon7939 60's for sure, but the 70's it started to decline, helped by shows like Welcome Back Kotter. In the 80's it was teachers as peers of the students in shows like Head of the Class. Teachers have been losing respect the last 50 years, don't kid yourself into thinking this is recent.
@FerretJohn
Жыл бұрын
When I went into the Navy, after boot camp I was sent to A School to learn the basics of my specific job. After leaving A School and getting to my ship I quickly learned that there was a lot more to the job than what was taught in the class. There were a lot of shortcuts, a lot extra real world details, some of the information the teachers taught me was completely useless, but I still had to learn them anyway, because some things can ONLY be taught in the class and some things can ONLY be taught in the field, because if you don't learn what's taught in the class first the field work won't make any sense at all. The class room is where you learn to walk, the job is where you learn to run.
@chrishardman2574
3 жыл бұрын
Growing up in NJ I can totally relate to Dangerfield. Now that I live in the "country" out of state, people are more like the the professor. They don't realize to get shit done you have to grease the palm
@vulcan2882
Жыл бұрын
Yup .. you're so right.
@ronaldshank7589
Жыл бұрын
Yep! And hopefully, ya got plenty of "Grease" to use, otherwise, whoever you need to strike any kind of a deal with won't even look your way, let alone give ya the time of day! Money talks...and we both know what "walks", if ya get my drift!
@laurenceshtull6777
Жыл бұрын
In Montreal Quebec the bid for Government construction contracts under former premier Jean Charest, was given to member of organized crime
@vulcan2882
Жыл бұрын
@@laurenceshtull6777 .. that happens everywhere.
@biggytmofo
Жыл бұрын
We're good at that in Ohio.
@joemasters2270
Жыл бұрын
Even though he annoyed the professor, Thornton wasn't wrong 😆😆😆
@davidrosenfeld8576
Жыл бұрын
RIP Paxton Whitehead. Great foil in this scene and this movie.
@cameltanker1286
4 жыл бұрын
Dr. Barbay, the perfect example of what Shaw meant by "Those who can't, teach.
@zarmindrow5831
Жыл бұрын
2:25 "I'm in da waste disposals bidness" - Tony Soprano
@TomLiberman
5 жыл бұрын
One of my buddies just posted a silly meme on success listing things like hard work etc., and I basically plagiarized this scene talking about bribes, inherited money, government kickbacks, etc. I even included the waste management part and he didn't get the joke. Called me a moron and a professional victim, lulz.
@wolfslynx8118
2 жыл бұрын
Omg flashbacks of Macro and Micro in college. I love these theme of film and always remember quote (im paraphrasing ) from Ross Perot “If economists know so much about money, how come they all aren’t millionaires?” Ivory tower bullshit vs real world. I graduated w honors from University but still realized you have to be an educated academic consumer, and learned more useful and practical skills fours years in the USMC active duty. But I was the “scribe” and those served and did boot East coast or west will know what I’m referring to, and understand looking back college did have some value + ink and lead stick knowledge. Looking back I wouldn’t change anything glad did both.
@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
5 жыл бұрын
Waste disposal isn't run by the boy scouts, lol...truth.
@JMCodd1
3 жыл бұрын
Winds of March Journey/Perry tribute band I remember a few years back, for one of our office moves, we had a dumpster service for our building, but were moving to an office complex that had dumpsters. When I called to cancel our old service, they tried to tell me that we were required by law to keep the service going, that we had to take the dumpster with us. I had to argue that there was no place to put it at the new place, and what would have happened if we just closed the business instead of moving. They replied in that case they would just cancel. I had to tell them to just act as if we were closing and cancel, and to pick up the dumpster. Our old building had been sold and was being redeveloped, so if they didn’t pick it up, they would lose the dumpster, and we weren’t paying for it. They canceled the account and picked up the dumpster.
@kencummings953
Жыл бұрын
Prime example....Terry Silver in Karate Kid 3.
@jamesklatt
Жыл бұрын
Learn that by watching the soprano’s
@jackb348
Жыл бұрын
Tony Soprano was in waste management.
@dgontar
5 жыл бұрын
one of the funniest scenes ever, if not THE funniest
@rushrush1209
4 жыл бұрын
Melon just takes the professor to school. It's comical to see how much the professor hates Melon.
@rong805
2 жыл бұрын
Especially when he finds out Melon is banging his girlfriend!
@kencummings953
Жыл бұрын
And that's even before Melon shows interest in and wins over Barbay's girlfriend.
@ronaldshank7589
Жыл бұрын
That being, of course, because Mr. Mellon called him on his bull! If anybody thinks that starting a business, and being all straight-laced about it, is what's gonna get them very far, then they're in for a very rude awakening!
@originalotrex
Жыл бұрын
Just so we're clear here: This is NOT an economics class. This is a business class.
@richardthegingerbo909
Жыл бұрын
. . . and a little monkey business!
@juliusquasar1565
Жыл бұрын
I think he also forgot to add property taxes, insurance, and possibly pest control (I’ve worked in some warehouses and they used/needed exterminator services, typically roaches or mice from either the sewers, nearby dilapidated buildings, etc.).
@jerrykinnin7941
Жыл бұрын
Food grade/ medical grade Gotta have a pest control plan. You deal in Hazmat gotta have a specialist for that as well.
@meadster308
Жыл бұрын
My best college instructors were usually part time because they actually worked in what they were teaching. Full time professors definitely live in a theoretical world.
@cpsig1597
Жыл бұрын
I would have done Mellon's laundry if needed just to take HIS class on real world business in America. Tell the Prof. what he wants to hear for the grades and degree, but learn everything I could from Mellon so I could actually succeed and make money!
@ZENIGMATV
2 жыл бұрын
Here in Los Angeles you gotta grease the wheels or your project won’t move. Academia has no idea what the real world is like.
@jackb348
Жыл бұрын
That’s everywhere.
@juliusquasar1565
Жыл бұрын
Exactly
@carwrtr1
Жыл бұрын
This college teacher is a joke; Mellon needs to be teaching this!
@EdgeXXI
Жыл бұрын
Which is why I'd rather learn from someone who works in the field rather that one who only theorizes about it.
@maulekuul
2 жыл бұрын
Headed here after the Fandango version censored "the Japs will kill us". I fucking hate censorship.
@jameshoran8
Жыл бұрын
You'll never know how right Thornton was. He was teaching real world.
@AguacateZmaduro
Жыл бұрын
That fantasy land line never gets old 😂
@Joscope
5 жыл бұрын
Atlantic City.. the Steel Pier.. I was the warm up act for the diving horse! Lol!!
@eatpigsnot
5 жыл бұрын
the difference between being book/test smart and street smart. gaining knowledge is useful, but not at the cost of zero wisdom
@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
5 жыл бұрын
Good luck if you want to do things without those boxes checked, tho. (Did it, lol)
@acomegna
6 жыл бұрын
Typcial liberal college professor here folks, never DID, just LEARNED.
@iamalive.1255
6 жыл бұрын
Archie Comegna the actor they picked for that role was absolutely perfect.
@mcdonoghrahloh459
5 жыл бұрын
Yep,a conservative came up with all of those cost Mr.Melon was listing,CONservative
@Chorizo727
5 жыл бұрын
What an idiotic comment.
@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
5 жыл бұрын
You give them enough money, and there is ZERO difference.
@ANTHONY0808able
3 жыл бұрын
@@mcdonoghrahloh459 Then there's the long term costs such as waste disposal. I don't know if you're familiar with who runs that business but I assure you it's not the boy scouts. HAHAHAHHA !! LMAFAOOOOOOOO !! Absolute best line in the movie delivered PERFECTLY by Dangerfield. I DIE every time I see this scene.
@mcdonoghrahloh459
5 жыл бұрын
Tell that to the bank!
@rong805
2 жыл бұрын
And the mob, lol.
@mcdonoghrahloh459
2 жыл бұрын
@@rong805 Thanx for the reply 👍🏿
@juliusquasar1565
Жыл бұрын
And the insurance companies!
@n1c98
2 жыл бұрын
I remember this movie. Any movie with Rodney Dangerfield is a classic
@berthacorona3862
Жыл бұрын
Mr. Mellon knew what he was talking about. In reality, when you go to college, you teach text-book situations and how to solve them. The real world, it is all very much different than the text🤔
@ahthisisgood
Жыл бұрын
Man... What i would have given to have Rodney Dangerfield teaching real life when i was in school.
@Ascending11
Жыл бұрын
Him or Sam Kinnison
@Sillysoft
Жыл бұрын
Rodney and kinison was the best scene of the whole movie
@anthonyevans535
5 жыл бұрын
Mellon was right about everything. Maybe Dr. Barbay should go back to college himself and let Mellon be the instructor for a change..
@ronaldshank7589
Жыл бұрын
And, to cap it off, have Mr. Barbay sit in a corner, wearing a Dunce Cap! That'd be hilarious!!!
@jackb348
Жыл бұрын
Mellon was right about everything.
@anthonyevans535
5 жыл бұрын
The doc is pedantic when he says, "It's a fictional product, it doesn't matter"...😄😄😄😄😄
@vikramparmar8093
Жыл бұрын
"try telling that to the loan officer at the bank"
@h.e.s.5248
Жыл бұрын
I just LOVE Rodney Dangerfield! 🤣🤣🤣
@barroncrist5779
Жыл бұрын
One of Rodney's best movies.
@mrs3533
8 ай бұрын
Attorney General Letitia James needs to see this on how business gets done here in America 🇺🇸👍
@princessmarlena1359
3 жыл бұрын
After this, Dr. Philip Barbay changed his name to Dr. Colin Campbell, moved to Boston, MA., and became head of the Marbury Academy.
@georgebickford1516
Жыл бұрын
I loved that Frasier episode. Dr Colin finally allowed Fra/lill'.. son Frederick in to the academy because they irritated him so much. lol
@juliusquasar1565
Жыл бұрын
“Marbury thanks you, for your interest!”
@Gregory-sm9pf
Жыл бұрын
What a great comedian, man was genius when it came to comedy
@davidorme1993
Жыл бұрын
Old school. Something written on a blackboard, rather than Power Point. Of course, this was thirty-six years ago, so enough said. Loved this movie!
@dennisconlon5810
Жыл бұрын
This movie never gets old!🥳
@xunit62
Жыл бұрын
Man i miss that type of movie!
@GeorgeFranquiz
5 жыл бұрын
I may be fun but it is the way business is run in real life
@user-su2sh9ve7g
Жыл бұрын
This is absolutely fabulous!!! Loved every second of it..
@kat35lulu88
Жыл бұрын
How'd those kids keep straight faces????
@brian197686
Жыл бұрын
"He really tells it like it ain't."
@willcuster7711
Жыл бұрын
Back 🔙 To School 🏫 (1986) happened on the month 🗓️ of August.
@davidmeichner8346
4 жыл бұрын
One of the best comedies ever
@jimklipper6022
Жыл бұрын
Seems to me, talking about the financial aspects should be before the construction. Thornton was right.
@pepleatherlab3872
Жыл бұрын
This movie was from 1986. As hard as starting a business was back then, it's easily ten times harder now. Hell, you have to grease Special Interest palms with kickbacks just for the permits. The USA regulated itself into insolvency. Even with all that nobody wants to start a business just to have it taxed away, which means less tax collected. But DC doesn't care, because they decided the invisible tax (inflation) was the solution. Leveraging future production, when current production is dying. What a winning strategy. 🙄
@jpiperprince
Жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Paxton Whitehead!
@NYmomAdrienne3915
3 жыл бұрын
This was me in business school 😂
@firstnamelastname3558
Жыл бұрын
😍.
@DocteurInfierno
Жыл бұрын
The face of Mr Melon who check the professor like if he know nothing mdrrrr
@KJakaBlackBandit20
Жыл бұрын
Mellon kept it real, widgets? What bank will finance bullshit? Mellon picked his theories apart.
@jhnpizz
Жыл бұрын
I worked construction on a project in north jersey. Towards the end, the PM who had no idea about "jerseyology" said we need to line up a garbage company to pick up the individual cans from each unit. He told me "just call somebody and get a price"..... i told him, obviously you have no idea who runs that business but " i assure you it aint the boy scouts".....what we re going to do is go stand by the main street and watch what trucks go by and call one of them.....thats who have these routes....
@sundayashiedu7511
Жыл бұрын
Love the scene so so much. JMO
@garyrossetti2443
Жыл бұрын
Thornton Mellon knew more about business than Phillip did.
@jackson5116
Жыл бұрын
0:55 I miss the 80's, back when we could say "Japs" and no one would care either way...
@toomanyaccounts
Жыл бұрын
knees
@sylviaisgod6947
Жыл бұрын
Need to discuss how many bathrooms will need to be built for all the different genders.
@emmafrost7151
Жыл бұрын
On a railroad spur line? Wasn’t the railroad industry going broke by then? Where I lived the tracks went nearly unused, and 18-wheeler trucks took over on the highways by that time.
@toomanyaccounts
Жыл бұрын
it shows how outdated what the professor is saying
@kevinlyons4545
11 ай бұрын
Absolutely 💯 awesome. THAT IS BUSINESS
@GHC3
2 жыл бұрын
Having government through business school, I laughed when he talked about a "widget", which is jargon or terminology specific to the that world. But the bugger picture of this scene is it juxtaposed the school version(theoretical) vs. How the real world works(actually experience)
@KGillis
2 жыл бұрын
A lot of people will take away from this that the practical expert knows more than the theoretical expert. But, the simple fact is that this is just a case of an experienced student who's taking a class that's beneath his expertise. The professor likely knows quite a few things that Rodney's bringing up, but is sticking to fundamentals for the entry level students in his class. You don't start out on day one doing calculus.
@vypernight
Жыл бұрын
Agreed. Although the instructor is rather strict, his stuff is 101 and Melon keeps forgetting that. The instructor also works with a lot of the basic but technical calculations that are necessary at the beginning level. Something Melon has to either learn or relearn.
@crashpal
Жыл бұрын
Back When there were no PowerPoint and Microsoft excel presentations
@darioinfini
Жыл бұрын
IDK in light of recent events this hits different. I don't know what the intent of this sketch originally was -- just straight out comedy, an opportunity to throw insults at pompous authority figures, or a cutdown of the detached, aloof "professors" with their "enlightened ideas" that have nothing to do with the real world. The latter is certainly how it hits me now, though as I said I don't know if that was the original intent.
@jodyvanliew2514
Жыл бұрын
Rodney was the best !!!
@jigglybiglets
Жыл бұрын
i remeber when CDs were viable
@Chet73
Жыл бұрын
@Fippy Darkpaw LMAO!!! Wrong type of CDs. 😂
@brucer9572
4 жыл бұрын
English comedians are the best.
@greglopez8206
Жыл бұрын
The J@ps 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@rhrh2025
Жыл бұрын
The funny part is that Thornton Mellon was right! LOL
@billyd8401
Жыл бұрын
Real world smacks the university fantasyland!
@Dashx64
Жыл бұрын
lol the concrete line hahaaaaa
@mountcomfort740
Жыл бұрын
Love this movie
@BrandyBrandalia
Жыл бұрын
Technically, the product does matter due to elasticity lol.
@varowan1
Жыл бұрын
Tony soprano is coming for his wm money... not a boyscout.
@RiverOfBlacklights
2 жыл бұрын
"Marbury thanks you for your interest..." - *_'Frasier'_*
@cityhawk
Жыл бұрын
Wasn't that the Thanksgiving episode at Lilith’s place?
@RiverOfBlacklights
Жыл бұрын
@@cityhawk Yup. Correct! 🎇🎆😃 🎆🎇
@EnligUlv
Жыл бұрын
As funny as this scene was/is, I was a business admin/management major in the mid to late 80s and I never saw this happening in the business/econ/computer science departments. When ever someone from “the real world” would come to speak, all of my professors were glued to and vey happy when these empirically based experts spoke and presented. The Q&As were the most telling in that the professors were all too eager to inundate the speaker with “what if?” questions. It was obvious these professors were concerned with a reality gap between theory taught in the classroom and the real world rigors of the private sector.
@davidorme1993
Жыл бұрын
That's great to hear. Mine were in liberal arts. They acted as if their take on something was the only valid viewpoint that existed.
@ChargerBullet
Жыл бұрын
It is because that doesn't really happen. Those in academia teaching a subject do not generally claim to know more than actual experienced people out in the real world. It is usually the reverse, however, as evidenced by all the comments here. Tons of people posting about how teachers don't know anything and all kinds of nonsense about colleges and professors. I remember some time ago I took a break from the university and landed a job in a production shop and worked my way up running a department. One day one of the owners sent an email to each department head informing them that a professor from the university was going to bringing in her students to tour the facility. (I recognized the name and it was one of my professors I had took years earlier, which is why I remember all this.) And of course one of the blowhard supervisors replied to that email joking and insulting about the professor and college. I really doubt the professor was going to ask for a tour of a business just to tell her students that she knows more than the actual people doing the real work.
@toomanyaccounts
Жыл бұрын
@@ChargerBullet explain why college grads are morons that spout easily debunked bullcrp and think Marx, Mao and Stalin were heroes
@derpymcderpypants
Ай бұрын
I refer to this scene regularly.
@podsmpsg1
5 ай бұрын
The professor's ego was just bruised. That's all. Thornton should be teaching that class, and he doesn't even have a Degree. LOL. He's a self made multi millionaire and a successful businessman.
@James-pq7nf
Жыл бұрын
that professor knew nothing about reality
@philipchesleyiii
Жыл бұрын
There are so many issues with are facing today, that stem from the point of this scene. To many people have elected to live in said fantasy land.
@robertharrison9452
2 жыл бұрын
“It’s strictly business”
@eddiesanders3383
Жыл бұрын
That's still the problem. All the professors have never ran a business. they never got out of the classroom
@ralphtom3431
2 жыл бұрын
2:34 Rodney. Lol
@mename4359
7 жыл бұрын
Back when real comedy existed by real comedians not all pro Democrat political rants all the time packaged & falsely marketed as comedy. I miss the days of actual comedy. Miss Rodney too. A lot of legends in this movie.
@josephhickman4528
6 жыл бұрын
Me Name Sammy Kinison ate iron nails for breakfast!!!
@mcdonoghrahloh459
5 жыл бұрын
You idiots ever take a vacation
@mcdonoghrahloh459
5 жыл бұрын
Rick O'Shay You're too apparent, Inbred.Go let your sister out of the basement👿
@vlandanlaurusaitis639
9 жыл бұрын
Miss Rodney.
@dylanmayer5767
8 жыл бұрын
me too, legend
@thrush660
5 жыл бұрын
i wonder how many kids no what a tape recorder is
@philipquaglino
Жыл бұрын
Very accurate, those who cant do, teach, those who cant teach...DO. Actual real world experience vs books entire life.
@trentv5456
Жыл бұрын
Tell that to the bank….fact
@keithmauldin885
5 жыл бұрын
So who is the real teacher here????
@anthonyevans535
5 жыл бұрын
Thorton Mellon knows more about economics class than this clown with the teaching stick in his hand.. Who's teaching who here???
@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
5 жыл бұрын
@@anthonyevans535 because you need that box checked to "know what you're talking about."
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