Thornton Mellon brought his real world business experience into the professor's classroom. The professor couldn't handle it.
@MountainMan. Жыл бұрын
Those who can't do... teach
@jacobrobles474 Жыл бұрын
@@jacobrobles474 Which is probably why he says there are two types. The quick & the dead.He doesn't look like much fun
@johnnyguitar66398 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
@mvol5973Ай бұрын
one of the best examples of theory vs practice on film
@AnvilMAn603 Жыл бұрын
Completely agree. Experience is the best teacher.
@cityhawk 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.
@charlesgebhart202411 ай 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
@brents.8972 Жыл бұрын
bribes and kickbacks=licenses and permits
@thejamesasher4 жыл бұрын
You forgot, 'Zone Changes'.. 😉
@user-su2sh9ve7g Жыл бұрын
And they always seem to “expire” at random and unpredictable times.
@josh24441 Жыл бұрын
And the more money you have the more the expensive and more often those problems occur.
@Chad-nx7rs Жыл бұрын
His look when he noticed students were taking notes from Melon was hilarious
@cchavezjr72 жыл бұрын
😂
@SamBrickell Жыл бұрын
And later on Marge Sweetwater was taking notes FOR Melon.
@kencummings953 Жыл бұрын
@@kencummings953 Did she get all the pencils out of her hair? Oops, this was before she working for Mr. Rooney… Sorry.
@johnleeson69468 ай бұрын
"How about Fantasyland"... One of the greatest zingers in movie history.
@floridapmi3 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!
@ronaldshank7589 Жыл бұрын
@@ronaldshank7589 An arrogant academic prick being hyperspecialized in one field and having no idea what the world's like? Wow, imagine that.
@Youdontknowwhatliterallymeans Жыл бұрын
Then the professor dropped his pointing stick 😂
@mrparkerdan11 ай бұрын
I miss Rodney more than I can sometimes imagine... RIP... king of comedy...👍👏👏👏👏🙏
@johnmantovani7285 Жыл бұрын
I thought Rupert Pumpkin was the King of Comedy
@andrewburgess-linden961210 ай бұрын
RIP Paxton Whitehead, the actor playing the economics professor in this scene
@aristidastankus804311 ай бұрын
Even though he annoyed the professor, Thornton wasn't wrong 😆😆😆
@joemasters2270 Жыл бұрын
2:25 "I'm in da waste disposals bidness" - Tony Soprano
@zarmindrow583111 ай 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.
@Lovethemusic3855 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
@jamesjohnson-ny3jl 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
@chrishardman25743 жыл бұрын
Yup .. you're so right.
@vulcan2882 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!
@ronaldshank7589 Жыл бұрын
In Montreal Quebec the bid for Government construction contracts under former premier Jean Charest, was given to member of organized crime
@laurenceshtull6777 Жыл бұрын
@@laurenceshtull6777 .. that happens everywhere.
@vulcan2882 Жыл бұрын
We're good at that in Ohio.
@biggytmofo11 ай 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.
@TomLiberman5 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.
@FerretJohn11 ай бұрын
Melon just takes the professor to school. It's comical to see how much the professor hates Melon.
@rushrush12094 жыл бұрын
Especially when he finds out Melon is banging his girlfriend!
@rong8052 жыл бұрын
And that's even before Melon shows interest in and wins over Barbay's girlfriend.
@kencummings953 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!
@ronaldshank7589 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.
@HENSLEYMB3 жыл бұрын
I was just telling this to my wife. Most teachers have always had their summers off.
@emptyhand777 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.
@raybon7939 Жыл бұрын
Being a cop is not exactly "working in the real world". Nor is an Army Sergeant. They both are government jobs.
@ChargerBullet Жыл бұрын
@@ChargerBullet - I've worked both private and public sector. It is night and day.
@emptyhand777 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.
@jackson5116 Жыл бұрын
Waste disposal isn't run by the boy scouts, lol...truth.
@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr28234 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.
@JMCodd13 жыл бұрын
Prime example....Terry Silver in Karate Kid 3.
@kencummings953 Жыл бұрын
Learn that by watching the soprano’s
@jamesklatt Жыл бұрын
Tony Soprano was in waste management.
@jackb348 Жыл бұрын
How about fantasy land. Lost it lol lol lol.
@keegankelly3268 жыл бұрын
total classic
@jerrymcmanus24804 жыл бұрын
fantasy land: where interest is paid on CD's
@jerrymcmanus24804 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.
@ANTHONY0808able3 жыл бұрын
Dr. Barbay, the perfect example of what Shaw meant by "Those who can't, teach.
@cameltanker12864 жыл бұрын
one of the funniest scenes ever, if not THE funniest
@dgontar5 жыл бұрын
Just so we're clear here: This is NOT an economics class. This is a business class.
@originalotrex Жыл бұрын
. . . and a little monkey business!
@richardthegingerbo909 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.
@wolfslynx81182 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.
@ZENIGMATV2 жыл бұрын
That’s everywhere.
@jackb348 Жыл бұрын
Exactly
@juliusquasar156511 ай 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.).
@juliusquasar156511 ай бұрын
Food grade/ medical grade Gotta have a pest control plan. You deal in Hazmat gotta have a specialist for that as well.
@jerrykinnin794111 ай 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.
@meadster30811 ай бұрын
That fantasy land line never gets old 😂
@AguacateZmaduro 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!
@cpsig1597 Жыл бұрын
This college teacher is a joke; Mellon needs to be teaching this!
@carwrtr1 Жыл бұрын
RIP Paxton Whitehead. Great foil in this scene and this movie.
@davidrosenfeld857610 ай бұрын
You'll never know how right Thornton was. He was teaching real world.
@jameshoran8 Жыл бұрын
Headed here after the Fandango version censored "the Japs will kill us". I fucking hate censorship.
@maulekuul Жыл бұрын
Which is why I'd rather learn from someone who works in the field rather that one who only theorizes about it.
@EdgeXXI11 ай бұрын
I remember this movie. Any movie with Rodney Dangerfield is a classic
@n1c982 жыл бұрын
Typcial liberal college professor here folks, never DID, just LEARNED.
@acomegna6 жыл бұрын
Archie Comegna the actor they picked for that role was absolutely perfect.
@iamalive.12556 жыл бұрын
Yep,a conservative came up with all of those cost Mr.Melon was listing,CONservative
@mcdonoghrahloh4595 жыл бұрын
What an idiotic comment.
@Chorizo7275 жыл бұрын
You give them enough money, and there is ZERO difference.
@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr28234 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.
@ANTHONY0808able3 жыл бұрын
Tell that to the bank!
@mcdonoghrahloh4595 жыл бұрын
And the mob, lol.
@rong8052 жыл бұрын
@@rong805 Thanx for the reply 👍🏿
@mcdonoghrahloh4592 жыл бұрын
And the insurance companies!
@juliusquasar156511 ай бұрын
I just LOVE Rodney Dangerfield! 🤣🤣🤣
@h.e.s.5248 Жыл бұрын
Man... What i would have given to have Rodney Dangerfield teaching real life when i was in school.
@ahthisisgood11 ай бұрын
Him or Sam Kinnison
@Ascending1111 ай бұрын
the difference between being book/test smart and street smart. gaining knowledge is useful, but not at the cost of zero wisdom
@eatpigsnot5 жыл бұрын
Good luck if you want to do things without those boxes checked, tho. (Did it, lol)
@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr28234 жыл бұрын
Atlantic City.. the Steel Pier.. I was the warm up act for the diving horse! Lol!!
@Joscope5 жыл бұрын
The doc is pedantic when he says, "It's a fictional product, it doesn't matter"...😄😄😄😄😄
@anthonyevans5354 жыл бұрын
"try telling that to the loan officer at the bank"
@vikramparmar8093 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🤔
@berthacorona3862 Жыл бұрын
Rodney and kinison was the best scene of the whole movie
@Sillysoft10 ай бұрын
Mellon was right about everything. Maybe Dr. Barbay should go back to college himself and let Mellon be the instructor for a change..
@anthonyevans5354 жыл бұрын
liberal admit he is wrong?? just stop it now
@jerrymcmanus24804 жыл бұрын
And, to cap it off, have Mr. Barbay sit in a corner, wearing a Dunce Cap! That'd be hilarious!!!
@ronaldshank7589 Жыл бұрын
Mellon was right about everything.
@jackb348 Жыл бұрын
One of Rodney's best movies.
@barroncrist5779 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.
@princessmarlena13592 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
@georgebickford1516 Жыл бұрын
“Marbury thanks you, for your interest!”
@juliusquasar156511 ай 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!
@davidorme1993 Жыл бұрын
Attorney General Letitia James needs to see this on how business gets done here in America 🇺🇸👍
@mrs35336 ай бұрын
I may be fun but it is the way business is run in real life
@GeorgeFranquiz5 жыл бұрын
This movie never gets old!🥳
@dennisconlon5810 Жыл бұрын
Man i miss that type of movie!
@xunit62 Жыл бұрын
This was me in business school 😂
@NYmomAdrienne39153 жыл бұрын
😍.
@firstnamelastname3558 Жыл бұрын
"He really tells it like it ain't."
@brian197686 Жыл бұрын
What a great comedian, man was genius when it came to comedy
@Gregory-sm9pf10 ай бұрын
This is absolutely fabulous!!! Loved every second of it..
@user-su2sh9ve7g Жыл бұрын
How'd those kids keep straight faces????
@kat35lulu88 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely 💯 awesome. THAT IS BUSINESS
@kevinlyons45459 ай бұрын
One of the best comedies ever
@davidmeichner83464 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Paxton Whitehead!
@jpiperprince11 ай 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. 🙄
@pepleatherlab387211 ай 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.
@KGillis2 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.
@vypernight Жыл бұрын
Seems to me, talking about the financial aspects should be before the construction. Thornton was right.
@jimklipper6022 Жыл бұрын
Back 🔙 To School 🏫 (1986) happened on the month 🗓️ of August.
@willcuster771111 ай бұрын
Rodney was the best !!!
@jodyvanliew2514 Жыл бұрын
Mellon kept it real, widgets? What bank will finance bullshit? Mellon picked his theories apart.
@KJakaBlackBandit20 Жыл бұрын
Love the scene so so much. JMO
@sundayashiedu7511 Жыл бұрын
The J@ps 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@greglopez8206 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.
@emmafrost715111 ай бұрын
it shows how outdated what the professor is saying
@toomanyaccounts11 ай бұрын
lol the concrete line hahaaaaa
@Dashx6411 ай бұрын
Need to discuss how many bathrooms will need to be built for all the different genders.
@sylviaisgod694710 ай бұрын
The face of Mr Melon who check the professor like if he know nothing mdrrrr
@DocteurInfierno Жыл бұрын
So who is the real teacher here????
@keithmauldin8854 жыл бұрын
Thorton Mellon knows more about economics class than this clown with the teaching stick in his hand.. Who's teaching who here???
@anthonyevans5354 жыл бұрын
@@anthonyevans535 because you need that box checked to "know what you're talking about."
@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr28234 жыл бұрын
@@anthonyevans535It's business, not economics.
@vincesmith24999 ай бұрын
2:34 Rodney. Lol
@ralphtom3431 Жыл бұрын
i remeber when CDs were viable
@jigglybiglets Жыл бұрын
@Fippy Darkpaw LMAO!!! Wrong type of CDs. 😂
@Chet73 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....
@jhnpizz Жыл бұрын
Real world smacks the university fantasyland!
@billyd8401 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.
@darioinfini Жыл бұрын
Thornton Mellon knew more about business than Phillip did.
@garyrossetti244310 ай бұрын
0:55 I miss the 80's, back when we could say "Japs" and no one would care either way...
@jackson5116 Жыл бұрын
knees
@toomanyaccounts11 ай 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.
@mename43596 жыл бұрын
Me Name Sammy Kinison ate iron nails for breakfast!!!
@josephhickman45286 жыл бұрын
You idiots ever take a vacation
@mcdonoghrahloh4595 жыл бұрын
Rick O'Shay You're too apparent, Inbred.Go let your sister out of the basement👿
@mcdonoghrahloh4595 жыл бұрын
English comedians are the best.
@brucer95723 жыл бұрын
Love this movie
@mountcomfort740 Жыл бұрын
Back When there were no PowerPoint and Microsoft excel presentations
@crashpal Жыл бұрын
that professor knew nothing about reality
@James-pq7nf11 ай бұрын
Miss Rodney.
@vlandanlaurusaitis6399 жыл бұрын
me too, legend
@dylanmayer57678 жыл бұрын
“It’s strictly business”
@robertharrison94522 жыл бұрын
The funny part is that Thornton Mellon was right! LOL
@rhrh202511 ай 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)
@GHC32 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.
@EnligUlv 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.
@davidorme1993 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.
@ChargerBullet Жыл бұрын
@@ChargerBullet explain why college grads are morons that spout easily debunked bullcrp and think Marx, Mao and Stalin were heroes
@toomanyaccounts11 ай бұрын
Technically, the product does matter due to elasticity lol.
@BrandyBrandalia Жыл бұрын
That's still the problem. All the professors have never ran a business. they never got out of the classroom
@eddiesanders338310 ай бұрын
"Marbury thanks you for your interest..." - *_'Frasier'_*
@RiverOfBlacklights2 жыл бұрын
Wasn't that the Thanksgiving episode at Lilith’s place?
@cityhawk Жыл бұрын
@@cityhawk Yup. Correct! 🎇🎆😃 🎆🎇
@RiverOfBlacklights Жыл 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.
@podsmpsg13 ай бұрын
Tony soprano is coming for his wm money... not a boyscout.
@varowan1 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.
@philipchesleyiii Жыл бұрын
See... there's the world they teach you about in school.... and then... there's the REAL F@#KING WORLD!!!
@MarkLewis...11 ай бұрын
Cheers sweet dreams god love you
@stacystoltz8722 Жыл бұрын
Very accurate, those who cant do, teach, those who cant teach...DO. Actual real world experience vs books entire life.
@philipquaglino Жыл бұрын
i wonder how many kids no what a tape recorder is
@thrush6604 жыл бұрын
see above
@jerrymcmanus24804 жыл бұрын
I heard college enrollment is getting less and less and universities are losing money.
Thornton Mellon brought his real world business experience into the professor's classroom. The professor couldn't handle it.
Those who can't do... teach
@@jacobrobles474 Which is probably why he says there are two types. The quick & the dead.He doesn't look like much fun
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
one of the best examples of theory vs practice on film
Completely agree. Experience is the best teacher.
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.
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
bribes and kickbacks=licenses and permits
You forgot, 'Zone Changes'.. 😉
And they always seem to “expire” at random and unpredictable times.
And the more money you have the more the expensive and more often those problems occur.
His look when he noticed students were taking notes from Melon was hilarious
😂
And later on Marge Sweetwater was taking notes FOR Melon.
@@kencummings953 Did she get all the pencils out of her hair? Oops, this was before she working for Mr. Rooney… Sorry.
"How about Fantasyland"... One of the greatest zingers in movie history.
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!
@@ronaldshank7589 An arrogant academic prick being hyperspecialized in one field and having no idea what the world's like? Wow, imagine that.
Then the professor dropped his pointing stick 😂
I miss Rodney more than I can sometimes imagine... RIP... king of comedy...👍👏👏👏👏🙏
I thought Rupert Pumpkin was the King of Comedy
RIP Paxton Whitehead, the actor playing the economics professor in this scene
Even though he annoyed the professor, Thornton wasn't wrong 😆😆😆
2:25 "I'm in da waste disposals bidness" - Tony Soprano
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. You'll never go broke selling this story to people. We never get tired of it.
Thorton Mellon was telling the real truth how real life business is run. All these kids go to school and learn theory not reality
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
Yup .. you're so right.
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!
In Montreal Quebec the bid for Government construction contracts under former premier Jean Charest, was given to member of organized crime
@@laurenceshtull6777 .. that happens everywhere.
We're good at that in Ohio.
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.
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.
Melon just takes the professor to school. It's comical to see how much the professor hates Melon.
Especially when he finds out Melon is banging his girlfriend!
And that's even before Melon shows interest in and wins over Barbay's girlfriend.
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!
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.
I was just telling this to my wife. Most teachers have always had their summers off.
In the glory days of the 1960s 1970s up to the 80s. The teacher would be the most respected members of the community.
Being a cop is not exactly "working in the real world". Nor is an Army Sergeant. They both are government jobs.
@@ChargerBullet - I've worked both private and public sector. It is night and day.
@@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.
Waste disposal isn't run by the boy scouts, lol...truth.
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.
Prime example....Terry Silver in Karate Kid 3.
Learn that by watching the soprano’s
Tony Soprano was in waste management.
How about fantasy land. Lost it lol lol lol.
total classic
fantasy land: where interest is paid on CD's
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.
Dr. Barbay, the perfect example of what Shaw meant by "Those who can't, teach.
one of the funniest scenes ever, if not THE funniest
Just so we're clear here: This is NOT an economics class. This is a business class.
. . . and a little monkey business!
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.
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.
That’s everywhere.
Exactly
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.).
Food grade/ medical grade Gotta have a pest control plan. You deal in Hazmat gotta have a specialist for that as well.
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.
That fantasy land line never gets old 😂
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!
This college teacher is a joke; Mellon needs to be teaching this!
RIP Paxton Whitehead. Great foil in this scene and this movie.
You'll never know how right Thornton was. He was teaching real world.
Headed here after the Fandango version censored "the Japs will kill us". I fucking hate censorship.
Which is why I'd rather learn from someone who works in the field rather that one who only theorizes about it.
I remember this movie. Any movie with Rodney Dangerfield is a classic
Typcial liberal college professor here folks, never DID, just LEARNED.
Archie Comegna the actor they picked for that role was absolutely perfect.
Yep,a conservative came up with all of those cost Mr.Melon was listing,CONservative
What an idiotic comment.
You give them enough money, and there is ZERO difference.
@@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.
Tell that to the bank!
And the mob, lol.
@@rong805 Thanx for the reply 👍🏿
And the insurance companies!
I just LOVE Rodney Dangerfield! 🤣🤣🤣
Man... What i would have given to have Rodney Dangerfield teaching real life when i was in school.
Him or Sam Kinnison
the difference between being book/test smart and street smart. gaining knowledge is useful, but not at the cost of zero wisdom
Good luck if you want to do things without those boxes checked, tho. (Did it, lol)
Atlantic City.. the Steel Pier.. I was the warm up act for the diving horse! Lol!!
The doc is pedantic when he says, "It's a fictional product, it doesn't matter"...😄😄😄😄😄
"try telling that to the loan officer at the bank"
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🤔
Rodney and kinison was the best scene of the whole movie
Mellon was right about everything. Maybe Dr. Barbay should go back to college himself and let Mellon be the instructor for a change..
liberal admit he is wrong?? just stop it now
And, to cap it off, have Mr. Barbay sit in a corner, wearing a Dunce Cap! That'd be hilarious!!!
Mellon was right about everything.
One of Rodney's best movies.
After this, Dr. Philip Barbay changed his name to Dr. Colin Campbell, moved to Boston, MA., and became head of the Marbury Academy.
I loved that Frasier episode. Dr Colin finally allowed Fra/lill'.. son Frederick in to the academy because they irritated him so much. lol
“Marbury thanks you, for your interest!”
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!
Attorney General Letitia James needs to see this on how business gets done here in America 🇺🇸👍
I may be fun but it is the way business is run in real life
This movie never gets old!🥳
Man i miss that type of movie!
This was me in business school 😂
😍.
"He really tells it like it ain't."
What a great comedian, man was genius when it came to comedy
This is absolutely fabulous!!! Loved every second of it..
How'd those kids keep straight faces????
Absolutely 💯 awesome. THAT IS BUSINESS
One of the best comedies ever
R.I.P. Paxton Whitehead!
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. 🙄
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.
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.
Seems to me, talking about the financial aspects should be before the construction. Thornton was right.
Back 🔙 To School 🏫 (1986) happened on the month 🗓️ of August.
Rodney was the best !!!
Mellon kept it real, widgets? What bank will finance bullshit? Mellon picked his theories apart.
Love the scene so so much. JMO
The J@ps 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
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.
it shows how outdated what the professor is saying
lol the concrete line hahaaaaa
Need to discuss how many bathrooms will need to be built for all the different genders.
The face of Mr Melon who check the professor like if he know nothing mdrrrr
So who is the real teacher here????
Thorton Mellon knows more about economics class than this clown with the teaching stick in his hand.. Who's teaching who here???
@@anthonyevans535 because you need that box checked to "know what you're talking about."
@@anthonyevans535It's business, not economics.
2:34 Rodney. Lol
i remeber when CDs were viable
@Fippy Darkpaw LMAO!!! Wrong type of CDs. 😂
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....
Real world smacks the university fantasyland!
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.
Thornton Mellon knew more about business than Phillip did.
0:55 I miss the 80's, back when we could say "Japs" and no one would care either way...
knees
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.
Me Name Sammy Kinison ate iron nails for breakfast!!!
You idiots ever take a vacation
Rick O'Shay You're too apparent, Inbred.Go let your sister out of the basement👿
English comedians are the best.
Love this movie
Back When there were no PowerPoint and Microsoft excel presentations
that professor knew nothing about reality
Miss Rodney.
me too, legend
“It’s strictly business”
The funny part is that Thornton Mellon was right! LOL
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)
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.
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.
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.
@@ChargerBullet explain why college grads are morons that spout easily debunked bullcrp and think Marx, Mao and Stalin were heroes
Technically, the product does matter due to elasticity lol.
That's still the problem. All the professors have never ran a business. they never got out of the classroom
"Marbury thanks you for your interest..." - *_'Frasier'_*
Wasn't that the Thanksgiving episode at Lilith’s place?
@@cityhawk Yup. Correct! 🎇🎆😃 🎆🎇
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.
Tony soprano is coming for his wm money... not a boyscout.
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.
See... there's the world they teach you about in school.... and then... there's the REAL F@#KING WORLD!!!
Cheers sweet dreams god love you
Very accurate, those who cant do, teach, those who cant teach...DO. Actual real world experience vs books entire life.
i wonder how many kids no what a tape recorder is
see above
I heard college enrollment is getting less and less and universities are losing money.
Rodney gets no respect no respect at all. Lol