Back to School (1986) - Thornton Talks Business Scene (4/12) | Movieclips
Back to School - Thornton Talks Business: Thornton (Rodney Dangerfield) challenges Dr. Barbay (Paxton Whitehead) about the true cost of business in the real world.
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Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) is concerned that his son Jason (Keith Gordon) is unsure whether to go to college, so the uneducated self-made millionaire encourages him by signing up as a student as well. As Jason tries to establish himself among his peers and make the diving team, Thornton falls for a pretty professor (Sally Kellerman) and gets others do his schoolwork for him. When the suspicious dean (Paxton Whitehead) finds out, Thornton needs to show he can get by on his own.
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Cast: Keith Gordon, Paxton Whitehead, Rodney Dangerfield
Director: Alan Metter
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Didactics vs. heuristics. In school you learn a lesson then take a test. In the world you are tested then learn a lesson.
You get the courage to do a thing after you've done it. Strange isn't it?
bruh, best quote i've seen all day. so true.
Well put!
The simplest quotes are often the most true
Wow, that's very true.
R.I.P. Paxton Whitehead, please spread some love and heartfelt condolences to his family. The Englishman appeared 17 times over a half-century on Broadway, earning a Tony nomination for Camelot, and recurred on Mad About You and Friends.
Aww man, had no idea Paxton Whitehead died. Best quote from that movie: Dr. Barbay: What did he want? Diane: What do all men want? Dr. Barbay: He wants you to dress up as Wonder Woman, tie him up with the golden lariat, and force him to tell the truth? Diane: No, just dinner, Phillip
Underrated, underappreciated, but a class act. RIP.
@@brndnwilks - Great comment. No one could have played it just had he had.
And a few episodes of Frasier...Great actor indeed.
He was also good in the Animaniacs as the King.
"It doesn't matter?? Tell that to the bank."
@Himmler Schutzstaffel spot on
@Himmler Schutzstaffel So are you going to teach everything in one class?
@Himmler Schutzstaffel Capital carrying costs ( Interest paid before the job is completed. ), insurance, security, training, fees ( Not kickbacks and bribes, just fees you have to pay. ), licenses, permits........;-) ;-) ;-)
Dan Kelly In one class, no, but the first thing that should be discussed is the product.
It doesn't matta.
I love this scene because it adds such an important dimension to Thornton: he genuinely knows what he’s talking about. If he was “just” a party animal, then he wouldn’t be sympathetic, and people would question how such a bad student managed to become a multimillionaire. This dialogue makes it clear that Thornton IS intelligent, industrious, and has a ton of experience; he also genuinely wants the other students to learn so they can become successful, too. Rodney Dangerfield really knew how to make characters work! What an actor. :)
100% truth
I also love this scene because it demonstrates the shortcomings of most education, provided by purely academic educators with no real world experience. The old saying is generally true. Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Today's universities churn out graduates with $100,000 in student loan debt who have been taught skills such as social justice virtue signaling and entitlement that have negative value for employers.
@@Liberty4Ever You hit the nail on the head!!!!
@@Liberty4Ever I had many professors with big time real world experience. One guy was president of McKesson. Another was one of the first 5 employees at Intel. Dont generalize.
@@jtaco4101Do not forget the behind close door deals, behind the scenes deals, under the table deals, lobbying funding, politicians seeing a pot of gold and wants to become part of the deal, and a lot of stuff that I have seen when I was assigned in your country under a diplomatic cover.
The funniest part is when he sees the students taking notes on Rodney Dangerfield’s kick back advice. Very funny, subtle comedic effect 😂🤣
But all true
I would have taken nots from Rodney Danderfield as well. He knows what he is talking about .
“Don’t forget a little something for the building inspectors” 😂
@@JamesQMurphy Yes that as well. I loved this scene and watch it many times.
Cement was also run by the same guys that ran the waste disposal company.
"The next question for us is where to build our factory?" "How about Fantasyland!?" 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
MY FAAAAAVORITE PART LOLOLOLOLOL
What I love is how these business students (probably future executives themselves) are furiously taking notes on everything Thornton says about how business really works.
Well that is sadly how we students do it. I learned more from real life experiences than from college
Well, Thornton had built a business from the ground up and been successful, while the professor had no real world experience at all. That's why college has gone so far off the rails, all the professors are life long academics living in a bubble while the reality changes without them.
ian, yes! That was a scream! But maybe it's a more realistic approach with college.
@@valuecalc It doesn't show.
I loved it too 😂😂😂😂
This is the reason I dropped out, started my own business instead of going into debt, and didn't look back. Thanks Rodney, RIP!
same
Is your business still going strong with these economic shutdowns?
But, what's your product? Widgets? No wait, they make those in Flint, Mi.
@@joelsmith3797 I almost laughed at this, then remembered it's true
@@Smudgeroon74 business is all about making money every challenge means theirs more money!
The best is Rodney's face as he's listening to the professor's "lessons." He's trying to be patient and put up with it, but he still has the look of "this teacher is such a fool" on it. Better actor than given credit for.
His "questioning" look is hilarious.
His role in "Natural Born Killers" showed he could tackle dramatic roles, too. He was genuinely frightening in that movie.
@@ryanloftis1125 Try seeing him in your lobby at 2:30 a.m. in his robe, half awake, stumbling into his tour bus lighting up a normally very quiet block just east of Avenue A.
Thank god you said it, Steven Fallon!!!
When you get older. You realize just how right he was..Why Companies buy season tickets to sports events.. They pass them around to inspectors and city hall....As that building will take 10 years to build..
30 years in construction and I can tell you he is absolutely correct. Zoning laws will crush a project. Especially the annoying hidden ones. Depending on where you build, teamsters can have an impact on concrete costs lol.
Wow, that's really interesting! Can you go a little more in detail, I really am curious about the behind the scenes, nuts and bolts of this!
Sammy the Bull Gravano has a real good video on how the union strong arming works.. I have lived thru zoning problems and it’s a very boring topic.. actually construction sucks period and it’s not worth talking about.
@@blockmasterscott I study economics and zoning laws are a literal nightmare. There's a lot of literature on this topic you can look up but the tldr is that zoning is upheld by various bureaucracies, politicians, environmental groups and current property owners for incoherent or self serving reasons. The incentives are almost only one way towards more regulation and that regulation is like a cancer that slowly diseases an entire metro area by solving very few or no problems while driving housing costs through the roof.
@@Batmangutten I remember how civil inspector wanted $400 kickback for quick house-lpan re-arrengement. But my oldman wanted to play plain n square, costed same.
And don't forget, eminent domain can crop up when you least expect it
The reality of business is never so clean as the classroom says.
@Lizzie Allen reality is that it is ruthlessly pragmatic.
@Crunchy 🤣😂🤣😂
I play this for my Sports Management class at the beginning of each semester.
One is theory the other is reality
Those people have spent their lives in academia because they were afraid to go out into the real world
When I was a kid, I liked this movie for the silly stuff. After I went to college and got into the real world, I appreciated scenes like this a whole lot more.
Good God, college. What a waste of time and $$$ lol. Went twice.
As we change so does the meaning of films...
I went through college as an adult learner. One of my instructors had been a buddy of mine in high school. He'd gone to school, and was now teaching for it. He knew what he was talking about with theoreticals and the science, but he'd literally given his valedictorian speech the same day he signed his teaching contract. But I'd been involved in actually doing it for 8 years and realized I'd maxed out as for as promotions without degrees. We had conversations that were a lot like this.
Sorry, but this comments section is reserved only for things that actually happened.
Always loved this scene! I’ve been a businessman now for nearly 40 years and it still rings true! 😄
Which part?
@@peteranserin3708I am a farmer, and I have to say that I have run into EVERY problem that Thornton mentions. One job we had issues with was during construction of a packing shed for produce. Despite legal preparations, certified builders and electricians we had loads of problems. One problem in particular: we just finished construction in time for harvest. We had bathrooms built, but the inspector decided that to meet code we were required to build 6 handicap accessable bathrooms for the watermelon harvesting crew!!! Nevermind the ridiculousness and cost, we didn't have time because the watermelons were ready!!! The inspector refused to turn the power on to the building until we built them!!! We had to go to city council meetings and beg the local politians to give us a temporary zoning variance to enable us to start packing the crop before it rotted.
That's one big problem with colleges. They teach book theory, not real world
peteranserin3708 Everything except Fantasyland.
Just watch the tv show from Jeremy Clarkson’s farm to get an idea of what they are talking about. Season 2 really gives more detail
"Then there is the long term cost, such as waste disposal. I don't know if your familiar who runs that business, but I assure you it's not the Boy Scouts." Mr. Soprano would like a word with you after class.
Tony's cool with Mr. Thornton. He's a good earner.
I think Borko would like a word, he does t like when you disparage legitimate businessmen
Chuck Rizzo, Dino Bucci and Anthony Marrocco can testify to this, if they hadn't taken the 5th.
Barone Sanitation.
Well Mr Soprano never had the makings of a Boy scout.
My dad spent the last 17 years in his career, up until he retired in 1984 as an engineer and construction/project manager, building plants all across the US. When he saw this movie he said Mellon was right on.
"Doesn't matter?? Tell that to the bank." That line kills me every time. Oh, how true.
Rodney slayed the professor with real world business 😄😎
I always liked the "why build?" question. I mean it sort of makes sense. I always thought you could definitely save money by leasing a building. I see a lot of vacant buildings that are up for sale or lease. Betting most sellers are motivated. Especially if the building has been empty for years.
@Joe Kinchicken and those who can't teach, teach gym
Yep! Everybody that's anybody will DEFINITELY want their "cut" of your business! Mr. Meillon knew that, so he taught the "Teacher" just how things are in the REAL WORLD!!! He schooled the "Teacher" on how it is in the real business world! I love the line about "Fantasyland"! That really cracked me up!!!
@@tomv5988, & it's not just the manufacturing sector, the great majority of retail companies lease their spaces almost exclusively. When you factor in property & capital gains taxes, long term upkeep, legal liability/lawsuits/insurance, etc., it's a huge savings to lease. Any business model with a less-than-enormous profit margin virtually requires it, & corporations want every penny of profit they can scrounge going to keep the stockholders happy, not for paying taxes & repaving parking lots.
I love this movie and Rodney is perfect in it!
I remember my old man telling me this in roughly 1975. Boy am I glad I listened. It's save me decades of learning the hard way.
What I love about this movie, aside from being filmed at the university where i went, and the comedy of course, is the hidden message that people who don’t have a formal education or a college degree, sometimes know more about certain subjects as the people that teach. Thornton Mellon owned all those guys simply because he attended de university of hard knocks.
The only class where Thornton learned anything was the Literature class. It was the only subject in which the professor knew more than him. Of course, he worked so hard establishing his chain, that he never made time for reading.
Go Badgers!
Best part of this scenes is the quick camera-pan to the students taking NOTES based on what Dangerfield’s character is saying 😄🤣
... and the students are so serious!
Professor: Bribes and kickbacks are NOT part of this business model. Me: Yeah, you really never built a business from the ground up, have you, pal?
I wish Rodney had replied with that.
Greasing palms and net working will always matter as much as the product does
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus i never understood networking until i got older. my father will always say its who you know and not what you know in business. He also pushed me to play golf and network.
@@santrader1707 I went to a private school for a bit with strong ties to the knights of Columbus. They pretty much made golf mandatory for every male there. I had no clue why those two things were potentially such a big deal until later in life.
Knights of Columbus And they are just the top 50 groups in the world you gotta play golf with😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
2:18 “I’m sure the Teamsters would like to have a little chat with ya’” lol
YEAH AND IF YOU DONT COOPERATE WITH THE TEAMSTERS, YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF BURIED IN CEMENT BY SOME GUY WHO IS ALL ABOUT IS KICKBACKS AND BRIBES WITH A LONG CIGAR HANGING OUT THE SIDE OF HIS MOUTH WHO JUST SPIT IN THE CEMENT THAT YOU JUST GOT SLAM DUNKED IN. WHOS NEXT MOVE IS THEN TO GO AFTER YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
@Rick O'Shay They drive the cement trucks (at least that's the implication). Whether that's still true, I don't know.
@Rick O'Shay The Teamsters Union used to be controlled by the Mafia. So if you didn't do what they wanted, there was a good chance that you would 'disappear.'
@Rick O'Shay the Teamsters union is a union of trade jobs. I'm sure construction workers that put in cement are in that union
@@xohjn5072 just like Jimmy Hoffa; and coincidentally, his son, Jimmy Hoffa Jr, currently runs the teamsters 👍🏼
I went to college in my late 20’s early 30’s and knew most of the BS my professors taught would never apply in the real world. My only regret was not being a smartass to them like Rodney 😞
Took a class in concrete design with a professor who DID have real world experience. That Mafia bit is no joke! XD
Correct. I’m A native New Yorker of 57 years and it’s stranglehold whilst not as tight as it used to be is nothing to be sneezed about. In fact, most major concrete firms during the 80s, 90s and early 2000s often were charged a ‘fee’ . Many people died on sights claiming ‘they took their own life’ which was a mob tactic often relating to belligerent construction officials not towing the party line
"Hold it, hold it! Why build? You're better off leasing at a buck and a quarter, buck and a half a square foot; take your down payment and put it into CDs or something else you can roll over every couple months." I was in a fairly important business growth strategy meeting at work, and I literally used a version of this line for a similar issue. I don't even know how right it is, but I said it with confidence and people in the meeting were like nodding their heads thinking I'm this financial genius, but I just stole it from an 80s comedy.
CDs had high interest in the 80s but today they’re almost worthless. Better to invest in an index stock like S&P 500
@@electrictroy2010 Vanguard
You are right for a fairly new venture (or new entrant from a related industry). For a bew venture, you don't want to tie up money needed in the real basics to get the product－market going (ie spend in R＆D, marketing and sales, and lease everything else, at least till the product gets going and is more predictable.
I still don't get what CDs were in the 80's. Nowadays I know the CD as the 'Compact Disc', an old one-use or multi-use storage device deprecated in favor of USB sticks and Cloud Drives. EDIT: Did he mean Credit Derivatives?
@@IllusionistsBane He meant a Certificate of Deposit, which is a savings instrument that pays the borrower a higher interest rate than ordinary savings instruments like money markets. The catch is you have to leave your money in until the maturity date (usually a year or longer - but sometimes less) or risk getting penalized by the lending institution if you withdraw the funds early.
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.
“How about fantasy land”. Perfect!
That one finally shut the idiot professor up! LOL
An excellent exposition on some of the differences between ivory tower academia and harsh reality.
The students clearly listened to him as would I.
Indeed. If I were able to go back in time with all the real world knowledge I've acquired over the years in both the real and business world, I'd have eaten more than half of my goddamn college professors alive in any subject or situation they presented.
Best professors I had were ones who had been in the business world. Best was a class on hazardous waste, hated the class, but the prof. knew what he was doing. He worked in the field for decades before retiring and then teaching. He had one book, a government book, and you didn't learn to memorize it, or even read chapters in it, but how to use it to look up the information you needed. In other word, real world applications. I hated it as I had decided to change my major and no longer needed the class.
@@hisdudeness8328 Ah but you just admitted that you didn't learn everything in one hour.
It's not so much ivory tower Vs Reality. The thing is when you go to college, the first years you have to learn the very basic things, the theoretical concepts and all that. Later in the career is when you will learn the more complicated stuff including real world scenarios and practices while aproching to graduation. The only mistake this professor made was not beginning with the basics
I cannot think of any spot on the planet where this professor's mythical company would succeed.
Agreed. Most successful businesses begin with a finished prototype or even selling the product out of a garage or small rented shop.
@@jeffdude6088 that's not what I mean. You can game out a plan but his suppositions are all wrong even for the 1980s.
How about Fantasyland ???
Well, that's because you don't know how useful a widget is.
How bout fantasy land! 😂
zippos79 it was either that or Reseda 👌
That part still cracks me up 😂
Classic!
lol, and fantasy land is exactly what these students are living in until they get out of that classroom and start paying taxes :)
One of the best lines in the movie imho.
What Rodney says still holds up. University's exist in their own reality.
Apostrophe abuse.
How about fantasy land! Love it!
Then why are young people still stampeding their way into them and willing to go into debt for an education?
@@basilmarasco1975 Because indoctrination tells you beautiful lies instead of ugly truths. They go deep into debt to be indoctrinated.
@@rickoshay5525 By chance, is your comment the beginning of a "Colleges and universities are bastions of liberalism" screed?
Rodney was truly one of the elite greats of comedy! A brilliant,comedic legend! R.I.P.
and his writers, don't forget them
I enjoyed seeing Back to School (1986) in a theater with my family in the summer of '86. This film seemed to come out of nowhere. Watching it present day brings back pleasant memories of that afternoon with my loved ones. Exiting the theater after the movie I pointed out the Coming Soon poster for Crocodile Dundee; another sleeper (well, back then no one knew what to expect) from 1986.
My 80s movie theater trips with family and friends are some of my favorite memories. Now with the streaming services, I drive my family crazy going through the lists of movies and constantly saying 'I saw that in the theater.'
Your so right I was 9 and went with my uncle who was 12 and my aunt who was she was 21 they were laughing so hard great memories
@orionh3000 Oh, yeah.
My older brother came back from the movie and practically gave me a synopsis of the whole movie word for word. I loved it before I even saw it
@@JayBuccola Oh, that sounds like me!
1:10 “Doesn’t matter! Tell that to the bank!” 1:32 “Why Build? You’re better off leasing!”
Legitimate business world? Well that's an oxymoron and a half. Mr Mellon's breakdown of how business works IS the business world!
To a certain extent. But definitely not an everyday thing. Or every project thing. You’ve been watching to much tv
@@davestuddaman8127 Enron? Worldcom? Arthur Anderson?
@@edwardflickinger949 that's 3 businesses Theres literally thousands of businesses in the us
@@davestuddaman8127 I recited 3 examples. I'm quite sure that there's many more that haven't been caught yet
@@edwardflickinger949 and I can counter everyone that you give me, sweetheart
1986 was one of the best years
It sure was.
The entire decade of the 80s was a great time.
The absolute best of Rock & Roll, too. Big hair and all the rest.
Charlie Henry yep
For some, I suppose.
I've seen professors in big universities who have no recent field experience in the subjects they teach. Take for instance Teachers College at Columbia University: the professors of education have not taught in a high school in 20 years, so their teachings aren't really practical. But if you go to a college for working-class people (City College, local community colleges) then the "professors" are really just industry professionals who teach part-time. You have businessmen, police officers, high school principals, and healthcare professionals teaching their skills/knowledge to the next generation. They've paid their dues, and they know the score.
The sad thing is you would hope a teacher would be overjoyed at having a real world expert take part, but reality shows that the ivory tower stereotype is closer to reality then not.
"I don't know if you know who runs that business, but I assure you it's not the Boy Scouts." Classic
Paxton Whitehead was very good as the snobby professor.
He was near-perfect! Great casting!
He's been typecast on name alone.
@@meadster308 How do I know he has in a couple of movies he did those parts so well it definitely came off as the real thing
2:01 “Whoah, you left out a bunch of stuff!” 2:09 “Well, first of all, You’re gonna have to grease the local politicians for the sudden zoning problems that always come up!”
“How about fantasyland”! A sentence I use to this day to people who are oblivious to the obvious.
When he yells out Fantasyland, it is awesome. Classic scene.
Getting my degree in business, I had professors that were basically entirely business educators as a career, and I had some that had done real legitimate things in business before moving on to teach it. One was a CEO of a major corporation before parachuting out at 50 with millions of dollars, and was teaching for fun. The ones that had actually been there and done that taught the most amazing courses.
My mom is an actual law professor who’s been in courtrooms and still practices on the side. Half of those people she works with she doesn’t even talk to. And a lot of em are like this professor. He’s spent his whole life in Academia with no business experience and has never owned a business. And stayed in Academia because all of them, including him were too afraid to go out into the real world
Now I know what they mean about Boyce Watkins. Lol
These people earn boatloads of money, for practically part-time work, most with tenure. Why would they? Their real goal is indoctrination of the next generation.
@@JustBree716 Bingo!!! Excellent reference!!! I wish can like this comment a thousand times!!!💯💯💯
Hence why Rodney made the remark of "Fantasy Land" I have to say. 🤔
One of those great movie scenes I can watch over and over. The facial expressions on rodney and the professor as they talk and listen to each other is hilarious. Never gets old.
For me it's Sam Kinison will always be funny.
@@johnlozauskas778 Sam's not in this scene. My comment is about this scene.
I know it's a comedy, but Rodney is 100% right here.
About what? Based on how adamantly he refuses to think abstractly he must also respond to the question, “Suppose that in the far north, where there is snow, all bears are white, and the town of Novy Rosikov is in the far north - what color are the bears in Novy Rosikov?” by exclaiming “Why don’t you ask someone who’s been there!” at which point we all applaud him for his insightful and yet cavalier practical wisdom
He is missed and appreciated more now that he's gone. Truly underated.
That scene, the scene with Kinison as the history professor and the marine biology scene were the best.
What's a bath without bubbles...
@@waynedoyle2421 "Come over here, Bubbles!" Damn! Bubbles was HOT!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥
Rodney's best film!!!
rene hernandez 2nd best , 1st was easy money 1983
I like this one, but for me, nothing beats Caddyshack
Best film that ain't all that dirty like some of his other films I mean don't get me wrong I love all his films but they are crude whereas this wasn't
@@dakotahmays1437 I WAS JUST COMING ON HERE TO SAY CADDYSHACK BUT YOU BEAT ME TO IT, RODNEY, TED KNIGHT, CHEVY CHASE AND BILL MURRAY WERE UNBEATABLE IN THAT MOVIE. WHAT AN UGLY HAT, I BET YOU GET A FREE BOWL OF SOUP WITH THAT HAT, OH...... BUT IT LOOKS GOOD ON YOU????. REMEMBER THAT LOL. I LAUGHED SO HARD AT THAT ONE AMONG MANY OTHERS, OR AT THE END OF THE MOVIE, OK JUDGE THAT'S 40,000 DOLLARS. COUGH IT UP. I OWE YOU NOTHING. NOTHING!!!!!!!! THAT MUCH I FIGURED. HEY ROCKO!!!! MOOSE!!!!!! HELP THE JUDGE FIND HIS CHECKBOOK LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL, REMEMBER THAT ONE????
The difference between academics and real world experience.
This scene is a perfect example of how "real world business" operates while "fantasy land business" should operate.
This short segment satirically illustrates the difference between Theory and the real world it is timeless
Rodney Dangerfield is the king of one liners..a true comedic genius..
Amazing how these comedies in the 80’s and 90’s are among the funniest in film history, Dangerfield, Murphy, Candy, Farley, Sandler to name just a few icons.
He,Rodney hit the nail on the head. Every one has there hand out . When you are doin business.
[SARCASM ALERT] According to the professor, an actual millionaire businessman doesn’t know how actual business works in the real world… Right
This movie was ahead of its time!
You assumed.
You... you know this is fake, right?
Truth yes I do
That's why the professor is teaching instead of running a business.
Such an underrated Dangerfield performance.
I always laugh when the professor says “mafia payoffs” 😂
*maffia
@@20alphabet It's both Mafia and maffia
@@volvob1884 Yes, but that wasn't my point. The teacher's pronunciation was măfia, using the short "a" sound rather than mâfia using the tall "a" sound. I just thought it would be more understandable to the reader if I used an extra "f". I was wrong again.
it's never Maffia, just Mafia. Only Americans misspell it as Maffia for reasons that escape me
@@20alphabet Sorry that your phonetic cue was wasted. If it's any consolation, I saw what you were going for
A man teaching a business class that has never built anything!!..thats whats wrong with college!
Most of my professors for my BS in Finance were experienced experts, what was your experience at University?
@@TheYaegerjeusmc is it true that most universities I really teaching you how to work for someone as opposed to working for yourself? With exception Harvard Business and others
Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.
@@eddavis9704 Ooh, did you make up that gem on your own? How about you prove that claim?
You seem to be falling for confirmation bias: successful business people are successful. The spectrum of people who have made scads of money is broad. But you are ignoring the vast majority of business people without any training who try to succeed but fail. You are biasing your evaluation by including only people who have already succeeded. Any decent engineering program teaches the time value of money. If you can't do better than investing in a basic security fund, you are not optimizing your use of money. In other words, if you can't make more money building a better widget than you can by investing in a diversified fund, don't waste time trying to make the better widget.
If you plan on using any cement in this building I'm sure the Teamsters would like to have a little chat with you and that'll cost you
This is a great clip from a great movie!!! Rodney is sorely missed, the comedians these days can’t hold a candle to his talent
Comedians are no longer allowed to perform his type of humor... They might hurt someone's feeling.
@@timberry4709 HOW FAR WE HAVE FALLEN TIM.
When academics meets business and real life and reality
If you've never been to college imagine this scene and then imagine half the subjects have nothing to do with what you want to learn.
One of the great perks of the graduate school I went to was that along with the professor, there was a practitioner. At Baruch, where I studied Public Administration, I had professor Doug Muzzio, one of the top political scientists and New York City historians, around; and, via his CityTalk TV program, interviewed basically every New York City political leader. The practitioner was Fernando Ferrer, former Bronx Borough President and NYC Mayoral runner-up; now vice-chair of the MTA. Both gave theoretical, and real, perspectives to the class!
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." (Einstein) SPOT.....ON....TRUTH!!!!!
He was always a crack up and one of the last true funny men in comedy history. We all miss you Rodney. Rest in peace. You have our respect.
Mr. Melon's face when he says, what's a widget?! Like he never heard of it before 🤣🤣
Widgets, ACME, and Dewey, Cheatam, and Howe.
I teach business and I'm afraid all too often the classes are something like that (on the professor's side). Occasionally you do get a Rodney Dangerfield type student, which is good because it makes you think more about the hard edges of business around the world. Hollywood used to write intelligent and realistic (though humorous) scripts -- I wish they would again.
I didn't realize how good his acting was when I saw this as a kid in the 80's.
I'll never forget all the "fees" I ended up paying. The "special licensed inspections" I had to pay for. The remodel was about 50 k in material and labor. That bonus stuff cost another 60 k. Including a handicapped bathroom for 20 k that wasn't open to the public. It had a hand rail by the John. Getting shaken down by the state is a real thing.
Oh it's no joke, especially if you have a disgruntled employee that calls OSHA without telling anyone.
Rodney just proved that not everything is or can always be done by the book.
Finally a time when Rodney got some respect!
0:56 shows how far up this professor is in his Ivory Tower. Labor is always your biggest expense.
Greatest example of a teacher who never did the very thing he teaches.
As an MBA graduate who attempted (and failed) to run his own business, this rings so true. The classroom might try to replace and replicate real world experience and knowledge, but they come nowhere close.
Brings back memories from college. I went in to the army right out of high school and was a 21 year old freshman in college and been in the real world while most of my professors had been professors for years. Led to a lot of debates like this.
'our telephone lines cost $50 a month.' 'it's for a business.' 'oh! did i say $50? i meant $150!'
Everything you need to know about college versus the real world is in this clip. And, yes, I have a B.A. and a J.D. The theoretical versus how things really work, and how things really get done.
So true. Kudos to the university professors who instill the foundation basics to Bus.Admin. Economics, Accounting and marketing students in a manageable understanding fashion. Later out on the street, where the actual world steps into the lives of the graduates the "newbie" has a solid grounding from which to encounter and successfully address the rapidly of American business.
The perfect example of the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is sterile, but wisdom adds experience to knowledge.
2:59 HAHAHAHAHA! I watched this movie back in the 80s... still funny today!
This is something that is actually true. You don't learn business in a book. You learn by doing it.
love how they started notes from melon
Nobody tell Jason that there's a classic red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury right outside the university.....
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Or to go sailboating with his friends off the coast of Amity.
"He could flunk you." "Flunk me?! Flunk HIM!"
"He could flunk you." "Flunk me?! Flunk HIM!"
Great attitude.
The only economics lesson I remembered! lol
aaf1218 what about voodoo economics from Ferris Buellers day off .
aaf1218 the most important economics lesson I learned was an explanation on “Opportunity Costs.”
This was business, not economics.
@@vincesmith2499 business and economics go hand-to-hand..so....yeah.
@@PeopleOfCasinos Two different subjects in college.
"The Japs will kills us in the labor costs" 🤣 🤣
Students taking notes when Thornton is doing his shpeel...hahaha!! 🤣🤣
its the tiny little subtle things that Rodney does, like the ever brief little wipe of his forehead and eye roll at 2:35 that sells his performance, proving that he's more than just a comedian.
Love how the lecturer just throws away his original lesson plan for the year just to spite Rodney Dangerfield
2:28 “I don’t know if you’re familiar with who runs that business, but I can assure you it’s NOT the Boy Scouts!”
I love how Rodney takes the reigns by adding a dose of realism. The students start zoning in on his comments and begin taking notes etrc. The academic then loses all credibility with Rodney's "Fantasyland" barb.. Priceless. Much like Rodney's character I am street educated and went to trade school. Some academics have been out of the loop and protectively cocooned by "fantasyland" AKA Higher Education that they have no clue about reality. They have been locked up in the Ivory Tower for decades.
Ya that applies to most liberal lefties college professors. They are so out of touch with reality they have become delusional and their delusions have become dangerous and psychotic.
The problem is that this was a beginning business course. The teacher may have been teaching them the basics before getting into more specific options like leasing. After all, knowing that leasing is a better idea hinges on actually understanding the costs that go into construction.
@@gregoryabass Yeah, this is a professor having a hypothetical exercise in an entry-level course, and some jackass insisting on treating it as reality.
I'll take someone with Street smarts over Book smarts any day!
@@johnschober1819 It kinda depends on whether I want this person to fix my car or build a nuclear reactor.
I actually loved this scene, theory vs reality, with reality dominating
Exactly the reason why real entrepreneurs are self made and business students work for them.
The A student works for the C student.
Saw this in the theater, thought it was hilarious. Decades later, went back to school myself and realized I was this guy, always bringing in complications when people were trying to learn basics. I am certain I was widely hated, and eventually quit. I didn't quit complicating things, I quit school. Tremendous waste of time as it turns out. Now I just kayak. Much better people involved.
@Rockmaster2112 Economics specifically. Fortunately the prof who bore the brunt of it was Island and chill/based AF and let me wreck some teenage wannabe communists' pet ideas. Still, GTFO of most college. It's a waste of life.
@@kensei1972 I’m currently an economics student at a “prestigious” university. I’m in my third year and I really resonate with what you’re saying. I’ve found that my professors have a bunch of credentials but the classes are completely devoid of real world/ pragmatic advice. It’s just regurgitated info that is completely useless and you get the feeling that nobody wants to be in class including the professor. I’ve really grown to resent higher education. Idk that’s my personal take I’m sure people have different views, maybe it’s just not for me.
@@kensei1972 and I love the outdoors, just want to hike and camp lol
@@Hevted Amazing how the coof sorted out what people really want-dudes just wanted to grill (and all that implies), chicks just wanted to make bread and grow a garden...
Yeah, in general your hobbies or maybe your work will attract people who are more appropriate in your life.
This clip never disappoints. I dont know if it's the "delivery" of the last line, or the "deliverer"?