This is an iconic scene that is intentionally designed to portray a very, very boring lecture from a teacher, which none of the kids want to pay attention to, that they are right to percieve this as boredom-torture.
The motherfucking actual literal topic of the lecture is how the Smoot Hawley tariffs of the 1930s massively worsened the Great Depression.
For those that don’t get the joke here…
This is an iconic scene that is intentionally designed to portray a very, very boring lecture from a teacher, which none of the kids want to pay attention to, that they are right to percieve this as boredom-torture.
The motherfucking actual literal topic of the lecture is how the Smoot Hawley tariffs of the 1930s massively worsened the Great Depression.
… god, Damnit.
Movie: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Actor: former Nixon speech writer Ben Stein
My entire generation literally sleeping on this.
It’s important to have the audio for the full effect.
Voodoo Economics
Anyone…anyone…