For those who care the whole lecture was ad libbed. Jon Hughes asked Stein to speak about something he knew a lot about and thats how he picked this topic. IIRC the bored looks weren't really acting. :)
I had a teacher one time, teaching us a gun course over the period of 4 nights... and actuallty Stein reminds me a lot of him. Everyone in the room was yawning and he had the most monotone voice you’d ever heard, with barely any facial expression ever, and he stood still in one spot. If it was anything other than a gun course or something I knew a lot about I would have failed his class without a doubt. Lol
@@deepsouth3319 He was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon(and that included the period during Watergate) He didn’t write Nixon’s resignation speech though.
As a teacher, it always a bad sign if this scene and his voice pop into my head while I am teaching. This scene is why I rarely ask students to answer random questions during a lesson. I always hated the dead air and waste of time of it when I was a student. Nonetheless, when I start to bore myself while teaching, my recollection of this scene snaps me out of it and I change tack - try other things. But unlike these students, my students are pretty amazing. So I am lucky they are there. Young adults these days are pretty exceptional due to what they went through in the pandemic. I wish other adults knew just how incredible they are. They deserve better that the future world they are being left to sort out.
I'd say that's some pretty good advice for someone like myself who wants to be an English teacher in the future. Currently in college trying to get my bachelors, and I know I'm not the best at public speaking. But the last thing I want is to make the subject dull to learn for a class. Can't teach a class that's uninterested. Still got a long way to go and a lot to learn, but it's all about the journey! Teaching is hard business, and I respect you for your dedication.
It's ironic when your film must have a scene purposely devoid of any energy and enthusiasm while still directing it with great energy and enthusiasm. If you get what I'm saying.
@cookiegirl14uwu sort of not really, it's just about exposure, but I really enjoy Jordan Peterson's lectures, they're quite the contrary from monotonous and the amount of valuable information that is expelled is astronomical.
In my final year of high school a classmate compared this scene and Stein’s character to our Information Technology teacher. One period each week was a theory session. It really tested our attention spans.
If you think *this* was boring, wait until later in the movie when you see the scene with Sloane's (Mia Sara) English teacher when he says "In....what....way....does the author's....use...of the...prison symbolize......(school nurse played by Virginia Capers shuffles by).....the protagonist's struggle? And how does this relate to our discussion on the uses of irony?
The largely catatonic state and one student glowering with homicidal thoughts of different ways of alleviating their shared pain. Priceless-we've all been there at one point with a teacher in high school. I actually would enjoy a lesson in economics like this.
I love this scene. In my opinion it encapsulates the whole high school experience in less than 2 minutes. I took Economics as an elective (purely for the credits) in high school. You know what's interesting about economics . . . NOTHING.
That is literally not what he's talking about. Hes talking about imposing Tariffs and excess taxation in relation to the great depression you dildo brain. NOT trickle down economic.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."... Sun Tzu. To succumb to the boredom, these and other students in such classes will lose to they who hold such principles.
On Thanksgiving day, around 2010(?), I was at work, and my buddy mentioned "I was watching ferris bueller before work today" I immediately said "something D O O economics... ok, voodoo economics" And my buddy stared for a second, and said "you always do movie quotes that arent actual quotes, just random parts of a movie" Felt like he was selling Ben Stein short. As far as Im concerned its a famous quote.
It's a joke about teachers trying to teach. Being a teacher, sometimes it's annoying that my students know the answers but choose not to answer so I pull this and say "anyone anyone?"
Before teachers would have pointed to a particular student to answer the question e..g "Brown can you tell the class......" but now they are trained not to embarrass or belittle the student in case they don't know by having an open questions, hence "Anyone, anyone?".
Ben Stein, playing the economics teacher, has a great story regarding this scene. Go watch Josh Gad's "Reunited Apart w/ the cast of Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
Had a high school history class where every 2 weeks we got a 120-question handout and had to listen to a lecture like this for a 1-hour period every day to answer those 120 questions over the next 2 weeks. It was hellacious.
0:30 I caption phonecalls in real time for elderly hard-of-hearing and sometimes teen-age grandchildren forget to turn off grandma's phone caption screen before chatting with their peers. Try dictating/typing in real time for 45 minutes and keeping up with this girl's conversation with her girlfriend about her latest date/breakup and provide for her friend an accurate what-you-hear-is-what-you-get caption screen display experience even though her friend you're captioning for has no clue grandma's caption screen is on and isn't reading your captions at all. On the flip side, we just found out our company is going to start captioning college lectures. I can't imagine transcribing a 2-hour economics, chemistry or calculus lecture like this with arcane formulas, names and symbols and maintain intelligible formatting on the caption screen. Either way, fun times.
I'm like the dude that drooded in my afternoon class. I forget what the class is call. I had part time jobs as a junior and senior from 5 pm to 9pm. I still went to classes. Graduated with a 3.5 GPA😊
this was like 90% of my school life, no joke. These teahers really ruined my experience in learning and i basically went on youtube to enjoy something new. which means i learned more online then irl. kinda sad
I met Ben Stein recently and told him he is the reason I stay until all the credits have rolled. I had to know who he was. When I saw his name, I said Richard Nixon had a speech writer named Ben Stein, having no idea that was him.
I dunno I sure did make a lot of money during this depression you speak of. Lots of people did despite a plandemic. Food and gasoline was cheap, too. Yeah, horrible depression. Had to eat $100 bills to stay alive!
I.M’s Leather Chair (Ezekiel) Zeke Hamish Beckley: Yeah Deadpan comedy actor losers like 'Benjamin Jeremy' Ben Stein or Steven Alexander Wright have that effect on people. At least I haven't fallen asleep ye....💤💤💤💤
Is it just me that my class is more boring than this class. At least students talk and eat bubble gum or sleep and whatever but my teacher talks in a monotoned voice doesn't even want a student to interrupt him or sleep but I draw in class so that's no big deal lol and he gives us like 6 worksheets everyday but I don't do it
Russia19the91 Motherland (Ezekiel) Zeke Hamish Beckley: Or his actor 'Benjamin Jeremy' Ben Stein wishing he went back to lawyer school instead of being a deadpanned actor loser woser that no one gives a flying fudge about.
In 2024 this is even more important than ever, but of course, the masses slept through the class.
For those who care the whole lecture was ad libbed. Jon Hughes asked Stein to speak about something he knew a lot about and thats how he picked this topic. IIRC the bored looks weren't really acting. :)
That's pretty cool. Stein is very intelligent.
I had a teacher one time, teaching us a gun course over the period of 4 nights... and actuallty Stein reminds me a lot of him. Everyone in the room was yawning and he had the most monotone voice you’d ever heard, with barely any facial expression ever, and he stood still in one spot. If it was anything other than a gun course or something I knew a lot about I would have failed his class without a doubt. Lol
@@deepsouth3319 He was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon(and that included the period during Watergate) He didn’t write Nixon’s resignation speech though.
@@deepsouth3319 He really isn't.
It worked!
my one year old wouldn't fall asleep and I did everything but seconds after I played this she knocked out and has been sleeping soundly
Lol
I graduated from high school in 1984, and I can say this this scene is EXACTLY what it was like.
As a teacher, it always a bad sign if this scene and his voice pop into my head while I am teaching. This scene is why I rarely ask students to answer random questions during a lesson. I always hated the dead air and waste of time of it when I was a student. Nonetheless, when I start to bore myself while teaching, my recollection of this scene snaps me out of it and I change tack - try other things. But unlike these students, my students are pretty amazing. So I am lucky they are there. Young adults these days are pretty exceptional due to what they went through in the pandemic. I wish other adults knew just how incredible they are. They deserve better that the future world they are being left to sort out.
You sound like a great teacher
Yeah, this is very bad practice indeed.
I'd say that's some pretty good advice for someone like myself who wants to be an English teacher in the future. Currently in college trying to get my bachelors, and I know I'm not the best at public speaking. But the last thing I want is to make the subject dull to learn for a class. Can't teach a class that's uninterested. Still got a long way to go and a lot to learn, but it's all about the journey! Teaching is hard business, and I respect you for your dedication.
@marshhen 'They deserve better that the future world they are being left to sort out.'
Said about every generation ever.
The girl who squints her eye in hatred always gets me 😂😂😂
This age beautifully in 2024.🎉
In 2024 where this has become relevant again 😂.
Great writing, great acting, and great direction makes this scene so boring, yet hilarious at the same time
Actually, the actor that played the teacher ad libbed the entire scene.
It's ironic when your film must have a scene purposely devoid of any energy and enthusiasm while still directing it with great energy and enthusiasm. If you get what I'm saying.
They look hypnotized, great method of teaching
This was my world history teacher 😅
As an Econ major this actually came of interest to me 😅
VooDoo Economics
I rewatched this as an adult, the lecture was legit actual economics.
Was there by chance a guy named Alex P. Keaton in your class?
I've always found it really funny how there are Six A names in this class, one B and nothing until the Fs
called a "script"
Same- I always felt like they could’ve just spelled Ferris’ last name as “Beuller” and then Cameron’s name could’ve been “Brye” rather than “Frye”
I'm glad I've built the tolerance and discipline to listen to monotonous voices over long periods of time.
@cookiegirl14uwu sort of not really, it's just about exposure, but I really enjoy Jordan Peterson's lectures, they're quite the contrary from monotonous and the amount of valuable information that is expelled is astronomical.
It's that boring its killing me inside yet I feel like rolling on the floor in absolute tears of laughter . . . What an odd mixture.
Their reactions killed me
@Boom Tingz That’s me in English class 😂😂😂
In my final year of high school a classmate compared this scene and Stein’s character to our Information Technology teacher. One period each week was a theory session. It really tested our attention spans.
If you think *this* was boring, wait until later in the movie when you see the scene with Sloane's (Mia Sara) English teacher when he says "In....what....way....does the author's....use...of the...prison symbolize......(school nurse played by Virginia Capers shuffles by).....the protagonist's struggle? And how does this relate to our discussion on the uses of irony?
Haha yes; English is my least favorite class and I never pay attention
The PRISONNNNNNNNN (chalk)
I'm not surprised that this guy voiced both Sanderson and HP in Fairly OddParents.
this scene hits so much harder now that i've been on the other side
No doubt the topic is boring but it could’ve made a difference in the 2024 election if some folks just spent the three minutes.
I had a professor in college who taught a business class and he was just like this guy.
Fun Fact: Ben Stine actually had a degree in economics, so John Hughes actually told him to just do a standard lecture. This was not scripted.
And the bored looks weren’t really acting.
This is exactly what I remember about high school... a teacher droning on and on to a room full of soulless dead fish eyes.😅
And now in 30 years there will be a remake where Prez Trump's tariff will replace the Hawley Smoot Tariff in this scene.
Which also didn't work.
I didn’t know until today that the girl that said that Ferris is sick is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What a cool connection!
“Thank you Simone”
No problem whatsoever!
When Cameron was in Egypt's land, let my Cameron go...
Attending Professor Binns class be like…
Soo, tariffs are bad. Pay attention in school people 🙏🏽
False.
It's funny because some of them look like they are actually trying to pay attention.
Trump was asleep during this lesson.
This is Trump's tax policy...
doo doo dump ecomonics
*HERE!!* 😠
😂😂😂
okay...who else thinks that Simone (though and airhead) is actually really sweet and adorable?
Played by Kristy Swanson.
I do.
"My best friend's, sister's, boyfriend's, brother's, girlfriend, heard from this guy, from a kid, whose out a girl........It must be pretty serious"
@SIMONE DEACON No problem whatsoever
@@sessa9843 Frye......Frye
The largely catatonic state and one student glowering with homicidal thoughts of different ways of alleviating their shared pain. Priceless-we've all been there at one point with a teacher in high school. I actually would enjoy a lesson in economics like this.
You would lose me in the first 10 seconds of the lesson!🤪
And here we are in 2024… with the republican party moving forward with imposing tariffs overseas
I almost fell asleep while watching this
0:58 her heart was beating really hard.
If I went to a school as boring as this then I would cut class way more than Ferris
lol I had a math teacher in high school who talked just like this. Even the bored zombie stares of the students was spot on.
I have lessons so much more boring I sometimes ask to use the bathroom just to leave the room
I love this scene. In my opinion it encapsulates the whole high school experience in less than 2 minutes. I took Economics as an elective (purely for the credits) in high school. You know what's interesting about economics . . . NOTHING.
Aged like fine wine
35 years later and we are still debating this supply-side, trickle-down garbage. The students were right to be bored.
After what bezos did, the debate should be solved
Why do stores have sales?
That is literally not what he's talking about. Hes talking about imposing Tariffs and excess taxation in relation to the great depression you dildo brain.
NOT trickle down economic.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."... Sun Tzu. To succumb to the boredom, these and other students in such classes will lose to they who hold such principles.
First time I watched this i was a teenager and with every student shown during the lesson I said to my parents "that's me! Thats me in school!" 😂
I actually understand these economic terms and economic history.
vodoo economics..
comin from a swiss guy.
It would be genius if these actors would recreate this scene next year for the movie's 40th anniversary!
say what you want but the laffer curve is very interesting especially when you ask people with life experience what their ideal tax rate should be
0:28 aight folks, check out the dude behind the blond. He's out of focus, but he's staring at Simone here. Watch his expression change. XD
I had a college professor who looked and taught exactly like this guy.
The best part of the video was when he said: anyone? anyone?
this is my history class
On Thanksgiving day, around 2010(?), I was at work, and my buddy mentioned "I was watching ferris bueller before work today"
I immediately said "something D O O economics... ok, voodoo economics"
And my buddy stared for a second, and said "you always do movie quotes that arent actual quotes, just random parts of a movie"
Felt like he was selling Ben Stein short. As far as Im concerned its a famous quote.
Why does that teacher keep on saying "Anyone anyone anyone"
It's a joke about teachers trying to teach. Being a teacher, sometimes it's annoying that my students know the answers but choose not to answer so I pull this and say "anyone anyone?"
Before teachers would have pointed to a particular student to answer the question e..g "Brown can you tell the class......" but now they are trained not to embarrass or belittle the student in case they don't know by having an open questions, hence "Anyone, anyone?".
Stein looks like he would know all about this topic while none if the students look like they have any idea.
“Anderson?…Anderson?…Anderson?”
“HERE!”
Ben Stein, playing the economics teacher, has a great story regarding this scene. Go watch Josh Gad's "Reunited Apart w/ the cast of Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
Who could find the Laffer Curve boring?
Anyone? Anyone?
That's me in social studies and my teacher said anyone and we all quiet 🤫🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's funny when you see it once for 2 minutes
It's sad when you see it 8 hours Daily for 12 years
Had a high school history class where every 2 weeks we got a 120-question handout and had to listen to a lecture like this for a 1-hour period every day to answer those 120 questions over the next 2 weeks. It was hellacious.
Former prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is the Ben Stein of Swedish politics, haha
Ben stein sounds like a joyless drone
This scene hits different after "Expelled"
1:26. When I listen to someone explain math.
This lecture is great.
with a teacher like this No wonder Ferris Always Skips School
How... Not to teach! But what a performance, Ben!
love the stunned look of the kids
Something D, O, O, economics....voodoo economics.
That is not a class, that is a punishment
Me watching this on online lesson right now
Imagine the reaction if the sir cancels PE period and takes maths class.
0:30 I caption phonecalls in real time for elderly hard-of-hearing and sometimes teen-age grandchildren forget to turn off grandma's phone caption screen before chatting with their peers. Try dictating/typing in real time for 45 minutes and keeping up with this girl's conversation with her girlfriend about her latest date/breakup and provide for her friend an accurate what-you-hear-is-what-you-get caption screen display experience even though her friend you're captioning for has no clue grandma's caption screen is on and isn't reading your captions at all. On the flip side, we just found out our company is going to start captioning college lectures. I can't imagine transcribing a 2-hour economics, chemistry or calculus lecture like this with arcane formulas, names and symbols and maintain intelligible formatting on the caption screen. Either way, fun times.
Simone is a teacher's pet
Everybody is 33 in this vídeo. Including the teacher.
Wow how is this only 2 mins long it feels like that scene went on for hours.
This film "Raised" or "lowered" film standards. Anyone , Anyone.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm like the dude that drooded in my afternoon class. I forget what the class is call. I had part time jobs as a junior and senior from 5 pm to 9pm. I still went to classes. Graduated with a 3.5 GPA😊
Yep, Ferries Bueller was definitely right to skip school.
he should be an energy vampire in What We Do In The Shadows
this was like 90% of my school life, no joke. These teahers really ruined my experience in learning and i basically went on youtube to enjoy something new. which means i learned more online then irl. kinda sad
I met Ben Stein recently and told him he is the reason I stay until all the credits have rolled. I had to know who he was. When I saw his name, I said Richard Nixon had a speech writer named Ben Stein, having no idea that was him.
"Today, we have a similar debate...", Prez Trump, are you paying attention? Tariffs will only cause us to sink deeper into the Trump Depression.
You mean covid depression?
I dunno I sure did make a lot of money during this depression you speak of. Lots of people did despite a plandemic. Food and gasoline was cheap, too. Yeah, horrible depression. Had to eat $100 bills to stay alive!
Zoom classes sound exactly like this... so dead
and I thought my chemistry teacher was the most boring teacher ever... I couldn't even reach the end of the video!
Chemistry is awesome!
Ghillie's Assassin wow I could've used that kind of enthusiasm for this year
While the Laffer Curve is obviously true, like the CICO model of weight loss, like the CICO model it also gets used to justify bad interventions.
00:07...Kristy Swanson was SO hot.
Bueller, buller
Fry , Fry
Hes sick lol omg
Saw this in my math class
I almost fell asleep just watching this video...
I.M’s Leather Chair
(Ezekiel) Zeke Hamish Beckley: Yeah Deadpan comedy actor losers like 'Benjamin Jeremy' Ben Stein or Steven Alexander Wright have that effect on people. At least I haven't fallen asleep ye....💤💤💤💤
The teacher looks like the priest at the Catholic school I used to go to lmao
Pretty weird since he's a JEW
My favorite bored look is at 1:16
Is it just me that my class is more boring than this class. At least students talk and eat bubble gum or sleep and whatever but my teacher talks in a monotoned voice doesn't even want a student to interrupt him or sleep but I draw in class so that's no big deal lol and he gives us like 6 worksheets everyday but I don't do it
This was was exactly the way my sixth grade English teacher was it was IMPOSSIBLE to stay awke
There's a scene with an English teacher in the movie as well. Not as funny as this one but still good.
Is it sad that I actually understand everything he is talking about?
Yes, very
Not really, it's just high school history/government
Ageless movie 🙌😂😂😂
Gosh, he was so handsome though.
Looks the teacher hates his life.
Russia19the91 Motherland
(Ezekiel) Zeke Hamish Beckley: Or his actor 'Benjamin Jeremy' Ben Stein wishing he went back to lawyer school instead of being a deadpanned actor loser woser that no one gives a flying fudge about.