that 1980s sexual education video that provided more confusion & disinformation than anything

the state of sex ed is a travesty

was it the one with the cartoon rabbit?

nah live action

oh, we never got that. it was generally all cartoons. the only live action video we got was the birthing video, which, since this was the 80's, makes you never able to look at Friar Tuck the same way again.

I figured out the trick to this one; I sat in the back of the class and took my glasses off. Couldn't really see much. I do still consider the collapsing steering column to be one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, though.

Yes, drivers ed. Also, do you remember these:

You had an awesome teacher

i did 💙

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sxZ...

youtu.be/1V1Ld3Ej8I0?...

This intro seemed so high tech back in the day. It still doesn't look terrible.

Jurassic Park. We really shouldn't have been watching it at our age, but man it was cool.

Please let this be a normal TV lesson... "With the Frizz? NO WAY!!"

Omg I totally forgot about this amazing show!!

Apollo rocket launches…

We had tests in our high school spanish language class where the teacher would bring in dubbed films for us to watch and translate. Blade Runner dubbed in Spanish sticks out in my mind. ...Esta muerte... (the one clip I recall)

Our Friend, Martin

I want one of these so bad for my analog NES, N64, and GameCube consoles. I already have the TV and VHS player ready! 📺 📼 #Nintendo

‘Engagement Farming,’ terrible movie

president clinton's inauguration

What like at home or school? Cus home was Little Bear and school..some barbie movie I can't remember

Mister wizard comes to mind. Also I took a film lit class wherein we watched Road to Perdition, Bride and Prejudice, and a few others I don’t recall.

Romeo & Juliet (Franco Zefferelli version) in English class in high school. My mom was the substitute teacher that day 😂

Roger & Me

Whoa whoa whoa, you guys had live TV on these things? All we had was the VCR (or the one laser disc player that no one was allowed to touch bc it cost so much lol)

My school didn't even have a Laserdisc player; there was one class that had permission to rent one from the local library for a specific project. That was the only Laserdisc I ever saw until I was an adult.

Yep. They were def uncommon iirc, we only got it bc of a grant from the state of IL. I distinctly remember the lecture about not messing with it (but they still asked us computer nerd kids to help out when they couldn't figure out how to work it lol) This was around 1998 or so

Good point about the live tv. Thinking about it, the only live event I watched in school was Chuck & Di's wedding at daycare.

I remember there was a special broadcast for the Challenger, it wasn't normal to watch live TV.

That was two years before I entered elementary school - but it also was the reason my school was named after Christa McAuliffe and our team name was the "Challengers"

The only times I remember live TV on the rolling cart was before VCRs were widely used in schools. Y'know, the era of the 16mm film + audio tape for Peter and the Wolf, the Swamp Fox, and other Disney educational films (so many many wildlife films).

9/11. Magic School Bus. Mister Rogers.

Mulligan Stew

I, Claudius

SAME

Also...

Damn I thought it was a Jewish class. It looks like the Star of David ✡️ in his hand!!

I have a DVD copy at home.

Fantasia?

Mathemagic Land!

This!

I loved Mathmagic Land!

Me too! 9th grade drama class. We did the play.

Same! Grade 11 or 12 English, I think. Sooooo romantic! ❤️❤️❤️

👊🏻

When she died I was shocked to learn Zeffirelli paid the kids a pittance.

1981 NL playoff games

Picture Box, in the late 60s/early 70s. I don't remember much about the show itself - but I still have vivid memories of Alan Rothwell's marvellous voice.

When my 8th grade science teacher got bored of teaching he'd drag one of these in and put on Monty Python's Flying Circus, which in retrospect was probably not appropriate but nobody seemed to care. We watched a lot of Monty Python.

I took a film class senior year and we watched Holy Grail as part of the comedy unit. The entire class were laughing our asses off.

It is educational, you can learn how to hide m.youtube.com/watch?v=C-M2...

Schoolhouse Rock, of course.

Same

Cool!!! I loved School house rock!!

My high school was intent on making sure we saw Outbreak. Biology, AP Biology, Physiology, Health and Guidance… I saw that three or four more times than necessary.

BILL BILL BILL BILL

chambers class after the end of semester concert (every year)

Gorgeous

Seeing all y’all naming news events from the 80’s and 90’s and I’m like—bitch, we learned stuff from filmstrips! You don’t even know what those are!

The question *was* about what we watched on the teevee. 🤷‍♂️

☝️

DuKane, with records. Just sayin'. 😜

Right? That said, I did get to see some of the 1984 NLCS during school thanks to an AV cart.

During school--? Rad. 😎

kids in the 90s still got stuff on film strips I can still hear the sound.

The most f*cked up safety videos you've ever seen. youtu.be/diw0XywT5aE?...

Paul Henderson's winning goal in the '72 hockey summit.

When Steve taped Michael Jackson’s THRILLER off the telly at midnight and we all snuck into a classroom at break time to watch it and the teachers didn’t know*

*the teachers knew

youtu.be/BjF07iyXo8Q?...

My history teachers were mostly football coaches.

Romeo and Juliet, with our English teacher shutting it off at one point in the middle and fast forwarding for… reasons. Also, The Price is Right every time I had a particular sub at lunchtime.

My 8th grade teacher launched herself in front of the tv when she realized she forgot to stop it...

dumbo

An old documentary about Mount Washington featuring Ben Affleck

Magic School Bus

The first steps on the moon

You win

When I was in 9th grade, a substitute played a bootleg of recently released “Friday” filmed on a video camera instead of whatever we were supposed to watch that day in Biology. We never saw him again.

Space Shuttle blowing up. After a few moments our teacher turned it off and slowly wheel it out. Oof.

ACC basketball tournament Challenger shuttle explode

Dirty Dancing

This is the one

This and the Faces of Culture series.

ON LASERDISC EVEN

Came here to say this

I still have my button from Mimifest!

The intro music is in my head now

Oh no 😯

Baby Ben Affleck

Yes!

Yes!!!! I talk about this show all the time and nobody knows what I'm talking about, glad to see someone else say it!

Came here to post this same image because I was sure I'd be the only one!! 😂 Voyage of the Mimi was so boring and it pissed me off because a VCR day at school is supposed to be a TREAT.

Ben Afleck’s magnum opus.

It's on YouTube to rewatch! h/t @aragusea.bsky.social

The Where Do Babies Come From cartoon narrated by Howie Mandel

Riverdance

Cosmos, every second. Thank you Mr. Raplye 🙏

I, Claudius.

Space Shuttle Challenger.

Challenger explosion. 😔 I was 10.

Same 💔 I was 16.

High school English class

SAME

Same, he also showed the Baz Luhrman one to make up for it

In 9th grade we watched the Baz one in full but also watched a clip from this other one lol

And the teacher turning the television around/covering it with her body during scenes with nudity lol

We got to see it. Just one of many things that wouldn’t fly today.

My teacher has a giant sweater she would throw over the TV

Yes.

High school? I saw it in 8th grade.

Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet... I still hear lines of dialog in my head from this & think of the TV on cart from which we watched.

We got to see an actual 35mm print of Romeo and Juliet.

Watched that back-to-back with the DiCaprio + Claire Danes version one week in English. Then i think we all had to write a page about which one was more faithful to the text or something.

Omg yes, everyone in class was like “is that zac efron”

Not video on a TV set but 16mm film on a screen, inexplicably several times, the 1963 bicycle safety film ONE GOT FAT with children wearing papier mache monkey masks: youtu.be/VZzQDhYE2c0?... (These masks are why I was not fazed by the protagonist in THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE in adulthood, lol)

I think Rifftrax took this one to school.

9/11

Man of la Mancha

Thankfully I have only the barest memory of it coming to an end. I think I somehow missed most of it and when realized this, I was very relieved. youtu.be/qGAbTKuhF_E?...

Challenger 😭😭😭

first thought

Same

Same. They had us all in the library for the launch.

It was so terrible, wasn't it? They had us so hyped. Not their fault, it just never occurred to them it would happen like that, but ugh, that was so sad.

It was definitely a shock. I wasn't even sure what happened at first.Then they turned the TV off abruptly, and led us back to our classrooms to talk.

My third grade class was watching it, and I didn't actually understand what was happening. If I recall (it's been almost 40 years), my teacher happened to be standing right next to it when things... started. She had the TV off so fast I don't think any of us really registered what was going on.

Same. 2nd grade

Me, too

Yep. My very first memory of watching anything on that.

Ayup

Yep

Nooooo 😭

Uhh, everything on TV before 2004?

Michael Jordan’s first retirement. The teacher explained that it was important

The Challenger Explosion

Execution of the Oklahoma City Bomber. That was a WILD 8th grade music class.

Music class?

Damn! If you could have been teamed up with the class that showed “the big Lebowski “ music teachers class you would have had a wild time!!

The ACC tournament.

The OJ verdict

Challenger - Christa McAuliffe

Same same

Same

Same here. The weird thing is that I don't remember the details -- I just know I watched it live, along with every other elementary school kid that year.

it wasn't until much later that I pieced together what happened that day.

Same

The Shuttle Challenger blowing up.

Project Mercury rocket launches and afternoon world series games.

Take a look. It’s in a book. Reading Rainbow

Real sht

I CAN HEAR THIS GIF

Challenger explosion 😢

Awakenings with Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams.

Culloden

Reagan assignation news in elementary school.

BILL! BILL! BILL!

Quest for Fire. God knows teachers loved this movie.

The Challenger explosion

Cape Fear. In flippin 8th grade. My lit teacher, that year, was a bit of a kook

Selena, three years of high school for whatever reason.

The Princess Bride. First time I'd ever seen the movie, became my all-time favorite movie in a heartbeat.

When it was shown to my class, the teacher muted several minutes so we wouldn't be exposed to the word "bitch." So dutiful.

Ferngully like every year for some reason. I think the school only had like 2 approved “fun” vhs tapes and that was the actually fun one so we kept voting for it.

I dunno that I have a favourite, but that is a great movie

🎶 The rain forest; the tropical rain forest 🎶

To Kill a Mockingbird in Jr high.

my school had one of these, but instead of being rolled into classes to play movies or bill nye, it was hooked up to a stupid 6502 computer that some of the kids made, and we werent allowed to touch it.

7th grade teacher put us on with the twilight zone on that baby

Grade 8 and 9 both, watched a lot of Bill Nye on these

Millennials in unison: "9/11"

Gen X in unison: The Challenger explosion

Gen x that happened to skip class that day: the air and space museum in dc !!

Correct

Anti-Mormon and anti-Jehovah's Witness cartoons.

Fern Gully

Nothing. My education was all 16mm film and film-strips on a beaded-glass screen.😴

I cannot count the number of projector bulbs I changed, both 16mm and filmstrip. (AV crew: geekiness incarnate) 16mm bulb is "DKM", I forget the filmstrip bulb ID. 56 years ago. School TV: "You Are There, with Walter Cronkite"

Advance the strip at the chime

The Red Balloon.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jR0v...

My 6th grade class watched the Challenger explode.

Mine too.

Same. 5th Grade.

9th grade for me. It happened while I was in science class, so we were watching live.

Same

Same

Same, but 3rd grade

second here. our teacher was too shocked to turn it off so we watched the replays for a while.

Poor kid! So many kids were soured on space exploration by watching that.

Remember watching this horrible explosion over and over on the Brazilian news that day. Next day, in class, kids and teachers were super sad. I believe I was in 4th grade

I was in fourth grade, but same. 😞

Same here, first grade.

Same but 8th grade.

Kindergarten, they brought us into the first grade class to watch.

4th grade, Mr. Fishback’s computer applications class. (Apple IIes) They sent us all home after that.

5th grade for me, but this is the answer for everyone our age.

Came here to say that. Fucking surreal.

Hang Kristi Noem

nah that's gonna be a Pay-Per-View live event.

Stations of the cross every Good Friday 80-84

The Electric Company!! Every day. 😊

3-2-1 Contact!

I don’t remember which class I watched this in, but it was phenomenal.

The Magic School Bus

Where The Red Fern Grows. On the last day of school. As a fun thing.

Noooooooooo

You know, for kids!

9-11

That whole school day, every class. Nothing but sitting there watching the news. The memory really has a surreal quality to it.

Damn, same, but it was hung up in the corner.

Voyage of the Mimi!

Excellent show and choice.

I remember a great Looney Tunes film where they taught you geometry using a pool table. The characters played pool.

Ben-Hur. You could sink almost a weeks worth of classes out of that one.

Holy shit me too. I was taught foreshadowing with that film. Also, that guy wore a rolex.

Challenger explosion 😞

Bill Nye and some other educational science show with quizzes at the end.

Red Asphalt Schindler's List Lion King in Spanish Jungle Book

That educational driving video with the tables

But what's her job?

reading rainbow

A PBS series called "The Metric System."

Blue Monday #Expos #IYKYK

The second plane hit the towers. 4th period American Lit.

Our Friend, Martin

Man the 90s were something else

Tried to explain this movie to someone 10 years younger than me and they thought I was making it up

Wwwwwwow

Bro! This movie has sounded like a fever dream every time I bring it up, glad somebody else watched it in class!

Inexplicably, EXCALIBUR

Back to the Future Labrynth Neverending Story Challenger OJ Verdict

Challenger

Tomes and Talismans

Hopefully this doesn't end up being prophetic!

War of 1812

My AP Music Theory teacher wheeled it in the room and said "my wife's leaving me, I have no lesson planned. I want to watch The Big Lebowski. So that's what we're gonna do today" and that's what we did, over 2-3 days' worth of classes

One of my favorite movies but I'm glad I was in my 20s when it came out. I don't think high school me would have understood it as well.

absolute king shit here but also there's loads of interesting work to do analyzing the Coens' choices of musical cues in their movies

Oh we didn't go nearly that far with it

Oh I'm sure, I'm just amused to note that you *could* make a solid case for it if challenged

This is hilarious

Did he end up having to watch her dog while she was on vacation?

You know, maybe that's why he wanted to watch it

My answer was also the Big Lebowski, but I stole the cart in college.

I'm wondering if that's why my high school history class watched the 1967 version of Bedazzled, but he kept the reason to himself.

Now that's the real mystery

Damn what a cool teacher!! 2-3 days work of nothing but The Dude!!

I hope he's doing great now.

I just found him at the Other Place, and the good news is he's married with kids and grandkids now. The bad news is every post is a Matt Walsh/Charlie Kirk repost

Divorced Man syndrome strikes again.

Well, at least now you know why his first wife left him.

The Dude would not abide.

big divorced energy, it checks out

It's hilarious, his most recent tweet was a retweet of Matt Walsh saying something like "used to be men would lie to hide their pain out of pride. Nowadays every soyboy is playing the victim card" and I thought, "yeah must have been before 2002 when you were oversharing with your students"

would've taken every inch of my soul to refrain from tweeting it at him

It looks like he hasn't logged in for a while, and I'm trying not to use the app much myself

😬 Thanks for checking that out! 😂

I hope so. It was 20+ years ago

Haha that's awesome. Finally someone who got to finish a movie on one of those things!

Austin powers 2

The OJ verdict in 8th grade.

We watched the white bronco chase in my 6th or 7th grade civics class.

The fuk?!

9th grade Chemistry Class

Yup! Freshman year, biology class! Our teacher was obsessed. Lol.

I was in grade 6 and we somehow convinced our elementary school teacher to let us listen to it live on the radio?! Phewf!

Challenger Launch 😢

Something wicked this way comes

My school doubled up some classes and we watched game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and Russia. Yeah, I got to see Paul Henderson’s game-winning goal live.

youtu.be/s2-LEBc2sO8?...

youtu.be/-5px3E5FwLw?...

Reagan assassination attempt.

9/11

Whoa, they let you watch that?? Yikes. Tho I did end up watching Columbine reports in German class. I guess she figured the three students present (the rest were at some sports thing) were mature enough.

I mean it was happening live. No one knew what was going on.

I never thought my childhood was going to end up being privleged in any way, but I grew up without mass shootings. (I'm sure there were other things I simply didn't notice.)

Reagan assassination attempt.

It took a loooooong scroll to find another person with this answer

Anne of Green Gables (Megan Follows)

9/11 And so. Much. Nova.

Is that Sraw Rats?! "Your father wanted you to have this..." "Wow"as he holds a flashlight.

I thought it was “Hardware Wars”, a spoof of “Star Wars” we watched on a tv like that on school half days ☺️

Pretty sure i have this on DVD somewhere.

The Last Boy Scout. (Not even joking, teacher had to do work in another room, so she wheeled this in, thinking the movie was for kids by name, but never read the box).

The OJ Simpson verdict.

Bridge to Terabithia I think

The “ORTBO” video

Reading Goddamn Rainbow

This was the best tool for education. The dull teachers would never got me interested in things like comparative religions, in the 8-9 grade. Documentaries about ww2 and other historical events, the universe, and random movies. Mostly crap.

News of Reagan being shot

The Lion King in Español.

I saw it in French on one of those.

In my high school Spanish class we watched the Spanish dub of The Cat in the Hat

World Series

Search for Animal Chin

They made your whole class watch a horse died in sadness swamp? Wild

Damn that must have been epic

Cane Toads

The Challenger explosion

9/11. I know I watched other stuff on it but that's basically what I think of when I see one of those TV setups. I went from the computer lab for English where I was mostly seeing what happened through the website somethingawful, to science class, where we watched it on one of those TVs

Voyage of the Mimi

Early Ben Affleck

OMG I had no idea

That there contraption introduced me to this legend... youtu.be/zGM-wSKFBpo?...

Challenger crash.

I can hear this 🎶 Be coooool! 🎶

History of the world part 1 during world history class. I think I learned more from that than anything from the actual curriculum.

The raising of the Mary Rose

“Red Asphalt” Driver’s Ed videos.

Tony Saletan singing and playing the banjo on what was then called, "Educational TV". www.wgbhalumni.org/profiles/s/s...

Oh god! All of the industrial safety films I had to sit through! We’d seen them all so many times that most of us had memorized the dialogue.

youtu.be/TJYOkZz6Dck?...

I opted out of shop class after like two weeks but the first thing we ever did in there was watch a video on the importance of PPE which included a close-up of a kid with a piece of metal embedded in his eye. I had other reasons for not attending but that was a big part of it.

Appolo launches.

Olivia Hussey was my first fap.

The Challenger Explosion :(

Seconded

The immediate coverage of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.

That’s where I went first, too.

My father saw that through binoculars.

Challenger one report.. ahhha.!!! Cut feed

Yep

Reading Rainbow, Willy Wonka, Bill Nye, Glory, Ghandi, A Christmas Story, 1776

Don't forget Roots!

3…2…1…CONTACT

Glory, starring Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington and Matthew Broderick.

RMPS at school only had one Simpsons episode "Homer the Heretic" taped from TV, I think it was for their intro to religion module for the year below. So if we had a half term day with RMPS as the last subject of the day, we could watch that one episode or nothing else lol. Seen it way too many times

A lot of people have these fun Bill Nye memories and I only saw this thing during the WW2 docu's we'd watch.

12 Angry Men

Showed that one to my Sophomores this Spring after reading it as a class!

Geordie Racer!

Through the Dragon's Eye!

The O.J. Verdict

Despair at missing an episode of something you love, presumably never having the chance to set it ever agaaaaaaaiiiiinnnn. Children today are so lucky to have on-demand shows.

Bill Nye the Science Guy and the Magic School Bus. Some other movies in school here and there. Saw ICE AGE for an end-of-school-year celebration on one of these.

Donald in Mathmagic Land

The Challenger disaster

I'm dating myself here, but Free To Be You and Me.

This guy scared the sh$t out of me!!!

I feel like I’ve seen whatever this is from but I absolutely can’t remember what.

Mr. Slim body

Reading Rainbow

The Journey's End by R C Sherriff, in an English lit class. Oh, and some sex ed video with rabbits!

Your Name! Back in middle school, at an end of the school year party. My Japanese teacher was very cool.

After my time. We watched film strips and 16mm movies in school. I think the first educational thing I saw on one of those was a Navy training film about fire fighting on a ship.

Back to the future The gods must be crazy

The second plane hitting the towers 😳

That was literally my first thought. Man does our generation have some ptsd 😂

that, with the raid in Waco, the space shuttle blowing up the OJ verdict

You must be like, 52.

67 🤫

Slay 💃🏼

LOL!! I was born in 1958

and Rodney King's trial aftermath

Most of my school was convinced OJ was innocent

Yeeeep

I knew someone would've done this!

Correct.

oh shit, same actually.

Came here to say this. It wasn't just the three of us me thinks

My first thought as well.

You had classes about karma? That's wild

Yeah. This one.

Same

Also my immediate first thought. 😕

yup

☝🏻

Oh. Oh yeah.

Schindler's List liquidation scene

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993) in AP English

I showed Hemo the Magnificent every year on film long before we had TVs and VCRs.

Challenger explosion