fandomhigh | Humorous History: Friday, Period 1, Class 10

Jim had the TV on when people entered the room today. That could only mean one thing: it was another movie day.

"Morning. Today we're going to watch a movie all about how the Founding Fathers sang all the time. It's called 1776, and it's not really funny the way I normally go for, but come on, a singing Continental Congress? That's kind of amusing." He couldn't help but notice that one of his students seemed a little too amused by this description, so he had to take a shot in the dark. "Rose, have you seen this before?"

...Oh shit. "No?" Rose tried. "I've never seen it before ever?" She was terrible at lying. Terrible.

"Wow," Jim said. "That's really unconvincing. Go ahead, tell the class what you know about the movie."

Rose glared at him. Glared so much. "Fine. First I gotta say that my best friend totally forced me to watch this movie, and that's the only reason I know about it." Now that that was out of the way. "So this is awesome. I mean, they all sing, and that's pretty weird, but everyone hates John Adams cause he's a pushy bitch, but he's the only one who's got enough balls to want to declare independence so he sings about it." She paused. "And it's not like girly singing. Except when his wife sings."

"So he finally gets people to agree that they want to screw over England too cause crap, who wouldn't want to screw over England? And they all sing about it and worry that George Washington's army is going to get its ass kicked by the British. Which - spoiler alert - doesn't happen. He does get it on with Hamilton though, but, um, yeah, that's not part of the movie."

"The total highlight of the thing though is when Adams and Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - and oooh, he's kinda hot actually, if you like red headed guys - all get together to argue over who's going to actually write the Declaration. Cause no one really wants to. Which, okay, is stupid since they're all AT THE CONVENTION to do something like that. But Adams is all "I can't write it! No one likes me!" And everyone agrees. So they finally make Jefferson write it except he's all cockblocked cause his wife is back in Virginia and he kinda sucks for a while. Not dirty."

"And then the entire story is saved because Adams and Franklin import Jefferson's wife so he can get laid. I'm not even making it up." She paused. "See, we always figured with all those guys there, they should've just taken care of it themselves cause some of that Adams/Jefferson dialogue is kinda sexy, but I guess the musical people thought his wife should be in there." Rose looked over at Jim. "Is that good?"

Jim gave an entertained smirk to the camera before answering, "Even better than I hoped. Everyone, be sure to look for all the manlove Rose noticed as you watch it."

And with that, Jim started the movie.

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Singing about freedom!

Rose Hathaway

Bobby Drake

Hannibal King

Tara Maclay

Jennifer Walters

Angela Martin

Jaime Reyes

Effy Stonem

Priestly

Adora

Alice Liddell

You know you want to take notes on Rose's impromptu lecture.

Rose was never, ever talking about this again. Ever.

Okay, after the heaviness of class yesterday, this was definitely a welcome change.

Bobby was just gonna be over here, trying his darnedest not to crack up laughing at Rose's lecture.

Jaime was in pretty much the same boat, but he definitely wasn't doing very well. Because... dude... hilarious.

Hannibal would have never guessed that Rose was such a consummate lecturer! His laughter was totally proof positive that he was paying attention. Really.

Tara wasn't taking notes; she was trying not to laugh. Manlove wasn't really her thing, but singing historical figures? The geek in her was giddy.

This was the most fun Jennifer had in this class. Ever.

Angela was just staring. Staring. Poor Rose. Poor Rose who was so clearly going straight to hell. The Founding Fathers did not get it on!

Priestly noted down that John Adams was a dick and the founding fathers totally got it on.

Rose made an excellent teacher, really.

And try to keep "But, Mr Adams" from getting stuck in your head.

There are a whole bunch of clips on YouTube if you want more 1776.

Tara settled in to watch the movie. She was going to be humming that she was obnoxious and disliked all day.

Hannibal wasn't paying rapt attention to the movie but he was watching. Honestly, he thought Rose's lecture was better.

Oh, god. And after listening to the lecture, Angela realized she was looking to prove it wrong.

Jaime was wondering how he'd never seen this before. It was brilliant. He'd have to get a DVD for Brenda for Christmas. He'd probably survive the experience.

In the future, she will meet Ben Franklin. And he will be kind of a creep.

In an alternate future, he will hire a Ben Franklin impersonator and make people think he is a stripper.

So, I kind of had the inkling to use this movie, but I've never actually seen it.

guardianborn insisted that I shouldn't let that stop me from writing a class about it. So I made her talk about it instead. It's win-win-win!

Anyway, I'm out with some friends tonight to see the certain trainwreck that is 2012. I'll pick up any tags laaaaaaate tonight.

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