Doug then went to cry in the staff bathroom and then issued a 20,000 word essay on the Vietnam war that he's already planning on failing everybody for.
found the kid who got failed by an entirely reasonable professor then blames the american education system for being run by out of touch old people. bro you will never be an adult if you cant learn to take responsibility
He would never cry, his parents were WW2 vets and taught him better than that. He's going to internalize it and funnel that emotion into verbally abusing service workers. 😌
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus Good question! I couldn't say precisely. Probably entitlement and a superiority complex to start, along with a whole slew of other stuff.
because youre exactly the kind of entitled gen z kid the "entitled boomer professor" is talking about? because the old people you hate who rightfully ignored complaints from people who have no idea what theyre on about get turned into caricatures?
@@DataLog when you're a tenured professor and your boomer principal tries to sack you, yes! :D But in all seriousness, there's always some staff room drama going on.
Why are some teachers more happier than others? Just a life dynamic? I had a teacher who failed me in English, but basically every year I got commended on the writting portion of exams
@@JamesBond-er1hk Literally the skit. They take everything personally and give up on anything that goes counter to the delusions they had built up as a young adult. They gave up on learning and growth a long time ago - but teach young people to memorize and reflect their delusions. Their unhappy because nobody wants what their selling and it pisses them off because “they are grown and know better”. Their philosophical zombies living in a constant dissociative state that run away from any discussion that may highlight how out of touch they actually are. They also run to and attack anything that threatens their world view with the same viciousness of a zombie hunting the living to feed their hunger for drama and power. They are correct. They are in control. They will eat your brain to ensure it. The only cure for this is a serious intervention. Massive blow to the ego. A philosophical axe to the head - where you kill the zombie and slowly they begin the journey of healing and growth and atone for their toxic behavior over the years. No drug problem, no drinking problem, they may even be rich and well dressed, but they where the drama the whole time. All the other indicators of a “good person” simply served to shield themselves from the reality and maintain their self delusion.
“They gave up on me.” I don’t even understand that argument. A new group of people every semester somehow managed to decide as a group to give give up on one dude they hardly know.
In fairness, you can have cohorts of students who are just unprepared or unwilling to learn. But if a pattern emerges, yeah, the educator needs to reexamine themselves and their curriculum.
The Vietnam War thing is so true. And it’s always the ones that were never in the military, or spent the entire war at a radar base in Arizona or a parachute packing plant in North Carolina. Whenever I meet someone who actually campaigned and fought in Vietnam, they don’t like to talk about it. Otherwise, you’d think the Vietnam War and the anti-war campaign at home were the most important parts of the 20th century, by their telling of it.
Your right because I had a professor who never fought but voluntarily signed up after losing friends in the war, and your right he never talks about it. The one time he did he had that ten thousand yard stare like he was remembering the friends he lost.
War isn't something to be glorified and the people who served during Vietnam were forced to do horrible things then abandoned by the government who sent them.
I had a professor who talked about Vietnam exactly once. He and his best friend both got drafted. He was 80 pounds overweight so they didn’t take him. His friend died in Vietnam. My professor lost the weight because of the shame and kept it off ever since, he’s stick thin now. He says he still feels guilty about it even though none of it was his fault.
It was important but not for the reason they think it was. It was important because it showed that the American government is willing to waste working class lives on the ruling class’s interests.
My professors usually spent more time on WWII, but that was for classes about Europe. For American history classes we only talked about the Gilded Age. However, when I had a class about the late 20th Century, the professor was getting his PhD at the time and he spent a lot of time covering, well, everything. He did not got too hung up on specific time periods. Probably because he didn’t live through Vietnam (at least partially)
I feel like these two guys grew up together with aspirations to be educators, and then as the years progressed TBP watched Doug's penchant for giving up on problems fester and eventually leave him embittered in every aspect of his life, and TBP just wants to see his long-time friend finally understand his own shortcomings and grow from them.
I have had teachers exactly like this. The Dougs were always the worst ones that made me hate going to class, where as the good teacher actually made me excited to learn new stuff
Genuinely better than a lot acting I've seen in movies and tv-series. I'm completely absorbed by the characters and immersed with the dialogue. Good shit
This one hits a little too close to home. I had a history teacher in highschool that was navy during Vietnam and he was never able to truly put it behind him and move on with his life. An amazing man and it was really sad to see
That was my chemistry teacher. His wife left him only a year or two after he came home because he didn't snap back to normal. He still had a lot of problems, and occasionally he would talk to the class about what he experienced. He was eccentric and a really good teacher. He was also caring and took pity on me and passed me in the class.
My grandfather fought in Vietnam and thankfully he could somewhat put it behind him (tho he rarely talks about it and possibly gave his kids and grandkids terrible chronic illnesses) the one message he gave to all of his family was “never join and never fight it’s a losing battle and all that comes from it is pain on both sides and suffering on both sides with a false sense of winning” and we keep to that especially since my great grandmother was a nurse in WW2 with her brother also fighting she also had a similar warning. I think it shows that it definitely stuck to them in terrible ways but it also in a strange way helped them move past it a bit. Now my grandfather lives a pretty decent life (tho you can tell he’s a bit stuck in the past due to him doing things a bit more old fashioned than normal) and has found peace and despite being strongly stubborn and opinionated he loves his kids and grandkids sorry for kinda going on a tangent it’s just rare for me to talk about my grandfather. Oh and my other grandfather went to prison because he thought it was wrong to kill others even under the guise of “those people are bad!” So it’s a bit ironic in my life
This is scary because I gave my electrical professor a low review because he kept shit talking us because we didn’t understand why he’d talk about his career and life for half an entire class and then on his syllabus we focused on PLCs which is what he works in professionally as his main job. And his name is Doug too
Tenured professor served in vietnam, watched his best friend die, came back and tried to make sense of life through a new lense. He's seen the horrors man can perpetuate and decided to become an educator to give knowledge rather than take what he wants by force from the world. Entitled prof has never even worked a day in his life and uses the "pulled myself up by the bootstraps" line unironically, but shits on college kids working full time and taking classes full time for being "lazy"
Honestly seeing two boomers have a passive aggressive little argument like this is quite the spectacle to witness. Like neither of them are willing to tolerate each other's bullshit and neither will back down out of any deference or politeness. They do not pull any punches and go straight for the adult fears and weaknesses every time. "Maybe if you were a better father, your drug addict son would be still alive right now. It's as much a failure of you as it was him, he needed a better father Doug. One that didn't make it all about you, all the time. You failed him, not the other way around."
It's very interesting! My boomer father never pulled punches with me, even though the vile, untrue things he says to me mean nothing because i have 0 respect for him. Meanwhile, I could say the most cutting things to him, but I won't because I wouldn't want that to happen to me 🤷
That shit got so personal and in-depth it felt like I shouldn’t have been listening in to that conversation between you and yourself about made up characters 😆😂 I was listening to this and forgot for a second that this was a fake convo and I wasn’t eavesdropping. I felt legitimately uncomfortable listening to this…. *SO GREAT JOB ON THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE* 😆😂 That skit had more drama, character work, and character depth than the majority of Hollywood nowadays 😆😂
Tenured Boomer Professor is my favorite of your characters, he reminds me a lot of a teacher I used to know so every time I watch one of your skits they make me remember him.
I had a tenured professor like in my final year of university. We were studying modern Chinese history and she would come out with the most based opinions you could imagine right there in a recorded lecture or seminar. And she knew the university couldn't do anything about it because she was easily the most experienced one in the department. She had no problem with ripping your essay idea apart if it meant building it back stronger. Honestly that sort professor is the one you remember, because they dont just contribute to your grade, they get you thinking and asking questions you wouldn't ask in any other environment
Are we talking "on the topic of landlords Mao did nothing wrong" based 😌 or "I call Xi Jinping winnie the poo and now I am very funny Netflix give me a comedy special" based 🙄
This is scarily described someone in my life (not a prof) but made me realize that a lot of boomers act like this when confronted with criticism. Suddenly, the idea that you often project your anger makes sense in the context of sayings like "millennials don't work hard, you are entitled". I bet their generation constantly had to hear it from their parents (fathers probably more so) that they would never be as good because "Your generation doesn't have to work hard at al!! You never fought the Nazis! You are so entitled". Weirdly, I feel like for the first time I fully understand generational emotional damage, in that it becomes a part of you without knowing, and you live blind to the downstream hurt you cause.
Yeah it always annoys me when people say boomers are terrible but the "Greatest Generation" were amazing because some of them fought Nazis. The kind of abuse that was normal for Boomers growing up is not conducive to being a mentally healthy adult, and the cycle of abuse stretches back past recorded history. It's kind of only recently we've had the ability to have some introspection as a culture and decide that being a gigantic penisface to your family is the mark of a weak man, not a strong one.
That shit hits. Had a kid with someone like this. She's unable to take even the mildest criticism and it's going to really hold her back in years to come.
Honestly I had a professor I met in my freshman year of undergrad who is the tenured boomer prof. I think he's Gen X, but regardless, he listened and honestly kept my life from going off the rails. Great guy.
“I been doing this for 35 years” is my dads response to me telling him he’s doing anything improperly. Dude refuses to learn how to use the new dishwasher, but tells me he’s been washing dishes over 35 years…
"Has your technique been working for 35 years? Then why are you complaining? Oh so it hasn't been working and you're doing it wrong. No it isn't made in China."
My father was an independent architect (the good kind, not the eccentric pricks), and he very often went to the construction sites to check on progress. On one occasion, he stopped to talk to a construction worker to tell him that what the worker was doing was wrong. "What do you mean?" "That is not how you're supposed to do it, it's against regulations, you must do it [that way]." "I have been doing this for twenty-five years, you can't tell me how to do my fucking job, pen pusher." "Well you've been doing it wrong for twenty-five years, that law passed thirty years ago. And I CAN tell you how to do your job, I'm the architect and the one who checks if things are done well. Tell me your name, I'll need to check which projects you've worked on to see which buildings are a risk to other humans because of your negligence. Oh and you better talk to your boss about how you're not respecting regulations, otherwise I will." That worker then tried to throw a brick to my father's head (thank goodness for my father's hard hat), after which that worker was slugged by my father (he had a black belt in karate 😂) and the police came to arrest the guy after his coworkers held him as to not escalate the situation even more 😅 My father did check other buildings that guy worked on and there were actually problems that needed fixing because of that worker. So no, just because you've doing something for a long time doesn't mean it's the right way.
The immediate rolling eyes at the “I’ve been teaching for 35 years” lol. You know it’s bad when teachers and students have the exact same reaction every time.
Honestly I've been enjoyed the longer content more than the shorts, gives you more wiggle room with delivery and I think it really works well with your style of comedy!
It was really jarring seeing him play the role of someone who's reasonable and unpretentious. Great video! Also, I cannot even begin to tell you how many professors and bosses I've had just like the boomer professor. Hearing that role was equally jarring because it simultaneously reminded me of so many people I've had to deal with.
Man, I just found you recently and all your sketches are pretty funny... but this? This is fucking art. Like to the point that I know people who I probably couldn't show this to for fear of really fucking them up.
your acting is always on point, but your collaborator who's playing Doug is doing a great job too!! you're fortunate to have collaborators who really get what you're going for (the 18-year-old girlfriend is another)
This 3 minute short skit is better than any of the 2+ hour long movies marvel pushed out the past few years. (This might not sound like much of a compliment but your stuff is truly amazing).
This guy seems like the best kind of teacher: good and can be a bit funny, has a good relationship with his students and cares about his job, but won't let you goof off, he'll tell ya to sit up and do the damned work if he needs to.
Thankfully I didn't have any professors like this. Though I did have a few radicals who tried to act as if I, the 19 year old at the time, was somehow the "old soul'. Bizarre really
I felt this on a personal level. My generation has some rough spots in it, but the older boomer people has more in my opinion. The most entitled people I've dealt with were the boomers.
I've worked retail for many years and the worst customers were always the boomers. To be fair though I think it's due to all the lead that was around when they were kids. Lead water pipes, lead paint, leaded gasoline etc.. was all very common in their day so I think their behavior might have a lot to do with lead poisoning...
Boomers are a historically terrible generation. They inherited the best economy in history, then squandered and destroyed it. They’ll continue to bully Gen X and younger for another decade until the demographics finally flip. Boomers of the same age today had 4-7x as much wealth despite being less productive, less educated, working fewer hours and having less job experience. A Boomer garbage man earned enough to buy a home and raise a family on essentially one income. Everything from predatory student “loans”, the mortgage crisis, multiple banking failures, and INFLATION have been caused by Boomers for the BENEFIT of Boomers at your expense.
I’ve had a couple professors like TBP and they were often my favorite. Straight shooters and quick to point out bullshit but they also really cared about their students and looked out for them.
Among the kids who were bullied and abused a lot growing up, there are those whose medium of escapism was academic achievement. They were great at it, continued it, and pursued a career in teaching. These same teachers have never properly approached their unresolved trauma issues and wind up bring their issues into the classroom setting. Not all of them mind you, I have experienced teachers who were fantastic, and I have experienced those who used their students as dumb buckets for their disregulated emotions and other teachers who have wasted class time disclosing personal information their unresolved childhood abuse issues that belong in a therapist’s office and would never be on the exam.
Doug then went to cry in the staff bathroom and then issued a 20,000 word essay on the Vietnam war that he's already planning on failing everybody for.
found the kid who got failed by an entirely reasonable professor then blames the american education system for being run by out of touch old people. bro you will never be an adult if you cant learn to take responsibility
He would never cry, his parents were WW2 vets and taught him better than that. He's going to internalize it and funnel that emotion into verbally abusing service workers. 😌
@@once.upon.a.time. what’s up with some folk having such a HATE for service industry?
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus Good question! I couldn't say precisely. Probably entitlement and a superiority complex to start, along with a whole slew of other stuff.
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus they’re low hanging fruit they can usually abuse wit little to no repercussions.
This is one of the better sketches ive ever seen
This one had a lot of subtext
I mean the guy asking for advice got totally dominated by the guy with glasses lol
“You know how close we were to getting drafted ?!” 😂
Is it a sketch? I feel like this conversation has actually happened lol
This dude and the character raised by his grandparents make me smile every damn time
His acting is so good. The ones you’re supposed to root for you love and the ones you’re supposed to hate you despise
theyre the detox for the redditor and the other ones
oh shit what if kid raised by grandparents goes to college with this professor
because youre exactly the kind of entitled gen z kid the "entitled boomer professor" is talking about? because the old people you hate who rightfully ignored complaints from people who have no idea what theyre on about get turned into caricatures?
Imagine if this is one of the grandparents lol
I'm a teacher and is 100% an accurate representation of the conversations we have in the staff room.
Hahaha seriously?
@@DataLog when you're a tenured professor and your boomer principal tries to sack you, yes! :D But in all seriousness, there's always some staff room drama going on.
@@666mrdoctor lol
Why are some teachers more happier than others? Just a life dynamic? I had a teacher who failed me in English, but basically every year I got commended on the writting portion of exams
@@JamesBond-er1hk Literally the skit. They take everything personally and give up on anything that goes counter to the delusions they had built up as a young adult.
They gave up on learning and growth a long time ago - but teach young people to memorize and reflect their delusions.
Their unhappy because nobody wants what their selling and it pisses them off because “they are grown and know better”.
Their philosophical zombies living in a constant dissociative state that run away from any discussion that may highlight how out of touch they actually are. They also run to and attack anything that threatens their world view with the same viciousness of a zombie hunting the living to feed their hunger for drama and power.
They are correct. They are in control. They will eat your brain to ensure it.
The only cure for this is a serious intervention. Massive blow to the ego. A philosophical axe to the head - where you kill the zombie and slowly they begin the journey of healing and growth and atone for their toxic behavior over the years.
No drug problem, no drinking problem, they may even be rich and well dressed, but they where the drama the whole time. All the other indicators of a “good person” simply served to shield themselves from the reality and maintain their self delusion.
“They gave up on me.” I don’t even understand that argument. A new group of people every semester somehow managed to decide as a group to give give up on one dude they hardly know.
You'd think that the pattern would become obvious after Year 3.
In fairness, you can have cohorts of students who are just unprepared or unwilling to learn. But if a pattern emerges, yeah, the educator needs to reexamine themselves and their curriculum.
I mean, they can tell the next generation that the teacher is awful
times are changing and students don't know what they ought to do. also they are subject to peer influence by that professor's previous students.
The Vietnam War thing is so true. And it’s always the ones that were never in the military, or spent the entire war at a radar base in Arizona or a parachute packing plant in North Carolina. Whenever I meet someone who actually campaigned and fought in Vietnam, they don’t like to talk about it. Otherwise, you’d think the Vietnam War and the anti-war campaign at home were the most important parts of the 20th century, by their telling of it.
Your right because I had a professor who never fought but voluntarily signed up after losing friends in the war, and your right he never talks about it. The one time he did he had that ten thousand yard stare like he was remembering the friends he lost.
War isn't something to be glorified and the people who served during Vietnam were forced to do horrible things then abandoned by the government who sent them.
I had a professor who talked about Vietnam exactly once. He and his best friend both got drafted. He was 80 pounds overweight so they didn’t take him. His friend died in Vietnam. My professor lost the weight because of the shame and kept it off ever since, he’s stick thin now. He says he still feels guilty about it even though none of it was his fault.
It was important but not for the reason they think it was. It was important because it showed that the American government is willing to waste working class lives on the ruling class’s interests.
My professors usually spent more time on WWII, but that was for classes about Europe. For American history classes we only talked about the Gilded Age. However, when I had a class about the late 20th Century, the professor was getting his PhD at the time and he spent a lot of time covering, well, everything. He did not got too hung up on specific time periods. Probably because he didn’t live through Vietnam (at least partially)
Dude I feel like I just got done eavesdropping on the other history department professors while sitting in a chair outside my advisor's office lol
Seriously. This one felt real
I feel like these two guys grew up together with aspirations to be educators, and then as the years progressed TBP watched Doug's penchant for giving up on problems fester and eventually leave him embittered in every aspect of his life, and TBP just wants to see his long-time friend finally understand his own shortcomings and grow from them.
I think penchant might be the word you’re looking for, pension is like a retirement fund
@@garstrum4401 Aha, seems you're correct. Fixed it, thank you for pointing that out!
@@tehdmanvids3 UA-cam is wholesomeness.
This was the most calm spelling correction I've ever seen on the internet.
@@turtletank4784 Right! It was lovely reading it 😂 I love when people correct my mistakes by teaching me and not mocking me! Hahaha
I love how he keeps adjusting his glasses but they’re still off his face
Tenured but still too broke to afford new glasses that don’t need tilting in order to read in this economy
I have had teachers exactly like this. The Dougs were always the worst ones that made me hate going to class, where as the good teacher actually made me excited to learn new stuff
Unfortunately, for every good teacher there's 7 dougs
@@familyguysofunny1933 And those 7 Dougs will break the good teachers spirits and turn them into Dougs too overtime.
Had more teachers kick me down than ever build me up
@@armchairgeneralissimothe good teachers don't turn into Dougs over time, at least none of the ones I had did.
Genuinely better than a lot acting I've seen in movies and tv-series. I'm completely absorbed by the characters and immersed with the dialogue. Good shit
You said it brother
I’m not saying his acting is bad but this is more writing that’s drawing you in than the acfing
The characters just feel so real.
The comment about the writing is correct this is not top tier acting lmao
This one hits a little too close to home. I had a history teacher in highschool that was navy during Vietnam and he was never able to truly put it behind him and move on with his life. An amazing man and it was really sad to see
That was my chemistry teacher. His wife left him only a year or two after he came home because he didn't snap back to normal. He still had a lot of problems, and occasionally he would talk to the class about what he experienced. He was eccentric and a really good teacher. He was also caring and took pity on me and passed me in the class.
I knew a Vietnam vet who was a snake of a man and couldn't put it behind him. The type who makes it hard to feel bad for him.
@@j_117 All shapes and sizes man, all shapes and sizes.
My grandfather fought in Vietnam and thankfully he could somewhat put it behind him (tho he rarely talks about it and possibly gave his kids and grandkids terrible chronic illnesses) the one message he gave to all of his family was “never join and never fight it’s a losing battle and all that comes from it is pain on both sides and suffering on both sides with a false sense of winning” and we keep to that especially since my great grandmother was a nurse in WW2 with her brother also fighting she also had a similar warning. I think it shows that it definitely stuck to them in terrible ways but it also in a strange way helped them move past it a bit. Now my grandfather lives a pretty decent life (tho you can tell he’s a bit stuck in the past due to him doing things a bit more old fashioned than normal) and has found peace and despite being strongly stubborn and opinionated he loves his kids and grandkids sorry for kinda going on a tangent it’s just rare for me to talk about my grandfather. Oh and my other grandfather went to prison because he thought it was wrong to kill others even under the guise of “those people are bad!” So it’s a bit ironic in my life
Good professors are a gift. You can always spot them in their thirst for knowledge and truth. They are aware of their own idiosyncrasies.
This is scary because I gave my electrical professor a low review because he kept shit talking us because we didn’t understand why he’d talk about his career and life for half an entire class and then on his syllabus we focused on PLCs which is what he works in professionally as his main job. And his name is Doug too
You'd be well suited learning PLC programming
Tenured professor served in vietnam, watched his best friend die, came back and tried to make sense of life through a new lense. He's seen the horrors man can perpetuate and decided to become an educator to give knowledge rather than take what he wants by force from the world.
Entitled prof has never even worked a day in his life and uses the "pulled myself up by the bootstraps" line unironically, but shits on college kids working full time and taking classes full time for being "lazy"
Honestly seeing two boomers have a passive aggressive little argument like this is quite the spectacle to witness. Like neither of them are willing to tolerate each other's bullshit and neither will back down out of any deference or politeness. They do not pull any punches and go straight for the adult fears and weaknesses every time. "Maybe if you were a better father, your drug addict son would be still alive right now. It's as much a failure of you as it was him, he needed a better father Doug. One that didn't make it all about you, all the time. You failed him, not the other way around."
Its about the one thing I took from the boomer generation. Its very valuable in verbal fights.
It's very interesting! My boomer father never pulled punches with me, even though the vile, untrue things he says to me mean nothing because i have 0 respect for him. Meanwhile, I could say the most cutting things to him, but I won't because I wouldn't want that to happen to me 🤷
the tenured one doesn't tolerate bullshit. the entitled one refuses to accept reality
Day-um
After about 30 seconds it switched from passive aggressive to just regular aggressive. But otherwise totally agree
That shit got so personal and in-depth it felt like I shouldn’t have been listening in to that conversation between you and yourself about made up characters 😆😂 I was listening to this and forgot for a second that this was a fake convo and I wasn’t eavesdropping. I felt legitimately uncomfortable listening to this…. *SO GREAT JOB ON THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE* 😆😂 That skit had more drama, character work, and character depth than the majority of Hollywood nowadays 😆😂
‘well look at your life Doug’ hit like a truck
Tenured Boomer Professor is my favorite of your characters, he reminds me a lot of a teacher I used to know so every time I watch one of your skits they make me remember him.
i wished more professors were more self-aware like this
self aware? you mean someone who puts up with genzers with 0 manners, 0 competence and a whole lot of attitude and entitlement?
I like to imagine that this is Doug's internal dialogue with himself
I had a tenured professor like in my final year of university. We were studying modern Chinese history and she would come out with the most based opinions you could imagine right there in a recorded lecture or seminar. And she knew the university couldn't do anything about it because she was easily the most experienced one in the department. She had no problem with ripping your essay idea apart if it meant building it back stronger. Honestly that sort professor is the one you remember, because they dont just contribute to your grade, they get you thinking and asking questions you wouldn't ask in any other environment
Are we talking "on the topic of landlords Mao did nothing wrong" based 😌 or "I call Xi Jinping winnie the poo and now I am very funny Netflix give me a comedy special" based 🙄
@@thomaswhite3059I wonder the same thing lol
@@thomaswhite3059the “blow up the 3 gorges dam” kind of based the one that’s actually based
I like this new genre of yours - actual confrontation with all the annoying persona you have created! So satisfying
This is scarily described someone in my life (not a prof) but made me realize that a lot of boomers act like this when confronted with criticism. Suddenly, the idea that you often project your anger makes sense in the context of sayings like "millennials don't work hard, you are entitled". I bet their generation constantly had to hear it from their parents (fathers probably more so) that they would never be as good because "Your generation doesn't have to work hard at al!! You never fought the Nazis! You are so entitled". Weirdly, I feel like for the first time I fully understand generational emotional damage, in that it becomes a part of you without knowing, and you live blind to the downstream hurt you cause.
Yeah it always annoys me when people say boomers are terrible but the "Greatest Generation" were amazing because some of them fought Nazis. The kind of abuse that was normal for Boomers growing up is not conducive to being a mentally healthy adult, and the cycle of abuse stretches back past recorded history. It's kind of only recently we've had the ability to have some introspection as a culture and decide that being a gigantic penisface to your family is the mark of a weak man, not a strong one.
i came here for "average redditor" but im staying for this level of writing jesus
How concise lol
We love this character
That shit hits. Had a kid with someone like this. She's unable to take even the mildest criticism and it's going to really hold her back in years to come.
Sounds like narcissism or borderline personality disorder
@@littlemoth4956you really don’t have to pathologize every part of human existence, sometimes people are just annoying
I love this character and Teddy because they try to give meaningful advice but don't take others' sh^t. Wonderful gentlemen.
Honestly I had a professor I met in my freshman year of undergrad who is the tenured boomer prof. I think he's Gen X, but regardless, he listened and honestly kept my life from going off the rails. Great guy.
This is so authentic. You're actually fucking incredible dude
“I been doing this for 35 years” is my dads response to me telling him he’s doing anything improperly.
Dude refuses to learn how to use the new dishwasher, but tells me he’s been washing dishes over 35 years…
"Has your technique been working for 35 years? Then why are you complaining? Oh so it hasn't been working and you're doing it wrong. No it isn't made in China."
My father was an independent architect (the good kind, not the eccentric pricks), and he very often went to the construction sites to check on progress.
On one occasion, he stopped to talk to a construction worker to tell him that what the worker was doing was wrong.
"What do you mean?"
"That is not how you're supposed to do it, it's against regulations, you must do it [that way]."
"I have been doing this for twenty-five years, you can't tell me how to do my fucking job, pen pusher."
"Well you've been doing it wrong for twenty-five years, that law passed thirty years ago. And I CAN tell you how to do your job, I'm the architect and the one who checks if things are done well. Tell me your name, I'll need to check which projects you've worked on to see which buildings are a risk to other humans because of your negligence. Oh and you better talk to your boss about how you're not respecting regulations, otherwise I will."
That worker then tried to throw a brick to my father's head (thank goodness for my father's hard hat), after which that worker was slugged by my father (he had a black belt in karate 😂) and the police came to arrest the guy after his coworkers held him as to not escalate the situation even more 😅
My father did check other buildings that guy worked on and there were actually problems that needed fixing because of that worker.
So no, just because you've doing something for a long time doesn't mean it's the right way.
Feels like a 10 minute long short film, this is cinema
I’m convinced that short-form online platforms are an untapped market of fantastic character actors
The immediate rolling eyes at the “I’ve been teaching for 35 years” lol. You know it’s bad when teachers and students have the exact same reaction every time.
Honestly I've been enjoyed the longer content more than the shorts, gives you more wiggle room with delivery and I think it really works well with your style of comedy!
All they want is for you to tell them that it's the kids. No room for any thought but their own. Yep, very accurate
It was really jarring seeing him play the role of someone who's reasonable and unpretentious. Great video!
Also, I cannot even begin to tell you how many professors and bosses I've had just like the boomer professor. Hearing that role was equally jarring because it simultaneously reminded me of so many people I've had to deal with.
Holy shit gave Doug a fucking reality check. Don't give up Doug.
The glasses propped up above the ears is 💯
Man, I just found you recently and all your sketches are pretty funny... but this? This is fucking art. Like to the point that I know people who I probably couldn't show this to for fear of really fucking them up.
I can't wait to see you on the big screen one of these days. these would be perfect acting reels to send around to directors
This is heavy and insightful for 3 mins. Really good job on this one. I love this professor character.
your acting is always on point, but your collaborator who's playing Doug is doing a great job too!! you're fortunate to have collaborators who really get what you're going for (the 18-year-old girlfriend is another)
This 3 minute short skit is better than any of the 2+ hour long movies marvel pushed out the past few years.
(This might not sound like much of a compliment but your stuff is truly amazing).
watching tsj play someone likeable for a change felt great
Holy moly this guy is an artist. He painted this picture crystal clear.
This is the best skit to date I have watched of yours that has been algorithmed to me!
I feel like i'm in the room there, nailed
These have no right to be so entertaining. Grade A channel
I was waiting for the part where I laugh at it but this was too real, disgustingly accurate
This guy seems like the best kind of teacher: good and can be a bit funny, has a good relationship with his students and cares about his job, but won't let you goof off, he'll tell ya to sit up and do the damned work if he needs to.
This dude has perfected his craft so much so that I didn't even realize how he's wearing the glasses until halfway in LOL
You go stale when you decide you have nothing more to learn, no more room for change or betterment.
Never stop growing as people guys.
He is so good at being insufferable
its very natural too, i wonder what kind of monsters surrounded him
Well, his channel _is_ called "The Slappable Jerk"
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I hope for his sake that he is just an astute observer
I clapped when he said the thing! I agreed and i clapped!
Bro has been waiting years to drop these lines 😂😂
This one went places. Incredibly well done. An amazing capture of life.
Thankfully I didn't have any professors like this. Though I did have a few radicals who tried to act as if I, the 19 year old at the time, was somehow the "old soul'. Bizarre really
This has a better plot than 99% of Hollywood movies
Holy shit, this is some amazing writing and character work
you have insane range in facial expression, like your eyes and demeanor create a totally different personality, I love it
I’m one video you just perfectly described my wife’s father haha. Brilliant insight…
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Oh my god i was so invested in that. that was an amazing sketch!
By far the best one of your sketches I've seen.
I never actually has a professor like this but you made me feel like I did
We expected a lighthearted comedy video and got a dramatic performance 😭
I felt this on a personal level. My generation has some rough spots in it, but the older boomer people has more in my opinion. The most entitled people I've dealt with were the boomers.
I've worked retail for many years and the worst customers were always the boomers.
To be fair though I think it's due to all the lead that was around when they were kids. Lead water pipes, lead paint, leaded gasoline etc.. was all very common in their day so I think their behavior might have a lot to do with lead poisoning...
Boomers are plague
@@squidvis same I've been working in fast food for the last 2 years and old people are usually the worst...
Boomers are a historically terrible generation. They inherited the best economy in history, then squandered and destroyed it. They’ll continue to bully Gen X and younger for another decade until the demographics finally flip.
Boomers of the same age today had 4-7x as much wealth despite being less productive, less educated, working fewer hours and having less job experience. A Boomer garbage man earned enough to buy a home and raise a family on essentially one income. Everything from predatory student “loans”, the mortgage crisis, multiple banking failures, and INFLATION have been caused by Boomers for the BENEFIT of Boomers at your expense.
@@squidvis I wouldn't rule that out completely, but I think that doesn't account for a lot of the behavior.
The character acting and dialouge is so excellent that I can't find these skits funny. Their accurately grim portrayals of interpersonal conflict.
The entitled dude sounds like an actual Kitchen Nightmares "character!"
That was an excellent example of contrast, well done. Really enjoying your videos :)
First one of your vids I've seen I didnt have to rage quit halfway through 😂 you're a great actor
This is one of the most cathartic experiences Ive had in a while
Conversation got difficult so he gave up on it 💀💀
the joke understander has arrived
Goddamn this is different from what you usually post, I like it. A lot actually. Good job
This video is more satisfying than any argument I've ever won.
how is this mf this good at this thing, he DON'T MISS!
I’ve had a couple professors like TBP and they were often my favorite. Straight shooters and quick to point out bullshit but they also really cared about their students and looked out for them.
This character and Teddy are the ones I like most.
“Look at your life, Doug” I’m in fact not Doug, but I felt that ⚰️
These characters are a dream come true
I forgot who I was supposed to be rooting for because it was so enthralling
This character is one of the realest
I grabbed the popcorn halfway through and was not disappointed
I love this human, I would probably die for him.
this sketch made me realize i am doug
The glasses placement is so spot on 😆
That ending made me think, "The bums will always lose, Mr. Lebowski!"
LOL. The way he wears the glasses ...................... 😆😆😆😆😆.
Wow the nemesis dynamic is amazing
I love Tenured Boomer Professor, easily the most morally good character Slappable Jerk plays.
damn, ol' tenured professor was waiting to roast doug for *decades* huh
Among the kids who were bullied and abused a lot growing up, there are those whose medium of escapism was academic achievement. They were great at it, continued it, and pursued a career in teaching. These same teachers have never properly approached their unresolved trauma issues and wind up bring their issues into the classroom setting. Not all of them mind you, I have experienced teachers who were fantastic, and I have experienced those who used their students as dumb buckets for their disregulated emotions and other teachers who have wasted class time disclosing personal information their unresolved childhood abuse issues that belong in a therapist’s office and would never be on the exam.
So far this is my favorite sketch
holy shit why was i so invested in this. about a minute in and completely forgot that its a skit.
the good guy here mirrors my dad venting to me about problems in his circles, it's great
It’s hard to imagine living in a world where everyone is out to get you; instead of looking introspectively, just walk away
Imagine you go to office hours and around the corner you hear this conversation😂
Now ~this~ is the smug smirk I can get behind 😄
Doug is always getting shit on. I love that you can adjust your glasses a dozen times and they're still hopeless.