Garvey’s cluelessness, we might also ask ourselves: why should a style of “classroom management” in one high school be so ludicrously inappropriate in another? “Finally, someone makes sense!” While we laugh at Mr. Garvey expels “A-A-Ron” from the classroom and then goes on to call for “Tym-oh-thee.” To everyone’s surprise, the class’s only black student, played by Jordan Peele, emerges suddenly from behind a white student and calmly responds, “Present.” “Thank you!” Mr. Garvey, played by Keegan-Michael Key, is convinced that students are intentionally mispronouncing their names to disrupt the class and undermine his authority, and becomes increasingly exasperated. Garvey’s pronunciations and offer the common pronunciations of their names, Mr. Garvey during roll call, Jacqueline becomes “Jay-Quellin,” Blake becomes “Bala-Kay,” and Denice becomes “Dee-Nice.” And of course, Aaron becomes A-A-Ron. “Substitute Teacher” plays with our cultural conceptions of stereotypically black and white names.
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Like other Key & Peele sketches that elicit laughter while delivering social commentary, the “Substitute Teacher” series brilliantly explores cultural relativism and educational inequality. Garvey does not follow that well-worn path: he is paranoid that his well-behaved students are “messing” with him and, in response, takes an excessively aggressive and authoritarian tack, creating hilarious classroom interactions. The sketch offers a parody of the familiar film convention of white teachers as inner-city savior figures, in which they overcome resistance from unmotivated students of color to eventually lead them, through tough love, to a bright future.
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Garvey, a black substitute teacher from an inner-city school, is maladapted to a classroom full of white middle-class students.
The success of the sketch is, in part, attributed to its simple premise: Mr. This is a now iconic line from “Substitute Teacher,” Key & Peele’s most viewed comedy sketch on YouTube, with 188 million views and counting. Garvey, a substitute teacher, at Aaron, an innocent-looking student, pointing at him with both an index finger and a pinky. Get out of my God damn classroom before I break my foot up in your ass.“You done messed up, A-A-Ron!” yells Mr. Shag Hennessy’s office right now, and tell him exactly what you did. Son of a bitch, you done messed up Ay-Ay-ron, now take your ass on down to O. I’m just asking, I said it like four times, so why didn’t you say it the first time I said Ay-Ay-ron? Why didn’t you answer me the first time I said? Now a Ay-Ay-ron, where are you, where is a Ay-Ay-ron right now, no Ay-Ay-ron, huh? Oh, you better be sick, dead or mute, Ay-Ay-ron?
I’m for real, I’m for real, so you better check yourself.ĭe-nice, is there a De-nice? If one of y’all say some silly ass name, this whole class is going to feel my wrath, now De-nice? Balakay, where is Balakay at? No, Balakay here today? Yes, sir?Īre you out of your God damn mind? Blake? What? Do you want to go to war Balakay? Okay, so that’s how it’s going to be, you all want to play, okay then I got my eye on you Jakequaline. Jakequaline, where’s Jakequaline at? No Jakequaline here? Yeah?
Garvey, I taught school for 20 years in the inner city, so don’t even think about messing with me.
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