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Substitute Teacher - Key & Peele

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A Key & Peele sketch in which an inner-city substitute teacher, Mr. Garvey, keeps mangling the names of his middle-class students during attendance.

HN commenters mention it as a joke in threads about names being mispronounced or causing problems.

4 comments from Hacker News

@DonHopkins2024-02 · in “Documentation for the JSON Lines text file format”

Does anyone find themselves accidentally mispronouncing Jason like "JSON"? It must be as annoying as mispronouncing Aaron like "A-A-Ron". ▶ this video

@no_wizard2022-12 · in “JxckSweeney suspended (ElonJet guy's personal account)”

I agree with you 100%. For all of humanities fallibleness, every averted nuclear close call was due to having a human in the loop[0] in one way or another. For instance, in 1960 Norway's sunrise was interpreted by radar in Greenland as a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. Thankfully there were no automated responses, and humans in the loop realized the error quite quickly once they assessed all the surrounding facts [0]: link [1]: I couldn't help but think of this skit and pronunciation when seeing O'Shaughnessy from Key & Peel (video is linked to the pronunciation but its worth watching in its entirety if you like this kind of humor) ▶ this video

@gota2019-11 · in “My name causes an issue with any booking”

> I've been more flexible, going by "A Aaron" I'm sorry, but if I found that name IRL I'd have a hard time not laughing. Have you seen the Substitute Teacher sketch by Key and Peele? ▶ this video

@throwanem2017-07 · in “How to make a friend fast”

All of us named Aaron will, though. For those who aren't, or are and somehow haven't yet had this pointed out: ▶ this video