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One step above "Do-It-Yourself for Dummies" but a long, cavernous leap below an actual education (at least in Trope Land) is the Correspondence School, an educational institute that forwards all its courses by mail. Course offerings are many and varied. You'll be amazed by what you can learn by mail — magic powers, hero training, how to talk to girls — everything you could possibly want to know and more, all for the price of postage! Due to the distant and anonymous nature of these schools, quality varies wildly, and you're more likely than not to wind up with A Degree in Useless. But every once in a while (well, more often in fictionland), the heroes discover a correspondence course that actually works — usually to the amazement of the professor teaching it! A common plotline in comedic mystery stories is the kid who's taking a correspondence course in detection — usually getting in over his head because he hasn't gotten important lessons yet. Another common gag is for the course to be in something you probably shouldn't learn by distance — like scuba diving or hot-air ballooning. A more modern equivalent to this are online courses, which replace the mailed lessons with lessons downloaded from a website. Now that every major university has a distance education department, simply saying that somebody got a degree online isn't enough; modern examples drive the point home by giving the school a shady name like "Cayman Islands Internet University". |
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: X the Owl took courses (and possibly graduated, eventually) from Owl Correspondence School, which had its own Fight Song. | |
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In The Secret World of Alex Mack, Dave gets A Day in the Limelight of sorts when he takes a "How to Be a Spy" course on tape to find out Alex's identity. Amazingly enough, he succeeds, but decides to keep it a secret in agreement with the course's final lesson: "If you discover a secret, no matter how big it is, it's best to keep it for yourself" (which, if you think about it, goes against the very purpose of working as a spy). | |
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Ah! My Goddess once features an exorcist named Shiho who is learning exorcism from a correspondence course. | |
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In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) cartoon, Donatello used one to further his education beyond super genius, only to run into problems with getting the degree itself: he has to pick it up in person, and the university mistook him for "Miss Dona Tello". It turns out the owner of the university was looking for a mate as part of a Genius Breeding Act, which is why he wanted "Dona" to appear in person. | |
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In Command & Conquer: Generals, if you defeat Dr. Thrax in the Generals Challenge, he'll say "Erm, perhaps I shouldn't have gotten my degree from a mail-order college." | |
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In the Community episode "Advanced Criminal Law," Jeff, while trying to make a case that Britta is insane, refers to Greendale as a place "that correspondence schools make fun of."note Considering that Jeff is attending Greendale because his "degree" is from a phoney institution putatively based in Colombia, he's one to talk. | |
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In The Shawshank Redemption, Tommy completes his GED by correspondence course, supervised by Andy. Out of necessity, since he's in prison. | |
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When Women Were Dragons: Alex needs more advanced math courses than what she can get at her high school, so she does correspondence courses with the state university. | |
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In a House of Mouse cartoon, "How to Be a Spy", Goofy thinks his neighbor, Clarabelle Cow, is spying on him, so he takes a Correspondence Course in How to Be a Spy to retaliate. Hilarity Ensues. Especially because Clarabelle was spying on him out of love and taking a "How to Get Your Man" correspondence course. | |
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Harry Dresden at one point took a correspondence course in Latin, the language wherein official White Council meetings are conducted. It was... less than successful, but this allows him to Dog Latin for his spells' magic words (which explicitly need to be Foreign Sounding Gibberish to protect the caster from weird feedback). | |
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Memorably odd Neon Genesis Evangelion fanfiction The Riddle of Steel starts out with Shinji getting hold of a probably unlicensed Conan the Barbarian-themed correspondence course about being a Barbarian Hero, likely inspired by the one in Sourcery mentioned below. He turns out to be surprisingly good at it, but from that point onwards things get... strange. | |
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Discworld: Sourcery features a young man named Nijel who's taking a correspondence course in being a barbarian hero, allegedly written by Cohen the Barbarian himself (and implied to be written by one Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler). In Witches Abroad, Magrat is learning martial arts through mail-order courses sold by "Grand Master Lobsang Dibbler". |
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A major plot point in Bedknobs and Broomsticks: Eglantine learns all her magic from a correspondence course, but the school folds before she can learn the final and most important spell. During the first half of the movie, she hunts down the headmaster, Professor Emelius Browne, who, it turns out, doesn't know magic at all — and, more importantly, doesn't know the final spell. The second half of the movie is spent recovering it and then using it against the Nazis. | |
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As mentioned in The Diary of a Young Girl, the people living in the secret attic took distance classes under the names of the people hiding them from the Nazis. | |
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In Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures, Wildy becomes a shaman though one of these. Link. | |
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In the Rival Schools games, the nameless class rep learned Dan Hibiki's infamous Saikyo style through correspondence courses. | |
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In Witches Abroad, Magrat is learning martial arts through mail-order courses sold by "Grand Master Lobsang Dibbler". | |
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Jimmy McGill in Better Call Saul got his law-degree online from the University of American Samoa, which other lawyers don't take entirely seriously. | |
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In A Sky Of A Million Stars: Both Katsuki and Izuku finish middle school with Aldera Junior High's online schooling program. Katsuki because he can't stand to go back to the actual school again, where he's center attention of the rumor mill, and Izuku because he's still in the middle of recovery and can't afford to leave U.A.'s care facility yet. | |
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In an early episode of M*A*S*H, Radar was taking a creative-writing correspondence course. Radar also got his high school diploma via correspondence course. Col. Blake gave him his final exam. |
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Monk took a correspondence course in swimming, and received a card labeled "How to Swim" upon graduation. When he actually had to swim for the first time, he attempted to read the instructions on the card while swimming. | |
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Superman once exposes a crooked correspondence school. Naturally, the plan for catching these ordinary criminals involved Clark Kent engaging in art forgery, Time Travel, and Superman unwittingly providing the inspiration for masterpieces by Rembrandt and William Gainsborough. Oh, comics... | |
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In the first episode of The Drew Carey Show, Drew is trying to make small talk with the guys in his carpool and sees an ad in one guy's newspaper: "Learn veterinary science through the mail!" "Gee, I'd hate to be the dog in that house." | |
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In Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura. technology degrees and skills are developed through correspondence courses with Tarant Polytechnical University. These are legit courses that provide both basic technological know-how in the relevant discipline and practical schematics for Item Crafting. After all, the adventurers of tomorrow can't just sit around the university all day when there are dungeons to delve! | |
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In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry discovers that Filch, a Squib, is trying to learn magic by subscribing to a correspondence course called Kwikspell. It's unknown if it's genuine or a fraud,note it doesn't explicitly advertise giving squibs magic, but rather helping wizards with a lack of control but Word of God is that it didn't do Filch any good at all. | |
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In The Story of Luke, Luke got his cooking degree this way. | |
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Bertie Wooster's analysis of Steggles also deserves mention: "Machiavelli could have taken his correspondence course." | |
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Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama once claimed to have taken correspondence courses on Murderology and Murderonomy. | |
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Aperture Desk Job: During the 18-month time skip, Grady took a mail course to become, and get certified as, a probation agent, which somewhat makes up for the fact he made you take the blame for blowing up the warehouse while testing the toilet turret. | |
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In one season of Last of the Summer Wine, there's a Running Gag in which Seymour attempts to run correspondence courses. Nobody applies for them. | |
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Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers: An example that actually worked — Sadie Mae Scroggins' immense strength is, according to her brother Billy Bob, because she took a "mail-order muscle course". Billy Bob vastly regrets that she did so, since she's mostly using what she learned to stop him from getting rid of Shaggy. | |
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Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, took an art course from Art Instruction School. He later became an instructor there. | |
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In an Ukridge story, "The Long Arm of Looney Coote", the narrator writes that the speaker at a political meeting apparently "learned his elocution in one of those correspondence schools which teach it by mail." | |
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Sourcery features a young man named Nijel who's taking a correspondence course in being a barbarian hero, allegedly written by Cohen the Barbarian himself (and implied to be written by one Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler). | |
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Most of Sophie's World revolves around the correspondence course on philosophy Sophie takes from Alberto Knox. | |
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One of the Nintendo Comics System comics had Toad become a reporter via one of these. Wooster, in something of a Servile Snarker moment, points out that the entire curriculum consisted of sending them a check. | |
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The Burkiss Way started out as a "correspondence course" administered by the good Dr. Emil Burkiss, who would, for instance, help you develop a muscular body by lifting up all that heavy money and sending it to him. While the later series abandoned this premise, they still had titles on a theme of Avoid Like the Plague, The Burkiss Way. | |
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The hero's backstory in Quest for Glory is that he saw an ad for the "Famous Adventurers' Correspondence School" in his town and decided to take it. Persons who pass the course receive a heroic cloak and tools related to their class (lockpick kit for a thief, sword, and shield for a fighter, magic spells for a wizard). You lose the cloak in later games, but the correspondence school is constantly brought up. You actually visit its headquarters in the final game: the guy who runs it is the only guy in the company, goes by the name of Famous Adventurer (TM) (Yes, the trade mark sign is part of his name). He's not at all surprised that the correspondence course works (after all, that's why he wrote those books), and he's actually pretty impressed with your heroic tales if you tell him about them. The Famous Adventurers' Correspondence School was actually Defictionalized by the series creators, launched as The School for Heroes. In a general subversion of the trope, Famous Adventurer (TM) is actually quite knowledgeable about adventuring, and if his past stories are true (And we know some are), he's quite the Retired Badass and is in fact one of the Hero's best source of advice through the game on solving the trials and general lore. He also fully admits that his courses are nothing but a starting point for one's adventuring career. | |
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As you "Make Your Name" as a monster-hunter and shunter of thugs in Fallen London, people will ask how you got so good at being a killing machine. You can tell them that you're one of the many success stories of "The Adventuress' Correspondence Course", apparently set up by The Presbyterate Adventuress, a famous soldier, explorer, and mercenary. Given the kind of insane feats of strength and skill you accomplish in the game, her course must have been effective; dockside brawls in particular show her style puts heavy emphasis on Improvised Weapons and using your environment against your enemies. | |
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Homestar Runner: A Parody Commercial in the Strong Bad Email "theme song" features Crazy Go Nuts University's "Online E-Niversity", a blatant diploma mill which claims you can complete a year of schooling with a single click and quickly earn a "shady online degree" in such fields as "Business Administration", "Business Abomination", "Infotainment Technology", and "Marriage Apothecary". | |
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In A Confederacy of Dunces, Mrs. Levy took a correspondence course in psychology and failed abysmally. ("The correspondence school had even refused to give her an F.") Nonetheless, she constantly tries to apply her "knowledge" to her Henpecked Husband and his senile employee Miss Trixie. | |
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Vega Strike's stock communications include this as one of the taunts: | |
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Both The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper feature this exchange: | |
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