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Some works originally intended to be entertainment have come to be studied and approached seriously in academic institutions, as they have deep meanings, or comment on society in certain ways. They have transcended their original purpose to become educational. Encouraging critical thinking is the typical rationale for this type of in-depth study, which is integral to many scholarly pursuits. Sometimes it is applied to films, books, etc. that were almost certainly not meant for intense study, and even in subjects that initially had nothing to do with them. At worst, many of the ideas that instructors teach their students end up being Wild Mass Guessing disguised as truth. When this happens, it is Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory and What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? that describe the phenomenon. In a best case scenario, there are some truly interesting and deep kernels of wisdom to be found in well-made works. Many popular works based on historical events have been used in history classes. For old classics, didactic works and school staples, see School Study Media. See Edutainment for works that were intended as both entertainment and education from the beginning. Examples |
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The Far Side: One of the collections has a foreword by a college professor who notes that he puts up the comics on a bulletin board at the beginning of the year, leading to much confusion among students. And as time goes by, the students see the comics again... and "roar with the confident laughter of the enlightened". | |
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Bill Nye the Science Guy episodes are used in many science classes around the world. | |
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Osmosis Jones has seen considerable usage in health classes. | |
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In The Simpsons Lisa pretends to be a college student and attends a semester-long class on The Itchy & Scratchy Show. | |
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Cyberchase, an Edutainment Show about mathematics, could be shown in classrooms as a way to demonstrate less tangible concepts, like representing number lines as floors on a building. | |
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Horrible Histories- Used in classes in the UK as an introduction to various periods of British history. Non British schools will use the topics not related to British history such as Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome. | |
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Back to the Future is used to teach pacing, as all meaningful twists and story beats are spaced almost exactly 30 minutes from each other. | |
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Community has the characters at a low-rent community college and much of the offered curriculum is esoteric. Abed, the Meta Guy of the group, takes a class entirely dedicated to Who's the Boss?, and proceeds to answer the rhetorical question "Who IS the boss?", upending the driving point of the class. He later takes a class on analyzing Nicolas Cage and, attempting to determine if he is a good actor, ends up having a nervous breakdown. | |
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Diagnosis and Depiction of Partial Epileptic Seizures: The classic 1945 film A Matter of Life and Death by Michael Powell was cited by Diane Friedman for its unusually accurate depiction of a real medical condition, with clinically accurate dialogue used by characters and symptoms portrayed accurately, in addition to the surgical details. | |
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When Harry Met Sally... is used for interpersonal relationships. | |
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SimCity has been used in urban planning classes. | |
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Not Without My Daughter: The film was used in schools, as part of certain social studies or religious curriculums. | |
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Dilbert. Mostly for Economics students learning about things that happen in organizations. Interestingly, it was reportedly featured in editions of administration books. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes (a bit obvious when you consider it takes after John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes). | |
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The Animaniacs songs "Yakko's World" and "Wakko's America" have been used to teach geography of the entire world and the United States, respectively. | |
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The Breakfast Club is used to study interpersonal communications as the students learn to understand each other. | |
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Memento, to better understand anterograde amnesia (the inability to create new memories). | |
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If you learn Latin, be prepared to see the "Latin grammar correction" scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian. | |
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Medicine + Sociology + Psychology: World of Warcraft, in 2005, a new raid dungeon was introduced. The end boss could place a powerful disease, Corrupted Blood, on players to quickly kill them. Some enterprising "Petmaster" players realized that their pets could safely carry the disease out of the dungeon and into the cities to Troll other players. A player-made epidemic swept the game; the central hubs were filled with corpses, the disease spreading harmlessly to NPCs who infected other players, healers attempted to cure the infected, eventually resulting in people abandoning the cities altogether. The servers eventually were shut down to force a fix preventing the disease from leaving the dungeon. The event is now known as the Corrupted Blood Incident and has been used by universities as a study in how epidemics spread; how a disease from a remote region is brought to urban centers by asymptomatic carriers, how people respond to the threat — some deliberately seeking it out — and how authorities react to such events. It has also received some attention as a study in terrorism, given that players deliberately infected cities and plotted how to cause as much damage as possible. Eerily, the study would gain an upswing of attention 15 years later in light of the COVID-19 Pandemic. | |
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The Island (2005) is used to facilitate discussion of human cloning in Korean ethics class. | |
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The anarcho-syndicalist commune scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail is often used as a humorous illustration of the evolution of political theory and rise of revolutions from the 17th to 19th centuries. | |
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Physics + Psychology + Biology + Many more: The Big Bang Theory is predominantly about a number of genius-level characters in high-level sciences, and their dialogue is exceptionally accurate with a large number of in-jokes that are hard to get without knowing the material. Dr. David Salzberg of UCLA is a consultant and all white board equations are genuine; apparently his students are encouraged to attend a filming session and pay attention to the boards. Any given episode will have the characters make a reference to some higher level material, often juxtaposed with humor, making it very popular for classroom videos. In particular, Sheldon training Penny using Positive Reinforcement (humorously, Sheldon makes a common mistake regarding Negative Reinforcement, which the show corrected years later). | |
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Civilization is often used by history teachers, especially in high school or in colleges, especially given how the video game series features lesser-known civilizations. | |
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A geologist once did an analysis of the distribution of ore veins in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, speculating about possible plate tectonic shifts that could have occurred to shape the province of Skyrim. | |
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Magnolia is a favorite of film classes for its central themes and storytelling methods. | |
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Minority Report is used in ethics classes to discuss whether it is moral to arrest someone for a crime they haven't committed yet. Furthermore, is it lawful not to warn the prospective criminal and offer reformation? | |
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen is used to study feminist ethics and the self. | |
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A Thing of Vikings: A regular refrain in the How To Tame Your Dragon fic's reviews is that people have been so fascinated by the story's visit to an otherwise obscure era of history that the reviewers have started reading up on the time period themselves. | |
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Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat has been used to teach Chinese history in English-speaking elementary classes. | |
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The Sims is used frequently to examine what-if scenarios, and to teach young students about family dynamics and the real world. | |
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Sociology + Physiology: Shortly after its completion, Twitch Plays Pokémon Red was examined in some sociology classes to study both the rapid, spontaneous nature of meme theory, and group dynamics on a large scale. | |
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Our Friend Martin, often used in US classrooms to teach about the Civil Rights Movement. | |
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Some schools have used the Arthur song "In My Africa" to teach the names of all 54 countriesnote including the newest African country, South Sudan on the continent. | |
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Rashomon. Not only for the trope it coined, ("Rashomon"-Style), but for what it managed in terms of storytelling in its time. | |
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His Girl Friday is used in some Creative Writing courses to explain rapid fire dialogue for use in stage plays. | |
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The film Amélie is a twofer; it's shown in French classes as entertainment and language immersion. | |
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The Oregon Trail is a famous frontier death simulator / historical Edutainment Game. | |
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The Magic School Bus has been used to teach science. | |
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London's Burning: Some footage filmed during rescue scenes made its way into Fire Brigade training videos, usually the parts where actual firefighters were playing themselves, the producers and the London Fire Brigade having an arrangement where the show's location shoots would double as a training exercise. | |
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Some Star Trek episodes are used by teachers in this context, for example the TNG classic "The Measure of a Man", where Picard has to prove Data's "humanity" to a court of law to prevent him from being disassembled as a piece of machinery. | |
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Schindler's List - Used as part of history courses in high school to supplement the World War II unit. | |
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The Patriot (2000) - In US classrooms as a supplement to the Revolutionary War unit. | |
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An interesting variation with Armageddon (1998) as it's not used to teach knowledge, but rather to test it. The film is so rife with Hollywood Science, that NASA allegedly uses it to see how many inaccuracies recruits are able to identify in their management training program. | |
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Jack Webb was a stickler for detail and, for that reason, Dragnet and Adam-12 have been used by police academies to teach proper procedure. Right down to always wearing a seat belt while in a patrol car. | |
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The scene from The Wizard of Oz in which the Scarecrow gets his brain is often used in geometry classes due to the mistake in the Scarecrow's statement. | |
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The "Not the mama" scene on Dinosaurs has been used in a few psychology classes teaching Karen Horney's womb envy theory. | |
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The Wind and the Lion. One segment of the film involves U.S. Marines marching through a town and attacking a palace witch an infantry charge. According to The Other Wiki, the Real Life U.S. Marines play that segment for its advanced infantry classes for midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy. Watch the last part of the scene here. | |
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The song "We Know the Way" and its accompanying scene from the movie Moana has been used in at least one World History class as an illustration of navigation techniques used by the Polynesians. | |
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Singin' in the Rain is often used to teach color theory because of its extensive use of Color-Coded Characters and Color Motifs. The Matrix is sometimes used similarly. | |
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Kerbal Space Program is used to teach physics, specifically orbital and celestial mechanics. | |
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If you study physics long enough you'll probably run into the Galaxy Song from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. | |
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Dragons' Den, as well as its American counterpart Shark Tank, have been used by marketing professors to show students how to pitch product ideas. The former has made episodes that serve as tutorials of the proper and improper ways of doing a product presentation. | |
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Gattaca is often used in ethics classes to discuss moral questions regarding genetic engineering. | |
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Beakman's World episodes are used to demonstrate science concepts. | |
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The Battle of Algiers, a meticulously-researched depiction of the Algerian War of Independence that was co-produced by the leader of the Front de libération nationale (FLN), was used in The '60s by various leftist and nationalist groups as a how-to guide for conducting guerrilla warfare. Andreas Baader, one of the leaders of the West German leftist terrorist group the Red Army Faction, is said to have regarded this as his favorite movie. On the other side, in 2003 the Pentagon also screened it as part of a primer on counterterrorism at the height of the Iraq War. | |
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The "Giraffe in Quicksand" skit in Robot Chicken is sometimes used to teach about the five stages of grief. | |
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When introducing middle/high schoolers to genetics, it's fairly common for a SpongeBob SquarePants worksheet focused on genetics and Punnett squares to be used, due to the SpongeBob characters having easily recognizable characteristics (like yellow skin and a square body), along with the characters simply being familiar with students. | |
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Minecraft is used in some earth science classes. | |
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The Birth of a Nation (1915) is used to show its camera techniques. | |
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Peter and the Wolf and variations are used in schools to teach children to identify musical instruments. | |
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Tubby the Tuba (1975), and the original 1945 song inspiring the film, has been used by music teachers in primary and secondary schools to teach students about the principles of music, musical instruments and their relationship in a symphony orchestra. | |
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Yojimbo is used as a genre piece to pick apart Westerns. | |
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Car enthusiasts use special-targeted television programs, such as Top Gear, to learn English whilst learning more about cars and mechanics. | |
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The Karate Kid has been used in psychology classes to teach about the learning process. | |
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Schoolhouse Rock! for a variety of subjects. The most notable example is "The Preamble", whose chorus teaches the words of the titular part of the Constitution of the United States. | |
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Cells at Work! is highly praised by the medical YouTube channel The Sick Notes (hosted by an actual doctor) and is required reading in at least one Chinese high school. | |
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Artemis Fowl. A demon named N'Zall managed to steal a book from humans, and set about protecting their own society against human invasion. Doubly subverted, in that the book was very poorly researched (Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe being the least of its problems) and that the demon, knowing humans were far beyond crossbows as weapons, just used the threat to rule over the demons. | |
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Life Is Beautiful - Used in middle and high school history courses to supplement the World War II unit. | |
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Citizen Kane is often used to teach cinematography, and as a master work in storytelling and narrative form. | |
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In the case of Economy Watch, the show can be considered educational due to the discussions it has on various economic topics, though its jokes can be fairly edgy or inappropriate. | |
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The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Darmok" is taught in communications classes. The episode is about friendly communication between cultures that are at first incomprehensible to each other, and explores the importance of syntax, semantics, and cultural context. The aliens speak exclusively in trope-based metaphor, so that without understanding the context their dialogue sounds like unconnected phrases. The aliens, apparently aware of their unique psychology, have a first contact protocol that involves establishing a shared set of experiences between two delegates, which can in turn be used as a Rosetta Stone between cultures — in Picard's case, realizing that "Darmok and Jalad" is a reference to a story much like "Gilgamesh and Enkidu". ("And his eyes were opened!") | |
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