Rather, it would reflect a prevalent and subtle form of racism that persists in our culture.
If the situation were reversed and a white teacher expressed skepticism about the pronunciation of a black student’s name, it wouldn’t be comic. “Chloe,” “Isaac,” “Michael,” “Phoebe”), the classroom roll call provides a perfect set-up to illustrate cultural relativity: why can’t Aaron be pronounced as A-A-Ron, as Mr. Given that English is not a consistently phonetic language and has many arbitrary pronunciation rules, especially around names (e.g. It expertly dramatizes this concept by focusing on name pronunciations in English. “Substitute Teacher” flips cultural stereotypes about white and black names by centering around a black man who considers traditionally white names to be “silly-ass names.” The sketch draws out the relativity and subjectivity of cultural norms - how the designation of something as “normal” or “abnormal” depends entirely on culturally inflected perspectives and, often, on cultural power. 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.
KEY AND PEELE SUBSTITUTE TEACHER SERIES
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.
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