His name is Gordy. And he doesn't actually clean the school that well. He normally helps or hangs out with Ned, Cookie, and Moze when they have problems.

I think every kids show has one character that’s like; “hey, wanna do this super dangerous, highly illegal thing that will only result in negative consequences?”.

8:00 It’s best to think of this like a live action cartoon, in terms of logic.

The fake wood desks with the metal bar holding the seat together would always hurt my back

I remember this show constantly using Mozart music for intellectual moments, like how when Moze moves to the front, the Turkish March suddenly starts playing

I remember a few teachers I had used a second white board in the back of the class with a more summarized version of what was being taught that day to help kids who had to sit in the back. I'm not sure how effective it was, but it seemed like a good idea.

I love Gordy. He is a terrible janitor, but a hilarious character!

As someone on the Autism Spectrum, I always sat in the front of class or the bus so I wouldn’t be bothered by bullies (stayed close to the teacher or bus driver). As for lunch, I would always try to find an empty or almost empty table because whenever I sat at a table with people I would always be chased away, bullied or told “the seat was taken”

Daran Norris who played Gordy was explaining that Gordy had a background that makes subtle appearances through out the show. He is a trust fund baby, who has a rich background but in order to get his inheritance he has to get a real job and be a part of normal society to prove dedication. Hence the tux, why he doesn't take his job seriously, and as you see through out the show there are other things that subtly reveal it to without outright saying it

Even in classes where we did not have assigned seats every one just sat in the same spot anyways. I always preferred the second row of seats. And in 2004 the Red Sox actually won the World Series.

Cookie's "butt bouncer" reminded me of a troublemaking junior high student who lived on my block. On the rides home he would repeatedly stand up while the bus was moving and shout "Bus surfing! Bus surfing!" then sit down like nothing happened. On the opposite end, I routinely sat up front in class and always asked the teacher the most questions

At the 3:23 mark where you talk about outdated desks; It reminds me when I was a hs senior in my economics class. It was the spring in 2021 when the remote/hybrid kids started coming back and needed extra desks. The only extra desks available were the old school/worn out ones from the 70's and one desk literally had “led zeppelin” carved into the desk! that's how you know your desk is getting too old am I right😅

The fun part about Gordy is that he embraces the slaptick of the show the most when he's given a weasel as a nemesis like Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner.

Yeah that’s something that always bugs me in tv shows, where the teacher will say “be sure to study for tomorrow’s pop quiz”. Like that’s not how a pop quiz works lol

As a high school principal, what's the funniest story about a student coming to your office?

The janitor’s misconduct reminds me of the SML video “Jeffy’s Kiss!” that I’d like to suggest. It’s about a teacher getting taken to court for something they did in class.

I wonder how that student who camped out by the cool table didn’t get busted by the janitor or even disciplined for skipping class.

I've had a lot of teachers that would prepare us for a pop quiz and it was usually a small paper pretty much weekly

Fun fact: Martin’s actor (the kid who talked way too much) was in the horror film “Stay alive” about a cursed video game

Well I just learned something from this video and I'm not even in school anymore. The part where you say that you can learn and improve by sitting in front of the class that theory actually may explain why I did better in some of my classes compared to other ones I never thought of it like that before. Thanks for today's lesson

yeah gordy is a bit insane its a mystery to me how he got his job

12:23 I think it should also be noted that the can’t actually make the school bus’s impact with the pothole go “off the Richter scale” like that. To do that, they’d have to create seismic activity so powerful, it could potentially destroy countless surrounding cities. The strongest earthquake I have ever head of was a 9.5 on the Richter scale, and it happened in Chile back in the 1960s. You can tell just from looking at pictures of the aftermath how devastating it was.

If we did had the option, which I usually did, I sat in the front. I have trouble hearing out of my right ear, so I sat closer to the teacher to hear (kinda a moot point, which the teacher walks around); in the past, the teachers took a while to realize I had trouble hearing because I was sitting next to the HEATER.

When I was in middle school, most people just sat with their friends, at lunch. There wasn't a "cool" table. The closest would probably be where the B-ball team sat, but they weren't mean about it. I even sat there a few times, and aside from being a bit cramped, they were all very friendly. There was the bully table, but no one wanted to sit near them. Most days, half the table was empty

Here's a recommendation hey Arnold! Is also a good show to review too

I remember always being the student who sat in the back of class. It was mostly so I could get a better view of the whiteboard. That said, however, I usually sat near the front of the bus to avoid getting frustrated about slow deboarding.

As someone who lives in PA, the last thing I want to hear is someone wanting to make a pothole bigger😂😂

I tried to sit far away from everyone at lunch in school.

I always sit up front to get out quicker

I’ve never really been that comfortable being in the very front (mostly due to situations where i’m the only one in the front which becomes more distracting) , but i’ve never had issues sitting elsewhere in a classroom.

I sometimes had seating charts in school other times I didn't

Busses tend to bounce more if u sit far back and when the tire of the bus hits a hole on the road. And kids love being bounced even tho it could be dangerous and its why we have seatbelts. But some kids can be stubborn and takes off their belt then wait for a bounce will happen.

The janitors name is gordy

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Funny thing about sitting by the window in the sunlight. I used to work security at a retail store, and I would spend most of the day standing by the main entrance which was a glass sliding door with huge windows. This was in the summer and sun would be glaring through those windows all day. It got to the point where one side of my body was more tan than the other because it was facing the window all day 😂

cookie didn't get in trouble, but it was much worse. he got his just desserts.

As the show goes on, Moze and Ned's stories become more serialized and soap-y, focusing on their love lives and dating; while Cookie's get even more outlandish and cartoony.

I used to sit in the back of the bus. And we would have fight club every day on the ride home. The bus driver didn’t care at all

8:49 in French, pain means bread.

As usual I have enjoyed watching this classic with you and hearing all of your commentary. Thank you! Cheers!

We need more Janitors like Geordie😂😂😂😂 Logically is it school ‘legal’ to have Janitors hand out excavation projects with Jackhammers to students?😂😂😂😂

He wanted to suspend Cookie and fire that guy so bad 😂 In my school we could go outside for lunch. Here college is free so we used to go to a nearby college to have lunch there with friend. It was pretty fun 😁

Those slide in desks are awful! I'm left handed & our school had nothing for lefties. Except those stupid little metal scissors that never work. So I use righties upside down & they bruise my thumb. & the kids on my bus use to do that at potholes. I don't remember anyone getting in trouble. But it's a pretty small town & that was Late 90s early 2000s.

When I was in school I usually sat in the front of the classrooms. Never sat in the back. Same with the school bus I always sat in the front because when you're in the front you're always going to be the first one off the bus and in the classroom.

Don’t know if somebody has told you yet, but the three main characters of the show as adults now have a podcast where they talk about the episodes and what it was like filming the show as middle schoolers. I don’t think you could probably watch it for the channel mostly because some of it is more adult it would be cool to check out in your free time if it interest you

when it comes with seating mostly sitting at the back is for less attention from the teacher sometimes, so u can talk with ur friends abit, closest to the door when class ends most my classrooms the tables at the back where right by the door. As for lunch tables cant say we ever had cool tables at are school, i never liked alot of school foods so i always made my own and sat outside with my friends, was always alot more enjoyable to sit on the field with my friends and watch the boys play so sports while we ate. as for bullying you will find girls can be far worse then guys and can often be really violent. I can Thankfully say i was one of the lucky ones that never had to experience bullying from classmates for me it came from some teachers instead. Are High school also had 4 sick teachers that where sacked for disgusting reasons beginning with P i will say no more. I recall in my junior school someone set fire to it and we had to miss 5 months of school for the repairs, people just don't understand the major consequence of there actions the act on selfish impulses and we all suffer for it. I apologize for the Essay it was meant to be a much smaller comment sorry and apologies for the Grammar yikes, Thanks again for another amazing reaction video.

my last name starts with an a so we had to sit alphabetically based on our last name so I always had to sit in the front of the class

This show reminds me of Scrubs. You can be zany but still close to true to life

Question isn’t intentionally enlarging the pot hole in the school driveway defacing/destroying school property?