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Clips from Summer Heights High - Episode #1.1 (S01E01)

"We used to have huge bushes here once,"
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"but we had a girl raped behind them, so we had to have them removed."
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"Chopped down."
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"And, as you can see, the kids have done an anti-rape mural behind,"
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"which is nice."
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"And we've got our state-of-the-art gym down there."
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"Hello. Hello."
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"This is Toby, one of our specials"
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"from the special education centre that we have here at the school."
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"It's a separate part of the school, down the bottom,"
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"but we allow them to play with the normal kids at recess and lunch,"
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"and that sort of thing, so..."
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"Um, yeah, so..."
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"Normally we're not allowed to touch them like this -"
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"the students at the school - 'cause of the child protection laws,"
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"but we usually turn a blind eye with these ones."
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"You know, this sort of... this sort of thing's fine."
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"That sort of thing... not fine."
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"Fine."
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"Not fine."
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"Miss, I need your help. Shh, shh."
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"Quiet, Jonah, please. I don't know how to do it."
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"I can't be quiet if I don't know how to do it."
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"I teach Jonah Takalua Year 8 English."
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"Gonna help me or what, miss?"
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"He's disruptive, he interferes with other students' learning,"
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"um, and he can be very rude."
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"Oh, miss, you farted!"
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"Miss just farted! Jonah, time-out."
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"Miss! Oh, that's... Time-out now!"
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"I don't wanna go to time-out. It's not my fault you farted."
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"I have set up a time-out desk,"
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"which is at the back of the classroom."
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"Cap off, Jonah. I'm in time-out, not actual school."
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"Give it to me. You 'll get it back at the end of the class."
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"And when he's sitting there,"
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"he knows that he's been behaving in an inappropriate manner."
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"You can't take that home with you, miss."
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"He really doesn't seem to want to learn."
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"And I know that myself, along with other staff members,"
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"often feel like we're wasting our time with Jonah."
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"Only one talking is you. Shush!"
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"You 're the one talking."
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"Teachers at this school are so racist."
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"They always blame me for shit."
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"If anything ever happens at school,"
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"teachers go, Jonah, he must have done it."
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"If shit goes missing or... or any kids are crying or some shit,"
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"they go, Jonah must have fuckin' done some shit."
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"Jonah, please. Sorry, miss."
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"I'm just allergic to some shit up here."
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"Must be allergic to your fart, miss."
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"Miss Wheatley's just a bitch."
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"She doesn't even smile when she walks through the playground."
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"Hey, miss. Hi, miss."
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"She doesn't."
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"She's never gonna get a boyfriend if she's so serious all the time."
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"Why don't you smile for once, miss?!"
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"Have you got your period or what, miss?"
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"Jonah really is a..."
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"Annoying. Yeah."
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"He just screws up the whole classroom really badly."
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"Once we had to write a short story for English,"
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"and he didn't do any of it."
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"And the night before, he called me"
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"and asked me to repeat the whole story word for word for him"
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"and the next day he submitted my story under his name."
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"It's boring to do work."
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"If you don't care about it, why would you do it?"
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"I'd rather do fun stuff."
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"And you can do fun stuff when you 're an adult,"
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"so why can't you fuckin' do it when you 're at school?"
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"My drama classroom is my... my haven. It's..."
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"It's where I ... I come alive."
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"# Welcome to Mr G's room"
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"# G's room, G's room"
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"# Welcome to Mr G's room Come inside... #"
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"Most of the time it's just chill out with beanbags,"
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"pillows, cushions, that sort of thing."
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"# And take your shoes off and find a spot on the floor"
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"# Welcome to Mr G's room... #"
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"My teaching methods are fairly unique."
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"Someone join in."
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"I get pretty experimental."
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"And I go crazy sometimes."
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"I just... I just let loose."
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"Enter the room."
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"Oh, thank God you're here."
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"I've... I've been shot."
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"Thank God you're here. Where have you been, bitch?"
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"'Boring' is not a word that you hear in this room."
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"Spin around, Chinaman. Spin around, spin around."
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"If there's something boring to do, we find a fun way of doing it."
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"And he's dead."
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"Slap the butcher!"
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"Slap the butcher is one of the fun games that we play."
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"I'm gonna slap you, Emily! I'm gonna slap you!"
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"It deals with the idea of possession in theatre."
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"One thing that I like to do from time to time"
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"is I just perform for the kids for a whole lesson,"
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"just to give them a sort of benchmark of how things are done."
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"So they can see... at someone at a professional industry level"
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"handles the performance side of things."
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"And that, in a way, gives them confidence."
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"Rrow!"
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"Rrow, rrow, rrow, rrow!"
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"There's still a drama syllabus that I have to cover."
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"Most of what I do has a grounding in education."
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"There is a lesson to be learned."
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"Five, six, seven, eight!"
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"I'm a dancer from way back,"
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"so once a week I pay a visit to the special education centre,"
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"where I teach special dance."
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"Has anybody seen some dancers? Yes!"
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"Dance doesn't discriminate. Virtually anyone can do it."
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"Arms, arms."
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"Horsey, horsey. Shimmy and up."
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"They have some interesting moves"
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"that I've never seen before in normal people."
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"Their bodies move in a different way."
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