Gym Class
Cinematography by Andrew Lyman-Clarke.
Featuring Emilie Bishop and Daniela Gilbert.
Special Effects by Amy Searles.
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October 5th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
You guys are amazing. I’d be interested to know what you all are like in real life.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
this is the sweetest thing i have ever seen in my life!!!
October 6th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Great movie, looks a lot like the banned commercial of the xbox 360 though.
However, this movie has much better music.
October 7th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
this movie was out before xbox 360 was even a concept.
bill gates ripped off another genius to get ahead,
surprising?
i think not.
October 8th, 2006 at 2:10 am
This beats the hell out of counter strike. I wish my gym class was like this.
This is my second favorite sketch ever, after Food Rap. (And its not far off) It’s a shame you dont have nearly as many members as before, only six of you now. You should start recruiting ^^
October 8th, 2006 at 8:00 am
My 3 favorite parts of this sketch:
1. Joel saying “Lightsaber Space-Trek”
2. Adam dismantling and putting away all the pieces of his imaginary sniper
3. The basketball tumbleweed.
October 9th, 2006 at 2:44 am
this is the best video of all time
October 9th, 2006 at 7:22 am
This is the best video ever.
I love the N64 James Bond sound affects.
Whenver I show this site to people who never heard of ya, this is usually the first sketch I show.
October 15th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
why isn’t this on itunes anymore?
October 25th, 2006 at 12:56 am
the basketball was great. like a tumbleweed in a western. look at me stating the obvious. yeah. im cool. you guys keep me from doing my homework. i love you guys.
October 28th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Haha, I haven’t seen this in FOREVER. I forgot how great it was.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Disturbing on many levels. The type of thing that could only be produced by someone using the anonymity of the Internet.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:02 am
the basketball was genius.. i laughed totally hard…er than i would have had they not done the basketball gag.
November 1st, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Really funny. ^.^
My favorite part is the very end, with everyone lying dead on the ground…
November 1st, 2006 at 10:20 pm
this is such a swicked video even though my computer has no SOUND
November 3rd, 2006 at 1:20 pm
OMG that is HILARIOUS!!!! so friggin random I love it
November 5th, 2006 at 10:45 am
Ok. Listen. THIS IS THE BEST FREAKING VIDEO EVER! I had it on my computer for a while, then my mom went snooping, and watched it, and then she made me delete it, but, you guessed it! I came right back again. My faveorite part was
1. Lighsaber Space-Treck
2. The bathroom Fight
3. When the kid takes apart his sniper rifle
4. Whe the girls pretend to commit suicide
5. When the teacher is about to kill the girl and then all of the students stand up.
The music is brilliant. There should be a like…sequal..that’d be so cool..
November 5th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
bang bang good job
November 6th, 2006 at 2:14 am
holy shit that was lame. I want my 5 minutes back.
November 10th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
The sex.
November 11th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
hey not work safe fuck you. just cause u can’t enjoy, pure brilliance doesn’t mean you have bitch about it.
to the rest of you guys, that was fucking amazing, also i’m with cameron, there should be a sequal, but make sure it’s as good as this one, or better (if that’s possible)
November 13th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Yeeeeaaaaaaaah!!! It’s back online. I found the movie over a year ago at http://articles.energyradio.fm but then i lost the link :(
Now the movie has got a holy place on my harddisk. You can be sure I’ll link to your site as soon as mine is up ;)
November 16th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
When I watched this I was cracked up laughing. It was BRILLIANT!!!!! (^-^)
November 20th, 2006 at 12:54 am
classic skit.
favorite part (aside from all the stuff everyone else mentioned) is how on the first shot of the short-haired girl after her friend dies, she’s trying not to laugh.
November 27th, 2006 at 1:45 am
Wow. There are few words.
Brilliant!
December 14th, 2006 at 2:05 am
and then i go and give the link to 5 new people
December 14th, 2006 at 2:06 am
you guys should be on youtube. there’s olde english videos in youtube, but you guys should make an official group and stuff
December 16th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
i thought that the sound effects were from 007 goldeneye from n64. I’ve been playing that game alot lately. How on earth was this editted?!?!
December 18th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
This is amazing, my favourite (after this comes Cooking With Steven The Vegan)! There are like, 16 words in the video, amazing xD
Keep up the good works guys!
xxxxxx
December 19th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
Brilliance. You really captured the mood of eighth grade badminton.
December 22nd, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Does anyone know the name of the song played near the beginning?
January 1st, 2007 at 11:36 pm
I laughed sooo hard when Raizin was running around helplessly and then gets shot. Pure genius guys.
January 8th, 2007 at 1:54 am
I saw the blood tube! You can see it when she kills herself, right after the gun noise. It bounces. I feel happy now.
January 8th, 2007 at 1:59 am
The blonde girl looks like Elliot in Scrubs.
January 24th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Dudes, you guys should do a You Tube for this!
January 28th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Adrenaline pumping action this. Absolutely awesome
January 28th, 2007 at 9:51 am
But I cant believe raizin doesnt shoot any1
January 30th, 2007 at 2:46 am
so this is how it all starts huh?…
school violence all starts with the teachers.
and then society blames it all on us.
nice sketch guys, ur my loves.
February 22nd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
thats really funny
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:27 pm
love it.
sniper was the best part.
love his crazy face and insane tongue while sniping.
woooooooo go sniper!
March 14th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Oh gosh, you people are my favorite
March 18th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
GG you guys, GG.
Loved it :)
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:03 pm
FIGHT CLUB MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:50 pm
MANNNNNNN that was genus what you guys did!!!!!!! and i do agree with the people that say that you should make a sequel. oh and hey i put it on my psp (i had to convert it though) soooo yeah, make more videos like this
April 8th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
This Is The Best Olde English Sketch Ever !!!!!!!!!! The First Time I Saw It, I Could Not Stop Laughing. Keep Up The Good Work Guys !!!!!
April 12th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Haha all those gun sound fx are totally from Golden Eye for N64.
June 3rd, 2007 at 4:32 pm
It was so good i downloaded it!
June 18th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Alright, how many people would love to be in a large city (Like Boston of Worcester) and just start doing this? (Me…)
And, yeah, there should be a sequel.
June 20th, 2007 at 2:20 am
what are the names of the songs?
I love this vid.
July 13th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
This would be perfect for a school project where real weapons are not allowed.
August 15th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
This is one of the most well-edited, well-directed, pristinely-shot sketches that OE has put out.
It’s also fucking hilarious.
Also, the music from Fight Club was an awesome touch.
Keep up the good work!
August 17th, 2007 at 12:21 am
This one never gets old. This is by far the funniest thing I have ever seen- Good friggen’ job!
August 26th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Mike says: “Disturbing on many levels. The type of thing that could only be produced by someone using the anonymity of the Internet.”
Methinks Mike needs to shut the fuck up.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:57 am
omg i love this sketch the best one ever!
GOOOOO sniper!
i love his crazy tongue
September 17th, 2007 at 10:20 am
OMG! I Luved the rifle part where he took it apart! It was classic! Very Funny! Kudos guys!
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:52 am
hey i love this video and so does every one at my skl but me and a few m8’s are doin a’lv media and would like to do somthink like it all i wna know is:
at the begining how did u get that girl’s head to blow out the back?
and how long did it take you to film and edit this?
please reply
October 18th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
reminds me exactly of my gym class…
October 25th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
hahaha okay so everytime i go to tennis class i always think of this…and i kinda wish we could have a class wide hoot out. hehee
October 29th, 2007 at 12:40 am
I don’t see why some say that the “banned” Xbox 360 ad is a rip-off of this video. The theme is far too universal for such a claim. Thanks for pointing out that the basketball was a tumbleweed, because yes, I didn’t get it. I was half expecting some one-on-one hoops to break out when the roundball came bouncing in. I think I would have enjoyed this more without the “blood”.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:48 am
OE you need to do some recruiting. When i look back at this video i realize the ever so obvious fact that there are so little of you now.
December 25th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
You guys were the fucking shit when I was in highschool. So many people tried to form sketch comedy groups modeled after you guys.
December 28th, 2007 at 4:56 am
i like daves death with teh screaming and tehblood and teh pwnage.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
I’m a little worried about this commercial I just found for the Xbox- It shares a lot of similarities to this sketch and I assume was made sometime later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34KxmCQD0V8
I adore this sketch, by the way.
February 23rd, 2008 at 3:01 pm
You’re all idiots for making this. get a life.
February 24th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
It is awesome..
AMAZING!
February 24th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
How do I download this crap? Amazing guys. Keep up the good work.
February 24th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
decent concept
mediocre acting makes me cringe
sound is poor at some points
awkward editing
needs improvement basically.. oh wait xbox did that
February 25th, 2008 at 3:57 am
I don’t know if it is cause I just watched the other xbox video first and then this one or what, but I think I liked the other one better. This one was too bloody and not as funny.
anyways, Finger bang day April 30.
February 25th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Xbox vid was way better. Better editing, music, and sound effects. Plus it was was funnier. And don’t you think it’s a little sick that this is what high school kids are doing with their time, pretending to kill each other will finger guns? Pretty fucked up if you ask me.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:28 am
The 360 version was awesome, and if anything, you guys should be proud something as big as the 360 marketing team would use your idea, spice it up, and air it on national television. Also, I’m guessing Bill Gates had nothing to do with the commercial, he just sits back and says yes or no. Smooth move on being those small people that ruin bigger things just because they can….bravo….idiots. This video sucked real hard
February 26th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Personal critique:
Well…Frankly, I hated the suicide part, where she killed herself, cuz it’s like, she didn’t even mean to, did she? And I wasn’t expecting the blood, and it made me cringe.
I know that this was just supposed to be cool and funny or whatever, but, personally, it just makes me think of all the people senselessly killed in real life, including those who kill themselves.
I think I would have been much more okay with it if it didn’t have the blood, but, on the other hand, the blood WAS very effective, so….yeah.
The basketball tumbleweed was hilarious! It was the only part that made me actually laugh, other than the creepy sniper’s tongue, and his walk with the “whoosh” sounds.
Professional critique (not that I’m professional, but critiquing the more technical aspects of the given short movie):
The first few sound effects were of horrible quality, but they quickly got better. There were one or two places when the ambient sound quality changed, going from being silent to having a hiss, and back to silent again. There were a few times when the editing was questionable, or rather, the cinematography: particularly the close ups of the sniper guy and the last guy to die’s hand to hand battle, because one shot was darker or something. It was kinda weird.
But other than that, I thought that the whole thing was quite original (especially the ridiculous PE teacher trying to explain how to use the racket, and the sniper packing up his stuff and then walking hilariously to the show down), and generally well executed (pun morbidly intended).
Good job. :]
February 27th, 2008 at 2:05 am
Umm.. How about not. I failed to see the point or the humor in this. I thought it was a little stupid. I’m sorry. I don’t happen to agree with the rest of you. I thought this was one of the lamest things I’ve ever had the misfortune of seeing on the internet.
February 27th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Epic
February 28th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
my god…amazing…
February 28th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I like it nice camera work and editing for a high school video
February 29th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Just a brief note to the folks commenting that the Xbox video is “better quality”:
…one would hope, with the kind of budget Microsoft has available, that their video WOULD be “better” than one shot in a school gym.
That said, I think you folks did a great job with this, especially considering you weren’t exactly working with professional resources. I agree the blood effect might have been a little overly gory, but the number of gamer jokes hidden (or not so hidden) was fantastic, as was the tumbleweed.
Bravo :-)
February 29th, 2008 at 2:49 am
Definitely loved some of the more subtle elements…
Go basketball tumble weed! And my fav. line… “Lightsaber Space-Trek”
February 29th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I just watched both this and the 360 commercial and I gotta say that I enjoyed this much more. I see a lot of people complaining about the blood. I thought the blood worked very well and added to the video for me cause I really wasn’t expecting it. Overall, the video’s a real pleasant mix of subtle humor, in-your-face humor, and uncanny violence. Thank you for adding this experience to my day.
February 29th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
the background music at the beginning is minefields by prodigy
March 1st, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I’d rather watch 2 girls 1 cup.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:26 pm
i watched both this and the 360 commercial and i gotta say that the acting in this was so far below sub par that i don’t think if i’d made it i would have published it.. but hey… i guess no high schoolers in the area were available so they had to use just really really awful people… oh well…
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Nice idea, but crappy acting ruined it. Can’t believe there was a lawsuit over a mediocre vid like this. The commercial was way better. Sorry.
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
I bet that Bill Gates goes on the internet looking up halfassed high school videos in his spare time to use them in his advertising. And are you copyrighting the “hand pistol”? I’m sure you were the first group to think that up. Better go complain to all of the children running around using their hands as guns, they all stole your idea too.
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Oh, and how do you think people who have been involved in a high school shooting think of this video? I bet I brings back some great memories…
March 4th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
I’ve gotta admit, the 360 ad was a heck of a lot funnier and more enjoyable to watch.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Though I did enjoy this video, I have to agree with James B in saying that the law suit was bullshit. But hey, everyone in this fucked up world wants money so I can’t really blame you for siezing an oppurtunity and just being sheep to society in which you are greedy little pigs. Sweet vid, but seriously, the law suit I thought was a joke.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
this was so weird… I wish i could do that in real life. I really didnt want that teacher to end up winning xP, he was such a bitch.
and for those who think Bill Gates copied this for the Xbox comercial, I see a few major differences.
1. In the Xbox commercial, all the people were making their own gu sound effects.
2. No one ran out of ammo, unlike that one guy that got shot in the head.
3. This had no grenades.
4. The commercial had no blood.
So just stop whinning about Bill copying this. Also, James B, stfu about the fingerbanging. A helluva lot of peopel ahve done it way before this video. I’ve been doing that since i was about 5 years old… granted I played too many video games, but still. I’ve been doing it for that long, so stfu about it.
I have to put the Xbox commercial and this video at a tie, they were both excedingly funny. they both get A+’s. Also, Join this facebook event before April 30 and spread it around, this is gunna eb awesome.(its national Fingerbang day)
http://hs.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5722997890
March 6th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
i could have done without the suicide jokes. seeming how incredibly cruel and heartless that is to people like me who’ve had a friend shoot himself in the head. you say “oh it’s just a joke” but do you see any commercials making fun of AIDS, abortions, or girls being brutally raped? not that i know of. so why make a joke about something just as serious. but that’s how society is now. and i bet the law suit was over the suicide jokes.
March 6th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
It was pretty good, but like a lot of others I was also disturbed by the blood having seen the XBox commercial first. More shocked, I guess.
You guys did pretty well, but I wish I’da seen this one first because then I might not have been so… put off by the blood.
(Mostly the suicide disturbed me.)
I definitely like the Sniper guy, he did a great job.
As a lot of people noticed, the sound effects- mostly the cocking of all the guns at the beginning- were really off, but maybe it was just hard to get used to them or something.
When the Sniper guy and the other one are having their brief ‘face-to-face’ combat, even though I understand the problem of forcing a camera between two people actually doing that, I think you should have tried at least to have their arms raised and tensed because their shoulders were wrongly angled and it really threw that scene for me.
Lastly, it woulda made me happier if one of the girls came back and shot the last-standing person at the end and laughed or something. Probably my tiny little inner Feminist speaking there.
March 9th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
DX
March 9th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
that was damn good
sound is a little off tho
and when the guy hides behind the doors his head is right in the window XP
March 12th, 2008 at 11:07 am
holy crap, that was intense
great ending.
March 12th, 2008 at 11:23 am
hey, love the video guys! best ever.
Cool idea: play this at the next NPPL world cup game (NPPL= national professional paintball league) over in the trade show…
March 13th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
epic.
March 13th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
wow, this is probably THE gayest thing I’ve ever watched. I’m glad i had it onmure too, b/c it probably would have been worse with the volume on!!! Some people have NO lives, and come up with retarded things like this to pass the time. WOW…I’m glad I’m not a fag like these people. Here’s some advice…never EVER make another video and post it on the Internet! FAGS!
March 15th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
this is the best video yet still first video i watched and i still laugh my ass off at it i wish i could get this on my zune though this and food rap thats hilarious
March 15th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
hahaha
March 16th, 2008 at 12:39 am
That was more or less hilarious… I LOVED the basketball… it cracked me up.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I just noticed… through all the fighting, when a person would die. Their body would disappear.
But at the end, everyone’s dead bodies ended up in what seemed like a random position in the gym.
weird…
March 20th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
100th comment! WOOOOOOOOOOOO!
March 29th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
You people talk about it like it is some fucking masterpiece of art coming out of the disillusionment era but i mean it is a video by bored kids about a game everyone played as a child. I mean it was right on everybodies mind and they just put a video there for us. I am not at all slandering the video, it is good stuff, I really like it, but it isnt the next revolution, it isnt “a genius bill gates ripped off” it is a video for entertainment based on the age old game. But as to the makers, props and thanks for the 5mins of my wake up call… all replys to this are welcome, but I wont be back so have fun with this one y’all.
March 31st, 2008 at 8:53 pm
That was awesome, i wish we played this in gym class, that would have been sweet…
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Wow.
I didn’t find this funny. I found it tasteless and disturbing. The comments kind of scare me. “I wish my gym class was like this!” you mean you want to /die/ during gym class?
Yucko.
April 4th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Awesome stuff then
April 5th, 2008 at 12:27 am
THAT WAS AWESOMEE
April 8th, 2008 at 11:34 am
wow. this actually didn’t suck.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:17 am
good hustle everyone and the ballet pants on janos made the whole thing that much more enjoyable
April 25th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
wow!! I love it! Can’t wait to do my OWN finger bang day!! Just wait til April 30th…its COMIN!! I’m goin straight MI3 on ya’ll!!!
April 29th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Best short I’ve seen in a very long time.
Bravo students.
April 29th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
of course the gym teacher wins… ><
too bad for the guy in green at the end…
April 29th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
that was a waste of my life that was stupid
April 29th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
ahah that is so wonderful. rofl totally influenced me to spread it on to my friends so we could act in such manner.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:37 am
haha! there are ppl in my school doing this 2morrow! they posted bullitens abt it on mysoace! it shuld be like freaking awesome. lmao! :] this is rly cool! you guys are awesome! even if a few ppl disagree;; wht do theyy knoww? lmao! :] keep it up! and yeaa…they’re right…you shuld totally make a sequal!! :]
April 30th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
that was fun. it was like an extended mix of the episode “Gone” from the British series Spaced.
alas, Mr. Simon Pegg is lost to us now…
May 1st, 2008 at 12:57 pm
That was alright. This one’s better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxPvyL9Kr8U