My So-Called Life (TV Series)

The Substitute (1994)

Roger Rees: Vic Racine

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• Vic Racine : What's that word? Don't look at the window. What's the word?

  Jordan : Um...

  Vic Racine : What's the sound?

  [pause] 

  Vic Racine : Okay. Finish the chapter and the next 10 poems tonight.

  Jordan : What? Are you crazy?

  Vic Racine : Yeah, good question. Look this is haiku poetry. Haiku poetry only contains 17 syllables per poem. That ain't a lot of syllables. Don't skip any. Get out of my sight!

  [Jordan storms out of the classroom] 

  Graham : Um... my daughter is in your class. I mean, in the class that you're substituting for. My wife and I, we run a small printing shop. Well, actually she runs it. Anyway, I've come by for the submissions for the Lit. Angela forgot to mention that they have to be at the shop by the morning.

  Vic Racine : [slams desk]  That kid who just left here. That extremely smart kid. It seems that nobody ever bothered to notice he never quite learned how to read! I mean, it pisses me off.