We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us the things they learned not at school but by watching movies and TV, and their responses kind of make me feel smart for watching so much stuff:
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“I know how to spell ‘difficulty’ from the film Matilda. I still do the ‘Mrs. D, Mrs. I, Mrs. FFI, Mrs. C, Mrs. U, Mrs. LTY!’ thing to this day. 😂”
“During my medical training on rounds, I presented a patient who had an LVAD (left ventricular assist device). My attending asked me what an LVAD was and I gave the most beautiful description about how it is used as a bridge to heart transplant and my attending was super impressed. I never learned about an LVAD once in medical school — everything I said was from Grey’s Anatomy.”
“I learned the word ‘conflagration’ (meaning ‘an extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property’) from the 1992 musical Newsies. Oddly enough, it turned up on my SAT test senior year of high school!”
“I learned the five stages of grief from an episode of The Simpsons where Homer thinks he is going to die and quickly experiences denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.”
“Legally Blonde taught me that if you get a perm, you are forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours at the risk of deactivating the ammonium thioglycolate.”
“Horrible Histories basically passed my GCSE for me, we did Britain at the turn of the century and The Suffragettes’ Song was playing on a loop in my head while I filled out the exam.”
