Funny videos that can help to explain CA concepts

Funny videos that help explain EM/CA concepts

This from a great thread on video 'funnies' by Ruth Parry on the languse mailing list. See also the video section of the EMCA Teaching resources page.

The hedge sketch – for sequencing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FUZ6eUwG54
Curb your Enthusiasm Chat and cut – for queueing behaviour and social norms, and of course Larry’s rudeness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77bW1aMAkhs
Green Wing Sue White and her completely deviant interactional practice (buzzer) for indicating dispreferredness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBM1x5DPBXA
Medical students’ spoof on communication skills – overdone ‘open questioning’ and more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13m6d95yJd8

Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm are absolute treasure troves of this kind of thing. The most famous example probably being the ‘close talker’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGVSIkEi3mM

But there are fleeting moments any time Larry David and/or Jerry Seinfeld are on screen. I love this tiny example, from 5:30-5:35 (this is unscripted): http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/larry-david-larry-eats-a-pancake

And there is also this, from Family Guy, which I like, on delayed recipiency and pursuing responses…: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkp4QF3we8

Here’s a favorite from “Everybody Loves Raymond.” I’ve been using this to teach about pre-sequencing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr0418Ozjt4

This is one of my favourite ways to introduce the adjacency pair: It is quite long, but students get the gist of it pretty quickly so I don¹t play the whole thing: The Audition (from Mr Show): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-ZNX1jqbOk

I use this one for participation frameworks/eye contact https://vimeo.com/85448261
It's not a video but the 'hide your pain Harold' meme works well for expression/smiling http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hide-the-pain-harold
I use this one for second turn proof procedure, it's also naturalistic. From 0:36 onward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXGXxAnYDMc
I use this one for emblematic v's deictic gesture (it's also good for Goffman) from the old faithful seinfeld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLEaVzBMuQ
And one of a plethora of possibilities from Borat for intersubjectivity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKcWtvEzdR8 (but ensure you stop it before the racism starts at about 3:40)

I have been using this classic scene from Pulp Fiction for repair/breaching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crR6pBGMZ90

The first part of this sketch from Monty Python about remedial help for having your sentences completed by others is great for introducing turn-taking, tcus, projectability, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_cRP6MhM8k
Another Monty Python sketch, The Great Debate, is a nice way to introduce/discuss TCUs and speech exchange systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gULNoATVT1I
This sketch from The Whitest Kids U' Know, called The New Thing, leads to great discussions about sequence organization, conditional relevance and adjacency pairs (although some find it a little violent...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpSeMIE361g
This scene from Friends is useful for talking about apologies and what kinds of responses they might make relevant: Minutes 1:36-2:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHTrX6milno

Preference structures: A clip montage of Worf from Star Trek TNG having a slew of first actions rejected and challenged - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edflm7Hh3hs