All language subtitles for Summer Heights High 101

You have some stuff
that you learn,

but other stuff doesn't need
to be taught at school.

- Canteen's crap this year.
- Yeah.

They changed all the bad foods
into the good foods.

They're just tight.
Don't let you do anything.

No iPods, no phones,

no hats, no undertops.

I do special history, yeah.

We stopped Special Maths
after year seven.

I've been in every special class

since I've gotten to high school.

I remember one excursion
we got to go to this park,

and it had...
what were they called?

I don't know.
I didn't go.

Unfortunately bullying's
a problem in the school.

White shoes are not on, mate.

Black shoes or you just
don't get to play at lunchtime.

So what I do is I work

with the victims,
but also the perpetrators.

Get with them one on one

to try and locate the root
causes of what's going on.

I didn't do it, sir.

Didn't do what, Jonah?

Nothing.

I've got a year-seven boy
out there crying,

saying you tormented him.
You bullied him

and you threw his schoolbag
over the train line.

How is that
appropriate behavior?

There's a difference
between bullying and joking around.

We're joking around with him, sir.

He doesn't get it,
it's not my fault.

- That may be how you see it...
- He cries.

I could tell him a knock-knock joke and
he'd start crying 'cause he's a homo.

Well, I've gotta tell you,
it's not appropriate.

It's not appropriate
because he's a homo.

We were trying to have a fun time

on the way before school.

Was it fun for Ben?

- He just didn't get that it was fun.
- Yes.

We weren't even bullying him, sir.
We just "Punk'd" him.

I said, "You got 'Punk'd"' afterwards
and he didn't even get it.

- He took it serious.
- What does that mean..."Punk'd"?

It's a show, sir. It's a TV show.
Don't you ever watch TV?

Listening! Please, cast.

Liam, I'd appreciate
some manners, thank you.

Candace?

Our music productions
are open to any students

that want to be involved.

And they really love it. For some,
it's the highlight of their year.

It's an upbeat sort of production,

and I think it's a lot of fun.

Right, left, right, up.

Got Mr. Gregson
helping me out.

He's one of my senior
drama teachers.

And he is from a dance
and theater background

and he's a real asset.

That's how you hold it
for the phrase at the end.

She loves my crowd scenes.
I direct the big stuff

onstage that she can't handle,
the mayhem scenes she loves.

There's plenty of mayhem
going on in this production.

- There is.
- On and off the stage.

That's what I always say. She's stolen
that from me: On and offstage.

I'm in one of my off years
at the moment.

I direct every
second production.

So this is Meredith's turn this year.

I tend to do the "wow" shows.

- Every second year we do traditionals.
- Yeah.

It's difficult for me sometimes
taking the backseat

in my off years.
I find it hard sort of sitting back

and letting her do her thing.

Sometimes I'm...

"What's she doing?"
But that's her choice.

She makes choices
that I don't always agree with.

Listening to your director, please.

Mrs. Cotton is in charge.

Could I get two strong boys...

I have done Lord knows how
many shows over the years.

I tend to do the more modern

or cutting-edge productions.
I write my own stuff.

Original musicals... I've had a bit
of critical acclaim for that.

And this is the big show
I did last year..."Tsunamarama,"

which was about
the tsunami tragedy

set to the music of Bananarama.

But no, I find plenty to do

- when it comes to Meredith's shows.
- Thanks, Rodney.

Take a sip.

I've tried to reinterpret the songs

with a modern perspective.

We work well together,
and I help her out.

When Meredith's feeling
lost with anything,

- I point out where she may be wrong.
- It's a real help.

Make it really aggressive
and macho.

The program's a first, I believe.

And I think it's brilliant.

It really is giving
an opportunity for one

of our girls to go to another school

that's totally different
and experience a life

that's nothing like what she would
experience here at Summer Heights.

It's a swap program.

I guess they're hoping to prove
that you can get an equally valid

and valuable educational
experience

in either the public
or the private system.

We're looking forward to meeting
our exchange student, aren't we?

Perhaps, Chantelle, would you
like to... the school sent us over a tape

so we'd be able to see the student.

Thanks, Chantelle.

At Hillford Girls Grammar,

we pride ourselves
on cultivating girls

who can succeed in not just one,
but many areas.

At Hillford, girls like me

are offered a world
of opportunity.

Sport.

Drama.

Music.

And more music.

And of course, academia.

It's a well-rounded education

in an amazing environment.

- Hi, miss.
- Hi, Ja'mie, what's all this?

Looks like too much fun.

Haven't you got an assignment
due tomorrow?

Oh, yeah, thanks, miss.
Library, here I come.

Yes, well, she's sponsored kids,

she's modeled
for "Dolly" magazine,

she's been nominee
for Australian of the Year

and she's still only 16.

To be honest,
I can't wait to meet her.

Oh my God.

Hi, I'm Ja'mie.

- It's so cool to be here.
- Nice to meet you.

- This is Chantelle.
- Hi, Chantelle.

Get my bag.
It's in the back.

- Oh my God. You're going to Hillford.
- Yep.

That's really cool. You'll fit in.
There's so many Asians there.

Oh my God.
It's so cool to be here.

Get back in the car.
You're not coming in with me.

- Bye.
- Bye.

My name is Greg Gregson.

But the kids at school
call me Mr. G,

which is sort
of an abbreviation

that some of the more
popular teachers seem to get.

And I've been
a senior drama teacher here

at Summer Heights
for nine years now.

Coffee coffee coffee,
before we teach-ee teach-ee.

Always interested in the performing
arts: Singing, dancing, acting.

And Mom always says
that even as a baby,

other babies were crying

in a sort of monotone way,

but if I called out to Mom,
rather than, "Mom"

like other kids,
I would go, "Mom!"

Instead of..."Mom."

I was always dancing
and choreographing stuff.

I remember doing...

I choreographed the whole
"Xanadu" soundtrack,

performed it for my friends
at my ninth birthday.

Got into Teacher's College,
majored in drama there

and just thrived.
I was very known

for the shows
that I'd done there.

I did many musicals.

We did "Starlight Express"
as a one-man show.

I did "Cats"...it was just
a cabaret, one man.

Probably the one
you may have even heard of,

I did "Bubble Wrap,"

which was me
and a couple of other boys.

I would emerge from
various types of packaging.

I was at industry level
at that stage,

and I thought,
"Hang on, I know a job

where I can sing and I can dance
and I can act every day

and get paid for it."
And it was drama teaching.

Welcome to the magical
world of drama.

I'm always joking with the principal.
I always say to Margaret,

"You've got yourself an entertainment
industry professional

for the price of a teacher,
so where's my pay raise?"

Occasionally you come across
a very special student.

You're a legend, sir.

For me, Jonah Takalua

is a lot more than he seems
on the surface.

Fuck you, sir!

- Jonah is an at-risker.
- Easy with the language.

He comes from a single-parent family.
Lost his mother at an early age.

He's physically a lot bigger
than most of the students his age.

And you can easily forget
that he's really just a 13-year-old kid

- in year eight.
- Gimme it!

There are attention-deficit issues.

- He's been on and off Ritalin.
- I made it.

There's a problem
with aggression with Jonah.

Two minutes, pussy.

Fuck you, motherfucker.

There's a lot of built-up
frustration in the boy.

Do you want Skunk Boy?
Do you want Fatty?

Or do you want Sexy Face?

- Jonah always makes shit up, man.
- Bullshit, I do.

- I don't make shit up.
- He even made shit up

that he met 50 Cent
in the fucking city.

- I did meet 50 Cent in the city.
- Shut up.

When he was here
on the fucking tour.

He made up he had
a girlfriend too.

I do have a fucking girlfriend.
She's from my old school.

- What's her name?
- Amanda or some shit.

This is Jonah's third
school in 18 months.

He was expelled
from the other two,

once for setting fire
to a student's locker

and the other for defacing
the principal's car.

- Take you out here.
- Oh my God.

It's so kind of, like not shady.
Do you know what I mean?

Like, there's not
that many trees.

Like, I think when they were
choosing people, they wanted someone

who was good
at pretty much everything,

and, like, because it's gonna be
on the news and on TV and stuff,

like, I don't wanna brag, but I think
they wanted someone decent looking.

It's way less, like... not crap,

but less povo than I thought
it would be.

That's cute.
I love that. Oh my God.

What does that mean?

I love your bins.
They're so random.

And teachers at my school
are always going,

"Ja'mie, Oh my God, you're the most
likely to succeed" and stuff.

'Cause I'm, like, the smartest
non-Asian in year 11.

This is my blazer colors.

And I'm good at sport and everything
that Asians can't do,

so I'm such a good
ambassador for the school.

The buildings
are so kind of gray.

- Yes, they are.
- No offense.

I think I'm really
gonna love it here,

like I got a really
good feeling about it.

Public schools are so random.

And I make friends really easily.

Hi, I'm starting
on Monday. Ja'mie.

- I can't wait to start.
- Sorry, I was saying hi.

We used to have
huge bushes here once,

but we had a girl
raped behind them,

so we had to have
them removed,

chopped down.

And as you can see, the kids have
done an anti-rape mural behind,

which is nice. And we've got our
state-of-the-art gym down there.

- Hello. This is Toby...
- Hello.

- One of our specials from
the Special Education Centre

that we have here
at the school.

It's a separate part
of the school down the bottom,

but we allow them to play
with the normal kids at recess and lunch

and that sort of thing.

Yeah, so normally we're not allowed
to touch them like this...

the students at the school...
'cause of the child protection laws,

but we usually turn
a blind eye with these ones.

This sort of thing's fine.

That sort of thing, not fine.

Fine. Not fine.

- Miss, I need your help.
- Shh! Quiet, Jonah, please.

I don't know how to do it. I can't be
quiet if I don't know how to do it.

I teach Jonah Takalua
year-eight English.

Are you gonna help me
or what, miss?

He's disruptive. He interferes
with other students' learning,

and he can be very rude.

Oh, miss, you farted.
Miss just farted!

Jonah, time out.
Time out now.

I don't wanna go to timeout.
It's not my fault you farted.

I have set up
a timeout desk,

which is at the back
of the classroom.

- Cap off, Jonah.
- Why? I'm in timeout.

- I'm not in actual school.
- Give it to me now.

You'll get it back
at the end of the class.

When he's sitting there,
he knows he's been behaving

in an inappropriate manner.

Can't take that home
with you, miss.

He really doesn't seem
to want to learn.

And I know that myself
along with other staff members

often feel like we're wasting
our time with Jonah.

- The only one talking is you.
- Shush!

You're the one talking.

Teachers at this school
are so racist.

They always blame me for shit.

If anything ever happens
in school, teachers go,

"Jonah, he must have done it."
If shit goes missing,

or any kids
are crying or some shit,

they go, "Jonah must have
fucking done some shit."

- Jonah, please!
- Sorry, miss,

I'm just allergic
to some shit up here.

Must be allergic
to your fart, miss.

Miss Wheatley's just a bitch.

She doesn't even smile when she
walks through the playground.

- Hey, miss!
- She doesn't.

She'll never get a boyfriend if she
is so serious all the time.

Why don't you smile
for once, miss?

Have you got your period
or what, miss?

- Jonah really is...
- Annoying.

Yeah, he just screws up
the whole classroom

really badly.

Once we had to write
a short story for English

and he didn't do any of it.

And the night before
he called me

and asked me to repeat the whole story
word for word for him.

The next day, he submitted
my story under his name.

- The principal's dick.
- It's boring to do work.

If you don't care about it,
why would you do it?

I'd rather do fun stuff.

And you can do fun stuff
when you're an adult

so why can't you fucking
do it when you're at school?

My drama classroom is my haven.

It's where I come alive.

♪ Welcome to Mr. G's room,
G's room, G's room ♪

♪ Welcome to Mr. G's room,
come inside... ♪

Most of the time
it's just chill out

with bean bags, pillows,
cushions, that sort of thing.

♪ And take your shoes off,
find a spot on the floor ♪

♪ Welcome
to Mr. G's room... ♪

My teaching methods
are fairly unique.

Someone join in.

I get pretty experimental
and I go crazy sometimes.

I just let loose.

Into the room...
Thank God you're here.

I've been shot.

Thank God you're here.
Where have you been, bitch?

Boring is not a word
that you hear in this room.

Spin around, Chinaman,
spin around, spin around.

If there's something boring to do,
then we find a fun way of doing it.

And he's dead.
Slap the butcher!

Slap the butcher is one
of the fun games that we play.

I'm gonna slap you, Emily!

It deals with the idea
of possession

in theater.

One thing that I like
to do from time to time

is I just perform for the kids
for a whole lesson,

just to give them a sort of benchmark
of how things are done.

So they can see how someone
at a professional industry level

handles the performance
side of things.

And that, in a way,
gives them confidence.

There's still a drama syllabus
that I have to cover.

Most of what I do has
a grounding in education.

There is a lesson to be learned.

Five, six, seven, eight...

I'm a dancer
from way back, so once a week,

I pay a visit to the Special Education
Centre, where I teach Special Dance.

- Has anybody seen dancers? I'm here!
- Yeah!

Dance doesn't discriminate.

Virtually anyone can do it.

Arms, arms.

Horsie, horsie,
shimmy and up.

They have some interesting moves
that I've never seen before

in normal people.

Their bodies move
in a different way.

What I find is that
they like a firm hand.

They have everyone,
"Look after the special kids.

You better be nice to them
or they'll crumble."

Pathetic, Cosima, pathetic.

They'll never make it
professionally as a dancer,

but if you get stuck into them,

they seem to respond quite well.

Why are we not on the floor, everyone?
Why are you not down, Jessica?

Disappointing me
this week. Not good.

Thank you, Mr. Cameron,
for your welcome.

And thank you to
the traditional landowners

of Summer Heights,
the Wurundjeri people.

My name is Ja'mie.

J-a... apostrophe... m-i-e.

Weird name, I know,
but you'll get used to it.

Yes, I come from one of the most
expensive private girls' schools

in the state,
but I'm actually really cool.

Please don't be
intimidated by me.

People always go,

"Private schools create
better citizens,"

but I would say they create
better quality citizens.

Studies have shown
that students

from private schools
are more likely

to get into uni

and end up making
a lot more money,

while wife-beaters and rapists

are nearly all public-school educated.

Sorry, no offense, but it's true.

We're Poly Force.

We're the only four
Polynesian people here

in the whole school.

Yeah, I'm one of the best break-dancers
in the whole of the school.

Yeah, you're the best
breaker in this whole suburb.

Yeah, in the whole suburb.

I live for break-dancing.

I wanna do it professionally
when I get older.

Slow down, boys.

FOBs mean "fresh off the boat,"
'cause we're all islanders,

like Samoans and Tongans.

Yeah, and we got a reputation
for being really tough and stuff,

and teachers are
fully scared of us.

They have this rule where we're
not allowed to go more than 10 meters

from the fence on the boundary
of the school

in case we beat the shit out
of pedestrians and stuff and kids.

- We don't attack people.
- We have a reputation for being violent

and stuff,
so we might attack someone.

You never know
what we might do.

This is the boys' toilets
where we hang out sometimes

just doing tagging and shit.

This is my own "dick-tation."

So it's a dick, and then you
just write "tation,"

like you know dictation
that you do in English?

If you just move
your way around the room,

you find other things...

"Lick my ballz"...
that's one of mine as well.

- Who the fuck is Bek?
- Who is it, yeah?

- I don't know...
- Mr. James is coming... looking for you.

Fuck! I'm supposed
to be doing detention.

- Jonah, come on, mate.
- Sir, don't come in. I'm pissing.

- Don't look at my dick, sir.
- No one's looking at it. Just hurry up.

Sir, you'll look like a poofter.

- Don't look at me.
- Hurry up!

Get out, sir!

That's how you get out
of detention.

When teachers come in,
they think they look like perverts,

so they have to go straightaway.
It's the best method.

Those on the floor.
Those on my desk.

I know he's not gonna
like me saying it,

but he really is wasting
his talent doing choreography

on an old-hat musical
like "Anything Goes."

Tell me something
I don't know.

You really should
be doing your own.

Exactly.

I mean, that's where I belong.

- Get out.
- Excuse me...

I need to create
my own stuff. That's it.

I have an urge to do it,
and I need to do it, so...

I mean, I'm dealing
with a principal

who does not seem
to get what it takes

to run a successful
drama department.

She doesn't think
it's worthy of funding.

Margaret's..."You've gotta
talk to Meredith.

She's the head of the department.
You're not head of department, Greg."

No, I'm not gonna talk to her.

She doesn't know what she's doing.
Why would I talk to her?

And what's worse
is I'm competing

with Warren Carmichael
over at Mercy College

who's putting on
brilliant musicals.

"Bully Elliot" earlier this year
was wonderful.

They had a boy over there
that was bashed into a coma

after a bullying incident.

And one of the drama teachers
wrote a musical about it.

"Bully Elliot"...
absolutely brilliant.

Greg and I went
across incognito.

- We didn't want them to know it was us.
- It was a fantastic show.

That's what we need here.

Summer Heights High
needs its own "Bully Elliot,"

and we're not gonna get it
with "Anything Bloody Goes."

There's one more thing.
I ask one little favor of the principal:

Can I bring my dog to school
and take her to class,

and I'm flatly refused.

The fact that Celine has
to spend all her time inside

in my office is borderline cruelty.

Celine is one of the smartest dogs
you will ever meet.

Yeah, she's very very smart.

Celine has an oversized brain.

She's got one of the largest brains

for a dog of her age and species.

As you can see, that's how
you're meant to hold them.

That's the brain
just at the front there.

We've got her with a dog agency,

and she auditioned
for a Best and Less ad in 2002.

Unintentionally, she was
in the Pets Paradise commercial

a few years ago
when I first bought her.

She was one of the litter
that was in the window.

At least I'm
pretty sure it was her

in the window.

Celine, you wanna
go and see Rodney?

Don't touch.
Just look.

Some of you come
from povo families,

but that's not your fault.

Some of you, I know,
don't even have Foxtel.

She seems to be
a very confident girl,

and I think that will
help her to fit in very well here.

Can I have
the screen down, please?

She'll probably find out
that kids are kids,

that they have the same issues

no matter
what school they're in.

These are some photos
of the world that I come from.

My friends think
I'm an idiot.

They're like, "Why would you go
to Summer Heights High?

It's like the boganest
school in the world."

It's such a random thing for me
to do, but I'm always doing things

that push outside the boundaries.
Do you know what I mean?

That's me being an idiot.

My friends say that I look like
Mischa Barton in that photo. I so don't.

I usually try to avoid
public-school people.

Do you know what I mean? Like,
one time I went to this year-10 formal

with this guy from
a public school as a joke,

like me and my friends
thought it'd be so cool

to just check out all
the bogans and stuff.

Do you know what I mean?
And it was such a crap formal.

Oh my God. That's from
my modeling portfolio.

They should not be in there.
That's really embarrassing.

I think it's a dumb thing.

Like, I think a lot of
public-school people are dumb.

I think that it's not really
their fault. That's the thing.

It comes from their parents.

I'm up to a thousand friends on MySpace,
and I could always do with more.

The kids have got a lot
to learn at this school.

I'll see everyone on Monday. Please
come up and talk to me. I won't bite.

And I feel as though I can teach
them how to behave

in the real world.
Do you know what I mean?

Ben says that you
were the ringleader, Jonah.

- Bullshit.
- That it was you who threw his bag

over the train line.

Yeah, 'cause it was supposed
to be funny. He didn't laugh.

How is it okay
for you to bully Ben?

- 'Cause he's a wranger.
- A what?

A wranger, sir.
'Cause he's got red hair.

"Orangutan." That's what
we called him.

And does that make it okay
for him to be bullied

because he has red hair?

- Well, people are racist...
- To us!

- So we could be
racist to wrangers.

But redheads
aren't a race, Jonah.

But, sir, there's heaps of them.
They're everywhere.

I'll tell you
what's gonna happen, okay?

You're gonna clean
this off Ben's bag.

- It's not gonna come off.
- And the other thing is

you're not gonna catch
the train anymore.

- Bullshit!
- And that means

that your father's gonna
have to pick you up

and drop you off at school every day.
And I don't think...

- Don't laugh, motherfucker!
...he'll be very happy, Jonah.

I wasn't the only ringleader.
These boys were in it too.

You are not making it easy.

- You want this to go into Miss Murray?
- Take a joke.

Don't you even know
what "Punk'd" is?

Why don't you watch
MTV for once?

Did you wanna come back this afternoon
and try this again, do you?

Or are you gonna look
at Ben and say, "Sorry, Ben"?

- Sorry, homo.
- No, Jonah, that's not acceptable.

Try again.

Sorry, wranger.

Jonah, you are gonna acknowledge
Ben as a human being.

Now look at him

and say, "Sorry, Ben."

- Sorry, Ben!
- No, Jonah.

Politely and properly
apologize to Ben.

Okay, I'll look at him
and shake his hand.

Yes. And say,
"Sorry, Ben."

Sorry, Ben, motherfucker!

- No, Jonah.
- He's a fucking homo!

Everyone goes,

"Oh, Jonah, he's, like,
a dumbass islander,

and he's got... there's no hope
for him."

- Sir.
- Yes, Jonah.

What's the difference
between a dick and a penis?

But they don't understand
that I'm just choosing to be dumb.

I'm not dumb. I'm just choosing
not to be smart at the moment,

but if I put in effort,

then I could be really smart,
but I choose not to.

And they don't get that.

I doesn't work if I do that.

It goes off.

Jonah's got a lot of problems.

He's up against
the odds, really.

What I would like
to see is him

not get expelled again.

I'd like to see him
get through a full term

without getting
into any serious trouble at all,

and I've sort of taken
that on as a mission.

- Hey, get your ass in the car.
- I'm getting in the car...

And with our help,
from the school, the staff,

and with the support
of his family, we can do it.

What the fuck
you say to me?

I said I fucking love you.

I fucking love you, okay?

My ass, you love me.

Motherfucker.

We'll go through it again.
Candace, watching me, please.

And your American accent
was pathetic last time.

Thank you, Rodney.

When I look at where I am now,

and I think about
where I could have been,

I have to admit
I used to feel unsure,

but these days,
I couldn't feel more certain.

Drama teaching is
where I'm supposed to be.

People say, "Drama, it's a bludge
subject. It's a povo subject.

There's no jobs in it."

Wrong.
Drama changes lives.

- High-five.
- I have kids come up in the playground.

They say, "Oh, Mr. G,
we're so glad

that we got involved
in that production.

That was the best experience
of my life."

And I turn around to those kids,
and I say, "Cool."

And our staff
are always on at me,

saying, "Oh, Greg,
don't confuse your role.

You're there merely
to educate."

Wrong again. I'm not
there merely to educate.

I'm there to inspire them.

Thank God you're here.
Grandma's been raped.

I'm there to teach them
the discipline of dance,

and the craft of the stage.

I'm there to teach them
to dare to dream

and to bring into their lives
a little bit of magic.

Hold it, morons.

And release. Finally, good, yay!
High-five.

Is that the arrangement
you want?

Your call, your shot.

I'm really nervous
this morning.

My breasts would have been bigger, but
I had an eating disorder in year eight.

Do you have any lesbians
at this school?

Just because I'm rich
doesn't mean I'm a bitch.

- Inside.
- Sorry, guys.

- Point it down.
- Shut up and let me explain.

Butterfly, foot.

Oh my God,
we're friends.

I have a bit
of sad news here.

The news has been
life-changing.

Yes yes!

Don't have time for it, Toby.

I'm looking for volunteers
to cover my playground duty.

No, I don't do
my Kermit voice.

- Sue says you've taken her pigeonhole.
- She's a bloody liar.

- I have an announcement.
- Move or I'll run you down.

I am excited.
I'm excited.

You got your period
or what, miss?

- Jonah now has a contract.
- So fuck you, sir.

- "Jared was..."
- Wanking.

The main thing I wanna do
is to learn to read.

Bullshit children's book.
I don't wanna read it anyway.

If you fuck up in school,
that's fucked.

You said put my balls
on the ground.

Why don't you fucking
kill yourself?

Sorry, Shanks.

She has made
the right decision.

Mr. G, are you all right?

I wish I was going back
to Hillford.

That's not disruptive.
That's entertainment.