Every coach freaks out just a teeny bit this time of year.
It’s a perfectly natural occurrence. With UIL, NFL districts, state tournaments, TOC, and more, there’s plenty of reasons to be on edge. It turns out there was another forensics coach who was prone to major mood swings: Hitler. Seriously. There’s video footage of it, even.
Thank goodness students have time outside of rounds and school work to put together projects like this. The video is a derivative of “The Hitler Meme” floating around the interwebs. This particular iteration puts a speech and debate twist on it. In jokes abound for forensics friends.
Know Your Meme gives the uninitiated a bit of context on the joke:
“The Hitler Meme” or “Hitler finds out” is a video meme involving the addition of new subititles to the dramatic scene of Hitler’s final meltdown from the German movie Downfall directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. The subtitles are often anachronistically altered with humorous English subtitles surrounding current events.
From the NYTimes: “Fire up YouTube. There you can see the Hitler figure erupt in frustration over his Xbox. He flips out because his friends aren’t going to Burning Man. And, recently, he loses it because Sarah Palin isn’t working out as a running mate. Something in the spectacle of an autocrat falling to pieces evidently has widespread appeal.”
Clicky, clicky past the jump to check out the parody. (Note: the video does contain strong language some readers may consider inappropriate.)