These are great! They remind me of my cattle-call interview, where my interviewer, listening to my medium-length bit about my dissertation, watched me like I had lobsters coming out of my ears.

My favorite part: "Freud? Freud was German?"

Thanks!

Oh! Thank you so much for sharing this. Some friends of mine and I have been talking about making a mockumentary about academia in the vein of Best in Show. Looking at academia through a mockumentary filmmaker's lens is therapeutic; it really gives one perspective. The more seriously you and your colleagues take it (academia, I mean), the funnier.



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...when I was in grad school, some buddies and I actually "published" our own journal. An IBM PC had just appeared in our office, and we had a blast. The longer and more self-important the title, the better. The longer the footnotes, ditto. Wish I had actually kept a copy.

Brought back memories of sitting on both sides of the table. At one point, I accidentally had three of the filmettes running at the same time, and I could hear the soundtracks from all three. Which is not unlike the experience of interviewing a parade of candidates. The films are so hilarious, they hurt.

Even so, I would still much rather interview than be interviewed. If you ever need a paunchy middle-aged bald guy with a gray beard for your next production, I do that kind of work dirt cheap.

Re: the "next production" -- you're on! Perhaps we'll have to do a sequel on the campus visit ... ;)