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  • Did he say PhD or THC? No wonder the scarecrow got it wrong.

  • to be fair this is a pretty accurate depiction of academia today

  • Hahaha it's so wrong it's funny :)

  • In math today we literally analyzed this whole thing. He basically has the entire thing wrong.

  • The Simpsons brought me here! :)

  • the pythagorean theorem is actually the square of the hypotonuse of a right triangle is the sum of the squares of the other two legs of the triangle. Not the sum of the squares roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the remaining side. That scarecrow is never gonna have a brain.

  • The bad thing is that he said it with confidence

  • As quickly as he said it, it's actually tough to catch the major errors. No wonder nobody on the set bothered to correct it. Either that or back then people were more ignorant than they are today, despite our Kim Kardashian style entertainment being far more brainless than this classic movie.

  • After reading the real theory, I figure the Wizard probably just gave that diploma to the Scarecrow to boost his confidence.

  • I remember my teacher showed this to us in my Geometry Honors class.

  • did he say a diploma of thc???

  • @shadowsfall322000 PhD, Diploma of PhD

  • Correct me if I am wrong, but when the wizard says "E pluribus unum" am I the only one that finds it to not seem to be placed in the right terminology? After all, it means "Out of many, one." So how would that even make sense in the context in which the wizard uses it?

  • @ThatCoolGuyNamedMatt He's giving a made up diploma to an animated scarecrow...nothing makes sense in this context.

  • @valjean76 Word

  • @ThatCoolGuyNamedMatt He says E Pluribus Unum solely for the reason that it is probably the most familiar Latin phrase to the average American, regardless of knowing what it actually means, due to its presence on our coins. His purpose was to try to make his conferring the diploma sound official, in his own humbug fashion.

  • @ThatCoolGuyNamedMatt You probably are the only one. People like me don't know what the heck that means. In fact, most people who viewed this video probably still don't realize just how incorrect the scarecrow's triangle epiphany was, despite the attention drawn to it's incorrectness.

  • Just for clarification there are 3 problems:

    1) it must be a right triangle

    2) the "remaining side" must be the hypotenuse

    3) square roots are not involved!! (except when taking the root of previously squared numbers) the sum of the squares of the legs equals the square of the hypotenuse

    a^2 + b^2 = c^2

    OR

    sqrt(a^2 + b^2) = c

    NOT: sqrt(a) + sqrt(b) = sqrt(c)

    or sqrt(a + b) = c

  • OMGfacts anyone?

  • I think it's the point... He remains stupid, but now he sounds smart.

  • My friend has the special edition version of the Wizard of Oz, and she told me they mentioned this fact. Apparently the actor who played scarecrow kept saying it wrong. He had the right line, he just never said it right. Finally, the editors just decided to use the best take and hope no one would notice.

  • isosceles triangle?? how is that even related to Pythagorus theorem ? oo

  • omg facts 

  • @fidz10 ahah yupp that's exsactly why I'm watching this that's funny how it's wrong tho :P

  • 1. it has to be a right triangle

    2. the "remaining side" has to be the hypotenuse

  • forget math...

    Like if OMGFacts brought you here. :]

  • hehe... degree of THC

    

  • @downbelow492 That is what he says right? I thought so but I wasnt suree lol

  • this is supposed to get me extra credit.

  • @daliamaya321 sames holmes

  • THAT'S A RIGHT TRIANGLE YOU IDIOT!

    D'OH!

  • i saw it in my math class :D

  • its not isosceles it's right triangle..see, im smart

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  • @ShadowOpz61 ....i was close enough! and i am perfectly smart.

  • @ShadowOpz61 Actually, mooseaues is indeed correct, since Pythagorean theorem applies to all "right triangles", not just "isosceles right triangles". Don't forget that right triangles can be isosceles (angles 45-45-90) or scalene (angles 30-60-90 or 10-80-90 or 40-50-90, etc).

  • No. sqrt(4) + sqrt(4) = 2 + 2 ≠ sqrt(4)

  • this was just the final question on jeopardy

  • Actually says "square root" "isosceles" & "any two sides", a long way from PyThm.In fact, the statement is false in every case.There is no isosceles triangle which satisfies it.I would add that this makes the statement even more important in the context of TWoO--the greatest ever made--because the message is that one solves one’s own problem.Thus, the scarecrow discovered his intelligence as he created the plan to get into the witch's castle, not when the wizard gave him his Th.D.

  • @frankjcorley Yes, there is an isosceles triangle which satisfies it.

    sqrt(a) + sqrt(b) = sqrt(c)

    Since it is isosceles, a = b

    2sqrt(a) = sqrt(c)

    How about all three sides are length 4? It's more equilateral then isosceles but it works.

  • I heared that the actor just couldn't say it right so they just stopped trying

  • Wait... What did he say??

  • i fucking hate geometry its to hard screw it we shouldnt have to know geometry to be smart

  • @omgbaby123 And this is why the U.S.A. is falling behind in education.

  • @vargonian so we dont need it we r the most powerful nation in the world

  • @omgbaby123 Not for long if our education keeps weakening, obviously.

  • "That's a RIGHT triangle, you idiot!"

  • The Simpsons ended up pulling the same thing when Homer found Henry Kissenger's glasses in a toilet and put them on.

  • noooooooo!!!!!!! its not an isosceles!!! its a right triange. and its not the square roots. the legs sqared eqal the hypotonuse sqared!!!! annnd!!! its not ANY 2 sides. the 2 legs equal the hypotenuse. ayayay............

  • This cannot be true in any geometry, because he says, "...of any two sides of an isosceles triangle..." If he had said, "of the legs of an isosceles triangle" then it could be true of only some non-Euclidean triangles, such as an isosceles triangle in spherical space, for example, an isosceles triangle having legs equal to 1/6th, and base equal to 2/3rd, of the maximum straight line length.

  • is the lion completely gay or only a little gay?

  • @TheAntiFascist2010

    I think he was pretty gay but the Tin Man was too. "Oil my ahms, oil my ahms..."

  • My teacher showed us this in class to show us how wrong he is.

  • @CuttlefishPi he was probably a faggot

  • when the wizard says where i come from does he mean the Vatican???

  • @TheAntiFascist2010 no, the real equation he is thinking of is when 2 sides of a RIGHT triangle (he says isosceles) measurements are squared, not square rooted, equal the last sides measurement square A(squared)+B(squared)=C(square­d). Our geometry honors teacher taught us this

  • @BlazerTheAshbringer2 they taught you a lie.

  • @TheAntiFascist2010 you sure? sounds a little right to me mate

  • @BlazerTheAshbringer2 really? my 7th grade pre-algebra teacher taught me that...

  • the wizard is illuminati

  • he obviously chose niacc first!!!!!

  • alright, after you get over the petty fact that the recited theorem is flawed, one can see the true message about this specific situation. Do you, personally, need a piece of paper to verify you're a competently intellectual human being? Colleges and Universities all over the country are making a joke of our education system, while making an awfully shiny penny in the process. at this rate, the our societies final destination lies in the shallow graves we have been so diligently digging, The End

  • @divineinevitable The piece of paper is proof to a potential employer of your competence in a field. It's not to verify that you are a competently intellectual human being, it's to show that you have taken a certain number of classes in a particular subject and have supposedly gained a certain level of knowledge on that subject. I don't see how the college system is digging the grave of our society.

  • @182below0 The key word of your rebuttal is "supposedly." And if you don't believe in what the college system is doing, Stay Tuned.

  • @182below0 your wrong

  • @TheAntiFascist2010 Well thank you for that.

  • @182below0 your a television set, and your not welcome here.

  • @TheAntiFascist2010 It's "you're" not "your." "You're" is a contraction of "you" and "are," "your" is second person possessive. You could benefit greatly from second grade English. If you're really 31, I would expect you to be able to form an actual rebuttal explaining how I'm wrong rather than just "your a television set."

  • That's a RIGHT triangle you idiot!

  • c^2 = a^2 + b^2

    take the sqrt of both sides

    sqrt(c^2) = sqrt(a^2+b^2)

    sqrt(a^2+b^2) ≠ sqrt(a+b)

    c'mon man

  • lol my maths teacher showed us this in class today, this statement would be true if he had said the squares (not square root) of any sides of a right angle triangle

  • Yea, I noticed this too.....not much of a brain

  • lol I had to do a one page report on how this was wrong for geometry extra-credit lol

  • youre all wrong, assholes:

    it's c^2 = a^2 + b^2

    OR you can take the sq root of a + b t get c

    must be amateur night here.

  • @dryamaka

    lol, you're also wrong. sqrt(a^2+b^2) = c

    not sqrt(a+b)

    amateur night is right...

  • @khoff82 why would you take a sq rt of something you just squared?

  • @dryamaka

    *slaps forehead*

  • @khoff82 exactly...

  • oh snap i did this for extra credit

  • fail lol

  • lol this is hilarious! It would have been true though if he had said isosceles right triangle. I wonder how long after the movie came out they figured out it was wrong lol

  • that's a right triangle you idiot!

    (simpsons)

  • No Scarecrow you do not have a brain. Even my math teacher know that.

  • @llola567 imean knows that

  • i did this for extra credit in math!!!!!!!!

  • Haha I did this for math for ec

  • I always wondered if the writers did this on purpose (he still doesn't really have a brain!) or if they were math-ignoramuses and did so inadvertently.

  • scarecrow said the sum of the square roots of any 2 sides of an ISOSCELES triangle equals the square root of the remaining side. it is supposed to be a RIGHT triangle. That would be the pythagorean theorem, and also it is not square roots, they are just supposed to be squared.

  • That's a right triangle, you idiot!

    /simpsons

    ....also, replace square root with square.

    They don't make Ph.D's like they used to.

  • you guys also miss the point where he said ANY two sides

    it has to be the to base sides squared equals the hypotenuse squared

  • We can't know for sure if the theorems of Euclidean geometry are valid in the merry old land of Oz. It's math of a different color.

  • its true because you can add the square roots of 2 sides if you rearrange the problem to solve for a side that isnt C you get: a^2 - c^2 = b^2 which can be changed to -c^2 + a^2 = b^2 making the scarecrow correct OK

  • 0.o;

    but it's not the original theorem, which I think is the gist of what he was quoting, and thus the point of the video.

    Kudos on your mad math skillz, tho. I can't get math to save my life. Even Pre-algebra is tough for me. ^_^

  • He said an Isosceles triangle, that only works for right triangles so he is wrong.

  • Well lets imagine it is a right triangle.

  • its not true. he said square root of a + square of b = the square root of c is incorrect. because he said the sum of.

  • what

  • How can you have a negative measurement of a side. You and he are both wrong. Where did you get your T.H.D. from?

  • you are dumb the negative number comes from moving it to the other side its a^2 + b^2 = c^2 right? right. so we can assume the when solving for any side that IS NOT c that the formula is a^2 - c^2 = b^2 a and b being interchangeable when we move a to the other side the subtraction sign doesn't just disapeer it just makes the fact that c is negative stand out

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  • make that c^2 - a^2 = b^2

  • @xdeathtoll actually its c^2- a^2=b^2

  • @rushreborn i made a post correcting that a month ago

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  • What an idiot.

    It's "a^2 + b^2 = c^2, where c is the hypotenuse of a right triangle, and a & b are the remaining sides."

  • Basic Pythagoras Thereom.

  • i am the scarecrow lol in a play

  • Me too :D

  • im watching this for ec in wath

  • this is hilarious!! my teacher showed us this today in class. I was the first one to figure out what was wrong with it. and

    DamnedLittleLasseh was right, if you pause it right at the beginning, the scarecrow is standing right between dorothy and the tin man. and the, if you start playing it, the scarecrow moves, right next to the cowardly lion, and so does everyone else. even the wizard changes direction!

  • good find...i wasnt aware the posiotion changed

  • i had to do this in pre algebra in 6th grade lol

  • I say, give the scarecrow a break! He was only just given a brain! lol

  • this is part of a project in my math class so glad i finaly found the video to all of you who couldnt figure it out he said the square route of ANY two sides is equal to the third side in actual math the square route of the hypotenouse is equal to the square route of the other tow side not any two sides are equal to the third side.

  • ok wait i got that wrong he said the sum of any two sides is equal to the square route of the remaining side still very wrong

  • wow, he butchered this.

  • lol what did he say wrong he said it so quick i couldnt hear him

  • He said 'isosceles'... my guess is, they wanted him to sound smarter, and 'right triangle' just doesn't have the same ring lol

  • Hahahaha we actually watched this is geometry class today to prove he was wrong. Not sure what the point of it was, but we now know he's wrong! haha.

  • its a^2 + b^2 = c^2

  • wow fail you never really catch it when you don't know it

  • WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • what didnt he say wrong lol

  • haha what an idiot!

  • The wizard of oz tries to teach us that copies of forged diplomas, a cheap plastic heart watch, and a fake, possibly stolen, medal of honor make us better

  • Continuity: When the four travelers confront the fraudulent Wizard, the Scarecrow is standing second from the left, between the Tin Man and Dorothy, up until the line, "And Scarecrow's brain?" In the very next shot, however, when the Wizard replies, "Why, anybody can have a brain," the Scarecrow is suddenly standing first on the right, next to the Cowardly Lion.

  • ha my geometry teacher showed us this. so true.

  • omg me too. I had to refrain from shouting out "owned!" at the tv screen

  • lol i was like "FINALLY! SOMEONE WORSE AT GEOMETRY THAN ME!"

  • the only part he messed up was what kind of triangle it is, what should've been said is a "Right Triangle"

  • no also its not any two sides, its the legs and it is the sum of the legs squared not square rooted and it is the hypotenuse not the remaining side.

  • u got owned

  • i love how all the 13 year olds here think theyre all smart.. lmao

  • i bet ur 13 and u just think that cuz ur like that

  • im 13 and im not an idiot and i no that this is completly rong

  • my pre-alg teacher tried to show us.

    buttttttttttttttttt it doesn't work on campus, you tube?

    because they think PV is full of crazy children that are gonna use YouTube for evil or something.

  • XD Poor poor Scarecrow.

  • Pythagorean Theorem: a squared + b squared = c squared.

    What Scarecrow said: a square ROOT + b square ROOT = c squared.

    @_@ And it only works with right triangles. *sigh* Poor, POOR scarecrow.

  • *any not and

  • Wow that's wrong on so many levels, it's the sum of the squares not square roots, and it's the legs of a right triangle not and 2 sides of an isosceles triangle.

  • if a squared + b squared = c squared then b squared + c squared can't equal a squared unless they were all equal, and if they were it wouldn't be a right triangle anymore. (By your theory in a 3 4 5 triangle, 9 + 16 = 25 and 16 + 25 = 9 which is clearly not true)

  • @BleedingAngel1451 don't you mean 25-16=9?

  • u got owned

  • My geometry teacher told us about how he got it wrong. Im gonna see if I can email him this video to play in class.

  • Ehe, My geometry teacher played this for us today...YES I MEAN YOU MS. SCOTT :)

  • haha my geometry teacher put this audio into a power point

  • also, its a right triangle, not isosceles.

  • There is no evidence that the writers put the mistake in purposely. There have been multiple attempts at explaining this scene, but none is definitive.

  • Of course they did. The Scarecrow is no smarter now than he was before, and his recitation is proof.

  • Apparently the scarecrow got a rather lame brain...he erroneously "recites" the Pythagorean Theorem. The "Thag" only applies to right triangles (in planar geometry). Also, it's the squares of each side, not the square roots. Ugh! Do you think the writers did this on purpose???

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