Jaime rips a phone book in half

[kyokogodai]

We need more teachers like this! Respect is no longer a part of the classroom, and needs to be re-instituted!!!

[ImDany11]

My daughter's music teacher has thrown a chair against the wall because it squeaked . . . perhaps she had seen this episode ! And she is not bionic !

[Davewise1965]

I loved The Bionic Woman when I was a kid and still do. It says at the top of the page, if you are wondering how it was done, well I wasn't wondering how it was done, that just spoils the magic of the show.

[AngrierGorilla]

it's funny how were depicted bad students back then...these children don't seem nothing special nowadays!

[str009]

In the pilot episode of SMDM, the doctor mentions his concern for the condition of Steve's spine after the crash. I always took that to mean his spine was reinforced. But yeah, the physics didn't always work. How often did Steve push heavy objects with his legs, when he should have been propelled away?

[QuietStormMan]

Love this clip! Jaime put those heathens in check about their misbehavior and the way she ripped that phonebook in half was priceless. Class, you are messin' with the wrong woman, 'cause Jaime Sommers don't play that $#%&, act right now!

[pcvideogamer]

She should of continued her speech... "and if any of you little tykes ever decide to play up or act up then I'll rip your tiny torsos in half like a cheap cinema ticket..." well thats what she was suggesting, i was a kid about their age then and i remember everyone was bionic in the playground, some girls said they were, i said prove it, so they showed be some bionic (wait for it) dancing...piss off i said, i went off it after that.

[logik316]

Well, I never had a teacher rip a phone book in half. But I I remember in the 2nd grade I did once have a substitute teacher who started the class by slamming a huge dictionary down on his desk. It got everybody's attention, and I guess it established the fact that he wasn't there just to babysit.

[videozfann]

@logik316 I had a teacher like that.

[pepjrp]

And to think the children in this episode are pushing 50. Seems like yesterday.

[LivingMindfully1975]

I love the sound of the phone book being torn apart! haha!

[Knewtz]

Badass!!

[shwmehvn]

Only cuz I grew up watching this but that is NOT Jaime Sommers per say - it's her evil twin (after plastic surgery) named Lisa Calloway. Lisa assumes Jaime's life and her strength ( with adrenalizine ). That's why she has the strength in BOTH arms to rip the phone book. Ya see? :)

[leathertuskadero]

@shwmehvn no you're wrong, thats a different episode, in season 2. the strenght in both arms is just a continutity error. Lisa Galloway didnt appear until the end of season 1.

[Onry1]

@shwmehvn

Actually this was before Lisa Galloway.... So it is Jaime

[TheLkvoice]

@shwmehvn fyi it's not per say. "per se" is a Latin phrase meaning "in itself". Nice inside info on the episode though. Cheers

[jalabi99]

In other words: "Kids, if you mess up in my classroom, I WILL BEAT THE HELL OUT OF YOU. Class dismissed!"

[MsTexas73]

I WISH I could do rip a phonebook like that in front of my classes. Cuz I have some bad ass kids this year. The WORST group I've EVER had in my almost 15 years of teaching...and I've had some ROTTEN kids over the years...but not to this caliber. So something like this would certianly come in handy.

On a lighter note, I CAN write on the board fast (not as fast as Jaime of course), which always "amazes" the kids. *shrugs* When you've been doing it for so long, you don't think about it.

[bdwilcox]

@MsTexas73 You can. The trick is to bake the phone book in the oven at low temp so it dries out but doesn't burn. Then the phone book can be torn by a normal person. It's an old sideshow trick.

[MsTexas73]

@bdwilcox Hmmm...thanks for this trick...I'll have to try it next year, now that school is out for the summer.

[flenif2247]

She needs to teach at our schools today. Most of our kids are rotten brats who are poorly parented.

[jaco5187]

@flenif2247 Ha ha ha if a teacher tore a phone book in half these days, she would be fired for being too rude or intimidating to the students.

[transparentbubblegum]

@flenif2247 im fourteen and that kind of offends me. im a straight a student president of National Junior Honor Society and captain of my schools basketball team. i dont want to start a fight but im just saying not all kids are like that and you are going to offend the well behaved ones

[ANTHONYRW619]

I remember this episode, but i remember the ne ne ne ne sound effects when she did it.

[TalkingOcean1]

I totally remember watching this scene.

[LWXPT4U]

PWNED.

[143AC]

Oh Man! I don't ever want to P-! "Ms.Sommers"..with that bionic hand of hers..she'll slap my tushie Hard!

[edbondsf]

I loved these shows when I was a kid, and Jamie is the coolest. But I have one thing to point out about this demonstration of strength. Jamie Somers and Steve Austin each had only one bionic arm. How can the normal arm withstand the forces created when the bionic arm does something like this? Handcuff Steve Austin, and he rips the handcuffs apart. Wouldn't that have torn his normal arm apart too?

But yeah, that is a cool thing to do in a classroom.

[leathertuskadero]

Thats a good point and it's been brought up many times. If you think about it there's no way bionics could work unless everything was made bionic, lofting a car with one bionic arm would make your back break, you'd need an entirely bionic body to do the things steve and jaime do.

[MommieDearest67]

Same thing with the "super fast typing" and writing. Your fingers can move really fast but your mind could never keep up with the speed of your hand to actually carry out those commands.

[TalkingOcean1]

@MommieDearest67

I know. Maybe in the opening scene when they show that digital image of her bionic ear; there is something they put in her brain; I guess to work w/the ear but maybe it helps her brain function speed? LOL! I don't know; it's late I'm tripping.

[TitanTroia]

@MommieDearest67 Not So. I read somewhere that the Brain transfers info to the body so fast it automatically reacts, such as when you touch something hot and pull your hand away.

[MommieDearest67]

You're right....but it's Sci-Fi and that was what made it fun.

[superade1000]

@edbondsf When your tearing something apart you always need one arm to support the other, which means the other arm does need to be that strong, even i can do what she is doing in this clip, try it, it's not as difficult as you might think. ;)

[tacticalteam]

What classroom has a phone book in it?

[leathertuskadero]

No one ever asked

[George21067]

Her classroom had a telephone in it. So naturally, it would serve to reason that she would also have a telephone book.

[Astraldragon1]

@tacticalteam , Are you kidding? there is a phone in every classroom. so why wouldn't there be a Phone book.

I remember seeing a phone book  in classrooms when I was in School..plus when I worked at a school district.

[ledrox]

@tacticalteam Well, in 1970s, mobile phones, with electronic address books to store the phone numbers, were not widely available so kids couldn't use them to make calls in their classrooms. They had to use regular landline phones. Hence, the hardcopy phonebook to store the phone numbers. I hope that explains it.

[TheMalibumoon]

coolest teacher ever!!

[Maxamillion2010]

I love this clip! Thanks for adding it! AND I had no idea how it was done until I read your MORE INFO NOTE .. Thanks !!! 5* / FAVE !

[firebreatherhwm2009]

Thanks for the clip it is one of the best of the entire series.