Themes
Like many sitcoms Teachers had certain themes that it maintained through every episode. These included:
- Appearances of animals, particularly Donkeys, in unusual places. Others seen include Lions, Penguins and Sheep.
- A staffroom scene early in the episode, usually with an announcement by Clare to set up one of the plots or premises of the episode.
- The name of the day written in the scenery or a prop.
- A ridiculous amount of bullying and violence in almost every playground scene, and many corridor scenes. The teachers generally appear completely oblivious to it.
- Smoking is a very prominent feature in every episode. A lot of the scenes in all episodes, primarily through the first three seasons, feature members of the cast smoking as they banter
- The pub is the setting where nearly every episode of Teachers starts, usually with the teachers having immaturely themed conversations.
Every episode featured contemporary music, usually with clips of at least five songs (regularly including the bands The Dandy Warhols, Supergrass and Feeder), and the soundtrack to all four series has been released on CD by the Channel 4 shop. The theme tune is the solo section of The Boy With The Arab Strap by Belle and Sebastian.
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Famous quotes containing the word themes:
“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shi’ite fundamentalists.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)