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Tom Scocca

10/14/13 03:42PM

Filed to: sadness

A Twitter sentiment-analysis study last month mistakenly identified Hunter College High School as the saddest place in New York, thanks to one gloomy account nearby. (The real saddest place is wherever four-year-olds take test prep for Hunter kindergarten.)

Sparkle_Motion Tom Scocca 10/14/13 03:44PM

Have you seen Nursery University, Tom?

Anyone?

Tom Scocca Sparkle_Motion 10/14/13 03:51PM

No, but my neighborhood is essentially a live-action production of it.

Sparkle_Motion Tom Scocca 10/14/13 03:56PM

Might be worth a watch (hate watch?) at some point, if only to see how plainly and self-righteously despicable some of the school folks are. Hardly excuses the plainly and self-righteously despicable parents, but still.

It'd be terrific fodder for Christopher Guest if it weren't already so absurd, no?