Look, it is the birth right of every theatre kid both to welcome a fellow theatre kid and to tease them relentlessly about being a theatre kid. IDK what to tell you, we're just like this lmao.
Whenever a stage director calls for time or any kind of instruction, actors tend to say "thanks (time/other instruction)" as a way to acknowledge you understood that instruction
I totally understand that! I only did theatre for a single season in high school, but yeah, this was exactly what it was like for everything, especially shouting very loudly "THANK YOU QUIET!!"
I just started high school theater and let me tell you I already caught in to how everyone speaks and what everything means so in my head I was thinking the exact same thing
I should shout "Corner' every time i leave my workplace room becausexits literally next to a corner. 1 time i even bumped into one cuz i rounded said corner too fast lol Luckly i kinda half stopped before impact. I apologized prefusely like if i murdered the guy twice my size lol He was cool with it. The guy randomly sings sometimes you can hear it acroes the building. And at times he yells you know hes pissed lol But generally hes cool.
I still do it today in every context, if anyone tells me something will happen in X minutes I will always respond "Thank you X" I think more people should do it as it makes it clear you heard me and you know how long you have left.
@@icarue993yes, to confirm that you heard it correctly - timing is such a critical thing in theater (since costume and set changes can require a lot of prep time) and so you want to be sure that the time got communicated correctly. Having it be a standard callout a la "thank you fifteen" means that the stage manager (or, more likely, an ASM) can poke their head into a dressing room, say "fifteen minutes to places, everyone!" and the entire room can chorus back "thank you fifteen" without it turning into (more of) a chaos.
(mind you, for things that aren't "in the future" type things, it's "thank you " rather than "thank you ". the proper reply to "places for act 1, everyone!" is "thank you places")
@@mrroboshadow it very much is, yes! it's also similar to how pilots talk to ATC, but that's not as rigid; if you're flying a Cessna Skyhawk with registration number N1526J, the control tower at Mopsburg Airport might say "Skyhawk two-six-juliet, Mopsburg Tower; you are cleared to land on runway one-five left", and in response you might reply "Cleared to land one-five left, Skyhawk two-six-juliet", but you could also just say "Landing one-five left, two-six-juliet"
There is actually a kitchen equivalent of this. When repeating instructions on what has been ordered we are trained to reply with what we were told to make followed by "Heard" or "Copy" (depending on the place). It gets into such a habit that you'll do it all the time. One of my most common responses to someone saying something now is "heard that"
This is why I thought we were about to get some backstory from the food service industry. 😆 Despite doing theater we never did this, though i could see how it would be a thing. All the time in food situations though. 😅
I'm not a cook or a theater kid (genuinely cannot play a different character than me, even at 25), and I still say things like that when moving heavy stuff ("Comin' thru!", "Behind you!" and such) or when I pass someone on bike ("On your left!"). It's just having awareness of your environment and warning others who don't see you that you'll soon be in their way.
I felt that "thank you 15", having done theatre in high school, college, and summer internship. It's a reflex no matter what you do. I do miss working on shows though.
My version of this is when I get handed my bag at a fast food place and then I say "Enjoy your meal"...I worked at 3 different fast food restaurants. I can't get it out of my system still.
Every theater person (both cast and crew) had that awkward guilty look because we all silently knew before he even finished the line that we all do this.
Being operator for sound and lighting, I hear people shout a “Thank you workers” reply at me when I say “Worker Lights going up/down!” If there was no one to say it to, then I’d give a little “thank you workers” to myself like a prayer lol
Its the same with kitchen work, cant tell u how often i catch myself going "heard" then repeating, even tho i havent worked restaurant work for 2 years now. Same with trying to cook when i hear a ticket printer
NO BUT YOU'RE SO RIGHT. While I don't have exact "theatre" experience, I am part of a Renaissance festival in the joust. And because of that I've started responding like that lol
My parents did theater in college (mom did acting, dad did production) and I just grew up with that being a thing we did without realizing it was a theater thing.
See you said that and I immediately thought “omg he did the renfaire thing!” Cause that’s what they did at the Southern California faire when I was working as a yeoman this year.
That’s just good communication practices. At my job I try to always repeat back instructions and targets over the radio so my supervisor knows I heard them correctly. Better than them having to call back “Did you hear me?” I also only use “say again” instead of “repeat” because I’ve spent far too much time on various works of military fiction.
God this reminds me of when I would respond [action/topic] aye for anything back in the military, thank fuck I'm mostly out of that habit but knowing me it's going to crop up now that I've been reminded of it.
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I love that Douglas gives that glare despite canonically having been in at least 3 plays at this point
Look, it is the birth right of every theatre kid both to welcome a fellow theatre kid and to tease them relentlessly about being a theatre kid. IDK what to tell you, we're just like this lmao.
you'd love Gianmarco Soresi's standup comedy & crowd work
Bro is the spitting image of the great bard himself
It was more of a "One of us? One of us? One of us?"
He knew
Whenever a stage director calls for time or any kind of instruction, actors tend to say "thanks (time/other instruction)" as a way to acknowledge you understood that instruction
Dancers too!
I just do that to confirm how long to put the timer on for the microwave with my dad. 😅
In the McDonalds I worked once we did that too. Traumatizing too.
Thank you I was gowing to ask
Ty for the info
I totally understand that! I only did theatre for a single season in high school, but yeah, this was exactly what it was like for everything, especially shouting very loudly "THANK YOU QUIET!!"
Neat
That sounds like either the greatest "screw you in particular" or a moment that haunts you specifically to this very day...
I just started high school theater and let me tell you I already caught in to how everyone speaks and what everything means so in my head I was thinking the exact same thing
"house going dark!" "Thank you house!"
Feels like how everyone assumes i worked in restaurants because i often say "heard" and "corner" at all my jobs
Fr! It’s just safety 😅
I should shout "Corner' every time i leave my workplace room becausexits literally next to a corner.
1 time i even bumped into one cuz i rounded said corner too fast lol
Luckly i kinda half stopped before impact.
I apologized prefusely like if i murdered the guy twice my size lol
He was cool with it.
The guy randomly sings sometimes you can hear it acroes the building.
And at times he yells you know hes pissed lol
But generally hes cool.
Thats usually how people tell that i HAVE worked food. Though the phrase that really cleara all doubt for me is "Behind"
"Hot" and "Knife" still leaves my mouth as I handle either at home
sometimes you get the horrid combination of both and you shout out “HEARD, THANK YOU”
I'm a theatre kid too. i do that sometimes its nothing to be ashamed of.
it's actually convenient!! there's a reason people do it!!
Ohh... That's why ...
I still do it today in every context, if anyone tells me something will happen in X minutes I will always respond "Thank you X" I think more people should do it as it makes it clear you heard me and you know how long you have left.
Theater kid is one of the best dm backstories
Name: MMS
Class: DM
Background: Theatre Kid
Its the one that makes the most sense
Its the one that makes the most sense
douglas: I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE 🫵
Say it. Say it out loud
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For those who don’t know, I’m theater whenever anyone calls out a time, like places 15, or something, you say back, thank you 15. It’s that simple
Just to affirm you heard that, or for what purpose?
@@icarue993yes, to confirm that you heard it correctly - timing is such a critical thing in theater (since costume and set changes can require a lot of prep time) and so you want to be sure that the time got communicated correctly.
Having it be a standard callout a la "thank you fifteen" means that the stage manager (or, more likely, an ASM) can poke their head into a dressing room, say "fifteen minutes to places, everyone!" and the entire room can chorus back "thank you fifteen" without it turning into (more of) a chaos.
(mind you, for things that aren't "in the future" type things, it's "thank you " rather than "thank you ". the proper reply to "places for act 1, everyone!" is "thank you places")
@@cirnet i assume its like being in a kitchen and replying to the chef calling out the orders with "HEARD *repeat order*"
@@mrroboshadow it very much is, yes! it's also similar to how pilots talk to ATC, but that's not as rigid; if you're flying a Cessna Skyhawk with registration number N1526J, the control tower at Mopsburg Airport might say "Skyhawk two-six-juliet, Mopsburg Tower; you are cleared to land on runway one-five left", and in response you might reply "Cleared to land one-five left, Skyhawk two-six-juliet", but you could also just say "Landing one-five left, two-six-juliet"
Honestly it's a very useful habit.
There is actually a kitchen equivalent of this. When repeating instructions on what has been ordered we are trained to reply with what we were told to make followed by "Heard" or "Copy" (depending on the place). It gets into such a habit that you'll do it all the time. One of my most common responses to someone saying something now is "heard that"
This is why I thought we were about to get some backstory from the food service industry. 😆 Despite doing theater we never did this, though i could see how it would be a thing. All the time in food situations though. 😅
Someone saying they’re turning the lamp off me: “thank you lights!”
lights.
camera.
action
I learned something today, theater kids are just as hardwired as cooks. Whenever someone tells me something I reflexively say, "Heard."
I bet you also say "Behind" when walking behind someone or "Corner" when carrying something around a blind corner
I'm not a cook or a theater kid (genuinely cannot play a different character than me, even at 25), and I still say things like that when moving heavy stuff ("Comin' thru!", "Behind you!" and such) or when I pass someone on bike ("On your left!").
It's just having awareness of your environment and warning others who don't see you that you'll soon be in their way.
“Imagine Cell/Plankton Voice”
*YOU FOOL*
I love the facial expresions
I felt that "thank you 15", having done theatre in high school, college, and summer internship. It's a reflex no matter what you do. I do miss working on shows though.
Douglas has that "I know what you are" look on his face
The theater kids in me felt that in my bones
"Going dark!"
"Thank you dark"
Anyone who plays dnd is some flavor of theatre kid
Yah no
Ah yes a theater kid,makes complete sense,I could not imagine it been any other way
The quickest way to out yourself.
That guy really does have the "I'm the party's rogue" voice
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Same
my wife and I constantly do this with each other, quite unironically 😂
Oh my God I love Kevin MacLeod!! It fits so well with this skit 😂
I do the same thing except with “heard, (repeat key word or number)” because I work in a kitchen 😭
My version of this is when I get handed my bag at a fast food place and then I say "Enjoy your meal"...I worked at 3 different fast food restaurants. I can't get it out of my system still.
Every theater person (both cast and crew) had that awkward guilty look because we all silently knew before he even finished the line that we all do this.
This feels like calling a teacher mom
Man, my inner theater kid has been asleep for quite a few years, but that woke him up REAL fast
The way I also said thank you 15 😭
The trap is if you also understood the reference, your also related to theatre 😂
I do that all of the time, it's a good tool, it really is
This wasn't uncommon to do in kitchens either. "Twelve fries all day. " " Thank you twelve"
If you stare ahead and don't acknowledge it, it never happened.
Being operator for sound and lighting, I hear people shout a “Thank you workers” reply at me when I say “Worker Lights going up/down!” If there was no one to say it to, then I’d give a little “thank you workers” to myself like a prayer lol
As a theater kid myself, I must remind my fellow theater kids, beware of hot mics
LMAO! That took me a second cuz I'm new to theater.
The fear slowly creeping onto his face is what got me
Yooo I love Douglas as Dick Dastardly. The Wacky Races was one of my favorite Hanna Barbera cartoons
Immediately got it the moment he said thank you
I love being in Technical Theatre
Oh hey! I remember doing that when I was in the high school play! Good to see it again.
Operant Conditioning moment
As a theatre person, this is so relatable, and funny
He does look like he’d be a director
Lmaooo I started chanting it before it even came up on the screen
I like how the subtitle stayed until the very end
So THAT'S why my art teacher (who also taught drama) made us do that!
I've told my boss, "Love you" over the phone before. 😂
Its the same with kitchen work, cant tell u how often i catch myself going "heard" then repeating, even tho i havent worked restaurant work for 2 years now. Same with trying to cook when i hear a ticket printer
I relate to this because of marching band 😅
My director has us go 'thank you set --' so that everyone knows where to go for practice-
As soon as I heard thank you I instantly knew what was coming and said "it's a theatre kid thing"
You can always tell those who were theatre kids lol
I was a stage director for some of my high school plays and I sent this immediately to everyone I can that was in those casts
My friend and I still do this. God I miss being a full-time theatre nerd.
I have this but for saying "heard" in response to anything
I know this struggle all too well
Me as a chef thinking he was also a service worker that loves dnd
I love it when the characters eyes go :
NO BUT YOU'RE SO RIGHT. While I don't have exact "theatre" experience, I am part of a Renaissance festival in the joust. And because of that I've started responding like that lol
Oh like how I reflexively say "Acknowledged" (US Navy Veteran)
Bros judging like he isn't Shakespeare's reacarnate 😭🙏🏽
My parents did theater in college (mom did acting, dad did production) and I just grew up with that being a thing we did without realizing it was a theater thing.
I could not stop cackling!!!!! I feel so seen
As soon as I heard "thank you, 15", I knew this was about being a theater kid lol.
YOu can tell orange haired guy is a messy eater by all the pi on his shirt.
ha. ha
Actually, I'm no theater kid, but this just makes sense to me. You're confirming and clarifying, and you're doing it faster this way.
Makes just as much sense in a military context
Thank you daaaaaark
That gave me flashbacks lol
See you said that and I immediately thought “omg he did the renfaire thing!” Cause that’s what they did at the Southern California faire when I was working as a yeoman this year.
You're a DM, being a theatre kid was implied
As a former theatre kid myself, yes. 😂
“Dm has gained the status effect: suspicious”
I’m in theater tech and whenever someone flys something in on say line set 15 everyone has to say “Thank you line set 15”
I worked Theatre Lights in college and still to this day, every time my hand gets near a light switch it's "Going bright/dark!"
My friend did theater for his college elective thingy. I should ask him more about that
As soon as it happened I experienced war flashbacks
DUDE, makes sense honestly.
That’s just good communication practices. At my job I try to always repeat back instructions and targets over the radio so my supervisor knows I heard them correctly. Better than them having to call back “Did you hear me?”
I also only use “say again” instead of “repeat” because I’ve spent far too much time on various works of military fiction.
I thought he was trying to say "Thank you for telling me" but his brain short circuited
Noo don’t call me out like this, nobody say places.
places in 5
Ive been in oen production, and i was backstage, and i heard it and i CACKLED
Ahh a man of culture i see
“i know what you are.”
A back of house restaurant's equivalent phrase is "Heard" if you didn't know
The Theatre Kid flashbacks are real with this oke
"You've heard of 'I love you 3000'..."
Stage manager jump scare
The flashbacks…. Dear god
I feel like Douglas is also a theater kid
"I know what you are"
"I know what you are..."
Theatre is a good thing to have. Nothing to be ashamed of.
“Oh no… I’M DOOMED!”
Also a restaurant thing, or maybe specifically Crackers Barrel but still
God this reminds me of when I would respond [action/topic] aye for anything back in the military, thank fuck I'm mostly out of that habit but knowing me it's going to crop up now that I've been reminded of it.
"three glasses"
WE CANT HELP IT 😭
I can't believe bro was the Bay Harbor Butcher