oscaralbert Review of The New Pupil

The New Pupil (1940)

"Hmmm, let's see: 'Cows divided by shingles . . . '"

[7/10 · 27 March 2019]

. . . begins a New Math problem posed to "Spanky" about halfway through THE NEW PUPIL. As THE FOUNDER recently taught America, this is the kind of calculation required of modern fast food technicians at Today's U.S. burger joints. Most enrollees accepted at the world-renown University of Hamburgology have posted perfect SAT scores, if not better. Competition is fierce for a highly-coveted slot at UH, since the incoming freshman are well aware that they'll have to outdo budding nuclear rocket surgeons to have any chance of obtaining a post under the famed Golden Arches. Though the curriculum ranges from Mandarin to Mandolin, the UH program's academic core centers around Advanced Math. "Sally" poses a basic question to Spanky from Burger Construction 101 during THE NEW PUPIL. It goes something like this: "If an F8 Tornado (on the Fajita Scale) strikes the delivery truck as it's unloading, how many Big Mac patties will result, assuming that six cows are caught in a crossfire of shingles from 37 standard-sized suburban homes?"