| 1 | ''Cheating'' is a short 1950s film on the temptation and dangers of cheating. We follow John Taylor as he struggles with math and faces down the temptation of cheating. |
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| 3 | He cheats and later gets caught. |
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| 5 | And from there his high school life goes down the drain. |
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| 7 | For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E15TheWildWorldOfBatwoman episode recap page]]. |
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| 9 | !!The short provides the following tropes. |
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| 11 | * AnAesop: Cheating is bad. And you should study. |
| 12 | * FelonyMisdemeanor: When Johnny is caught cheating, he's shunned by ''the entire school'' and nearly unanimously kicked out of the student council. |
| 13 | * GoshDarnItToHeck: "Aw golly, Mary, I don't get any of this stuff!" |
| 14 | * HowWeGotHere: The film starts with John receiving a phone call; we hear only John's side, but it's clearly bad news. At the end of the short, we finally see the other side of the call -- it's Jim telling him he's been voted out of student council. |
| 15 | * ScareEmStraight: We get treated to dark depressing scenes of John's life collapsing around him. |
| 16 | * SeriousBusiness: This film is Anvillicious that CheatersNeverProsper. |
| 17 | * TechMarchesOn: The montage of kids calling each other on landline phones that were ''all identical to each other'' wasn't due to low budget - there was only [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_302_telephone one model of phone]] in one color available to most American consumers in the early '50s. |
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