Basic Information

SHOW TITLE: The Middleman

EPISODE TITLE: The Cursed Tuba Contingency

PRODUCTION NUMBER: 1x07 

DISC NUMBER: 2

CHAPTER WHICH CONTAINS CLIP: 4

CLIP START TIME: 15:06

CLIP END TIME: 16:42

CLIP TOTAL RUN TIME: 1 minute 36 seconds

Note: Times can vary depending on which player you're using to show clips. It's always a good idea to verify start and end times before class.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SCENE: Wendy and The Middleman are trying to track down a cursed tuba and Ida offers to search the HAYDAR for them. She proudly searches for every reference to the word "tuba" which leads to frequent exclamations of "I've got a hit!" and hours of sorting through irrelevant results. Wendy and The Middleman grow increasingly tired and bored of weeding through the results.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: A couple things: Ida is a robot, the HAYDAR is basically like a souped-up Internet and the tuba in question survived the sinking of the Titanic. It's cursed because its owner saved it and himself instead of other passengers. 

LEGAL CONCEPT OR RESEARCH TECHNIQUE CLIP ILLUSTRATES: If you want to save yourself time and a headache, think about your search before you run it -- it'll cut down on the number of results and make them more relevant to what you're actually trying to research.

Additional Information 

OTHER WAYS THIS CLIP COULD BE USED: 

OTHER CLIPS WITH WHICH SCENE COULD BE PAIRED: Works very effectively when paired with the Library of Congress scene from All the President's Men. Students tend to say the Tuba search method is better because it's electronic, but in this case, Woodward and Bernstein were more effective researchers.

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