Theatre Attendance

Shmanners

Travis McElroy

Etiquette, Society & Culture, Schmanners, Travis Mcelroy, History Of Etiquette, Teresa Mcelroy, Comedy, Mcelroy

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Come in, come in! Take your seat, the show is about to start! What's that? You're not sure when you're allowed to talk? You don't know what to do with your phone? You're unsure whether you should have bought flowers? Maybe this is your first time to the theatre! Maybe you aren't sure what behavior is appropriate at the movies! Don't worry, we'll cover all that and more! Don't worry, you don't have to give a standing ovation... unless you want to!

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0:00.0	Theresa, are you ready for another episode?
0:03.0	Yes, but be sure to unwrap any candy or cough drops before we start.
0:07.0	Bravo! It's Schmanners! Hello internet. I am your husband host, Travis McElroy. And I'm your husband host Travis McElroy.
0:23.1	And I'm your wife host Teresa McElroy.
0:25.6	And you're listening to Schmanners.
0:27.6	It's extraordinary etiquette.
0:29.2	For ordinary occasions.
0:31.0	Now this week's episode I'm so excited about. Theresa and I, we are
0:34.6	theater kids from way way back. Totally. And I'm also really looking forward to
0:39.7	this episode. It's all about theater etiquette, movie, and live theater, and I'm so excited because I've both worked a lot in theater and one summer in movie theaters, so I feel like maybe this one I might actually know a little bit well but you see from all the
0:55.6	questions received on our Facebook group and Twitter and emails and all that
1:00.1	stuff there really does seem to be a little bit of an us versus them mentality.
1:06.6	The people who behave well at theater versus all those people who don't behave well.
1:12.1	Yeah, there's a lot of that.
1:13.5	And I'm sure we're going to get into all of it.
1:16.5	Let's start off with a little bit of historical tidbits.
1:20.3	Tidbits.
1:21.0	Tidbits, okay?
1:22.2	Give me some tidbits.
1:24.0	So first of all, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that clapping or applauding seems to be kind of ingrained
1:31.8	in us as humans.
1:33.5	Babies, they clap for basically anything
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