On Harvard Time Cleverly Parodies Harvard Admissions Propaganda, Expends Minimal Effort
On Harvard Time, a weekly comedy news show at America’s preeminent institution of higher learning, recently parodied a Harvard Admissions video directed at prospective students and their parents:
The footage from On Harvard Time’s iteration is ripped directly from the dated “Experience Harvard” video; what changes in the parody is the text at the bottom of the screen. The result is subtly humorous: a line of librarians holding numbered placards outside the library has been modified to refer not to the number of books in the University’s collection but the number of “Asians photographed on these steps.”
Other highlights include: “Times you will read the Crimson”: 1/ “Times it will be given to you”: 14128. “Hours you’ll spend on your application”: 120/ “Seconds they’ll spend reading it’: 12.
