An entertaining organic chemistry class (wait, do those even exist?)

It seemed like a normal day in organic chemistry...

Everyone held their breath as Dr. Montchamp walked in with his huge manilla folder. Are there quizzes in there or does he just have a ton of papers that he's carrying around to trick us into thinking there's a quiz????...this is the question we all ask ourselves everyday when he struts into class. 

The class fell silent, and he looked around smugly, pulled out his EXPO marker, and walked toward the board. No quiz, phew!!!

On he went about photohalogenation and the Hammond Postulate, and everyone settled into our normal routines of taking down notes as we tried to keep up with whatever foreign concept he was talking about..."The more radical character state on the carbon, the more selectivity because it..."

When suddenly, someone pushed open the door and yelled "IS SEAN IN THIS CLASS?" Indeed, Sean was. Turns out his girlfriend bought him a singing gram from Chords for Kids and asked the singers to deliver her special love song DURING organic chemistry. To be honest, I thought that Montchamp wouldn't be a happy camper...but to our surprise, he stood smiling by the board. It even looked like he was chuckling a little bit. This got all of us laughing much more than the singing, although they did quite a good job. If you knew Montchamp, you'd know that usually we don't get much emotion out of him.

The event definitely seemed to fit the incongruity theory of humor because we experienced two totally different things (organic chemistry and a Valentine's Day singing gram) happening one right after the other. Besides the singing completely throwing our class off guard, it was hilarious because we saw our professor react in such an unexpected way. 

After the singers finished their fine tune, the class cheered. As they walked out the door, Montchamp said (very monotonously, might I add) "Don't get used to this. Back to earth now." The whole class busted out in laughter, because usually when he says something that doesn't pertain directly to organic molecules, it's pretty funny. 

He continued his lecture..."Like I was saying, the more radical character state on the carbon, the more selectivity because it reflects radical stability..."

Then the door swung open again, and in came Michael, one of the students in the class who was singing in the Cords for Kids group that had left just minutes before.

Montchamp muttered under his breath, "I just don't know what to expect."