Rorschach

And what we do is we present a neutral or ambiguous stimulus to the evaluee, and we ask a simple question.

What might this be? Can we have the production team post it? So this, and most of you probably are familiar with the Rorschach inkblot test.

It's a pretty common pop culture thing.

But this is the first inkblot of that test.

Real quick, I have a memory of being pulled aside in school.

And I remember like a Rorschach test, and they had the flash cards.

I think you talked about them, about that.

Fl- like, they had cards, and they're like, they wanted me to kinda see if I could tell them what was on the other side of the card, which is, quote unquote, "impossible," right? But they're out there trying to flag people for some sort of a government program for psychics, so it would make sense that they would want to s- test my s- uh, maybe psychic ability.

despite of the stuff-

They know about this because they're, they're...

At the same time, and I agree with what you're saying, at the same time, they're sending people out to schools to pull kids aside and give them, like, Rorschach tests and stuff and see if they can, like, if they have any type of abilities.

Like, they did it in my school, too.

Listen, it doesn't matter how famous you are, it doesn't matter how beautiful you are, it doesn't matter how talented you are, being in a relationship where that happens still breaks us.

Celebrities at her sort of superstardom level, a level of fame that makes normal life all but impossible, really sort of become giant Rorschach inkblots, those inkblots that we project our stories onto, our fears, our fantasies, our hopes, and our envies.

When people talk about her, they're actually talking about themselves, 'cause none of us really know her.

I frankly don't know what her goal was in this song.

[laughs]

So this is our first classroom scene with Professor Shiraki, and he is explaining the concept of a Rorschach test.

So he is putting up slides on the blackboard in front of the room to demonstrate, uh, you know, ink blots, and asking the students to write down what they see.

Now, we get some more, uh, hot for teacher antics in this scene, right? Is it Yukiko again?

She says, "What if I said it revealed I was in love with you?"

[laughs] Because th- that's...

He's, he's teaching about the Rorsh- Rorschach test, so he's having them all take it.

He's throwing these, showing these different, uh, ink blots up on the, uh, the, the overhead projector.