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• Member: WesW
• Studio: Classic Rock Productions
• Title: You're In My Heart
• Premiered: 2008-10-11
• Categories:
  • Romance
  • Sentimental
• Song:
  • Rod Stewart You're In My Heart
• Anime:
  • Please Teacher (OVA)
  • Please Teacher (TV)
• Comments: Though this is pretty much a straight-forward romance, there is some background info you need to know in order for some of the lyrics to make sense.
  Hopefully most of you will be familiar with the basic plot of Please Teacher, which involves a female half-human/half-alien who is sent to Earth to observe humanity, posing as a high-school teacher. While there, comedic things happen, and she ends up being forced to marry one of her students in order to keep from being fired and him from being expelled after they are caught in a compromising situation. Their union is kept secret from everyone except the school principal and the boy's guardians. The anime then attempts to take a fairly serious look at how such a relationship might develop, since I figure that it's rare in Japan for the wife to be older than the husband.
  The song, Rod Stewart's classic You're In My Heart, was written for the 1981 film Private Lessons, which is about a Dutch immigrant maid who tries to seduce a rich kid and then blackmail him out of his trust fund. She ends up falling for him, of course, but the important thing about this is that the movie is directly referenced in the song lines "The big-bosomed lady with the Dutch accent", and "her ad-libbed lines were well-rehearsed". The movie is also referenced in the lines "Breezing through the clientele, spinning yarns which were so lyrical". This references a cocktail scene in the movie, and obviously since there is no corresponding scene in the anime I substituted her debut in the classroom, which I think worked out pretty well, since both refer to the first time the boy laid eyes on the woman.
  The boys in the anime and movie had much the same personality, but the women were quite different in their attitudes toward marriage and sex, which is referenced in the lines "there have been many affairs, and many times I've thought to leave". Since I stayed true to the song, this means that the teacher isn't protrayed as being quite as innocent and pure as she is in the anime, which I think adds some needed drama to the vid.
  There is also a line which I never understood until I printed out the lyrics to the song, and remembered that Rod is a huge soccer fan, "there's Celtic, United, but baby I've decided that you're the best team I've ever seen". Since team implies more than one, I think it's pretty safe to say that this line refers to her breasts, and thankfully there was a scene in the anime that was perfect for this section. The way the boy is hunched over, covering himself after she comes bouncing up is just hilarious. Also, watch for the scene where he's pumping the automatic pencil for some more sexual innuendo.
  Overall, I think this is a fun, romantic vid which hopefully leaves you with a smile on your face.
  Forum thread.