YMMV / Weird school rules in Hong Kong

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • One of the "weird" rules cited at the end of Episode 1 is that some schools ban the consumption of pork and soda for religious reasons. However, whether the ban on pork in particular is reasonable depends on one factor unstated in the episode: how many of the students in the school are Muslims or Jews, or otherwise religious in that their religion has a ban on pork in their dietary laws?
    • If it's a majority who are, or the school specifically caters to Muslims or Jews, then it's a fairly reasonable rule by all means.
    • If it's a minority who are, then is the school's ban on it a well-meaning attempt to respect the minority's dietary laws, especially if the school serves its lunches in a canteen and has to know what foods they can or can't use to prepare? Or does it restrict the freedom of the students who don't have to follow those dietary laws? If it's the canteen situation, do the school lunches offer multiple options for the students to choose from? All of this can make the situation seem a lot more understandable from the school's perspective.
    • Or if there are no students who are religious in this way, is the school preparing for the what-if situation for if a religious student is enrolled at the school? Or is it a completely arbitrary decision?
    • Related: If it's a staff member who's religious, then is the staff member forcing their dietary laws on the student population, or was it a genuinely well-meaning attempt to cater to the staff member in particular?
  • Episode 3: The crossdressing male student in the Casual Dress Day skit. Does this bring a bad reputation on the school for having a crossdressing student (especially since LGBTQ+ people are still relatively stigmatized in Hong Kong, where the skit takes place), or is the student brave and willing to speak out against the reinforced gender binary in school uniforms? This especially applies when the student states his reasoning for crossdressing — he said it's because there's nothing in the school rules against it, so whether he's doing it to prove a point, to troll others while adhering by Exact Words, or because he genuinely likes crossdressing and saw the opportunity to do so, etc. are all not stated.
• Crosses the Line Twice: In Episode 16, one of the skits features two of Magic Boy's classmates talking him down while he was considering jumping off a building. That's not funny. What can be considered funny, is what happens after that: Magic Boy reveals the "strict" regulation that caused him to be Driven to Suicide is that the school was planning to make an app for the students to record how many times they raised their hands in class, the more times they raise their hands, the higher of a grade they'll get... and Magic Boy was annoyed that "idiots" like his classmates (who would raise their hands more often because they didn't understand the subject matter) would get a higher score than him. In response to being called an "idiot", the male classmate pushes Magic Boy off the building, effectively helping him die from Suicide by Cop, while declaring that being called an "idiot" was his (and the female classmate's) Berserk Button. The skit ends with a dramatic cartoony crash in the distance.
• Genius Bonus: In Episode 16, the cop that shows up to arrest the senior-year students for taking photos for too long on their last day of school has the police ID "D7689". This references a previous controversy in the 2015 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon — "D" and "7" sound like curse words in Cantonese, and "689" was a nickname for the Chief Executive at the time of the marathon, C.Y. Leung^* The reason behind the nickname is because he only got 689 votes out of 1200 during the 2012 Election, so the PUMA runner-tag D7689 in their marketing scheme was presumed to be a Stealth Insult against the then-Chief Executive, who was widely unpopular for his pro-CCP political allegiance.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The episodes with Tonie hosting the series have significantly fewer Likes than those hosted by Na-mei, implying this.

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