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* ShoutOut: The film's main title sequence is soundtracked to a cover of "[[Music/AceOfBase The Sign]]" performed by HYTTS.

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* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: The epilogue plays out to a cover of "One Step More Along the World I Go" by Blue Rose Code. In context, this takes a children's hymn about going through life under the watchful eye of a benevolent God to a more secular song about how life can allow you to grow and change in ways you might not anticipate if you let it.

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* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: The epilogue plays out to a cover of "One More Step More Along the World I Go" by Blue Rose Code. In context, this takes a children's hymn about going through life under the watchful eye of a benevolent God to a more secular song about how life can allow you to grow and change in ways you might not anticipate if you let it.
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''My Old School'' is a 2022 [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] documentary directed by Jono [=McLeod=] about Brandon Lee, a sixteen-year-old student at [[HighSchool Bearsden Academy]] in 1993 who seemed a little unusual to his classmates and teachers. [[spoiler:This was because Brandon Lee was in fact Brian [=MacKinnon=], a thirty-two year-old man who had previously attended at Bearsden Academy in the 1970s.]]

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''My Old School'' is a 2022 [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] documentary directed by Jono [=McLeod=] about Brandon Lee, a sixteen-year-old student at [[HighSchool Bearsden Academy]] in 1993 who seemed a little unusual to his classmates and teachers. [[spoiler:This was because Brandon Lee was in fact Brian [=MacKinnon=], a thirty-two year-old man who had previously attended at Bearsden Academy in the 1970s.]]

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* AlmostFamousName: InUniverse, Brandon Lee was also the name of the actor and son of Bruce Lee who had died about a month prior to the start of the 1993 school year, which pupils commented on at the time. They also mentioned the other well-known Brandon at the time, namely the character from ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. Coincidentally, there was another pupil in the Fifth Year class who just happened to be called [[spoiler:[=Brian MacKinnon=].]]



* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, Brandon Lee was also the name of the actor and son of Bruce Lee who had died about a month prior to the start of the 1993 school year, which pupils commented on at the time. They also mentioned the other well-known Brandon at the time, namely the character from ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. Coincidentally, there was another pupil in the Fifth Year class who just happened to be called [[spoiler:[=Brian MacKinnon=].]]
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* LocalSoundtrack: The film features new material from Scottish artists such as Lulu, HYYTS and Blue Rose Code, as well as "Rip It Up" by Orange Juice, who were founded in Bearsden where the film is set.
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** Someone at laser tag can be heard saying, "[[Series/ChewinTheFat Gonnae no' dae that.]]"

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** Someone at laser tag can be heard saying, "[[Series/ChewinTheFat Gonnae no' dae that.]]"that?]]"
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** Someone at laser tag can be heard saying, "[[Series/ChewinTheFat Gonnae no' dae that?]]"

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** Someone at laser tag can be heard saying, "[[Series/ChewinTheFat Gonnae no' dae that?]]"that.]]"
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** Someone at laser tag can be heard saying, "[[Series/ChewinTheFat Gonnae no' dae that]]?"

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** Someone at laser tag can be heard saying, "[[Series/ChewinTheFat Gonnae no' dae that]]?"that?]]"
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* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, Brandon Lee was also the name of the actor and son of Bruce Lee who had died about a month prior to the start of the 1995 school year, which pupils commented on at the time. They also mentioned the other well-known Brandon at the time, namely the character from ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. Coincidentally, there was another pupil in the Fifth Year class who just happened to be called [[spoiler:[=Brian MacKinnon=].]]

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* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, Brandon Lee was also the name of the actor and son of Bruce Lee who had died about a month prior to the start of the 1995 1993 school year, which pupils commented on at the time. They also mentioned the other well-known Brandon at the time, namely the character from ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. Coincidentally, there was another pupil in the Fifth Year class who just happened to be called [[spoiler:[=Brian MacKinnon=].]]
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* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:Mr [=MacLeod=]took the heat for accepting Brandon as a pupil, even though Mrs Holmes was the one who conducted the initial interview.]]

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* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:Mr [=MacLeod=]took [=MacLeod=] took the heat for accepting Brandon as a pupil, even though Mrs Holmes was the one who conducted the initial interview.]]
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* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, Brandon Lee was also the name of the actor and son of Bruce Lee who had died about a month prior to the start of the 1995 school year, which pupils commented on at the time. They also mentioned the other well-known Brandon at the time, namely the character from ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. Coincidentally, there was another pupil in the 1994 Fifth Year class who just happened to be called [[spoiler:[=Brian MacKinnon=].]]

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* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, Brandon Lee was also the name of the actor and son of Bruce Lee who had died about a month prior to the start of the 1995 school year, which pupils commented on at the time. They also mentioned the other well-known Brandon at the time, namely the character from ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. Coincidentally, there was another pupil in the 1994 Fifth Year class who just happened to be called [[spoiler:[=Brian MacKinnon=].]]
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''My Old School'' is a 2022 [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] documentary directed by Jono [=McLeod=] about Brandon Lee, a sixteen-year-old student at [[HighSchool Bearsden Academy]] in 1993 who seemed a little unusual to his classmates and teachers. [[spoiler:This was because Brandon Lee was in fact Brian [=MacKinnon=], a thirty-two year-old man who had originally attended at Bearsden Academy in the 1970s.]]

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''My Old School'' is a 2022 [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] documentary directed by Jono [=McLeod=] about Brandon Lee, a sixteen-year-old student at [[HighSchool Bearsden Academy]] in 1993 who seemed a little unusual to his classmates and teachers. [[spoiler:This was because Brandon Lee was in fact Brian [=MacKinnon=], a thirty-two year-old man who had originally previously attended at Bearsden Academy in the 1970s.]]

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* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Lulu, who voices Mrs Holmes, sings a cover of "My Old School" by Music/SteelyDan which plays during the credits.



* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, Brandon Lee was also the name of the actor and son of Bruce Lee who had died about a month prior to the start of the 1995 school year, which pupils commented on at the time. Coincidentally, there was another pupil in the 1994 Fifth Year class who just happened to be called [[spoiler:[=Brian MacKinnon=].]]

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* ItMeantSomethingToMe: Stefen's take on the whole affair is that, even if [[spoiler:Brian was a fraud, as Brandon, he made Stefen's time at school more bearable and was instrumental in Stefen going on to university to study Pharmacy]].
* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, Brandon Lee was also the name of the actor and son of Bruce Lee who had died about a month prior to the start of the 1995 school year, which pupils commented on at the time. They also mentioned the other well-known Brandon at the time, namely the character from ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. Coincidentally, there was another pupil in the 1994 Fifth Year class who just happened to be called [[spoiler:[=Brian MacKinnon=].]]



* PovertyFood: The interviewees explain the concept of "Spam Valley", which is a Glaswegian term applied to typically posh areas like Bearsden or nearby Milngavie where many residents would allegedy subsist on a Spam-heavy diet in order to afford a house in the area.

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* PovertyFood: The interviewees explain the concept of "Spam Valley", which is a Glaswegian term applied to typically posh areas like Bearsden or nearby Milngavie where many residents would allegedy allegedly subsist on a Spam-heavy diet in order to afford a house in the area.



** [[spoiler:The younger]] Brian [=MacKinnon=] has a Whigfield poster next to his 2 Unlimited one.



** [[spoiler:The younger]] Brian [=MacKinnon=] has a Whigfield poster next to his 2 Unlimited one.

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** [[spoiler:The younger]] Brian [=MacKinnon=] has a Whigfield poster next Someone at laser tag can be heard saying, "[[Series/ChewinTheFat Gonnae no' dae that]]?"
** Most of the holiday scenes are set
to his 2 Unlimited one.[[AnyoneRememberPogs The Macarena]].
** The planes seen in the film apparently belong to a fictional airline called "Scotia Jet", which may be a reference to Air Scotia, the airline in Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson's SitCom, ''Series/TheHighLife''.
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** Brandon drives his friends to a showing of ''Film/MurielsWedding'' at a [[BlandNameProduct UTI]][[labelnote:*]]UCI Cinemas was a prominent cinema chain in the UK in UsefulNotes/TheNineties until it was taken over by Odeon[[/labelnote]] [[ cinema The cinema is next door to a branch of City Bakeries, a now-defunct chain of Glasgow cake shops.

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** Brandon drives his friends to a showing of ''Film/MurielsWedding'' at a [[BlandNameProduct UTI]][[labelnote:*]]UCI Cinemas was a prominent cinema chain in the UK in UsefulNotes/TheNineties until it was taken over by Odeon[[/labelnote]] [[ cinema cinema. The cinema is next door to a branch of City Bakeries, a now-defunct chain of Glasgow cake shops.

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