VIDEO: Third-grade online class erupts in giggles after massive fart heard

It was a sound that would have put Rudy Giuliani to shame.

Topeka teacher Emma Ginder had just instructed her students to take out a book, when a sound exploded into the waiting silence.

The unmistakable sound of wind passing.

Ginder put her hand over her mouth, demurely, and turned away from the camera. The kids’ faces registered astonishment as they sussed out what they had just heard.

“What was that?” asked more than one student, though the question was pretty much rhetorical. They already knew, and their initial shock quickly gave way to amusement, with hilarity not far behind.

“I think she farted,” said one, as the kids started convulsing in laughter.

“That was a big one,” said another student.

“I don’t know who that was,” Ginder said, struggling to hold back her own giggles.

“It was you,” rejoined one of her charges.

The adage “he/she who first smelt it, dealt it,” could not be deployed ‘cause, pandemic.

The laughter flowed in a cascading brook from the mouths of the third-grade babes.

The plot thickened as Ginder took to Facebook to cop to the sound and its inauthenticity.

“Some days you just have to play a toot sound during class to lighten the mood,” she wrote. “Way too good not to share. Also, I apologize for having the maturity of an 8-year-old boy.”

The message clearly resonated. Her post was shared at least 45,000 times, and a version posted on Twitter was viewed no fewer than 2.1 million times, the tweet calling the abundance of mirth “the joy we all needed.”

To the class, in the video, Ginder played it straight, suggesting they consider the perp’s feelings.

“I don’t know who it was but whoever it was might be a little embarrassed, so let’s stop,” she said.

“I still blame you,” said one last kid.

Wind wasn’t the only thing breaking that day. In a year full of everything from tragedy, to remote learning, to canceled snow days, the laughter most certainly broke some tension – and proved to be good medicine.

“I love that we can all laugh at a toot,” Ginder told KSNT-TV. “Because it is funny no matter how old you are.”