[SPECIAL thanks to fellow Boston Publican Danny for these!]
| Episode # | Summary | Sheryl Holt's Website | | Episode 1 [Premiere] | Football star Jason Harrelson is failing Lauren and Harry’s classes. Dana Poole blackmails Harry into raising his Jason’s grade, allowing him to play and win the football game. Harvey argues with Dana over wearing a bra. Harry takes over Marla’s class, bringing and firing a gun with blanks. Scott asks Lauren to the symphony- she accepts, but he backs out after viewing her reaction on the web. Anthony Ward is found in a diaper in a locker, but doesn’t say anything. After Anthony is sent to the ER, Steven throws Malcolm White up against a locker. Harvey defends himself to Kevin Jackson. Marla starts her pills at Steven’s urging. | Milton in horse’s rear, Steven as locker-bashing gorilla, Lauren throwing up on Scott. | | Episode 2 | Dana Poole wears a bra, but the rest of the class doesn’t. Harvey’s attempts to reason only incite the rest of the school. Marla and Harvey co-teach a class. Scott discovers Dana has been smoking pot, prompting her to blackmail Harry again. Harry confesses to Kevin and Milton what happened with Dana. Steven threatens to suspend Sheryl unless she removes the questionable content. Sheryl’s website crashes- Harvey gloats to her about his niece, who is a pro with computer viruses. Louisa tells Steven that the superintendent will be visiting “to commend him on how smoothly things are running”. Lauren refuses fingerprinting, and feels insulted that Scott asked her to coffee to try and get her to. Lauren and Harry decide to look for potential dates for each other. | Milton reloads for the next lecture, Harvey in underwear with US flag. | | Episode 3 | Scott finds Anthony Ward hanging upside-down outside a classroom window, but even after being brought in, he refuses to say who is harassing him. In frustration, Steven suspends Anthony, for posing a safety risk to himself. Sheryl reveals the truth: the soccer team has been bullying Anthony for foiling their cheating conspiracy. Steven and Scott cancel the season and suspend the team after interrogation. Kevin hears a rumor from the football team that a member, Bobby Renfro, is gay. Bobby, who is interested in a Jesuit school, angrily denies it. Harvey tries to preach tolerance, first to Bobby and then to the team, despite Kevin’s frequent pleas to leave his team alone. He also tries to have Sheryl keep it quiet after she overhears. Harry confesses to his coworkers as well as to Steven and Scott that he kissed and was blackmailed by Dana Poole. Scott agrees to keep the matter quiet only after Dana agrees to see the school counselor, Bob “Big Boy” Lick. Superintendent Marcia Shinn, “The Dragon Lady”, visits the school, discovering that Lauren has been teaching that Native Americans were cannibals. Harry calls student Jamal Crenshaw “a total screw-up” but later apologizes, offering him a job at the morgue when he expresses an interest in death and dying. A public school board meeting is held over Steven’s suitability to job is in great jeopardy. The cancellation of the soccer season bothers school board president Harold Shaw, but Marcia is instead critical of the recurring issues involving Steven. She specifically targets Marla, who interrupts launches a long rant at Marcia. Steven defends his teachers as being frustrated but gifted and motivated. Scott announces that if Steven is removed, he will resign as well, leading the rest of the faculty to stand in support of Steven, who keeps his job, the “concerns having been addressed”. Afterwards, Steven thanks Marla for “throwing herself on a grenade”. | | | Episode 4 | Lauren sees two of three candidates for the senior president, Susan Potter and Peter Nelson, engaged in oral sex in a stairwell. Steven refuses to recommend John LeBlonde for a prestigious Magna Club Award despite his excellent academic record, as he was part of the soccer team and aware of the conspiracy. John later confesses to being in love with Lauren, and asks if he could put his head on her shoulder, to which she reluctantly agrees. One of Harry’s students, Juan Figgis, has dropped out and is working at a fast food restaurant for the money. Harry convinces him to return to school with the promise that he can teach a class, which Scott sits in on. Juan chooses the subject of “premature ejaculation”. After Harry protests, Juan replies that he is merely motivating his pupils to listen to what he’ll say next- like Harry does. At an SGA assembly, Peter announces that he is withdrawing, and asks that his voters pledge support for Susan. Lauren tells Steven and Scott of her suspicions. Peter confesses: He was losing the election anyway, and as Susan would win with his voters, he figures he got something out of it. Susan, despite her parents’ protests, is transferred. John gets into a fight in Harvey/Marla’s class, biting off another student’s ear, prompting police involvement and his suspension. An annual charity talent show, led by Marilyn, is rehearsed and performed. There are many skits of students’ caricaturizing the staff, many inspired by Sheryl Holt’s web site and the recent antics about the school. Louisa dares Milton as her date to the charity show. Milton endures his ridicule on stage as well as the date. Lauren, at Marilyn’s urging, tries to talk Harvey out of his traditional performance of “If I Was A Rich Man”, but Harvey refuses to believe that the rock-star-like treatment he annually receives is mere mockery. After the show, though, he partially admits that he was being laughed at. Scott, accepting the charity check on behalf of Steven and Winslow High, is ambushed on stage by Marla and Marylin singing a seductive number. Lauren is paged to the hospital, where she, Steven, and John’s parents learn that John has overdosed on pills and committed suicide. | | |
