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2-22 2002.05.20 |
Coma Coma Coma Coma Coma Chameleon Ronnie attempts persuade Jamal to rat out his brother while Harry lies dying. Everyone prays for Harry, many of them in Hebrew. Steven refuses to leave Harry's side while Scott runs Winslow. |
| 2-22 Recap |
Coma Coma Coma Coma Coma Chameleon
Chapter Forty-Four - Ronnie attempts persuade Jamal to rat out his brother while Harry lies dying. Everyone prays for Harry, many of them in Hebrew. Steven refuses to leave Harry's side while Scott runs Winslow. |
2002.05.20 2002.05.26 |
B+ |
Key Grip |
| 2-21 Recap |
Fat City
Chapter Forty-Three - When Jamal's brother shoots a liquor store owner while Jamal looks on, Harry and Ronnie tell him to turn himself in. Dick Teachie begins a campaign to end student obesity. Scott and Steven lock horns over leadership. Marilyn deals with a student who has a compulsion to eat her own hair. No, really, she does. |
2002.05.13 2002.05.20 |
A- |
Key Grip |
| 2-20 Recap |
Dark Side of the Prom
Chapter Forty-Two - Marla gets a second chance at love when her high school boyfriend shows up to take her to the prom. Ronnie tries to keep doing good in the life of Homeless Natalie. Lauren finally agrees to go on a date with Scott. And various prom scandals, from the transgendered prom queen candidate to the dates-for-dollars program, are systematically ignored by Scott and Steven. |
2002.05.06 2002.05.13 |
B+ |
Key Grip |
| 2-19 Recap |
It's My Party, And I'll Bring A Twenty-Year-Old Former Student If I Want To
Chapter Forty-One - At Harry's surprise birthday party, Steven is forced to reveal that he may be leaving Winslow, and Scott learns that Marla's name is on Steven's list of potential replacements. Ronnie is miffed when Harry brings Slow-lita as his date. Meredith is there, too. Harvey videotapes the whole affair. DaveKelley's Child sings. |
2002.04.29 2002.05.06 |
B- |
Key Grip |
| 2-18 Recap |
Once a Slow-lita, Always a Slow-lita
Chapter Forty - Harvey is visited by a sixty-year-old black man who claims to be his son. Harry is revisited by Dana Poole. Scott learns that certain teachers who tutor students in their own classes will sometimes inadvertently give them clues about what might be on the test, compromising the fairness of the grading system. |
2002.04.22 2002.04.29 |
B+ |
Key Grip |
| 2-17 Recap |
Do you cyber-stalk here often?
Chapter Thirty-Nine - Ronnie tries to get involved in a student's drug-life problems, clearly not having learned her lesson from the last three attempts, with predictably disastrous results. Harry helps. Also, is Dr. Benji a cyber-stalker? Not really, but that doesn't stop everyone from treating him that way. A doping scandal rocks the world of...one baseball player. |
2002.03.18 2002.03.28 |
B+ |
Key Grip |
| 2-16 Recap |
Porn To Be Wild
Chapter Thirty-Eight - When a student has a panic attack, it's up to Steven to get various other people to point fingers at Lauren. Meanwhile, a senior poses for a porn magazine, and Ronnie tries to convince her not to. Dick Teachie asks Marilyn out. And Scott fires, and breaks up with, The Hook Lady, because she hits a student, but she manages to make him feel like that's not a good enough reason to do either. |
2002.03.11 2002.03.18 |
B |
Key Grip |
| 2-15 Recap |
Today's word of the day is...
Chapter Thirty-Seven - This recap explores the inappropriateness of racial invective, and therefore contains coarse racial slurs. Recap reader discretion is advised. But there will be, no doubt, an online chat in the forums after the recap is concluded. |
2002.02.25 2002.03.04 |
A- |
Key Grip |
| 2-14 Recap |
Friends don't let friends sue the drunk drivers who killed their friends
Chapter Thirty-Six - A car accident claims the lives of three Winslow High students, two of whom never existed before this episode. But the third is Zack, so Ronnie is devastated. Harry fails a student for the year, then knocks him unconscious, thereby somehow saving the boy from ruination. Harvey Lipschultz reveals that he is a reincarnation of George Washington and Cleopatra. |
2002.02.18 2002.02.25 |
B- |
Key Grip |
| 2-13 Recap |
The Royal HarperPetersBaums
Chapter Thirty-Five - When Brooke and Jeremy plan to go on a date, Meredith flips out with joy and plans their entire future. When Max dies of cancer, Harry decides he's quitting, for about six minutes. Lauren reveals her anorexic past in the interest of helping current sufferers. |
2002.02.11 2002.02.18 |
B |
Key Grip |
| 2-12 Recap |
Bullies suck.
Chapter Thirty-Four - A bombing plot is foiled, but Lauren is suspicious of the foiler. Steven does good impressions, and Scott does bad ones. Teachie learns that helping people only makes him look stupid. Harvey and Marilyn sing a beautiful love duet. Marla gives a speech about bullies. |
2002.02.04 2002.02.11 |
B |
Key Grip |
| 2-11 Recap |
The Great Debate
Chapter Thirty-Three - Brooke likes older men, but her father doesn't. Harry hates Scott, so they battle it out using students as pawns in their sick game. Lauren and Ronnie and The Exposition Fairy all butt in where they're neither wanted nor needed. |
2002.01.28 2002.02.04 |
B+ |
Key Grip |
| 2-10 Recap |
Harvey's lost the fire
Chapter Thirty-Two - Is it teen pregnancy? Is it father-daughter incest? Is it something that looks like both, but makes no sense? Yes. Also, Dick Teachie is an atheist, Harvey prepares for the biggest speech of his career, and Lauren gets between Scott and The Hook Lady, which is as dumb as it sounds. |
2002.01.21 2002.01.28 |
C |
Key Grip |
| 2-9 Recap |
Therapy, Both Aquatic and Landbound
Chapter Thirty-One - Marilyn has to determine where to draw the line between art and kiddie porn. The Fake Hand Lady has to learn to show affection to her son. Dick Teachie and Talk Time are hiding something. And Fyvush Finkel glosses U.S. foreign policy: "Move. 'Cause the bombs are coming." |
2002.01.14 2002.01.21 |
B+ |
Key Grip |
| 2-8 Recap |
Aren't you a little old to still be gay?
Chapter Thirty - Ronnie helps out a kid with ADD, whose parents are afraid that the medication he needs will stifle his creative impulses. The school production of the gay play continues apace, but puts the school's arts funding at risk. Meredith finds out about Jeremy's sexuality, and is upset that Scott hid the truth from her for so long. Steven is asked by a former student on death row to be present at his execution. |
2002.01.07 2002.01.13 |
B- |
Key Grip |
| 2-7 Recap |
Oscar was Wilde, but Thornton was Wilder
Chapter Twenty-Nine - When a student writes a really good essay about death, Harry's brood-o-meter goes into overdrive. X tells Steven that maybe they should think about giving things another try. Billy Zane sings, really well. Talk Time takes the time to talk to Teachie, to tell Teachie that Teachie teaches Talk Time...well. Scott buys a hand for The New Hand Lady, and also sees Jeremy smooching a guy during rehearsals for Our Town Two. Really. |
2001.12.10 2001.12.17 |
B+ |
Key Grip |
| 2-6 Recap |
Rave against the machine
Chapter Twenty-Eight - Is Brooke using drugs? No, but Steven and X get pretty mad anyway. The Exposition Fairy tries to fill her meaningless life with the power of song by forming a band with Marla and Marilyn. Scott convinces The Hook Lady to lay her missing hand to rest, literally, in the soil in her backyard. Ronnie defends a student accused of statutory rape. |
2001.12.03 2001.12.10 |
B |
Key Grip |
| 2-5 Recap |
"I remember braces...ice cream nights."
Chapter Twenty-Seven - Teachie nearly lands in jail after beating the crap out of some guy, but Ronnie helps him out. Anthony Heald and The Hook Lady go to therapy together. And is the next, next, next, next, next, next, next Britney Spears right under Lauren's nose at Winslow High? Yes. Oh, and The Exposition Fairy's been writing that sex column. |
2001.11.26 2001.12.02 |
B- |
Key Grip |
| 2-4 Recap |
By Hook or by Brooke
Chapter Twenty-Six - When Steven's daughter Brooke gets expelled from her private school, she has to enroll at Winslow, where Steven is both her father and her principal. Hijinks ensue. Marla continues her crusade for a low-fat school. Boredom ensues. Dick Teachie's class takes Harvey to court. Use of "per se" and "alleged" and "putative" ensues. Billy Zane sings, and gets laughed at. |
2001.11.19 2001.11.26 |
B |
Key Grip |
| 2-3 Recap |
I'm...hooked on Scott Guber...and on how he says, "Look at meeeeeee."
Chapter Twenty-Five - Scott has a girlfriend. Unfortunately, she's the lady with the hook who might be crazy, or maybe it's her son who's crazy. Or both of them. Also, Marla gives a lecture on guns for no reason, Steven is upset according to Lauren, Harvey gets sued by the students, and Jamaal gets caught plagiarizing a college essay. |
2001.11.12 2001.11.19 |
B |
Key Grip |
| 2-2 Recap |
I wanna, like, go to a challengin' school, and stuff
Chapter Twenty-Four - A prize pupil of Lauren's has her eyes on Princeton, but an unexpected pregnancy puts a crimp in her plan, and also a fetus in her womb. Ronnie Cook teaches reincarnation, and creationism, and for some reason is not warmly welcomed by either the students or her fellow teachers. Scott gets the therapy he sorely needs, and so does The Hook Lady. |
2001.11.05 2001.11.12 |
B- |
Key Grip |
| 2-1 Recap |
Who would give up six figures to teach high school?
Chapter Twenty-Three - Seven of Nine and her figure, that's who. Except, since she's really a TV actress, she's making six figures to play someone who would give up six figures to teach. Which is everything that's wrong with this country. Everything else about Winslow High appears to be exactly the same, except that Michael Rapaport's around now, and there's a very small science teacher. VERY small. |
2001.10.29 2001.11.04 |
C |
Key Grip |
| 1-22 Recap |
Finkel sums it all up: "I know you're never glad to see me."
Chapter Twenty-Two - The season ends with The Exposition Fairy getting a big storyline. Not. Instead, Steven has to handle more self-pity from Scott, who then wins a Popularity Award, thus defying all reason. Lauren gets suspended for the summer for having a loaded gun. Kevin Jackson inspires everyone with the "We have no dreams" speech. Lots of slow-motion hand-shaking in robes. Inigo Montoya guest stars. And we learn what happened to Jeremy's mom. Key Grip tosses a cap in the air and screams jubilantly now that school's out. |
2001.05.21 2001.05.28 |
B- |
Key Grip |
| 1-21 Recap |
Finkel on Guber: "He is the finest educator I have ever known."
Chapter Twenty-One - When Lauren finds a creepy album full of pictures of her, she suspects that Daniel Evans might be a frigging loon. Speaking of which, Marla tries to get around the laws preventing her from revealing the criminal past of a student to his new girlfriend. Also, Scott gets interviewed at Exeter, but Steven inadvertently lets on that Scott may not be qualified for the job. |
2001.05.14 2001.05.21 |
B+ |
Key Grip |
| 1-20 Recap |
Fyvush on Ebonics: "That bubonic speech doesn't sound intelligent."
Chapter Twenty - Mrs. Peters bakes yummy brownies and takes an interest in her son's work at school, and that means it's time for Marilyn to flip out and stalk her. Kevin Jackson debates with flair, but gets a little overzealous at a crucial moment, costing Scott his championship. Steven's budding no-mance with Michelle Roening is nipped in the bud by reality. Key Grip mourns the unjust exile of the Josh Dodes Band from VH1. |
2001.05.07 2001.05.14 |
B |
Key Grip |
| 1-19 Recap |
Fyvush on why a student riots: "Because he's black."
Chapter Nineteen - Scott tries to improve his debate team by recruiting Mr. Jackson, who thinks he's crazy, and Anthony Ward, who's too busy defending himself against impending expulsion over his hit-list. Lisa Greer graduates "early" while Marilyn frets that one of her students won't graduate at all if she doesn't defend him from his crazy mother. Best of all, Lauren gets off on being called "Ms. Davis" during sex with a former student. |
2001.04.30 2001.05.07 |
B |
Key Grip |
| 1-18 Recap |
Finkel on his students: "I think Marla's done something with them."
Chapter Eighteen - Not even the drums stolen from ER can save Christine Banks from cardiovascular disaster, when she turns out to be (gasp) a tiny bit out of shape. Marla insults all janitors, but really only meant to insult some of them. Harry, for some reason, tries to get Dana Poole to stop stripping, and to stop being ashamed of her abject poverty. Scott gets trigger-happy with his termination cannon. Coach Kevin and his idiotic new hair guest star. |
2001.04.23 2001.04.30 |
C- |
Key Grip |
| 1-17 Recap |
Fyvush on Shakespeare: "He has a sexual lewd problem."
Chapter Seventeen - It's a good day for Scott Guber, as he suspends eighty-seven different students, uncovers a pot-smoking ring, gets to teach Shakespeare with Lisa Greer, and gets Lauren to be nice to him for five seconds. It's a rough day for Steven as he becomes overwhelmed by negatives, and realizes he doesn't pay enough attention to the positive aspects of the school. And it's a kind of breaking-even day for Harry, when his crimes are exposed, but he also learns how to grieve. |
2001.04.16 2001.04.23 |
A |
Key Grip |
| 1-16 Recap |
In which Fyvush Finkel is asked, "Where are your pants?"
Chapter Sixteen - Harry's suicide club gets him in trouble with parents, and his brooding silence gets him in trouble with Lauren, who gets him to come clean about his peripheral responsibility for Tyron's death, and then dumps him. Marla sends her entire class to the principal's office. Anthony Ward has a list of students he'd like to kill, but Big Boy thinks it's okay, even though Big Boy himself is on the list. Go figure. |
2001.03.26 2001.04.02 |
A- |
Key Grip |
| 1-15 Recap |
Fyvush Finkel repeatedly insists, "There's nothing wrong with my mind!"
Chapter Fifteen - Tyron tries to run away from his problems, but he's a good actor, so we want him to stay. In addition, we get accusations of molestation, by a female student, against Tina Knowles the cheerleading coach. Also, Key Grip begins to fear that Tina and Jenna are being groomed to replace Milton and Kevin as cast regulars, and also attempts to recap the very end of the episode without ever having seen it. |
2001.02.26 2001.03.05 |
B |
Key Grip |