I have to say that you might be seeing a lot of FINAL EPISODES lately. Personally I feel this way for two reasons. I have left this series of Blog posts waste around for two years. Just not a single post about any of this shit, which is weird because it's honestly my favorite of the blog posts. Just something so easy and simple and fun to do. Just take the Final Episode of a television show and talk about it. Also I get to show that portnoyd is wrong about something. He guessed Baywatch (which was a show I tried to write about before but gave up on. I will get to it someday. Maybe) and I went with Boston Public, which was a show I watched as a teenager. I watched this for the entire first season. I really liked the saucy Jewish teacher who brought in the comedic relief and that's ALL I remember about this series.
This series was about the dramatic comings and goings of teachers at a Boston Public school. I just remember one plot about the Jewish teacher being like 10432 years old and saying something racist. I don't even remember what he said. It was created by David E. Kelley who was REALLY big for like a decade and a half before he just disappeared and no one knows where he is anymore. I just checked his Wikipedia and apparently he made several shows after the year of our lord 2008 but I refuse to change what I said because I refuse to believe anyone watched anything he made after that show where William Shatner was a lawyer. When you get to work with Shatner you should just give it up and enjoy your riches!
This show started on October 23, 2000 and ended on January 30th, 2004. It didn't even get to show it's Final Episodes until it went onto some TV station no one has ever heard of, TV One. Apparently it's a TV channel for black people. At least that's who they were targeting to watch it. I mean anyone can enjoy an episode of Sanford and Son. That Redd Foxx is a wild one. I think they picked this show because of Chi McBride who is awesome. So with all this said let's discuss episode 81 entitled Chapter 81 of this show.
The episode starts with girls taking off their clothes and another taking pictures and writing letters on their bodies in lipstick. They are all in a hallway. I'm guessing this is going to be some kind of sit in. The vice principal, I think that's who he was, who was a JERK from what I recall runs into the sit in while trying to show a repairman a problem the school is having. He sees what happens and just turns back and goes wrong hallway. He knows shit is about to hit the fan. It was always hitting the fan at this school. Most problems at a school you'll ever see. Oh it's an artist thing not a sit in. I really should watch the entire episode first but I like my way of having to edit things after watching a few minutes. I am weird.
Anyway CHI MCBRIDE uses his ANGRY BLACK MAN powers to tell everyone NOT to get naked and take pictures of themselves anymore. They are all like WE ARE ARTISTS. Also the Vice Principal guy is a stuck up bitch and I already hate him so much. Not as much as the Prince of Some Place from T and T but still a LOT. Michael Rappaport, the WHITEST BLACK MAN ever and some woman are arguing about their marriage problems. She wants them to go to counseling and he's like NO WAY MANNNN. A lady I thought was someone else shows up. I know I know her from something other than this show but it wasn't who I was thinking of. Anyway she doesn't trust the new art teacher Henry and thinks he is manipulating the students. His name was also mentioned in the meeting between the naked art girls and CHI MCBRIDE. Not lookin good for ol' Hanky boy!
Woman Who Confused Me shows other black lady art from a student. I guess she's their parent. She believes they are drawing penises and the other black lady is not with her. The Old Jewish Teacher is like CAN I HELP I KNOW ABOUT DICKS! not exactly like that but still. I want to hug that old rascal. The Vice Principal is with a lady and this amazes me because I thought he was a gay character with just some weird stereotypes from the times this was made. I guess I was shown to be wrong. Oh shit the woman hes with just thinks this was fun but he SERIOUS. It's changing the roles!!! Woah!!! She wants to get to know the real Vice Principal. She wants to meet his FRIENDS. He goes to Chi McBride and tries to get him to be his guy but Chi is like WUH. Man Portnoyd must be happy that Chi McBride is also a Wuh guy.
Woman Who Confused Me wants to see both of them in the office. Oh shit! Hank's in trouble! We see HANK talk to another teacher like it's therapy. Vice Principal wants someone to do Drivers Education and when the hell has any school done that? Anyway THE WHITEST BLACK MAN decides to do it. Chi McBride then talks to the HOLY SHIT THATS THE STAR TREK WOMAN. SIXTY NINE or whatever her name was. I have never seen a single episode of Star Trek Deep Space Nine so I don't know her name. So Chi McBride asks her what she thinks of Henny Youngman and she says he seems to be a pretty alright guy and Chi McBride tells Sixty Nine to keep an eye out on him because he doesn't trust the man with the female students. Oh heck. GROSS MAN ALERT MAYBE.
THE WHITEST BLACK MAN is trying ot talk to his wife and getting no answers. He also is in the BOSTON PUBLIC STUDENT CAR and just waiting for a student I guess. OH man he's being ANGRY which I think is the only emotion he really knows how to show. It's very weird but Michael Rappaport is pretty good at being angry. Of course he gets mad because Michael Rappaport is like the Hulk in that Avengers movie. He's always truly angry in his heart. Anyway Vice Principal gets Chi McBride to go dinner with him and his girlfriend. Sixty Nine sees Henry hugging a young girl who is crying. OH SHIT.
Sixty Nine and Chi McBride have a meeting with Henry about this and he leaves angry, but before that he says that he might SCARE you or something and Chi McBride is like listen it doesn't scare me. I'm pretty sure Chi McBride could bite into Jaws and not be frightened. In fact we should all be frightened of Chi McBride. SIXTY NINE also tries to get the girl to talk about that and she's like it WASNT inappropriate! I'm pretty sure any school would have thrown Henny Youngman out on his ass. I like that I am making reference to Henny Youngman like I am some kind of one hundred and ten year old man. She then makes it sound all weird by saying he's done all kinds of things to her. Opened her mind and just weird shit that makes them very uncomfortable. Good job, dipshit. You probably just got Henny Youngman fired.
THE WHITEST BLACK MAN and The Jewish Teacher are talking about Henny Youngman. Woman Who Confused Me comes in and they tell her he has been suspended. Her adopted GOTH DAUGHTER asks her if she can stay after school and the other black lady is like you ever gonna tell her you were the one to start all this? And Community Woman is like yeah.......after it all dies down and the other black lady is like yeah right. We then go to Henny Youngman's class and he's talking to his students about all this and how he's been suspended. The students take it to the streets and by the streets I mean the hallway and main office! The Vice Principal comes in and then tells them if they do not move they will be suspended like TRUE ARTISTS they refuse to move!
GOTH DAUGHTER and WOMAN WHO CONFUSED ME have a CONFRONTATION about Henny Youngman. Port do you even know who Henny Youngman is? Anyway we turn back to The Whitest Black Man and him being really bad at a driving instructor. I think I'm going to skip over this plot because I can and it's my blog and it's just the other two plots of the episode are uh vastly more interesting and this isn't interesting or funny. Sixty Nine talks to Henny Youngman, he asks her if she thinks he was COPIN A FEEL on that girl and she says no but she also thinks he's not able to be a teacher because he doesn't respect boundaries. Henny Youngman is all I'm not leaving without a fight and I'm like bro if you don't do something in the next sixteen minutes you kinda are leaving without a fight because this is the last episode!
Vice Principal gets CHI MCBRIDE to pretend to be his friend and they go outside in 14 degrees and play some ball. His girlfriend comes by and they just lie to her about all this. Woman Who Confused Me later on goes to CHI MCBRIDE's office and they talk about parenting stuff. SIXTY NINE goes to HENNY YOUNGMAN's apartment to tell him that she was wrong and that he does he give the students something. She wants to defend him. Oh my god it ends with SIXTY NINE and HENNY YOUNGMAN doing some kissing..............AND MAYBE SOME OTHER SAUCIER THINGS!!!!!!
Vice Principal, Chi McBride, his wife (who just happens to be other black lady!) and Vice Principal's girlfriend all go out on a date and Vice Principal really puts his foot in his mouth by saying he and Chi McBride do like everything together. Talking about shooting bears and all kinds of shit. Chi McBride's face is literally priceless. It's like wtf and I'm going to strangle this white boy's ass. It's amazing and I love it. Vice Principal ends up spilling the beans to his girlfriend and telling her it was all bullshit. She says she knew. He says he was embarrassed because she has a social life and a wild backstory and all he has is shit on a stick. She says she wants him exactly the way he is. Aw how sweet. Ya lie to a woman and she's still nice to you. I do not think that's the way it works in the real world but I'll buy it here.
Oh shit, GOTH DAUGHTER got into a fight with someone over Woman Who Confused Me. They were saying how she never gets any. A fight breaks out and Vice Principal stops it. GOTH DAUGHTER has a nice moment with Woman Who Confused Me. Henny Youngman gets his job back even though that really felt like it was supposed to be some kind of ongoing plot line. I guess they saw the writing on the wall and changed it at the last second? I dunno. THE WHITEST BLACK MAN even realizes he's being a doodiehead and goes to see his wife at her therapist. Woo. Henny Youngman and Sixty Nine have one chat and she wants to get dinner and he says they shouldn't start anything and she looks sad as she leaves him. So it kinda feels weird.
FINAL THOUGHTS: While I had a pretty good time revisiting this show, It is not a very good Final Episode. They just seemed to rush the ending with Henny Youngman's character. The rest of the characters ended fine. It's not an awful episode but it'd go in the middle of the pack really. Not great but yeah. I do wonder if they meant for it to end here or if Henny Youngman just getting his job back was meant to feel so weirdly anticlimactic. I weirdly want to hear what portnoyd has to say about this show and David E Kelley.
No comments:
Post a Comment