"Boston Public": The Thread

After the shower scene in the first show, followed by the ‘just an unbuttoned blouse’ scene in this one, I’d keep watching just to see how they arrange to show some Jeri Ryan skin in each episode.

Of course, the other people are entertaining, too.

I like Star Trek, Boston Public, AND Monday Night Football. So there. :stuck_out_tongue:
My current problem is that on the West Coast, MNF is usually still in the 3rd quarter when BP begins at 8PM. I watched the premiere of BP, but, till the end of the season, I’ll watch MNF. (I need a VCR!)

Yeah, I thought that episode had nice use of Urban Legend- the whole person strips naked to do something pertaining to sex, and it turns out everyone is there. :slight_smile:

You have to admit, the teacher has a huge point. Ronnie just prances in there and expects to be treated with respect- I’d feel pretty damned band if I were a “real” teacher. Ronnie’s probably going to have to learn to budget now that she’s not working as a hotshot lawyer, unless she plans to live off her boyfriend. Not too surprising she teaches them reincarnation before she works on their basic skills- this is BP. I thought she was teaching them English and history?

Seems to be less focus on students this year…I know most of the students from last year graduated, or died. I wonder if they’ll introduce any more student characters?

Avoiding the GD-ness of whether teaching reincarnation in public schools is appropriate, I believe that Ronnie’s aim as an English teacher is to give them something to write ABOUT. Also, she said that her goal is to get them thinking beyond their immediate reality so that they actually WONDER about stuff. Once they start wondering, then she can teach them.

I bow to your recall, and add that I seem to remember a twinkle in Scott’s eye as he said it. And then later he said something about what a nice body she had, to Steven.

Time to bump this baby up again.

What, no science teacher? Waah. :frowning:

Scott was so cute, dating the hook lady. And all those conversations with Stephen Harper were pretty funny. I love the slip he makes…“It’s not as if I’m about to ask for her hook-” I love Jeremy Peters. Ahh. I think he’s the one student not terrified of Guber.

Nice to know that someone is taking on Lipshultz. I don’t think they’d ever fire him- you can’t get rid of a character like him. You just can’t. :slight_smile:

Ok Otto you did such a nice job last week that i’m asking you to recap for us again this week :slight_smile:

jab1 See? You finish football, and THEN turn on BP. And I bet you don’t consider yourself a ‘trekkie’… or do you?? [ominous mystery music, crash of thunder]

[sub]Will Otto’s recapitulation be as good as last weeks? Is jab1 a trekkie? Why am I asking all this? Stay tuned… [/sub]

Man, is the show getting off the wall.

I’m glad what’s-his-name didn’t stick up for the student who downloaded an essay off the internet. That would have been just too much.

And the hook sure managed to put a gash in Guber’s cheek in no time. Imagine what she’d do to his back.

Tibs.

Oh god, the pressure!

SPOILERS

Scott and Mrs Peters go out for dinner which sort of transmutes into a date. She invites him in for a fresh cookie, but he declines. Later, at school, they wonder if they should continue seeing each other socially, and decide they should. Scott tells Stephen they went out. Stephen claims he’s supportive but Scott doesn’t feel supported. “We’re just talking about a dinner or two, it’s not like I’m asking for her hook in…” They go out again. We find out that Mrs Peters wasn’t the disciplinarian until after Mr Peters died. Mr Peters died, we find out, when he was working on his car and it somehow dropped into gear, running him over. Scott jokes about coming in for a cookie. Mrs Peters says she didn’t bake any. She didn’t bake any last time either. Why did she invite him for one, then? “I knew you wouldn’t accept.” “Now I might accept.” “That’s why I’m not inviting you.” They kiss and Mrs Peters (accidentally?) scratches Scott’s face with her hook. They kiss again, and a planter falls off the ledge, just missing Scott. Next day in school, Scott calls Jeremy to his office and tells him he’ll get no special treatment because Scott is seeing him socially, that Jeremy’s performance is slipping (he wrote a history report theorizing that Mary Todd Lincoln took out a hit on Abe because of infidelity) and that if another planter ever falls in Scott’s vicinity Jeremy will be bounced out of school.

Stephen tells Marla she’s going to give the annual “gun lecture.” At the assembly, she tells the students that she knows the last thing they want to hear is another gun lecture. She give some statistics about how many households have guns, says that in many recent school shootings kids knew about it ahead of time and that it won’t get any better until kids decide it isn’t cool to bring guns into a classroom. She tells of a childhood friend killed by a gun in school. “It never gets any better. The pain never gets any better.” She tells the students there’s a toll-free number to call to report guns anonymously.

Jamal (the kid Harry helped get a job in the morgue) has been accepted to college on early admission, the first kid from the dungeon to make it to college. Later, we find out that someone’s called the gun line and reported that he bought his admission essay off the internet. Harry tells him that he’s through with him because other kids will need Harry’s recommendation and his word needs to mean something. The next day, Harry drives three hours to the college to try to convince the admissions officer to give Jamal another chance. He tells Jamal when he gets back that his admission is revoked but that he will be allowed to re-apply. Harry then tells him he will never intercede for Jamal again (except he goes to Stephen and asks him not to expel Jamal for honor code violations).

Stephen meets with whats-her-name that had the abortion (or as he calls it “the procedure”) because he’s feeling guilty that his policy of transferring preggos led her to have the abortion. She absolves him of responsibility but he says something to Lauren about feeling like he’s not a leader and has no vision.

Lipschitz calls the kid he called a “big dick” before a “douchebag.” Stephen tells him if he uses vulgarity again he’s fired. Mr Hanson’s class decides they are going to sue Harvey as a class project and enlist Ronnie’s help for pointers. Which I personally thought was a hoot, because I’m studying law and I get a kick out of law library dialogue. Help me oh please help me. Anyway, they serve Harvey (I forget if they mentioned the specific cause of action). Hanson and Ronnie end up in Stephen’s office, explaining why it’s a good class project (kids learn about the legal system, kids learn to work together, and Harvey’s an “old fart” and something needs to be done about him). Stephen declines to interfere except to tell them not to take class time. Lauren says that this plus Jamal’s second chance shows that he may not have “vision” but he is a good principal. Or something. I kind of tune her out because she’s boring yet whiny at the same time. The end.

Scenes for next week included Hanson standing in a courtroom saying that other teachers look to Harvey as a leader and Harvey exclaiming “that’s a lie!” It’ll be fun seeing Fyvush Finkel back in a courtroom.

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damn Otto, you rawk!

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This is me, apologizing to Esprix in advance…

And again for actually getting me to laugh out loud on that one…

Does anyone know how BP is giving Kathy Bates her stump and hook? CGI? The stump looks pretty good.

If the camera is fixed, a blue-screen shot would make it pretty easy to remove a hand and insert a stump. Otherwise, maybe they are panning within a larger shot?

Yeah, you do rawk.

I was wondering too. It’s so damned real, it’s eerie. Not that I’m biased against people without hands or anything, but that shot with her and that plate of cookies…ugh…it just looked so wrong. Maybe it’s because the hooks remind me of that website woman who wanted to cut both her limbs off and replace them with hooks?

I’m pretty sure it’s blue-screen work combined with CGI, similar to the way they “removed” Gary Sinise’s legs in Forrest Gump. My guess is that the actress wears a blue or green glove and they optically remove that in post-production, then replace the missing background details digitally. On other occaisions, they will film a scene twice and use the second shot to fill in the missing details.

I’m so sorry… but this show so bad and ridiculous. I know when it comes to TV, there’s a certain amount of poetic justice… but THIS is laughable

Kelley’s used it before, when he was a writer for “L.A. Law,” with Corbin Bersen’s Arnie Becker character in the nudie role.

  • Rick

Hmmm, tonight’s episode seemed a little less “off the wall”. But I really don’t like the Hook Lady, she’s freaking me out a lot.

Goober just looked so pathetic after he won the court decision against the students. It seemed as if he was disapointed that he won. The poor guy knew he crushed their hopes and it looked if he felt the twinge of regret.

Best episode, so far, this season. The little Kung-fu bravado the hook lady showed in the begining creeped me out a bit. “It would be interesting if we fought” I expected her to declare that her Shaolin style would easily defeat the other teacher’s tiger style.

I am under-whelmed by Jerri Ryan, but Billy Zane’s character is beginning to grow on me. He’s mostly an ass, but an endearing one.

Lipschitz had a some pep in his step after the trial, what a cool little bastard!

Lastly, I loved Goober’s little speach to the “fat” teacher (I always forget her name and she annoys me so I won’t bother to look it up) She is, IMO, the worst character in the show.