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- Where's Garaboski?
- Uh-oh.
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- Did we do it?
- Did we finally break him?
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You broke him.
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(All cheering)
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Quiet! Mr. Garaboski retired yesterday.
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(All cheering)
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Quiet! The guy survives
Vietnam and Mrs. Garaboski,
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and he can't get past you.
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Now, he left a letter here
that expressed his feelings.
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"Dear you
little..."
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okay, I can't read this.
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He always talked about the
good old days before 1985.
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What happened in 1985?
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That was the year the New York board of education
said you couldn't hit a kid with a ruler.
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"Bored" of education? I do believe I am.
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Well, now you're gonna
need a new English teacher.
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That's okay, thanks.
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Uh, I don't know, Maya. You
may want to consider this one.
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(Rock music playing)
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Ladies and gentlemen, please
welcome Ms. Harper Burgess.
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You got a bike that goes with that outfit?
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1800 cc twin cam fat
Bob fuel tank wide glide.
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What do you ride?
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He rode a sheep.
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62-pound quad hoof white fleece, kind
you count before you fall asleep. Baa baa.
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Wanna race?
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No.
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Ms. Burgess is here to teach you
about great books and great ideas.
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Please give her the same
respect that you give me.
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Oh, we could do better than that.
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(Theme music playing)
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♪ I've been waiting ♪
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♪ for a day ♪
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♪ like this to come ♪
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♪ struck like lightning ♪
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♪ my heart's beating like a drum ♪
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♪ on the edge ♪
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♪ of something wonderful ♪
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♪ face to face with changes ♪
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♪ what's it all about? ♪
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♪ Life is crazy ♪
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♪ but I know ♪
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♪ I can work it out ♪
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♪ 'cause I got you ♪
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♪ to live it with me ♪
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♪ I feel all right, I'm
gonna take on the world ♪
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♪ light up the stars, I've
got some pages to turn ♪
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♪ I'm singing
"go-o-o" ♪
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♪ oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
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♪ take on the world, take on the world ♪
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♪ take on the world ♪
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♪ take on the world, take on the world ♪
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♪ take on the world ♪
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Frank Miller, the dark night returns.
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This is Batman.
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A future Batman.
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What's the difference?
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This story is the continuation based
on an original series of characters.
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Do you guys know what that means?
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All: Yeah.
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Um, aren't you supposed to be
teaching us the important books?
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Mmm, this graphic novel was as
important to its style of literature
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as any book you can think of.
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What's it about?
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It's about a world that's become so
tough that Batman fights superman.
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You will tell me why he does that.
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You're gonna start by teaching us
a comic book, miss motorcycle?
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Yeah, and you're gonna start
by not calling me miss anything.
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You can call me Harper.
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- Harper?
- Yes?
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I just wanted to see if it would work.
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Farkle?
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You know my name, Harper?
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I know all of your names.
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Mr. Matthews told me all about you.
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When is this due, please?
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Hi, Riley.
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Hi.
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How do you like having him here?
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It's terrible.
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It's wonderful.
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My father gave me my love of books.
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He did?
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He's why I became a teacher.
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It's why he named me Harper.
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You'll figure it out.
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Riley, stop me right now.
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- From what?
- I can't like a teacher, I'm Maya.
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It's a good day, Maya.
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School got better and now nothing
bad is ever going to happen again.
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So, I'm passing by your classroom
on this, your first day,
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and I can't help noticing that
somebody has a comic book...
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that everybody has a comic book.
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They're graphic novels.
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Pipe down, Farkle.
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I think Harper's trying to
teach us something important.
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Oh, Harper is?
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Hm? Well, she's not.
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It isn't literature, it's comic books.
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Which are against school
policy, miss Burgess.
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And so is calling miss
Burgess by her first name.
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You will gather these up, and you
will teach something important.
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To kill a mockingbird?
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Are you familiar with this?
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I know this book.
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Then teach it, miss Burgess.
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So...
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The dark knight returns.
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Read it tonight, and tomorrow we
will learn something important.
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(All cheering)
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Ah, stop it.
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You're not supposed to like a teacher.
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You're Maya.
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Oh, no, what are you doing to me?
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Girls, slow down. What is the rush?
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Dinner is keeping us from our homework.
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The new English teacher
wants us to read this.
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Well, this looks like a comic book.
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Yes.
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Didn't we have a
teacher who taught us...
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yes.
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Tell me more about this
new English teacher.
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- Motorcycle.
- Leather jacket.
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Sounds familiar.
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Weren't you on the committee
to hire the new English teacher?
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Yes.
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Principal Yancy doesn't like her very much.
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She's a young idealist.
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You think she's gonna win him over.
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I'm just looking for a little action.
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Not all history repeats, Cory.
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Why, what happened to you guys?
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Well, we had a pretty cool teacher once.
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Feeny!
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No, we actually had one other teacher.
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Did that teacher get
along with the principal?
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Feeny was the principal.
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Feeny taught you every year
and was also your principal?
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Yes.
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That would never happen today.
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We'll see.
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Our principal won't let her teach us this.
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But she is anyway?
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It's a more complicated world now.
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Heroes and villains aren't
as easily recognized.
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Maybe it takes different teaching
methods to tell them apart.
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She thinks this will help, and I
like that she believes in something.
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But Cory, the world isn't so
different that the principal
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doesn't still make the final decision.
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Yeah, that's interesting, isn't it?
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Yancy has a lot of power.
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He's like...
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Who's a guy with a lot of power, girls?
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Superman.
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Whoa.
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- Then Harper's like...
- Batman!
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Whoa!
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What's the difference between the two?
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Well, one has superpowers and one doesn't.
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Well, how can that be a fair fight?
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I mean, that's like a
fight between you and me.
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I know.
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You know, I don't want Harper...
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- Batman.
- ...To lose.
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Well, maybe you should do your
homework and find out what happens next.
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(Giggles) Yeah, like
they're gonna run...
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this is gonna be real
trouble, isn't it, Cory?
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I hope so.
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Can good change?
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Good is good.
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Can evil change?
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It seems like just when we think
we've seen the worst that there can be,
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somebody comes up with something.
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Why do you suppose that is?
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Because it's evil that fascinates us.
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But doesn't good have to win in the end?
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Does it?
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So I'm passing by your classroom
on this, your second day,
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and I see no mockingbird.
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But I still see comic books.
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Yes, we're studying the
nature of good and evil.
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(Gasps) I don't care.
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- Class dismissed.
- Excuse me?
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Study hall, all of you!
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Except Farkle. You...
Go sit in a garbage can.
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Yay!
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Leave now.
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Go.
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- Riley.
- Yes.
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If I may explain my lesson plan.
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Oh, there's no need, miss
Burgess. You're fired.
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You are brand-new, kid.
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You think there are heroes
and villains? There aren't.
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There are only kids who come and go.
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You really think that
you've affected anybody?
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Uh...
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What's going on here?
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I've been fired.
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I want to thank you for believing in me.
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You're welcome.
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Oh, wait.
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That hasn't changed.
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Uh...
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How can you possibly fire
someone like her, Yancy?
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Go back to your class, Matthews.
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You're right, this isn't
history, this is English, but...
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You know what history has in
common with the great books?
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It turns out there are
heroes and villains.
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All through them.
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And the villains will always cause trouble.
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But there's always gonna
be heroes to fight back.
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You ruined my entire lesson.
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She was hired to teach
literature, but she's not.
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She rides a motorcycle and
she teaches comic books.
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How is that a teacher?
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That can be a great teacher.
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A passionate teacher who doesn't
believe that kids just come and go.
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And if you let her go, then...
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You have to be prepared
to let me go as well.
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Let you go?
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(Exhales) Well, I wasn't
prepared for that at all.
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Just give me a second...
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okay, I'm good. You're fired, too.
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How was everybody's day today?
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It was a good day and then
my friends treated me nicely
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and then my teacher measured me,
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and I'm growing, and
then Jenny Lewis loves me.
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Wait a minute, this already happened.
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Yeah, I'm out of stuff.
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He's right. Nothing new happened at all.
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Dad got fired today.
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(Chuckles nervously) Well, there's that.
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You know how you thought
there might be trouble
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between Yancy and the new teacher?
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The young idealist who
was gonna win him over?
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She didn't... so much.
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But you defended her?
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- I did.
- So Yancy fired you?
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So much.
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Yancy can't fire you.
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According to statue 3028, teacher
dismissals have to come from the state.
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Mom, do you know everything?
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Yeah.
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So Mr. Matthews is safe?
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Aw, Maya... you care?
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No, I just haven't spoken yet.
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I've met principal Yancy.
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He can be pretty stubborn.
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Yeah, he's gonna pursue this.
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What will we do next?
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Well, he has to take it to his boss.
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He has to take it to the
superintendent of schools.
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Doesn't that make you guys nervous?
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Um, they don't seem nervous.
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Today's lesson.
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Okay.
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So I've learned it's more difficult
to get rid of rabble rousers
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than I thought.
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Too bad for you, I've
got a great relationship
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with the superintendent of schools.
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(Chuckles)
263
00:11:49,042 --> 00:11:50,875
How's your relationship, Matthews?
264
00:11:58,250 --> 00:12:00,251
Okay, so why do I have to do anything?
265
00:12:02,421 --> 00:12:04,289
Mr. Turner and I go back a bit.
266
00:12:04,291 --> 00:12:07,459
So, I hear you want to dismiss
a couple of educators, Yancy?
267
00:12:07,461 --> 00:12:10,061
She's here one day, and
she's teaching comic books!
268
00:12:10,063 --> 00:12:12,931
Yeah, my first day I taught the X-Men.
269
00:12:12,933 --> 00:12:15,066
(Chuckles)
270
00:12:15,068 --> 00:12:16,301
That's funny.
271
00:12:18,504 --> 00:12:20,071
Oh, no!
272
00:12:21,907 --> 00:12:24,142
Now, why would I do that, I wonder?
273
00:12:24,144 --> 00:12:24,918
Matthews?
274
00:12:24,949 --> 00:12:28,012
Well, you took characters
we already loved to show us
275
00:12:28,014 --> 00:12:30,281
that good and evil wasn't
always so black and white.
276
00:12:30,283 --> 00:12:30,636
How come?
277
00:12:30,667 --> 00:12:33,351
So we'd understand it better
when you taught us real books.
278
00:12:33,353 --> 00:12:35,386
Cory, you were listening.
279
00:12:37,256 --> 00:12:38,077
How could I not?
280
00:12:38,108 --> 00:12:41,359
I mean, you wore a leather
jacket to work every day.
281
00:12:41,361 --> 00:12:44,963
You taught comic books and you
rode to work on a motorcycle.
282
00:12:49,268 --> 00:12:51,970
Right up until the day the
bike and I both got totaled.
283
00:12:51,972 --> 00:12:55,406
But things happen for a
reason. I married my nurse.
284
00:12:55,408 --> 00:12:56,941
Aw.
285
00:12:56,943 --> 00:12:58,443
You fell in love with her?
286
00:12:58,445 --> 00:13:00,111
Nah, in case it ever happens again.
287
00:13:00,113 --> 00:13:01,279
I...
288
00:13:03,582 --> 00:13:06,518
there's a pretty cool bike parked
next to your sensible sedan.
289
00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,053
What, did you buy that from Feeny?
290
00:13:11,190 --> 00:13:13,024
Well, it only had four Miles on it.
291
00:13:15,661 --> 00:13:17,962
The roll-up windows are a real workout.
292
00:13:20,132 --> 00:13:24,102
Hey, Burgess, you be careful
on that bike, okay?
293
00:13:24,104 --> 00:13:25,558
Thank you, sir.
294
00:13:25,589 --> 00:13:31,406
Jon, I just wanted her to
teach to kill a mockingbird.
295
00:13:32,611 --> 00:13:33,978
Your mom or your dad?
296
00:13:35,114 --> 00:13:36,047
My dad.
297
00:13:36,049 --> 00:13:37,348
What about him?
298
00:13:37,350 --> 00:13:39,484
He named her Harper Lee Burgess.
299
00:13:39,486 --> 00:13:42,086
I figure she'll get around to it.
300
00:13:42,088 --> 00:13:44,422
Isn't this the one about understanding
301
00:13:44,424 --> 00:13:47,492
that people turn out pretty
good if you give them a chance?
302
00:13:47,494 --> 00:13:49,427
Don't ask me, I read comic books.
303
00:13:51,697 --> 00:13:57,101
Look, Yancy, I'll observe Harper's
class, I'll make my decision then.
304
00:13:57,103 --> 00:13:59,470
I already made my decision
on Matthews long ago.
305
00:14:01,607 --> 00:14:03,107
I hired him, you know?
306
00:14:04,176 --> 00:14:06,044
I did not know that.
307
00:14:06,046 --> 00:14:08,646
I withdraw my objection.
308
00:14:08,648 --> 00:14:10,281
Too late for that.
309
00:14:10,283 --> 00:14:11,350
Too important.
310
00:14:11,381 --> 00:14:15,650
What a kid is taught is what a kid
becomes. That's the job we have.
311
00:14:17,256 --> 00:14:19,490
You ask me to see how it's
being done, and I will.
312
00:14:22,661 --> 00:14:24,295
Hmm.
313
00:14:25,497 --> 00:14:27,198
Interesting lesson.
314
00:14:28,167 --> 00:14:29,567
Let's see what comes of it.
315
00:14:36,709 --> 00:14:39,077
We have some special
guests in our classroom.
316
00:14:39,079 --> 00:14:40,745
Please behave as you normally would.
317
00:14:40,747 --> 00:14:42,046
- Hi.
- Hi.
318
00:14:42,048 --> 00:14:43,481
We love Harper.
319
00:14:43,483 --> 00:14:45,149
Do you understand, Uncle jon?
320
00:14:45,151 --> 00:14:47,185
Real Uncle, or do you just call him that?
321
00:14:47,187 --> 00:14:49,153
He comes over like a
million times a week...
322
00:14:49,155 --> 00:14:50,946
I withdraw my complaint.
323
00:14:50,977 --> 00:14:54,826
You got them calling
you by your first name?
324
00:14:54,828 --> 00:14:58,129
Sir, I wanted them to put together
the mockingbird thing
325
00:14:58,131 --> 00:15:01,266
to see how much I care
about what I'll be teaching.
326
00:15:01,268 --> 00:15:05,169
All right, does anybody understand
the significance of Harper's name
327
00:15:05,171 --> 00:15:08,172
in regards to the author
of to kill a mockingbird?
328
00:15:09,174 --> 00:15:11,276
Harper's first name is Charles twain!
329
00:15:13,445 --> 00:15:15,346
You're doing a bang-up
job with her, Matthews.
330
00:15:16,677 --> 00:15:19,117
Look, she was told by the
principal not to teach us something,
331
00:15:19,119 --> 00:15:21,119
but she did anyways.
That's gotta mean something.
332
00:15:21,121 --> 00:15:23,121
Psst, will you stop helping us?
333
00:15:24,256 --> 00:15:26,190
Yeah, it means something.
334
00:15:26,192 --> 00:15:28,393
Now, may I see what you've learned?
335
00:15:28,395 --> 00:15:31,396
Because that's what means everything.
336
00:15:31,398 --> 00:15:33,464
Farkle goes first,
Farkle always goes first!
337
00:15:35,401 --> 00:15:36,768
Stuart Minkus' kid?
338
00:15:36,770 --> 00:15:38,136
- Yeah.
- Super genius?
339
00:15:38,138 --> 00:15:39,470
- Outer space.
- Real human boy?
340
00:15:39,472 --> 00:15:40,605
We're not sure yet.
341
00:15:40,607 --> 00:15:42,106
Sit down.
342
00:15:43,142 --> 00:15:44,676
I'll make the presentation.
343
00:15:44,678 --> 00:15:46,244
You like this teacher?
344
00:15:46,246 --> 00:15:47,478
I like both of these teachers.
345
00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:48,813
Are you familiar with the material?
346
00:15:48,815 --> 00:15:50,682
Me? No, I never saw this thing before.
347
00:15:50,684 --> 00:15:52,283
I never saw this thing before in my life.
348
00:15:52,285 --> 00:15:54,786
Yeah, I read it. I read
it, actually, a lot.
349
00:15:56,622 --> 00:15:58,289
Thanks for telling the truth.
350
00:15:58,291 --> 00:16:01,326
Yeah, I can't help myself. (Sighs)
351
00:16:01,328 --> 00:16:04,562
Now, I prefer someone who is
unfamiliar with the material.
352
00:16:04,564 --> 00:16:09,334
Someone who is notoriously unteachable.
353
00:16:11,470 --> 00:16:12,904
How you doin'?
354
00:16:16,241 --> 00:16:17,575
Not you, Riley.
355
00:16:17,577 --> 00:16:18,910
I only looked at the pictures.
356
00:16:18,912 --> 00:16:20,211
I read the words.
357
00:16:20,213 --> 00:16:21,546
It's a duet.
358
00:16:22,748 --> 00:16:24,349
I hope you learned something, girls.
359
00:16:24,351 --> 00:16:26,317
I learn something all the time.
360
00:16:26,319 --> 00:16:27,880
I come here because my apartment leaks.
361
00:16:28,787 --> 00:16:29,921
Come here.
362
00:16:29,923 --> 00:16:31,322
Yes...?
363
00:16:33,192 --> 00:16:35,326
I know you just say this stuff.
364
00:16:35,328 --> 00:16:38,262
I know you're a lot smarter
than you want us to know.
365
00:16:38,264 --> 00:16:39,464
Shh.
366
00:16:40,699 --> 00:16:42,233
We got this.
367
00:16:42,235 --> 00:16:43,634
I hope so.
368
00:16:43,636 --> 00:16:45,303
Our future's in your hands.
369
00:16:51,643 --> 00:16:56,180
In Frank Miller's the dark night
returns the keyword is dark.
370
00:16:56,182 --> 00:17:00,418
He doesn't write heroes or
villains that you are used to.
371
00:17:01,487 --> 00:17:04,922
You have to really think about
what's right and what's wrong.
372
00:17:04,924 --> 00:17:07,291
The pictures make you work, too.
373
00:17:07,293 --> 00:17:10,361
You have to look up,
down, across, and sideways,
374
00:17:10,363 --> 00:17:14,265
but I believe he's trying to get us to
look at what our own world has become.
375
00:17:14,267 --> 00:17:17,268
Up, down, across, and sideways.
376
00:17:18,303 --> 00:17:22,629
Heroes that should be friends with a
common goal, fight each other instead.
377
00:17:22,660 --> 00:17:26,744
One hero was trying to inspire his
old friend to take a look at the world,
378
00:17:26,746 --> 00:17:28,379
and realized that it's changed.
379
00:17:28,381 --> 00:17:30,782
So, he needed to change, too.
380
00:17:31,850 --> 00:17:34,986
But he wouldn't, so he
fought against him.
381
00:17:34,988 --> 00:17:38,456
Which was hard to look at,
because the world is dark enough
382
00:17:38,458 --> 00:17:40,658
and heroes are supposed to bring light.
383
00:17:41,660 --> 00:17:45,396
Everyone in this room knows
that someone with real power
384
00:17:45,398 --> 00:17:48,900
doesn't need to hit a kid with a
ruler to get the kid to want to learn.
385
00:17:48,902 --> 00:17:51,769
Because this is a new world,
and we don't do that here.
386
00:17:53,405 --> 00:17:57,308
Frank Miller turned a comic
book into... what's the word?
387
00:17:57,310 --> 00:17:58,242
You know the word.
388
00:17:58,244 --> 00:17:59,610
Literature.
389
00:18:00,779 --> 00:18:06,484
And Harper here, is named after
someone who gave us a great story.
390
00:18:07,820 --> 00:18:13,324
Which her father taught her to appreciate,
and it means everything to her
391
00:18:13,326 --> 00:18:15,393
that her father taught her.
392
00:18:15,395 --> 00:18:17,595
She's taught me so much already.
393
00:18:18,630 --> 00:18:20,264
You did that in two days?
394
00:18:20,266 --> 00:18:20,813
(Laughs)
395
00:18:20,844 --> 00:18:23,000
They're smarter than they want us to know.
396
00:18:23,002 --> 00:18:24,702
She did that in two days!
397
00:18:24,704 --> 00:18:26,304
Shape up, Matthews.
398
00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:29,474
Yes, sir.
399
00:18:29,476 --> 00:18:33,010
Jon, comic books are against school policy.
400
00:18:33,012 --> 00:18:36,881
Yeah, and you can hit a kid
with a ruler in 19 states.
401
00:18:43,689 --> 00:18:46,724
Hey, Matthews, I know it was you
that chose Harper for these kids.
402
00:18:46,726 --> 00:18:51,362
Is that because maybe she,
uh... reminded you of someone?
403
00:18:52,364 --> 00:18:54,298
- No.
- Okay.
404
00:19:00,072 --> 00:19:01,439
Riles?
405
00:19:01,441 --> 00:19:02,640
Yeah?
406
00:19:02,642 --> 00:19:04,408
What do you want to be when you grow up?
407
00:19:05,544 --> 00:19:07,011
I don't know yet.
408
00:19:07,013 --> 00:19:08,479
Is that okay?
409
00:19:08,481 --> 00:19:09,614
Yeah.
410
00:19:15,420 --> 00:19:17,054
Am I supposed to ask you now?
411
00:19:17,056 --> 00:19:19,824
That would certainly keep this going, so...
412
00:19:21,527 --> 00:19:22,760
- Maya?
- Yes!
413
00:19:23,896 --> 00:19:26,430
Do you have any idea what you
want to be when you grow up?
414
00:19:26,432 --> 00:19:27,732
No.
415
00:19:28,867 --> 00:19:31,536
But being a teacher might
be cooler than I thought.
416
00:19:31,538 --> 00:19:33,337
You know what else is cool?
417
00:19:33,339 --> 00:19:37,534
Uncle Jon used to take care
of Shawn when he was younger.
418
00:19:37,565 --> 00:19:38,809
You don't say.
419
00:19:38,811 --> 00:19:39,805
I do say.
420
00:19:39,836 --> 00:19:43,811
And my dad said that they were
really good for each other.
421
00:19:48,620 --> 00:19:51,756
Okay, Riley, I finished this
Archie comic you gave me.
422
00:19:51,758 --> 00:19:56,427
I wanted to start him on
the road to good books.
423
00:19:56,429 --> 00:20:00,431
Well... this dark-haired
girl and this blonde girl
424
00:20:00,433 --> 00:20:02,700
both like the same boy and
they all stay best friends.
425
00:20:02,702 --> 00:20:04,135
Could that really happen?
426
00:20:04,137 --> 00:20:05,670
- No.
- Okay.
427
00:20:10,709 --> 00:20:11,976
Good morning.
428
00:20:11,978 --> 00:20:14,111
Before we begin today,
429
00:20:14,113 --> 00:20:18,983
a decision has been reached. Now, I know
you're all going to remain quiet and calm.
430
00:20:18,985 --> 00:20:20,651
Both: We love her!
431
00:20:24,856 --> 00:20:25,770
Thank you.
432
00:20:25,801 --> 00:20:29,427
We appreciate it when
students are fond of a teacher.
433
00:20:29,429 --> 00:20:33,464
I mean, it factors into a decision,
but it cannot be the first priority.
434
00:20:33,466 --> 00:20:34,765
Uh-oh.
435
00:20:34,767 --> 00:20:41,072
That has to be preparation that a
teacher puts into a lesson plan,
436
00:20:41,074 --> 00:20:42,940
and what the students take from it.
437
00:20:42,942 --> 00:20:44,542
Cory, what are you teaching today?
438
00:20:44,544 --> 00:20:46,844
I don't know. I'm probably
making something up.
439
00:20:49,448 --> 00:20:52,416
All right, now Ms. Burgess
went against school policy.
440
00:20:53,485 --> 00:20:55,553
The principal decided what he saw fit.
441
00:20:56,622 --> 00:20:59,156
Right and wrong can be
difficult to identify sometimes.
442
00:20:59,158 --> 00:21:01,092
That's what you just read in English class.
443
00:21:01,094 --> 00:21:02,627
But this is history.
444
00:21:02,629 --> 00:21:04,762
And what does history teach us. You?
445
00:21:04,764 --> 00:21:06,864
When it's a struggle
between right and wrong,
446
00:21:06,866 --> 00:21:09,166
that's when the real hero fights hardest.
447
00:21:10,569 --> 00:21:14,639
So... For the greater
good of this school,
448
00:21:14,641 --> 00:21:19,510
it has been decided
that someone had to go.
449
00:21:20,879 --> 00:21:23,948
So I would like to introduce
you to your new English teacher.
450
00:21:23,950 --> 00:21:24,982
No!
451
00:21:24,984 --> 00:21:27,018
Why is it worth learning anything
452
00:21:27,020 --> 00:21:29,058
if we can't change the
world for the better?
453
00:21:29,089 --> 00:21:32,590
How are we supposed to be heroes if
we can't do anything about anything?
454
00:21:32,592 --> 00:21:33,924
Hi!
455
00:21:33,926 --> 00:21:35,926
(All cheering)
456
00:21:38,163 --> 00:21:39,530
Wow!
457
00:21:39,532 --> 00:21:41,599
Sometimes you can beat superman.
458
00:21:41,601 --> 00:21:43,034
Very good, Maya.
459
00:21:43,036 --> 00:21:44,468
You get an a.
460
00:21:44,470 --> 00:21:47,004
This new teacher's out
to ruin my reputation.
461
00:21:53,512 --> 00:21:55,479
He was one of your teachers, mommy?
462
00:21:55,481 --> 00:21:58,215
Yeah, Mr. Turner helped
me learn everything I know.
463
00:21:58,217 --> 00:21:59,817
She knows everything.
464
00:21:59,819 --> 00:22:01,252
I know.
465
00:22:01,254 --> 00:22:03,120
Was my daddy a good student?
466
00:22:03,122 --> 00:22:04,655
He was a wonderful student.
467
00:22:04,657 --> 00:22:06,257
Why would you lie to my kid?
468
00:22:08,794 --> 00:22:10,194
He tried his best.
469
00:22:10,196 --> 00:22:11,629
Why would you lie to my kid?
470
00:22:11,631 --> 00:22:16,567
He was so bad, he became a teacher
so he could go back to school again.
471
00:22:19,604 --> 00:22:23,007
So... word has it you
took care of Shawn Hunter?
472
00:22:23,009 --> 00:22:24,608
Yeah, I did.
473
00:22:24,610 --> 00:22:26,977
His dad was a little off and on.
474
00:22:26,979 --> 00:22:28,512
No kid should have that.
475
00:22:28,514 --> 00:22:29,547
Yeah.
476
00:22:29,549 --> 00:22:31,615
Did you care about him, though?
477
00:22:31,617 --> 00:22:33,084
You weren't his real father.
478
00:22:33,086 --> 00:22:34,552
No, I wasn't.
479
00:22:34,554 --> 00:22:36,787
But was it possible for you to...
480
00:22:36,789 --> 00:22:38,522
yes, Maya.
481
00:22:38,524 --> 00:22:39,890
I loved him like a son.
482
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,094
I still do.
483
00:22:44,229 --> 00:22:45,830
That's good.
484
00:22:47,199 --> 00:22:48,232
Dad?
485
00:22:48,234 --> 00:22:49,266
Yeah?
486
00:22:49,268 --> 00:22:50,668
Thank you for being a good teacher.
487
00:22:50,670 --> 00:22:52,203
Yeah, thanks.
488
00:22:53,638 --> 00:22:56,198
Boy, there's nothing better than
hearing that from your students.
489
00:22:59,544 --> 00:23:01,011
Mr. Turner.
490
00:23:01,013 --> 00:23:02,980
Thank you for being a good teacher.
491
00:23:02,982 --> 00:23:04,882
Yeah, thanks.
492
00:23:07,586 --> 00:23:09,887
You gave me an a-minus once.
493
00:23:09,889 --> 00:23:11,088
Topanga.
494
00:23:12,124 --> 00:23:14,225
- Topanga.
- I want you to change it.
495
00:23:15,861 --> 00:23:17,094
Okay.