[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “A.P.
Bio” Season 1 up to, but not including, the finale.]There’s a scene in “A.P.
Bio,” NBC’s delightful freshman sitcom, that’s as pivotal to the series’ improbable success as it is easy to overlook entirely.
In Episode 11, “Eight Pigs and a Rat,” Jack (Glenn Howerton) is forced into doing the one thing he’s refused to do: teach biology.
With the principal and superintendent visiting his class and a student who wants him fired pressing Jack to perform, the former Harvard professor has to lead a pig dissection in front of the entire class.
The problem? Jack taught philosophy in the Ivy Leagues, not bio.At first, he brings up Heather (Allisyn Ashley Arm), who works at a butcher shop with her dad, as a student assistant to do the job for him.
But when Sarika (Aparna Brielle) tries to expose Jack by asking for an explanation in “standard scientific biological terms,” he hesitates.
He’s in trouble — or so it seems.
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