| The Charity Show
Marilyn is preparing a student charity show for the
school. The subject is basically a satirical
view of the staff plus
a few songs including a performance of "If I
Were a Rich Man" by Lipschultz. Lauren and Marilyn
try to explain
to Harvey that all the cheering by the students each year is sarcastic and
mean, not true cheering. He can't and won't believe it. He
just thinks that Marilyn doesn't want him in the show because she's black
and he's Jewish. At the show Harvey sings his song and sees that
they are jeering him. He decides that next year he will sing a
different song because they don't understand the "Rich Man"
song. At the end of the show as Guber is accepting the check on
behalf of the charity,
Marilyn comes onto the stage singing a very sexy rendition of "These
Eyes". Marla joins in and Guber is totally embarrassed.
The Election
 Lauren sees a boy and a girl in a secluded stairwell
engaged in intimate contact. She realizes they are two of the
candidates running for student body president, Peter Nelson and Susan
Potter. She later meets with them
and they ask her to keep her discovery a secret. They don't feel that they did
anything wrong; everyone does that kind of thing. She is
surprised at their nonchalance about the incident. She agrees to say
nothing in order to save the election as long as the girl pays a visit to Mr.
Lick the counselor. Coach Riley, faculty advisor to the student government,
sets up an assembly so that candidates Peter Nelson, Susan Potter, and
Jerry Schlum can make speeches about how they would be the best choice to
serve the student body. Peter comes up to the podium
as the first speaker and announces to everyone that he is dropping out and defers
all his votes to Susan. Lauren finally realizes what is really going on and
hurries to inform Harper that Peter threw the election for a sexual
favor. Harper and Guber
question Peter about the incident. He admits to the scheme but says it was Susan's idea,
and that he just agreed to go along with it in order to spike Jerry
Schlum's guns. Harper suspends Peter
and Susan, and makes plans to transfer the girl. Her parents meet with Harper
and they won't believe him when he gives them his reasons. That's the last we see of
Miss Potter.
Soccer Repercussions
One of the soccer players, John LeBlonde, is applying
for the very prestigious Magna Club Award. Harper
won't endorse it because he refused to turn in his teammates for cheating,
despite not participating in the act himself. LeBlonde asks Lauren to plead his
case. She agrees that Harper is being too
rigid. He refuses to
change his mind even though he himself isn't sure he's doing the right
thing. LeBlonde's parents also plead with Harper to give John the award,
but he sticks to his decision. Lauren later meets John in a stairway
where he is seated, obviously depressed. As she sits and talks
with him John reveals that he's in love with her, and she doesn't know what
to say. She does, with some misgivings, let him put his head on her shoulder to comfort
him. Later in the day in one of Harvey's classes, a student makes sarcastic
remarks about John's intelligent answers. John leaps at the other
student and tackles him. During the skirmish John bites a chunk of the
boy's ear off and spits it at Harvey, hitting him in the forehead
and sticking there. The student is taken to the hospital and John is
suspended after visiting Mr. Lick. Later, Harper gets a call and heads to
the hospital where John is having his
stomach pumped after taking an overdose of pills. The
principal pages Lauren, who arrives as the doctor quietly breaks it to the
distraught parents that John has died. The parents blame
Harper for John's ordeal, and we can see that the principal is now
questioning his decision.
 Milton gets a
date?
Yes. In a strange sort of way, wimpy Milton
accepts a date with Louisa. They decide to go to the charity show
together as part of their date. What will become of them?
No Juan in class
 Harry,
after learning that Juan Figgis has quit school and is working in a fast food
joint, decides to pay his now-former student a visit to find out why he
dropped out. Juan
claims that someone has to support his family, and the only hours he can
work are during school. Harry poses as an INS agent and gets the
manager to change Juan's hours to the evening shift. He gets Juan to come back to class
by offering to let the young man teach a lesson on something that
interests him. Guber thinks the Juan-teaching idea
is crazy and wants to sit in on the class. Juan,
of course, chooses a very
inappropriate topic which prompts the Vice-Principal to walk out. Harry takes his lumps for that one but Juan
prepares much more professionally for the next class and it looks like
Harry has saved another student. Yeah Harry!
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