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AP Bio show on NBC

The show AP Bio is listed as an American Comedy

series which first premiered on 2/1/18. The AP Bio

is now on its second season and is available on NBC,

Hulu, Youtube $1.99, and Amazon prime video $1.99.

Episode S02E03 is releasing tonight at 8:30pm as a

matter of fact. The main character in the show is Jack

Griffin. Background information about him would include

that he used to work at Harvard as a Philosophy professor,

although he was let go of that position. Now he works at a

high school as an AP bio teacher. In season one the

development of the main character did not change,

he was the same revenge loving character. Also Jack

Griffin refuses to teach his students AP bio at all costs.

Most days he is late to work and sometimes he's even

drank alcohol in front of the students while he celebrates

his nemesis failures. Every morning when he walks into

class he tells the kids to ¨Shut up already¨.

The Principal at this high school is easily manipulated by

Jack Griffin. When the Principal finds out that he is

frequently late and unprofessional, Jack easily convinces

him otherwise. A very unrealistic setting  is portrayed in

this show since no right minded principal would ever

believe his nonsense. In fact on the first day at his new job

Jack Griffin drives into the statue outside of the high school

and gets out of his car and walks into class. Another example

of how unprofessional he has been was when he throws the

kids textbooks out the window. In reality this would have

serious consequences fortunately it's just a funny TV show.

(Main character and the Principal hugging)

There is a lot of Incongruity theory and Superiority theory

in this show. An example of Incongruity theory would be

Jack Griffin makes the students work his other jobs on the

side so he would finish writing his book. This is incongruity

theory because to the audience it's unexpected to have a

teacher expect this from high school kids. An example of

Superiority theory in the show is when Jack Griffin laughs

at his rivals downfall since he feels superior that he did not

make the same mistake.

Jack Griffin is a very fictional character to regular teachers,

since regular teachers don't tell their students to party.

Even worse Jack throws a party at his students house when

the students parents are away to impress his old girlfriend.

While he is throwing a party the students come to the house

and tell him they want to party too. Since he doesn't have much

time to think and the adults are almost there he tells them to

go in the basement. It gets even better at the party the principal

makes a guest appearance and then half way throw the party the

kids run upstairs. Jack's old girlfriend realizes that the kids were

partying in the basement and that Jack lied about whose house it

is, so she tells everyone to leave. In the end there are no consequences

and the principal doesn't do anything. This type of humor is incongruity

theory since it is unexpected that the kids show up to party and that he

allows it. It's also the opposite of the outcome that would have happened

in real life, since there are no consequences.

My rating for the show is GOOD, OK

Id recommend this show to anyone that likes Incongruity theory.

The show has a rating of 7/10 on IMBD and a 65% on Rotten

Tomatoes. Id rate the show good ok since I thinks some parts

of the show are funny, though it could have been executed better.

The jokes get a little repetitive and the fact that the main character

is fixated on destroying his enemy make the show childish. I think

the show could improve by having the main character develop more

and not always stay the same.