Gerald "Jail" Harris

**Gerald "Jail" Harris** is the fifth episode of Season 5 of Dumb Teacher and the fifty-ninth episode of the series. It originally aired on April 6, 2009.

## Synopsis

When Gerald gets sent to prison after James blames him for a cruel prank on him that went horribly wrong at his 5th birthday party, he sets out for revenge seven years later.

## Plot

James's mother is driving her son to Gerald Harris' house for his 5th birthday party, but James doesn't want to go as he isn't friends with him. Riley promises him that if he's nice to Gerald at the party, they can go to Little Caesars afterwards, which James agrees with, as he thinks it's fair. They eventually arrive at Gerald's house, where James is dropped off by his mother. Gerald runs up to him excitedly, but drops a melting piece of chocolate on his foot by mistake. He asks James to pick it up, but when he does, he pranks him by shouting out "Ew! James likes poop", making all of his friends and parents laugh at him, embarrassing James. Later, Gerald, pretending to be blind, asks James to hit the piñata for him. He tries to hit it, which results in him hitting himself with the bat and knocking himself out, making everyone laugh at him again.

James, having had enough of the pranks Gerald has been giving him, decides to prank him back by hiding an M-80 firecracker in one of the cupcakes, and since the cupcakes are chocolate flavored, and Gerald like cupcakes, he knows that when he bites into the cupcake with the M-80, and when the firecracker hits his stomach before it is fully digested, Gerald's stomach would explode, landing him in the hospital, and revenge will finally be his. However, when the cupcakes are being passed out, Gerald's mother somehow manages to get the one with the M-80 inside and begins to eat it, but unfortunately, James fails to stop her from eating it, and after one bite into the cupcake, her head explodes, scaring everyone at the party. When James is suspected to be the one, James denies their beliefs and tells them that it was Gerald who did it. Gerald tries convincing them that it wasn't him, but fails and is arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison.

Over Gerald's time in prison, he becomes consumed with idea of killing James in revenge for blaming him, and by the time of his release, he begins to plot his revenge. At Emma Miller's house, Emma is now 16-years old and is hosting a party. Dan, Tom, and James are seen at the party, where Dan has become a famous actor and was able to land a role in an upcoming Bionicle reboot movie, where he is playing Toa Tahu in place of Hideki Hamasaki, who supposedly died from accidentally falling off the Wonder Tower two years ago. Tom has become a successful VidSpace & YouTube gamer and has 950k subscribers and followers, while James has become a successful online auctioner. Logan meets up with them after making out with Ashley, where it is revealed that he broke up his friendship with Dan after admitting that he couldn't stand his Elkadsreophilia and was almost arrested for life in El Kadsre after burning the country flag in front of the whole population in order to prove his hate to Dan. Emma then walks up to James and informs him that a 12-year old kid outside of the party wants to talk to him. James then walks outside, where the kid is revealed to be Gerald. He explains to James that during his time in prison he learned how to bake a cake in rehab. He brings James to a table, and they both take seats. James eats his slice of cake, and thinks it's delicious, only to get scared when he finds a finger in the slice. Gerald then tells him that he ate his own parents, causing James to spit the cake out and start crying. The episode seemingly ends with Dan and Logan agreeing not to make Gerald angry again. However, as the credits begin to roll, an angry fan rips the screen apart, and complains about how the ending was too cliché and how it ripped off the ending to the South Park episode, Scott Tenorman Must Die. As a result, Noah Long (voiced by himself) off-screen, tells the fan to calm down and rewinds the ending back to the party scene, at exactly the part where Dan, Logan, James and Tom have finished their conversation.

Emma announces that it is time for beer bongs using Sherbetia-imported beer. Dan goes first and gives her a gallon of caffeine-free Panchi, then begins to chug up the beer being poured in simultaneously with the Panchi gallon, getting drunk after finishing the booze. He then insults Logan for his flag desecration in El Kadsre and pukes on his face, then has drunk sex with Ashley, thinking that she's Oprah Winfrey. Outside, Gerald, having stolen a scooter from a store, parks next to Emma's electrical box, and then cuts the power, shocking everyone at the party. He then puts out a CD boom box and starts blaring Cotton Eye Joe on the speakers, confusing everyone. He then breaks in through the window and starts killing several guests at the party. Dan, Logan, Tom and James manage to flee in Dan's car, and drive out of the city. In the car, an intoxicated Dan talks about how Logan admitted his hate for El Kadsre and why he had to burn the flag down. As the four stop at a Fillitup in Bennitah, a city near Greenhill to pick up some slushies, their car winds up being car-jacked. Logan then files a police report for the stolen car, and the two walk around the city, stopping at a TV store, where an ad for a reopened Coon Chicken Inn, now called the Coop Chicken Inn to be more race-friendly with the manager, Drew Sanderson Jr., in it. The four discover that the place also has a motel next to the restaurant now, and decide to spend the night and have dinner there.

After getting a room and putting a passed out Dan on the bed, the three decide to order some dinner at the restaurant, where they encounter their old elementary school teacher, Mr. McNeese, who had a sex change operation and goes by Felicia McNeese now, and has become a crack addict and a hooker who is paid in crack cocaine. When their food gets here, McNeese tries seducing Logan, but scares him away by burning a small Ireland flag (McNeese is part-Irish, so he is offended by it), James and Tom then shun him for his desecration, but are still calm as they are not in Ireland. The food then arrives, and a camera crew asks Logan what he thinks of the Coop Chicken Inn's food, and responds with a simple, "It's good, reminds me of KFC." Gerald, who is walking around Greenhill looking for James and his friends, stops in front of a TV store where he sees the ad with Logan, and manages to find his location. The three finish their meal and then head back to their hotel room, where afterwards, Gerald arrives with a batch of weapons, ready to shoot down the restaurant. The next morning, Dan wakes up to Logan peeing on a VHS for Quest for the Masks while recording it with his camera. Dan slaps him and decides to go to the restaurant to eat breakfast with his friends, where they discover that the restaurant was shot up by Gerald, killing several people, including McNeese. Around the same time, the police have found Dan's car, and it is discovered that a man with dementia accidentally took it and the keys were left in the car with the door unlocked.

Driving to Detroit, they visit the mall and decide to shop for items they need. In an elevator, James receives a phone call from Gerald, who tells him that he knows what he did to him, and tells him to put his phone on speaker, which he does. It is then revealed that Gerald has cut off the elevator wires and the elevator begins falling. The guys, excluding Dan begin to panic while Dan discovers by drilling a hole, that there is an open elevator door and tells the others to jump. The four manage to jump to the door successfully before the elevator explodes when it lands on the ground. The four are then relieved, only for the speakers to be hacked by Gerald who tells them that he's coming for them. He then plays Cotton Eye Joe as he arrives with many weapons. A chase occurs and the four somehow manage to reach the exit, only to be tranquilized by Gerald. The four then awaken tied up in an abandoned warehouse where Gerald is. Gerald explains that ever since James framed him for his crime on his fifth birthday, during his time in jail, he learned all about crimes and weapons from several inmates in juvenile hall, and Gerald has been waiting a long time to kill him in revenge. Gerald starts his killing by starting off with a, "murderer's appetizer", where he ties Dan and Logan onto a woodcutter. Logan, before getting decapitated by the buzzsaw, tells Dan that Michael Vlokozu wasn't a scientologist, but a, "Heaven's Gatist". Dan manages to escape from the buzzsaw and goes off to battle Gerald, but not before he throws Logan's head at the still-running buzzsaw, cutting it in half. Dan then goes on to battle Gerald, but winds up being shot in the head immediately. Tom then has his throat slit and dies. With only James left to kill, Gerald grabs a chainsaw and then slowly brings it towards his face. As the chainsaw gets closer, James hears Tom's decapitated head, slowly saying his name.

As the voice segues into James' mother's voice, the entire sequence turns out to be a dream, and James wakes up late for school. On the bus, James tells his friends about his dream, and decides that they should probably be more nice to Gerald from now on. On James' way to the party, rather than complain about going to Gerald’s house, he instead appreciates the idea of Gerald being his friend. When James arrives and Gerald does the first prank from the beginning of the episode, James, rather than feel embarrassed, laughs at the joke, and tells Gerald that he’s a funny kid.

## Trivia

* The episode's opening shares similarities with the Season 4 episode, Thief, where Dan frames Logan for stealing items from around the world.
* The original name for this episode was "James Jones Must Die", a reference to the Season 5 South Park episode, Scott Tenorman Must Die. Long decided to change the name since he thought it was unoriginal, which led to him creating the scene where Gerald tricks James into eating a slice of cake with his own parents' flesh in it, which later turned out to be a fake ending.
* At the birthday party, after James tells God that he wants to leave, he sighs and says "I guess Friedrich was right" and references Friedrich Nietzsche's famous "God is dead" quote.
* In the scene where Gerald pretends to be blind so James can hit the pinata at his party, James says to himself that Gerald acts like Etta James, referencing her popular song, "I'd Rather Go Blind".