Mr. McNeese Connects With His Roots

**Mr. McNeese Connects With His Roots** is the eleventh episode of Season 4 of Dumb Teacher and the fiftieth episode of the series. It originally aired on October 7, 2008.

## Synopsis

When his online DNA test results show that he is 33% Irish, Mr. McNeese visits Ireland, where he meets his long lost Irish family, who surprisingly, are known as the most discriminatory family in the world, and his Irish brother, Nolan. Back in Greenhill, Dan joins a triad of Vlokists after McNeese forces his students to stay tied up in their chairs watching racist cartoons for 3 hours after he leaves for Ireland, but winds up discovering that the, "Vlokists", aren't what they seem.

## Plot

After waking up and checking the date on his phone, Mr. McNeese thinks it's a Saturday so he won't have to go to Greenhill Elementary and teach his students there. However, he checks it and realizes that it's actually a Thursday, so he blames the Jews for "changing the date". Thinking of a way how to avoid teaching his students, McNeese decides to take a day off. He gets on his computer and goes on an anti-Semitic porn site, where he sees an advertisement for a Genetic genealogy website. Curious about his heritage, McNeese loads the website and uploads a picture of himself, where he finds out that his results will come in three weeks. Three weeks later, in McNeese's classroom, McNeese announces to his students that they are going to be watching some cartoons for the period. Cartoons which, according to McNeese, "are depictions of how the world should've continued to be". McNeese then turns on his class projector, and the infamous Looney Tunes short, All This and Rabbit Stew (1941) plays on the projection screen, shocking every black kid in the classroom. Dan then scolds McNeese for showing them racist cartoons and tries to get off his desk to turn the cartoons off, only to suddenly be stuck back on his seat. McNeese then reveals that he superglued every student's seat to keep them from escaping their sight of the racist toons. McNeese then gets an email notification on his phone from OfSomethingOrigin.com, where his results reveal that he is 67% American and 33% Irish, and his Irish relatives own a pub in the small town of Ballyasal, Ireland. As a result, he leaves the students in the classroom stuck watching racist cartoons, and goes back home to pack up for his trip to Ireland to meet his lost relatives.

After arriving in Dublin and taking the bus to Ballyasal, McNeese discovers the pub and goes inside, where he meets the bartender, Nolan, who actually turns out to be his long lost Irish brother. Nolan welcomes him to the family and gives him a Guinness dry stout on the house, McNeese thanks him and realizes that they both like the same drink, and they soon bond upon realizing that they all dislike other races and ethnicities besides modern white people. McNeese tells Nolan that he came to Ireland to meet his lost Irish family, which Nolan agrees on and decides to take him to the McNeese mansion in his car, a 2007 Peugeot 1007, where McNeese tells Nolan that his girlfriend from high school drove a Peugeot, and mentions a dealership in Arizona that still sells Peugeots in the US. Meanwhile, back in Greenhill, A whole 24 hours have passed since McNeese had left his students in the classroom, and they are still watching racist cartoons, mainly the infamous Popeye cartoon, You're A Sap, Mr. Jap (1942), which intensively shocks Choki because of its stereotypical depiction of Japanese people. Suddenly, Drew Sanderson comes into the room, sees the cartoons, and turns off the projector. He also discovers that the students are superglued to their seats, and uses some ungluing chemicals and a file to get them out, the students then go home, with Dan having a shocked expression as he leaves the classroom. Meanwhile, at Chuck E. Cheese's, Dan, Logan, and Choki are about to watch the animatronic band play, but in Dan's perspective, he sees the Chuck E. Cheese animatronic wearing blackface and singing in a stereotypical black accent. Dan then screams and runs out of the restaurant, to the confusion of Logan and Choki. Meanwhile, at the arcade, Dan decides to get his mind off of things by playing Street Fighter. But when he selects Ryu, he has stereotypical Asian eyes and buck teeth, and speaks in a stereotypical Asian-American accent, prompting Dan to punch the screen and rush out of the arcade. Dan tries getting some El Kadsreian movies at a Blockbuster, but every film cover in the foreign films section feature nothing but the characters portrayed by white actors in blackface, yellowface, and "redface", which is used for stereotypical portrayals of native Americans. As a result, Dan runs back home in shock.

At home, Dan is sitting in his room wearing a Sentanese bandana like a blindfold in fear. His mother walks into his room to tell him that they're having pizza for dinner tonight, where she sees the bandana and tells Dan to take it off as it looks silly on him. Dan tells her that he can't and will wind up seeing racist images again. She doesn't believe him and still tells him to take the bandana off. Dan then tells her to use the Point-of-View gun he invented on him, which she does. Thanks to the gun, she sees Dan's current POV and is appalled by what he's currently seeing. Dan then tells her about what happened at school today, leaving her shocked by how McNeese did such a thing to him and his students. As a result, Cheryl decides to leave him alone and break into McNeese's house to plant a bomb in there. Back in Ireland, McNeese and Nolan arrive at the McNeese Manor, where after Nolan knocks on the door, which is opened by their Irish born-black servant, Akwete, he yells racist things at her and scolds her for not letting their Ghanian butler, Kwabena, open the door, both surprising McNeese and confusing him, as he thought Ireland was a predominantly white country. Nolan then introduces McNeese to his family, who, at first, discriminate against him for being American and call him various derogatory terms such as "yank", but eventually calm down as they realize that McNeese is related to them. McNeese then asks Nolan if he's ever been to America, where Nolan tells him that he hasn't, but explains that he had a brother who emigrated there to work, and also to join the Ku Klux Klan.

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## Trivia

* The music playing during the montage of McNeese and his brother Nolan doing things together is "Lemon" by U2.
* The name of the bookmaker McNeese and Nolan go to gamble is a spoof of Paddy Power, an Irish bookmaker known for its controversial advertisements.
* In the scene were McNeese meets Nolan at the pub, two pictures of Irish mixed martial artist, Conor McGregor (during his interview in 2008), and former Irish president, Mary McAleese, are seen on the wall.
* The scene where McNeese and his brother Nolan, bop their heads to "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel in Nolan's car became a meme in March of 2020, with the clip edited to be synced with "KICKSTART MY HEART" by Saint Pepsi.
* The scene where Nolan asks McNeese at the pub if he likes Guinness is a reference to a scene in the 2000 film Snatch, where Irish traveller Mickey O'Neill asks Tommy if he likes dogs.
* In the scene where Nolan introduces McNeese to his Peugeot 1007, McNeese tells him that there's a dealership in Arizona that still sells Peugeot cars, which is a nod to Jackson Motors, a car dealership in Noah's TV Show where Phil works.
* This episode received praise from Irish fans of Dumb Teacher, for the accuracy of Irish and Dublin accents/slang.

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