School

**School** is the third episode of Season 4 of Dumb Teacher and the fourty-second episode of the series. It originally aired on January 5, 2008. It is the first Dumb Teacher Season 4 episode to air in 2008.

## Synopsis

When School, a first person shooter similar to Doom comes out for the RealStation 3 and other consoles, everyone loves it, but Dan's father, Johnny finds out that the game's protagonist looks like him and makes him look evil. As a result, he abandons his carefree mood and develops a furious, McNeese-esque ego, and he threatens to sue the company for stealing his face, only to learn a lesson in the end, in a good way.

## Plot

Dan just arrived home with a bag of Sminster and a copy of School for his RealStation 3 console, which just came out last week. He shows his copy to his mom, who advises him not to imitate any of the violence shown in the game, or do drugs (a reference to the famous "Winners don't use drugs" campaign of the 90s). He then gets a call from Logan, who tells him that a review of the game aired on Toonami last Saturday, and he is going to give him a VHS recording of the review, which excites him. Dan goes to his room to start playing his game. 3 hours later, he finishes the game in one day, and writes a review on Metacritic, giving it a 100 out of 100. Downstairs, Cheryl tells Johnny that she will be going to her sister's wedding in California and asks Johnny to take care of Dan until she comes back home in the evening. Johnny then says goodbye to her as she leaves. Dan then rides around town on his hoverboard, where almost everyone is talking about School and its success.

Later, Johnny, who is driving home from work, receives a call from Cheryl, who tells her that her flight has been delayed because of the rainfall in California and asks him to take care of Dan, to which he decides to do. At home, Dan receives the VHS recording of the review from Logan and decides to watch it with Johnny, where in the review, TOM 3 and SARA talk about its plot and gameplay and give it a 9.5/10 rating. However, Johnny soon becomes shocked when he finds out the game's protagonist looks exactly like him, only with sunglasses. He punishes Dan by taking his copy of School away, who gets angry at him and starts swearing about the unnecessary grounding, causing Johnny to immediately react by pushing him against the wall and warning him. His son then leaves the room sulking. In his room, he is talking to Cheryl on his phone about Johnny's new psychopathic behavior, but ends up getting caught by Johnny, who starts beating him up and destroying everything in his room.

The next morning, Dan, who is now covered in bruises and cuts from the beating, tells Cheryl about how his father beat him last night. However, Johnny, who is now extremely angry, starts inflicting more pain on Dan and rapes a nude Cheryl off-screen, traumatizing Dan in the process. At the park, Logan tries to offer Dan a free ice cream container and popsicle, but Dan doesn't respond, so Logan walks away. McNeese walks by and notices that he's traumatized, and as a result, he drags him to the bathroom and beats him up, which is witnessed by Tom, who was in the same bathroom as him. Meanwhile, Johnny is seen at the mall with a ski mask and several weapons, where he is seen robbing the Spencer's there. After Tom manages to get Dan out of his traumatization through a book at the library, Dan heads back home. After passing by the first lamppost next to Tom's house, though, Dan gets a call from Cheryl, who is being tortured by Johnny even more. As a result, he rushes back home, where on the way, he sees a GHTV report about Johnny's robbery. When he enters the house, he hears muffled noises coming from his room. When Dan opens the door, he finds that his room is now a sex dungeon, his mom is tied up to his bed and gagged, and Johnny is right behind him, and he rushes over to him, ready to beat him up. Johnny starts by gagging Dan with a ball gag, and then brutally beating him up. Afterwards, Johnny starts performing fellatio on him, frightening him (which is ironic because male characters on the show don't have visible private parts). Cheryl manages to break free from the ropes and beats up Johnny, but he overwhelms her by whipping her and tranquilizing her with a dart, knocking her out. Johnny then tongue kisses Dan while his mouth is full of water and while Dan has a tranquilizer pill in his mouth, frightening him even more and also knocking him out.

Johnny then puts the two in Cheryl’s car’s trunk and manages to drive all the way to Wakesboro, Cabotia, in order to imprison Dan and Cheryl. He stops at a Mary Jules Inn, and breaks into an empty room, where he ties up his family and tortures them even more before leaving and locking the door as they are forced to watch a marathon of Curlstone Lake, which is a show both of them hate. Dan and Cheryl try to find a way out. Johnny then drives back to the United States and stops at Tough Entertainment's headquarters in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, California. He angrily enters the building, where he meets School's creator and the current CEO of Tough Entertainment, Harvey Allen in the conference hall. Johnny then threatens to sue and kill him before lighting a firey swatsika on the wall with his lighter, causing the fire to rapidly spread and engulf the room in flames. As the building burns down, Johnny captures Harvey and drives to Boston, Massachusetts to visit the World News Network headquarters, where he tortures a news team to get them to broadcast his lawsuit. They then go to the Greenhill Courthouse, where Johnny attempts to sue Harvey for stealing his face. Harvey tries to explain to him that he wasn't trying to steal his face, but Johnny still doesn’t care and begins violently beating everyone up in the courtroom as well as ejaculating semen on the jury. Just as he is about to stab Harvey, he is interrupted by Jim Carrey, who is sitting amongst the jury.

Carrey explains to Johnny that almost everyone in the world is alike. Jim then explains that one time, he met a kid whose name was the same as his, and was infuriated and beat the kid's own family up. Afterwards, he threatened to sue the family for stealing his name for their son, only for the family to explain that they never meant to steal his name, and the Jim in his name was actually short for Jimmy. Jim concludes his speech by saying that nobody should sue someone for stealing things they believe are rightfully theirs, when they never meant to steal it at all. Johnny finally realizes what Jim means and regrets his own actions that he had inflicted on his own family and the people he’s tortured. As a result, the judge finds Harvey not guilty and is let go. Johnny, before he leaves, tells Harvey that he has permission to make a downloadable DLC on the RealStation Network inspired by the attempted lawsuit, which Harvey agrees on after he scolds Johnny for the pain he inflicted on him. Johnny ignores his scolding, having gone back to his old self, then leaves to free and apologize to Dan and Cheryl from their prison in Cabotia, now having learned his lesson.

Nine months later, Dan and Logan are in Dan's room talking about what happened after the lawsuit while watching Toonami, where a game review comes on featuring TOM 3 and SARA talking about the new DLC for School called the, "Johnny E. DLC", which basically adds some skins featuring the characters related to the lawsuit, including Johnny's face as a skin. An angry version of Johnny is also added as a villain in the game, and a new feature is added called, "Rage Mode", which is based around Johnny's rage before the lawsuit. The DLC is then given an 8/10 rating, with TOM saying, "Don't steal *my* face, sucker".

## Trivia

* The actual Toonami opening sequence used from 2004-2007 is used when Dan turns on the VHS player.
* There is a running gag throughout the episode where Johnny mistakes the Toonami name for something else while still having "Toon-" in its name, and there are also parts where Dan corrects him until him and his mother get trapped in Cabotia.
* The scene at the end featuring Dan and Logan watching Toonami nine months after the lawsuit involving Johnny and Tough Entertainment has now been considered unethical, as Toonami had shut down on September 20, 2008, and the shutdown was announced on the same night.
* Cheryl references the Milli Vanilli song, "Blame It on the Rain" when she calls Johnny about her flight being delayed due to the rainfall in California.
	+ Jina Coleman tells Tom that their record of the 1976 Saturn soundtrack is next to their Milli Vanilli record.
* TOM 3 had stopped being Toonami's main host on March 17, 2007, when he was replaced by TOM 4.
	+ In fact, in the next episode, Thief, TOM 4 makes a couple of appearances, only he is voiced by series creator Noah Long.
* Due to SARA's second incarnation's original voice actor, Samantha Robson then being unknown by Williams Street, in the episode, she was voiced by Sally Timms, who voiced SARA's first incarnation from 2000-2003.
	+ Technically, SARA v2's unknown voice actor makes a special appearance in the episode due to the Toonami intro from 2004-2007 being used when Dan pops Logan's Toonami VHS into the player.
* In the Russian airing of this episode, the scene where Dan says "I hope you fucking die" to his father in Russian was cut out for an unknown reason.
* The song playing during Johnny's arrival in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, California is "California Love" by 2Pac and Dr. Dre.
* The music that plays during TOM's review on School and its DLC pack at the end of the episode is the Dee Def Red Zone remix of Alexander O'Neal's, "What Is This Thing Called Love?" slowed down by x0.1.
	+ The song was later sampled in the 2018 Lil Pump song, "I Love It". In the song, the sample is slowed down the exact same way as it was in the episode, and according to an Interview, after Lil Pump watched a rerun of the episode on a vacation to Cabotia, he was inspired to sample the song used in the episode.
* This episode is considered one of the most disturbing episodes of Dumb Teacher due to the incestuous activity seen in the episode and the way Johnny beats up people.
	+ In fact, before this episode aired on Fox, a disclaimer about the episode's content was shown.
	+ This was the only Dumb Teacher episode to use a disclaimer at the beginning.