JANUARY 2014

It’s Good To Be “Bad” Behind The Scenes Of CBS’s Bad Teacher By Rebecca Phillips Epstein

When you come through the doors for way more than a boob job. When her Dudek (), a geeky, socially- of Stage 3, you enter a world that feels rich husband leaves her for a younger challenged science teacher, and some at once eerily familiar, and very far woman, Meredith is devastated—and sparks begin to fly between Meredith away: the halls of Richard Nixon Middle totally broke, thanks to an iron-clad and her old high school classmate Joel School. prenup. Kotsky (Ryan Hansen), the cute gym coach she swears she’d never consider. For many of us who work on CBS’s Meredith needs to get her old new mid-season comedy Bad Teacher, life back, and fast. In a moment of Each week, Meredith hatches a the sight of scuffed linoleum floors, inspiration, she devises a plan to snag different scheme to meet a rich guy, the sound of crummy metal lockers a rich, divorced dad, like the ones she make a quick buck, or flip the system clanging, and the sickly glow of our sees all lined up in shiny sports cars one to get what she wants. Unfortunately for skin under fluorescent classroom Friday when she picks up her friend her, she is not quite as shallow as she lighting can trigger flashbacks to our Brie’s (Kat Foster) 12-year-old step- pretends, and her unexpected affection own middle school years, in all their daughter Lily (Sara Rodier) from Nixon for her students often gets in the way awkward, painful glory. And over in Middle. It turns out that Nixon’s tough of her escape plan. Meredith may have Building 1, fourteen writers—a few of but fair Principal Carl (David Alan landed at Nixon with a thud, but this new whom have been teachers themselves— Grier) is going through a rough divorce start has given her a second chance—to swap hilarious, often humiliating war himself. Because he feels sympathetic evolve, to right some wrongs, and to stories that will all serve as fodder for to Meredith’s situation, he bonds with make the best of a bad situation. future episodes. her immediately, and she’s able to con him into hiring her on the spot as the Of course, at the end of the day, Of course, had we gone to Nixon, school’s new Social Studies teacher. Meredith Davis is in it to win it, and she and had Meredith Davis been our knows from experience that the only teacher, middle school would probably In spite of her lack of credentials— way to win is to look out for number one. have been a whole lot more fun. and the fact that her “lesson plans” And yet somehow, in spite of herself, she mostly consist of letting her students keeps on doing the right thing (even if Developed for television by watch movies while she naps—Meredith it is for the wrong reasons). She might showrunner and Executive Producer finds she has a knack for connecting be “bad,” but she makes it look so good. Hilary Winston (whose previous with these kids. But fitting in with the writing credits include Happy Endings, other adults at Nixon proves tough So keep an eye out for Bad Teacher, Community, and My Name is Earl), this for Meredith, whose straight talk coming to CBS in 2014! Bad Teacher is inspired by the hit 2011 and sexy outfits rub some of her new feature film of the same name by Lee colleagues the wrong way, especially the Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky. But tightly-wound history teacher Ginny n n n unlike the titular educator of the movie, Taylor-Clapp (Kristin Davis). Meredith our Meredith Davis (Ari Graynor) is in it does find an unlikely friend in Irene

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