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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Abbott Elementary And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The fantastic new ABC series Abbott Elementary is a sitcom set at a severely underfunded Philadelphia public school. Quinta Brunson is the creator and very funny star of the mockumentary-style comedy, which follows a cast of teachers who are dedicated, but burnt out as they make do with limited resources and a hilariously incompetent principal.

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The Fantastic New ABC Series Abid Elementary is a workplace sitcom set at a severely underfunded

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Philadelphia public school.

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In a very true to life way, the teachers are dedicated but burnt out, as they strive

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to make do with their limited resources and a hilariously incompetent principle.

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The show was created by the very funny Quinta Brunson, who stars as an optimistic second

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grade teacher, determined to improve the school's conditions for both her students and her

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colleagues.

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I'm Stephen Thompson.

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And I'm Aisha Harris.

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And today we're talking about Abid Elementary on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

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Here with me and Stephen is writer Kiana Fitzgerald.

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Welcome back Kiana.

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Thank you.

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Hey y'all.

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Hey.

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So, Abid Elementary is a Machu Mentry, so a film crew is following teachers at an underfunded

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public school in Philadelphia.

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The show's creator, Quinta Brunson, plays Janine Teaks.

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A second grade teacher with much of the positivity and determination of, say, a Leslie

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note.

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Now she and her colleague Jacob, played by Chris Perfetti, are two of only three teachers

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from their cohort to have made it past their second year.

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