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Abbott Elementary Recap: Field Trip
We’re making some progress on the Janine and Gregory front, but it comes in an episode light on laughs.
The storyline is fairly clichéd — a petty playground competition brings out the childlike tendencies of the teachers — which isn’t necessarily a bad thing for Abbott since it’s a series that fully embraces its earnestness, except there weren’t enough stand-out jokes to balance it out. This year, Jacob facilitates a free field trip to Smith Playground, a historic park built at the turn of the 20th century as instructed in the will of a wealthy Philadelphian who, fun fact, invented a few typefaces (so random and so cool). All awkwardness aside, Abbott works as a well-oiled machine in the competition, successfully executing each childish playground challenge from the monkey bars to a tricycle race — though getting a head start from Ava shoving Crystal out of the way didn’t hurt.
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