Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a new feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past! On Fridays, I will be reviewing T. and T., a Canadian show which ran in syndication from 1987 to 1990.  The show can be found on Tubi!

This week, T.S. Turner has a lesson to teach.

Episode 2.16 “Substitute Teacher”

(Dir by Patrick Loubert, originally aired on February 27th, 1989)

When the regular teacher of a middle school social studies class is taken ill, T.S. Turner is sent to fill in.  Uhmm, okay….

There some dialogue as the start of the episode that suggests that Amy is responsible for Turner getting the job but I’m not sure why Amy would have that power.  As well, Amy drops Turner off at the school.  That may not seem like much but there’s a surprise twist at the end of this episode that makes you question a lot of what you previously assumed about Amy.

As for the show itself, it’s a clip show.  Turner’s class wants to hear about his exploits so Turner says something like, “You got to be able to depend on your friends,” and then we get a brief montage of Turner talking to various friends (the majority of whom vanished after one episode).  Turner says that violence should only be a last resort.  Turner also raps about halfway through his lesson and it goes on for a while.

While this is going on, another teacher (Steve Brinder) keeps showing up and claiming that he’s supposed to be the substitute.  Turner finally gets tired of him, especially after the teacher takes a swing at him.  But then Decker shows up and announces that — whoops! — Turner’s at the wrong school.

Did Amy take him to the wrong school?  What the Hell!?

Episodes like this make my job easy because there’s nothing to say about them.  It’s a clip show and the final message appears to be that Amy is really incompetent.  Duncan Waugh of Degrassi Junior High fame plays one of Turner’s students.  One thing about binging Degrassi, T and T, Friday the 13th, and Check It Out! all at the same time is that you see a lot of familiar faces popping up from show-to-show.

Anyway, this was a clip show.  Look at all the clips.  Hopefully, next week will not be a clip show.