The Professor and the Coach
Hayley tries to help Roger write a book about being a teaching professor.
Season: 18 Episode: 02
Total Episode Count: 346
Prod. no.: HAJN01
First Aired: April 3, 2023
Featuring: Roger, Hayley
Also Appearing: Stan, Francine, Steve, Klaus, Jeff, Greg Corbin, Rogu, Barry, Beth, Sharri, Shelly Maxwell, Parker, Juan 'Johnny Concussion' Consuelo, Dean Barkov, Teri, Lisa Jenkis, Ashley
Musical Numbers: Bazooka Sharks Rap
Director: Jansen Yee
Writers: Joe Chandler
Storyboarders: Frank Jen, Anthony Jensen
Roger's Disguise: Non-Standard Opening / Professor Longbottom from this episode.
Plot:
Hayley gets excited about going to class because her new professor is Roger. Roger turns out to be an inspiring teacher, with Hayley even getting work published in the school journal. However, she discovers he has an unpublished manuscript and pushes him to finish it. Sitting down in a coffee shop to write, Roger procrastinates because he worries about it being rejected. Just as he starts to write, they discover a pep rally to announce a new football coach, which is another one of Roger's personas. Hayley confronts the coach, believing that persona is a distraction to keep him from writing. After two weeks of no work, she almost convinces him to get back to his novel when they find out their coffee house has been turned into a bar. Inside, Klaus advises her that the coach gets involved in a scandal after a couple of seasons and steps away from football so she decides to rush the process by taking incriminating photos of his action in the bar.
She broadcasts these on the jumbotron during a football game but he refuses to quit. However, Roger's professor persona does decide to quit. Hayley's encouragement and a supply of drugs help him finish his novel, but a bad review sends him running in tears. She confronts his coach persona, who reveals that he wrote his own book and learns from Stan that he has also sworn off all other personas to concentrate on the coach. Flipping though the coach's book, she realizes that he's incorporated parts of the professor's work and hopes to bring out that part of him again. A page in the book directs her to travel to Old Faithful, and Roger's coach comes along for the ride. They find the professor, but it turns out to be a trap by the coach who knocks them out with ether. When they come to, they find themselves dangling over Old Faithful to be killed when the geyser erupts. The professor frees himself to confront the coach, leaving Hayley behind with Rogu serving in his place. Reading the professor's book, the coach decides to have a change of heart and saves Hayley and Rogu.
On his way to work, Stan sees that there's a football game at Groff Community College and decides to check it out, becoming a football booster in the process. However, as the team had won a game in three years, Stan decides he needs a new offensive line and tries to recruit Barry. But when the latter gets injured in a game, Stan recruits the player that injured him. Cut from the team and ignored by Stan, Barry seeks out his replacement and sends him to the hospital, Leaving Stan devastated until he sees a hospital nurse that is muscular.
Meanwhile, when the Bazooka Sharks announce that they are leaving Langley Falls to move to Ottawa, Jeff decides to write a rap song to save the team. He succeeds in impressing the owners and the Sharks stay in Langley Falls.
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