Boston Public

Drama series created by David E Kelley and airing on FOX, Boston Public basically told the story of the Teen Drama from the point of view of the teachers. Took place in Winslow High, a public high school in Boston, hence the name. Basically Degrassi, except the teachers are the troubled ones. The show lasted from October, 2000 to January, 2004. A total of 81 episodes in four seasons.


 * Abusive Parents: Meredith Peters (AKA The Hook Lady).
 * Adults Are Useless: True, but it's not as egregious as other shows with teen/adult casts.
 * They're useless, but they do generally make the attempts to help. They're just not always effective ones.
 * Bad Boss: Superintendant Marsha "The Dragon Lady" Shinn in the first season.
 * Badass Teacher: Harry Senate, Danny Hanson.
 * Bald Black Leader Guy: Principal Steven Harper.
 * Benevolent Boss: Steven. Most of the time.
 * Birthday Suit Surprise Party
 * Brother Chuck: Lauren, Louisa, Brooke, Carmen Torres, Charlie Bixby.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer
 * Butt Monkey: Guber.
 * Call Back: Buttle -- "Oh my head's up a horses ass. I feel like...bending over, and pooping in my mouth."
 * Celebrity Star: See High School Dance.
 * Code Silver
 * Crossover: With The Practice, and Boston Legal.
 * Dawson Casting
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Did Not Do the Research
 * Dramedy
 * Emo Teen
 * Friday Night Death Slot: Season 4.
 * Flanderization
 * Former Teen Rebel: Steven, Danny Hanson.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners
 * Hidden Depths
 * High School Dance: Whitney Houston performed at the prom in the third season finale.
 * Hollywood Atheist: Danny Hanson.
 * Hot for Student
 * Hot Teacher
 * Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each episode is titled "Chapter One," "Chapter Two," etc.
 * Informed Judaism: Guber, Harvey.
 * Inner-City School
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Guber, Danny, Charlie Bixby.
 * Keep Circulating the Tapes: No plans to make the show available on DVD.
 * Lesbian Jock
 * Loads and Loads of Characters
 * Looking for Love In All The Wrong Places: For the first few seasons, Guber can't catch a break with the ladies. First, he dates a woman, then hooks up with Meredith Peters, a psychopathic Abusive Parent with a hook for a hand. Not to mention hopelessly pining for Lauren and later Marilyn. And what's amazing is that, being Jewish by his own admission, Scott always falls for non-Jewish women. And in Season Four, he
 * Luke, You Are My Father: Harvey finds out in Season Two that he.
 * McCloud Speech: Harry Senate was often on the receiving end of these.
 * Mean Boss: Guber.
 * Mood Whiplash
 * N-Word Privileges: Harvey once used the term "African-American Black-Colored Negroes."
 * Also, Danny had his class read and discuss a controversial book about the N-Word.
 * Naive Newcomer: Kimberly Woods in the third season.
 * Napoleon Delusion
 * No Medication for Me
 * Obstructive Bureaucrat: Superintendent Shinn in Season 1, Dave Fields in Season 3.
 * Only Sane Man: Steven and Guber.
 * Parents As People
 * Pet the Dog: Guber.
 * The Place
 * Promotion to Opening Titles: Meredith 'The Hook Lady' Peters, Brooke Harper.
 * Psychologist Teacher
 * Public Exposure
 * Put On a Bus: Milton Buttle, Kevin Riley, Lauren, Louisa, Harry, Kimberly Woods, Brooke.
 * Reasonable Authority Figure: Steven.
 * Ripped from the Headlines: Every school-related controversy of the late 90's/early 2000's was featured on the show. Threat of a school shooting? Check. Transgendered prom queen? Check. Affirmative action-related race riot? Check...
 * Rousing Speech
 * Sassy Black Woman: Loretta Devine does sass like nobody's business.
 * Don't forget the bus driver, Mrs. Parks, who frequently stopped by and demanded that the staff "SMELL THAT SHOE!" and also never let them forget that she ONLY makes $19,000 a year!
 * Satellite Character
 * Save Our Students
 * School Play
 * Screwed By the Network: When it was moved to Fridays in the fourth season.
 * Soapbox Sadie
 * Stalker With a Crush: Lauren dates one of these at first before realizing what a psycho he is. And get this? He used to be a student of hers.
 * Kimberly Woods is victimized by one of these in the third season.
 * The Starscream: Guber.
 * Stern Teacher: Guber often gets called out for being this. As does Lauren in the second season.
 * Team Dad: Steven.
 * Teen Genius: Riley in the third season.
 * Teen Pregnancy
 * Tonight Someone Dies: Second-string characters would get introduced for the express purpose of dying later on in the series, sometimes as soon as the same episodes they've been introduced.
 * Two-Teacher School
 * Wacky Homeroom: The Dungeon. The very reason why Marla walks out on the class, though not before writing "Gone to kill myself. Hope you're happy" on the blackboard.
 * Walk and Talk
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Harry Senate. Dear God, Harry Senate.
 * Wide Eyed Idealist: Kimberly Woods in the third season.