An Idea For an "I'm With Her" Episode

[Steve M.]

Before I begin, I'd like to explain something. I think "I'm With Her" might benefit from a fifth character, and I came up with this idea for one - Patrick's high school principal, a Major Winchester type who thinks Stevie is an idiot and somehow starts dating Cheri because he's attracted to her caustic manner. For the rest of this posting, I'll call him "Roger."

Alex goes away on a one-month film shoot. Stevie encourages Patrick to go out and party to get over Alex's absence - "While the cat's away, the mouse will play," he says. Roger, thinking Stevie's an idiot, makes him come up with a better idea. Stevie suggests to Patrick that he join in on his weekly poker game with some other high school teachers. Roger, a poker player himself, seconds the idea and they get Patrick to join them - except that Patrick can't play poker, and he gets interrupted by both Roger and Stevie when he tries to tell them so.

Roger meets Cheri, who's house-sitting for Alex, and tells her about the poker game, and she quickly reveals that she plays poker too. Roger lets her in on the game, and Cheri offers to host it in Alex's house, knowing that Alex would disapprove.

"While the cat's away, the mouse will play," she says.

"I couldn't have said it better myself," says Roger, knowing Stevie said the same thing.

Meanwhile, Cheri has to autograph 150 copies of Alex's picture while her sister is gone. Unfortunately, Alex's dogs get out and chew up all the copies.

Everyone meets at Alex's house to play poker; there, Patrick finally tells his friends he can't play. Cheri, Stevie, and the other teachers gingerly explain the rules to him. "So it's just like Yahtzee!" he replies.

"Yes," answers Roger, "except that if you have five of a kind, you're literally dealing with a deck and a half."

The others think they can make a bundle off Patrick's inexperience, but he soon wins every hand, being a quick study. He cleans up with a royal flush. He's invited back the following week; the others want to win back their money.

At the end of the episode, one month later, Alex returns deliriously happy to see Patrick but angry at Cheri for what happened to the pictures Cheri was supposed to sign. "I'm tellin' you," Cheri says, "the dogs ate my homework."

"I love it when you talk sexy," Roger tells Cheri.

Patrick and Alex can't stay together for long, though. It turns out Patrick has to leave for a teacher's conference in Sacramento the following Monday.

This episode would begin and end in the coffee shop with Stevie and my character Roger playing chess. . .and Stevie somehow winning each time!

Think Chris Henchy and Marco Pennette would be interested in this treatment? :)

[MonarC]

:lol: I like it. Sounds funny.

[Steve M.]

Since most people who've seen "I'm With Her" agree that Stevie is the show's funniest character, and since he's a goofoff substitute teacher, here are some possible scenarios and subplots to show just how hapless Stevie is:

Stevie prepares a history lesson around Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone. Stevie is astonished that Bell and Watson worked with a telephone line that didn't require dialing.

Stevie tries to get through a math class by teaching Roman numerals, insisting that it's important for students to know how to read grandfather clock faces. He also has the students copy a list of English kings and queens to familiarize them with Roman numerals, saying that they also learned some English history. Only one problem: there never was a Henry IX.

Stevie teaches a poetry class, unaware that Joyce Kilmer was a man.

Stevie teaches a literature class, unaware that George Eliot was a woman.

Stevie teaches a science class in which the students have to dissect a fetal pig. He cancels the lesson - insisting that it's not kosher - and spends the class discussing the movie Babe instead.

Stevie teaches a civics class in which he points out that Nebraska is the only state without a two-house legislature. Unfortunately, he forgets to stress that Nebraska has a legislature at all, and his students think the state is governed by martial law.

Stevie teaches an art class and asks his students to make mobiles. He explains that he wants his students to appreciate the artistry of Alexander Calder. Unfortunately, he's teaching an art history class covering the old Dutch Masters.

Any other ideas? :D