Alfie and Grayson are still suffering through their parents dating one another. Grayson expresses his frustration of the situation by playing cruel practical jokes on Alfie.

Fraser finds that Alfie hasn't ever passed his biology GSCE and isn't allowed to teach until he passes it. He has to sit through the lesson taught by Ms. Gulliver and sit through the exam and take it with his pupils. Fraser, meanwhile, is making preparations for the end-of-exam party.

Alfie and Grayson's bickering leads to a parent-teacher conference. Alfie is sympathetic when he sees the Grayson's mother values her pedigree Chihuahua more than her own son. Alfie needs to prove to Ms. Gulliver that he can motivate his class and lead them to success, but decides that his best option is to cheat. He teaches them several methods of doing so, to be used in the exam. His last and final resort method is to "phone a friend," who will call the school and say that his grandmother has been in a terrible accident. For that method, he decides to recruit the help of Mitchell, who is currently locked up.

Meanwhile, Martin Wickers is babysitting his girlfriend's dog. It's quite the chore, as he has to feed the dog using a false breast like when men decide to realistically breastfeed.

Unfortnately for Alfie, the infamous Mr. Hewston will be overseeing the exam. He's strict as can be, and uncovers all the various methods that students were hoping to cheat and disposes of them before they were let inside. Alfie and Grayson then go into the restroom to set off the smoke alarm so Alfie can plant the box of tissues on Hewston's desk that will be used for cheating.

When the exam starts, Hewston undermines all the remaining methods in place to cheat. Alfie's last resort is to go to the bathroom to access the phone to call Mitchell but upon retrieving, it has almost no battery left and then he drops it in the toilet. Mitchell ends up making a call to the school anyway, posing as the hospital. A message is delivered to Alfie in the exam but it's not about his grandmother, it's a prank one saying that despite running several tests, "we still can't find your cock." Joe ends up passing out at the completion of the exam. Once he wakes up, he tells Alfie to distract Mr. Hewston and he'll get rid of the papers. But Joe actually ends up swapping Alfie and Xing's cover-paper.

Alfie tries to tell Xing the truth about what happened, reminding her about how she had said she didn't want to do well on her Biology exam because she wanted her parents to love her for herself and not her grades. But then Xing says that this will definitely happen, as she has just deliberately torpedoed her exam.

Cleo inadvertently kills Martin's girlfriend's dog by throwing the bag it was in onto the bonfire, after thinking it was just Stephen's book bag. Martin had grown sick of the dog's snoring and had put it in Alfie's classroom.

Ms. Gulliver warns everyone to back away from the bonfire, as Fraser has purchased some highly dangerous flairs from a Chinese pirate, as he had believed they would be festive fireworks. But before they go off, Grayson throws the exam booklets onto the fire, having stolen them from Hewston's car. Martin and his girlfriend's relationship ends after she learns what has happened to her dog.

A week later, everyone sits down to take their exams over and Alfie goes down the line and marks each letter in the same column for all the answers.

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Alfie decides to crash Rosie's book group but mistakenly thinks it's a BDSM session and makes an arse of himself. He later learns that Rosie's ex is in the group, and presumes it to be an off-putting man named Orlando.

Mitchell announces that he'll be leaving Abbey Grove. Fraser allows a farewell party to be thrown since rooms are being rented out to various after-school clubs and organisations to raise funds for the schools. Fraser offers to make some paperwork Alfie has to do disappear in exchange for his attending a LARPing session with him. This will be happening at the same time as Mitchell's party, and Alfie's schedules is further complicated when he decides to go to another book club meeting, wanting to impress Rosie.

Alfie's pupils are working on their personal statements while Alfie has to try to finish reading "Love in the Time of Cholera." As it's Mitchell's last day, he unleashes a series of pranks. He puts a mouse in Stephen's bag, a snake in Alfie's desk, and even orders 200 pizzas for the students using the school's account. Alfie's struggling to get through the book so with the help of Joe, he decides to have his pupils each read a chapter of it and present him with notes on it so he can get through it easier.

Mitchell tries to ask Cleo out but her qualifications for who she will date seem unachievable for him. He still lets her know about his going away party.

When Alfie meets Phillip and Malcolm, two other members of Fraser's LARPing club, they demonstrate their self-importance and propensity for bullying. He runs back to the book club and initially embarrasses himself again for not knowing anything past the first seven pages. He then makes it out to Mitchell's party where Joe gives him the notes all the pupils have written up. Upon returning to the book club, things work well briefly when using Xing's notes but upon getting to the others, Alfie comes across as a fool yet again.

Phillip and Malcolm capture Fraser and use him as bait to slay Alfie in the LARP session. Alfie learns that Rosie's ex wasn't actually Orlando, but Richard, the older gentleman in the group who was Rosie's lecturer at Oxford. Rosie wants space to think and now Alfie is even worse off than he was to begin with.

Mitchell approaches Cleo and babbles, trying to express his interest and worth, despite not meeting her standards. Cleo offers to kiss him if he'll only shut up, which he agrees to. Alfie is cornered by the LARPers and refuses to play any longer, opting to actually hit them instead of the make-believe violence within the confines of the game.

Mitchell tells the group that Cleo has agreed to go to Nando's with him if he doesn't brag about the kiss on Facebook (a kiss she described as the worst she's ever had). He says his goodbyes to the group, which are surprisingly touching but still in character. Rem Dogg even breaks his emo-silence to tell Mitchell he loves him. Alfie is arrested when he mistakes a cop for another one of Mitchell's pranks.

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It's summer term and Alfie's pupils have gone through a great many changes. Rem Dogg has gone emo, Jing is having a teenage existential crisis brought on by reading a great deal of French literature. Joe turns up with his head shaved because his mother was concerned about lice.

Alfie's father Martin has been appointed as the new deputy head following the end of his marriage to professor Green, who ended up running out with all his money. Alfie briefly tries getting Rosie to let his father move in with them in their new flat but she refuses. Martin's first job is to increase class sizes and fire a member of staff after Fraser invested the twenty grand raised at the fundraiser in his own clothing range, Dolce and Go-Banter. The worst performing teacher is set to lose their job and Rosie reacts by organising a strike.

Alfie ends up with a new pupil in his class, Cleopatra. She's tough, no-nonsense, and confrontational. She clashes with all the new pupils and Alfie. She gets into a bit of a tousle with Mitchell and it only breaks up when Alfie threatens to begin spelling out the name of a character that will die in season 5 of Game of Thrones.

The teachers begin their evaluations by Martin and other board members. Rosie storms in to tell Alfie that she has organised a strike for the teachers and he heads outside to join them. Mitchell develops a romantic interest in Cleopatra, she nicknames him "salad," Stephen basks in the opportunity to speak to the press, and Jing is still working her eccentric existential crisis. Later, some supply teachers roll up to the class. The journalist that writes a story based on Stephen's interview spins it into painting the pupils as being the stupidest in Britain. Chantelle is stressed about potentially failing her GSCEs after learning that she would need them in order to go to beauty school.

Alfie's concern for his pupils reaches a breaking point where he says he will quit so that his students get back to work. Mitchell tries to impress Cleopatra by tossing a roasted pig off the roof with Jing. It nearly hits Alfie but Joe pushes him out of the way and takes the brunt of the impact. She berates him for his stunt and Joe seriously considers eating the pig, having grown tired from his mother's imposing a vegan diet on him and the hunger strike he had been on while the teachers were striking.

Fraser comes bursting out to say that he has sold his flat and therefore, Alfie will not have to lose his job. He then asks Martin if he can move into his car with him. Alfie then warns Martin that his car will look different but that he was really angry at the time. Martin then finds that his car has been covered in a collage of pornography. Cleopatra finds it hilarious and Alfie causally mentions that Mitchell was responsible, thus giving him a boost to her opinion of him. Mitchell later thanks Alfie for the gesture.

The episode concludes with the class all playing foosball together, Alfie telling his pupils they are like his family, and then becoming horrified to realise he has left Rem Dogg outside this whole time, still chained up to the gate to try to keep the temporary teachers out during the strike.

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Abbey Grove is preparing for its Christmas Play. Fraser wants Alfie to direct it but Alfie is reluctant due to the memory of his doing the Nativity Play as a child, being promised by his mother that she would attend, and looking out in the audience and seeing his mother's empty chair. Fraser tells him he doesn't have to do the Nativity Play and could do something non-denominational instead. Fraser also advises him to get Stephen involved due to his many theatrical endeavours in the past.

Alfie has his class vote between doing a play on Robocop or the Nutcracker. The results end in a tie so Alfie decides that they should do a mash-up, called "Robocracker." It's up to Alfie to write the play and Jing agrees to help him with the auditions. They're largely unimpressive, with the exception of Stephen who does a tremendous number from Flashdance. Much to their shock, school bully Frank Grayson arrives to audition too. Alfie agrees to give him the co-lead out of fear.

Mitchell asks Fraser for help in getting Alfie's mother's to come to the play he will be putting on. Fraser calls her but lies and says that Alfie has been in a horrific car crash. Alfie begin rehearsals with his class plus Frank. He casts Joe as the play's villain, Kim Jong-un. Stephen is playing Robocop and Frank is a boy who wishes his toy Robocop to be alive. The class splits into pairs who take turns rolling atop each other as a trust exercise. Alfie is stuck partnered with Joe and begins to flee when Chantelle roll-chases after him. He bumps into Rosie who asks them who will be joining her and Alfie to go that evening to volunteer at a soup kitchen.

At the soup kitchen, they meet a Scottish homeless man who begins giving students advice when they begin rehearsing their play. He tells them he used to be an actor but his career spiralled downward to the point of him ending up with a roll on Hollyoaks. IT's time for the play and Alfie has invited several of the homeless folks to attend to impress Rosie.

Fraser tells Mitchell Alfie's mum is at Gatwick and they need to figure out a cover. Fraser gives Alfie a neck brace and tells him to put it on because narrators can get hurt doing all that reading. The play begins and things are rough. Frank has refused to wear the lower half of his costume, opting to wear gym shorts instead. Stephen falls off the stage in his first scene before climbing back on to carry on. The homeless actor heckles them and Frank's acting is poor with his lines being delivered too loud. Mitchell moons the audience and Alfie tackles him before calling an interval.

The play resumes and Alfie is amazed when he sees his mother arrive. The play carries on and towards the end, Frank delivers his moving lines and snogs Stephen (when it was supposed to be a hug that brought him back to life as a real boy). The play receives a standing ovation. Alfie greets his mother and learns about Fraser's lying, saying he was in an accident, as well as the fact that getting her to come was all Mitchell's idea. Alfie's "Uncle Xavier" mistakes Rem Dogg for Alfie before having his mistake corrected. Alfie introduces them to Rosie and his mother announces they will be staying until he is better.

They all gather around for Christmas dinner with everyone from the play, staff, and some additional guests. Frank reveals to Stephen he had sent him the West Ham ticket for Secret Santa and asks him whether he wants to go. Stephen agrees and Frank says it's not a big deal. Stephen tells him to "give it up, babes." Alfie asks Mitchell if the donkey he had asked him to get (to adopt for Rosie's Christmas present) had arrived and Mitchell reveals that they are currently eating it for dinner. Rosie presents Alfie with his present, Michael Buble's Christmas album. Alfie is thrilled and Rosie tells him she loves him.

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Fraser gives the school's remaining funds to a man claiming to be the Nigerian Minister of Finance, with the promise of massive returns on the investment. Needless to say, it is a scam and the school is left in financial ruin. The staff brainstorms how to raise funds and Professor Green implements an austerity drive, which leads to several cuts. Alfie is tasked with teaching a biology class in addition to his history class. Green plans to shut down the library, too. The heat is shut down, leading Alfie's pupils to bundle up in thick winter clothing. They are horrified to learn that they'll have to go to St. Edward's if Abbey Grove is closed.

Rosie tells Alfie she has applied for a job at a school in Soweto, saying she needs a change in her life. He implores her not to leave, saying the school needs her as does he. She tells him she has only applied and to wait and see. Green continues with the budget cuts, planning to sell all the school's books and asks Rosie and Alfie to get the kitchen staff to work for free. Green asks Alfie to stay behind and asks her to begin calling her "Mummy."

The kitchen staff walk out when they are asked to work for free, minus the one worker who has hearing aids. Rosie finds that Green has sold the food and they have nothing to serve. Alfie decides to use the dead frogs used for dissection in biology to make frogs legs dishes. Alfie's pupils present him with a small jar of money consisting of their pocket money. They want it to go towards Abbey Grove but Alfie gives it back to them, saying there must be a better way.

Fraser tells Alfie he only has two days to pay the bank back. He butters the floor to try to have a student fall, which he will record, put on the internet, and profit off of when it goes viral. He baits a student into slipping but forgets to record it.

Alfie visits Rosie, who tells him she got offered a job at Soweto. Alfie attempts to profess his feelings to her to get her to stay but he chickens out and says that he is an alcoholic. She knows he is lying and is unimpressed by the attempt. He tries to prove that he is crazy and will drink anything by consuming a glass of sea monkeys.

Alfie reaches his class and finds that Green is trying to take his television and collection of videos which she intends to sell. Alfie becomes determined to put on a fundraiser and convinces Fraser to give him permission by saying that his band can play at it. Rosie suggests they auction staff members off for labour. They struggle to get people to attend the fundraiser, though Alfie's dad does show up to spend time with Green. Alfie has Rem Dogg use his being in a wheelchair to guilt people into attending and spending money.

At the end of the day, they have only managed to raise £1,000. They decide to go ahead with the man auction as a last resort. Fraser ends up sold for £100 to Gladys, the hard-of-hearing lunch lady. Rosie becomes emotional when introducing Alfie to the man auction, saying he exemplifies what she will miss about Abbey Grove. She begins his auction by bidding £50 for him. Grayson, Chantelle, and Rosie bid for him but then Jing announces that a man she is standing with is making a bid on behalf on a mystery bidder for £25,000. Alfie is sold and Abbey Grove is saved.

Rosie tells Alfie she will not be going to South Africa and says that she needs the school. Alfie is about to kiss her but she says they made this mistake last time - kissing in front of the kids. They run off to snog elsewhere and stumble across Alfie's dad Martin hooking up with Professor Green in the bounce house. They stop long enough to tell Alfie that they are getting married. Green tries to charge Alfie and have him "hug Mummy" but her high heel punctures the bounce house and it traps her and Martin inside.

Alfie and Rosie are about to kiss but Jing interrupts to say that the anonymous bidder says he has to leave immediately otherwise the deal is off. A driver opens the door of the SUV waiting for him to get in. Rosie kisses Alfie and promises to be there when he gets back. Alfie cops a feel before getting into the car. He finds that the anonymous bidder is Pickwell. She tells him the German consult she had previously told him about died recently and left her all the gold he had stashed in Switzerland. He asks what she could possibly want him to do for £20,000. She hands him a saddle and rides around on his back.

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It's Drugs Awareness Day at Abbey Grove. Stephen is upset that his parents want him to change schools because they feel Abbey Grove is not academic enough. He asks Alfie to have Rosie convince his parents to let him stay because he thinks she is persuasive.

Rosie attempts to give her presentation to Alfie's class but then Fraser arrives with his guest speaker India and interrupts. Rosie doesn't approve of her methods and the two clash. Alfie asks Rosie if she is jealous of India. Alfie and India bond and she invites him to go out and party. Ironically, she is quite keen on consuming in recreational drugs. He pretends to have access to a drug called "Dirty Vienetta" (something he has fabricated).

Alfie buys tickets to a rave from Grayson and tries to buy drugs off of him too but ends up being blackmailed by him. Professor Green sees the interaction take place. Since Alfie can't find a way to buy drugs, he decides to make them instead. He is summoned to Green's office who tells him she saw him give money to Grayson. She tells him she understands addiction, citing her sexual addiction to Alfie's father as an example.

Rosie catches Alfie preparing to cook up drugs with some of his pupils and they get into an argument. Once he has cooked some "Dirty Vienetta" cooked up, he shows it to India, who mistrusts its appearance. He scoops some of it into his mouth and ends up throwing up on India's lap. He wanders the hallways high and spots Fraser in the loo dressed as a prawn. He then begins to believe he is a mermaid and wanders back into the classroom where Green is giving a presentation with two police officers and a drug-sniffing dog. He begins babbling believing he is Ariel, Green is Ursula, and Joe is Flounder.

Joe runs out of the classroom to get Rosie to come help Alfie. She is reluctant to help but Joe tells her this whole business with India is just his way of trying to prove he is over Rosie even though he isn't. When Rosie comes in, Alfie is wearing a red mop on his head and yellow paper seashells. He makes a fool of himself in front of Stephen's parents, who are visiting. Rosie plays along and claims Alfie is playing a character to teach about the consequences of drug abuse. Alfie's pupils play along and Rosie subtly gets Green to see that firing Alfie and having him arrested would ruin her chances with his father. Stephen's parents agree to let him stay at Abbey Grove despite the fact that Alfie pees his pants.

Following the mayhem, Alfie visits Green's office and finds his dad sitting at her desk. He is getting a blow job from Green, who is crouched beneath it.

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It's Valentine's Day and Alfie's dad drops him off at Abbey Grove. They chat about their plans for a Valentine's dinner and Alfie's dad is under the impression that Alfie is still seeing Rosie. Professor Celia Green is the new deputy headmistress and when Alfie's dad comes into the school and spots her, he reconnects with her as they went to teacher training college together.

Joe is in love with a girl named Allison. Celia and Alfie bump heads over the fact that he doesn't enforce his pupils' wearing the school uniform. Alfie begins trying to get Rosie to agree to come to Valentine's dinner with him at his dad's place. Mitchell tells Alfie that he'll get his sister to be his date for the evening. Chantelle comes in and announces she is pregnant. Alfie tells the staff about this even though he had promised not to tell anyone.

Fraser decides to put on a dating show ("Take Me Out") for the students and Alfie suggests having Allison be on the show to give Joe an opportunity to try to get close to her. Chantelle tells Alfie she plans to name the baby after him. It ends up being a disaster as Joe ends up locked in a porto-potty that falls over but luckily Allison appears to be interested in him. He is about to ask her out but then Celia pulls the plug on the lights. She announces that Chantelle is pregnant in front of everyone. Chantelle is upset that Alfie broke his promise. There is a brief moment where Alfie is believed to be the baby's father (because of the baby name) but Alfie insists that he is not the father and is more like Jean Valjean from Les Mis. He then sings to prove his point, at the suggestion of Stephen. Celia says that she will call the police on Alfie but then Chantelle announces that she is not pregnant and just wanted to make it seem as if someone loved her.

Joe happily tells Alfie Allison has agreed to go on a date with him. Alfie asks Joe to come over and cook a Valentine's meal and he agrees to do so. Mitchell tells Alfie his sister won't be available but his brother's girlfriend can come in her place. At the dinner, Alfie's father tells him he has a date coming and when Alfie answers the door, he finds that it is Celia. When Alfie's father announces that Alfie is dating Rosie and she will be coming to dinner, Alfie pulls Celia into the kitchen and asks her to go along with it.

When the pretend-Rosie arrives, Alfie is horrified to find that the "girlfriend" is an elderly prostitute. He bribes her to leave and sulks through dinner as his father and Celia maintain a cutesy, touchy-feely vibe. Alfie is about to admit his lie about Rosie when the doorbell rings. Rosie is at the door and she tells him she and Alex have broken up. She had hoped that Alfie would cheer her up. After he was there for Chantelle, she felt compelled to be there for him. Alfie says he is willing to tell his father the truth but Rosie says she doesn't mind being his girlfriend for the night.

They head back in and Joe tells them that Alfie's father is showing Celia Alfie's room. They sit awkwardly on the sofa with the sound of the pair having very loud sex. Alfie is horrified to learn that Joe has tweeted about this, so now the entire student body knows that Alfie's father is having sex with the new headmistress. Celia and Alfie's father emerge from the bedroom with messed up clothing and smudged lipstick. Celia says goodnight and Alfie's father meets Rosie.

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Alfie and his pupils prank call Pickwell and when she storms off to their classroom, they are not in there. However, it is rigged so that she is covered in goop and has feathers blown onto her to make her resemble a chicken. Following the prank, Fraser announces to the staff that Pickwell has gone missing and makes it clear that "Chickengate" might have had something to do it. Her car has been found by authorities abandoned by the side of the road. Alfie then finds a suicide note from her in his teacher mail slot. In it, she blames Alfie for her jumping off the bridge, though Alfie says another name when reading it out loud.

Fraser promotes Rosie as interim head mistress while he looks for a more permanent replacement. Alfie is haunted by guilt over Pickwell's suicide and the blame she placed on him. He begins to wonder if he's being haunted by her so at the suggestion of his pupils, he decides to put on a memorial for her. Alfie is further alarmed when Rosie shows up during the planning with a hairstyle much like Pickwell's.

Alfie assists Fraser with the interviews for Pickwell's replacement. The applicants include a man who has been working in medieval-themed pornography, a woman whose name is "Gay Phistor," a man named "Mark Skid," and a man that may or may not be suffering from PTSD. Power seems to be going to Rosie's head, as her demeanour continues to become increasingly Pickwell-like. Also, Alfie is still seeing visions of Pickwell.

When Fraser announces that Pickwell's funeral is coming up, he asks to go with the attention of  appeasing his guilt. He brings Joe along. At the funeral, Alfie asks to say a few words, but upon getting up to the front, Joe points out that they are at the wrong funeral. Rosie threatens to report Fraser because of all the medieval pornography now on campus if he doesn't offer her the position permanently.

Grayson threatens Alfie and pulls him into a classroom, only to break down crying because of Pickwell's suicide. He then forces Alfie to give himself a wedgie as a cover for what they were doing together in the classroom. Alfie has another vision of Pickwell, made more frightening by the fog on the ground, which is later shown to be the result of a chemistry experiment. Joe loses his mobile phone and it's revealed to be in the casket of the man whose funeral he and Alfie mistakenly crashed.

Pickwell's memorial is underway, with all of Alfie's pupils dressed up in black and reading the various interactions they'd had with Pickwell. None are all that moving, though they all read them as if they are. Things begin to go wrong. They release some pigeons, wanting them to be like doves, but instead they end up defecating on the pupils. The wrong music begins playing, and the portrait of Pickwell is also defecated on, making her appear to have a Hitler-stache.

Alfie and Rosie make up and Rosie returns to her normal physical appearance as well as behaviour. Alfie heads into the art closet and begins making some pottery before Pickwell sneaks up behind him and reveals that she faked her death and cashed in her life insurance. She plans to visit a pen-pal in Argentina but needs a thousand pounds from Alfie first to get away. He tells her she will be missed and that Grayson was devastated. She reveals that she had also made him feel he was to blame for her death. In total, she had done this to about five people. She thanks him for the memorial, saying it was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. She kisses him and smacks his cheek before walking out.

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Alfie and his pupils are playing Class Wars but are interrupted by new teacher Kevin Schwimer, an American. He says that he has been tasked with taking over Alfie's class and Pickwell has merely failed to tell him so. Fraser calls an assembly to welcome Schwimer to the school. He begins listing his accomplishments including winning a gold medal for Team USA at the recent London Olympics. He also begins cracking jokes to charm the students and staff. Alfie tries to crack jokes but fails to charm people in the same way.

Alfie expresses his displeasure to Fraser about losing his class. Fraser tells him that Pickwell has threatened to report him to various child-services if he doesn't do what she says. Alfie then confronts Pickwell, saying she can't take his class away from him but she remains unmoved. She introduces him to his new form, 2J, and they are a wildly rambunctious group. He tricks Schwimer into leaving the class to aid an injured (fabricated) student. He speaks to his pupils and finds that they have grown fond of Schwimer and are impressed by his many accomplishments.

Alfie attempts to flirt with Pickwell to get his class back but when she demands sexual favours in return, he's unable to go through with it. He is upset to find that Rosie, his pupils, and even Grayson prefer Schwimer to him. Alfie embarrasses and injured himself trying to do a skateboard trick in front of his former pupils and Schwimer.

Alfie begins packing up his belongings and Jing then comes in asking to talk to him. She says that Schwimer isn't who he says he is. She finds that one of his photos of his accomplishments is poorly photoshopped and claimed to have attended Harvard in California when it is actually in Massachusetts. She tells Alfie that although he is an idiot, at least he is a kind man. They then team up and begin finding the inconsistencies in his story.

Alfie and Jing confront Schwimer at recess in front of the pupils about all the lies he has told. Jing calls him a compulsive liar and he admits he just wanted them to like him. Schwimer is dressed in armour to teach a lesson and has old-fashioned weapons. Alfie believes they are more lies and begins waving a gun around. It goes off and Joe ends up shot in the bum. Alfie fires the other gun into the air as a distress signal and ends up shooting Pickwell's hawk. He puts the guns into Schwimer's hands as Pickwell comes running over. She is distraught over the death of her bird and Rosie looks after Joe, asking Alfie what he has done. Schwimer says that he is responsible and admits his lies, saying he has a problem. He then begins changing his accent repeatedly and tells a few more lies. Pickwell threatens to rip his balls off if he ever returns to campus again. Alfie is given his pupils back and they rejoice.

The episode ends with another game of Class Wars.

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Joe returns for the new term with a bowl cut performed by his father. Mitchell has gotten a tattoo of Chinese characters up his side that are his order whenever he orders takeout. Alfie comes in and has the same bowl haircut as Joe, also done by his father.

Alfie is under the impression that Rosie is now his girlfriend. With the upcoming swimming gala, Mr. Fraser decides that that they will pay homage to "Splash!" by having the gala end with a synchronised diving competition. Each teacher contributes money to a pot that will be won by whomever coaches their class to victory. Alfie then learns that Rosie is not his girlfriend and has changed her Facebook status to 'In a relationship' after having begun a relationship with a former pupil of hers, Alex, who is a girl.

Alfie has bribed his students with the promise of a trip to Nandos in order to get them to enter the synchronised diving event so he can win the cash prize. Rosie demands that her class be excused from the event and opts to have them participate in non-violent protest against Pickwell's demanding her pupils starve themselves to achieve an Olympic-level body mass. After Mitchell is injured, Alfie determines that Stephen and Joe will dive for his class.

The swimming gala begins and Pickwell's swimmer's sweep the various events while Rosie's class is indeed boycotting the events. When it's time for the synchronised diving event, Pickwell gets a zero when her partner passes out from starvation and falls far before Pickwell. They earn a zero. Alfie gives Joe a pep talk, as he is self-conscious about his body. Stephen's ankle is injured and Alfie opts to dive with Joe, despite having a strong chlorine allergy. Alfie and Joe score low but still gets them a victory. Alfie's eyes swell up to the point of hardly being able to see. Grayson steals his clothes and towel after he showers. He then pushes Alfie out into the lobby where he encounters Rosie and Alex, along with the rest of the pupils and stuff.

Alfie then brings his pupils to Nandos where he has to buy three beers per person as part of his escalating bribes for their participation.

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Alfie's pupils gather around to watch and make fun of a video of him singing when he was 16. He can't take it down because he forgot his password. Another student named David Millbeck comes in to try to get the students to vote for him in the upcoming student election. Mitchell then pulls up a video of a man "singing with his nut sack." Alfie sends it to Fraser, who loves Peter Gabriel, who then accidentally displays it on a screen in front of several more students. Grayson films and posts it. It goes viral and Fraser is suspended from his position.

Pickwell decides to take over the school. She has already expelled a student after planting marijuana in his locker because his parents were wanting compensation after a javelin accident. Alfie and Rosie become competitive towards one another regarding the student election. David is Rosie's candidate so Alfie decides to have Joe run to utilise the sympathy vote. "Everybody loves a chubby virgin." He delegates tasks to his pupils to help Joe's campaign.

Alfie meets with Fraser and agrees to try to help him get his position back. Through some strategic work, David's brother Edmund becomes her class candidate instead of David. Rosie is further perturbed when she sees Pickwell trying to get the tree she planted in the school garden in memoriam of her brother cut down. Mitchell and Rem Dogg end up hacking the FBI's database instead of their given task and as a prank, put Alfie on the Most Wanted list before spotting a man that appears to be the school's P.E. teacher.

The speeches have begun and Alfie introduces Joe before giving him a speech he wrote for him himself. This speech ends up being little more than a message to Rosie expressing displeasure at her treatment of him. Rosie gets up to speak instead of her class candidate and tells Alfie he should be more of a real teacher. They bicker in front of the entire student body and Rosie then threatens Pickwell, telling her not to touch her tree.

Alfie and Rosie are called to Fraser's probationary hearing and Pickwell assures them they will lose their jobs once she is headmaster. Alfie speaks in favour of Fraser and ends up highly amused by the fact that Fraser's actual first name is Shaquille. He then says that Fraser loves the school and would do anything for it. The committee asks Alfie to say even one thing Fraser has accomplished as headmaster and is unable to provide anything useful. It's then Rosie's turn to go in.

Jing shows up and brings Alfie the school's accounts, which show that Pickwell has been stealing money from the school's funds. When Alfie confronts Pickwell with the paper, she tears it up, chews it, and spits it out at Alfie. Ying tells Alfie in Chinese that there are no copies, but Alfie threatens to expose her if she doesn't speak in favour of Fraser and rig the school election in favour of Ben, a candidate dressed up as Spiderman.

The school celebrates with a dance party and Fraser is drunkenly elated to have his job back, having spiked the punch. Chantelle coaches Jing on how to get the attention of David. A slightly intoxicated Rosie snogs Alfie and Mitchell then plays Alfie's horrible song over the speakers.

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Fraser comes into Alfie's class to tell them about the upcoming football match between Abbey Grove and Middleton House, the school Alfie attended. He wants Alfie to manage Abbey Grove's team since the gym teacher is currently unavailable and Alfie agrees to do so. Alfie decides to have his pupils be the team after the actual football team, both first and second, ostracises him. They're largely hesitant. Stephen offers up his services but Alfie tells him not to be silly. Grayson comes in and says he wants to be on the team to beat up people from the other school. In the end, his pupils only agree to join the team after he records an embarrassing and inappropriate outgoing message for his phone.

Mistress Pickwell summons Rosie to her office. She's wearing strangely, clownish, overdone makeup. She asks Rosie how attractive she thinks she is because she's heard that Middleton House is looking for a new Deputy Head and wants to be transferred. Rosie lies and says that her make-up is subtle.

The charters from Middleton House arrive and Alfie ends up bullied by the team's coach. There's a bit of a scene in front of Rosie and she's horrified by the outright bullying. Alfie tells her there was a bit of an incident in second year and she assumes he means that the coach molested him. Fraser shows up with cornrows in his hair to try to help make the school seem like it's part of a "thug life."

Pickwell is trying to impress the coach so she can get a job there instead.

The game begins and Alfie is forced to be the goalie since they're one player short. Middleton quickly gets the lead: 6-0. During half time, Alfie is horrified to learn there is a second half. Rosie pulls Alfie out into the hall to give him a pep talk, saying what happened to him wasn't his fault. He returns to the locker room and rallies his pupils into fighting. Since Remmington is injured, Stephen asks if he can play and Alfie agrees. Stephen proves to be an incredible football player and gives Abbey Grove its first goal. With Stephen's help and the team's being inspired to perform better, the game is now tied at 6-6.

Humpitch, Middleton's coach becomes furious and attempts to play in the game against Alfie. Alfie has visions of Humpitch taunting him for quitting. He collapses and an ambulance is called. He apologises to Alfie, saying he only ever wanted the best for him, and Rosie unleashes her temper on him, still believing he molested Alfie. When she calls Humpitch a rapist, Alfie then tells her she has misunderstood and that he quit Humpitch's sports team. It turns out Alfie was an Irish dancer and Humpitch is furious over the fact that he was talented enough to have gone pro. Humpitch asks Alfie to do it one more time. After some hesitation, Alfie shows his dance moves and the game is called as a draw.

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Alfie has his pupils stand on his desk and say "Oh Captain, my Captain" right as Rosie comes in to tell him about a staff meeting. Fraser tells them he misunderstood a rule about religious symbols and that he'll have to return some pieces he took from students. Rosie tells the staff about a news story regarding a video game called "Tokyo Sin SS" in which children play ninjas that hunt down and murder Nazi prostitutes. It's apparently causing an increase in violence since the children are mimicking the moves. They discuss whether they should ban the game and Fraser suggests that they play it to better understand how to keep kids from being addicted to it.

Alfie returns to his class and finds most of his pupils half-asleep after playing Tokyo Sin. He asks them to bring weapons to lunch to turn in to the Weapons Amnesty event that Rosie will be putting on. The elder art teacher Mrs. Mollinson becomes addicted to the violence of Tokyo Sin. Alfie is annoyed by Ron, the man in charge of the weapons amnesty bin but is forced to back down because he is a police officer. Alfie's students arrive to submit their versions of weapons, such as fingernails, books (knowledge is power), milk (lactose-intolerance), and prove to be little help for the event.

Grayson throws macaroni and cheese on Stephen upon learning of his lactose-intolerance. Stephen responds with a powerfully fierce dance-spin-kick to his face. A food-fight/brawl breaks out, which proves to be bad publicity for the school. Fraser is busy confiscating make-shift ninja masks that several students have been wearing. He proposes they have a self-defence course for the students and Rosie suggests Ron be the one to teach it, much to the displeasure of Alfie.

Alfie tries to tell his pupils they should turn the other cheek when confronted with violence. Fraser calls Alfie out to introduce him to Preet, a man from his gym who will be teaching a course on self-defence. He proves to be wildly inappropriate and rather crazed in his methods. Headmistress Pickwell begins playing Tokyo Sin and becomes addicted to it.

Preet has Alfie be his partner in his demonstration and continues to inflict bodily harm on him, including grabbing onto his bollocks, beating him with a baton, and attempts to tase him before Alfie gets the taser and uses it on Preet himself. Preet ends up arrested by Ron.

Alfie heads to the staff lounge and finds Pickwell wearing a makeshift ninja mask, still playing the game. She hisses at him before he turns the game off and takes the controller from her hands, though she continues her movements as if she is playing the game. Alfie tries to give Joe a copy of the game since he was the only one without it but Joe then tells him the new trendy game is one called Murder Blade.

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Alfie vandalises a bathroom stall in the ladies' room while Joe stands guard. Joe warns him that Pickwell is coming so they hide in a stall. Joe accidentally bangs the wall but Alfie gets him to make a high-pitched noise to cover for them. Pickwell sees the vandalisation: "Pickwells got a wang" and calls it pathetic before using a marker to add the missing apostrophe.

They encounter Grayson in the hallway, who snaps a photo of them leaving the ladies' room. He agrees to do so if they do him a favour, so Alfie buys him a bottle of booze. Abbey Grove is preparing for a French exchange and the parents have come to express their concerns. The previous year, Jean Claude the exchange student had wreaked some sexual havoc. Rosie proposes that they teach some classes on sex education.

Each teacher teaches their pupils in their own way, with Rosie teaching a thorough curriculum, Alfie remaining clueless about how to teach it, Mrs. Mollinson shows a video of dogs having sex, and Pickwell reads passages from the Bible. Joe is unhappy, saying he doesn't want to go to France.

Alfie does some research on how to better teach the information on sex education when Rosie comes in and tells him he should examine his own body and know it well. Fraser becomes embarrassed when the librarian hands him a book on premature ejaculation that he had asked her to order off of Amazon.

Alfie tells his class he needs one of them to pretend to be gay to make him look like a teacher whose sex-ed class inspired a student to come out. He asks Joe to do it, saying he'll get him out of going to France if he does so.

The bus with the French exchange students arrive but the teachers then realise that the students are coming from Holland and Fraser messed up the name of the town, despite his being a geography teacher. The large majority of them end up being attractive blondes, with even Rosie looking charmed by their appeal.

Alfie approaches Fraser to tell him he can't go to Holland. He claims that his struggling with his sexuality will be a bad combination with the marijuana and Red Light district of the country. Fraser says he needs to find another pupil, and Alfie claims that Grayson (the school bully) is interested in the culture. Alfie gloats to Grayson that he will be going to the farm in Holland.

Students and parents have gathered around to hear about the school's sex education classes. Alfie comes in and begins rambling about getting to know his penis before asking students to share, honing in on Joe. Joe backs out and then an attractive Dutch student declares that sex is about enjoying oneself. Things get out of control, with people asking what a "glitorish" is. Joe is pressured to come out as gay but he becomes angry and takes it back, saying "Alfie made me be gay before him." Things continue to escalate, with people beginning to ask Alfie about his last sexual experience and eventually he admits he has never had sex. He had a long-term girlfriend, wanted to save himself, and then it never happened. Both Rosie and Chantel look charmed by his admission.

Afterwards, Rosie commends him for helping the students to understand that it's good not to rush things. Fraser tells him people are demanding he be fired but there is a solution that will allow him to get away for a while without having to actually lose his job. Alfie is sent to Holland and ends up next to Grayson on the coach.

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Alfie Vickers arrives to his class hungover and one of his pupils Joe, is teased by his peers when he accidentally calls Alfie "dad." He also fends off another pass from Chantel, another of his pupils. Headmistress Pickwell comes in and asks for his mock exams' papers. She summons him to her office and tells him he needs to give her the results before Parents' Evening. He says he has all the answers in his head and when she begins listing names, he answers "A" to each. She tells him off and warns him he is skating on very thin ice. If he doesn't turn in the papers by 5, they will all fail.

Alfie puts his post into Rosie Gulliver's post hole so he'll talk to her. Rose is the school's biology teacher, whom Alfie also fancies. Alfie tries to put the moves on her and she's not interested in it since her boyfriend just broke up with her. She tells him she doesn't want to date at the moment and would rather throw herself into her job and charity work.

Alfie announces to his class that they will be playing "Class Wars" to learn about Pearl Harbour. He also is forced to tell them that they'll likely all fail their mock exams. School bully Frank Grayson encounters Alfie in the hallway and steals his trainers. Following the theft, Alfie is pulled into Simon Fraser's office. Fraser is the Headmaster at Abbey Grove and tells Alfie that he fancies Rosie. He wants Alfie to be his wingman and coach him on how to get Rosie to go on a date with him. Alfie tells him he should completely ignore her because "womyn love that."

Alfie tries to ask Rosie out again but she tells him he isn't mature enough for her. His moping in class leads his pupils to tell him off and get over it. He then decides to have them all grade each other's mock exams, suing the "pass to the left" method.

Rosie wants to give a speech at Parents' Evening on Palmer's syndrome and Alfie pretends to know about the condition to impress Rosie. He also claims that Joe's mother suffers from the condition.Fraser is annoyed at first, thinking Alfie is trying to cockblock him, but Alfie claims he is only trying to demonstrate how unsuitable of a match he is in comparison to him.

Rosie comes to visit Alfie's class and he has Joe hide in the cupboard before she comes in. She wants to get Joe's mum involved in the campaign and asks to speak to him but Alfie claims that he is sick. After she leaves, Alfie asks Joe to pretend that his mum has a potentially fatal disease so Rosie will go on a date with him and the kind-hearted Joe agrees to do so.

Headmistress Pickwell tells Alfie all his students have failed their mock exams because they graded each others' papers instead of him. During Parents' Evening, Alfie delivers this news to Chantel's mum, who attempts to give him a happy ending with her foot under the table. Pickwell comes over to taunt Alfie about his students' failures. He insists that his students have other talents and begins listing bizarre factoids about them before saying he believes in them.

Joe tells Alfie he thinks the lie has gotten out of control and he accidentally told her that his mum is dead. Fraser calls Rosie up to talk about Palmer's syndrome and she begins her speech, eventually transitioning into talking about Joe's mum, Emma Poulter. Mrs. Poulter then comes forward and identifies herself, very much alive and free from the syndrome.

Mistress Pickwell tries to pull Alfie into her office but Joe steps up and says it's his fault and that he just wanted to show off to him, saying he's the dad he never had. It's then that Joe's real dad comes forward and questions that sentiment and the attempt to smooth things over fall on its face.

Joe comforts Alfie later by offering to shove dog excrements with him into Pickwell's mail slot.

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