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Bad Education S3E6 (Series 3 Finale) - "The Finale" Recap


Alfie struggles with the end of term, as his students will all be moving on to the next stages in their lives. The students each go to Fraser's office where the career-predicting computer predicts that virtually all of them will become archaeologists, with the exception of Rem Dogg who is wrongfully predicted to become a stunt man or a male escort.

Stephen decides to go to prom as his female alter-ego, Stephanie Fierce. Alfie doesn't want to repeat the emotional struggles of losing a class after getting attached so he makes the decision to quit Abbey Grove and teaching altogether. When Alfie delivers the news to Fraser, Fraser pitches a fit. Rosie tries to talk him out of it but Alfie has made his decision and would also like to focus on his newly reconciled relationship with her.

Alfie tells everyone he's gotten a job at the Playstation factor when in actuality he's working at a DIY store. His students try to coax him into coming to the upcoming prom but he stays set on not doing so. Rosie tries to take over teaching Alfie's class but they're not fond of her attempts to mimic Alfie's teaching style.

Rosie stops by the DIY store and learns the truth about Alfie's new job. She even brings the students to the store to try to bait him back but he says he won't. At Prom, Stephen arrives in fashion as Stephanie Fierce and one by one, all of Alfie's students arrive.

Alfie grows tired of the bullying he receives from his coworkers so he quits and heads to Abbey Grove's Prom. He and his students head back to their class to say their goodbyes. They all tell Alfie how it would be a shame to deny other students the opportunity to have their lives changed just as he has done for them. One by one, they leave as their parents come to pick them up. After they're gone, Alfie watches the slideshow they made for him and becomes emotional looking back on the time he had with them. In the next Autumn term, Alfie and Rosie return to Abbey Grove to begin a new journey as teachers.

Bad Education S3E5 - "The Exam" Recap


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.

Bad Education airs on Tuesdays on BBC Three at 10PM.

Bad Education S3E4 - "Fundraising" Recap


Martin Wickers is teaching Alfie to drive but Alfie gets distracted when Martin begins talking about his upcoming sexcapades, causing him to run over the school caretaker Pod. The school begins fundraising for a surgery for Pod. Alfie takes it upon himself to help Pod take care of himself with cleaning himself and the chores around the house.

Rosie arrives at school in Richard's ambulance, which she has after he showed up to visit and drank himself out of his ability to drive home. Richard is also shown to have left his phone in the ambulance. The school raises over a thousand pounds for Pod's surgery.

School bully Grayson is transferred to Alfie's class, as no one else wants him in their class. Alfie wants to prove to Rosie that he can reform Grayson but then decides to enlist Grayson's skills to break into the ambulance and snoop through Richard's mobile. But then Grayson decides to take the ambulance for a joyride. Grayson has Alfie put the paramedic vest on and Stephen suggests Alfie try texting Rosie with Richard's phone to try to find out if there is more going on between then. The text replies make him believe Rosie lied about not being involved with Richard but he doesn't realise it's actually Martin replying, as he found the phone after Rosie misplaced it at school.

When Grayson parks the ambulance, Alfie is mistaken for a paramedic. There's a man struggling to breathe that keeps saying "pen." Alfie decides to perform a makeshift tracheotomy using a pen tube, after which Grayson says he has found the man's epi-pen in his bag.

Xing, Chantelle, Joe, and Stephen are still in the car and spot Pod walking about, who is not at all paralysed and runs away upon realising he has been seen.

Alfie and Grayson flee when the real medics arrive. The other pupils try to tell Alfie what they have seen about Pod but Alfie doesn't believe them. Grayson decides that the best way to cover up what they have done is to torch the ambulance.

Grayson later pretends to make Alfie look good in front of Rosie as an opportunity to swipe the key to the lock box off of him. Rosie catches Alfie when he's confronting Grayson about his attempts to steal the cash. At the assembly, the pupils get into an argument with Alfie over Pod faking his paralysis. Joe blurts out the truth regarding their stealing the ambulance and going for a joy ride. Alfie punches Pod in the legs repeatedly to prove the truth of the paralysis and the argument carries on until Rem Dogg pour hot coffee onto Pod's legs, causing him to scream and stand up.

Finally, Alfie confronts Rosie about the sexts between her, leading him to get caught for having Richard's phone. This argument is taking place in front of Grayson and Martin. Rosie says she lost her phone so Grayson tells him to call the number, and Rosie's phone goes off and explores Martin.

Martin and Alfie go out for dinner and it's revealed that Martin's new girlfriend is Grayson's mother. Alfie and Grayson are now on the way to being stepbrothers. Also Martin has pulled some strings to keep Grayson from getting expelled for his latest indiscretion.

Bad Education airs on Tuesdays on BBC Three at 10PM.

Bad Education S3E3 - "Sports Day" Recap


Alfie is horrified to learn that Fraser has hired Preet to be the school's replacement P.E. teacher. Preet's fresh out of prison but Fraser believes everyone deserves a second… or third chance. Alfie passes out the sports assignments for Sports Day at random to his pupils. He then learns that Rosie's ex, Richard, will be coming to Sports Day and Alfie decides that he needs to take the opportunity to outdo him. Alfie and Rosie are still on a break.

Stephen suggests to Alfie that he challenge Richard to an endurance event at Sports Day. He has Preet give him and his pupils a crash course on fitness, as he used to be a personal trainer and will be designing the endurance event. This involves several exercises and Preet repeatedly tackling Alfie to the ground. Meanwhile, Joe is worried about having to compete against school bully Grayson in the hurdles.

At Sports Day, Alfie's father ends up getting along great with Richard. The endurance track set up by Preet is highly dangerous, including attack dogs and barbed wire. Before the hurdles event, Joe has a green paint grenade go off, courtesy of Grayson. But Grayson doesn't win the event, while Joe spends the whole event roaring while running through the hurdles. There's also been a steroids story going through the school but Xing later admits to Alfie that she made the story up just to make her story seem more interesting. Alfie believes that Richard has an unfair advantage when he mentions having a secret weapon so he and Xing go snooping in the locker room. Alfie finds a bottle of pills which in Richard's bag, which he believes to be steroids. He takes one, and downs the rest after Xing leaves but is caught by Preet, who had been on the toilet with the door open. Preet tells Alfie how he had wanted revenge on him when he was sent to prison but then shows him a sketchbook he has as part of his art therapy which is filled with homoerotic drawings of Alfie, or Alfie and Preet together.

When Alfie tells Richard about the pills, Richard admits that the pills were Viagra. Being an older man, he feels he needed some help and had hoped to become friends with benefits with Rosie. The clock is ticking till the pills kick in so he insists Preet hurry up and start the race. Alfie begins speeding through the race but has to drop to the ground and crawl to hide his erection, which allows Richard time to catch up. Preet tries to shoot Richard with the tranquilliser gun as he and Alfie are racing to the finish line but ends up shooting Alfie instead. Richard gives Alfie mouth-to-mouth to get him to start breathing again and then Alfie's erection becomes visible to everyone gathered around. He confesses how he tried to cheat but mistakenly took Viagra instead. Richard is forced to admit his "plan to succeed" plan, and a furious Rosie slaps Richard before storming off. Also, Preet is arrested.

When the photo-finish comes in, Alfie is revealed to have won the race "by a head." Xing is thrilled, as it has become the highest-selling edition ever and Alfie has saved the paper. She happily tells him that everyone is reading it, and Alfie responds with an embarrassed, "Great."

Bad Education airs on Tuesdays on BBC Three at 10PM.

Bad Education S2E6 - "Fundraiser" Recap


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.

Tune in this December for Bad Education's very first Christmas special.

Bad Education S2E5 - "Drugs" Recap


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.

Bad Education airs on Tuesdays on BBC Three.

Bad Education S2E4 - "Valentine's Day" Recap


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.

Bad Education airs on Tuesdays on BBC Three.
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