Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Recap: Kimmy Goes to School! (Season 1 Episode 6)

Our little Kimmy is growing up and off to get her GED on “Kimmy Goes to School.”

Titus walks her to her first day of school. Adorable! She is so excited to start learning until she discovers her teacher, Mr. Lefkovitz, basically just puts in videos. And not even educational ones. Let’s all start learning about “Major League”, shall we?

Kimmy tries to transfer to another GED class, but there is only the one class offered due to budget cuts. How can Kimmy fix this situation? Make her crappy teacher remember why he loves teaching, and show him how he’s made a real difference in people’s lives. So, she goes on a mission!

While Kimmy is at school, Titus has begun production on a new music video: Pinot Nior…(use your imagination on this one). Lillian agrees to help him film, and they film at the fanciest places around town, like the abandoned chandler factory.  It’s just not bringing the production value they need, though. So, when Kimmy asks Titus to check in on Jacqueline’s house while the family is out of town, Titus jumps at the chance to film inside the rich woman’s house. The production value!

However, during the last shot of the day, he pulls a curtain rod down, and Lillian bails. Titus, Kimmy said don’t touch anything!

Titus attempts to put it back together when Xanthippe comes home.  She’s thrown a party and needs to find a way to clean it up, and stumbles into Titus attempting to fix the curtain rod. His costume, that of a handy man, is convincing enough that it covers his tracks and answers the question of why he is in the house. But Xanthippe says she also needs him to fix a few other things while he’s there, like the mess she made.

Meanwhile, Kimmy attempts to get her teacher to believe in himself and his job again. She finds an old yearbook that an eighth-grader seems to have dedicated to Mr. Lefkovitz. Turns out, Mr. Lefkovitz actually screwed the kid’s life up, and because of his laziness and lack of caring.

Oh, he’s always been a horrible teacher who doesn’t care. Kimmy finds out that he is actually trying to get fired. Why? He has tenure, and will basically get to hang out in a teacher’s lounge all day and get paid until the system figures out what to do with him. It takes years.

This puts Kimmy in a lose-lose situation. She turns him in, he wins. She doesn’t turn him in, she doesn’t get an education.

Lillian has been enjoying some afternoon sips on the front porch when sees a pug eating some old pizza on the street, and feels guilty for having left Titus. So, she heads back to help clean everything up at the mansion.  Titus has been helping Xanthippe clean up, but gets busted when he sneaks away to take advantage of the “magic hour,” — the perfect lighting for the final shot, and is found in leggings and a sparkle top.

Lillian bursts in moments later, timing impeccable. Surprisingly, Xanthippe does not actually believe their excuse that they are in the matrix (worth a shot guys, worth a shot) and threatens to out them to her parents.  Kimmy would get fired for sure! But Titus blackmails her right back and agrees to help her clean up if Xanthippe agrees to back off Kimmy — and be nicer to her.

After watching Major League another time, Kimmy gets an idea. The only way to win her battle and get her high school diploma is to pass the whole fudging test! So she forms a study group and leads the class in passing it.

We’re almost half way through the season, and each thirty minute episode is jammed packed with plot.

Pinot Nior….Au Revoir!

Favorite Quotes:

Titus: “That crown I got for being prom king was so tacky I hardly wear it anymore!”

Titus: “I love you. Don’t get lice!”

Kimmy: “Why are tree clams so delicious. I’m sorry, on the east coast you call them pistachios.”

Kimmy: “I’m not a tattle tale, but our teach stinks like a week old sea pistachio…I’m sorry…Oyster.”

Lillian: “They will never even know we were there. I sanded off my finger prints years ago.”

Lillian: “What we need is another Titanic…thin the herd a little bit.”

Titus: “Lillian that dog does not look like me. I had to wear a cone one time because I kept biting my stiches!

Titus: “Listen, I am not a handy man, although that was my nickname one summer on Fire Island.”

Titus: “Not so fast, MTV’s Daria.”

Honorable mention:  THE ENTIRE PINOT NIOR SONG!

Please watch it again here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JorhUm1gfg

What did you think of “Kimmy Goes to School”? Be sure to share your thoughts in the comments below!

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is available for streaming on Netflix.

Sarah Gagliardo

Sarah Gagliardo likes, no... loves, nerdy TV. Her Netflix queue includes anything from Police Boxes and animated burger joints, to princesses and pirates, with a dash of quirky documentaries thrown in. She tries to live her life like a Leslie Knope, but ends up more like a Liz Lemon. You can find her most days at a craft brewery or in her kayak, waiting for the next fish to bite. During winter and on rainy days, she tackles her Netflix queue with her Maine Coon in beautiful Wilmington, NC.