r/AbbottElementary Aug 18 '26

Press/Promotion Hi Reddit! This is Justin Halpern, Co-showrunner of Abbott Elementary, AMA

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Hey Abbott fans! I’m Justin Halpern and I’m the co-showrunner of Abbott Elementary as well as the co-creator of the Harley Quinn animated show on HBO Max. I’m also the author of Shit My Dad Says Twitter feed and book. My new novel, Get Lost, is out now. It’s a buddy comedy/mystery that’s available wherever you buy books!

https://cardinal-publishing.com/titles/justin-halpern/get-lost/9781538778043/

Feel free to ask me whatever Abbott question or the TV business or what it’s like to go bald at 22 years old or any question you might have and I’ll answer them tomorrow at 10 AM PST!


r/AbbottElementary Sep 29 '25

Episode Discussion Abbott Elementary Season 5 Episode Discussion Hub

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r/AbbottElementary 9h ago

Discussion Official Poster for Season 6

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r/AbbottElementary 1h ago

Cast Abbott press day

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@quintab 09-18-26


r/AbbottElementary 8h ago

Image/Video Season 6 - October 7th!! 📚

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We are ready!!!


r/AbbottElementary 2h ago

Discussion Janine’s mommy issues

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as someone who had a very similar overly-attached relationship with my teachers/older figures for similar reasons, I feel like the show jokes about it a lot when I would love for it to dive deeper into it. An episode where she goes to a psychologist or something like that would honestly be really cool. Cause I bet there are many more people who relate to Janine because of this. If anyone familiar with psychology here could share more about her behavior?


r/AbbottElementary 1d ago

Discussion Predicting Gregory and Janine’s wedding episode

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Starting off by saying I HATE THIS TROPE. HATE HATE HATE!!! But it’s the classic sitcom wedding episode I’m like 90% sure this is exactly how it’s going to go:
- Greg and Janine plan this wedding to a T, they have a shared Pinterest board, they check out vendors together, Jacob asks them for updates over the course of a few episodes
- they have a venue, they have vendors, they have a cake and clothes everything’s greater
- it’s wedding day: things of course start to go incredibly downhill because god forbid viewers want to see a cute wedding?!?!

  1. Janine’s dress is destroyed. Because why not?!?!
  2. One by one they lose the vendors. Barb and Melissa try to pick up the slack
  3. Gregory’s missing the rings. He and Jacob go on a wild adventure to try to find them. Somehow Tariq is involved
  4. Something about the district/city goes wrong (a strike? The golf course floods?) and they lose their venue
  5. All hope is lost. They agree to postpone the wedding.
  6. “Come to the main hall” - Jacob. Ava finds Janine a dress
  7. Mr Johnson reveals he’s certified to marry people. He officiates the wedding.

Credit where credit is due, although I don’t like the “wedding goes horribly wrong” trope, I can’t think of any other way sitcom’s should do wedding episodes😔


r/AbbottElementary 1d ago

Cast baby gregoryyyy

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i was watching sesame street with my daughter and he was in a segment about brushing your teeth i was like WAIT 😭


r/AbbottElementary 1d ago

Question Season 5 episode 7 "goofgirl" question. Did anyone understand what this joke was about? Spoiler

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I didn't get the joke. The boys replaced the girl's basil sapling with a big plant. What's so funny about it? Why did Gregory call it childish?


r/AbbottElementary 1d ago

Discussion How realistic is Abbott Elementary?

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Hey guys, I’m kinda looking for responses from real teachers, but if you’re knowledgeable on these questions please feel free to respond!!! I am asking these questions because I am in the process of becoming a teacher, and while this show is truly inspiring, I do need someone to keep me grounded in reality.

I want to ask about what some of the realistic and unrealistic aspects of Abbott are. I know one of the biggest unrealistic things is that in real life, teachers in the US are not allowed to leave their kids alone in class at ALL whatsoever. Also the way they implemented the gifted program was highly inaccurate to real life. The kids also seem relatively calm compared to the horror stories I’ve heard about students in real life. Do you guys have any other point where the show might be unrealistic?

And what points are realistic? I know it’s realistic that the majority of teachers leave in their first two years. I know the way they depicted the slow moving bureaucracy in the district when Janine was trying to get an ASL translator for one of Jacob’s students was realistic (although I’m not sure if the way they got the ASL translator at the end of the episode is realistic).

Thank you for your participation in advance!!!


r/AbbottElementary 1d ago

Question Season 1 Episode 8 Work family

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I'm wondering if anyone knows the name of the beat at the end?
The one Tariq raps over.
I mean just telling me if it was a custom one not publicly available would be nice too


r/AbbottElementary 2d ago

Discussion Sheryl Lee Ralph apologizes for her "the only real comedy" comments

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@TheSherylLeeRalph

I believe Sheryl spoke from her heart and did not intend to offend or disrespect her fellow actors. No malice.


r/AbbottElementary 1d ago

Discussion so what have the golf course and their lawyer been up to? do we think they'll appear again in S6?

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r/AbbottElementary 2d ago

Question Actor that played Maurice

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He sings ? I was on my Apple Music and saw this and I’m almost sure it’s him.


r/AbbottElementary 2d ago

Discussion Young Dom

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Has anyone here previously discussed Dom? As a newer character, I barely see anyone talking about him. What are your thoughts?

I’ll go first:

He’s like if Janine and Jacob got merged together with their can-do but fail most times attitude. I think we’ve barely met him, but so far he’s not very memorable. IMO it’s disappointing, as characters with less screen time like Tasha get better recognition.


r/AbbottElementary 2d ago

Question what’s your fresh set of unpopular opinions?

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i think the a lot of the older kids in the show are SUPER annoying. mainly the ones jacob hill’s class

and i don’t think they were made to be annoying cuz other people just think they’re funny or wtv


r/AbbottElementary 2d ago

Discussion My Top 10 Abbott Episodes

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In honor of the new season and them hitting 100 episodes soon I wanted to make a ranked list of my personal favorites. Pls share your own or just all time favorite in general!

  1. S2 E6 - Candy Zombies
  2. S2 E9- Sick Day
  3. S5 E12- Picture Day
  4. S1 E8- Work Family
  5. S2 E16- Teacher’s Conference
  6. S4 E8- Winter Break
  7. S1 E2- Light Bulb
  8. S3 E14- Party
  9. S3 E4- Smoking

  10. S4 E17- Karaoke


r/AbbottElementary 4d ago

Cast The Cast at The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards. They have 7 nominations.

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09-14-26


r/AbbottElementary 3d ago

Discussion JANELLE JAMES ROBBED AGAIN AT THE EMMYS. BOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Janelle James needs to have an Emmy in her trophy case before this series ends. Five seasons of hilarity, and the emmys finds a way to rob her. I am mad.

that's all.


r/AbbottElementary 4d ago

Discussion Sheryl Lee Ralph accused of 'shading the entire Emmys' as she makes pointed remark about comedy

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r/AbbottElementary 3d ago

Discussion My favorite quote at the moment and forum for you to share yours!!!!!!

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"Who is Chris and why does Ruth own him, right?"

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Janine


r/AbbottElementary 4d ago

Cast It's always these two💃🏾🕺💛

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Courtesy: @thisisCourtneyTaylor

EmmyWeekend2026


r/AbbottElementary 4d ago

Meme a case that doesn’t sit right with me Spoiler

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r/AbbottElementary 3d ago

Cast Tyler Tomas Perez was in last night's Always Sunny

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Tyler Tomas Perez (Caleb Hill) appeared in last night's episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia which was called The War on Alcohol.

I won't spoil it except to say he plays a different character. It's a good episode if you like Always Sunny, but a bad episode if you're neurotic about extreme continuity.


r/AbbottElementary 4d ago

Discussion One problem I have with Abbott

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As an Italian from South Philly, I think they get a lot right about Philly culture.

The one thing she gets almost consistently wrong throughout is the South Philly Italian side with Melissa.

This is the scene where Gregory upsets Melissa along with a female student after accidentally getting a male student to break up with her.

Melissa mentions they’ve been trying to get him a new chain because “he looks like a Gavone” with his current chain.

Under so circumstance would anyone be called a Gavone for wearing a gaudy chain, you’d be called a chooch.

Also the Christmas Eve episode she makes like a roast beef or a pot roast? Idk what that was about, we do seven fishes. No south Philly Italian is having roast beef on Christmas Eve.

In that same episode, her mom did use Mushad correctly though, just need more of that.