"High School Confidential" is the tenth episode in the fifth season of the NBC family sitcom Family Ties. It originally aired on December 4, 1986, and is the hundred-and-second episode of the series overall.
Synopsis[]
Alex accepts the Henry Higgins-like challenge of tutoring Nick so that the rough-hewn young man can obtain a high-school diploma.
Plot[]
Jennifer is upset with her father for his conversations during car pool. Nick wants a job teaching art at the YMCA but is turned down because he does not have a high school diploma. Mallory helps him study for an equivalency test. Alex finally decides to help Nick to pass the test.
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Trivia[]
- Parts of this episode are used as flashbacks in "Wrap Around the Clock".
- Nick wants to teach art, and eventually he gets to do so in "Father, Can You Spare a Dime?"
- "Who's this Gorbachev?" (Neither Mallory, Andrew, nor Mitzi Kasselman know who he is).
- Mallory thinks there might be special verbs for dead people.
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