Matt Cahill

Show Description

Russell Academy is a comedy based off a character named Carl Barden. Carl is a washed up star college basketball player from Boston College that landed a job at a private school based on his looks. Carl had a plan of being a star basketball player his whole life until he got hurt during the pre-season that would end his basketball career. His College roommate Ben Stafford is now living the dream as a Boston Celtic even though he had been Carls back up the past four years. Carl is now a miserable history teacher that barely even teaches but has to deal with the crazy employees at Russell. Starting with Pat O’Reilly the gym teacher that is high at all times during school. He is always trying to make fun of Carl, and Pat is a crazy gym teacher that’s always yelling at a kid, laughing, or fighting with his wife over the phone about dinner. Then there’s Donald who’s the old man that hates Carl because he is a slacking teacher. He’s always giving him a hard time about the way he teaches because everything needs to be perfect for Donald. Most of these employees are always giving Carl a hard time besides the Janitor named Bud. Bud is probably the smartest person in that school but got in a little trouble with some gambling. He looks like a gross man and everyone avoids him besides Carl. Bud is a character that you want to listen to what he has to say because it’s always something interesting. They become really good friends throughout each episode. Carl has a love life that varies between a booty call and Wendy Sullivan which becomes comical how awkward Carl is around Wendy. Carl has a lot to worry about at school but also at home.

Mary and Robert Barden are Carls parents and both of them have different outlooks on his life. Mary is a typical mom still trying to pack his lunch calling him 10 times a day to ask how his day is going. His Dad Robert could care less what happens with him once his basketball career went down the drain. He is always smug towards him and every time they have a conversation always brings up he should have stretched more or you would being playing against LeBron in the NBA Finals right about now. On top of that he has to worry about his brother Bryce being a genius and his nagging sister in-law Charlotte always insulting him. Bryce is the favorite now because he is a successful Lawyer. Every time the family get together there is always a nagging fight going on between everyone and it’s always based on the past and who is more successful.

The show is a big mess with a lot of different characters that make it hysterical. Carl is a character that you will become attached to and he is so awkward that everything he does is comical. At times he still thinks everyone knows him for is ball playing days and forgets that he is a history teacher at a private school that he shouldn’t even of had gotten a job at. All in all Russell Academy is filled with a bunch of deranged characters with many different personalities. When they are on scene together you won’t be able to stop laughing the entire thirty minutes.