
Watch Barbara School A Returning Guest Star On This Week’s ‘Abbott Elementary’
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HuffPost has an exclusive sneak peek of this week's "Abbott Elementary" episode — and you'll want to see Sheryl Lee Ralph in action.
Do not mess with Barbara should be an obvious rule on ABC’s hit sitcom “Abbott Elementary.” But somehow, Janine’s not very bright ex, Tariq (Zack Fox), learns this the hard way in a HuffPost exclusive sneak peek of the show’s new episode, “Gregory’s Garden Goofballs,” airing Wednesday night. (Watch the clip above.)
In the clip, Tariq returns to Abbott and surprises Barbara (Sheryl Lee Ralph), the school’s veteran kindergarten teacher, by claiming a student in her class is his “son.” But in typical Tariq fashion, it’s not really the truth. He has only been dating the student’s mother “for, like, seven weeks.” That doesn’t stop him from declaring that “technically, I’m stepdaddy right now.”
“Take your presumably sticky hands off of my student,” an annoyed Barbara tells Tariq.
“You mean, take my definitely sticky hands off of my son,” Tariq responds, while the student glares at him in confusion.
“To quote Maury Povich, you are not the father,” Barbara says.