Newhart Good-Bye & Good Riddance, Mr. Chips (1982–1990) Online

In my adult years I entered a specialty food store in Forest Hills, New York. It was a small store with glass counters to one side. I was greeted by the owner who stood behind talking in Hebrew to another patron. When the costumer turned towards me I was positively abashed with horror . There she was my sixth grade Hebrew teacher standing face to face in the flesh. Inches apart. That was her, no doubt about it. All the bad memories came flooding in. The humiliation being ridiculed and emasculated by her vicious tongue. Tearing up my spelling book in front of the whole class because I made some doodles on the side of the page which infuriated her. There stood a bad memory right in front of me. A little more pudgy and gray but the face was the same and that unmistakable voice. The good new was that she didn't even react to me. She didn't recognize me. Twenty years passed since that awful experience and thank goodness nothing happened. In this episode of "Newhart" Dick Loudon's reunion with his sixth grade teacher went completely the opposite. Dick (Bob Newhart) owns an Inn called the Stratford and is a writer by trade. Dick wants to improve his typing skills so he takes an adult education class at the local high school . To his chagrin his old caustic grammar school teacher Lew Brooney (William Windom) is his appointed instructor. In this instance Mr Brooney's memory was instantaneous as the former teacher remembers Dick or as he contemptuously addresses him Richard Loudin from back in the day as a defiant pupal . Mr. Brooney's condescending remarks, insults towards Dick and his classmates was too much mental anguish to bare. Dick decides to have a class revolt with predictable results. The episode shows you that people and even educators don't change and further more no matter how old or established you are old teachers/parent will treat you as if your still a child. The question is will Dick get in the last word and have closure? Great dialogue between the domineering Brooney and the timid Loudin as writer Barry Kemp can provide. Getting back to the specialty store and that shocking encounter with my former teacher,the only words that came out of her mouth were, "Help that young gentleman." I left the store shaken and as I drove off. I felt cheated by a higher power. There were good people I've meet in my life. Old friends and past loves I would gladly like to run into but in this case why the irascible Teacher? There some lesson to be learned here ..

Dick is taking a touch typing class and finds the instructor is Mr Brooney, his strict sixth grade teacher.

Hilarious episode and one of the top ten best of all time. The great character actor William Windom guest stars as Mr Brooney. The laughs are non stop once we get to the classroom. Brooney still acts the same and treats his adult students just like children. Dick tries to get the other students to revolt, funniest classmate is a teacher's pet type who sucks up to Brooney. There is also a very funny Michael/Stephanie subplot where Michael tries to act cocky like Tom Cruise. The final scene between Dick and Brooney is hysterical.