"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.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Meredith Baxter as Elyse Keaton
- Michael Gross as Steven Keaton
- Michael J. Fox as Alex P. Keaton
- Justine Bateman as Mallory Keaton
- Tina Yothers as Jennifer Keaton
- Brian Bonsall as Andrew Keaton
Guest Starring[]
- Scott Valentine as Nick Moore
Co-Starring[]
Quotes[]
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.
- Continuity error: Nick's "Twelve-Car Pileup" sculpture, which he showed to Mallory in The Old College Try and sold to Victoria Hurstenberg in Art Lover, can be spotted in his apartment.