SEASON 1 – COMEDY CENTRAL
Created by Rory Scoval, Sasheer Zamata, Scott Moran, and Anthony King
Music by Jason Gallagher
- 001. Pilot – 5/7/2020
- A young man named Robbie Walton (Rory Scoval), who lives in a small town on the outskirts in Atlanta and manages the local Kreamy King ice cream shop, is desperate to live up to his father Robbie Sr. (Beau Bridges) reputation as the high school basketball coach. As a boy (Trae Romano), Robbie’s father forced him to make basketball shots in exchange for bringing him along to games. He believed that Robbie had to work hard in order to succeed, but as hard as he tried, he only worked his way to coach the church basketball team. Robbie borrows the VHS camcorder from his co-worker Beatrice (Jill Jane Clements) to record a promo for himself. Rory is extremely frustrated with his basketball team and wants to get out of it. Later at the bowling alley, Robbie speaks to his father privately and asks him to get an interview at the high school since his father is retiring after forty years. Robbie’s girlfriend Janie (Mary Holland) interrupts them, and Robbie acts as if he doesn’t know her. His father agrees to get him the interview if he rolls a strike. Despite rolling it granny style, he does in fact get the strike. That night after they sleep together, Robbie tells Janie he is finally getting out of his father’s shadow. Robbie quits his job at the Kreamy King, and Beatrice asks if she can take over. As he is packing up, his ex-girlfriend Ava (Sasheer Zamata) shows up to see him and tells him that her son Caleb (Tre Stokes) is actually Robbie’s son. Robbie wants nothing to do with him, but Caleb has been wanting to meet his real dad. She talks Robbie into taking him for the day, which means taking him to his job interview with Principal Bailey (Harry Alexander). They stop at Caleb’s apartment where Janie is cooking lunch. Because Robbie fed him ice cream and he is lactose intolerant, Caleb throws up all over Robbie’s only suit. He rushes over to his father’s house to borrow a suit from him and winds up getting into a physical altercation when he tells Robbie he can’t take the suit. Robbie takes it anyway and then heads to the interview where he shows Bailey the video he made, which leads into footage of Beatrice’s husband’s funeral. Bailey tells Robbie that they’ve already filled the position with Robbie Sr.’s recommendation. As they are getting ready to leave the high school, Robbie sees Caleb hitting shot after shot in the gym. He is stunned and asks Caleb to join the church team. Caleb tells him he won’t be allowed because of his poor grades. Robbie heads to his father’s house and burns the suit on his basketball hoop. His father admits that he never thought he’d hit the strike and Robbie wouldn’t take no for an answer. He tells Robbie that the woman they hired to coach the teach has been coaching for five years and did the work. Robbie tells his father that Caleb is his grandson. When Ava comes to pick up Caleb, Robby is in the middle of ‘fake’ lecturing him on his grades. Ava surprisingly agrees to let Caleb play on the team but threatens to kill him if he hurts him in any way. Robbie tells Beatrice that he needs his job back, but she says that she’s already called corporate and has the job. He says that is fine because he can only work a few days a week since he has a team to coach. Mel Rodriguez is Father Tom. Charles Black is Robbie Sr.’s bowling buddy Scrap. Clark Sarullo is the hot customer Ashley. Tyler Crumley is team member JP. NOTE: Eric Goins is credited as Jimmy but does not appear in the episode. 12/18/22
- 002. Robbie vs. The Room of Dreams – 5/7/2020
- Robbie shows off some of his basketball memorabilia that he keeps at home in his “Room of Dreams,” which he promises to show the kids when they start winning some games. Karen (Jordan Scoval), the mother of a kid named Eben (Max Ivutin) who Robbie benched because he is terrible, comes after Robbie for not allowing him to play. She also questions whether Caleb is a member of the church since she’s never seen him. Robbie quickly rushes off to see Father Dan (David Theune), interrupting the confession of a guy named Lance (Thomas Blake Jr.), who is confessing that he used his wife’s money to buy a boat. He wants to know how to make Caleb a member of the church, and Father Dan tells him that he would need to be baptized. Robbie goes to see Ava, who is trying to sell some of her essential oils to a beauty salon proprietor named Crystal (Lauren Revard) and asks her about getting Caleb baptized. Ava refuses to let Caleb get baptized, unless Robbie can match her $800 in Caleb’s college fund. Robbie tries asking Beatrice for a pay advance, but she can only offer to give him some extra hours. Robbie’s father comes to see him to tell him he wants to get to know his grandson. Robbie asks him for the $800, but he tells Robbie that he needs to sell off his memorabilia to raise the money. When Robbie goes home to start selling his stuff, Janie is waiting for him and tells him that Crystal told her that he came into her shop to see the woman selling essential oils. She suspects he’s studying to become a masseuse, and Robbie corrects her and tells her that he just found out he’s a father. Janie is thrilled because she thinks this makes her a parent. Robbie looks over his memorabilia, and then decides to steal Lance’s boat and sell it for $800. Caleb and Robbie Sr. hang out and shoot basketball, discussing the baptism. When Caleb says he isn’t sure what he believes, his grandfather tells him that he’s an Agnostic. Robbie’s father also tells him that he was never baptized, nor was Robbie Sr. Caleb then suggests that all three of them get baptized, so they arrange to do so during the next mass. Robbie makes a speech at the church before the baptism and equates getting Gatorade poured over one’s head. Lance then enters the church and accuses Robbie of stealing his boat. Robbie tries to tell him that the insurance will cover it, but it turns out that it wasn’t covered. Lance and Robbie get into a scuffle in the church. Father Dan takes Robbie aside and tells him that he can’t baptized him that day and they’ll have to wait until tomorrow. He also tells Robbie that he is going to have to let Eben play. Ava helps Robbie sell off the collection and she winds up getting more money than he thought thanks to an antique shelf that he was storing memorabilia on. He makes enough to pay off Lance and then put the rest in Caleb’s college fund, even though Caleb isn’t sure he wants to go to college. Sara Rudeseal and Chloe Adona are team members Ashley and Nell. 12/20/22
- 003. Robbie vs. Rooney – 5/7/2020
- Principal Bailey hosts an assembly to dedicate the school gym as Robert Walton Court in honor of Robbie’s retiring father. He also introduces the new head coach Rooney Switt (Lennon Parham), to the heckling of Beatrice who states that men should coach boys and women should coach girls. Robbie pretends to oppose her, but simply repeats all of her complaints toward the new coach. Robbie lays out his plans to his son Caleb about how he will step in has the new head coach once the town runs her out of town. Beatrice reports to Robbie that she just spotted her moving out of her house, but when he goes to check it out himself, he finds that she is actually moving her things in. He again tries to act as if he is on her side, so she encourages him to show up at the PTA meeting to act as an advocate for her. Meanwhile Janie tries to figure out if she should keep calling Robert Sr. ‘Coach’, and pontificates on how he will need to find something new to do with his life. He decides to settle on becoming a songwriter, and then an explorer. At the PTA meeting, he changes course and challenges Rooney to a one-on-one basketball game. If she loses, she loses her job and he is able to apply. She quickly accepts the challenges. Robbie tries to practice with his teen tame, but when Ava shows up to pick up Caleb, she plays him one-on-one, and she destroys him. Rooney shows up in Robbie’s car and taunts him about how badly she is going to embarrass him. Knowing he is going to lose, he announces to the crowd that he and Rooney had planned this together and the whole thing was just a lesson for everyone. Rooney responds by telling the crowd that he is scared to be beaten by a woman. The crowd turns on him and begins to support Rooney. He then attempts to hide in her car but fails to startle her. He apologizes and asks her if he could be part of her coaching team. She tells him that she doesn’t like him and leaves him stranded in the parking lot. Mackenzie Messick is a student who cheers on Rooney. Bryan Brendle is her dad. 5/8/23
- 004. Robbie vs. Tight Pants Tom – 5/7/2020
- After criticizing Eben’s double dribbling again, his mother Karen berates him for not coaching him as he should. This makes Robbie even more annoyed when he finds out that Ava is going out to eat at Pop Pop’s with other players’ parents. When Ava invites him to come along, he says that he’s way too busy doing coaching things to go out with them. He then goes home and eats two hot dogs without buns. He goes to see Janie, but she’s busy trying to call a radio station to try and win a trip to Myrtle Beach. He runs into his father, Scrap, Dwight (Jim McBrayer), and Big Larry (James “Scott” Price), so he tries to start a conversation about basketball, but all they want to talk about is Scrap’s car’s airbag recall. He decides they are even more lame than the parents and receives a warning from his father about establishing good relationships with the parents. Robbie heads over to Pop Pop’s to try and join them, but when he smacks Nell’s father Tom (Jason Davis) in the testicles while referring to his tight pants, the other parents are appalled by him and all storm out. In between calling the radio station and trying to get Robbie to do something sexual with his armpits, Janie advises him to find out what the other parents’ interests are so that he can find something to talk about with them. The next day at practice, he asks the kids what they like. He finds out that Karen likes swing dancing, Tom has been reading the biographies of every U.S. president, Ashley’s father is having an air bag recall. Most kids agree that their parents all are experiencing the air bag conundrum. When Robbie invites them all over, they all say they’re heading home… then they all sneak to go back to Pop Pop’s. Ava tells him that none of them like him and that he should apologize, which Robbie refuses to do. He shows up at Pop Pop’s and tells that that he is quitting the team., suggesting Ava as his replacement. He thinks she will do so poorly that they will be clamoring for him to come back. In the meantime, he does in fact begin to win them over by brushing up on his U.S. Presidents and swing dancing. Ava then shows up with Robert Sr. to take over the coaching. Everyone in in awe and are thrilled to have Robert Sr. as the coach. Robbie then quickly tries to re-instate himself, but they all recall that Ava was given the coaching job. Ava says she will let him have it again if he apologizes to Tom for hitting him in the balls. Summoning all of his fortitude, Robbie apologizes and takes the team back over. Thanks to Robert Sr.’s advise about pulling up your socks and tying your shows, Eben is suddenly able to dribble with one hand. Janie doesn’t win the trip to Myrtle Beach, but she is furious when she realizes that Robbie doesn’t care. To make up for it, he allows the armpit action to take place. Later, while Robbie is having beers with his father, Ava, and Caleb, Janie gives Robbie the ball tap and nearly cripples him with pain. Angie Dillard is the waitress. 5/8/23
- 005. Robbie vs. Sugar Town – 5/7/2020
- Caleb starts working with Robbie at the Kreamy King in order to raise money to buy a drone and is introduces to the bug bucket where they dispose of all of their insects, dead or alive. Meanwhile, Ava and Janie are planning to go meet Sugar Stevens (Angela Ray) who wrote the book Next Stop, Sugar Town for a book signing. This corresponds with Sugar opening up a new Sugar Town ice cream shop in the area, which will be a direct competitor of Kreamy King. Robbie heads over to the soft opening of the new shop to talk smack and winds up taking the worker Ellie’s (Charity Cervantes) offer to try some samples, all of which Robbie finds absolutely heavenly. Robbie then realizes how much trouble they are in since they only serve ‘white’ ice cream without vanilla. He wants to try and steal the thunder from Sugar Town’s grand opening and is especially disappointed when he finds out that his father is doing promotion for Sugar Town. He goes to visit him and calls him a traitor and tries to convince him he should be loyal to the place he took Robbie after his father won his first championship. Ava is afraid that Janie will embarrass her at Sugar Stevens’ book signing, but it turns out to be Ava who freezes, tells Sugar to ‘shut up’ and slinks out without getting her book signed. For the grand opening, Beatrice puts up a sign that says White Only, referring to the ice cream, but Robbie notices how racist it sounds. During the ceremony, Robbie hires a banjo-playing Abe Lincoln (Michael Alban), but Beatrice shoots off a confetti gun and hits Abe in the head. Beatrice finds a picture of the original Kreamy King opening, when it was called Kreamy King Kastle… and was opened by the Ku Klux Klan. Robbie wants to burn the place down, but Beatrice proposes they call the health department and how them the bug bucket. Robbie tells his father that he’s leaving the Kreamy King and he gets a job at Sugar Town. Ava gets a second chance to get an autograph from Sugar Stevens. Robbie chases off a customer (Mary Kraft) by telling a customer they can fill up on samples instead of ordering things. Sugar tells Robbie that she has hired a manager to fill in for her when she is gone. It turns out is Beatrice. Nikolay Nedyalkove is the Lincoln stunt double. 9/13/23
- 006. Robbie vs. Piano Chicken – 5/7/2020
- Robbie’s team manages to pull out a miraculous last-second basketball victory, so Robbie promises Caleb that they will make sure that the team gets new uniforms. He goes to see Father Dan to see if the church can donate money but has no luck. He then asks Sugar if she might be willing to sponsor the team, telling her that they bring in around 200 people to the games. Sugar tells him that she’d like to come check out a game. Robbie asks his father how he can get a big crowd to the game that weekend. Janie suggests that he do a big halftime show. She offers up her cousin’s chicken Piano Chicken, who seems to be an online sensation. Ava says she can’t come to the game because she’s going to be checking out middle schools for Caleb. When she mentions going to Pinecroft Academy, Robbie Sr. mentions that the lady who runs the school is an old classmate of his named Helen Burke (Elizabeth Becka), so he volunteers to go along. Robbie is disappointed that they will both miss the game, and finally asks Janie to get the Piano Chicken. He is stunned when she brings the chicken to Sugar Town and many of the customers seem to know him. They do indeed get a massive turnout at the game, but Father Dan is concerned about the full parking lot because he has to perform the Finfrock wedding later. Sugar shows up and is impressed by the crowd, but Karen nearly ruins it when she asks why there are so many people there. Beatrice serves up Christ Cream and Holy Water. When Helen sees Robbie Sr., she is happy to see him and kisses him on the lips. Ava tries to convince him to ask her out to dinner. Robbie tells the team that they’re going to get their uniforms. Everything is going well until people in the crowd start getting rowdy and throwing up. It turns out that Beatrice has spiked the Holy Water because she has a vendetta against the Catholic church. Before Robbie Sr. can ask out Helen, she gives Ava a kiss on the lips too, and then tells Robbie that she and her husband would like to have him over for dinner. During halftime, Piano Chicken refuses to perform, which cause the crowd to riot and throw ice cream at Robbie. When Ava realizes that the school used to be a plantation with slaves, she decides not to send Caleb there. When the chicken gets loose, Robbie enlists everyone to help find him before the wedding begins. They end up finding the chicken playing piano in the church. The next day at work, Sugar tells Robbie that she saw the fiasco at the game online and gives him the ultimatum to be fired or to pay back the $500 in samples he gave away at the game. He agrees to pay back the money, and then fakes a call from the mayor. Morgan Brown is the customer who recognizes Piano Chicken. Tom Hillman is Phil Finfrock. Amber Erwin is the Pinecroft tour guide. 9/13/23
- 007. Robbie vs. Ava vs. Danielle – 5/7/20
- Robbie celebrates Caleb’s 11th birthday with him at Sugar Town, but then finds out that he is going to be having another birthday party at Ava’s sister Danielle’s (Lyric Lewis) giant home. He invites himself to go along, even though Ava is against it. Robbie insists that Danielle is always telling Ava what to do. When they arrive, Robbie is immediately drawn to the pool, but Danielle insists that it can only be swam in on the Fourth of July. Eventually, the temptation is too great for him, and he jumps in. Danielle’s husband Karl (Carl Tart), who can talk about very little outside his job with Delta, tries to get him out before Danielle sees him. Robbie Sr. is drawn to the grill where Ava’s father Darryl (Gary Anthony Williams) is cooking up the meat. Meanwhile, some of the kids are picking on Caleb because he is having Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Donatello at his party. Janie decides to help him by destroying his TMNT cake, and then heading off the Donatello actor (James Austin Johnson) and holding him in the restroom so the other kids won’t see him. While Robbie changing out of his wet clothes, Karl tells Robbie that Ava has always told them that he ran out on Ava and Caleb, even though he never knew she was pregnant. Because Karl loves his wife, his house, and his life, he goes and tells Danielle immediately, leading to a fight between Danielle and Ava. When Darryl has to go to the bathroom, Robbie Sr. finally gets to take over the grill, but he gets caught when he drops a burger on the ground. When he tells Darryl that he doesn’t want to waste any meat, they agree that they are cut from the same cloth. As Danielle and Ava argue by the pool, the Donatello actor sneaks out the window and jumps in the pool in order to escape, leading to all of the kids following suit. Robbie jumps back in as well, dragging the Xbox that Danielle bought for Caleb with him. At the end of the party, Robbie and Danielle sit in the hot tub, while Janie threatens to jump from the roof into the pool as well. Joshua Montgomery is the bully Marcus. 1/11/24
- 008. Robbie vs. Janie’s Husband – 5/7/20
- Robbie panics as the basketball team’s final game is coming up and Caleb is in a shooting slump. He is also upset when Nell tells him that she won’t make the final game because she is going to a picnic. Meanwhile, Robbie finds out that Janie had married her prisoner pen pal Nate Daniels (Nico Evers-Swindell) to help him look good to the parole board. Now he is getting out, so Janie brings Robbie to meet him at the prison gates. Ava is disturbed when she finds a bottle of lube in Caleb’s backpack, as she Robbie both agree he must be masturbating, which also explains his shooting slump. Nate tells Robbie that Janie has told him very nice things about what a successful inspiration he is, leading to Robbie instantly liking him and inviting him to stay with them until he finds a place. Beatrice warns Robbie that Nate might want to be him and will ultimately kill him. Robbie Sr. coaches Caleb to think of his arm like the neck of a graceful bird when he takes his shots. Ava talks to Robbie Sr. about the lube to look for advice. Nate comes to the next basketball practice to help give the kids a pep talk, but he winds up talking about how much Robbie used to be a loser and has now fully pulled his life together. After the practice, Robbie quietly admits that he hasn’t pulled anything together and still considers himself a loser. This makes Nate decide that he will never make it on the outside, and that he wants to return to prison, thinking it will solve everyone’s problems if he just shoots Robbie and puts him out of his misery. Robbie talks to Calbe about the lube, and finds out that he merely wanted it to make slime with Eben. Furthermore, Robbie is delighted when he finds out that Calbe has stolen the lube from his mother’s drawer. Robbie stays all night in Sugar Town in order to stay away from Nate. However, he is compelled to go coach the last basketball game, even though Nate will know where he is. Robbie is particularly touched when Nell makes the game, having told her parents that she needed to miss her picnic. The team goes on to victory, leaving them with a record of 7-7. After the game, Nate shows up with a gun, but Robbie convinces him not to kill him because he wants to keep on trying to not be a loser. Unfortunately, Nate accidentally fires the gun and hits Robbie in the side. While Robbie is out, he has a dream that his father tells him that he will never escape his shadow if he doesn’t step out from behind him. Robbie wakes up in the hospital, and after realizing that he is going to be okay, he takes great delight in telling Ava that it was her lube that Caleb had. Robbie later visits his father at the bowling alley, using a cane that he doesn’t need, and tells him that he has decided to try and forge his own path and plans to quit coaching basketball. He doesn’t know what he’s going to do, but is sure that he’s going to be great at it. 1/11/24
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