Lisa becomes upset when Dave gives Matthew one of her assignments. Bill tries to make sure that Mr. James’ early April Fool’s pranks won’t get in the way of his interview with a Wall Street Journal reporter. Beth falls in love with a man that she’s never met after going through his desk.

Lisa: I don’t know. Why don’t you just ask Herb Stemple here?
Forced into a quiz show style competition about the New Hampshire primary with Matthew, Lisa compares him to the luckless Herb Stemple who was a champion player on the old TV game show Twenty-One. Book smart Stemple was a consistently overpowering player, but he was coerced into throwing the game to the more telegenic contestant Charles Van Doren. Stemple was one of the people who blew the whistle on the fixing of TV game shows in the 50s. In the 1994 movie Quiz Show, Herb Stemple, was portrayed by John Turturro.

Jimmy: That sweet girl from Saved By the Bell, she did a dirty movie!
Saved by the Bell was a situation comedy set at a high school. Debuting as part of NBC’s Saturday morning line-up, it proved popular enough to be moved into prime time. The ‘sweet girl’ Jimmy is referring to is Elizabeth Berkley who played Jessie Spano from 1989-1992. In 1995 she played the lead in the infamous 1995 movie Showgirls, a role in which she spent much of the time either half or wholly naked.

Matthew: It was just like that kid show on Nickelodeon.
The show Matthew is remembering is You Can’t Do That On Television. Jimmy James steals two of the running gags from the series for his April Fool’s gags, namely: dropping water on any one who says the word “water” and dropping green slime on anyone who says “I don’t know.”

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