The episodes central conflict arises when Jack and Diane get their results on career aptitude tests.
Diane is slated to hold a position of power in a political organization, which delights her parents.
The reception to that revelation is somewhat more muted in the Johnson household.
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This isnt France or Germany, after all.
This inspires Pop to speak up on behalf of blue-collar workers.
No, theyre there because theyre mad about Jacks career aptitude test.
The principal tells them to chill out, since Jacks a nice boy.
The principal shouts desperately after them.
So, Dre asks, would Leslie have been fine with Connor becoming a paid laborer?
No, Leslie responds, I love him.
Pops is proud of his grandson, saying he has a real future.
Every generation is supposed to be better than their parents, right?
Bow declares that shell reach out to Jack.
Suddenly, a dead bird falls from the sky, freaking out Ruby.
Later, when Ruby and Junior are hanging out in the kitchen, Diane walks through.
Ruby takes off her earrings and dares the demonic force to fight her.
No takers so far.
Suddenly a faucet breaks, shooting water everywhere.
Jack wants to follow Ignacio around instead, and Dre begrudgingly lets him.
After all, Pops worked on the neighborhood church and some billboards.
His work still stands.
Dres, on the other hand, fills those billboards with insurance ads featuring dogs in human clothes.
Pops responds that Dres life isnt what he imagined forhisson.
No one wants to buy insurance from a naked dog!
Dre shouts at his departing father.
The numbers show that!
Elsewhere, Junior and Zoey find Ruby literally trying to perform an exorcism on Diane.
Bows still trying to teach Jack Latin, but its going nowhere.
Its not his fault, after all, that society looks down on blue-collar workers.
Bow responds that societal prejudices are why she became a doctor in the first place.
The episode ends with Dre bringing Pops to work, to show him how its done.
Naturally, they immediately run into Leslie, and naturally, he immediately makes a racist comment.
You know they hate you, right?
Pops asks his son after the boss leaves.
Dre admits: I never knew how much until right now.
The show really does that conversation justice, and in doing so, maximizes its unique strengths.
