Humor, but not Toledo, shines in new NBC sitcom

A disgraced Harvard philosophy scholar who takes a job at fictional Whitlock High School as an Advanced Placement biology teacher - he does this essentially to kill time as he plots against the Harvard professor who wronged him - Griffin bemoans that fate returned him to "this garbage pile of a town," as he calls it. And later when another teacher politely observes that "it seems like you're enjoying yourself here," he is quick to correct her: "God, no.