Let’s crack open a warm, suspiciously fermented cider and talk about this week’s (Best Digital Moment of the Week). The Setup: Field Trip Gone Sideways The episode follows the gang on a chaotic field trip to a local apple orchard (sponsored by "Zip Lap Cider"—a name so aggressively generic it loops back to being hilarious). Ava is useless, Melissa is scheming, and Jacob is… Jacob.

Welcome back, faculty room faithful. We are officially past the halfway point of Abbott Elementary’s sensational first season, and Episode 8, "Zip Lap Cider," is the one where the show stopped being just a funny mockumentary and started being a romantic funny mockumentary.

And then—the mic drop. He pauses. Looks at her. The tiniest, most microscopic corner of his mouth twitches.

"Come on. You didn’t have even a little bit of fun today?"

Episode Title: "Zip Lap Cider" Original Air Date: February 15, 2022 BDMV = Best Digital Moment of the Week