Saturday Night Showcase> Mr. Iglesias

Gabriel Iglesias is one of the funniest comics working today. I only have two bad experiences tied to him. One is watching Fluffy Checks In when the blood clot in my leg let me know it was there. One minute I’m watching “Fluffy” and his friends eating (or maybe it was the exercise portion of the show, I can’t remember) and one blink later I’m on the floor and my dad is arguing with 911. I don’t hold that against him and 2016 was just that kind of year, but this incident has not soured me on his stand-up comedy or his various TV shows. His comic book tastes we should discuss…

…but it’s not like the dude he was arguing with knew what he was talking about, either. Plus he does like Transformers so he’s not all bad.

I kid, though. I do enjoy his work and I’ve been watching stand-up clips from his YouTube channel when my recommendation brought up Mr. Iglesias, a Netflix sitcom I didn’t know existed partly because I don’t have Netflix. Starting in 2019 and airing for three seasons (Google AI claiming it was canceled after Fluffy got the 2020 plague, though I don’t know why that would cancel the show for good), Gabriel stars as Gabe Iglesias (stand-up comedians have a habit of keeping their names for their first sitcom, if not all of them), a junior high history teacher. Five of his students, three of his fellow teachers, the principal, and the principal’s snobby assistant round out the cast.

In the first episode, “Some Children Left Behind”, which you should watch before Netflix finds out it’s still up and does the same thing to me they did with Voltron: Legendary Defender by making the official licensee pull the video anyway, those five students are about to get kicked out of school for very stupid reasons. Can Gabe save their scholastic future…even the one who doesn’t want to be saved because it would mean staying in school and not being a loser? Enjoy while you can.

If you have Netflix the series is still available to watch. If you’re like me and don’t have Netflix they still have it available but you can only watch the trailers.