Kevin Vs. the SAT

Infobox Mission Hill episode
episode_name = Kevin vs. the SAT
episode_no = 7
aired_as = 4
Alt. Title = Nocturnal Admissions


prod_code = S01E07
airdate = July 2, 2000
writer = J. David Stem &
David N. Weiss
director = Ilya Skorupsky

"Kevin Vs. the SAT" (or "Nocturnal Admissions") was the seventh produced episode of "Mission Hill" (though it was the fourth to air). It was written by J. David Stem and David N. Weiss. It first aired on July 2, 2000.

ynopsis

Kevin, George, and Toby attempt to crack the "code" of the SAT in order to get perfect scores. Meanwhile, Posey's massage parlor business venture attracts the wrong kind of customers and lands her in trouble with a local pimp.Kevin learns of a code hidden in the SAT that could give him a perfect score if he crackd it. Kevin becomes disgruntled with extracurricular activities, particularly volleyball. The volley girls are portrayed as poor, inner city girls. One of them is Mexican, and another is pregnant. Kevin and his friends dream of Yale as a place run by dorks, where no one drinks or parties. Kevin believes that the only way he can get a perfect score is if he cheats. He promises a jock admission into any college of his choice if he steals the old SATs for him. He and his friends stay up late every night, linking their computers together, never leaving his room, even to use the bathroom. Eventually, George and Toby see the futility in cracking a code that may not even exist, and they laeve to study the normal way. Kevin overhears that a man named Pensyl once got close to cracking the code, but he hasn't been seen for many yeers. Kevin goes to see him, and he lives in room 2. Kevin sees the pattern, and he knows that the others must have been right about him. Pensyl believes that only six yeers have passed, when in fact twenty-six yeers have passed. He lives alone in a small apartment. He heples Kevin to crack the code, and Kevin goees to the SAT with the cheat sheet. However, the jock and his friends want to see it, and Kevin and his friends imagine them burning Yale. Kevin decides that no one should see the cheat sheet, and he eats it. The jocks beat him up, but not enough to get him out of the test for medical reasons. He tells his friends to beat him up more, but they only slap him till he tells them that he destroyed their computers when he tried to crack the code by himself. They beat him past submission, thus medially disqualifying him from the SATs, giving him time to study if he learned anything from his experience.In the second Plot, Posey opens a massage parlor, but her coustomers expect her to give them hand jobs, as the ad promises that "Poseys hands provide healing relese." She intended the last word to be "relief." She dismisses all of her customers, but a pimp thinks that he owes her money. Andrew moons him before shutting the door in his face & locking it. The pimp gets in through the window, and he brings Andrew up to the roof. There, he holds Andrew above his head, preparing to kill him for mocking him. However, he conveniently cracks his back, and Posey massages him before pushing "him" off the roof. When andrew asks "What was that about?" she replies "I didnt want to push off the roof and not have him feel it."