Abbott Elementary Recap: Field Trip

Abbott Elementary’s students and teachers may have crowned the Smith Memorial Playground outing the best field trip ever, but the episode doesn’t quite live up to its predecessors. The storyline is fairly clichéd — a petty playground competition brings out the childlike tendencies of the teachers — which isn’t necessarily a bad thing for Abbott since it’s a series that fully embraces its earnestness, except there weren’t enough standout jokes to balance it out.