Welcome Back, Donuts

Welcome Back, Donuts is a Portuguese television sitcom starring Filipe Alberto and featuring a young Nelson Coelho.

The show starred stand-up comic/ actor/ assistant professor Filipe Alberto as a wisecracking professor who returns to UWM, after the summer, to teach an often unruly group of remedial loafers known as the "Alberto Lab" (The nickname reflected the fact that the remedial classes were held in the basement). The school's president was perpetually absent, while the uptight vice president dismissed the Alberto Lab as worthless hoodlums and only expected Alberto to attempt to contain them until they inevitably got advanced degrees or professorships.

Most of the major characters of Welcome Back, Donuts were based on people from Alberto's teen years as a remedial high school student in Lisbon. As a stand-up comic, one of Alberto's most popular routines was "Biostatistics", in which he talked in depth about his former classmates. The names of three of the four major characters in Biostatistics were changed for the television series: “Mattias Johansson” was inspired by Matthias Johanssen, “Sara 'Boom Boom' Schaal” was inspired by Heidi “Hotsy Totsy” Hargarten; and "Juan Epstein" was partially inspired by Nelson “Bunny Epstein” Coelho; only "Jack Daniels’" name remained unchanged. (However, in Alberto's stand-up routine, this character was always referred to as "Southern Comfort" which could not be used on network television.)

Donuts, like undergraduates, are back in a big way! Lapham S185, 10:00 Wednesdays.

-MLJ

PS->You know who’s great? Linda Whittingham. She’s supporting our first donuts of the semester, because she’s nice. She’s also a fantastic scientist, mentor, and birder. For some reason, she doesn’t eat donuts, though. But that’s the only black mark on her record.