Pearl (TV series)

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Pearl is an American situation comedy which was broadcast by CBS as part of its 1996-97 lineup.

Pearl told the story of Pearl Caraldo (Rhea Perlman), a middle-aged widow who was the loading dock manager for University Electronics but who wished to achieve a higher level of education. She was accepted as a night student at the prestigious Swindon University. By contrast, her 20-year-old son, Joey Dash Mihok, a single father with no apparent ambition, was disappointed that his mother would no longer be readily available as a live-in babysitter for his infant daughter. Also less than thrilled was Pearl's sister-in-law Annie Carol Kane, who was concerned that with her greater educational attainment Pearl would become another "one of them intellectuals". A professor of a required course, Stephen Pynchon (Malcolm McDowell), further complicated matters by his belief that higher education was for a cultured elite, not working-class people like Pearl, and set out to embarrass and belittle her whenever possible in hopes that she would withdraw from the university.