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A teacher in Michigan's Upper Peninsula explores subject matters such as pancakes, blueberries, eggs, toast, sausage, bacon, English muffins, coffee, orange juice, maple syrup, waffles, cornbread, and strawberries.
2021
Joe goes to the furniture store to help his friend Gene pick out a retirement chair.
You and Joe ponder fire, creator and destroyer of civilization.
Joe Pera shows you the past, present, and future of second fridges in the Midwest.
Joe Pera and you stay up late on a weeknight to listen to his girlfriend, Sarah, share details from Wine Night.
Joe Pera attempts to find a movie that is appropriate to show in class.
Joe Pera shows viewers what Marquette, Mich., looks like from above.
Joe Pera shows how to stay busy enough on a winter weekend that the winter won't settle inside.
Joe Pera considers legacy and loss while watching playoff football with the extended Melsky family.
Joe Pera tries his hand at woodworking.
Joe Pera
Joe Pera
Jo Firestone
Sarah Conner
Conner O'Malley
Mike Melsky
Jo Scott
Sue Melsky
Gene Kelly
Gene Gibson
2018
In which Joe Pera, a middle school choir teacher, presents to viewers the importance of Northern Michigan geology, especially iron. Also copper, azurite, tourmaline, and Lake Superior agate.
In which Joe Pera takes viewers for Saturday morning breakfast at his favorite family restaurant.
In which Joe Pera takes viewers along on his "Fall Loop," the drive he does every year on the Saturday following Halloween.
In which Joe Pera attempts to show viewers how to properly dance by yourself at a co-worker's wedding.
In which Joe Pera attempts to talk viewers back to sleep on a rainy night.
In which Joe Pera reads the announcements at church (second Sunday of Advent).
In which Joe Pera attempts to present a spirited New Year's Eve celebration to viewers as well as his neighbor's five-year-old daughter, whom he is babysitting.
In which Joe Pera and the school's band teacher, Sarah Conner, put together a musical based on the Alberta Rat Control Program that has kept the Canadian province rat-free since 1950.
In which Joe Pera answers viewers' questions about cold weather sports such as ice hockey, downhill skiing, snowmobiling, and luge.
2019
Middle school choir teacher Joe Pera shares what he knows about beans, one of the most nutritious plants of all time, as well as his ambitious plans for the upcoming summer.
Joe Pera demonstrates the difference between hiking and just walking outside by using one's legs to go up Sugarloaf Mountain to celebrate the last day of school.
Joe sits and waits for his Nana to finish her appointment at the hair salon before they both go out to eat fried fish.
When the power goes out on a summer evening, Joe Pera wanders around the neighborhood to see what his neighbors are up to; some of Michigan's best lighthouses are featured.
Featuring a number of fruits and vegetables, Joe Pera takes you on his weekly trip to the grocery store.
Joe Pera and you bring a big cooler to a bachelor party in the woods.
What does it take to be married for 40 years? Joe Pera helps teach his friend's wife how to play a song on the piano in time for their anniversary party.
Unable to sleep, Joe Pera stays up late with you sharing some of his favorite internet videos, including 'Yoobi on Wheels'.
Everything is better when cash is involved. Hopefully that is true when Joe Pera and you organize a surprise special event with a cash prize for friends.
In which Joe and you attempt to write something meaningful.
Joe and Gene head to Milwaukee to see Gene's sons put on a fashion show.
Joe shows the audience how to pack a lunch, but it only takes two minutes, so Joe tells the story of how Mike made up with Sue and how he got sprayed by a skunk.
Joe returns to school after summer break.
