23 minSeason 2 • Episode 10
LatestOn a class trip to the Vancouver Aquarium, Peter and Denise coach Chad on how to express his feelings to Mona, but when she shares her summer plans, Chad realizes he must act quickly to get his girl.
A 14-year-old Persian-American boy desperately tries to fit in, cope with his mother's dating life, and figure out his cultural identity.
Acting
Pedrad's physical comedy as a gangly teen is genuinely unhinged.
Writing
Dialogue so painfully specific it feels documentary-adjacent.
Costume
Chad's aggressively basic fits are character work.
Creator
Nasim Pedrad
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pedrad spent six years developing Chad at multiple networks before TBS picked it up; Fox passed twice.
The show quietly revolutionized Persian-American representation by making Chad's ethnicity incidental to his humiliation—he's universally pathetic, not culturally so.
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