Jimmy Fallon celebrated Teacher Appreciation Day on Tuesdays Tonight Showwith the latest installment of Freestylin With the Roots. The house band improvised education-themed pop and rap covers using lyrics themed around New York City teachers in the audience.
The Roots first played a variation of the Jackson Fives ABC based on a Brooklyn STEM teacher and his strange student gift of Russian nesting dolls with origami inside. They also twisted Migos Stir Fry into a tribute to a Brooklyn ESL teacher and reworked ABBAs Dancing Queen to honor a Manhattan seventh grade science teacher who loves dancing to Lady Gagas Bad Romance.
Later in the show, Fallon recruited Gabrielle Union for another teacher-themed bit, Musical Morning Announcements. The two performers played nerdy faculty members at Saugerties High School who parodied hit songs with lyrics about conduct policies.
Portugal. The Mans Feel it Steel became a fire drill announcement, with a nasally Fallon singing, Wee-ooh, thats a sound you shouldnt ignore/ Just take the stairs and file out the back door. The duo duetted on a version of Camila Cabellos Havana: Amanda, ooh-na-na/ The lost and found has your new camera, ooh-na-na, Union sang, with Fallon adding, Diana, ooh-na-na/ Theres some bad news about your grandma Im sorry, we should have read these. They also reinterpreted Shawn Mendes Theres Holding Me Back into a graduation celebration and used Cardi Bs Bodak Yellow to remind students not to grind on each other at prom.