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The school’s new cleaning lady, Linda (Bonnie Urseth), is a sweet, dedicated worker who is mentally challenged. Mike admires her spirit and Punky mentions how unfair it is that people like Linda sometimes get mistreated by other people. Mike teaches his class about classical music and plays a recording of the violin solo from “Träumerei“ by Robert Schumann. Linda, who was in the hallway, tries to picture herself performing and follows along, but her impersonation is spotted by Allen, who laughs uproariously at her and leads the class in jokes of “Linda, the Amazing Spray Bottle Musician“. Enraged, Mike disciplines Allen by assigning him a three page report on the Special Olympics, while Punky seeks out a mortified Linda by saying Punky herself did some “dumb stuff“ too. Linda says it is more than being foolish, she believes she is limited by life. The next day, Mike is setting up some musical instruments for a lesson when a conversation with Linda reveals that she may have a greater gift for music than even she realizes. Later that day, Mike brings in a person to play a violin ’s Linda, who plays for the class the solo from the previous day.
