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\u201cWe have put together the most disciplined teams to ever take the mat,\u201d plucky coach Courteney Potter (Jenn Lyon<\/a>, Justified<\/a><\/i>) declares to the camera in Stumble<\/i><\/a>\u2018s series premiere. On cue, her current squad\u2019s pyramid formation collapses.<\/p>\n Courteney\u2019s fallen much further in the high-stakes world of competitive cheerleading. In the opener, she loses her job at the well-funded Sammy Davis Senior Junior College in Texas after a racy video from a victory party surfaces. Her new gig is 80 miles away\u2014in Oklahoma at He\u00e5dltston State Junior College (the pronunciation is a running joke), where the quirky small-town pride centers on a candy button factory. Courteney, whose mantra is \u201cI can, I will, I must,\u201d assembles a misfit squad, the Buttons. Her goal: victory at the College Nationals in Daytona Beach so that she can be the winningest cheer coach in junior college history, a position for which she\u2019s currently tied.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you\u2019re a competitive person, being tied for anything is just a fate worse than death. She\u2019s got to make her life count for something,\u201d says Lyon, who was on her high school JV cheer squad as a \u201cbase,\u201d tossing teammates skyward. \u201cIt\u2019s fast-paced. She\u2019s driven, hits the ground running, and she\u2019s got a team [that woeful collapsing pyramid] by the end of Episode 1.\u201d Check out a bit of that in the above-embedded exclusive clip of the quirky coach in action.<\/p>\n If this story seems familiar but delightfully askew, it is. It was inspired by the popular Netflix documentary Cheer<\/i>, an obsession of creators Liz Astrof (2 Broke Girls<\/a><\/i>) and her brother Jeff (Shining Vale<\/a><\/i>). The doc\u2019s demanding mama bear coach, Monica Aldama<\/a>, is an executive producer and even appears briefly in the premiere as a tracksuit-clad assistant. Lyon dons Aldama\u2019s signature look of silky button-ups, jeans, and boots, and adopts the coach\u2019s mannerisms and vibe, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s very rare that a person can be absolutely terrifying and very warm at the same time. Once you get to know Monica, she\u2019s also extraordinarily maternal and kind.\u201d<\/p>\n