History Awesome / WaysideSchool

* The daily grind of school is making Myron feel as if he were in a cage. Although this is a very common feeling, Myron actually acted on it and retaliated by skipping class and heading down to the school's CreepyBasement, something nobody else would dare to do. In the basement, he is confronted by [[TheMenInBlack the three men with the attache case]], who offer him total freedom in exchange for his safety. Myron opts for freedom.

* Sharie plays with her umbrella when a strong gust of wind lifts her into the air. She rises up the the 30th story and jumps in through the window. This allows her to beat the late bell.

* Louis play's "Way-High-Up-Ball" with some of the students, where the goal is to throw a ball as high up the building as possible. The rules aren't important except for one where the ball has to touch the wall to count, what is important is that Louis throws the ball to the [[MissingFloor 19th floor.]] Which doesn't exist.

* Problem #19 of ''More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School'' gets eliminated like so: Mrs. Jewls tells her class that she will give a pop quiz, and that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox she is not allowed to let them find out in advance exactly when they must take it]]. One of the students points out that Mrs. Jewls can't give a pop quiz on Friday, then; if she doesn't give it before that day, the kids will know when it will come. As a result, she tells them the pop quiz can come on any day from Monday to Thursday, before one of the students reminds her they can figure out what day she'll hold it if she doesn't do so before Thursday. The kids reject the possibilities of holding the quiz on Wednesday or Tuesday in the same manner. Mrs. Jewls eventually tells the class that the pop quiz will come on Monday, but realizes that she ''has'' told them when they must take it, and thus decides not to give the quiz at ''any'' time during the following week.

--->Todd: ''(smiles)'' That's the ''third'' cool thing.

* Louis gets another one in Terrence's story. Terrence has been behaving like a major JerkAss, kicking all the balls over the fence and then insulting the other kids. So what does Louis do when they complain to him? [[spoiler:He kicks ''Terrence'' over the fence]].
* In Stephen's story, [[spoiler:[[GoodHurtsEvil he dispatches Mrs. Gorf's ghost by hugging her]]]].
* When Louis asks [[PerpetualSmiler D.J.]] why he is always so happy, D.J. replies, [[spoiler:"You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy."]]

* The daily grind of school is making Myron feel as if he were in a cage. Although this is a very common feeling, Myron actually acted on it and retaliated by skipping class and heading down to the school's CreepyBasement, something nobody else would dare to do. In the basement, [[spoiler:he is confronted by [[TheMenInBlack the three men with the attache case]], who offer him total freedom in exchange for his safety. Myron opts for freedom.]]
* When [[OnlySaneMan Allison]] expresses her disbelief of [[MissingFloor the nineteenth story]], [[spoiler:she finds herself trapped there. How does Allison get back to the real world? She mimicks [[CloudCuckoolander the behavior of her classmates]] in Mrs. Jewls' class.]]
* When Todd's cute toy actually gets him out of trouble with Mrs. Jewls, Joy is determined to steal the toy for herself. So she gets Todd back in trouble with Mrs. Jewls and makes her move while Todd is putting his name on the discipline list. [[spoiler:What Joy didn't know was that Todd turned his toy from a cute puppy to a man-eating wolf, and the toy bites her on the pinky, giving Todd the ultimate revenge.]]

--->Joy: [[spoiler:How do I make it let go?!?]]
--->Todd: ''(smiles)'' [[spoiler:That's the ''third'' cool thing.]]

* When [[spoiler:Mrs. Gorf's vengeful son]] substitute teaches Mrs. Jewls' class and steals the kids' voices with his third nostril, lunch teacher Miss Mush knows something is wrong when [[spoiler:Mr. Gorf]] ignorantly uses super JerkAss Kathy's voice to wish her a nice day. So Miss Mush [[PieInTheFace smashes a pepper cream pie in]] [[spoiler:Mr. Gorf's]] [[PieInTheFace face]], causing him to [[PepperSneeze sneeze]] so hard that [[{{Squick}} his nose falls off]] and all the voices stored in it return to their rightful owners.
* While she is subsitute teaching, Mrs. Drazil scares [[spoiler:her former student Louis into shaving his mustache. The shave turns him from a fun ManChild to a boring by-the-book authority figure.]] When [[spoiler:Louis]] sabotages recess by painting the blacktop black (as instructed by a professional handbook), Joy grabs [[spoiler:Louis']] manual and throws it in the black paint.
* The students' plan to get rid of Mrs. Drazil. [[spoiler:Not only is it effective, it had possibly fatal results.]]

* In Todd's story, after he has his name written on the board and a check-mark put next to it (getting it circled after this means he'll get sent home early), two robbers enter the classroom, [[EpicFail thinking it's a bank]]. When the men realize their mistake and complain that they climbed up 30 flights of stairs for nothing, Todd says they ''do'' have something valuable: knowledge. He then picks up Joy's nearly-full workbook and gives it to the robbers, prompting them to have a HeelFaceTurn and leave (bonus points because [[JerkAss Joy]] [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin was responsible for getting Todd into trouble in the first place]]). [[StatusQuoIsGod Of course]], he still gets sent home early, but when he leaves, everybody (even Shari, but except for [[JerkAss Mrs. Jewl]] stands and applauds him.

* In Todd's story, after he has his name written on the board and a check-mark put next to it (getting it circled after this means he'll get sent home early), two robbers enter the classroom, [[EpicFail thinking it's a bank]]. When the men realize their mistake and complain that they climbed up 30 flights of stairs for nothing, Todd says they ''do'' have something valuable: knowledge. He then picks up Joy's nearly-full workbook and gives it to the robbers, prompting them to have a HeelFaceTurn and leave (bonus points because [[JerkAss Joy]] [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin was responsible for getting Todd into trouble in the first place]]). [[StatusQuoIsGod Of course]], he still gets sent home early, but when he leaves, everybody stands and applauds him.

* When [[spoiler:Mrs. Gorf's vengeful son]] substitute teaches Mrs. Jewls' class and steals the kids' voices with his third nostril, lunch teacher Miss Mush knows something is wrong when [[spoiler:Mr. Gorf]] ignorantly uses super JerkAss Kathy's voice to wish her a nice day. So Miss Mush [[PieInTheFace smashes a pepper cream pie in]] [[spoiler:Mr. Gorf's]] [[PieInTheFace face]], causing [[{{Squick}} his nose to fall off]] and all the voices stored in it to return to their rightful owners.

* Problem #19 of ''More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School'' gets eliminated like so: Mrs. Jewls tells her class that she will give a pop quiz, and that she is not allowed to let them find out in advance exactly when they must take it. One of the students points out that Mrs. Jewls can't give a pop quiz on Friday, then; if she doesn't give it before that day, the kids will know when it will come. As a result, she tells them the pop quiz can come on any day from Monday to Thursday, before one of the students reminds her they can figure out what day she'll hold it if she doesn't do so before Thursday. The kids reject the possibilities of holding the quiz on Wednesday or Tuesday in the same manner. Mrs. Jewls eventually tells the class that the pop quiz will come on Monday, but realizes that she ''has'' told them when they must take it, and thus decides not to give the quiz at ''any'' time during the following week.

* In Stephen's story, [[spoiler:[[GoodHurtsEvilhe dispatches Mrs. Gorf's ghost by hugging her]]]].

* In Stephen's story, [[spoiler:he dispatches Mrs. Gorf's ghost by hugging her]].

* While she is subsitute teaching, Mrs. Drazil scares [[spoiler:her former student Louis into shaving his mustache. The shave turns him from a fun AdultChild to a boring by-the-book authority figure.]] When [[spoiler:Louis]] sabotages recess by painting the blacktop black (as instructed by a professional handbook), Joy grabs [[spoiler:Louis']] manual and throws it in the black paint.

* Miss Nogard plans to humiliate Mac by calling on him for show and tell when she knows that he didn't bring anything. He ends up making up an entertaining speech about his shoelace off the top of his head and gets a standing ovation at the end.

* The daily grind of school is making Myron feel as if he were in a cage. Although this is a very common feeling, Myron actually acted on it and retaliated by skipping class and heading down to the school's CreepyBasement, something nobody else would dare to do. In the basement, [[spoiler:he is confronted by [[{{MIB}} the three men with the attache case]], who offer him total freedom in exchange for his safety. Myron opts for freedom.]]

* When [[OnlySaneMan Allison]] expresses her disbelief of [[MissingFloor the nineteenth story]], [[spoiler:she finds herself trapped there. How does Allison get back to the real world? She mimicks [[CloudCuckoolander the behavior of her classmates]] in Mrs. Jewls' class.]]

* ''Sideways Stories'' gives us four:
** In Todd's story, after he has his name written on the board and a check-mark put next to it (getting it circled after this means he'll get sent home early), two robbers enter the classroom, [[EpicFail thinking it's a bank]]. When the men realize their mistake and complain that they climbed up 30 flights of stairs for nothing, Todd says they ''do'' have something valuable: knowledge. He then picks up Joy's nearly-full workbook and gives it to the robbers, prompting them to have a HeelFaceTurn and leave (bonus points because [[JerkAss Joy]] [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin was responsible for getting Todd into trouble in the first place]]). [[StatusQuoIsGod Of course]], he still gets sent home early, but when he leaves, everybody stands and applauds him.
** In Sharie's story, she falls out of the classroom window while sleeping. Louis is all the way on the other side of the playground when he sees her falling - and he runs the entire length of the field, passing through the various playground instruments in a sort of obstacle course, and catches her right before she hits the ground. Appropriately enough, the other students cheer.
** Louis gets another one in Terrence's story. Terrence has been behaving like a major JerkAss, kicking all the balls over the fence and then insulting the other kids. So what does Louis do when they complain to him? [[spoiler:He kicks ''Terrence'' over the fence]].
** In Stephen's story, [[spoiler:he dispatches Mrs. Gorf's ghost by hugging her]].

* Problem #19 of ''More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School'' gets eliminated like so: Mrs. Jewls tells her class that she will give a pop quiz, and that she is not allowed to let them find out in advance exactly when they must take it. One of the students points out that Mrs. Jewls can't give a pop quiz on Friday, then; if she doesn't give it before that day, the kids will know when it will come. As a result, she tells them the pop quiz can come on any day from Monday to Thursday, before one of the students reminds her they can figure out what day she'll hold it if she doesn't do so before Thursday. The kids reject the possibilities of holding the quiz on Wednesday or Tuesday in the same manner. Mrs. Jewls eventually tells the class that the pop quiz will come on Monday, but realizes that she ''has'' told them when they must take it, and thus decides not to give the quiz at ''any'' time during the following week.
* Miss Nogard plans to humiliate Mac by calling on him for show and tell when she knows that he didn't bring anything. He ends up making up an entertaining speech about his shoelace off the top of his head and gets a standing ovation at the end.

* Miss Nogard plans to humiliate Mac by calling on him for show and tell when she knows that he didn't bring anything. He ends up making up an entertaining speach about his shoelace off the top of his head and gets a standing ovation at the end.

* Problem #19 of ''More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School'' gets eliminated like so: Mrs. Jewls tells her class that she will give a pop quiz, and that she is not allowed to let them find out in advance exactly when they must take it. One of the students points out that Mrs. Jewls can't give a pop quiz on Friday, then; if she doesn't give it before that day, the kids will know when it will come. As a result, she tells them the pop quiz can come on any day from Monday to Thursday, before one of the students reminds her they can figure out what day she'll hold it if she doesn't do so before Thursday. The kids reject the possibilities of holding the quiz on Wednesday or Tuesday in the same manner. Mrs. Jewls eventually tells the class that the pop quiz will come on Monday, but realizes that she ''has'' told them when they must take it, and thus decides not to give the quiz at ''any'' time during the following week.

* Problem #19 of ''More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School'' gets eliminated like so: Mrs. Jewls tells her class that she will give a pop quiz, and that she is not allowed to tell them exactly when they must take it. One of the students points out that Mrs. Jewls can't give a pop quiz on Friday, then; if she doesn't give it before that day, the kids will know when it will come. As a result, she tells them the pop quiz can come on any day from Monday to Thursday, before one of the students reminds her they can figure out what day she'll hold it if she doesn't do so before Thursday. The kids reject the possibilities of holding the quiz on Wednesday or Tuesday in the same manner. Mrs. Jewls eventually tells the class that the pop quiz will come on Monday, but realizes that she ''has'' told them when they must take it, and thus decides not to give the quiz at ''any'' time during the following week.

* Problem #19 of ''More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School'' gets eliminated like so: Mrs. Jewls tells her class that she will give a pop quiz, and that she is not allowed to tell them exactly when they must take it. One of the students points out that Mrs. Jewls can't give a pop quiz on Friday, then; if she doesn't give it before that day, the kids will know when it will come. As a result, she tells them the pop quiz can come on any day from Monday to Thursday, before one of the students reminds her they can figure out what day she'll hold it if she doesn't do so before Thursday. The possibilities of holding the quiz on Wednesday or Tuesday get rejected in the same manner. Mrs. Jewls eventually tells the class that the pop quiz will come on Monday, but realizes that she ''has'' told them when they must take it, and thus decides not to give the quiz at ''any'' time during the following week.

* Problem #19 of ''More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School'' gets eliminated like so: Mrs. Jewls tells her class that she will give a pop quiz, and that she is not allowed to tell them exactly when they must take it. One of the students points out that Mrs. Jewls can't give a pop quiz on Friday, then; if she doesn't give it before that day, the kids will know when it will come. As a result, she tells them the pop quiz can come on any day from Monday to Thursday, before one of the students reminds her they can figure out what day she'll hold it if she doesn't do so before Thursday. Eventually, Mrs. Jewls tells the class that the pop quiz will come on Monday, but realizes that she ''has'' told them when they must take it, and thus decides not to give the quiz at ''any'' time during the following week.

* Problem #19 of ''More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School'' gets eliminated like so: Mrs. Jewls tells her class that she will give a pop quiz, and that she is not allowed to tell them exactly when they must take it. One of the students points out that Mrs. Jewls can't give a pop quiz on Friday, then; if she doesn't give it before that day, the kids will know when it will come. As a result, she tells them the pop quiz can come on any day from Monday to Thursday, before one of the students reminds her they can figure out what day she'll hold it if she doesn't do so before Thursday. Eventually, Mrs. Jewls tells the class that the pop quiz will come on Monday, then cancels it after realizing she told them when they must take it.

* In one story, Paul falls out the window and grabs onto a brick. Leslie saves him by holding her pigtails out and pulling him up with the pigtails he loves to pull.

** In one story, Paul falls out the window and grabs onto a brick. Leslie saves him by holding her pigtails out and pulling him up with the pigtails he loves to pull.

** In Stephen's story, [[spoiler:he dispatches Mrs. Gorf's ghost by hugging her]].