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* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou: In "Stretch Is In Love Again", Judy Brille, the daughter of Clay City High School principal Jason Brille, was assigned by her father to keep [[DumbJock Stretch Snodgrass]] busy on dates long into the evening. As a result, he's so tired he's useless playing football; once he even ran the wrong way. Madison High looks to have an embarassing defeat to its principal rival. And nobody at Madison knows what's going on. Stretch is sworn to secrecy by his double-agent girlfriend. So, Miss Brooks, asked to investigate what's going on by Mr. Conklin, interrogates Stretch.
-->'''Miss Brooks''': Who is this new girlfriend, Stretch?
-->'''Stretch''': Oh, no you don't!
-->'''Miss Brooks''': No I don't what?
-->'''Stretch''': You don't get Judy's name out of me! ''(audience laughs)'' I promised to keep it a secret.
-->'''Miss Brooks''': Well, that's your privilege. [[BlatantLies If you don't want me to know Judy's name, I'm not going to know Judy's name. That's all there is to that.]] Judy ''what''?
-->'''Stretch''': Gosh, I didn't even want that part of her name to get out. It just slipped. Look, Miss Brooks. You wouldn't want me to break a promise, would you?
-->'''Miss Brooks''': Fervently. Listen, Stretch. Even if you enjoy all this "rumbering", don't your girl's parents object to these late hours every night?
-->'''Stretch''': Oh, I'm sure they don't.
-->'''Miss Brooks''': How can you be so sure?
-->'''Stretch''': Her old man gives me the money to take her out.
-->'''Miss Brooks''': What!
-->'''Stretch''': Sure! He's not like our principal. Mr. Brille's a good sport.
-->'''Miss Brooks''': Stretch, you're telling me you're taking out Judy Brille?
-->'''Stretch''': How did you know?
-->'''Miss Brooks''': [[DeadpanSnarker A little birdbrain told me.]]
-->'''Miss Brooks''': Who is this new girlfriend, Stretch?
-->'''Stretch''': Oh, no you don't!
-->'''Miss Brooks''': No I don't what?
-->'''Stretch''': You don't get Judy's name out of me! ''(audience laughs)'' I promised to keep it a secret.
-->'''Miss Brooks''': Well, that's your privilege. [[BlatantLies If you don't want me to know Judy's name, I'm not going to know Judy's name. That's all there is to that.]] Judy ''what''?
-->'''Stretch''': Gosh, I didn't even want that part of her name to get out. It just slipped. Look, Miss Brooks. You wouldn't want me to break a promise, would you?
-->'''Miss Brooks''': Fervently. Listen, Stretch. Even if you enjoy all this "rumbering", don't your girl's parents object to these late hours every night?
-->'''Stretch''': Oh, I'm sure they don't.
-->'''Miss Brooks''': How can you be so sure?
-->'''Stretch''': Her old man gives me the money to take her out.
-->'''Miss Brooks''': What!
-->'''Stretch''': Sure! He's not like our principal. Mr. Brille's a good sport.
-->'''Miss Brooks''': Stretch, you're telling me you're taking out Judy Brille?
-->'''Stretch''': How did you know?
-->'''Miss Brooks''': [[DeadpanSnarker A little birdbrain told me.]]
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* {Delinquents}}: In "Sunnydale Finishing School", Miss Brooks' friends think she's going to take a job at the exclusive school - after snoopy Mrs. Davis finds a years-old letter offering Connie employment. Walter Denton seeks to keep Miss Brooks at Madison High School by pretending to undergo a FaceHeelTurn and [[ZanyScheme become a juvenile delinquent.]]
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* {Delinquents}}: {{Delinquents}}: In "Sunnydale Finishing School", Miss Brooks' friends think she's going to take a job at the exclusive school - after snoopy Mrs. Davis finds a years-old letter offering Connie employment. Walter Denton seeks to keep Miss Brooks at Madison High School by pretending to undergo a FaceHeelTurn and [[ZanyScheme become a juvenile delinquent.]]
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* HystericalWoman: Miss Brooks is typically the most intelligent and well-grounded person at Madison High School. However, in an out-of-character moment, she begins laughing hysterically at the end of "The Hobby Show". Miss Brooks' friends had come over, worried about her overworking, and were trying to get Miss Brooks to take up their various hobbies. That is to say, they expected Miss Brooks to fingerpaint (Harriet Conklin), knit (Mrs. Davis), play with a model train set (Walter Denton), play chess (Mr. Boynton) and fix broken toys for needy children (Mr. and Mrs. Conklin) ''all at the same time''.
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* HereThereBeDragons: In many episodes, Mr. Conklin has an old map of North America from the time of the UsefulNotes/AmericanRevolution hanging on his office wall (i.e. "Spare That Rod!"). The northwest portion of North America is a blank.
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* CoolTeacher: Miss Brooks is usually considered the most popular teacher in the school. In "The Weighing Machine", the students think she's broke (more broke than usually) and start a fundraising campaign on her behalf. In TheMovie GrandFinale, she's able to call a secret meeting of the student body (or a large segment thereof) in the boiler room to elect Mr. Conklin "Coordinator of Education".
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* DelayedReaction: Mr. Conklin often does this, for comedic effect. "Cure That Habit" is one of the notable occasions where Miss Brooks, accustomed to this peculiarity, anticipates and mimics his reaction.
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* AbortedDeclarationOfLove:
** In "Stretch the Basketball Star", Mr. Boynton nearly declares his love for Miss Brooks when visiting her classroom. However, he's interrupted by Walter Denton, Mr. Conklin and Stretch Snodgrass.
** "Tears for Mr. Boynton" sees Miss Brooks follow Mrs. Davis' advice and try to use crying to induce Mr. Boynton to propose. It almost works, but Mrs. Davis returns home with her cat Minerva at just the wrong moment. [[spoiler: Miss Brooks finally marries Mr. Boynton at the end of TheMovie GrandFinale]]
** In "Stretch the Basketball Star", Mr. Boynton nearly declares his love for Miss Brooks when visiting her classroom. However, he's interrupted by Walter Denton, Mr. Conklin and Stretch Snodgrass.
** "Tears for Mr. Boynton" sees Miss Brooks follow Mrs. Davis' advice and try to use crying to induce Mr. Boynton to propose. It almost works, but Mrs. Davis returns home with her cat Minerva at just the wrong moment. [[spoiler: Miss Brooks finally marries Mr. Boynton at the end of TheMovie GrandFinale]]
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* CrappyHomemadeGift: In "Home Cooked Meal", Miss Enright knits Mr. Boynton a sweater. It's extremely short in the body, long in the arm, and very tight; so much so that when Mr. Boynton compliments it saying it looks like something out of Esquire Magazine, Miss Brooks quips it looks like something "Out of Esquire, by Film/{{Seabiscuit}}."
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* ForgetfulJones: Miss Brooks' elderly landlady Mrs. Davis is often described as "absent-minded". Sometimes she forgets what she's talking about, and switches tack mid-sentence. In "Phone Book Follies", Mrs. Davis is absentmindedly packing phone books in her bag after looking up numbers.
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* HomemadeInventions: It happens a few times on the series:
** "In Living Statues", Walter Denton creates a paint to buffer up worn and scratched wallpapers and walls. Unfortunately, he adds "Jeffrey's Marine" (aka rubber cement) to the mixture. HilarityEnsues.
** "Dying Easter Eggs" has Walter create a 24-hour delayed-action Easter Egg dye. HilarityEnsues when [[DumbJock Stretch Snodgrass]] accidentally fills the soap dispenser at Mrs. Davis' with the invention.
** In "Transition Show", Mr. Munsee is shown to have many childish, cobbled-together inventions. One of them is a robot that only sharpens pencils.
** "In Living Statues", Walter Denton creates a paint to buffer up worn and scratched wallpapers and walls. Unfortunately, he adds "Jeffrey's Marine" (aka rubber cement) to the mixture. HilarityEnsues.
** "Dying Easter Eggs" has Walter create a 24-hour delayed-action Easter Egg dye. HilarityEnsues when [[DumbJock Stretch Snodgrass]] accidentally fills the soap dispenser at Mrs. Davis' with the invention.
** In "Transition Show", Mr. Munsee is shown to have many childish, cobbled-together inventions. One of them is a robot that only sharpens pencils.
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* AshFace: In "Home Cooked Meal", Mr. Conklin ends up with a face full of soot after he lights a match in a kitchen filled with gas. Conklin also ends up covered in roast turkey.
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* BatmanGambit: Occasionally used by Miss Brooks to have Mr. Conklin or Mr. Stone go along with her ideas - or to help someone get out of trouble.
** In "New School TV Set" (a radio episode), Miss Brooks [[ZanyScheme has everyone talk like a cowboy]] to demonstrate the deleterious effect the television had on the students and faculties alike (in the 1950s, with certain exceptions, Westerns dominated television schedules). Mr. Stone, in exasperation, demands the television set be disposed of.
** In "Turnabout Day" (a television episode), when students act as teachers and teachers as students, Miss Brooks protects Walter Denton from being ''expelled'' for forging a letter from Mr. Stone approving the event. Miss Brooks uses gossip she heard about Mr. Stone's recent absent-mindedness to convince him he forgot approving the letter and should go on vacation ''immediately''. Miss Brooks also gets Mr. Stone to give her and Mr. Boynton a free trip to the (well-chaperoned) vacation lodge in Eagle Springs.
** In "New School TV Set" (a radio episode), Miss Brooks [[ZanyScheme has everyone talk like a cowboy]] to demonstrate the deleterious effect the television had on the students and faculties alike (in the 1950s, with certain exceptions, Westerns dominated television schedules). Mr. Stone, in exasperation, demands the television set be disposed of.
** In "Turnabout Day" (a television episode), when students act as teachers and teachers as students, Miss Brooks protects Walter Denton from being ''expelled'' for forging a letter from Mr. Stone approving the event. Miss Brooks uses gossip she heard about Mr. Stone's recent absent-mindedness to convince him he forgot approving the letter and should go on vacation ''immediately''. Miss Brooks also gets Mr. Stone to give her and Mr. Boynton a free trip to the (well-chaperoned) vacation lodge in Eagle Springs.
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* GloryDays: In "The Big Game", the GloryDays for assistant football coach Gus "Snakehips" Geary was when he won the big game of 1912 almost singlehandly. After high school, he was hired as vice president of a local firm for publicity - then a few years after he was demoted to janitor. As it paid the same salary, he stayed on until he was layed off and returned to Madison High as a popular assistant coach.
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* HeatWave: Notably, the focus of the radio episode [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Heat Wave"]]. Mr. Conklin can have school cancelled due to the sweltering conditions, but he won't so long as he's kept cool by the fan secreted in his desk drawer. Walter Denton, Harriet Conklin and Stretch Snodgrass try to get school dismised in order to go to the "old swimming hole" over at Phillip's Farm. Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton join in the scheme.
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* HospitalEpilogue: In "Pensacola Popovers", Mrs. Davis' Pensacola Popovers are guaranteed to make anyone (or any animal) that eats one sick-to-the-stomach. Miss Brooks gives a few to Mr. Boynton (along with a good deal of junk food) so she can nurse him back to health, part of a ZanyScheme [[TheyDo to get Boynton to propose marriage.]] It doesn't seem to work. Yet, at the end of the episode Mr. Boynton suddenly passes out in the middle of the Biologist's Club dinner. He ends up telephoning Miss Brooks from the hospital.
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* HospitalEpilogue: In "Pensacola Popovers", Mrs. Davis' Pensacola Popovers are guaranteed to make anyone (or any animal) that eats one sick-to-the-stomach. Miss Brooks gives a few to Mr. Boynton (along with a good deal of junk food) so she can nurse him back to health, part of a ZanyScheme [[TheyDo to get Boynton to propose marriage.]] marriage. It doesn't seem to work. Yet, at the end of the episode Mr. Boynton suddenly passes out in the middle of the Biologist's Club dinner. He ends up telephoning Miss Brooks from the hospital.
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* {{Flashback}}: A large part of "Borrowing Money to Fly" involves Miss Brooks recalling her initial arrival in Madison and her first coming to teach at Madison High School.
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* HospitalParadiso: It happens to Miss Brooks at least five times, three on the radio and twice on television:
** In "Sunnydale Finishing School", Miss Brooks turned down a position at a private school and went to teach at Madison High School.
** In "Clay City English Teacher", Miss Brooks turns down an attractive job offer from Jason Brille to continue teaching at Madison High School ([[FriendlyEnemy in spite of not being able to stand]] [[DeanBitterman Principal Osgood Conklin]].
** In "Connie's New Job Offer", Miss Brooks turns down a job that offers twice the pay she gets as a teacher.
** In the television episode "Baseball Slide", Miss Brooks turns down a $500 bonus to sign with the Peoria White Sox Woman's Softball team. Miss Brooks warns Mr. Conklin, however, that if she is faced with continued unpleasantness she might just take up the offer.
** "King and Brooks", another television episode, sees Miss Brooks turn down a position where she'd go to India and teach the son of the Maharajah of Bungatti.
** In "Sunnydale Finishing School", Miss Brooks turned down a position at a private school and went to teach at Madison High School.
** In "Clay City English Teacher", Miss Brooks turns down an attractive job offer from Jason Brille to continue teaching at Madison High School ([[FriendlyEnemy in spite of not being able to stand]] [[DeanBitterman Principal Osgood Conklin]].
** In "Connie's New Job Offer", Miss Brooks turns down a job that offers twice the pay she gets as a teacher.
** In the television episode "Baseball Slide", Miss Brooks turns down a $500 bonus to sign with the Peoria White Sox Woman's Softball team. Miss Brooks warns Mr. Conklin, however, that if she is faced with continued unpleasantness she might just take up the offer.
** "King and Brooks", another television episode, sees Miss Brooks turn down a position where she'd go to India and teach the son of the Maharajah of Bungatti.
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* ExactEavesdropping: "Mrs. Davis Reads Tea Leaves" begins with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Mrs. Davis reading Miss Brooks' tea leaves at breakfast]] and seeing Miss Brooks and [[LoveInterest Mr. Boynton]] renting "honeymoon cottage" and surrounded by children and rabbits. Later, in the Cafeteria at lunch, Miss Brooks hears Mr. Boynton talking to teenage [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold Harriet Conklin]] about renting the cottage at the end of June with Miss Brooks . . . if she'll agree. Miss Brooks expects a proposal of marriage, what Mr. Boynton has in mind is running a summer camp.
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* FrameUp: In "Taking the Rap for Mr. Boynton", Miss Brooks tries to get Mr. Boynton into trouble with Principal Conklin. This ZanyScheme is so [[MakesSenseInContext can take the blame for him and make him less]] ObliviousToLove. This involves trying to make it look like Mr. Boynton ate Mr. Conklin's lunch and drawing a cartoon of Mr. Conklin as a mouse and making it look like Mr. Boynton's work.
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* BadBoss: Mr. Conklin is a pompous, overbearing, ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem DeanBitterman. Amongst the staff and students at Madison High School he scores a ZeroPercentApprovalRating - with the exception of [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold his daughter Harriet]]. Still, Conklin actualy does have the best interest of the high school in mind, and he's often shown to have a HiddenHeartOfGold. That said, his relationship to Miss Brooks is best described as that of a FriendlyEnemy.
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* {{Descriptiveville}}: Madison High School of the eponymous [[EverytownAmerica City of Madison]] has, as its main rival Clay City High School of the eponymous Clay City. Clay City is first introduced in the early radio RoadTrip episode "Game at Clay City". Notably, in the second television season opener, "Clay City Chaperone", Miss Brooks is chaperone in Clay City for the Madison cheerleaders attending the big football game between the two arch-rivals. In these episodes, its never explained who or what clay is. It may well be the soil. The trope, however, is averted in some later episodes where the rival high school is named [[UsefulNotes/HenryClay Henry Clay High]].
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* FourthWallGreeting: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Transition Show"]] begins with Miss Brooks in the school cafeteria talking to the audience. Madison High School has suddenly been ordered closed and demolished to make way for a new Los Angeles Freeway (in spite of the show previously being set [[EverytownAmerica in a small city named Madison]]. Miss Brooks leaves the about-to-be-demolished school cafeteria, and goes to tell-off the [[DeanBitterman also-fired Mr. Conklin.]] By the end of the episode, Miss Brooks and Mr. Conklin are working at Mrs. Nestor's Private Elementary School in the San Fernando Valley.
** Notably, the [[CanonDiscontinuity concurrent radio show continued at the extant Madison High]] in its EverytownAmerica setting. That was also the continuity followed by TheMovie GrandFinale at the end of the season. This left the fourth season of the television series an OddballInTheSeries disjointed from the rest of the program's run.
** Notably, the [[CanonDiscontinuity concurrent radio show continued at the extant Madison High]] in its EverytownAmerica setting. That was also the continuity followed by TheMovie GrandFinale at the end of the season. This left the fourth season of the television series an OddballInTheSeries disjointed from the rest of the program's run.
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* FlyingSaucer: In the episode "Space, Who Needs It?", [[HighSchoolHustler Walter Denton]] makes a model of a flying saucer. He holds it on a stick in front of Mr. Conklin's telescope lens, tricking the [[DeanBitterman principal]] into thinking the Earth's being invaded.
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* ForeignLanguageTitle: The episode "Le Chien Chaud et le Mouton Noir". In English, this translates to "the hot dog and the black sheep", referring cleverly to two [[RunningGag jokes]] running through the episode.
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* DeanBitterman: Osgood Conklin, albeit of the RepressiveButEfficient variety. Unlike some other examples of the trope, he loves his position as principal and seems to love Madison High School and its wellbeing. The students and teachers? In "Spare That Rod!" its shown that he has mottos on his wall reading such sentiments as "Respect Through Power". Although the head of the school board, Mr. Stone, is generally satisfied with Mr. Conklin ("Nodnick Daughter of Medick") by the time of the TheMovie GrandFinale he's had enough of his dictatorial-streak. Stone threatens to dismiss Conklin, leading to Conklin to run against Stone for in the election for the newly created position of "Coordinator of Education".
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* CrackOhMyBack: In "Old Age Plan", both Mr. Conklin and Mr. Boynton suffer from this as thinking about old age has given them "stiffness in the joints". Fortunately, the cause was purely psychosomatic and they get better when Miss Brooks shows them via a ZanyScheme how foolish they were acting.
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* ExpospeakGag: Teenage Walter Denton is sometimes very fond of SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. It's on these occasions that Denton engages in expospeak. The following example is a petition he writes for the episode "Cafeteria Boycott", [[SoundToScreenAdaptation remade for television]] as "The Cafeteria Strike". Note the oddball combination of 50's slang, extensive "borrowing" from the Declaration of Independence, and assorted legalese (the petition omitted for time in the newest syndication cut of the show). Walter Denton is simply asking for Mr. Conklin to fire the incompetent new school chef.
-->'''Walter Denton''': Whereas and to wit--\\
'''Miss Brooks''': [[RedScare That's pretty strong language, isn't it? A little on the pink side.]]\\
'''Harriet Conklin''': Listen, Miss Brooks.\\
'''Walter Denton''': When in the course of student's events, it becomes necessary to turn one's back on one's stomach, we the undersigned, exercising our constitutional right to peaceably assemble, and to form a committee to seek the redress of grievances, do hereby announce our firm intention of the Madison High School Cafeteria only to use the tables, chairs, water, napkins and toothpicks provided therein. Until such a time that the duly appointed party or parties, namely Mr. Osgood Conklin, principal, or the Board of Education, responsible for the operational bog-down that has befallen this installation, do take such action that will improve the food, lower the prices and better the service in said cafeteria. It is also recommended the person, or persons, in whom this authority is vested, immediately see that the present chef in charge of preparing the food, and without any further frippery or fanfare, chuck him the heck off the premises. Well, Miss Brooks, what do you think of it?\\
'''Miss Brooks''': [[DeadpanSnarker How much do you want for the picture rights]]?
-->'''Walter Denton''': Whereas and to wit--\\
'''Miss Brooks''': [[RedScare That's pretty strong language, isn't it? A little on the pink side.]]\\
'''Harriet Conklin''': Listen, Miss Brooks.\\
'''Walter Denton''': When in the course of student's events, it becomes necessary to turn one's back on one's stomach, we the undersigned, exercising our constitutional right to peaceably assemble, and to form a committee to seek the redress of grievances, do hereby announce our firm intention of the Madison High School Cafeteria only to use the tables, chairs, water, napkins and toothpicks provided therein. Until such a time that the duly appointed party or parties, namely Mr. Osgood Conklin, principal, or the Board of Education, responsible for the operational bog-down that has befallen this installation, do take such action that will improve the food, lower the prices and better the service in said cafeteria. It is also recommended the person, or persons, in whom this authority is vested, immediately see that the present chef in charge of preparing the food, and without any further frippery or fanfare, chuck him the heck off the premises. Well, Miss Brooks, what do you think of it?\\
'''Miss Brooks''': [[DeadpanSnarker How much do you want for the picture rights]]?
