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* ItRunsInTheFamily: In "Choices", Walter mistakenly gets the highest score on a test and gets to move up a grade. When Merv suggests Mr. Lippman thinks they're holding him back, Walter says that he likes being held back, as it's a family tradition (his father was held back three times). Walter would end up repeating his freshman year.
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** In "Choices", when Walter is given the highest score on a quiz and gets to move up a grade, he decides he doesn't want to and makes a number of idiotic choices to keep it from happening, only to end up succeeding by accident. [[spoiler:It turns out he actually did so poorly that the computer that graded the test did so out of pity.]]
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* JudgementOfSolomon: In "Choices", Mr. Lippman sees himself as being good at these. When Alex and another student argue over which of them owns a book, he sees this as an opportunity, first imagining a situation where he settles which of the girls a baby belongs to, and then decides to cut the book in half. When neither lets the other keep the book, he starts to saw the book, until a teacher sees him and reprimands him for it.
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** In a Mr. History segment, Alex claims that her goat ate her homework, before a young Abe Lincoln (Merv) tells the teacher that she does not have a goat.
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* JudgementOfSolomon: In "Choices", Mr. Lippman sees himself as being good at these. When Alex and another student argue over which of them owns a book, he sees this as an opportunity, first imagining a situation where he settles which of the girls a baby belongs to, and then decides to cut the book in half. When neither lets the other keep the book, he starts to saw the book, until a teacher sees him and reprimands him for it.
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* ThePermanentRecord: In "Choices", Kevin cheats on his quiz, then thinks that if he gets caught it will go on his permanent record, and imagines scenarios where he faces the consequence of what's on his permanent record (including being turned down for a job, turned down for marriage, and a surgeon refusing to help him).
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* DartboardOfHate: In "How We Look", Mr. Lippman throws darts at a picture of students.
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** Mr. Lippman is often the victim of slapstick caused by students, or by faulty technology he adds into the school.
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** In a Merv-U-Mentary, Merv has Walter dress in a grass skirt and lei in protest of the new dress code. Mr. Lippman sees Walter and starts to get on his case.... about taking two milks at lunchtime, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight barely even caring about the hula attire]] (and informing him that the school board rejected the dress code idea).
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* BIttersweetEnding: In "I'm Dead", a bully threatens to beat Walter dead by the end of the school day, which Walter dreads. [[spoiler:After Walter's [[SpringtimeForHitler actions to get expelled]] get Mr. Lippman to fire the Parent Patrol, the bully sees Walter as a hero and acts friendly towards him. But although the bully decides he's no longer going to kill Walter, he's still going to beat up Walter, and does off-screen.]]
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* BIttersweetEnding: BittersweetEnding: In "I'm Dead", a bully threatens to beat Walter dead by the end of the school day, which Walter dreads. [[spoiler:After Walter's [[SpringtimeForHitler actions to get expelled]] get Mr. Lippman to fire the Parent Patrol, the bully sees Walter as a hero and acts friendly towards him. But although the bully decides he's no longer going to kill Walter, he's still going to beat up Walter, and does off-screen.]]
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* BIttersweetEnding: In "I'm Dead", a bully threatens to beat Walter dead by the end of the school day, which Walter dreads. [[spoiler:After Walter's [[SpringtimeForHitler actions to get expelled]] get Mr. Lippman to fire the Parent Patrol, the bully sees Walter as a hero and acts friendly towards him. But although the bully decides he's no longer going to kill Walter, he's still going to beat up Walter, and does off-screen.]]
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* CassandraTruth: In "I'm Dead", Erin tries to teach Walter self-defense but keeps hurting him with her moves. The Parent Patrol (it makes sense in context) shows up after hearing Walter scream and asks who hurt him, but when Walter tells them Erin did, they think he's covering for somebody bigger.
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* SpringtimeForHitler: In "I'm Dead", Walter worries when a bully threatens to beat him dead at the end of school. At one point, he tries to get himself suspended and kicked out of school by spray painting the Parent Patrol, who send him to Lippman's office. [[spoiler:But when they leave, Lippman doesn't punish Walter, proud of him for doing something about the Parent Patrol, whose control he was against.]]
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* MockMillionaire: In one episode, Merve reveales he's been writing to a rich girl who he falsely informed that he was rich to. When he expects a visit, he convinces his friends to pretend to be his servants. However, when she meets Merv, she admits she's not interested in him because she doesn't like how stuck-up rich guys are. Merv then admits that he's not really rich after all. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for Merv, she does not believe him, and his friends keep their promise to not break character no matter what.]]
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* MeaningfulName: The Scottish janitor is named Mr. Macbroom.
* MockMillionaire: In one episode, Mervereveales reveals he's been writing to a rich girl who he falsely informed that he was rich to. When he expects a visit, he convinces his friends to pretend to be his servants. However, when she meets Merv, she admits she's not interested in him because she doesn't like how stuck-up rich guys are. Merv then admits that he's not really rich after all. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for Merv, she does not believe him, and his friends keep their promise to not break character no matter what.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: In "Conformity", Kevin doesn't like Alex's new look. Alex is in a dress that looks like a potato sack, and she's worried about being ridiculed by the other girls. They show up and tease her for her fashion.... Before showing that the other girls are in the same kind of dress, and they were referring to Alex's choice of shoes.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: In "The People vs. Walter", Mr. Lippman learns he has this when it turns out that [[spoiler:just about the whole school, with the main exception of Walter, played a part in ruining his portrait.]]
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* BigEater: Al Patterson, Walter's dad. When he gets hired as a substitute teacher, he constantly orders large amounts of food to his classroom.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Although Walter's father, Al Patterson, gets a degree to become a drivers ed teacher, he constantly drives into mailboxes and runs into Mr. Lippman's car.
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Erin hates being called "Squirt", which Grant often does. One episode has her dealing with students who constantly tease her over this nickname.
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* ADogAteMyHomework: In "Manny in Love", Mr. Lippman has to watch somebody's dog for a week. At one point the dog chews up evaluation reports that Lippman is supposed to turn in to his boss, and he asks himself "what am I supposed to tell my boss, that my dog ate the reports?"
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* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: In "Manny in Love", Kevin greets the gang with "Hello, my fellow humans... and Manny".
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* CrappyHolidays: "Holidays" has sketches of assorted holidays going wrong, such as Alex frustrated with trick-or-treaters or Walter and Tarah's fathers going at it during Thanksgiving dinner.
* CriminalDoppelganger: Lippman is mistaken for the infamous Shiny Top in the eponymous episode, who has run of the school in the meantime. It turns out to be AllJustADream, however.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Walter's dad takes advantage of being a MallSanta to trick Walter into admitting if he's done anything naughty. That part works, but then the old man gets so angry that he starts chasing Walter around and threatening him. Big mistake, as the assorted children watching this spectacle start crying and their angry mothers proceed to clobber Walter's dad.
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* GymClassHell: Sometimes in the first two seasons, the boys or the girls would suffer this, such as being told to make baskets while standing on their heads.
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* ProudToBeAGeek: Merv makes no secret of his geeky and intellectual pursuits. It pays off for him, as he ends up graduating high school after his freshman year.
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* RecordedAndStandUpComedy: The Home Room Announcements segments in the first two seasons parodied this. Mr. Lippman would be so bored by announcements that he'd fantasize about being a stand-up comic making assorted cracks and puns at students' expense, with his assistant providing any requisite rimshots. Occasional groans from frustrated students would also be shown.
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* HollywoodNerd: Merv is somewhere between Type 1 and Type 2.
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* TheDitz: Walter. In fact, when he took his [=SAT=] exam, he did so poorly that the computer gave him a perfect score ''out of pity''. [[spoiler:It's a miracle he gets out of his freshman year at the end of the series]].
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* TooDumbToLive: Walter. In fact, when he took his [=SAT=] exam, he did so poorly that the computer gave him a perfect score ''out of pity''. [[spoiler:It's a miracle he gets out of his freshman year at the end of the series]].
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* MallSanta: In "Holidays", Walter's dad works as one and asks Walter if he'd been really naughty in terms of doing anything to his father's property, in an attempt to get Walter to admit that he had.
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* SchoolPlay: In one episode, the school had a Shakespearian play. Many of the actors ended up locked in the closet (Alex was locked in by Kevin because he wanted a girl he liked to play his love interest instead, Kevin was locked in the closet because Grant was so jealous of him and Alex kissing in the show, and Mr. Lippman was locked in).
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* SchoolPlay: In one episode, the school had a Shakespearian play. Many of the actors ended up locked in the closet (Alex was locked in by Kevin because he wanted a girl he liked to play his love interest instead, Kevin was locked in the closet because Grant was so jealous of him and Alex kissing in the show, and Mr. Lippman was locked in).in by his agent who wanted to screw him over with his contract).
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Originally, the show was a sketch comedy show, with the sketches tied to a theme (such as "money" or "holidays"). In the third season, the format changed to a more typical tween-oriented sitcom. sitcom (which wasn't well-received). Basically, the show was ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' but far more cynical meets an early version of ''All That'' (in the days when it was a sketch show) and less moralistic.
filtered through 1990s cynicism and moral ambiguity.
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* SecondYearProtagonist: Obviously averted, considering the title is "Welcome '''Freshmen'''.'' Played straight in the second season with Kevin and Alex.
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* GranolaGirl: Tarah is sometimes portrayed as this, such as in a skit where Walter and his dad go to her house for Thanksgiving, only for her to serve a "turkey" made entirely out of tofu. HilarityEnsues.
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* TokenBlack: Kevin
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* GradeSkipper: The offered justification as to why Merv was PutOnABus - he managed to finish high school in just a year, resulting in him going off to college... and thus remaining a freshman.
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* HeldBackInSchool: By the third season, Walter flunks his freshman year.
