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* BerserkButton: Do NOT insult Polly's spoons, breathe on them, or touch them without gloves unless you want to be endlessly screamed at.


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* AttentionWhore: Nancy. Almost every episode focused on her is about her trying to impress her friends by bragging about something or trying to ape something popular, usually with hilariously embarrassing results.
** Jesse probably also counts to a lesser extent. When he's not cheating at schoolwork, he's telling BlatantLies to everyone in and out of school to make himself look cool. He tends to fail even more miserably than Nancy.

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** There may only be an exception with a potential DoubleEntendre joke in the episode "Bing, Bing, Bing, and a Shot" where in the doctor's office, Jesse and Mrs. Myerson briefly interact and he misunderstands what she is telling him. Jesse was on his underwear, and uses a newspaper to cover himself where Mrs. Myerson enters the office, then she starts talking probably about something in the newspaper, but due to the way she points at Jesse, he thinks she was talking about a certain part of his body, in a way that could be considered InnocentInnuendo, or even GettingCrapPastTheRadar. (She was actually talking about a mole.)

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** There may only be an exception with a potential DoubleEntendre joke in the episode "Bing, Bing, Bing, and a Shot" where in the doctor's office, Jesse and Mrs. Myerson briefly interact and he misunderstands what she is telling him. Jesse was on his underwear, and uses a newspaper to cover himself where Mrs. Myerson enters the office, then she starts talking probably about something in the newspaper, but due to the way she points at Jesse, he thinks she was talking about a certain part of his body, in a way that could be considered InnocentInnuendo, or even GettingCrapPastTheRadar.InnocentInnuendo. (She was actually talking about a mole.)



* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: There are a few instances of this.
** In one episode, called "Squeezed Out", after her trip to Florida, Nancy asks the girls if they want to see her tan lines, even though we never see it happen.
** In another episode, we hear Polly tell Nancy that she needs to be present somewhere to help hold her dress down while she does cartwheels. We never see cartwheels take place.
** In the episode "Bing, Bing, Bing, and a Shot", we manage to see Jesse in his underwear, and his mother embarrasses him in front of Mrs. Myerson during that. Mrs. Myerson also says a few things to him during that scene that may be this, if not InnocentInnuendo.
** In the episode "Over the River and Through the Swamp", Vinnie asks the pregnant music teacher where babies come from (just to annoy or embarrass her), but she just gets a blank stare, sighs nervously, and continues as if that didn't happen. Moments later, she goes into labor, causing most of the kids to run off the classroom nervously, but Vinnie just says enthusiastically: "So we're now really going to learn where babies come from!". But that doesn't happen, as the teacher is sent to the hospital and Miss Graves announces the birth of the music teacher's daughter the next day. When Vinnie raises his hand to ask Miss Graves about that question, she straightly tells Vinnie that if he continues to ask that, she will call the principal.
*** However, there is an ''entire episode'' which can be considered this, since its main plot involves the class watching a film about puberty and reproduction called "Your Body Is Changing", although nothing graphic is shown, it's still a topic that [[WesternAnimation/{{AsToldbyGinger}} almost]] no cartoon targeted at children ever addresses. Within said episode, some dialogues also count as this, among them:
** Jesse brags to his friends that he already knows everything about reproduction since he was 3 and that his parents are now the ones who have questions. These are all {{Blatant Lies}}.
** Nancy tells Jesse that she does know about the topic of the film, after reading a book she found in the back of a closet. However, she refuses to tell anything to Jesse because it makes her feel uncomfortable to say that stuff out loud.
** Freddie (the class nerd) thinks he has seen the film and starts describing it to the other boys: "It was about a kid named Kevin, who was around 12, and who one morning, woke up in bed and looked under his covers, and he saw...''({{Beat}}, as the other boys gasp in excitement'')...that his toes were all wet and instead of skin, he had scales!" Vinnie promptly corrects him (the movie Freddie had seen was called ''Kevin goes to Mars'') and tells him that it isn't the way their bodies will change. During the actual film, both Freddie and his father seem embarrassed by it, covering their ears at certain points, and when Freddie tells his dad that he has questions, he quickly says "Go tell your mother, she's a doctor!".
** The film is shown separately to boys and girls, in different classrooms, and accompanied by their fathers/mothers and Mr. Besser/Nurse Pitts respectively, but Jesse's father couldn't come so his amazingly embarrassing mother accompanies him instead, and at one point, when the film (off-screen) shows the figure of a female body, she covers Jesse's eyes, preventing him from seeing most of the film. Also, it is hinted that Mr. Besser doesn't know much about the topic of the film, as he thanks Jesse's mother for explaining something about females which we don't hear. At the end of the episode, Jesse convinces Nurse Pitts to give him a pamphlet about the topic of the film, but his mother discovers this and decides to have an amazingly embarrassing talk with Jesse (which we also don't see/hear).

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** In one episode, called "Squeezed Out", after her trip to Florida, Nancy asks the girls if they want to see her tan lines, even though we never see it happen.
** In another episode, we hear Polly tell Nancy that she needs to be present somewhere to help hold her dress down while she does cartwheels. We never see cartwheels take place.
** In the episode "Bing, Bing, Bing, and a Shot", we manage to see Jesse in his underwear, and his mother embarrasses him in front of Mrs. Myerson during that. Mrs. Myerson also says a few things to him during that scene that may be this, if not InnocentInnuendo.
** In the episode "Over the River and Through the Swamp", Vinnie asks the pregnant music teacher where babies come from (just to annoy or embarrass her), but she just gets a blank stare, sighs nervously, and continues as if that didn't happen. Moments later, she goes into labor, causing most of the kids to run off the classroom nervously, but Vinnie just says enthusiastically: "So we're now really going to learn where babies come from!". But that doesn't happen, as the teacher is sent to the hospital and Miss Graves announces the birth of the music teacher's daughter the next day. When Vinnie raises his hand to ask Miss Graves about that question, she straightly tells Vinnie that if he continues to ask that, she will call the principal.
*** However, there is an ''entire episode'' which can be considered this, since its main plot involves the class watching a film about puberty and reproduction called "Your Body Is Changing", although nothing graphic is shown, it's still a topic that [[WesternAnimation/{{AsToldbyGinger}} almost]] no cartoon targeted at children ever addresses. Within said episode, some dialogues also count as this, among them:
** Jesse brags to his friends that he already knows everything about reproduction since he was 3 and that his parents are now the ones who have questions. These are all {{Blatant Lies}}.
** Nancy tells Jesse that she does know about the topic of the film, after
reading a book she found this in the back of a closet. However, she refuses to tell anything to Jesse because it makes her feel uncomfortable to say that stuff out loud.
** Freddie (the class nerd) thinks he has seen
future, please check the film and starts describing it trope page to the other boys: "It was about a kid named Kevin, who was around 12, and who one morning, woke up in bed and looked under his covers, and he saw...''({{Beat}}, as the other boys gasp in excitement'')...that his toes were all wet and instead of skin, he had scales!" Vinnie promptly corrects him (the movie Freddie had seen was called ''Kevin goes to Mars'') and tells him that it isn't the way their bodies will change. During the actual film, both Freddie and his father seem embarrassed by it, covering their ears at certain points, and when Freddie tells his dad that he has questions, he quickly says "Go tell make sure your mother, she's a doctor!".
** The film is shown separately to boys and girls, in different classrooms, and accompanied by their fathers/mothers and Mr. Besser/Nurse Pitts respectively, but Jesse's father couldn't come so his amazingly embarrassing mother accompanies him instead, and at one point, when
example fits the film (off-screen) shows the figure of a female body, she covers Jesse's eyes, preventing him from seeing most of the film. Also, it is hinted that Mr. Besser doesn't know much about the topic of the film, as he thanks Jesse's mother for explaining something about females which we don't hear. At the end of the episode, Jesse convinces Nurse Pitts to give him a pamphlet about the topic of the film, but his mother discovers this and decides to have an amazingly embarrassing talk with Jesse (which we also don't see/hear).current definition.
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-->'''Arthur(over all the other screaming students without raising his voice): 71.

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-->'''Arthur(over all the other screaming students without raising his voice): voice):''' 71.



* InnocentBigot: Happens in episode "Don't know, Don't care, Smells" when the kids have an assignment to write about a different culture and ask classmates to help. For example, Nancy, says "I'm so hungry that I would eat a cow" while having dinner with her classmate's family. They are from India. Polly is even worse by saying China copied Lithuania and isn't worth talking about.

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* InnocentBigot: Happens in episode "Don't know, Don't care, Smells" when the kids have an assignment to write about a different culture and ask classmates to help. For example, Nancy, says "I'm so hungry that I would eat a cow" while having dinner with her classmate's family. They are classmate Sanjay's family who happens to be from India.India where eating beef is a religious taboo. Polly is even worse by saying China copied Lithuania and isn't worth talking about.
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* VerySpecialEpisode: ''It Takes Your Breath Away'', deals with Nancy being diagnosed with asthma, and going with a non-professional doctor who gives her a "miracle cure" for it. This leads to Nancy having an asthma attack in front of all her classmates, and afterwards Nancy decides to deal with her asthma after some of the other kids from the class reveal they have also had medical problems, some worse than Nancy's. The doctor, by the way, is actually arrested at the end of the episode and just barely avoids being beaten up by Nancy's mother.

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* VerySpecialEpisode: ''It "It Takes Your Breath Away'', Away", deals with Nancy being diagnosed with asthma, and going with a non-professional doctor who gives her a "miracle cure" for it. This leads to Nancy having an asthma attack in front of all her classmates, and afterwards Nancy decides to deal with her asthma after some of the other kids from the class reveal they have also had medical problems, some worse than Nancy's. The doctor, by the way, is actually arrested at the end of the episode and just barely avoids being beaten up by Nancy's mother.
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* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: Jesse and Vinnie once taught a parrot to say rude things as part of a prank. Unfortunately, for them, the parrot heard them using their names while discussing ideas.

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* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: In "The Peep and the Sheep", Jesse and Vinnie once taught a parrot to say rude things as part of a prank. Unfortunately, for them, the parrot heard them using their names while discussing ideas.



* OnceDoneNeverForogtten: Jessie trying to cheat his eye exam get brought up a few times even by Mrs. Graves.

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* OnceDoneNeverForogtten: OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Jessie trying to cheat his eye exam get brought up a few times even by Mrs. Graves.
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* NeverLiveItDown: Jessie trying to cheat his eye exam get brought up a few times even by Mrs. Graves.


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* InnocentInnuendo: This may be the case with a scene where Mrs. Myerson encounters Jesse in the doctor's office wearing nothing but his tighty-whiteys trying to cover himself with a newspaper. It appears that she was remarking on a picture in the newspaper he was covering himself with, while he thought she was pointing out something to do with him because of what state she catches him in. Nothing is ever clarified, though, with what she was talking about and what he thought she meant concerning what she sees and having a shot.

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* InnocentInnuendo: This may be the case with a scene where Mrs. Myerson encounters Jesse in the doctor's office wearing nothing but his tighty-whiteys briefs trying to cover himself with a newspaper. It appears that she was remarking on a picture in the newspaper he was covering himself with, while he thought she was pointing out something to do with him because of what state she catches him in. Nothing is ever clarified, though, with what she was talking about and what he thought she meant concerning what she sees and having a shot.
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* InnocentInnuendo: This may be the case with a scene where Mrs. Myerson encounters Jesse in the doctor's office wearing nothing but his tighty whities trying to cover himself with a newspaper. It appears that she was remarking on a picture in the newspaper he was covering himself with, while he thought she was pointing out something to do with him because of what state she catches him in. Nothing is ever clarified, though, with what she was talking about and what he thought she meant concerning what she sees and having a shot.

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* InnocentInnuendo: This may be the case with a scene where Mrs. Myerson encounters Jesse in the doctor's office wearing nothing but his tighty whities tighty-whiteys trying to cover himself with a newspaper. It appears that she was remarking on a picture in the newspaper he was covering himself with, while he thought she was pointing out something to do with him because of what state she catches him in. Nothing is ever clarified, though, with what she was talking about and what he thought she meant concerning what she sees and having a shot.

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* AntiSchoolUniformsPlot: One episode involves the school begins requiring uniforms after they get offended by some female students jewelry. This is treated as negative thing.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Vinnie tries to enter a science fair with a project his brother Tony had previously entered in a previous fair and, unlike other times he tried to pass Tony's previous works as his own, he checked if Ms. Graves was Tony's teacher back then. As Vinnie learns when Ms. Graves reveals it, she was a judge at the previous fair and wrote "Good work, Tony" on the back of the project.

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An obscure Canadian-French cartoon series, based on the children's book "Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402", is about schoolchildren and the school they attend. The main characters are, as the title suggests, the problematic and mischievous students at Room 402. Their teacher is Gracie Graves. The series aired in the United States on [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]], in Canada on Creator/{{Teletoon}} and in Latin America and Europe on Fox Kids/Jetix.

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An obscure Canadian-French cartoon series, based on the children's book "Gracie ''Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402", 402'', is about schoolchildren and the school they attend. The main characters are, as the title suggests, the problematic and mischievous students at Room 402. Their teacher is Gracie Graves. The series aired in the United States on [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]], in Canada on Creator/{{Teletoon}} and in Latin America and Europe on Fox Kids/Jetix.
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* AllForNothing: Freddie goes through a whole episode trying to change his clothes since it's a girl's shirt,Polly wears the same and it's picture day. At the end Graves has him sit at the front and hold the plaque with the class number, which cover his shirt.

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* EpicFail: Some of Vinnie's off-screen pranks.
-->'''Sanje:''' The principal wants to see you for vandalizing his car.
-->'''Vinnie:''' How does he know it's me?
-->Sanje:''' ''He was in the car when you did it''.



* FatIdiot: Besser, some focus is brought up on his belly and he is usually and idiot.
* FoodAsBribe: When Besser asks Graves to change Polly's grade from an A- to A+ (she lost points because her essay while good was full of random Lithuanian trivia) she notices that he is eating a cake that he claims is a Lithuanian's specialty.



-->'''Graves:''' Shames it didn't also erased my good work Tony message at the back.



* ShoutOut: In one episode, Jesse was forced to wear glasses that actually damaged his eyesight. (He had a cheat sheet but failed to notice the doctor asked him to read the second line instead of the first one) The episode was titled "Jesse [[WesternAnimation/MrMagoo Magoo]]".

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In one episode, Jesse was forced to wear glasses that actually damaged his eyesight. (He had a cheat sheet but failed to notice the doctor asked him to read the second line instead of the first one) The episode was titled "Jesse [[WesternAnimation/MrMagoo Magoo]]".Magoo]]".
** Vinnie's password for Arthur's secret library is "call me Ishmael".

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* ElectionDayEpisode: President of the school is elected in episode called "Election Day."

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* ElectionDayEpisode: President of the school is elected in episode called "Election Day."" She (it's Polly) is overthrown after a couple of day but no one else can agree on who should be in charge.



* InnocentBigot: Happens in episode "Don't know, Don't care, Smells" when the kids have an assignment to write about a different culture and ask classmates to help. For example, Nancy, says "I'm so hungry that I would eat a cow" while having dinner with her classmate's family. They are from India.

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* HighSchoolHustler: Arthur will get you what you want for an (exorbitant) price and is way more cunning than your regular kid.
-->'''Graves:''' I'll choose a number between one and a hundred and the one who guess the number will have the job.
-->'''Arthur(over all the other screaming students without raising his voice): 71.
-->'''Graves:''' He is good.
* InnocentBigot: Happens in episode "Don't know, Don't care, Smells" when the kids have an assignment to write about a different culture and ask classmates to help. For example, Nancy, says "I'm so hungry that I would eat a cow" while having dinner with her classmate's family. They are from India. Polly is even worse by saying China copied Lithuania and isn't worth talking about.


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* NeverLiveItDown: Jessie trying to cheat his eye exam get brought up a few times even by Mrs. Graves.


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* WouldHitAGirl: No one wants to throw a dodgeball at Penny because she is practically a saint, but when it's Polly's turn to play everyone including boys throw it.
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* ButtMonkey: In a matter of speaking, Jesse [=McCoy=] and Vinnie Nasta could consider to be. Basically because they always try to pull pranks that end up backfiring on them in the end, often making them face worse consequences for it than what they tried to evade.

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* ButtMonkey: In a matter of speaking, Jesse [=McCoy=] and Vinnie Nasta could consider be considered to be. Basically because they always try to pull pranks that end up backfiring on them in the end, often making them face worse consequences for it than what they tried to evade.



** In cases of clumsiness, incompetence, and being tormented on and having pranks pulled on him by the kids, Principle Mr. Besser is.

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** In cases of clumsiness, incompetence, and being tormented on and having pranks pulled on him by the kids, Principle Principal Mr. Besser is.
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An obscure Canadian-French cartoon series, based on the children's book "Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402", is about schoolchildren and the school they attend. The main characters are, as the title suggests, the problematic and mischievous students at Room 402. Their teacher is Gracie Graves. The series aired in the United States on Fox Family, in Canada on Teletoon and in Latin America and Europe on Fox Kids/Jetix.

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An obscure Canadian-French cartoon series, based on the children's book "Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402", is about schoolchildren and the school they attend. The main characters are, as the title suggests, the problematic and mischievous students at Room 402. Their teacher is Gracie Graves. The series aired in the United States on [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family, Family]], in Canada on Teletoon Creator/{{Teletoon}} and in Latin America and Europe on Fox Kids/Jetix.
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* FalseTeethTomfoolery: Jessie's grandfather has them and shows them to Jessie.
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* SnowedIn: Happens to Jessie when he is visiting his grandparents and there's a big snowstorm.
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* ClothingSwitch: Freddie switches his sweater with another girl in "Pretty as a picture"
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* DressesTheSame: Polly and Freddie wear the same sweater in "Pretty as a picture day" and Freddie is embarrassed. What's worse is that it's a picture day.

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* PictureDay: In "Pretty as a picture" episode.
* PhonyDegree: In "It takes your breath away" episode Dr. Tenorio is not a real doctor and is arrested at the end of the episode.



* PhonyDegree: In "It takes your breath away" episode Dr. Tenorio is not a real doctor and is arrested at the end of the episode.
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* AteItAll: Jessie eats all the food that he and Nancy are selling at a school charity fare.

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* AteItAll: Jessie eats all most the food that he and Nancy are selling at a school charity fare.fair.
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* InnocentBigot: Happens in episode "Don't know, Don't care, Smells" when the kids have an assignment to write about a different culture and ask classmates to help. For example, Nancy, says "I'm so hungry that I would eat a cow" while having dinner with her classmate's family. They are from India.
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* StealingTheCredit: In "Election Day" episode Jordan blames another classmate for using Jordan's idea.
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* ElectionDayEpisode: President of the school is elected in episode called "Election Day."
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* WackyHomeroom: The whole point of the show.
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*AteItAll: Jessie eats all the food that he and Nancy are selling at a school charity fare.
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An obscure American cartoon series, based on the children's book "Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402", is about schoolchildren and the school they attend. The main characters are, as the title suggests, the problematic and mischievous students at Room 402. Their teacher is Gracie Graves. The series aired in the United States on Fox Family, in Canada on Teletoon and in Latin America and Europe on Fox Kids/Jetix.

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An obscure American Canadian-French cartoon series, based on the children's book "Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402", is about schoolchildren and the school they attend. The main characters are, as the title suggests, the problematic and mischievous students at Room 402. Their teacher is Gracie Graves. The series aired in the United States on Fox Family, in Canada on Teletoon and in Latin America and Europe on Fox Kids/Jetix.

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