History YMMV / SummerHeightsHigh

* AcceptableTargets: Narcissists, lower-middle-class Australians, Asians and mentally-handicapped teens get a fair amount of ridicule, but this is usually from the former.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: After the ecstasy overdose of a student named Annabelle, Mr. G writes a musical supposedly in her honour. Unfortunately, eleven days after that episode was shot an actual girl named Annabelle died of an ecstasy overdose. There was no time to re-shoot the scenes with a different name, so many people thought this was a deliberate reference. This may not seem too bad unless you've actually ''heard'' the musical which has the lyrics: "She's a naughty girl/ with a bad habit/ Bad habit for drugs." and "She can't help being a slut/ on a Saturday night." The real Annabelle's parents were not amused, and the ABC had to apologise and put one of those "any similarity between actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental" disclaimers on the start of every episode. It ended up being a case of LifeImitatesArt, because in the show, Annabelle's parents are upset with Mr. G's portrayal of their dead daughter, and he is forced to quickly change it to Mr. G: The Musical (though he's not happy about it).

* JerkAssWoobie: Jonah. Despite being a bully, Jonah has a lot of personal problems that make him somewhat sympathetic. His mother's dead and his father has a very short fuse, implying on several occasions that he hits Jonah for the smallest slip-up. It doesn't help that a few of the Year 7 kids are AssholeVictims who provoke him when they find out he's on thin ice with the teachers.

* ValuesDissonance: Lilley, who is white, uses blackface to portray Jonah, a Tongan. While this may have been acceptable in the late 00s, this was a source of complaints during the airing of the SpinOff ''Jonah From Tonga''.

* AcceptableTargets: Narcissists.
** Lower-middle-class Australians, Asians and mentally-handicapped teens get a fair amount of ridicule, but this is usually from the aforementioned narcissists.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: And then comes back and cross it again.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment -- After the ecstasy overdose of a student named Annabelle, Mr. G writes a musical supposedly in her honour. Unfortunately, eleven days after that episode was shot an actual girl named Annabelle died of an ecstasy overdose. There was no time to re-shoot the scenes with a different name, so many people thought this was a deliberate reference. This may not seem too bad unless you've actually ''heard'' the musical which has the lyrics: "She's a naughty girl/ with a bad habit/ Bad habit for drugs." and "She can't help being a slut/ on a Saturday night." The real Annabelle's parents were not amused, and the ABC had to apologise and put one of those "any similarity between actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental" disclaimers on the start of every episode.
** It ended up being a case of LifeImitatesArt, because in the show, Annabelle's parents are upset with Mr. G's portrayal of their dead daughter, and he is forced to quickly change it to Mr. G: The Musical (though he's not happy about it)
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Jonah's farewell gift to the school.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Jonah: "All... of... the teachers... here... are... gay. Except... [his teacher]... who is... mad... for wh... wast... ing... her time... on me."

*** Jonah was sent to Tonga but was sent back to Australia after the locals couldn't take anymore of his attitude.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Jonah's farewell gift to the school.
* {{Squick}}: Ja'mie flirting with a Year 7 student. Remember that she's portrayed by a 30-something man.

** Mr G demonstrates how not to hug a student. Repeatedly

* ViewerGenderConfusion -- Ofa. [[SamusIsAGirl Who's a girl]].

* EarWorm: Ecstacy...Ecstacy...E,E,E,E,Ecstacy...

* CrossesTheLineTwice -- And then comes back and cross it again.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome / CrowningMomentOfFunny -- Jonah's farewell gift to the school.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming: Jonah: "All... of... the teachers... here... are... gay. Except... [his teacher]... who is... mad... for wh... wast... ing... her time... on me."

** It ended up being a case of LifeImitatesArt, because in the show, Annabelle's parents are upset with Mr. G's potrayal of their dead daughter, and he is forced to quickly change it to Mr. G: The Musical (though he's not happy about it)

* AwesomeEgo: Say what you will about Mr G, but the man can put on one hell of a performance.

* Squick: Ja'mie flirting with a Year 7 student. Remember that she's portrayed by a 30-something man.

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** Lower-middle-class Australians, Asians and mentally-handicapped teens get a fair amount of ridicule, but this is usually from the aforementioned nrcissists.

* JerkAssWoobie: Jonah. Despite being a bully, his mother's dead and his father has a very short fuse. It doesn't help that a few of the Year 7 kids are AssholeVictims who provoke him when they find out he's on thin ice with the teachers.

* TheWoobie -- Jonah, at times.

** YMMV. Anyone who has known (or been) a student with learning difficulties who has had a teacher like her would not find her quite so sympathetic.
** She does however get a PetTheDog moment at the end of the series in which she sincerely wishes Jonah good luck for the future (only to find that he's tagged her car).
** This troper found her quite sympathetic for most of the series, considering Jonah's attention seeking and general {{Jerkass}}ishness. In fact, the only time he ''didn't'' sympathize with her was [[spoiler: in the last episode when she [[WaferThinMint finally]] [[SanitySlippage snaps]] and [[KickTheDog humiliates Jonah in front of the whole class]] before going into hysterics.]]
** It's arguably a 'both sides have a point' situation; the teacher is definitely not equipped to handle a student with Jonah's needs and her attempts to do so are often counterproductive at best, but at the same time Jonah is a genuinely disruptive and disrespectful student who doesn't make it easy for her at all. She doesn't help him the way he needs, but he doesn't help himself with regards to her either.

** It's arguably a 'both sides have a point' situation; the teacher is definitely not equipped to handle a student with Jonah's needs and her attempts to do so are often counterproductive at best, but at the same time Jonah is a genuinely disruptive and disrespectful student who doesn't make it easy for her at all.