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10	The Wacky Homeroom occurs when there are students, all in one class, that have distinctly quirky personalities, such as AlphaBitch, BrainlessBeauty, etc. The students may make up the FiveManBand archetype, or perhaps many of them will be {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s with an OnlySaneMan thrown in to represent the audience and/or contrast all the wackiness. If there's some focus on the teacher, expect to see SenseiChan, the AbsentmindedProfessor, and/or the MisplacedKindergartenTeacher heading up the group. Either way, hijinks usually ensue. Any of them may become the TormentedTeacher if the students are rowdy or crazy enough.
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12	This trope tends to occur more in Japanese media since in Japan, students largely stay in their homeroom while teachers rotate in and out throughout the day. This is in contrast to the United States, where students in secondary education typically spend only a few minutes at the beginning of the day in homeroom before parting ways and going to different teachers' classrooms. As such, realistically-portrayed school-aged characters in American media tend to cross paths with each other, rather than stick together in one wacky group. (At TheGoodOldBritishComp, the students move to different classrooms, but usually en masse.)
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14	RuleOfFunny and/or RuleOfCool often apply. Often present in an ExtranormalInstitute, such as a SuperheroSchool. May be the focus of an IntraScholasticRivalry.
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16	For a similar trope outside a school setting, see RagtagBunchOfMisfits.
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23	* The TV series of ''Anime/AllPurposeCulturalCatGirlNukuNuku'' introduced a class of walking cliches for Nuku-Nuku to interact with. They're even introduced with an appropriate tag such as '[[AlphaBitch Snobby Rich Girl]]' or '[[{{Bishounen}} Nihilistic Pretty-Boy]]' whenever they appear on stage. This was noticeably absent from the OVA, where Nuku-Nuku went to school ''once'', prompting the destruction of most of the premises in a fight between her and an attack helicopter. They didn't try to send her to school again.
24	* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' has Class E, the "misfit" class that all of the main characters belong to.
25	* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' is a relatively low-key example, but the main characters are still a pretty eccentric bunch. You've got Sakaki, the [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold tall, intimidating, quiet girl with a softer side]]; Tomo, the [[GenkiGirl pushy and enthusiastic "wildcat high-school girl"]]; Yomi, [[OnlySaneMan Tomo's straight-laced friend]]; Osaka, the [[CloudCuckoolander space-cadet transfer student]]; and Chiyo, the [[AdorablyPrecociousChild adorable kid genius]]. To top it off, their [[SenseiChan homeroom teacher]] is [[OneOfTheKids not much more mature than her students]].
26	%% * ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}''
27	* Ichigo's homeroom in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' could certainly be described as wacky. Outside of the fact that the teacher regularly mocks the students, the room has been invaded by shinigami multiple times, and one time Kon showed up in Ichigo's body. In all cases, the room was essentially destroyed. Oh, and the teacher doesn't even seem to care about Ichigo and his friends either not turning up for class or running out in the middle of it.
28	* While the cast of ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'' (which includes a TinCanRobot, a gorilla, a 30-year-old felon wearing a luchador mask, a man who may or may not be Music/FreddieMercury, and many, many delinquents) are technically spread out among several homerooms (and some are from other high schools entirely,) there's never any actual classes going on and all the Cromartie characters often just end up hanging out anyway.
29	* The cast of ''Manga/TheDisastrousLifeOfSaikiK''. The entire series is set in a CloudCuckooLand with the main classroom consisting of a NiceGuy who frequently crosses the TooDumbToLive line, a dorky LargeHam with Chuunibyou, the BitchInSheepsClothing SchoolIdol who has an AwesomeEgo, a hopeless romantic InLoveWithLove, a hammy LovableJock that treats everything as SeriousBusiness, a BigEater who constantly has to work to make ends meet for her family, an ex-delinquent with a HairTriggerTemper, and the titular Saiki K, a virtually all-powerful psychic and the OnlySaneMan.
30	* ''Manga/DokiDokiSchoolHours'': It starts with the teacher, Mika Suzuki, "Mika-sensei" to her students, who is just a little over four feet tall and has no stamina to speak of. Her students include Kudo, an openly gay student who gets high-pressure nosebleeds when he thinks about his crush, the athletic, dim-witted, and oblivious Suetake. Then there's the "Old Man", a student who looks and acts like he should be forty. Then there's Seki, a young man who likes girls AND their clothes (as in wearing them himself). For the girls, we have Kobayashi, who is suffering PerpetualPoverty and WeightWoe. Tominaga has a sharp tongue, and sharper knives for her cooking, as well as a love of slasher movies. Iincho is infatuated with male pop star Koro. And Kitagawa is openly infatuated with Mika-sensei, and delights in mildly sadistic behavior towards her, like offering her chocolates and then pulling them out of her reach.
31	* The ''Eldoran'' series: ''Anime/ZettaiMutekiRaijinOh'' and ''Anime/NekketsuSaikyoGosaurer''.
32	* Averted in ''Manga/FruitsBasket''. Aside from the main characters, their class is actually pretty normal. It serves as a stark contrast to [[DysfunctionJunction the Sohma clan]], and highlights the desire of the [[EasternZodiac Members of the Zodiac]] to be [[IJustWantToBeNormal normal]].
33	%% * ''Gap''
34	%% * ''Manga/{{Gokusen}}''
35	* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' has a suicidal BullyMagnet gamer who becomes Onizuka's first friend at the school, a prankster who creates embarrassing photoshops of him, and a student who will go to any lengths, including [[spoiler:gluing Onizuka's hands into bowling balls and bungee jumping off a bridge]] to prevent Onizuka from dating his mother, to name a few.
36	%% * ''Manga/HidamariSketch''
37	%% * ''Manga/{{Hyakko}}''
38	* ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet'': This show is what happens when you takes the casts [[Literature/ReZero of]] [[Literature/TheSagaOfTanyaTheEvil four]] [[Literature/KonoSuba different]] [[Literature/Overlord2012 series]] and put them all in the same HighSchoolAU
39	%% * ''Anime/JewelpetSunshine''
40	* ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'': It's established early on that Itan Academy's entrance exam is mostly a formality, and the school accepts students on having a stand-out personality. This means pretty much ''the whole school'' is full of weirdos and misfits. Komi and Tadano's classroom is no exception; in addition to the [[AttractivenessIsolation beautiful but socially-awkward]] Komi and the [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy aggressively normal]] Tadano, there's Tadano's [[AmbiguousGender androgynous]] [[TheGadfly and mischievous]] childhood friend Najimi Osana, {{yandere}} Komi fangirl Ren Yamai, [[FaceOfAThug delinquent-looking]] martial artist Makoto Katai, [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniacal]] [[{{bishonen}} pretty-boy]] Shisuto Naruse, and more.
41	%% * ''Manga/LuckyStar'', at [[SliceOfLife times]].
42	* ''Manga/MissMachiko'' had a very colorful homeroom and the quirkiness branched off into other teachers and members of the faculty as well.
43	%% * ''Manga/MinamiKe''
44	%% * ''Manga/{{Mitsudomoe}}''
45	* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has Class 1-A. They run the gamut of personalities, from a goth, a punk rocker, a cocky delinquent, a vain, glitz-obsessed guy, two straight-laced class reps, a token pervert, etcetera. And that's without taking into account that this is a homeroom at a SuperheroSchool, and they've all got superpowers. And, as of Joint Training Arc, Class 1-B is no slouch either -- from those who've been introduced so far, they have a petty rival of 1-A, a CoolBigSis class rep, two foreign students, a token religious Jesus lookalike, a goth, a SugarAndIcePersonality, a mushroom-specific PungeonMaster, a guy whose head is a speech bubble...
46	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. "Wacky" in this case means badass and/or crazy in a FantasyKitchenSink. There's a vampire, a robot, a ghost, a ninja, and a time-traveling Martian, and even the ones without any powers are pretty wacky to begin with.
47	* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'': As pictured above. Emphasis on the ''wacky.'' Practically the class is a {{dysfunction junction}}. Starting from our protagonist, Mio who [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats up]] her friend, the mayor, a goat, and a police officer for [[DisproportionateRetribution accidentally looking at her]] [[CovertPervert yaoi art]], the ditz, Yuuko, a very unlucky person, and also the butt of every joke [[ButtMonkey involving her]], and Mai, the genius {{troll}} in the class. This class is also filled with robots, redhead Tsunderes with heavy weaponry, a boy riding a goat in class, a child of a millionaire, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a girl that often sneezes]].
48	%% * ''Anime/PaniPoniDash''
49	%% * ''Anime/{{Potemayo}}''
50	* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' has shades of this, especially in season 2, when the entire UnwantedHarem ends up in the same class together. And then there's [[{{Catgirl}} their]] [[OneOfTheKids teacher]].
51	* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' has a psychotic group of dysfunctional students, headed by a suicidal teacher, all [[PlayedForLaughs played for]] [[BlackComedy very dark laughs]].
52	* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': Class 2-C is a bit...off. We have Tenma, the CloudCuckooLander, who is crushing on Kurasuma, who is mostly a FlatCharacter. Tenma is also the subject of a crush from ex-delinquent Harima, who secretly draws manga in his spare time, but can still kick an ass or two. Hanai is HotBlooded and seemingly has NoIndoorVoice. Akira is aloof but seemingly knows everything going on at any given time, and may or may not be a spy for the Japanese government when she's not in class. Mikoto Suou is ChildhoodFriends with Hanai, and her bestie is the [[ButNotTooForeign half-Japanese]] Eri, who is a LonelyRichKid who may be crushing on Harima, [[{{Tsundere}} but who can tell]]. Then there's Ichijo, who [[MusclesAreMeaningless can lift a piano effortlessly despite her petite frame]], as well as the guy she's crushing on, the ChivalrousPervert Imadori.
53	** Right next door is Class 2-D, which would be perfectly normal, except for a trio of very...expressive exchange students. Harry [=McKenzie=] (whose name gets him mistaken for Harima from time to time) is an {{Expy}} of Char from ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}''. Togou is as HotBlooded as Hanai and often steals the latter's thunder. And Lara has a one-sided rivalry with Karen Ichijo because her name reminds her of her MissingMom, who ran out on her as a child.
54	* ''Manga/{{Sketchbook}}'' is about an art club rather than a classroom, but the elements of the trope are all in place.
55	* The cast of ''Manga/SoulEater'' qualify, as the main characters are students of an academy funded by Death itself for the purpose of capturing souls with wacky personalities outside of the protagonist [[OnlySaneWoman Maka]], with a bombastic ego-driven ninja Black-Star, the [[TheDitz Thompson sisters]] who were former criminals, or the symmetry obsessed son of the Grim Reaper, Death the Kid. Not to mention their homeroom teachers are a MadScientist based on Doctor Frankenstein and an undead [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie]] based on the Frankenstein monster.
56	* ''Anime/UsagichanDeCue'': Students in Haru's classroom seem to have the run of the place, as the teacher is only seen once, escorting Koshka from the headmaster's office. Haru studies his animal care books and keeps a rabbit hutch on the school's roof. Miku tries to get the oblivious Haru to take her out, and orbits his desk. Humanoid Mimika straight up spends the school day hugging Haru, using her low-level telepathy to convince everyone else there's nothing weird about that. The girls in the classroom even conduct a fundraiser by strapping Miku and Mimika to plasterboard, and have boys pay to be a firing squad using paper blowgun darts.
57	* ''Manga/WastefulDaysOfHighSchoolGirls'': Most of the cast are OnlyKnownByTheirNickname. "Baka"(Idiot) is the BookDumb girl who [[TheNicknamer gave the rest of the class their nicknames]]. "Wota" (Otaku) is an aspiring manga artist who can't draw a bent knee to save her life and [[YaoiFan is really into BL]]. "Robo" (Robot) is the seemingly emotionless girl who may or may not be carrying weapons-grade bacteria on her person. "Yamai"(Sickness) is a {{Chuunibyou}} sufferer who seems to perpetually be in the doghouse with their teacher for her poor grades. "Loli" is sixteen, but looks like she should be in grade school, and still believes in Santa Claus. She is also ignorant of the Birds and the Bees, and no one can bring themselves to tell her the truth for fear of corrupting her. "Majime" (a pun that has no English equivalent) is a boyish-looking girl who [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer has lots of "fans" around the school]] (though she seems clueless as to why). "Majo" (Witch) has an obsession with gory films and the occult. Lily has no nickname, but she's a very open lesbian who is literally allergic to men...and Baka (a blind test by Robo confirms it as a genuine allergy). And their teacher, "Waseda" (a prominent university in Japan) begins their first class by informing them that he's not into high school girls and that they shouldn't fall for him, because he prefers college girls. He's also a Vocaloid song composer in secret, whose work is a big hit with Wota.
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61	* In ''ComicBook/TheBeano'', the Bash Street Kids all had distinct personalities. Of course, there were only 9 of them (or 10 if you count Cuthbert).
62	* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' fits this trope when they have strips set at school.
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66	* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' features quite a few colorful characters in the protagonist Touma's homeroom, although they aren't the main focus of the series.
67	* Hogwarts of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fame is all about this, especially in the early installments. When your school specializes in teaching magic, there's bound to be some truly weird and wild things happening among the students.
68	* The ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' series, originally a set of books by Louis Sachar and since [[AnimatedAdaptation animated]], focuses on the antics of Ms. Jewls' eccentric classroom at the eponymous school.
69	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Susan Sto Helit is a proper young woman, who is entirely sober and rational and will not stand for even the usual amounts of silliness that a child usually displays. When she becomes a teacher in ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', her class is extremely well-behaved and sensible. She just happens to take them on literal trips through time and space without ever leaving the classroom. Because she's Death's granddaughter. But she keeps her past so quiet that her employer is surprised even to find out that she is a Duchess. Having said that, a few students ''do'' have personalities that push them into Wacky Homeroom territory: Vincent the overachiever, Penelope the BrainlessBeauty, and Jason the EnfantTerrible.
70	* ''Boy Meets Boy'' by David Levithan takes place in a high school that, among other things, have cheerleaders who do their routines on motorcycles.
71	* During the late eighties, Scholastic had a YA book series called ''Homeroom''. As it was ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, it followed the misadventures of an 8th grade homeroom. It had all the stock YA characters: the AlphaBitch, JerkJock, etc.
72	* ''Literature/TheWorstRoomInTheSchool'' was set in an overcrowded, out-of-date K-8 school centered around fifth grade class held in a converted storeroom off the gym.
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76	%% * ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'': The episodes in the classroom with Profesor Jirafales.
77	%% * ''Series/HeadOfTheClass''
78	%% * ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter''
79	%% * ''Series/SevenPeriodsWithMrGormsby''
80	* The Brazilian show "Escolinha do Professor Raimundo" (and its more recent copycats) is (and are) centered around one such homeroom(s).
81	%% * ''Misaki Number One''
82	* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' focused on one set of students and no main teachers, but they somehow always shared the same classes, subverting this trope. The first season, however, played it completely straight since it was originally called ''Good Morning Miss Bliss'' and took place mostly inside one classroom.
83	* ''Series/{{Community}}''. Although set in a local community college rather than grade school (and with a study group instead of a classroom), many of the same elements are still present, such as the EnsembleCast and the themes.
84	* TheSeventies BritCom ''Series/PleaseSir'' was set in a classroom full of [[DawsonCasting suspiciously over-age looking]] fifteen year olds.
85	%% * ''Series/GrangeHill'' was full of this trope, set in the ''GoodOldBritishComp in cockney London.
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89	%% * ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice''
90	* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' both feature this, which is unsurprising, as both games feature a band of high school students secretly fighting monsters outside of {{muggle}} perception. Even not counting them, there's the pronounced tendency of both schools to hire BunnyEarsLawyer teachers.
91	* The classroom is this in ''VideoGame/TheMagicSchoolBus'' video games to an even greater degree than in the books or the show. ''Rainforest'' doubles down by turning the classroom into a miniature tropical jungle when you complete the main FetchQuest.
92	-->'''[[SuddenlySpeaking Liz:]]''' Click around! Look for surprises!
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96	* Largo's class in ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}''. Not only is it [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1162 taught]] by resident [=Cloudcuckoolander=] Largo, but some of its more colorful members include a RobotGirl, an enigmatic ElegantGothicLolita who may very well be a DarkMagicalGirl, and a class representative who practices EnjoKosai and has an alcoholic dad. Also, the class's first field trip involved them taking on a horde of fanboys/zombies.
97	* ''{{Webcomic/Zoophobia}}'''s drama and film classes are as wacky, colorful, and eccentric as they come. The drama class's [[MisplacedKindergartenTeacher teacher]] calls her students [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext "sparkling turtle doves".]]
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101	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': There are over twenty students in [[SadistTeacher Miss Simian]]'s class, all of whom get fleshed out with distinct personality quirks over the course of the series.
102	%%* ''WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies''
103	* ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000'' focuses on the antics of the school's quirky music class, with its 7 members each having their own distinct personality.
104	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangbone}}'': Bill and Fangbone's third-grade classroom is made up of their circle of friends -- all of whom are very quirky characters with their own unusual habits. They sometimes help Bill and Fangbone fight Venomous Drool's monsters.
105	* ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'' has a class made up of a MonsterMash that includes a greaser vampire, a nerdy werewolf, a fat mummy, a surfer fishboy, and a valley girl gorgon, just to name a few. Barring the single human teacher, the rest of the school staff is also based on monsters from classic horror movies, adding even more to the wackiness.
106	%% * ''WesternAnimation/TheKidsFromRoom402''
107	* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' series. Ms. Frizzle is decidedly crazy and her class, while not as quirky as some other examples, are unique in their own ways.
108	* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', the students all have unique, distinct personalities formed around archetypes. As the seasons progress, they become so accustomed to the supernatural that several of them have fought off or prevented akuma attacks.
109	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Oswaldo}}'' follows the title character's misadventures in middle school, so naturally, the supporting cast is largely composed of an eccentric and colourful band of classmates (although certainly none as as quirky as Oswaldo himself).
110	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' follows a band of 6 grade-schoolers and their interaction with other classmates and teachers.
111	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wayside}}'' is set at the eponymous incorrectly constructed school and focuses upon the misadventures of one of its classes, in which protagonist Todd is the OnlySaneMan.
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