Teletoon air date: 11/10/2002
MTV air date: 2/3/2003
Written by: Tom Martin
When the teachers of Clone High finally get fed up with Gandhi's increasingly disruptive behavior, he is diagnosed with A.D.D and ADHD by Mr. Butlertron, immediately finding himself ostracized by an uninformed student and parental body. On top of that, he has a falling out with Abe who finds himself pressured to distance himself from Gandhi as well by Cleo and his desire to get in her good graces. Meanwhile, Joan Of Arc finds herself hearing a spectral voice she believes to be the voice of God that her predecessor heard, and is elated to finally be living up to her legacy, however, when the voice persists at all hours of the day, she begins to spiral into madness as she can no longer sleep, and begins to try and spread the message it conveys. Meanwhile, Abe runs into Tom Green at an ADD-Information Bookstore, and is persuaded by him to stand up for his friend by taking a public stance against the paranoia and fearmongering that has gripped the town. While all of this is going on, Principal Scudworth notices that Mr. Butlertron is able to better bond with the students than him, and believing the cause of this being Butlertron's sweatervest rather than any failings on his own part, begins to wear it himself, making him form a bond with John F Kennedy.
Wanna go shave a trope? Plastic bag, plastic bag, plastic bag:
- Actor Allusion: Tom Green chases after a plastic bag while randomly chanting "Plastic bag! Plastic bag!" over and over, not unlike one of his improvised songs
on The Tom Green Show. - As Himself: Tom Green.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: About 90% of the jokes in this episode are about Gandhi having A.D.D. and being easily distracted by everything around him.
- Brick Joke: At the end of the first act, Gandhi's Heroic BSoD is interrupted by his fascination with the extra flappy skin on his elbow, which he promptly starts playing with. Later, when Tom Green launches himself out a several-stories-high window, his screams of terror are interrupted by him playing with the flappy skin on his elbow.
- Chekhov's Gun: The Voice that Joan's been hearing is actually the broadcasts from a Christian radio station that she has been picking up with her retainer that Gandhi dented early in the episode
- Distracted by the Sexy: When Abe tried to talk to Cleo about his concern for Gandhi, she interrupts him by showing off the open-mouth kissing techniques she plans to use for her kissing booth. Abe is very happy.
- Driven to Madness: Joan eventually goes insane because the Voice Of God won't let her sleep.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Gandhi being ostracized for having ADD is a spoof on the HIV/AIDS scare of the late 80s/early 90s, up to and including rumors than it can be contracted from toilet seats and quarantining those with the illness off from those without it.
- Foreshadowing: If you listen carefully when Joan is hearing the Voice of God, you can hear faint radio static.
- Good-Times Montage: After Gandhi disowns him, Abe remembers all of the good times they had together. All of which consist of Gandhi sticking things up his nose.
- It Was with You All Along: It seems to set up that Scudworth became a mildly competent principal thanks to this trope, but it;s then implied Butlertron's sweatervest really IS magical.
- Literal-Minded: When Cleo tells Abe that she visits the rose bush whenever she breaks up with JFK, Abe suavely replies that "these are lucky roses." When she doesn't pick up on this, he says it's because she visits them often. Cleo is genuinely confused as to how the reproductive organ of a plant could know if someone was visiting them, at which point Abe just gives up.
- Malaproper: Courtesy of Scudworth."When life gives you lemons, you clone those lemons and make... super lemons."
- My Eyes Are Leaking: Scudworth seems genuinely disgusted by JFK crying about his breakup.
- Overly Long Gag: "Lick the book, lick the book, lick the book..."
- Running Gag:
- Gandhi sticking things up his nose.
- ADHD being called ADD's hyperactive cousin.
- Shaped Like Itself: "This year, the theme for the Awareness Fair is... awareness!" You don't say?
- Shout-Out: When Jésus Christo (maybe) shoots himself in the hand with a nail gun, Ceaser quips "Be careful with that nail gun, Jésus," a reference to the Pink Floyd song "Careful With That Ax, Eugene."
- Single Tear:
- Joan sheds one when she sees Abe agree to help Cleopatra out with her open-kissing booth.
- Gandhi has one run down his face after Abe leaves him in the infirmary to go get Cleo some lip balm.
- Spoof Aesop: If you can't get people to accept something, make them feel more uncomfortable about something else to make that first thing less weird by comparison. Abe can't convince everyone to accept Gandhi despite his A.D.D, so he grabs Gandhi and starts passionately kissing him, knowing that everyone will be less accepting of homosexuality than they will of mental disorders.
- Serious Business: ADD and ADHDnote is treated more like a deadly disease than a neurological disorder
- Special Guest: Tom Green As Himself and Zach Braff as Paul Revere.
- Unusual Euphemism: ADHD is referred to as ADD's "hyperactive cousin."
- Waxing Lyrical: When Cleo asks Abe if he has a celibacy wish (because he's talking to Ghandi), Abe emphatically replies "No! No! A thousand times no!", in reference to the tin pan alley song of the same name (and a Betty Boop cartoon named after it).
