History Main / WackyHomeroom

** 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 a CharClone. 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.

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RuleOfFunny and/or RuleOfCool often apply. Often present in an ExtranormalInstitute, such as a SuperheroSchool.

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.

* 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, CoolLoser, etc.

* ''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 habit. They sometimes help Bill and Fangbone fight Venomous Drool's monsters.

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.)

RuleOfFunny and/or RuleOfCool often applies. Often present in an ExtranormalInstitute, such as a SuperheroSchool.

* 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.

* 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.
* 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.

* ''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.

* ''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 eeverything 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.
** 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 a CharClone. 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.

* 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 a undead [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie]] based on the Frankenstein monster.
* ''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.

* 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 amongst the students.

* ''Literature/TheWorstRoomInTheSchool'' was set in an overcrowded, out-of-date K-8 school centered around fifth grade class held in a converted store-room off the gym.

* ''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.

* ''{{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".]]

* ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'' has a class made up of a MonsterMash that includes a greaser vampire, a nerdy werewolf, a fat mummy, a surfer fishboy, 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.

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 the GoodOldBritishComp, the students move to different classrooms, but usually en masse.)

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.

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 typically spend only a few minutes at the beginning of the day in homeroom before parting ways and going to different classrooms. As such, school-aged characters in American media tend to cross paths with each other, rather than stick together in one wacky group.

* ''{{Webcomic/Zoophobia}}'''s drama and film classes are as wacky, colorful and eccentric as they come. The drama class's [[CoolTeacher tea]][[MisplacedKindergartenTeacher cher]] calls her students [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext "sparkling turtle doves".]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies''
* Miss Simian’s Class in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''
* ''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.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' follows a band of 6 grade-schoolers and their interaction with other classmates and teachers.
* ''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.

* ''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 habit. They sometimes help Bill and Fangbone fight Venomous Drool's monsters.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'' has a class made up of a MonsterMash that includes a greaser vampire, a nerdy werewolf, a fat mummy, a surfer fishboy, 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.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', although the entire series isn't exactly focused on the protagonist's homeroom.

* ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet'': This show is what happens when you takes the casts [[LightNovel/ReZero of]] [[LightNovel/SagaOfTanyaTheEvil four]] [[LightNovel/KonoSuba different]] [[LightNovel/Overlord2012 series]] and put them all in the same HighSchoolAU

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* ''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...

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* ''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.

* ''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; their classmates include 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.

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.

* UpToEleven in ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet''. This show is what happens when you takes the casts [[LightNovel/ReZero of]] [[LightNovel/SagaOfTanyaTheEvil four]] [[LightNovel/KonoSuba different]] [[LightNovel/Overlord2012 series]] and put them all in the same HighSchoolAU

* 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, CoolLoser, TheCheerleader, etc.

* ''Manga/DokiDokiSchoolHours''.

* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': Class 2-C is a bit...off. We have Tenma, the CloudCuckooLander, who is crushing on Kurasuma, who is mostly a FlatCharater. 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 eeverything 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 LonelyRichGirl 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.

* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': Class 2-C is a bit...off. We have Tenma, the CloudCuckooLander, who is crushing on Kurasuma, who is mostly a FlatCharater. 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 eeverything 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 PoorLittleRichGirl 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.
** 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 a CharClone. 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.

* ''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 {{Chuunibyo}} 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.