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* HandsGoDown: In "My Girlfriend has Flippers", Mr. Rock asks his class "Who knows anything about barnacles?" and everyone's hands go up. He then modifies the question to "Who knows anything interesting about barnacles?" and all the hands go down, except one.

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* ThreeAmigos: Much of the action centres around LoserProtagonist Hank and his two best friends: the cool in a “doesn’t try too hard” kind of way Frankie, and the AsianAndNerdy girl Ashley.
* TokenTrio: The ThreeAmigos team of Hank (white male) and his two best friends: Ashley (Asian female) and Frankie (black male).

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* ThreeAmigos: Much of the action centres around LoserProtagonist Hank and his two best friends: the cool in a “doesn’t try too hard” kind of way Frankie, and the AsianAndNerdy girl Ashley.
* TokenTrio: The ThreeAmigos team of Hank (white male) and his two best friends: Ashley (Asian female) and Frankie (black male).
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* LovesMyAlterEgo: McKelty has made it clear that he hates Hank, yet in the episode "Undercover Hank", McKelty develops a crush on "Hannah", who is simply just Hank in a female disguise.

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* LovesMyAlterEgo: McKelty [=McKelty=] has made it clear that he hates Hank, yet in the episode "Undercover Hank", McKelty [=McKelty=] develops a crush on "Hannah", who is simply just Hank in a female disguise.

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* LovesMyAlterEgo: McKelty has made it clear that he hates Hank, yet in the episode "Undercover Hank", McKelty develops a crush on "Hannah", who is simply just Hank in a female disguise.



* SlippingIntoStink: In "Hank Rocks Out!", Rosa and Stan get locked inside a potable toilet at a rock festival. Stan attempts to break the door and winds up tipping the toilet over: covering the two of them in human excrement.

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* SlippingIntoStink: In "Hank Rocks Out!", Rosa and Stan get locked inside a potable portable toilet at a rock festival. Stan attempts to break the door and winds up tipping the toilet over: covering the two of them in human excrement.
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* DisguisedInDrag: In "Undercover Hank", Hank dresses up like a girl to sneak back into school after being suspended for a prank he did not commit.
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* LoserProtagonist: hank has learning disabilities, gets bad grades, isn't popular with his teacher or the principal, and is bullied by Nick.

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* GrammarCorrectionGag: In "Hank's New School", Hank is protesting his parents' decision to take him out of Westbrook by waving a placard at the breakfast table. Emily's response is to glance at briefly at his sign and murmur:
-->"Your placard's spelled wrong."



* YouMakeMeSic: In "Hank's New School", Hank is protesting his parents' decision to take him out of Westbrook by waving a placard at the breakfast table. Emily's response is to glance at briefly at his sign and murmur:
-->"Your placard's spelled wrong."

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* YouMakeMeSic: In "Hank's New School", Hank is protesting his parents' decision to take him out of Westbrook by waving a placard at the breakfast table. Emily's response is to glance at briefly at his sign and murmur:
-->"Your placard's spelled wrong."
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''Hank Zipzer'' is a British children's television series which stars Nick James in the titular role as a 12-year-old dyslexic schoolboy. The show is based on the series of books by Creator/HenryWinkler, who plays the character of Mr. Rock, Hank's music teacher.

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''Hank Zipzer'' is a British children's television series which stars Nick James in the titular title role as a 12-year-old dyslexic schoolboy. The show is based on the series of books by Creator/HenryWinkler, who plays the character of Mr. Rock, Hank's music teacher.
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* SlippingIntoStink: In "Hank Rocks Out!", Rosa and Stan get locked inside a potable toilet at a rock festival. Stan attempts to break the door and winds up tipping the toilet over: covering the tow of them in human excrement

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* TeachersPet: Nick [=McKelty=] is this to Miss Adolf. Emily would love to be a teacher's pet, but most of the teachers find her incredibly annoying.
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* TheGoodOldBritishComp: Westbrook Academy, which has an overly ambitious head teacher attempting to foist new (and cost-saving) education techniques on to the school, over the objections of the teachers and the disinterest of the students.
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* UngratefulBitch: In one episode, Hank and Nick are on a camping experience with Miss Adolf. She gets extremely sick and they call for help using a cellphone Hank brought. Miss Adolf, instead of thanking them for saving her life, fails them both, even though it was only Hank who brought it.

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* UngratefulBitch: In one episode, Hank and Nick are on a camping experience with Miss Adolf. She gets extremely sick and they call for help using a cellphone Hank brought. Miss Adolf, instead of thanking them for saving her life, fails them both, both for having a cellphone when they weren't supposed to, even though it was only Hank who brought it.
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* AllPartOfTheShow: In "Open Day", Hank's latest ZanyScheme results in him and Miss Adolph crashing the presentation DeanBitterman Mr. Joy is making to perspective parents in the auditorium. In the face of Mr. Joy's rising fury, Hank manages to pass it off as a performance by the drama club, demonstrating the sort of creativity encouraged at Westbrook. A few moments later, Mr. Rock crashes the stage and makes a similar pitch for the music faculty.

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* AllPartOfTheShow: In "Open Day", Hank's latest ZanyScheme results in him and Miss Adolph Adolf crashing the presentation DeanBitterman Mr. Joy is making to perspective parents in the auditorium. In the face of Mr. Joy's rising fury, Hank manages to pass it off as a performance by the drama club, demonstrating the sort of creativity encouraged at Westbrook. A few moments later, Mr. Rock crashes the stage and makes a similar pitch for the music faculty.



* DisgustingPublicToilet: While attending the rock festival in "Hank Rocks Out!", Stan encounters a portable toilet so disgusting her decides to hold it in for the entire weekend.

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* DisgustingPublicToilet: While attending the rock festival in "Hank Rocks Out!", Stan encounters a portable toilet so disgusting her he decides to hold it in for the entire weekend.



* ExactWords: In "Ballot Box Hunter", Hank attempts to register his candidacy for the school election but is told by Miss Adolph that he is too late. Mr. Rock points out that Mr. Joy had said candidates should register their interest "after the assembly", and that now was definitely after the assembly. Miss Adolph protest that he had obviously meant at the end of the assembly. Mr. Rock counters that while that may have been what he meant, it was not what he said.
* EyepiecePrank: In "Operation: Prank Adolf", Rosa is attempting to teach Emily to enjoy April Fool's pranks, and basically forces Emily to look through the eyepiece of a telescope, despite the fact that Emily already knows it has boot polish on it.

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* ExactWords: In "Ballot Box Hunter", Hank attempts to register his candidacy for the school election but is told by Miss Adolph Adolf that he is too late. Mr. Rock points out that Mr. Joy had said candidates should register their interest "after the assembly", and that now was definitely after the assembly. Miss Adolph protest Adolf protests that he had obviously meant at the end of the assembly. Mr. Rock counters that while that may have been what he meant, it was not what he said.
* EyepiecePrank: In "Operation: Prank Adolf", Rosa is attempting to teach Emily to enjoy April Fool's pranks, and basically forces Emily to look through the eyepiece of a telescope, despite the fact that Emily already knows it has boot polish on it.



* ThePunishmentIsTheCrime: In "Ballot Box Hunter", [=McKelty=] wins the election for school council by cheating. However, after Miss Adolph tells him that being on the council means attending half-day council meetings at the school on Saturday, and wearing full school uniform for the meetings, Hank is suddenly glad that he didn't win.

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* ThePunishmentIsTheCrime: In "Ballot Box Hunter", [=McKelty=] wins the election for school council by cheating. However, after Miss Adolph Adolf tells him that being on the council means attending half-day council meetings at the school on Saturday, and wearing a full school uniform for the meetings, Hank is suddenly glad that he didn't win.
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* LoserProtagonist: hank has learning disabilities, gets bad grades, isn't popular with his teacher or the principal, and is bullied by Nick.
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* DisgustingPublicToilrt: While attending the rock festival in "Hank Rocks Out!", Stan encounters a portable toilet so disgusting her decides to hold it in for the entire weekend.

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* SlippingIntoStink: In "Hank Rocks Out!", Rosa and Stan get locked inside a potable toilet at a rock festival. Stan attempts to break the door and winds up tipping the toilet over: covering the tow of them in human excrement



* TrashCanBand: In "Open Day", DeanBitterman Mr. Joy--as part of an attempt to close the music department--has sold off all of Westbrook Academy's musical instrument. Desperate to promote his department to the perspective parent, Mr. Rock finds of a box of parts that had fallen off broken instruments and, with Emily's assistance [[{{Macgyvering}} macgyvers]] them into a set of new, unique instruments. He uses these to form a marching band and crashes Mr. Joy's presentation.

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* TrashCanBand: In "Open Day", DeanBitterman Mr. Joy--as part of an attempt to close the music department--has sold off all of Westbrook Academy's musical instrument. instruments. Desperate to promote his department to the perspective parent, parents, Mr. Rock finds of a box of parts that had fallen off broken instruments and, with Emily's assistance [[{{Macgyvering}} macgyvers]] them into a set of new, unique instruments. He uses these to form a marching band and crashes Mr. Joy's presentation.
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* DisgustingPublicToilrt: While attending the rock festival in "Hank Rocks Out!", Stan encounters a portable toilet so disgusting her decides to hold it in for the entire weekend.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Miss Adolf and Principal Love, already not the nicest people in the books, are much more unpleasant people in this series.



* DeanBitterman: Head teacher Mr. Love, and his replacement Mr. Joy. In both instances, this a case of a NonIndicativeName. They care about the school and the students only so far as it will enhance their own reputations. Mr. Joy even refers to the students as 'learning units' during his school announcements.

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* DeanBitterman: Head teacher Mr. Love, and his replacement Mr. Joy. In both instances, this is a case of a NonIndicativeName. They care about the school and the students only so far as it will enhance their own reputations. Mr. Joy even refers to the students as 'learning units' during his school announcements.


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* KarmaHoudini: Miss Adolf and the principals rarely get much comeuppance for being jerks.


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* UngratefulBitch: In one episode, Hank and Nick are on a camping experience with Miss Adolf. She gets extremely sick and they call for help using a cellphone Hank brought. Miss Adolf, instead of thanking them for saving her life, fails them both, even though it was only Hank who brought it.

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