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* PutOnABus: Mika, who is stated on the official website to have gone to university.

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* PutOnABus: Mika, who is stated on the official website (and by Tom in Series 3) to have gone to university.university.
* PutOnAPrisonBus: Earl, when he [[spoiler:shoots Maxine]]. He was supposed to come back in Series 7, but his actor's timetable couldn't allow it.
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Things have been a little bit crazy here. So far- [[Recap/WaterlooRoad see the recap]].

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* AlphaBitch: Lorraine Donegan.



* ArtisticLicenseEducation: When the show was set in Scotland, the pupils still did [=GCSEs=] - a set of exams not used in Scotland.

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* ArtisticLicenseEducation: When Take your pick, but when the show was set in Scotland, the pupils still did [=GCSEs=] - a set of exams not used in Scotland.
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* {{Narcissist}}: The new school in Scotland has a wall full of inspirational quotes from celebrities, one each. Lorraine Donegan has two of her own.
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* HighTurnoverRate: Nobody ever seems to stay for more than one or two series as Secretary.
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* {{Retcon}}: Maggie's introduction in Series 7. She's stated to have worked at the school for years before actually joining the cast, which [[spoiler:makes her the only character from 2006 to remain with the show at its cancellation]].

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* {{Retcon}}: Maggie's introduction in Series 7. She's stated to have worked at the school for years from 2002 onward before actually joining the cast, which [[spoiler:makes her the only character from 2006 to remain with the show at its cancellation]].
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* {{Retcon}}: Maggie's introduction in Series 7. She's stated to have worked at the school for years before actually joining the cast, which [[spoiler:makes her the only character from 2006 to remain with the show at its cancellation]].
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** Where did [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambuca Sambuca Kelly] get her name?

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** Where did [https://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambuca Sambuca Kelly] Kelly]] get her name?

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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Barry Barry is initially mocked for his name but it fades fairly quickly.

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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: WhoNamesTheirKidDude:
** Where did [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambuca Sambuca Kelly] get her name?
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Barry Barry is initially mocked for his name but it fades fairly quickly.
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* FirstEpisodeTwist: [[spoiler:Fans struggled to get over Chloe's death in the first episode of the 2023 reboot.]]
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** Series 11 and 12 both have 7 episodes each.
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** In series 7 a new girl named Evie Prior joins Waterloo Road. She befriends Finn, however gets caught out lying about her mother passing away from Cancer, making it look like she’s an attention seeker. [[spoiler:In reality, her birth name is Alicia Cross, she’s in Foster Care and her biological mother loathes her because 8 years before, Evie (Alicia) murdered her 5 year old cousin, Abi and was put in Juvy.]]
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* CharityWorkplaceCalendar: In an amusing Series 5 scene some of the teachers try to publish one of these before being found out by Miss Mason.
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* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: Brett in Series 2/3, combined with Mika Grainger.
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* IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney: Miss Mason's excuse for her being a prostitute before reforming and entering education. It works, and she even gets a round of applause from the students.
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** Kyle Stack was played by ''[[Series/BritainsGotTalent Britain's Got Talent]]'' winner George Sampson, who won with a ''very'' strong series of dance routines. He had a dance and did a backflip from the wall in his audition for the ill-fated ''Cinderfella''.
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* SettleForSibling: Series 6 villain Hodge goes after Jess Fisher after Bex left him.
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* {{Bring My Brown Pants}}: A season 2 character, Dale Baxter, developed Overreactive Bladder Syndrome and therefore couldn’t control his urine, meaning he could wet himself randomly. Due to the humiliation he felt, he skipped school a lot. When he’s forced to go in by a social worker, he’s forced to go to the toilet twice to change his boxers and has to carry several pairs of wet boxer shorts in his school bag.
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* BilingualBonus: Sadly averted. It's mentioned by Jo Lipsett in Series 5 that Steph Haydock only teaches French in the present tense, and even their replacement in Spanish teacher Miss Montoya makes a glaring error in the imperative tense.[note]She uses the infinitive to tell students to sit down, saying "Sentarse" ('to sit') rather than the more appropriate "Siéntate".[/note]

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* BilingualBonus: Sadly averted. averted with none other than the languages teachers! It's mentioned by Jo Lipsett in Series 5 that Steph Haydock only teaches French in the present tense, and even their replacement in Spanish teacher Miss Montoya makes a glaring error in the imperative tense.[note]She [[note]]She uses the infinitive to tell students to sit down, saying "Sentarse" ('to sit') rather than the more appropriate "Siéntate".[/note][[/note]]
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* BilingualBonus: Sadly averted. It's mentioned by Jo Lipsett in Series 5 that Steph Haydock only teaches French in the present tense, and even their replacement in Spanish teacher Miss Montoya makes a glaring error in the imperative tense.[note]She uses the infinitive to tell students to sit down, saying "Sentarse" ('to sit') rather than the more appropriate "Siéntate".[/note]
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** Amusingly Grantly does this for Steph, Tom and Jo in Series 5 during posing for compromising staff calendar photos, by saying the students wouldn't really want to see it anyway. Hilariously, it gets them out of punishment!

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* ExiledToTheCouch: Vaughn thanks to Allie's OverprotectiveDad actions.

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* ExiledToTheCouch: Vaughn thanks to Allie's OverprotectiveDad actions.BoyfriendBlockingDad.



* OverprotectiveDad: After Allie finds out that Justin and Tiffany have been sleeping together, she forces Tiffany to sleep in the same bed as her and pressures Vaughn to send Justin to boarding school.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Andrew and Kim
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** Granty goes from an ableist ApatheticTeacher to a loving husband and JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
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* FraudianTrio: In the first two series, head of pastrol care Kim is TheMcCoy, Deputy Head Andrew is TheSpock and Head Jack is TheKirk.
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** A slightly less extreme occurrence of this trope: Lewis Seddon left Waterloo Road in the middle of Series 3, after his actor was jailed for assaulting his girlfriend.



** A slightly less extreme occurrence of this trope: Lewis Seddon left Waterloo Road in the middle of Series 3, after his actor was jailed for assaulting his girlfriend.

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