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* AdaptationDyeJob: Louis is depicted with blue hair and a goatee, when in the original books he was described as having a mustache of many colors.

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Louis is depicted with blue hair and a goatee, when in the original books he was described as having a mustache of many colors.colors.
** Stephen's a redhead when he was described as having green hair in the books.
** Book Leslie's pigtails are brown. In the cartoon her hair is purple.



* AdaptedOut: Several of the kids from the books, such as Joy, Benjamin, [=DeeDee=] and Allison, are nowhere to be seen in the show (Mrs. Jewls mentions D.J. in the pilot movie, but he's never shown and never speaks). A lot of the background characters have been theorized, but not confirmed, to be characters from the books.

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* AdaptedOut: Several Half of the kids from the books, such as Joy, Benjamin, [=DeeDee=] and Allison, are nowhere to be seen in the show (Mrs. Jewls mentions D.J. in the pilot movie, but he's never shown and never speaks). A lot of the background characters have been theorized, but not confirmed, to be characters from the books.



*** In "Pull My Pigtail", he fills Paul's role of pulling on a girl's hair, in this case Maurecia's ponytail rather than Leslie's pigtails.



* YouDontLookLikeYou: The characters in the show look next to nothing like their illustrations in the books, but it should be noted that the books' illustrations have changed many times over the years, so there is no definitive/canon version of the characters that the show is bound to. However, the books do feature some brief descriptions of a character's appearance, which the cartoon rarely follows.

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* YouDontLookLikeYou: The characters in the show look next to nothing like their illustrations in the books, but it should be noted that the books' illustrations have changed many times over the years, so there is no definitive/canon version of the characters that the show is bound to. However, the books do feature some brief descriptions of a character's appearance, which the cartoon rarely follows.will stray from for certain characters.



** Todd wears a green shirt according to "Wayside School is Falling Down". The cartoon shows him wearing a blue shirt.

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** Todd wears a Book Stephen's hair is green shirt according to "Wayside School is Falling Down". The cartoon shows him and his wearing a Halloween costume outside of the holiday only occurred once, and it was a goblin costume. In the cartoon, Stephen's a redhead and he wears an ''elf'' costume every day.
** The Three Erics barely match up with their book descriptions with the exception of Bacon, who matches his book appearance of being short and thin. Fry is short and fat when he's described as fat and tall in the books, and Ovens is thin and tall when he's originally short and fat.
** Book Sharie's coat is red and
blue shirt.and large for her size, making up nearly half her total body weight. Cartoon Shari's coat is instead a slightly baggy purple hoodie.
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* JokeLelvel: Most of the final exam in "Louis Gets Some Class" is half oral exam and half obstacle course, but the last question is an overly complex math problem on a chalkboard, more difficult than the math, science, and social studies questions before it. PlayedWith as it's only externally a joke, but jarring to characters and viewers alike.

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* JokeLelvel: JokeLevel: Most of the final exam in "Louis Gets Some Class" is half oral exam and half obstacle course, but the last question is an overly complex math problem on a chalkboard, more difficult than the math, science, and social studies questions before it. PlayedWith as it's only externally a joke, but jarring to characters and viewers alike.
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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Most of the final exam in "Louis Gets Some Class" is half oral exam and half obstacle course, but the last question is an overly complex math problem on a chalkboard, more difficult than the math, science and social studies questions before it.

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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: JokeLelvel: Most of the final exam in "Louis Gets Some Class" is half oral exam and half obstacle course, but the last question is an overly complex math problem on a chalkboard, more difficult than the math, science science, and social studies questions before it.it. PlayedWith as it's only externally a joke, but jarring to characters and viewers alike.

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* CastOfSnowflakes

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* CastOfSnowflakes CastOfSnowflakes: All of the major characters have some notable design element or quirk, such as Maurecia's roller skates or Dana's buckteeth, while the background characters just look like average kids.



%%* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: The eponymous school.
%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mrs. Jewls, Principal Kidswatter, Myron. Basically, ''everyone'' except for Todd and maybe Louis.

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%%* * {{Cloudcuckooland}}: The eponymous school.
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school. Much of the school features nonsensical design elements like doors and stairs that lead nowhere, incredibly small rooms, and the cows that roam freely in the halls. School events are just as weird, with Halloween being celebrated in spring, while the spring equinox is celebrated on Halloween.
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{{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mrs. Jewls, Principal Kidswatter, Myron. Basically, ''everyone'' except for Todd and maybe Louis.Louis. Mrs. Jewls thinks new kids are literally monkeys unless told otherwise, Jenny is a daredevil stuntgirl who drives a motorcycle in school, Leslie has prehensile pigtails, John is always upside down, Stephen wears an elf costume every day, the list goes on and on!



* CompositeCharacter: Many students qualify, Maurecia and Myron notably. The two take many elements from Joy and Jason, two characters who were in the books but were not in the show, to a point where it may have been more accurate if they just went with those names.

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* CompositeCharacter: Many students qualify, qualify.
** Todd retains his trait of being sent home on the kindergarten bus, but most of his character is based on Benjamin Nushmutt and/or Sue, being the normal new kid who has to get used to the weirdness of Wayside.
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Maurecia and Myron notably. The two take many elements from Joy and Jason, two characters who were fills Leslie's role of having her hair pulled by a boy (in this case, Todd) in the books but were not episode "Pull My Pigtail", ironically despite Leslie already being a character in the show, to a point where it may have been more accurate if they just went with those names.cartoon.



** Todd seems like a composite of himself from the books and Sue from ''Sideways Arithmetic'', being a new student who's unfamiliar with how things work at Wayside.



* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Maurecia towards Todd.
* DrunkWithPower: Myron in "He Is It".

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* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Maurecia towards Todd.
Todd, with every episode having her punch him, and it always being played for laughs.
* DrunkWithPower: Myron in "He Is It".It", after being tagged by Todd in a game of tag, he becomes a tyrant who takes over Wayside.



* FatIdiot: Myron.

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* FatIdiot: Myron.Myron, who's the most overweight of the cast, and is characterized as an oblivious doofus.



* FluffyTheTerrible: Maurecia's pet hedgehog (who is actually named Fluffy). It's possible that his extreme resentment towards Todd might come from jealousy of having the most love and affection from his owner.
** He's actually a porcupine.

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* FluffyTheTerrible: Maurecia's pet hedgehog porcupine (who is actually named Fluffy). It's possible that his extreme resentment towards Todd might come from jealousy of having the most love and affection from his owner.
** He's actually a porcupine.
owner.



* MythologyGag: An ironic example though likely unintended. In the show, Todd is a normal kid from a normal school sent to the insane school of Wayside. In the third book after Wayside was shut down [[MakesSenseInContext due to a cow infestation]] Todd was sent from the insane school of Wayside to a normal school with normal kids. (In fact the writer said that he was sent to [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the reader's school]])

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* MythologyGag: MythologyGag:
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An ironic example though likely unintended. In the show, Todd is a normal kid from a normal school sent to the insane school of Wayside. In the third book after Wayside was shut down [[MakesSenseInContext due to a cow infestation]] Todd was sent from the insane school of Wayside to a normal school with normal kids. (In fact the writer said that he was sent to [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the reader's school]])school]])
** When Todd first enters Mrs. Jewls' class, she immediately mistakes him for a monkey, which is what she did in her debut chapter for the books.



* RaceLift: In the show, Principal Kidswatter, Myron, Eric Fry, and Bebe are black, while in most prints of the books' illustrations, they were white.

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* RaceLift: In the show, Principal Kidswatter, Myron, Eric Fry, and Bebe are black, while in most prints of the books' illustrations, illustrations at the time, they were white.



* ShipTease: Todd/Maurecia and Dana/Myron

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* ShipTease: Todd/Maurecia and Dana/MyronDana/Myron.



* YouDontLookLikeYou: The characters in the show look next to nothing like their illustrations in the books.
** However, it should be noted that the books' illustrations have changed many times over the years, so there is no definitive/canon version of the characters that the show is bound to.
** An example that works even with the changing illustrations: Louis is described as having a multicolored mustache in the books, but here, he has no mustache, instead having blue hair and a blue goatee.

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* YouDontLookLikeYou: The characters in the show look next to nothing like their illustrations in the books.
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books, but it should be noted that the books' illustrations have changed many times over the years, so there is no definitive/canon version of the characters that the show is bound to.
** An example that works even with
to. However, the changing illustrations: books do feature some brief descriptions of a character's appearance, which the cartoon rarely follows.
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Louis is always described as having a multicolored mustache in the books, but here, he has no mustache, instead having blue hair and a blue goatee.goatee.
** Myron is described as having big ears in the books. Here, he has the smallest ears out of the main cast.
** Todd wears a green shirt according to "Wayside School is Falling Down". The cartoon shows him wearing a blue shirt.
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* 6Is9: At the end of "Upside Down John" Kidswatter thinks he got 99 percent on his I.Q. test, but after he leaves his office, Louis notices that the computer's upside down, and realizes that's how he's holding the results. He flips the paper right-side up and sees that it really says 66 percent, which makes more sense.

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* 6Is9: SixIsNine: At the end of "Upside Down John" Kidswatter thinks he got 99 percent on his I.Q. test, but after he leaves his office, Louis notices that the computer's upside down, and realizes that's how he's holding the results. He flips the paper right-side up and sees that it really says 66 percent, which makes more sense.

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* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: The eponymous school.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mrs. Jewls, Principal Kidswatter, Myron. Basically, ''everyone'' except for Todd and maybe Louis.

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* ClothespinNosePlug: In "Le Race", these are used to block out a ''good'' smell. When Le Chef is racing the kids to the top of the school, he uses the delicious smell of his cooking to tempt Maurecia to fall off and stop her from climbing. Dana and Todd take out two clothespins to prevent themselves from smelling Le Chef's food and falling further behind.
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{{Cloudcuckooland}}: The eponymous school.
* %%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mrs. Jewls, Principal Kidswatter, Myron. Basically, ''everyone'' except for Todd and maybe Louis.
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* SelfSoothingSong: Todd,while suffering SanitySlippage from being the [[StopWorshippingMe kindergartners' king]], sings "Patty Cake" in a TroubledFetalPosition by the time Myron finds him.
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* 6Is9: At the end of "Upside Down John" Kidswatter thinks he got 99 percent on his I.Q. test, but after he leaves his office, Louis notices that the computer's upside down, and realizes that's how he's holding the results. He flips the paper right-side up and sees that it really says 66 percent, which makes more sense.
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* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: Louis has a goatee instead of a mustache like he did in the books.


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* AdaptationDyeJob: Louis is depicted with blue hair and a goatee, when in the original books he was described as having a mustache of many colors.

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%%* AudienceSurrogate: Todd.

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%%* * AudienceSurrogate: Todd.Todd serves as a representation of how the audience would react to the strangeness of Wayside School, being a normal kid who's just transferred.



* BalloonBelly: Maurecia after drinking all the water from the water fountain in "Slow Mo Mo", which later results in a PottyEmergency.

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* BalloonBelly: Maurecia gets a big belly after drinking all the water from the water fountain in "Slow Mo Mo", which later results in a PottyEmergency.PottyEmergency.
* BeardedBaby: "Louis Gets Some Class" shows that [[spoiler:Kidswatter]] had a mustache as a child.



* FaceOfTheSun: Some exterior shots of the school show the sun with a face.

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* FaceOfTheSun: TheFaceOfTheSun: Some exterior shots of the school show the sun with a face.



* ManChild: Mrs. Jewls, who borders on this and CloudCuckoolander. She's been known to play pinball in class.
** Principal Kidswatter is more childish than most of the actual kids.

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* ManChild: ManChild:
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Mrs. Jewls, who borders on this and CloudCuckoolander. She's been known to play pinball in class.
** Principal Kidswatter is more childish than most of the actual kids. He throws a tantrum when his microphone breaks.



%%* PointyHairedBoss: Principal Kidswatter.

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%%* * PointyHairedBoss: Principal Kidswatter.Kidswatter is consistently shown to be not that bright and ill-qualified for his job as the school's principal.

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* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Well, more like "Straight Man and Goofball", but the laid-back, rational Louis often serves as a foil and ignored voice of reason to the eccentric, often uptight Kidswatter.

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* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Well, more like "Straight Man and Goofball", but the The laid-back, rational Louis often serves as a foil and ignored voice of reason to the eccentric, often uptight Kidswatter.


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* SurpriseParty: Mrs. Jewls' class throws one for Kidswatter's birthday in "Oh, Great Leader".

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* MassTransformation: In "Mrs. Gorf", like the book the show was based on, Mrs. Gorf turns the students of the thirtieth floor into apples and Myron into a potato. Maurica is the only student who doesn't get turned into an apple and she decides to save her classmates.



* MythologyGag: An ironic example though likely unintended. In the show, Todd is a normal kid from a normal school sent to the insane school of Wayside. In the third book after Wayside was shut down [[MakesSenseInContext due to a cow infestation]] Todd was sent from the insane school of Wayside to a normal school with normal kids. (In fact the writer said that he was sent to [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the reader's school]])



* MythologyGag: An ironic example though likely unintended. In the show, Todd is a normal kid from a normal school sent to the insane school of Wayside. In the third book after Wayside was shut down [[MakesSenseInContext due to a cow infestation]] Todd was sent from the insane school of Wayside to a normal school with normal kids. (In fact the writer said that he was sent to [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the reader's school]])

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* ConsultingMrPumpkin: Stephen does this with Mr. Pumpkin now and then, complete with doing the talking for him.


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* ConsultingMrPuppet: Stephen does this with Mr. Pumpkin now and then, complete with doing the talking for him.

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* StupidStatementDanceMix: Myron's mixtape of Kidswatter's announcements.
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* ConsultingMrPumpkin: Stephen does this with Mr. Pumpkin now and then, complete with doing the talking for him.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: The female characters suffer slapstick just as often as the male characters.
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* RollerbladeGood: Maurecia's entire personality is this.
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** WouldRatherSuffer: The plot of "Todd Falls in Love" is kicked off by Todd claiming he'd rather eat [[LethalChef Miss Mush's]] Mushroom Surprise than be Maurecia's boyfriend, and the class decides to call his bluff.

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** * WouldRatherSuffer: The plot of "Todd Falls in Love" is kicked off by Todd claiming he'd rather eat [[LethalChef Miss Mush's]] Mushroom Surprise than be Maurecia's boyfriend, and the class decides to call his bluff.

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* WingdingEyes: Maurecia sometimes has hearts in her eyes when she's lovestruck.

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* WingdingEyes: WingdingEyes:
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Maurecia sometimes has hearts in her eyes when she's lovestruck.



*** And in "Oh, Great Leader", his pupils form the shape of smiling faces when he sees all the kids in the gym.

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*** ** And in "Oh, Great Leader", his pupils form the shape of smiling faces when he sees all the kids in the gym.gym.
** WouldRatherSuffer: The plot of "Todd Falls in Love" is kicked off by Todd claiming he'd rather eat [[LethalChef Miss Mush's]] Mushroom Surprise than be Maurecia's boyfriend, and the class decides to call his bluff.
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* ExorcistHead: Happens briefly with Louis in "Mad Hot" as he excitedly announces that the Wayside Wallflowers won the dance-off.
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* {{Nerd}}s: Myron, Dana, and the Three Erics.
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-->''"The lights go off, the world flips upside down\\

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-->''"The ->''"The lights go off, the world flips upside down\\
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-->''"The lights go off, the world flips upside down\\
I brought the party to town\\
My deal to make my chance to take\\
So take a ride, so take a ride\\
Fly by the Wayside!"''
-->-- '''Theme song'''
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* TruncatedThemeTune: The theme song is shortened from a minute to 30 seconds for Nickelodeon airings, starting immediately with the second part of the first verse and going straight to the final chorus.
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