History YMMV / BadEducation

** During the Series 2 premiere episode, Fraser introduces the swimming gala by lighting the Olympic Torch (which is shoddily made), which goes disastrously when two of the torch stands collapse into the shape of a cross, and it is set on fire. Whilst Fraser tries to put the fire out, the hood from his white swimming gown is revealed to be a pointed hood, making him look like a member of the [[UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan Ku Klux Klan]]. The whole crowd (Alfie facepalms) is shocked at this display (one of the governors, Mr Smith (a black man in this instance) is silently enraged).

** During the Series 2 premiere episode, Fraser introduces the swimming gala by lighting the Olympic Torch (which is shoddily made), which goes disastrously when two of the torch stands collapse into the shape of a cross, and it is set on fire. Whilst Fraser tries to put the fire out, the hood from his white swimming gown is revealed to be a pointed hood, making him look like a member of the [[UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan Ku Klux Klan]]. The whole crowd (Alfie facepalms) is shocked at this display (one of the governors, Mr Smith (a black man in this instance) is silently enraged). In the next episode, he reveals that because of the incident, Pickwell threatened to report him to child welfare agencies (which could put his job in jeopardy) unless she hired Kevin, the titular substitute teacher.

** During the Series 2 premiere episode, Fraser introduces the swimming gala by lighting the Olympic Torch (which is shoddily made), which goes disastrously when two of the torch stands collapse into the shape of a cross, and it is set on fire. Whilst Fraser tries to put the fire out, the hood from his white swimming gown is revealed to be a pointed hood, making him look like the member of the [[UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan Ku Klux Klan]]. The whole crowd (Alfie facepalms) is shocked at this display (one of the governors, Mr Smith (a black man in this instance) is silently enraged).

** During the Series 2 premiere episode, Fraser introduces the swimming gala by lighting the Olympic Torch (which is shoddily made), which goes disastrously when two of the torch stands collapse into the shape of a cross, and it is set on fire. Whilst Fraser tries to put the fire out, the hood from his white swimming gown is revealed to be pointed, making him look like the member of the [[UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan KKK]]. The whole crowd (Alfie facepalms) is shocked at this display (one of the governors, Mr Smith (a black man in this instance) is silently enraged).

* TheWoobie: Joe never gets a break. From bad haircuts to bullying to Alfie pressuring him into moronic schemes.

* HilariousInHindsight: [[spoiler: After faking her death,]] Ms Pickwell reexamined her life, discarded her killjoy tendencies and [[Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina became the bride of Satan]].

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Teachers should strike against their employers if their working conditions are unacceptable, but this shouldn't be at the expense of their pupil's education.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Alfie's face after diving in due to his allergy to chlorine, is not pleasant to say the least.]]

!!The Sitcom

!!The Sitcom's Film Adaptation

* AssPull: [[spoiler:Joe having a tracking chip in his neck]] is only mentioned once and introduced solely as a DeusExMachina to allow [[spoiler:the police, Susan; and Rosie, Fraser, and Martin to find out that Alfie and the CLA are at Pennlaven Castle.]]
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The scenes where [[spoiler:Susan is drugged, smuggled to France against her will,]] and then hitches a lift back to England in a lorry full of illegal immigrants are considerably less funny than intended thanks to the film’s release coinciding with one of the worst migrant crises of the modern age.
* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Pasco]] crosses it when [[spoiler:he uses Alfie to bomb Atticus Hoye’s house]] and just keeps going further away from it from that point on.
** Alfie [[spoiler:drugging Susan, and getting Mitchell and Pasco to smuggle her to France.]]
** The reveal that [[spoiler: Susan had Joe implanted with a tracking chip during his appendectomy.]]
* SpecialEffectFailure: The prosthetic scrotum used in the scene where Alfie is dared to teabag a swan isn’t particularly convincing.
** The green screen effects when [[spoiler:Alfie is dangling from the helicopter after Rosie, Fraser, and Martin carry out a GunshipRescue.]]

!!The Jack Whitehall Comedy

!The Film


!The Jack Whitehall Comedy

!The Sitcom's Film Adaptation

* FridgeHorror: When [[spoiler: Pickwell]] saves the school from bankruptcy in the Series 2 finale, it is with [[spoiler: money left to her by her German consort the Beast of Bergendorf. Specifically "the gold he stashed in Switzerland".]] That's right. Abbey Grove is now financed with [[spoiler: NaziGold.]]
** Though this is lessened slightly by Fraser losing it at all by investing it in his Dolce and Gabanter clothing range at the start of Series 3.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Alfie's face after diving in due to his allergy to chlorine.]]

** The green screen effects when [[spoiler:Alfie is dangling from the helicopter after Rosie, Fraser, and Martin carry out a GunshipRescue.]]

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Pickwell is mistaken for a lad when she overdoes "it with her make-up and her suit, and her dick" to impress Mr Humpage and get a job at Middleton House.

* JumpingTheShark: Zig-zagged. Self Defence" changed the humour for the series, which wasn't too good, so Jack Whitehall got himself a writing partner in the form of Ben Cavey. Their first episode together, "School Trip", [[OutOfCharacter took out the characters' personalities]] for the sake of a few cliche jokes (come on, would Joe really ask "Would you rather be a boy with a dog's head or a boy with a dog's head"?) and made animals the subject of BlackComedy ''three times''. The episode was even worse than "Self Defence", and not only did Cavey not write any more episodes, but Whitehall also threw in the towel. Dan Swimer and Shaun Pye came in, and managed to pull the show back around to GrowingTheBeard.

* JumpingTheShark: Zig-zagged. ''Self Defence'' changed the humour for the series, which wasn't too good, so Jack Whitehall got himself a writing partner in the form of Ben Cavey. Their first episode together, ''School Trip'', took out the characters' personalities for the sake of a few cliche jokes (come on, would Joe really ask "Would you rather be a boy with a dog's head or a boy with a dog's head"?) and made animals the subject of BlackComedy ''three times''. The episode was even worse than ''Self Defence'', and not only did Cavey not write any more episodes, but Whitehall also threw in the towel. Dan Swimer and Shaun Pye came in, and managed to pull the show back around to GrowingTheBeard.

* PowerWalk: The bunch from the Form K (Alfie's class) does one in ''Self Defence'' episode, when they are about to hand their weapons after "a weapons amnesty".

* PowerWalk: The bunch from the Form K (Alfie's class) does one in ''Self Defence'' episode, when they are about to hand their weapons after "a weapons amnesty".
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Pickwell is mistaken for a lad when she overdoes "it with her make-up and her suit, and her dick" to impress Mr Humpage and get a job at Middleton House.

* JumpingTheShark: Zig-zagged. ''Self Defence'' changed the humour for the series, which wasn't too good, so Jack Whitehall got himself a writing partner in the form of Ben Cavey. Their first episode together, ''School Trip'', took out the characters' personalities for the sake of a few cliche jokes (come on, would Joe really ask "Would you rather be a boy with a dog's head or a boy with a dog's head"?) and made animals the subject of BlackComedy ''three times''. The episode was even worse than ''Self Defence'', and not only did Cavey not write any more episodes, but Whitehall also threw in the towel. Dan Swimer and Shaun Pye came in, and managed to pull the show back around to GrowingTheBeard.

* JumpingTheShark: As of ''School Trip'', the series appears to have degenerated into "let's kill animals, it's funny". Doesn't help that Jack Whitehall is not alone on the writing team now.

* JumpingTheShark: As of ''School Trip'', the series appears to have degenerated into "let's kill animals, it's funny".