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1* AdoredByTheNetwork: Unlike the United States, Canada has shown extreme love for the series ever since it premiered, and it continues to rerun on various TV channels even after ending such a long time ago.
2* ChannelHop: Reruns of the show in Canada bounced all over the place. First Creator/{{Teletoon}} aired reruns for a few years (and concurrently airing on the Canadian Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}), then reruns moved to Creator/{{YTV}} for a few years and it aired on Creator/DisneyChannel in 2021.
3* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Todd is voiced in the PilotMovie by a younger Creator/MichaelCera. His VA for the series proper, Creator/MarkRendall, also qualifies.
4* CelebrityVoiceActor: In the PilotMovie, Mrs. Jewls is voiced by Creator/KathyNajimy.
5* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Thanks to WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter, its not uncommon to hear people state the series was created by Creator/{{Teletoon}} rather than Creator/{{Nelvana}} when in actuality, Teletoon simply commissioned and funded the show’s production (they don’t even have an in-house animation studio). Even Website/ThisVeryWiki was guilty of this, with the proper corrections not being made until 2021! However, given that both Teletoon and Nelvana are owned by Creator/CorusEntertainment, some might not see it as that big of a stretch.
6* DisownedAdaptation: A fan artist stated that the author of the original ''Wayside School'' books (Louis Sachar) didn't particularly like the series. She did mention that, despite his feelings towards the series, he did like the animation and designs, and when he saw the artist's drawing of Louis (his AuthorAvatar from the books/show), he remarked [[http://web.archive.org/web/20090602135531/http://www.freewebs.com/juliesdrawings/wayside.htm#194855611 "Well, he certainly takes after me".]]
7* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The second season itself didn't receive a DVD release.
8** The entire series is on Corus Entertainment's "Keep It Weird" Website/YouTube channel.
9* TheOtherDarrin: As mentioned above, the pilot movie has Creator/MichaelCera as the voice of Todd and Creator/KathyNajimy as the voice of Mrs. Jewls, while in the series they're voiced by Creator/MarkRendall and Creator/KathleenLaskey.
10* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Nickelodeon gave the show some decent advertising and a decent timeslot when the show first came out (despite premiering it at the end of the American school year), before screwing around with its timeslot and ultimately shoved it to the side before its cancellation (though it did premiere the Christmas episode as part of the 2007 Christmas celebrations).
11* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Allegedly, one of the earliest plans for a ''Wayside'' cartoon would have been an anthology series hosted by Creator/PaulReubens, in-character as Pee-wee Herman, but the idea was scrapped, with most of the ideas that were planned for the adaptation being reused for ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse''.

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