Ambiguous Name: Wacky Homeroom

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)

#1: May 25th 2017 at 6:51:17 AM

The description says:

The Wacky Homeroom occurs when a show revolves around a particular class and the teacher and the students have distinctly quirky personalities.

But, some examples aren't about the show's focus, but just about a class in the show.

The non-ZC Es

* The TV-series of All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku introduced a class of walking cliches for Nuku-Nuku to interact with. They're even introduced with an appropriate tag such as 'Snobby Rich Girl' or 'Nihilistic Pretty-Boy' whenever they appear on stage. This was noticeably absent from the OVA, where Nuku-Nuku went to school once, prompting the destruction of most of the premises in a fight between her and an attack helicopter. They didn't try to send her to school again.

Ichigo's homeroom in Bleach could certainly be described as wacky. Outside of the fact that the teacher regularly mocks the students, the room has been invaded by shinigami multiple times, and one time Kon showed up in Ichigo's body. In all cases the room was essentially destroyed. Oh, and the teacher doesn't even seem to care about Ichigo and his friends either not turning up for class or running out in the middle of it.
Susan Sto Helit is a proper young woman, who is entirely sober and rational and will not stand for even the usual amounts of silliness that a child usually displays. Her class is extremely well-behaved and sensible. She just happens to take them on literal trips through time and space without ever leaving the classroom. Because she's Death's granddaughter. But she keeps her past so quiet that her employer is surprised even to find out that she is a Duchess.
- Having said that, a few students do have personalities that push them into Wacky Homeroom territory: Vincent the overachiever, Penelope the Brainless Beauty, and Jason the Enfant Terrible.
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan takes place in a high school that, among other things, have cheerleaders who do their routines on motorcycles.
During the late eighties, Scholastic had a YA book series called Homeroom. As it was Exactly What It Says on the Tin, it followed the misadventures of an 8th grade homeroom. It had all the stock YA characters: the Alpha Bitch, Jerk Jock, Cool Loser, The Cheerleader, etc.
The Worst Room In The School was set in an overcrowded, out-of-date K-8 school centered around fifth grade class held in a converted store-room off the gym.
Largo's class in Megatokyo. Not only is it taught by resident Crazy Awesome Cloudcuckoolander Largo, but some of it's more colorful members include a Robot Girl, an enigmatic Elegant Gothic Lolita who may very well be a Dark Magical Girl, and a class representative who practices Enjo Kosai and has an alcoholic dad. Also, the class's first field trip involved them taking on a horde of fanboys/zombies.

I propose a separate trope for being about show focus, Wacky Homeroom Show, while this trope would be about Wacky Homerooms in general.

edited 25th May '17 6:51:49 AM by Malady

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#2: May 25th 2017 at 8:59:13 AM

Declining to open. This is not a valid OP.

Tropes Are Flexible. "One class is wacky" is close to "the show is about a wacky class" You need to provide evidence that there is a significant difference between the two.
Bad examples on the page is not the same as doing a wick check. Please read and follow How to Do a Wick Check. This page has 110 wicks; that means you need to check 50 of them.
The biggest issue with the examples on the page is Zero Context Examples, not confusion with another trope. Changing the name or splitting it into "two tropes one for "a show" and one for "one class within a show set in a school" won't fix that.

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