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Wayside School

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Wayside School	comment	Wayside School is a children's book series by Louis Sachar (Holes) about the weirdest elementary school ever.Most notably, it's a skyscraper with one classroom per each of its thirty stories. It was supposed to be one story high and thirty classrooms long, but the school was accidentally built sideways. (The builder said he was very sorry.)He also forgot to build the nineteenth story. Also: the principal's name is Kidswatter, there's the group of Men in Black living in the basement, and one time the school was filled with cows.The series focuses on Mrs. Jewls' class on the 30th floor, in which each student has their own quirks and oddities. The books themselves always have thirty stories. There are four books in the main series: Sideways Stories from Wayside School (1978) introduced the characters and devoted each chapter to a story revolving around each one, with the exception of Chapter 19. Wayside School Is Falling Down (1989) introduced a new student to the mix but otherwise follows more-or-less the same structure. At one point a student ends up stuck on the non-existent 19th story, which results in three consecutive Chapter 19s (with Chapters 20, 21, and 22 all combined into the same chapter to compensate). Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger (1995) largely abandoned the formula to present a continuous story: Mrs. Jewls goes on maternity leave and the students must cope with a variety of substitutes in her absence. Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom (2020) goes back to an episodic format, but features multiple running subplots, the most prominent of which involves the students and staff of the school coping with the effects of a large, gloomy cloud that looms over the school building.There were also two Sideways Arithmetic books: Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School (1989) and More Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School (1994), which involve a new student from a more normal school dealing with Wayside's weirdness and mathematical Moon Logic Puzzles, including letter-substitution arithmetic.The series manages to show an accurate understanding of the average schoolchild's perspective: the world is a huge, strange place where arbitrary things happen. In 2007, the books were picked up by Nelvana and made into an animated series, which has its own page here.
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Wayside School / int_10c02f96	type	I Taste Delicious
Wayside School / int_10c02f96	comment	I Taste Delicious: Averted, or perhaps inverted, in an early story where Mrs. Jewls brings the students ice cream that tastes like themselves. Everyone remarks how delicious their classmates taste (especially Maurecia, who bites Todd at the end of the story because his ice cream flavor is so good), but when a student tries his or her own flavor, they taste nothing at all. (Which makes sense in a nonsensical, childlike way â€” it's the taste you taste when you're not tasting anything.) The only exception is Kathy-flavored ice cream, which Maurecia says tastes like old bologna.
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Wayside School / int_137f467a	type	Hot Teacher
Wayside School / int_137f467a	comment	Hot Teacher: Mrs. Jewls, according to Dameon. Miss Nogard as well. She's described as pretty in the text and Eric Bacon even mentions it. Louis is smitten with her the moment he sees her and spends most of the last part of book three trying to get her attention.
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Wayside School / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
Wayside School / int_14a8974a	comment	Love Potion: What Mushroom Surprise is. When Mrs. Jewls finds out, she's not impressed because it's implied that Ron, one of the students, kissed her while under the influence.
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Wayside School / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Wayside School / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Gets a Little Stranger is noticeably darker than the rest of the series. In comparison, it's actually closer in tone to the author's next book, Holes.
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Wayside School / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Wayside School / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The hellish 19th Floor (which doesn't exist, yet does) features a classroom where students are given pointless tasks like alphabetizing numbers or memorizing the dictionary. They work in eleven-hour sessions with a two-minute break between them, and Miss Zarves, the teacher, gives them "A"s regardless of work quality. When Allison ends up trapped there in Falling Down, she can't focus on getting out or how things should really be because of the mindless busywork she has to do—and she realizes that is the point of the entire system: keeping people endlessly laboring over mundane things, denying them the chance to improve their situation, and giving them meaningless rewards as motivation. It's easy to interpret this as Sachar slipping in a Take That! against education systems that prioritize grades and unimportant work over imagination, creativity, and genuinely learning.
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Wayside School / int_15184afb	type	This Loser Is You
Wayside School / int_15184afb	comment	This Loser Is You: When Wayside School closed and the students sent to other schools, Todd was sent to the worst of all. The narrator begins to describe what he had to do every morning, but then stops himself. You already know what Todd had to do, because Todd was sent to your school.
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Wayside School / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Wayside School / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "Wayside School is falling down" becomes part of a song the children sing, as well as the last chapter of the second book.
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Wayside School / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
Wayside School / int_1989b0c	comment	Comic-Book Time: Heavily, heavily downplayed, albeit still present. While the books generally try to avoid referencing contemporary events whenever possible, brief references to the Nintendo Entertainment System and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would date later books in the series past the first book's publication in 1978.
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Wayside School / int_1ae71783	type	Happy Fun Ball
Wayside School / int_1ae71783	comment	Happy Fun Ball: Todd brings a sickeningly cute toy dog to class, which can be manipulated to turn into a man-eating wolf, that is able to bite other students. It doesn't let go.
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Wayside School / int_1bd4c0bf	type	Unwinnable by Design
Wayside School / int_1bd4c0bf	comment	Note that this problem was created in order to troll a student who claimed that the other true-and-false problems were too easy. She is not allowed to leave until she solves it. She eventually just goes home anyway, since the teacher left.
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Wayside School / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Wayside School / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: At the end of the second book. Failure to understand what everyone is saying results in Wayside School being flooded by a herd of cows.
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Wayside School / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Wayside School / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: In the third book, we're introduced to Jason's dentist, Dr. Payne. Later, we're introduced to her husband, Sham. Which means her husband's full name is Sham Payne.
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Wayside School / int_1f067b97	type	Invented Individual
Wayside School / int_1f067b97	comment	Invented Individual: The nineteenth story seems to be populated by these, among them Mark Miller and Ray Gunn, but the nineteenth story's sheer weirdness in general makes it impossible to know for certain.
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Wayside School / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
Wayside School / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: All dead rats can talk. Though it's unknown if they only gain the ability to speak after they're dead.
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Wayside School / int_200fbcd8	type	Snicket Warning Label
Wayside School / int_200fbcd8	comment	Snicket Warning Label: In "Mush:" In "Mr. K and Dr. P:"
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Wayside School / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Wayside School / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: When Joy fingers other students for stealing Dameon's lunch in Sideways Stories, she's able to name two specific items he had in his lunch based on non-indicative wrappers, and also has chocolate all over her face when one of the aforementioned items was a piece of chocolate cake. Somehow, everyone including Mrs. Jewls fails to notice this, or at least to realize that it points to Joy herself having been the one who took Dameon's lunch.
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Wayside School / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
Wayside School / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: Miss Nogard, who was disillusioned with humanity after being rejected by her boyfriend after he discovered her mind-reading third ear, is shocked out of her misanthropy when she reads the mind of Mrs. Jewls's baby daughter and feels only pure love and happiness.
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Wayside School / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Wayside School / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Allison is arguably the most normal character in the series. Her stories usually center around her reacting to the strangeness that surrounds her. She's also the only one to realize some of the weirder implications of the stories' universe, such as the fact that if there is no nineteenth floor, then their classroom is really only on the twenty-ninth floor. Of course, given the Mind Screw nature of the universe, the moment she realizes this, everyone in Mrs. Jewls' class forgets about her and she ends up in Miss Zarves' class. Sue in the Sideways Arithmetic books.
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Wayside School / int_26b5058e	type	Lame Rhyme Dodge
Wayside School / int_26b5058e	comment	Lame Rhyme Dodge:
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Wayside School / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Wayside School / int_2764d432	comment	One chapter of the first book has Bebe Gunn explain that she didn't intend to misbehave at school, but her Bitch in Sheep's Clothing brother Ray was trying to get her in trouble. Mrs. Jewls lets her off without punishment, and later tells Bebe's parents about the situation, and they respond thusly:
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Wayside School / int_2969dda7	type	Nightmare Fetishist
Wayside School / int_2969dda7	comment	Joy and Kathy claim to be scared of nothing. There is one case where Kathy isn't a Nightmare Fetishist: if there is even the slight hint that Ms. Gorf has returned. Then they ally with their classmates in their terror.
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Wayside School / int_29aecb56	type	Parasol Parachute
Wayside School / int_29aecb56	comment	Parasol Parachute: A variation of this happens in Cloud of Doom, where Sharie's umbrella is caught in a gust of wind that brings her up to her class. Averted towards the end of the book, where Louis considers trying this, but unfortunately, he's holding the wrong end of the umbrella. Instead, the hook of the umbrella's handle catches the school's flagpole, causing him to spin around it several times as he falls to the ground.
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Wayside School / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Wayside School / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Various faculty at the school follow this theme: Sadist Teacher Mrs. Gorf, substitute teachers Mr. Gorf, Mrs. Drazil, and Miss Nogard, and school librarian Mrs. Surlaw (who, fittingly, has a large plush walrus in her room).
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Wayside School / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
Wayside School / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Arguably, Joy and Maurecia, respectively.
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Wayside School / int_2d409194	type	Unsettling Gender-Reveal
Wayside School / int_2d409194	comment	Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Invoked by Miss Nogard, who can read minds and uses it to pick at people's insecurities. Dana gets a haircut and worries that it makes her look boyish, so Miss Nogard intentionally calls her a "handsome young man".
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Wayside School / int_2d5400a9	type	Evil Teacher
Wayside School / int_2d5400a9	comment	Evil Teacher: Mrs. Gorf and her son both count; as the mother turned all of her misbehaving students into apples, while the younger Gorf would steal his students' voices whenever they talked. Later, Miss Nogard, who seems nice on the surface but has the secret ability to read minds, and uses this to turn her students against each other (for example, doing a homework review where she always calls on the person with the wrong answer, and then assigning extra homework because they supposedly did so poorly; in reality, the narration tells the reader, no individual had more than two wrong answers). She eventually makes a Heelâ€“Face Turn and by book four is considered the kids' (and Louis') favorite sub. Mrs. Drazil (who's not from Brazil) was this for Louis when he was a student. She's improved significantly by the time she comes to Wayside School and appears nice and caring, even making the kids cookies, but still retains her old attitudes towards the students she taught in her stricter days, including Louis. When she makes Louis shave off his mustache, the kids decide that, in spite of the fact that she's a good and kind teacher to them, she has to go. Even Mrs. Jewls herself gets this in one story, which is introduced by saying that inside every nice teacher is a mean teacher waiting to come out. The nice teacher resurfaces in the end, and punishes herself for her temporary lapse in the same way that she punishes disobedient students — by sending herself home early on the kindergarten bus. Though not strictly a teacher, the principal Mr. Kidswatter otherwise qualifies. He hates his job and the students. Heck, his name is Kidswatter! Miss Zarves appears to be completely unaware she is holding her students prisoner. She isn't even aware that she is being held prisoner, or that no one can see them. She just keeps teaching, every day, all day. Forever. Pretty much every teacher but Mrs. Jewls, Louis, Miss Mush, and Mrs. Franklin (the substitute for one chapter of Wayside School is Falling Down).
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Wayside School / int_2e10c4ab	type	Missing Floor
Wayside School / int_2e10c4ab	comment	The whole "no 19th story" thing seems to be a reference to construction workers often intentionally skipping the 13th floor when building a building.
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Wayside School / int_2e39af52	type	Girlish Pigtails
Wayside School / int_2e39af52	comment	Girlish Pigtails: Leslie has pigtails hanging all the way down to her waist. In the first book, Paul, who sits behind her, can't resist the temptation to yank them. In the second, Leslie uses her pigtails to hoist Paul back into the classroom after he falls out a window.
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Wayside School / int_2e8875f0	type	Misplaced Retribution
Wayside School / int_2e8875f0	comment	Misplaced Retribution: Technically, the kids didn't kill Mrs. Gorf; Louis did that by accident. Her son doesn't care; he wants revenge on the kids.
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Wayside School / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
Wayside School / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: In "Pencils", Allison and Rondi make fun of Jason after Mrs. Jewls tapes his mouth shut. Jason's response is muffled ("Mh mhhh mhrhhmmm!"), and the narration notes that "it was a very bad thing to say."note If you count the number of letters, he most likely said "go fuck yourself".
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Wayside School / int_30085ea8	type	Can't Use Stairs
Wayside School / int_30085ea8	comment	Can't Use Stairs: In the last chapter of "Falling Down", Mrs. Jewls constantly rang her cowbell during a fire drill on a very windy day. Since the kids evacuated to the roof, the sound carried for miles. As a result, thousands of cows heeded the call and filled the school classrooms and stairs. The school ended up temporarily closing while the problem was dealt with because cows "donâ€™t mind walking upstairs, but nothing can make them walk downstairs."
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Wayside School / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Wayside School / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: Mrs. Jewls' students all seem to intuitively understand her strange approach to math, while outsiders are utterly baffled by it.
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Wayside School / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Wayside School / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The crux of Kathy's introductory chapter in the first book. Kathy hates everyone she knows because at one time or another, they told her something bad wouldn't happen, or something would be fun or taste good, with Kathy always angrily insisting the opposite — but it's shown that her negative predictions only came true as a result of her own actions. The chapter concludes with Kathy's reason for not liking you, the reader: She thinks that if you met her, you wouldn't like her.
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Wayside School / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Wayside School / int_31083edb	comment	Logic Bomb: In the second-to-last chapter of Sideways Arithmetic, Mrs. Jewls overhears Joy mock Myron and Stephen for doing more poorly than she did on some True/False quizzes. In response, Mrs. Jewls gives Myron and Stephen some insanely easy quizzes to rebuild their confidence, and punishes Joy with a paradoxical quiz that proves impossible to answer. ("1. Statement 2 is true. 2. Statement 1 is false.")
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Wayside School / int_312c2b80	type	One-Paragraph Chapter
Wayside School / int_312c2b80	comment	One-Paragraph Chapter: Chapter 19 of Sideways Stories. "There is no Miss Zarves. There is no nineteenth story. Sorry."
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Wayside School / int_32a4f5d	type	Strange Secret Entrance
Wayside School / int_32a4f5d	comment	Strange Secret Entrance: The school is thirty stories tall, but of those thirty, they forgot to build the nineteenth. It does not exist, and its resident teacher Miss Zarves and her entire class are entirely imaginary. Nonetheless, a student ends up there by accident in one story. Hell, somehow, a cow ended up there. (It was probably unaware that there was no nineteenth floor.) In Cloud of Doom, the entire 30th story class somehow ends up there.
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Wayside School / int_32d41601	type	Mirrors Reflect Everything
Wayside School / int_32d41601	comment	Mirrors Reflect Everything: Jenny uses a mirror to make Mrs. Gorf turn herself into an apple.
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Wayside School / int_33175dd1	type	Fashion Hurts
Wayside School / int_33175dd1	comment	Fashion Hurts: Stephen insists that uncomfortable shoes and a choking tie are necessary to look good for picture day.
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Wayside School / int_351e0e53	type	Dean Bitterman
Wayside School / int_351e0e53	comment	Dean Bitterman: Mr. Kidswatter. The guy is a grouch all around who takes out his personal frustrations on the rest of the school, including banning the word "door" because of his troubles with them.
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Wayside School / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Wayside School / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Joy shows signs of this at times.
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Wayside School / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
Wayside School / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: Miss Mush, the school lunch lady, who at one point picks up a severed nose and decides it would go well with spaghetti sauce. However, the math book stated that she's a Supreme Chef... provided she cooks for a small number of people. The larger the number, the worse it is. Granted, it's not the food itself that's bad (Ron is able to eat it and says it's not bad) but it does cause some very weird effects. In Sideways Stories, it is said that Miss Mush has "the remarkable ability to overcook and undercook a dish at the same time."
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Wayside School / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Wayside School / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Firmly on the idealistic side; despite taking place in a Bizarro Universe, it's also a much happier place than our own, which is particularly noted when the children are told about "normal" schools and react with disgust. Per Louis Sachar himself, Wayside represents an ideal universe where the biggest threats are teachers that turn misbehaving children into apples and an abstract storm cloud that makes everyone gloomy, contrasting his other works such as Holes and Fuzzy Mud, which take place in Crapsack Worlds with real threats.
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Wayside School / int_37ad8d62	type	Heavy Sleeper
Wayside School / int_37ad8d62	comment	Heavy Sleeper: Sharie. Not only is she hardly ever seen awake, but she sleeps in a winter coat with hood, regardless of season. She's also able to stay asleep while falling thirty stories out of a window.
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Wayside School / int_38119dcf	type	Not the Fall That Kills You
Wayside School / int_38119dcf	comment	Not the Fall That Kills Youâ€¦: Sharie manages to stay safe after falling out of Wayside School's thirtieth-story window, because Louis catches her before she can hit the ground.
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Wayside School / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
Wayside School / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: After Miss Mush tricks Mr. Gorf into sneezing out all the voices he stole, some of them end up in the children's empty throats. They get the wrong voices at first. Mr. Gorf's natural voice is high-pitched and raspy, sounding like a French donkey with a sore throat, which is utterly at odds with his gentlemanly appearance. The voice he normally used was a gentle brogue stolen from a Scottish man.
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Wayside School / int_3adca595	type	Namesake Gag
Wayside School / int_3adca595	comment	Namesake Gag: In one of the books, the kids are playing music and wonder how the triangle got its name. They decide it can't be named for its shape because "then the tambourine would have to be called a circle", so they reason it must have been invented by Joe Triangle.
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Wayside School / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Wayside School / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Dr. Jane Payne, in addition to being a Depraved Dentist, is rather immature, as her favorite response to people informing her that she upsets them is to tell them to rub a monkey's tummy with their head.
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Wayside School / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Wayside School / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Mrs. Jewls hates dead rats more than anything in the world. Dead rats are always trying to get into her room. Jane Smith had a suitcase and getaway boat handy in case her former Sadist Teacher from 26 years ago ever tracked her down. It actually happens.
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Wayside School / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Wayside School / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: In the first book, Eric Fry is explicitly described as a Jerkass. However, come third book, he goes out of his way to offer Leslie a pencil. Nancy (a boy) is originally shy and quiet over shame of his name. But when he trades names and becomes Mac, he always has something to talk about.
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Wayside School / int_3b4abb27	type	Double Meaning
Wayside School / int_3b4abb27	comment	There is no nineteenth story, and in Sideways Stories, there is no nineteenth story.
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Wayside School / int_3cf65c77	type	Unhappy Medium
Wayside School / int_3cf65c77	comment	Unhappy Medium: Before she started using her mind reading power to make everyone as miserable as she could, Wendy Nogard found most people's thoughts to be "boring."
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Wayside School / int_3d5c5deb	type	Flat Character
Wayside School / int_3d5c5deb	comment	Flat Character: As a series with several characters that only get focus in one chapter of each book, it can be figured that the series doesn't have the most developed cast. However, while most of the students have been gradually rounded out over the course of the series, Paul's only real defining personality trait across all four books is his love of pulling Leslie's pigtails, to the point where the fourth book Retcons this trait being hypnotized away in the third book.
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Wayside School / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Wayside School / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Kathy, in Cloud of Doom, after Dr. Pickell cures her of her "oppositosis." She remains this way, even after the mirror he had her imagine stepping through shatters, simply because Good Feels Good.
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Wayside School / int_3e4cb2cc	type	Weird Weather
Wayside School / int_3e4cb2cc	comment	Weird Weather: The titular Cloud of Doom from Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom not only darkens the sky and causes intense storms with booms of lightning and harsh gusts of wind, it also does things like getting a kid's face stuck in place, and causing everyone's fingernails and toenails to grow faster.
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Wayside School / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Wayside School / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: At the end of Falling Down, the school is flooded with a herd of cows. The opening chapter of Little Stranger showed that despite Wayside School being a World of Weirdness, the cows caused so much damage to the school that the students had to be sent to other schools while Wayside was repaired.
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Wayside School / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Wayside School / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: The kids are able to randomly produce a mirror to keep Mrs. Gorf from turning them back into apples.
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Wayside School / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Wayside School / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Wendy Nogard, and how! After being dumped by her boyfriend because he finds the third ear on the top of her head off-putting, she became bitterly cynical and dedicated her teaching career to making students feel as insecure and angry as she does.
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Wayside School / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Wayside School / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Miss Nogard can hear other people's thoughts with the third ear on her head, using this knowledge to spread chaos and dissent among the students out of petty spite.
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Wayside School / int_41435fc2	type	Pie in the Face
Wayside School / int_41435fc2	comment	Pie in the Face: Miss Mush has to do this to Mr. Gorf to get the kids' voices back. It's made with pepper, causing him to sneeze all the voices out. Dr. Pickell additionally makes Mr. Kidswatter imagine getting this in Beneath the Cloud of Doom.
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Wayside School / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Wayside School / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: Dance teacher Mrs. Waloosh, who pronounces her w's like v's, and whose dan—er, tango lessons sometimes include throwing children up into the air.
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Wayside School / int_442cc963	type	Spelling Bee
Wayside School / int_442cc963	comment	Spelling Bee: Chapter 24 of Beneath the Cloud of Doom. Mrs. Jewls eventually uses up every word in the dictionary, and has to start resorting to Perfectly Cromulent Words from elsewhere in the book.
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Wayside School / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
Wayside School / int_4655ec83	comment	Louis, who is probably the single nicest adult in the series. That is, unless he's been made to shave his mustache off — then he becomes an uptight, snooty, borderline Jerkass. Luckily it doesn't last.
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Wayside School / int_4705178a	type	Screwball Serum
Wayside School / int_4705178a	comment	Screwball Serum: Miss Mush's mushroom surprise, which causes you to kiss whoever's closest to you whenever you eat it.
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Wayside School / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Wayside School / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: It's implied Miss Nogard wanted to throw Mrs. Jewls' newborn out the window.
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Wayside School / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Wayside School / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Louis. He's like a slave for these obnoxious, crazy children every day and has gotten physically hurt by two. And, of course, he had to get a lot of cows out of a thirty-floor school building for over half a year. He couldn't even leave! Todd is sent home early every day despite the fact that he's no worse behaved than anyone else; he just has the worst luck when it comes to getting caught. Even when Wayside closes for a year and the children are all sent to other schools, he's said to have been sent to the very worst one. He was sent to your school.
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Wayside School / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
Wayside School / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Meez Valoosh, zee teacher of dahnce classes at Vayside School has one of these.
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Wayside School / int_4980826e	type	Threw My Bike on the Roof
Wayside School / int_4980826e	comment	Threw My Bike on the Roof: Terrence's introductory chapter is about him kicking all the balls over the fence. Eventually, as punishment, he too gets kicked over the fence.
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Wayside School / int_49a7b6d3	type	Lampshade Wearing
Wayside School / int_49a7b6d3	comment	Lampshade Wearing: Jenny theorizes that Myron can do whatever he wants, because he's blackmailing Mrs. Jewls, threatening to show the principal a picture of her drunk, with a lampshade on her head. Todd, however, questions how Mr. Kidswatter could recognize Mrs. Jewls if he couldn't see her face.
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Wayside School / int_4b17763f	type	Technology Marches On
Wayside School / int_4b17763f	comment	Technology Marches On: In the first chapter of Wayside School Is Falling Down, Mrs. Jewls's class gets a new computer described as having "a full-color monitor and two disk drives." When the book was written, Louis Sachar was trying to future-proof it by describing the most advanced computer he could think of.
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Wayside School / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Wayside School / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Miss Nogard does this with the class using the mind-reading ear on top of her head. Everyone, including Miss Nogard, gets better when Mrs. Jewls returns with her baby.
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Wayside School / int_4b4f6a2f	type	Mood-Swinger
Wayside School / int_4b4f6a2f	comment	Mood-Swinger: Dana is very emotional, and it doesn't take a lot for her to switch from hysterical laughter to loud sobs and back again. This is especially evident during story time, because all the emotional beats of a story hits her much harder than anyone else.
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Wayside School / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Wayside School / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: One chapter of the first book has Bebe Gunn explain that she didn't intend to misbehave at school, but her Bitch in Sheep's Clothing brother Ray was trying to get her in trouble. Mrs. Jewls lets her off without punishment, and later tells Bebe's parents about the situation, and they respond thusly: After Mrs. Jewls goes on maternity leave in the third book, her class gets a substitute teacher named Mr. Gorf. While they're initially afraid he might be her husband out to avenge her, their meeting with him puts their worries to rest. He shows no hostility towards them, doesn't even seem to have much prior knowledge of them, and says he's been a bachelor his whole life. But then he says this: In the fourth book, Kathy takes DJ to Dr. Pickell to cure his hiccups and after he does so, Pickell asks Kathy to step inside his office. After some time, Kathey steps out and this ensues:
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Wayside School / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Wayside School / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Mrs. Drazil, Louis' old Evil Teacher, is nothing but pleasant towards her current students, seeming to hint at this trope. But then it becomes subverted when she still bears grudges against her former students. Don't touch that blue notebook either.
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Wayside School / int_4fc12ba1	type	Beware the Mind Reader
Wayside School / int_4fc12ba1	comment	Beware the Mind Reader: Miss Nogard, who uses her ability to read kids' minds to make them feel miserable, and sow dissent between the kids in the class.
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Wayside School / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Wayside School / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: Speakers who are upside-down for whatever reason often have their dialogue printed upside-down. Examples include John when he's standing on his head, Deedee when she's hanging from the monkey bars, and Deedee, Ron, Maurecia, and Joy as they go on a Dumpster Dive for lost homework. Chapter 17 of Wayside School Is Falling Down is about Jenny reading a story backwards so she could be surprised by the beginning (she only liked stories with surprise endings and already knew how this one ended). The entire chapter is backwards. The audiobook takes this a step further — after reading the story the way it's written in the book, the narrator says this doesn't sound right and reads it backwards, including reading the chapter title at the very end. There is no nineteenth story, and in Sideways Stories, there is no nineteenth story. Chapter 19 is three chapters in a row, also from Falling Down, which are three chapters about Allison being stuck on the nineteenth story of the school. The three chapter 19s are immediately followed by "Chapters 20, 21, & 22," a single chapter story about the three Erics, to get the chapter numbering back on track. In chapter 6 of Cloud of Doom, Dr. Pickell has Kathy imagine herself stepping through a mirror to become a nicer person, and tells her that she will stay on the other side of the mirror once she wakes up. It mostly works — except it turns out she now writes everything backwards, including the last sentence of the chapter. Later in chapter 9, Louis brings up that he wrote books about Wayside to Mr. Kidswatter, who then asks that he writes a chapter titled "The Best Principal Ever!!!", with three exclamation points. Not only does the chapter in question appear later on, but for the rest of the book, every instance of "the best principal ever!!!" is written as such.
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Wayside School / int_51c70be6	type	Obliviously Evil
Wayside School / int_51c70be6	comment	Miss Zarves appears to be completely unaware she is holding her students prisoner. She isn't even aware that she is being held prisoner, or that no one can see them. She just keeps teaching, every day, all day. Forever.
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Wayside School / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Wayside School / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: Louis explains at the beginning of Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School that he wrote the book because he wanted to show the readers who wished they could go to Wayside School to "eat ice cream, draw pictures, and watch movies about turtles" that Mrs. Jewls asks tougher questions than they probably expected her to. In the last chapter, Joy invites Sue to come to her house after school, so they can eat ice cream, draw pictures, and watch movies about turtles.
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Wayside School / int_53f86e84	type	Down the Rabbit Hole
Wayside School / int_53f86e84	comment	Down the Rabbit Hole: Allison when she joins Miss Zarves' class.
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Wayside School / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Wayside School / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: This applies to the students on the 19th story, which Allison finds out when she ends up there.
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Wayside School / int_54cbd0cb	type	This Is Unforgivable!
Wayside School / int_54cbd0cb	comment	Mrs. Drazil doesn't appear to be one on the surface; she's nice, patient, and makes cookies for the kids. But she's shown to have a serious problem with grudges and will not let any past slight made by her problem students rest. She turns Louis into a stern disciplinarian and has him shave his mustache (which is why the kids decide she has to go), and chases down one of her other problem students who hadn't been in Drazil's class for twenty six years.
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Wayside School / int_553c910e	type	This Isn't Heaven
Wayside School / int_553c910e	comment	This Isn't Heaven: When Allison gets stuck doing busy work for a week on the 19th story, her classmate Mark Miller thinks they've died and gone to--
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Wayside School / int_558ae6f6	type	Moon Logic Puzzle
Wayside School / int_558ae6f6	comment	Moon Logic Puzzle: The math books.
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Wayside School / int_55ccbea5	type	Mystery Meat
Wayside School / int_55ccbea5	comment	Mystery Meat: Miss Mush, the lunch lady, can cook very well — if she's only cooking for one or two, but the more food she cooks, the worse it tastes. It's said that she cooks 500 meals a day, and only two students at a time are willing to eat it, and half of those who eat it go home sick. Mystery Meat is only part of the dishes she serves. Not to mention the side effects.
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Wayside School / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Wayside School / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Paul gets in trouble twice for pulling Leslie's pigtails, and realizes he can do that every day without getting in trouble, since it takes three strikes to get sent home early on the kindergarten bus. Suddenly, unprovoked, Leslie screams a third time, and Paul gets sent home anyway, despite doing nothing.
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Wayside School / int_56ff2e35	type	Bat Deduction
Wayside School / int_56ff2e35	comment	Bat Deduction: In Little Stranger, Miss Mush decides something must be wrong when she hears infamously-nasty Kathy politely wishing her a nice day. Somehow, she manages to conclude that Mr. Gorf is secretly a nasty teacher who has stolen the class's voices by sucking them up through his nose, which she can fix by shoving a pepper pie in his face. She's right, but how she got there is a total mystery, presented only as her deciding it was either that or Kathy suddenly turning nice, and she didn't think Kathy would have turned nice.
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Wayside School / int_570be107	type	Sleepyhead
Wayside School / int_570be107	comment	Sleepyhead: Sharie is able to fall asleep in just about any situation, regularly sleeping through class, even after she falls out of a window.
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Wayside School / int_57cf76a1	type	Hate Plague
Wayside School / int_57cf76a1	comment	Hate Plague: Wendy Nogard does a "realistic" example of this in Little Stranger. She uses her mind-reading third ear to eavesdrop on the thirtieth story kids' thoughts, then manipulates situations to prey on their insecurities or deliberately cause strife among them. The children slowly become "grumpier and grumpier" as time passes, until even best friends are shouting that they hate each other and fighting constantly.
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Wayside School / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Wayside School / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Joe can somehow get all the right answers despite lacking basic counting knowledge. He also has exceptional drawing and knitting skills that he seemed unaware of. His best friend John is one as well. Although John is cited as one of Mrs. Jewls' smartest pupils, he can only read upside down.
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Wayside School / int_5973fab5	type	Does Not Like Spam
Wayside School / int_5973fab5	comment	Does Not Like Spam: Jenny hates prune juice. She hates it so much, she ended up being late for school because her mother wouldn't let her leave the table until she drank her glass. Later after she got to school, she threw up. It was purple.
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Wayside School / int_59ea5a9	type	Selective Enforcement
Wayside School / int_59ea5a9	comment	Selective Enforcement: Todd. Every day, he does something that no one else in Wayside School would ever get in trouble for, yet he's the one who has to write his name on the blackboard every day.
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Wayside School / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
Wayside School / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: When the students get a substitute teacher named Mr. Gorf after Mrs. Jewls goes on maternity leave, they're afraid he might be Mrs. Gorf's widower who wants to avenge his wife's death. But when they meet him, he doesn't show any hostility towards them, and tells them he's never been married when they ask. He was telling them the truth; Mrs. Gorf was his mother.
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Wayside School / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Wayside School / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Mrs. Jewls is Properly Paranoid of dead rats. (Don't underestimate them just because they're dead!)
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Wayside School / int_5c9ccf46	type	One of the Kids
Wayside School / int_5c9ccf46	comment	One of the Kids: Louis the yard teacher not only enjoys his job but also loves to play with the children he oversees during recess.
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Wayside School / int_5eecd64c	type	Oh, No... Not Again!
Wayside School / int_5eecd64c	comment	Oh, No... Not Again!: After being stripped of all his raincoats, it's revealed that Sammy is actually a dead rat. It's the third time one of them tried to sneak into Mrs. Jewls's class all year.
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Wayside School / int_5f1999a0	type	Building of Adventure
Wayside School / int_5f1999a0	comment	Building of Adventure: Many strange things occur within the titular school.
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Wayside School / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
Wayside School / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Also Todd. See Can't Get Away with Nuthin' above.
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Wayside School / int_5f861d0f	type	Only Friend
Wayside School / int_5f861d0f	comment	Only Friend: Nancy's only friend is a girl who never asks what his name is. Turns out he is her only friend for the same reason. Her name is Mac. Then they trade names. After this, he becomes very friendly and talkative.
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Wayside School / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
Wayside School / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: Downplayed with the Zombie rats, as they don't show any actual zombie traits. They're dead rats that walk and talk.
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Wayside School / int_605cf3f	type	Something Only They Would Say
Wayside School / int_605cf3f	comment	Something Only They Would Say: "Rub a monkey's tummy! Rub a monkey's tummy with your head!" note It is implied that this is Jane Smith's way of saying "Screw you!" or "I don't care!".
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Wayside School / int_60c0d584	type	Objectshifting
Wayside School / int_60c0d584	comment	Objectshifting: The evil Mrs. Gorf had the ability to transform her students into apples, which she did when they caused problems of any kind. She gets thwarted when she is also turned into an apple.
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Wayside School / int_61321e1	type	Unusual Chapter Numbers
Wayside School / int_61321e1	comment	Unusual Chapter Numbers: The second book has three Chapter 19s. The following chapter is "Chapters 20, 21, and 22" to make up for it. Which, in a strange way, makes perfect sense, as each chapter usually focuses on one kid. Chapters 20, 21, and 22 focus on three kids in one story.
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Wayside School / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Wayside School / int_617f0563	comment	Later, Miss Nogard, who seems nice on the surface but has the secret ability to read minds, and uses this to turn her students against each other (for example, doing a homework review where she always calls on the person with the wrong answer, and then assigning extra homework because they supposedly did so poorly; in reality, the narration tells the reader, no individual had more than two wrong answers). She eventually makes a Heelâ€“Face Turn and by book four is considered the kids' (and Louis') favorite sub.
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Wayside School / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
Wayside School / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: Mr. Gorf's real voice, which is described as sounding like if a French donkey with a severe sore throat could speak.
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Wayside School / int_620475f4	type	Tastes Like Purple
Wayside School / int_620475f4	comment	Tastes Like Purple: Mrs. Jewls brings in flavors of ice cream based on her students, that taste like what that student tastes when they aren't tasting anything at all. Miss Mush's rainbow stew is a more literal example, when the students eat it, they taste colors, tasting more the longer they chew. It turns out to be the best meal she's ever made.
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Wayside School / int_62453cf7	type	From Beyond the Fourth Wall
Wayside School / int_62453cf7	comment	From Beyond the Fourth Wall: At the beginning of the third book, the students return from a few months spent at regular schools with horror stories about how unbearably normal and ordinary everything was in comparison to the zany curriculum at Wayside. Todd claims he went to the worst, most unimaginably torturous average school in the world: yours.
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Wayside School / int_6269a4b3	type	Psycho Psychologist
Wayside School / int_6269a4b3	comment	Psycho Psychologist: Dr. Pickell, the school psychologist. He's not Ax-Crazy, though, he just likes to use hypnosis on people to make them do stupid things. For example, he helped a woman kick her smoking habit but now she slaps her husband whenever he mentions potatoes.
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Wayside School / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Wayside School / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: Much of the humor requires at least two or three reads to fully grasp.
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Wayside School / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Wayside School / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Kathy, if you believe she's telling the truth about her parents being rich.
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Wayside School / int_65b77ef3	type	Tribute to Fido
Wayside School / int_65b77ef3	comment	Tribute to Fido: Sideways Stories From Wayside School has an in-universe example: a boy named Nancy, who dislikes his name, trades names with a girl named Mac, who disliked hers because she had been named after a dog.
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Wayside School / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Wayside School / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Louis, which is also the author's name. It's actually stated in the last chapter of the first book. The books are very loosely based on Louis Sachar's time as an elementary school T.A. and recreation supervisor in college.
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Wayside School / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
Wayside School / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: When Wayside School was built, it was built sideways. And without a nineteenth story. (The eighteenth and twentieth are both there, but no nineteenth.) The builder said he was very sorry.
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Wayside School / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Wayside School / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Invoked. As part of a punishment, Mrs. Jewls gives Joy a two-question true-false exam. Joy proclaims that she could solve it "in two seconds." The exam ends up being a Logic Bomb.
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Wayside School / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
Wayside School / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: The three Erics each have one. "Fatso" is the skinniest, "Butterfingers" the most athletic, and "Crabapple" the sweetest-tempered, because the other two have those qualities and the students just assume they all do.
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Wayside School / int_6a3c49f	type	Direct Line to the Author
Wayside School / int_6a3c49f	comment	Direct Line to the Author: Louis is stated to be the author and narrator of the books, yet is always referred to in the third person. In the first chapter, he explains that the stories you're about to read have been called strange and silly, but that's okay â€” when he told stories about your school to the kids at Wayside (as he does in the last chapter), they thought you were strange and silly, too. There's a clear line drawn between Louis-as-author and Louis-as-character in the second book (Louis is unaware that he ate Mrs. Gorf, even though he wrote that), but the fourth book blurs the line further (Louis mentions having written the books to Mr. Kidswatter; he requests a chapter that makes him look like "the best principal ever", which then actually shows up). Louis Sachar revealed in some interviews that he really did work as a playground supervisor before becoming an author (and all the kids called him â€œthe yard teacherâ€�), and that he named Mrs. Jewls' students after some kids who attended that school.
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Wayside School / int_6a42ef	type	Cynicism Catalyst
Wayside School / int_6a42ef	comment	Cynicism Catalyst: Miss Nogard was once a genuinely nice person, but was rejected by the man she loved because she has an ear on top of her head. After that, she became bitter and started using her mind-reading abilities against people. In the final chapter of Little Stranger, she gets a reverse catalyst and goes back to being a good person. Kathy, of all people, is revealed to have gone through one in Beneath the Cloud of Doom; she's contracted a severe case of "oppositosis", which causes a person to say the opposite of what they're truly thinking. Dr. Pickell cures this by having her step through a mirror, which flips her personality at the cost of mirroring her other aspects (such as her handwriting). When Pickell undoes the cure later on in the story, Kathy retains her newfound attitude, since she realizes that she genuinely enjoys being nice.
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Wayside School / int_6bccf2ba	type	Supreme Chef
Wayside School / int_6bccf2ba	comment	Supreme Chef: Miss Mush is stated to actually be one of these—as long as she doesn't cook for too many people. Because she has to cook for every kid at Wayside, however, her food ends up tasting terrible.
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Wayside School / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Wayside School / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Wayside" is basically a backwards way of saying "sideways"; both the school itself and everything that goes on in it are backward or sideways in some way.
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Wayside School / int_6c62b1a8	type	Covered in Gunge
Wayside School / int_6c62b1a8	comment	Covered in Gunge: Mrs. Jewls is about to dump a vat of pickle brine on Leslie for answering a question incorrectly, until Paul intervenes and pushes the vat in the opposite direction, causing the brine to fall on Mrs. Jewls instead.
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Wayside School / int_6d6e3015	type	Cloudcuckooland
Wayside School / int_6d6e3015	comment	Cloudcuckooland: Wayside School was a Weirdness Magnet before even being built: a thirty-story building with no nineteenth story that was accidentally built sideways because the general contractor read all the blueprints wrong. It only gets sillier from there.
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Wayside School / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Wayside School / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Bebe Gunn and her imaginary little brother, Ray Gunn.
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Wayside School / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Wayside School / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Mrs. Jewls' is on maternity leave for the majority of the third book. She shows up at the end of the last chapter to show the class her new daughter.
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Wayside School / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
Wayside School / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Eric Fry was a nearly-flawless athlete, but became saddled with the nickname "Butterfingers" because of one play he failed to make in a baseball game. For bonus points, the ball was hit to left field, he was in right field, and he almost made it. Which makes you wonder what kind of useless athletes the left and center fielders must have been. Thankfully, the fourth book subverts this by mentioning that the other students finally recognize him as a talented athlete. "Why the Children Decided They Had to Get Rid of Mrs. Drazil" starts out with a long list of Mrs. Drazil's admirable qualities (e.g. her great cooking skills, her patience with struggling students), before finally noting that the children will never forgive her for making Louis shave his mustache off. In the second chapter of the first book, when Mrs. Jewls first comes to Wayside, she happens to overhear Todd talking and makes an example of him by placing his name on the discipline list. From that moment on, Todd is the one who always gets caught whenever he puts so much as a toe out of line.
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Wayside School / int_6e7e9709	type	Cosmetic Award
Wayside School / int_6e7e9709	comment	Cosmetic Award: Miss Zarves dishes out tons of busy work, among it dictionary memorization, but she gives straight A's no matter how her assignments are completed, making the work even more hollow and meaningless. Allison eventually realizes the good grades are her way of keeping the students happy so they don't push back against everything else she does.
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Wayside School / int_710bd545	type	Mind Screwdriver
Wayside School / int_710bd545	comment	The story where everyone brings their pets into class, at least until the Mind Screwdriver at the end, a list of all the pets with their names, species and owners.
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Wayside School / int_71fa50b5	type	New Transfer Student
Wayside School / int_71fa50b5	comment	New Transfer Student: Benjamin Nushmutt in Falling Down. Only everyone thinks his name is Mark Miller until near the end, when he FINALLY corrects them. They don't seem bothered by it though, and many of them chime in to point out that it's hardly the weirdest thing that's happened in that book. Sue, in the first "Sideways Arithmetic" spinoff.
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Wayside School / int_720ef89f	type	Unconventional Formatting
Wayside School / int_720ef89f	comment	Unconventional Formatting: The second book has three Chapter 19s, all back to back, as Alison tries to escape the Eldritch Location that is the nineteenth floor. The following chapter is "Chapters 20, 21, and 22" to make up for it.
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Wayside School / int_725583e8	type	Good Feels Good
Wayside School / int_725583e8	comment	Good Feels Good: Kathy's reasoning for remaining nice, even after Dr. Pickell shatters the mirror, is because it genuinely feels nice to be good to other people.
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Wayside School / int_7390323c	type	Sticky Fingers
Wayside School / int_7390323c	comment	Sticky Fingers: Joy is eventually flanderized into someone who can't stop stealing stuff.
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Wayside School / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Wayside School / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The playground balls are color coded. The green balls are the best, followed by the red balls. Then there's the one yellow ball, which doesn't bounce and never goes the way it's kicked. When Louis stitches back together a green ball with patches from a yellow raincoat, it results in an unpredictable ball that never bounces in a consistent direction.
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Wayside School / int_741d0620	type	Association Fallacy
Wayside School / int_741d0620	comment	Association Fallacy: Everyone assumes all three Erics are fat (Eric Bacon is not), mean (Eric Ovens is not) and bad at sports (Eric Fry is not).
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Wayside School / int_751bd286	type	Is This Thing Still On?
Wayside School / int_751bd286	comment	Is This Thing Still On?: Kidswatter repeatedly forgets to turn off the microphone. In Gets a Little Stranger he goes onto the morning announcements and sounds cheerful, then once the announcements are done goes into a loud rant about how he hated coming back there to look after a bunch of stupid kids.
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Wayside School / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Wayside School / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Of the "kids picking on their secret crushes" variety. Joy picks on Todd, Jason picks on Allison, Terrence picks on Rondi, Paul is obsessed with pulling Leslie's pigtails, and Dana and John are arch-enemies who obviously really like each other. In one chapter in the second book, this trope is lampshaded when Dana thinks she hates hearing stories because they make her feel too many strong emotions; when Mrs. Jewls makes her realize that she really loves stories, she suddenly exclaims in disgust "What if I really love John too?"
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Wayside School / int_76c42cce	type	Pronouncing My Name for You
Wayside School / int_76c42cce	comment	Pronouncing My Name for You: In Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, Mrs. Drazil includes a mnemonic device for her surname's pronunciation when she introduces herself: "My name is Mrs. Drazil, and I'm not from Brazil." This mostly just confuses the students: one of them conflates "Brazil" with "brassiere".
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Wayside School / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
Wayside School / int_777baed3	comment	Out-of-Character Alert: Mr. Gorf nearly manages to convince Ms. Mush that there's nothing untoward going on in his classroom by talking to her with the students' stolen voices... but then he makes the mistake of using Kathy's voice to tell her to have a nice day, unintentionally tipping her off that something's wrong.
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Wayside School / int_7896ecc3	type	Perpetual Smiler
Wayside School / int_7896ecc3	comment	Perpetual Smiler: D.J. When he's asked why he's always so happy, he replies, "You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy." In fact, it's a real sign of how bad things are getting in A Little Stranger when D.J. is in a bad mood.
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Wayside School / int_793a0b9c	type	Wacky Homeroom
Wayside School / int_793a0b9c	comment	Wacky Homeroom: Oh so very much. Everyone has their own odd quirks, some more so than others.
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Wayside School / int_79857505	type	Not Even Human
Wayside School / int_79857505	comment	Not Even Human: Sammy, once he's stripped of every raincoat. He's a dead rat.
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Wayside School / int_7b981966	type	Beast in the Building
Wayside School / int_7b981966	comment	Beast in the Building: At the end of Wayside School Is Falling Down, Mrs. Jewls accidentally summons a herd of cattle into the school when she uses a cowbell as an alarm during a fire drill. The cows climb up the building's stairs and end up unable to go back down, forcing the school (a skyscraper where every floor is one classroom) to shut down and temporarily transfer the students while Louis the janitor clears the cattle out. Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger reveals that he mostly succeeded, but a few cows are still lost within the halls of the place.
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Wayside School / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Wayside School / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Bebe claims she is this in her family to her younger brother, who, with his presence on the nineteenth story, may or may not have existed.
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Wayside School / int_7cd6822e	type	Significant Name Overlap
Wayside School / int_7cd6822e	comment	Significant Name Overlap: There are three Erics in Mrs. Jewls' class, which often leads to confusion. In the first book, it's explained how each of them got a nickname that doesn't represent them well at all, just because it corresponds to a trait that the other two Erics have - the skinny Eric Bacon is nicknamed "Fatso," the athletic Eric Fry is named "Butterfingers," and the kind Eric Ovens is nicknamed "Crabapple." In the chapter "Eric, Eric, and Eric" in the second book, Mr. Kidswatter calls Mrs. Jewls to send Eric to the principal's office, because he found an appointment card with Eric's name on it that called Kidswatter a "mugworm griblick." Mrs. Jewls sends all three Erics down one by one, and Mr. Kidswatter can't figure out which one of them wrote the mean message (though it's heavily implied that Eric Bacon did it). In the third book, the first chapter sees the Erics greet each other- but we canâ€™t tell which one is greeting which because none of them use their last names. The confusing Who's on First?-style "Pet Day" chapter in the third book writes that "Billy barked," "Billy meowed," and "Billy bleated." At the end of the chapter, it's revealed there are three different pets named Billy - a dog, a cat, and a goat. Naturally, the Erics are their owners.
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Wayside School / int_7d260070	type	Corporal Punishment
Wayside School / int_7d260070	comment	When Mrs. Jewls's dark side tries to take over and nearly whacks him with her yard stick for not following her Insane Troll Logic instructions, she writes only one name under Discipline: hers. Todd doesn't go home that day because Mrs. Jewls sends herself home on the kindergarten bus for yelling "SHUT UP!" three times, nearly hitting Todd which is a firing offense, and almost dousing Leslie in pickle brine.
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Wayside School / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
Wayside School / int_7d3f1d63	comment	The Ending Changes Everything: A mild example in "Pet Day," Chapter Six of Little Stranger. A lot of it is nonsensical—even by the series's standards—until readers reach the last page of the chapter: a chart of each child in Mrs. Jewls's class and the name of their pet. Rereading the chapter with this knowledge makes the jokes and plot entirely sensible.
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Wayside School / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
Wayside School / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: Louis loses his multi-colored mustache when he becomes stricter. It grows back after the sight of Miss Nogard causes him to lighten up again.
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Wayside School / int_808b6d16	type	Sdrawkcab Name
Wayside School / int_808b6d16	comment	Sdrawkcab Name: Various faculty at the school follow this theme: Sadist Teacher Mrs. Gorf, substitute teachers Mr. Gorf, Mrs. Drazil, and Miss Nogard, and school librarian Mrs. Surlaw (who, fittingly, has a large plush walrus in her room). Falling Down has an entire backwards chapter, where you have to start at the end for it to make any sense. Appropriately, the chapter is titled "What?" The whole concept is used to its maximum comic potential; read forwards, Jenny seems to take off her motorcycle helmet before saying she was going to do so before Mrs. Jewls told her to do so — which leads to apparent Department of Redundancy Department in some cases. Read backwards, however, it becomes a normal story (if a little heavy on the details — for instance, people saying what they're going to do followed by a description of them doing it — due to the lines that were put in specifically to maximize the gag).
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Wayside School / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Wayside School / int_808cbaeb	comment	The second is Mrs. Drazil, who turns out to have been Louis' old teacher. She's actually generally kind and a good teacher to this group, but the kids can't get past her history with Louis or the fact that she made him shave his mustache when they were reintroduced.
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Wayside School / int_80d0d980	type	The Generic Guy
Wayside School / int_80d0d980	comment	The Generic Guy: With 30 students in all, it is clear that some of them are going to be characterized a little more than others. That said, some fall into this trope, notably Calvin, Leslie (except for her pigtails), and Ron.
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Wayside School / int_812f36e8	type	Nausea Fuel
Wayside School / int_812f36e8	comment	Nausea Fuel: Invoked in a chapter titled, "Mush". Ron has some of Miss Mush's mushroom surprise for lunch, and gets compelled to suddenly kiss Deedee, then Mrs. Jewls. The chapter begins with a warning that the reader probably shouldn't read the rest of it after eating, or before eating, or if the reader planned to eat something ever again. In general, Miss Mush's food is repeatedly mentioned to be this. However, in Falling Down, the only book where we actually see anyone eat her food (until the end of Cloud of Doom, and that's mentioned to be an exception), none of them find it all that bad. Side effects notwithstanding, Ron doesn't seem to mind the taste of the mushroom surprise; in a later chapter, Joe and John, after eating some potato salad, decide they like it enough to go back for seconds.
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Wayside School / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
Wayside School / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Mac becomes this from the second book on. When he was called Nancy, he barely spoke because he was embarrassed about his name, but once he becomes Mac, his newfound confidence makes a difference. Mrs. Jewls isn't too thrilled by it, since most of the time what he says is completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.
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Wayside School / int_82da9d46	type	Mundane Fantastic
Wayside School / int_82da9d46	comment	Mundane Fantastic: All the books have a lot of weird things going on, like dead rats that show up in raincoats posed as school children. Amusingly enough, the final chapter of the first book features the characters learning about an ordinary school, and they find that to be strange.
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Wayside School / int_8360646	type	Animal Goes to School
Wayside School / int_8360646	comment	Animal Goes to School: In the last story of Wayside School is Falling Down, Mrs. Jewls rings her cowbell really loud to calm the students of the thirtieth floor down. She unknowingly attracted all the cows from the country side and filled up the school. Lewis gets rid of all the cows in the school, except for one that's in the nineteenth floor in Wayside School Gets a Little Stanger.
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Wayside School / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Wayside School / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Kathy's chapter in the first book. She always expects things will go wrong, and ignores everyone's advice that'll help prevent that. When things inevitably do go wrong, she remarks that she was right the whole time.
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Wayside School / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Wayside School / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Mrs. Jewls asks Dameon to ask Louis if he would like to join them for a screening of a movie called Turtles. After Dameon does this, Louis tells him to ask Mrs. Jewls what the movie's about. She answers "Turtles." Ultimately, Louis decides not to watch the movie, because "turtles are too slow." Several chapters are named like this, such as one in Gets A Little Stranger titled "A Story With A Disappointing Ending". From chapter 25 of Beneath the Cloud of Doom:
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Wayside School / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Wayside School / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Sue is a student in the Sideways Arithmetic books. She is never seen or even mentioned in the main series, and in a few cases, it is specifically mentioned the class only has twenty-eight kids. The three Erics' nicknames are brought up in the first book, but never seen again. Even the students' attitudes towards the Erics seems to have changed, as in Cloud of Doom it's mentioned that Eric Fry is now usually picked first on teams, and Eric Bacon is popular for being funny and clever, even if no one completely trusts him.
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Wayside School / int_86eea0e5	type	World of Pun
Wayside School / int_86eea0e5	comment	World of Pun: The books are full of puns, both stealthy and otherwise.
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Wayside School / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Wayside School / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Happens in Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger, when Dr. Pickell brainwashes Paul so that when Leslie says the word "pencil", he will see her ears as candy. The rest of the chapter deals entirely with the subject of a lost pencil, and Leslie is at the center of it but never says the word "pencil." That having been said, the chapter is titled "A Story With a Disappointing Ending", so one really ought to expect nothing less. Several chapters later, when you're not looking for it, the Brick Joke hits.
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Wayside School / int_87d7e9fa	type	Surreal Humor
Wayside School / int_87d7e9fa	comment	Surreal Humor: A major part of the appeal of the books comes from how outlandish the events of the stories can get, with the characters being placed in increasingly ridiculous situations with each story. And it starts with a teacher turning students into apples.
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Wayside School / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Wayside School / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Miss Nogard takes advantage of every single insecurity and issue that the students have to slowly transform them all into bitter hateful jerks.
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Wayside School / int_8ace85ef	type	Audience Surrogate
Wayside School / int_8ace85ef	comment	Audience Surrogate: The math books introduce a new student, Sue, whose confusion over Mrs. Jewls' approach to learning is intended to mirror that of "normal" people (such as using words instead of numbers for math problems). She doesn't cross over into the main books, likely because she is never given any quirks of her own to set her apart from the other students.
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Wayside School / int_8c678d33	type	Death by Newbery Medal
Wayside School / int_8c678d33	comment	Death by Newbery Medal: In-Universe. Dana claims to hate when Mrs. Jewls reads stories like these to the class because they make her laugh and cry too much. Mrs. Jewls then explains to Dana that her laughing and crying over those stories means she actually loves them, and Mrs. Jewls wishes the rest of the class loved them as much as Dana.
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Wayside School / int_8c8d53db	type	One-Note Cook
Wayside School / int_8c8d53db	comment	One-Note Cook: The only food Miss Mush doesn't know how to ruin is milk. And nothing, which is so popular that she eventually runs out of it.
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Wayside School / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Wayside School / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: In the third book, Mr. Kidswatter finally has elevators installed in the school, but he doesn't want the chaos that the stairs had with kids constantly running into each other because they were on the wrong side of the stairwell, so the elevators were programmed to only go in one direction. One only goes up, and the other only goes down. They end up working perfectly once, and then never again. Also, why were the kids constantly running into each other on the stairs? The rule for the stairs is to go up on the right side and go down on the left. Think about it for a moment... (Which is apparently more than Mr. Kidswatter ever did.)
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Wayside School / int_8ee72ccd	type	Sickeningly Sweet
Wayside School / int_8ee72ccd	comment	Sickeningly Sweet: "Love and a Dead Rat" ends with Dameon and Mrs. Jewls having a sweet conversation about love. It's so sappy that the dead rat inside Mrs. Jewls' desk comes back to life and walks out.
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Wayside School / int_90a76abb	type	Non-Promotion
Wayside School / int_90a76abb	comment	Non-Promotion: Myron gets promoted to class president, but the duty only comes with turning the lights on and off at the beginning and end of the day. When he's late to class one day, he gets demoted, since without him, the lights aren't on. Mrs. Jewls can't teach without light, and the students can't learn.
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Wayside School / int_90b98fbb	type	The Needless
Wayside School / int_90b98fbb	comment	The Needless: Dialogue from the characters trapped on the nineteenth floor suggest they no longer sleep, eat, or even produce waste. Whether itâ€™s Zarvesâ€™ or the floorâ€™s doing, this keeps the students from ever needing to leave the classroom.
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Wayside School / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Wayside School / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: It doesn't always happen to Joy, but boy is it satisfying. In book two, she steals Maurecia's lunch for no reason, and watches her search through the bushes after asking for her chocolate milk. Then when Maurecia finds money, Joy tries to convince Maurecia they should keep it and split it, even saying the police may accuse Maurecia of having stolen it. It turns out the money's real owner is grateful for getting his lifesavings back. When he finds out that Joy stole Maurecia's lunch and demands a reward, he gives her a pencil. Kathy also gets this in book two. She sees DJ is upset, and goes to tease him about it. Unfortunately, even though he lost his grandfather's watch, he's not upset for the reasons that she mentions: his parents or grandparents being mad or being unable to tell time. DJ then realizes he's upset over nothing and thanks her. Whoops.
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Wayside School / int_9109ba86	type	Non-Giving-Up School Guy
Wayside School / int_9109ba86	comment	Non-Giving-Up School Guy: Mrs. Drazil is one of these, keeping a blue notebook filled with every bad thing any one of her students has ever done. It turns out Louis, the yard teacher, is one of those students, and is forced to shave his mustache and become a strict Professional Playground Supervisor. The students, outraged, find the one student she hates more, a Depraved Dentist who has been out of her class for twenty-five years. When the students reveal her current location to Mrs. Drazil, she takes extreme measures to track her down so she will do her homework, but instead, she runs off into the woods, with Mrs. Drazil chasing her, both of them never to be seen again.
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Wayside School / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Wayside School / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Miss Nogard, who is bitter over a broken engagement and capable of reading thoughts, is asked to hold Mrs. Jewls' new baby. As she does, Ms. Nogard realizes she's never read a baby's thoughts before. Curious, she listens to Mrs. Jewls' baby's thoughts. Whatever Nogard hears is left to the reader's imagination, but it's described as "pure love, trust, and faith, with no words to get in the way." As a result, Nogard's bitterness fades instantly.
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Wayside School / int_92bec282	type	Back to Front
Wayside School / int_92bec282	comment	Back to Front: Chapter 17 of Falling Down, "What?" is written in reverse paragraph order. It's about a student arriving to school late and only hearing the last line of a story, and reading it backwards so the beginning is still a surprise.
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Wayside School / int_92cca75b	type	Ret-Gone
Wayside School / int_92cca75b	comment	Ret-Gone: It's implied any student who ends up on the nineteenth story vanished from real life. Virginia's a thirty-year old lady memorizing the dictionary, Ray is nine years old.
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Wayside School / int_939a84fa	type	Embarrassing Tattoo
Wayside School / int_939a84fa	comment	Embarrassing Tattoo: Subverted with Calvin, who gets a tattoo of a potato on his ankle. The other kids mock him for it, but he appreciates it, knowing that he wanted something he'd want for the rest of his life, instead of something that would only be cool at the moment.
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Wayside School / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Wayside School / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: All the kids in Mrs. Jewls's class are named after kids Louis Sachar taught during his stint as a playground supervisor at Hillside Elementary School in Berkeley, California, while Louis, the yard teacher, is named after himself. Mrs. Jewls, the class's teacher, is named after Mrs. Jukes, who taught the class he worked with, and Mavis Jewls was named after her daughter, who additionally helped get the books published.
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Wayside School / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Wayside School / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Kathy's introductory chapter in the original Wayside School book has her repeatedly say "I was right, you were wrong", despite every misfortune she suffers during the chapter being her own fault (wasting a cookie Allison made for her by leaving it in her desk until it got stale, closing her eyes while trying to catch a kickball coming right towards her, keeping her pet cat she's afraid will run away in her closet for so long that it bolts when she finally opens the door). The book even lampshades it by saying "It's amazing how somebody who's always right can still be wrong".
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Wayside School / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
Wayside School / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: Happens twice in Wayside School is Falling Down. Todd for Show-And-Tell brings a toy dog that everyone admires. It gets him out of trouble twice, once when Mrs. Jewls tries to confiscate it but she doesn't on seeing how cute it is. He then has it change into a scary dog. The second time is when Joy frames him — as usual— and tries to steal the toy. It then bites her, and she screams, outing herself as a thief. It's one of the few days where Todd isn't sent home early. When Mrs. Jewls's dark side tries to take over and nearly whacks him with her yard stick for not following her Insane Troll Logic instructions, she writes only one name under Discipline: hers. Todd doesn't go home that day because Mrs. Jewls sends herself home on the kindergarten bus for yelling "SHUT UP!" three times, nearly hitting Todd which is a firing offense, and almost dousing Leslie in pickle brine. Todd gets a couple in Beneath the Cloud of Doom. In "The Bells of Wayside," Todd is struggling with a difficult day in class when Mrs. Jewls piles up homework, has the class prepare for an Ultimate Test, and has two strikes against him on her discipline list. However, at the end of the chapter, the "Erase-the-Blackboard-Bell" rings, forcing Mrs. Jewls to erase the board, postponing the test, cancelling all the homework assignments, and getting Todd out of trouble for the day. In "Blame It on the Cloud," everyone in Mrs. Jewls's class has to write their name on the discipline list after using the cloud as a scapegoat for their bad behavior... Except Todd. He's the only one who's been good.
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Wayside School / int_99c36bb5	type	Ironic Nursery Tune
Wayside School / int_99c36bb5	comment	Ironic Nursery Tune: The titular poem of Wayside School is Falling Down changes "London Bridge is Falling Down" into a scenario in which the school falls down and all the kids hit the ground and die. Kathy likes reciting this because if she and the other students died, they wouldn't have to go to school anymore.
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Wayside School / int_9b46635	type	Hypno Pendulum
Wayside School / int_9b46635	comment	Hypno Pendulum: Dr. Pickle gets his nickname from the fact that he uses a stone shaped like a pickle to hypnotize people.
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Wayside School / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
Wayside School / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Mrs. Gorf, the meanest teacher the class ever had, who turned all her students into apples, gets turned into an apple and eaten by Louis.
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Wayside School / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
Wayside School / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The Nineteenth Floor. No one can ever seem to leave once they get there, everyone becomes The Needless, time passes at random intervals, and the memories of any place except that classroom slowly start to fade.
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Wayside School / int_9d13914e	type	Apple for Teacher
Wayside School / int_9d13914e	comment	Apple for Teacher: Subverted. Mrs. Gorf transforms all the kids in her class into apples, but Louis, the yard teacher, assumes she's nice, because when he sees the pile of apples on her desk, he assumes the kids have all been giving them to her.
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Wayside School / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Wayside School / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In Sideways Stories, Myron saves the life of Dana's dog, Pugsy. Thus, when the class bring their pets to class in the "Pet Day" chapter of Gets a Little Stranger, Dana's pet is left out of the Who's on First? gimmick employed throughout the chapter since her pet had already been acknowledged in the previous book. One of the problems in More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School gets deemed the hardest question in the whole book before Mrs. Jewls asks it. However, it gets skipped over after the students trick Mrs. Jewls into canceling the pop quiz containing the problem. The number of the question treated like this? Nineteen. In the first book, Stephen wears his Halloween costume to school and everyone finds it funny. In the next book, Stephen's picture day suit is met with a similar reaction with someone pointing out his history of wearing silly costumes. In Sideways Stories, a boy named Nancy trades names with his female friend Mac. Falling Down mentions Mac walking home with his girlfriend Nancy. A couple times in Cloud of Doom, including Dana bending down to scratch a mosquito bite at one point, and Allison pulling the peel off a tangerine in a single piece.
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Wayside School / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
Wayside School / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: Pet day for this school is pretty much like this. Except even bigger.
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Wayside School / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Wayside School / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Mr. Gorf cares about his mother enough to try and get revenge for her demise against her students.
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Wayside School / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Wayside School / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Mr. Gorf. He's Mrs. Gorf's son, and is out to get revenge on Mrs. Jewls' class for what they did to his mother. This involves not only stealing all of their voices, but phoning - and cruelly insulting - their mothers while impersonating the children. The children getting rid of Mrs. Drazil. She's perfectly nice to them and a good teacher, but no one makes Louis shave his moustache. Even when they realize Louis wasn't as innocent as he claimed in the feud between them, they still never even consider calling it off. Their method of getting rid of her also involves putting her on the trail of another former student she had a longstanding grudge against and hoping something comes of it that keeps Mrs. Drazil out of the classroom. It actually works.
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Wayside School / int_a119b588	type	Hey, You!
Wayside School / int_a119b588	comment	Hey, You!: Mac and Nancy address each other this way before trading names, but mostly because they're too worried that if they ask for each other's names, they'll have to use their own. That being said, they still do this after trading, mostly out of habit.
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Wayside School / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Wayside School / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: Mrs. Jewls struggling to remember the password needed to fix her home computer.
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Wayside School / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
Wayside School / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: Sideways Stories never mentions Nancy's gender until near the end, when the chapter revolving around him unexpectedly reveals him to be male.
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Wayside School / int_a1c5e0cc	type	Trigger Phrase
Wayside School / int_a1c5e0cc	comment	Trigger Phrase: Dr. Pickell does this for many of his patients. One woman now slaps her husband whenever he says the word "potato," one man takes off his shoe whenever someone says "parking meter," and Paul tries to eat Leslie's ears whenever she says "pencil."
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Wayside School / int_a1d48853	type	Stupid Crooks
Wayside School / int_a1d48853	comment	Stupid Crooks: A pair of robbers show up to Mrs. Jewls's class, upholding it as if their staging a bank robbery. As it turns out, they actually think they are in a bank: they Never Learned to Read. Todd manages to dispell them by giving them Joy's workbook.
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Wayside School / int_a2a8c6b6	type	Bewildering Punishment
Wayside School / int_a2a8c6b6	comment	Bewildering Punishment: In the third book, Mr. Kidswatter declares "door" a bad word during his morning announcements. The same morning, Todd is late for class, and having missed the announcement, explains that he was late because his dad locked the keys inside their car, and needed a coat hanger to open the door. Mrs. Jewls makes him write his name under the discipline list, but he isn't sure why.
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Wayside School / int_a2f3e380	type	World of Weirdness
Wayside School / int_a2f3e380	comment	World of Weirdness: Especially in the third book, appropriately titled Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, which had, among other things, a substitute teacher with an ear on top of her head that allowed her to "hear" people's thoughts.
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Wayside School / int_a3eb0c53	type	Confusing Multiple Negatives
Wayside School / int_a3eb0c53	comment	In Sideways Stories, Calvin is told to take a note to the non-existent Miss Zarves. Additionally, Mrs. Jewls forgets to give him the note. Calvin isn't sure what to do, so he asks Louis' advice. Louis tells him that "you're not supposed to give no notes to no teachers". Calvin goes back to the classroom without doing a thing. Mrs. Jewls thanks him for carrying out her errand. Calvin tries to explain, but when he proves unable to do so, he just says, "Really, it was nothing."
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Wayside School / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Wayside School / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, true to its name, is definitely weirder than the preceding books, but the title also refers to the baby girl Mrs. Jewls gives birth to at the end of the book, the eponymous "little stranger".
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Wayside School / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Wayside School / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Toyed with. Nancy and Mac's names were meant to be this by their parents (Nancy is a boy, Mac is a girl), but in reality they know their respective names don't fit and are very embarrassed about it. They end up trading names and become much more self-confident.
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Wayside School / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Wayside School / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Miss Zarves became so mean because growing up everyone treated her like a doormat or didn't care for her opinion. Even her parents were too busy for her.
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Wayside School / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Wayside School / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Miss Zarves is only mentioned as part of a gag in the first book, but in the next three, she appears as a fully-fledged character that gets a major role in at least one chapter. Dr. Pickell only appears for two chapters in Little Stranger, one of which is simply his backstory. However, in Cloud of Doom, he is a regular member of the school's staff and plays a major role in Kathy's subplot for the book. In the chapter "Allison" in the first book, the librarian appears for a brief scene, but she remains unnamed, and little about her is established. In the fourth, she is named Mrs. Surlaw, and gets a dedicated chapter to herself.
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Wayside School / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Wayside School / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Miss Nogard is never punished for the way she used her mind reading powers to make her students miserable and turn them against each other all while making herself look like a nice teacher in the process. In fact, nobody even finds out that she did it. Invoked with Myron, who gave up his safety for complete impunity. Thankfully, Myron is just a Nice Guy who wants to have a good time. Joy came off as one in the first book by virtue of sitting next to Todd, who gets in trouble for everything anyway. However, she does come into some Laser-Guided Karma in the second book.
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Wayside School / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Wayside School / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Miss Nogard as well. She's described as pretty in the text and Eric Bacon even mentions it. Louis is smitten with her the moment he sees her and spends most of the last part of book three trying to get her attention.
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Wayside School / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Wayside School / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Joy, a dishonest kleptomaniac and Karma Houdini who is usually responsible for Todd getting sent home early every day, and Maurecia, a forthright girl so sweet she is everyone's favorite ice cream flavor, are best friends.
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Wayside School / int_aba0cd10	type	Cloudcuckoolander's Minder
Wayside School / int_aba0cd10	comment	Mrs. Jewls. Aside from ringing a cowbell all the time, she's a relatively normal person who acts as a sort of Cloudcuckoolander's Minder to all the weirdness and strangeness that comes from her students. The substitutes and all the troubles that come with them prove that there's no one better for Wayside School than Mrs. Jewls.
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Wayside School / int_acd7e590	type	Sticky Situation
Wayside School / int_acd7e590	comment	Sticky Situation: Jason's chapter in the first book, where he gets stuck to his seat by a wad of gum.
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Wayside School / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Wayside School / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: In the third book, when Mrs. Jewls goes on maternity leave, and the class finds out that their substitute teacher is a man named Mr. Gorf. They wonder if he's Mrs. Gorf's widowed husband, but they're relieved to learn that he's never been married. They get a second Oh, Crap! when he reveals that he's actually Mrs. Gorf's son.
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Wayside School / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Wayside School / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Maurecia loves ice cream.
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Wayside School / int_ad9559e6	type	Arc Villain
Wayside School / int_ad9559e6	comment	Arc Villain: A Little Stranger has three substitute teachers arrive to replace Mrs. Jewls while she's on maternity leave- all three of whom have it out for the students. It takes several chapters before one is removed and the next replaces them. The first is Mr. Gorf, the son of the original teacher of Floor 30. He steals the students' voices with his third nostril and tries to make their parents angry. The second is Mrs. Drazil, who turns out to have been Louis' old teacher. She's actually generally kind and a good teacher to this group, but the kids can't get past her history with Louis or the fact that she made him shave his mustache when they were reintroduced. And the third of the substitutes is Wendy Nogard. She has a third ear on the top of her head which she can use to read minds, and uses this to secretly torment the students while presenting herself as a kind and fair teacher.
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Wayside School / int_adb1b775	type	Foul Cafeteria Food
Wayside School / int_adb1b775	comment	Foul Cafeteria Food: Miss Mush, the school cook, often creates truly inexplicable dishes for the students, although it's stated that her food is only foul when he has to cook in large volumes. When cooking for one or two people, her meals reach Supreme Chef levels.
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Wayside School / int_af5f2180	type	Avenging the Villain
Wayside School / int_af5f2180	comment	Avenging the Villain: Mr. Gorf tries to get his revenge on his mother's former students for causing her death by stealing their voices and ruining their relationships with their parents.
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Wayside School / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Wayside School / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Benjamin Nushmutt, whom everyone calls Mark Miller for some reason, and he isn't assertive enough to correct them. Meanwhile, Mark Miller is in Miss Zarves' class going by the name Benjamin Nushmutt.
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Wayside School / int_b1825e95	type	Playground Song
Wayside School / int_b1825e95	comment	Playground Song: The eponymous song in Wayside School Is Falling Down.
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Wayside School / int_b21ddb6b	type	Content Warnings
Wayside School / int_b21ddb6b	comment	Content Warnings: In Falling Down, "Mush" opens with a joke warning not to read the story if the reader has recently eaten, or is about to eat, or ever plans on eating again.
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Wayside School / int_b30b0aac	type	Real-World Episode
Wayside School / int_b30b0aac	comment	Real-World Episode: Every student is sent to a different school after Wayside School closes when it's flooded by cows. Todd, however, was sent to the worst school of all: He was sent to your school.
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Wayside School / int_b30f20c5	type	Santa Ambiguity
Wayside School / int_b30f20c5	comment	Santa Ambiguity: The plot of a chapter in Gets a Little Stranger. Kathy tries to tell the rest of the class that Santa doesn't exist, so the rest of the students go to Mrs. Jewls to prove her wrong, though she doesn't say anything. Eventually, a man with a red suit, a white beard, and a large belly walks into the room. It's Louis, the Yard Teacher. Kathy claims that Louis having to dress up as Santa proves he isn't real, though Mrs. Jewls finally steps in saying Louis is one of his helpers. She then goes on to say anyone can be one of Santa's helpers by spreading holiday cheer. This doesn't change Kathy's opinion, though Mrs. Jewls states that if he doesn't exist, then he really needs their help.
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Wayside School / int_b36ae36a	type	Collector of the Strange
Wayside School / int_b36ae36a	comment	Collector of the Strange: All of Mrs. Jewls's class, in Cloud of Doom. Mrs. Jewls wants to demonstrate how big a million is, by collecting a million of something. Something small and inexpensive. That something turns out to be nail clippings, after Terrence is caught clipping his toenail in the middle of the class.
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Wayside School / int_b3c0ed0c	type	Spoof Aesop
Wayside School / int_b3c0ed0c	comment	Spoof Aesop: "It's on the inside that matters." One of the students wears an expensive suit to be important, however Mrs. Jewls tells him the standard line, only to add "that's why you have to wear expensive underwear."
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Wayside School / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Wayside School / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Mrs. Jewls is hard on the students but nice to her coworkers. Normally, Miss Mush's meals are ignored because most kids bring their lunch. Louis is the only one who likes her cooking. Then Ron orders the Mushroom Surprise, and everyone finds out it's a Love Potion that compels you to kiss the nearest person. When Mrs. Jewls finds out, it's implied Ron kissed her while essentially drugged. Yeah. Mrs. Jewls told off Miss Mush, threw away the rest of the Mushroom Surprise, and made her promise to never make it again because it was a moral hazard.
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Wayside School / int_b4c12a30	type	Teacher's Unfavorite Student
Wayside School / int_b4c12a30	comment	Teacher's Unfavorite Student: Mrs. Jewls pays special attention to Todd and writes down even tiny or accidental misdemeanors. He's sent home early for being disruptive every day.
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Wayside School / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Wayside School / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: In the Sideways Arithmetic chapters about grading tests, practically no one gets 100%, even though the questions look easy. For instance, at least four kids bombed a Nations of the World test, because, among other quandaries, they don't know where Australians come from.note From the author's standpoint, providing easy test questions likely increases young readers' chances of figuring out which students, if any, answered each one correctly.
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Wayside School / int_b75cf01c	type	There Is No Rule Six
Wayside School / int_b75cf01c	comment	There Is No Rule Six: There is no Miss Zarves. There is no nineteenth story. Sorry.
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Wayside School / int_b79ac005	type	Scary Librarian
Wayside School / int_b79ac005	comment	Scary Librarian: Subverted. The kids are all scared of Mrs. Surlaw, but even though she looks severe, she is shown to be surprisingly soft, and enjoys hearing the kids talk about the books they like.
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Wayside School / int_b8259a3b	type	Dumpster Dive
Wayside School / int_b8259a3b	comment	Speakers who are upside-down for whatever reason often have their dialogue printed upside-down. Examples include John when he's standing on his head, Deedee when she's hanging from the monkey bars, and Deedee, Ron, Maurecia, and Joy as they go on a Dumpster Dive for lost homework.
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Wayside School / int_b871de85	type	Annoying Laugh
Wayside School / int_b871de85	comment	Annoying Laugh: Sammy the dead rat, who is already described as having a horrible voice and a horrible smell, has a laugh apparently worse than either of those two things. The other students in the class try to cover their ears to block it out, but some of them struggle to when blocking their noses as well.
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Wayside School / int_b95d100b	type	Pointy Ears
Wayside School / int_b95d100b	comment	Pointy Ears: Mrs. Gorf has these. If she wiggles them and sticks out her tongue, she can turn kids into apples.
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Wayside School / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
Wayside School / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: Mrs. Gorf has the ability to turn kids into apples whenever they misbehave.
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Wayside School / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Wayside School / int_ba236071	comment	Mr. Gorf's natural voice is high-pitched and raspy, sounding like a French donkey with a sore throat, which is utterly at odds with his gentlemanly appearance. The voice he normally used was a gentle brogue stolen from a Scottish man.
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Wayside School / int_ba8b13ad	type	Catch-22 Dilemma
Wayside School / int_ba8b13ad	comment	Catch-22 Dilemma: In Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School, one of the True/False question is as follows: Note that this problem was created in order to troll a student who claimed that the other true-and-false problems were too easy. She is not allowed to leave until she solves it. She eventually just goes home anyway, since the teacher left.
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Wayside School / int_bac9f95d	type	Sweet Tooth
Wayside School / int_bac9f95d	comment	Sweet Tooth: Maurecia loves ice cream, and it's noted that her desk is sticky since she's used it to stash some of her midday snacks. Mrs. Jewls even manages to invent new flavors of ice cream after being inspired by her.
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Wayside School / int_bb23703	type	Jerkass to One
Wayside School / int_bb23703	comment	Jerkass to One: During her time as a substitute for Mrs. Jewls, Mrs. Drazil is nothing but kind to everybody... except Louis, whom she still holds a grudge against from the time he was one of her students. She's constantly on his case, making him shave his mustache and causing him to act completely differently. (She does seem pleased with him when he follows her demands, but she's much stricter and harsher with him than with the kids.)
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Wayside School / int_bb2a84c2	type	Frozen Face
Wayside School / int_bb2a84c2	comment	Frozen Face: Dana gets her face stuck in a chapter of Cloud of Doom. She gets it unstuck in a staring contest with Mr. Kidswatter, who subsequently gets the face himself, before transferring to Dr. Pickell, who transfers the face to his own reflection in the mirror, which he shatters, just to be safe.
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Wayside School / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
Wayside School / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: Pretty much all the teachers except Mrs. Jewls, Miss Mush, and Louis, although Mrs. Gorf takes the crown for turning the students into apples for petty reasons. The principal, Mr. Kidswatter, is also a Child Hater, though his Punny Name should be a dead giveaway.
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Wayside School / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Wayside School / int_bc74ef27	comment	In Cloud of Doom, Mrs. Jewls is shown to have a weird love for paper clips, and can not stand when a student loses or bends one, trying to conserve the number she uses as much as possible, which is why it's surprising when she asks the students to ignore picking up the paper clips strewn across the floor when the school is being ravaged by the Storm of Doom.
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Wayside School / int_bdbfd01c	type	Perfectly Cromulent Word
Wayside School / int_bdbfd01c	comment	Perfectly Cromulent Word: Mr. Kidswatter once spilled his coffee by accidentally bumping into a closed door, and got so mad, he announced that no one in Wayside School can ever use the word, "door", again. He tells them to use the word "goozack" instead. "Mr. Kidswatter is a Mugworm Griblick." When Mrs. Jewls asks for which words to include in her spelling lesson, D.J. suggests "grumple." Mrs. Jewls runs out of dictionary words for her spelling bee, so she needs to resort to words that aren't in the dictionary, like "thruppledub," "fudge-squiggle," and "whummph."
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Wayside School / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Wayside School / int_bef696dd	comment	Allison is arguably the most normal character in the series. Her stories usually center around her reacting to the strangeness that surrounds her. She's also the only one to realize some of the weirder implications of the stories' universe, such as the fact that if there is no nineteenth floor, then their classroom is really only on the twenty-ninth floor. Of course, given the Mind Screw nature of the universe, the moment she realizes this, everyone in Mrs. Jewls' class forgets about her and she ends up in Miss Zarves' class.
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Wayside School / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
Wayside School / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: The penalty for doing anything wrong in Mrs. Gorf's class is being turned into an apple.
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Wayside School / int_c1cef253	type	Nice, Mean, and In-Between
Wayside School / int_c1cef253	comment	Nice Mean And In Between: Eric Ovens is the nice one, Eric Bacon is the mean one, and Eric Fry is in-between (or at least, not as bad as Eric Bacon).
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Wayside School / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
Wayside School / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: The narrator, of all people, regarding Myron.
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Wayside School / int_c251665e	type	My Hair Came Out Green
Wayside School / int_c251665e	comment	My Hair Came Out Green: It's not explained at first, but Stephen's green hair is eventually revealed to have accidentally been dyed that color when he swam in a pool with too much chlorine.
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Wayside School / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Wayside School / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: The professional organization that Louis belongs to is called the Professional Organization Of Playground Supervisors.
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Wayside School / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Wayside School / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The Unbreakables, consisting of Ron, Deedee, Joy, and Maurecia. They may occasionally tease each other, but at the end of the day, they're always willing to help one another search through dumpsters for lost homework, and will support one another, even if one of them gets ahead.
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Wayside School / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Wayside School / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: In the last chapter of the first book, Louis tells Mrs. Jewls' class a story of what regular schools are really like. The kids, having only known Wayside, can't fathom things likes like a normal built building and teachers with no powers. They promptly boo him once he finishes the story. However at the end of the second book, the school gets closed down due to a cow infestation (it's a long story involving a fire drill and a bell). The kids are shipped off to regular schools where they do indeed find Louis's stories to be true. By the time the third book starts, they're more then happy to return to Wayside.
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Wayside School / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
Wayside School / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: It's implied that Miss Zarves may be this. Though it's later hinted that she's being held against her will by a higher power. Which may or may not be enforced by three men who are known for breaking the barriers of reality and "mysterious contracts".
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Wayside School / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Wayside School / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: In Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Joy steals Dameon's lunch because she forgot hers and his looked delicious. She felt so guilty afterwards that she couldn't eat those foods again for a year. In Wayside School is Falling Down, she steals her best friend Maurecia's lunch for no apparent reason. In Little Stranger, Dr. Pickell hypnotizes Paul so that every time he tries to pull Leslie's pigtails, he'll see them as rattlesnakes from then on. It's apparently worn off by the next book, where Paul pulls Leslie's pigtails on a few instances. The incident that triggered the hypnosis potentially counts too, since he'd also promised to stop pulling Leslie's pigtails in Falling Down after she literally saved his life.
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Wayside School / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Wayside School / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Louis, who is probably the single nicest adult in the series. That is, unless he's been made to shave his mustache off — then he becomes an uptight, snooty, borderline Jerkass. Luckily it doesn't last. Myron is one of the friendliest and most laid-back kids on the thirtieth floor. Says a lot that when he in Falling Down gets complete freedom to do whatever he wants, he never does anything worse than skip a few tests or lessons he doesn't feel like taking. Allison, in addition to being the closest thing the series has to an Only Sane Man, is also one of the kindest kids in the series, always doing kind things for others. She even tries to befriend Kathy, even if this backfires. In addition to his constant smiling, Falling Down shows D.J. to be this; he loses an expensive watch given to him by his grandfather, and his only concern is that a bird might mistake it for food and choke on it. When the watch is found, he gives it to Kathy in thanks for making him feel better note it was actually a backfired attempt to make him feel worse, but he doesn't know that. Maurecia, though less blatantly so than Allison, is still a very sweet girl and everyone likes her. It doesn't hurt that Jerkass Joy is her best friend — Maurecia's sweetness just comes better across when contrasted against Joy's far less sweet nature. And of course Eric Ovens, who's always friendly and polite, even if everyone mistakenly thinks he's a jerk because to the other two Erics are jerks. Kathy, formerly a Jerkass, becomes this in Cloud of Doom after she's cured of her oppositosis. Even after getting it back, she remains nice because she enjoyed being nice and having friends for a change.
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Wayside School / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
Wayside School / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Mrs. Drazil (who's not from Brazil) was this for Louis when he was a student. She's improved significantly by the time she comes to Wayside School and appears nice and caring, even making the kids cookies, but still retains her old attitudes towards the students she taught in her stricter days, including Louis. When she makes Louis shave off his mustache, the kids decide that, in spite of the fact that she's a good and kind teacher to them, she has to go.
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Wayside School / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Wayside School / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: How Miss Mush is able to figure out what's happening with Mr. Gorf. She hears Kathy say "Have a nice day," and, realizing that something is terribly wrong, explains that there were only two options: either Kathy had suddenly turned nice out of nowhere, or Mr. Gorf was an evil substitute who was stealing the kids' voices and using them to destroy their lives. She figured that the latter was far more likely and acted accordingly. Really, the whole school runs on this. From Mrs. Jewls praising Sharie for always sleeping (because she's learning that way) to the whole "nineteenth story doesn't exist" thing, it's easier to count how often this trope doesn't apply.
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Wayside School / int_c6074d96	type	I Am Spartacus
Wayside School / int_c6074d96	comment	I Am Spartacus: Benjamin tries to reveal his real name to the class, but it's on a day where a substitute, Mrs. Franklin, is teaching. The other students think he's pranking her, and all join in on it by saying that they are Benjamin as well. The substitute either doesn't realize, or doesn't mind, and at the end of the chapter, reveals that her name is also Benjamin.
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Wayside School / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Wayside School / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The whole "no 19th story" thing seems to be a reference to construction workers often intentionally skipping the 13th floor when building a building. During story time in Mrs. Jewls's class one story that makes Dana laugh and later cry is about a cute little pig and a wise spider, but the spider dies at the end. In that same chapter, a song that also makes Dana cry is about a powerful dragon who becomes depressed when his best friend stops visiting him.
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Wayside School / int_c83a6950	type	Sleep Learning
Wayside School / int_c83a6950	comment	Sleep Learning: Sharie. At least, that's what Mrs. Jewls believes, which is why Sharie always gets to be Asleep in Class.
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Wayside School / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Wayside School / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Wendy Nogard becomes a bitter Child Hater after being abandoned by her lover for having a third ear.
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Wayside School / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Wayside School / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Just about everyone, but three in particular stand out: Sharie, who is next to never seen awake because she learns better that way, and when she is awake, she is doing things like bringing a hobo for show-and-tell. Joe, who can't count but can always get the correct answer to counting problems in Sideways Stories. His strange mathematical methods also show up in later books. Stephen, who not only dresses (in-universe) oddly, but believes that the more a necktie chokes him, the more important he looks. And he has green hair (it's explained in the third book, from a poem he wrote, that he swam in a pool with too much chlorine which permanently dyed his hair).
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Wayside School / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
Wayside School / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: Mrs. Jewls. Aside from ringing a cowbell all the time, she's a relatively normal person who acts as a sort of Cloudcuckoolander's Minder to all the weirdness and strangeness that comes from her students. The substitutes and all the troubles that come with them prove that there's no one better for Wayside School than Mrs. Jewls. Louis the yard teacher. He fully adapts to all of the strange things that happened around the school and has been shown as willing to go through great personal sacrifice for the sake of the kids.
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Wayside School / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Wayside School / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: In Falling Down, Benjamin finally works up the courage to tell the class his real name. However, it just so happens that the class has a substitute that day; when she asks his name, he decides to carry through with his plan, but the other kids think Benjamin is just messing with the substitute and decide to go along with the "joke", so they all start claiming that their names are Benjamin also.
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Wayside School / int_d076824c	type	Every Episode Ending
Wayside School / int_d076824c	comment	Every Episode Ending: The last sentence of the last chapter of each main-series book follows a similar format:
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Wayside School / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Wayside School / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: For one brief, shining second, everything â€” why Benjamin Nushmutt and Mark Miller got confused, who had their lunch, socks, and why Mark has dismembered body parts in a bag â€” makes perfect and logical sense to Allison... and then she forgets before she can explain.
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Wayside School / int_d1e7f24a	type	Big "SHUT UP!"
Wayside School / int_d1e7f24a	comment	Big "SHUT UP!": When Mrs Jewls is in a very bad mood and the class is acting particularly rambunctious, she finally yells at the class to shut up. This shocks them, as she is normally nice and a teacher telling his or her students to shut up is a very bad sign. Mrs. Jewls even feels bad about this, and adds her name to the Discipline board out of guilt.
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Wayside School / int_d2431598	type	Asleep in Class
Wayside School / int_d2431598	comment	Asleep in Class: Sharie is always asleep in class. Mrs. Jewls doesn't mindâ€”she believes Sharie learns better that way.
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Wayside School / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Wayside School / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: Sideways Arithmetic has a chapter solving math problems using words as ciphers for numbers. Mrs. Jewls uses EARS + HEAR as an example problem. Todd blurts out SWEAR... and gets sent home on the kindergarten bus for swearing, even though that was the correct answer.
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Wayside School / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Wayside School / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: When Mrs. Gorf tries to turn Jenny into an apple, she holds up a mirror and Mrs. Gorf transforms herself instead. Then Louis eats her.
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Wayside School / int_d3beb0de	type	Precocious Crush
Wayside School / int_d3beb0de	comment	Precocious Crush: Dameon has one on Mrs. Jewls. "Love and a Dead Rat" handles that crush in a sweet and rather mature way where Mrs. Jewls says that she loves Dameon too (albeit in a platonic way) and explains that love is an emotion, not an item, so giving away love means that you end up receiving more love.
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Wayside School / int_d40d7fc1	type	Hypno Fool
Wayside School / int_d40d7fc1	comment	Hypno Fool: Psychiatrist/School counselor Dr. Picklenote His last name is actually spelled "Pickell", but he got this nickname in reference to his Hypno Trinket, which resembles a pickle. loves to play pranks on his customers. For example, he hypnotized a woman to quit smoking, but added the suggestion that she slap her husband whenever he said "potato". Later there's a Brick Joke where one of his pranks bears fruit after the reader has stopped looking for it.
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Wayside School / int_d4c98786	type	Writing Around Trademarks
Wayside School / int_d4c98786	comment	Writing Around Trademarks: In the story "A Giggle Box, A Leaky Faucet, and a Foghorn" a book and a song both make Dana cry. Neither title is mentioned nor are they quoted, but they are clearly meant to be Charlotte's Web and Puff the Magic Dragon.
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Wayside School / int_d53ad027	type	Cheerful Child
Wayside School / int_d53ad027	comment	In addition to his constant smiling, Falling Down shows D.J. to be this; he loses an expensive watch given to him by his grandfather, and his only concern is that a bird might mistake it for food and choke on it. When the watch is found, he gives it to Kathy in thanks for making him feel better note it was actually a backfired attempt to make him feel worse, but he doesn't know that.
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Wayside School / int_d59f277b	type	Un-Installment
Wayside School / int_d59f277b	comment	Uninstallment: Chapter 19 in the first book is about Mrs. Zarves and the nineteenth floor. Here is the chapter in its entirety: "There is no Mrs. Zarves. There is no nineteenth floor. Sorry." Notably, the chapter's illustration is a large number "19" that's been crossed out.
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Wayside School / int_d75a1703	type	Year Outside, Hour Inside
Wayside School / int_d75a1703	comment	Year Outside, Hour Inside: Miss Zarves' class.
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Wayside School / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Wayside School / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Since the books don't specify race for any of the characters, the illustrations interpret them differently Depending on the Artist. The illustrations have gotten more diverse over time, particularly with the 2019 editions by Tim Heitz.
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Wayside School / int_d7d8e447	type	Depraved Dentist
Wayside School / int_d7d8e447	comment	Depraved Dentist: Jane Payne, nee Smith. She even pulls out teeth that don't need to be pulled out, because then her patients pay more.
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Wayside School / int_d7ff49ab	type	Put Them All Out of My Misery
Wayside School / int_d7ff49ab	comment	Put Them All Out of My Misery: Wendy Nogard, in Little Stranger, does this after having her heart broken by the first person she ever showed her third ear to. She decided that, if she couldn't be happy, no one should be, and thus became a substitute teacher to spread pain and negativity to as many children as possible.
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Wayside School / int_d9f97805	type	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing
Wayside School / int_d9f97805	comment	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: In the first book, Calvin is asked by Mrs. Jewls to deliver a note to to the nineteenth story, which doesn't exist. After finding nothing between eighteen and twenty, he asks Louis for advice, who points out that he doesn't even have a note to deliver, as he wasn't given one. When he returns to the classroom in defeat, Mrs. Jewls congratulates him on a job well done and gives him a lollipop, which he accepts with confusion. Lampshaded by this exchange:
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Wayside School / int_daa59ba1	type	Puppy Love
Wayside School / int_daa59ba1	comment	Puppy Love: Nancy is stated to be Mac's girlfriend in the second book, and one of the spin-offs seems to confirm that Jason and Allison may harbor feelings for each other.
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Wayside School / int_db99b292	type	Mondegreen Gag
Wayside School / int_db99b292	comment	Mondegreen Gag: "STAR BRINGING PURPLE?" No, "STAR BRINGING YORBEL." No, "STOP BRINGING YORBEL." No, "STOP RINGING YOUR BELL".
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Wayside School / int_dc292b90	type	Ear Ache
Wayside School / int_dc292b90	comment	Ear Ache: Mac tells a story about a hippie who got his ear cut off during a trip to the barber, which subsequently went missing when he went to the doctor to get it stitched back on. It turns out to be in a bag in Miss Zarves's room, and she has Mark Miller deliver it to the hospital.
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Wayside School / int_dc335a04	type	Ear Worm
Wayside School / int_dc335a04	comment	Ear Worm: On Miss Nogard's first day at Wayside, D.J. has a song he hates stuck in his head. So Miss Nogard hums said song whenever she is near D.J.
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Wayside School / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Wayside School / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Louis.
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Wayside School / int_dd46397e	type	Just Desserts
Wayside School / int_dd46397e	comment	Just Desserts: Mrs. Gorf turns herself into an apple after wiggling her ears and sticking out her tongue into a mirror. Louis subsequently finds the apple, and eats her. Happens again in "Another Story About Potatoes," where she materializes as a plate of potato salad, only to be eaten by Joe and John.
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Wayside School / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Wayside School / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger has a woman go to a psychiatrist to help stop smoking. It works, but she ends up hypnotized to slap her husband every time he says "potato".
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Wayside School / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
Wayside School / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: Miss Nogard's backstory is revealed in the first chapter after Mrs. Drazil is forced to leave. You'd expect it would have been after her mind-reading trick was revealed.
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Wayside School / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
Wayside School / int_e0c470a1	comment	Todd is sent home early every day despite the fact that he's no worse behaved than anyone else; he just has the worst luck when it comes to getting caught. Even when Wayside closes for a year and the children are all sent to other schools, he's said to have been sent to the very worst one. He was sent to your school.
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Wayside School / int_e1ba59f3	type	Voice Changeling
Wayside School / int_e1ba59f3	comment	Voice Changeling: Mr. Gorf can not only steal voices through his third nostril, but imitate them as well. He uses this to attempt to separate each student from their mother, since they did the same to him.
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Wayside School / int_e24d2d5c	type	Reptiles Are Abhorrent
Wayside School / int_e24d2d5c	comment	Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Played with: look at the names of the substitute teachers in Gets a Little Stranger...
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Wayside School / int_e36da329	type	Care-Bear Stare
Wayside School / int_e36da329	comment	Care-Bear Stare: Something like this happens to Wendy Nogard in Little Stranger. She decides to use her telepathic powers on Mrs. Jewls' baby before she plans to drop her out the window, but what she hears changes everything: "Babies don't think in words. Miss Nogard heard pure love. And trust. And faith. With no words to get in the way. It was a love so strong that it dissolved away all the bitterness that had been caked around her heart."
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Wayside School / int_e3a7d2e6	type	Karmic Jackpot
Wayside School / int_e3a7d2e6	comment	Karmic Jackpot: Maurecia once found a bag containing a large amount of money on the playground. Instead of spending the cash herself, she submitted it to the lost and found. Eventually, the person who lost the money comes to reclaim it. He explains to Maurecia that he worked for much of his life making pencils for chump change. But now that he has his life-earnings back, he can open his own ice cream parlor. He then rewards Maurecia for helping him by allowing her to receive a lifetime's supply of free ice cream from his parlor. Joy subsequently points out that Maurecia wouldn't have found any bags in the bushes if not for her stealing Maurecia's lunch. As a result, the man gives her a pencil.
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Wayside School / int_e3bd3475	type	Stock "Yuck!"
Wayside School / int_e3bd3475	comment	Stock "Yuck!": Jenny hates prune juice.
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Wayside School / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Wayside School / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: It is said that dead rats are always trying to get into Mrs. Jewls' room. Said rats are also capable of speech and raincoat-wearing.
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Wayside School / int_e4f5affb	type	The Chew Toy
Wayside School / int_e4f5affb	comment	The Chew Toy: Jason, who has suffered through events such as being stuck to his chair, having his mouth taped shut, swallowing his goldfish, having a Depraved Dentist and being shown up by his older brother. Also Todd. See Can't Get Away with Nuthin' above.
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Wayside School / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Wayside School / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: In Sideways Stories, Joy steals Dameon's lunch (and frames several other students for the theft) because she's hungry, and feels so guilty over it that for the rest of the year, she can't eat a turkey sandwich, an apple, or a piece of chocolate cake (the foods that were in Dameon's lunch) without having the taste ruined by the memory. In the two subsequent books, one of Joy's major character traits is a habit of stealing things, including, on one occasion, another lunch.
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Wayside School / int_e74e8d62	type	Weather Dissonance
Wayside School / int_e74e8d62	comment	Weather Dissonance: From Sideways Stories.
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Wayside School / int_e7cb46d3	type	Satellite Character
Wayside School / int_e7cb46d3	comment	Satellite Character: Most of the time, all Paul ever is seen doing is pulling Leslie's pigtails. He doesn't get much development outside of that.
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Wayside School / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Wayside School / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Joy and Kathy claim to be scared of nothing. There is one case where Kathy isn't a Nightmare Fetishist: if there is even the slight hint that Ms. Gorf has returned. Then they ally with their classmates in their terror. In Cloud of Doom, Mrs. Jewls is shown to have a weird love for paper clips, and can not stand when a student loses or bends one, trying to conserve the number she uses as much as possible, which is why it's surprising when she asks the students to ignore picking up the paper clips strewn across the floor when the school is being ravaged by the Storm of Doom.
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Wayside School / int_e8a56ee7	type	Steven Ulysses Perhero
Wayside School / int_e8a56ee7	comment	Steven Ulysses Perhero: Dr. Pickell, who is often nicknamed Dr. Pickle, partially because it works with his name, but mostly because he swings a strange, pickle-shaped stone to make people fall asleep during their psychiatry appointments.
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Wayside School / int_e90f8e37	type	Lady Looks Like a Dude
Wayside School / int_e90f8e37	comment	Lady Looks Like a Dude: Dana worries about this after getting a bad haircut, especially due to having a gender-neutral name.
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Wayside School / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Wayside School / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Miss Mush, of all people, gets to do this in Gets a Little Stranger. Upon hearing Kathy wish her to "have a nice day," she is able to deduce that Mr. Gorf is an evil substitute stealing the kids' voices, and so whips up a pie full of pepper, carries it up the stairs, and smashes it into his face. The resulting sneezing frees the kids' voices and foils Mr. Gorf's plans. Score one for the lunch lady.
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Wayside School / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Wayside School / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	In the first book, Eric Fry is explicitly described as a Jerkass. However, come third book, he goes out of his way to offer Leslie a pencil.
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Wayside School / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Wayside School / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Kathy, formerly a Jerkass, becomes this in Cloud of Doom after she's cured of her oppositosis. Even after getting it back, she remains nice because she enjoyed being nice and having friends for a change.
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Wayside School / int_ee2a3bfc	type	Prefers Going Barefoot
Wayside School / int_ee2a3bfc	comment	Prefers Going Barefoot: In the illustrations of the UK edition books, Leslie is often seen going barefoot.
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Wayside School / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Wayside School / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. There are three students in Mrs. Jewls' class named Eric who hang out with each other. The books tend to use their last names to help tell them apart.
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Wayside School / int_ee8451b	type	Nightmare Retardant
Wayside School / int_ee8451b	comment	Nightmare Retardant: In-universe example. Mrs. Gorf returns as a ghost one Halloween afternoon, to exact revenge on Mrs. Jewls' class. Stephen becomes elated that someone else in the school remembered to celebrate Halloween, and hugs her. This causes her to vanish before she can punish anyone.
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Wayside School / int_ef478375	type	Hiccup Hijinks
Wayside School / int_ef478375	comment	Hiccup Hijinks: The students give a few different suggestions, all at once, for helping D.J. cure his hiccups: standing on his head and drinking a glass of water, eating a lemon, holding his tongue while he says the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Wayside School / int_efd11a7d	type	A Dog Named "Cat"
Wayside School / int_efd11a7d	comment	A Dog Named "Cat": One story features a pet day where a dog named Cat and a cat named Dog were brought in.
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Wayside School / int_f07250e2	type	That Cloud Looks Like...
Wayside School / int_f07250e2	comment	That Cloud Looks Like...: In Cloud of Doom, Bebe draws the clouds she spots as various different things, a cumulus cloud as a sleeping giant's pilow, and a cirrus cloud as the fallen feathers of angels. The titular Cloud of Doom resembles "the inside of a vacuum bag while the vacuum is still on," but Bebe has never seen that, so she can't draw it.
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Wayside School / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
Wayside School / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: Jason. Mrs. Jewls even tells him that he "has a big mouth." Implied with Mac, since Chapter Eleven of the third book describes some of the kids' voices, the narration describes Mac's voice as being "like a freight train," which are quite noisy.
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Wayside School / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
Wayside School / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun: The ballroom is both the room where the playground balls are stored as well as the room where the children learn ballroom dancing.
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Wayside School / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Wayside School / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Wayside's builder got off the hook with a simple "Sorry." for building a 30-story school with one room per floor instead of a one-story school with every room on the same floor.
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Wayside School / int_f77cadc2	type	Mass Transformation
Wayside School / int_f77cadc2	comment	Mass Transformation: In the first story of Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Mrs. Gorf turns all the students on the thirtieth floor into apples. The transformed children attack Mrs. Gorf and demand that she change them back to normal. She does what the children tell her to, but she decides to change them back into apples.
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Wayside School / int_f788b2c5	type	Love Makes You Evil
Wayside School / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: Miss Nogard in Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger has this in her backstory. She revealed she had a third ear to her lover, who dumped her for it.
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Wayside School / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Wayside School / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Todd getting sent home on the Kindergarten bus every day. Paul loving to pull Leslie's pigtails. All four books mention potatoes at least once. There is no 19th story. Mrs. Jewls hates dead rats. A literal example, Dameon running up and down all of Wayside. In Falling Down specifically, characters holding objects in paper bags that are mistaken for their lunch. In Gets a Little Stranger specifically, Terrence saying "Cool" at things others might consider weird or gross. In Cloud of Doom specifically, the words "skeptical" and "spectacle" being used in close proximity of one another.
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Wayside School / int_fb2136ec	type	Big, Thin, Short Trio
Wayside School / int_fb2136ec	comment	Big, Thin, Short Trio: Eric Fry is the big one, Eric Bacon is the thin one, Eric Ovens is the short one.
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Wayside School / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
Wayside School / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Inverted. Mrs. Gorf's son swore revenge on the class of Wayside's 30th story after they tricked her into turning herself into an apple, which then got eaten by Louis. He carries out his revenge by substituting for a pregnant Mrs. Jewls, stealing the kids' voices, and attempting to frame the kids for making hateful phone calls to their own mothers.
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Wayside School / int_fba50b70	type	Perpetual Storm
Wayside School / int_fba50b70	comment	Perpetual Storm: The main plot thread of Cloud of Doom.
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Wayside School / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Wayside School / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Mr. Kidswatter interrupts a noisy music class in Mrs. Jewls' room by saying the teachers have started complaining that they can't hear. After he leaves, Mrs. Jewls tells the kids to play even louder so that the teachers who couldn't hear their music before can hear them. When Todd brings in his baby brother on pet day, Mrs. Jewls says a human is not a pet. Todd simply replies that his brother doesn't bite. When the kids are writing poems, Joe struggles with finding a rhyme for "red," so Mrs. Jewls tells him just to think of words that end in "-ed." So he writes the following poem:
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Wayside School / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Wayside School / int_fc151e9d	comment	Falling Down has an entire backwards chapter, where you have to start at the end for it to make any sense. Appropriately, the chapter is titled "What?" The whole concept is used to its maximum comic potential; read forwards, Jenny seems to take off her motorcycle helmet before saying she was going to do so before Mrs. Jewls told her to do so — which leads to apparent Department of Redundancy Department in some cases. Read backwards, however, it becomes a normal story (if a little heavy on the details — for instance, people saying what they're going to do followed by a description of them doing it — due to the lines that were put in specifically to maximize the gag).
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Wayside School / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Wayside School / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: In Sideways Stories, Sharie falls out the window while sleeping. Never mind that Louis is able to run all the way across the length of the playground and pass through the various swing-sets, monkey-bars and ball-courts to catch her before she hits the ground — if you fall from any decent height, you're going to die from the impact, or at least suffer broken bones, whether or not you're actually caught. (That said, her heavy coat may have cushioned the fall. That, or physics saw what was going on at the school, and decided that it didn't want to get involved.)
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Wayside School / int_fc7c4f92	type	Canon Immigrant
Wayside School / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: Mr. Pepperadder, assistant to the lunch lady Miss Mush, initially only appeared in one chapter of the Sideways Arithmetic series before making his proper main series debut in Beneath the Cloud of Doom.
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Wayside School / int_fcf82917	type	Wacky Cravings
Wayside School / int_fcf82917	comment	Wacky Cravings: Mrs. Jewls is seen eating Baloneos before she announces her pregnancy to the class, which are Oreo cookies with balogna instead of cream.
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Wayside School / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Wayside School / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The three Erics' last names are Bacon, Ovens, and Fry. Several of the non-Mrs. Jewls teachers and staff (Mrs. Gorf, Mrs. Drazil, Miss Nogard, Mrs. Surlaw) have surnames that, when spelled backwards, are various animals (even if one of them doesn't technically exist).
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Wayside School / int_fdbd6162	type	With Friends Like These...
Wayside School / int_fdbd6162	comment	With Friends Like These...: Joy consumes her BFF Maurecia's lunch when Maurecia isn't looking and only fesses up to it when she thinks there's something to gain from it. Rondi wants to write a poem about the color purple, but her best friend, Allison, asks Rondi not to since she wants to use purple as well and wouldn't let it lie even when Rondi suggested that they both could use purple. There was a rumor that Allison knocked out Rondi's two front teeth.
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Wayside School / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Wayside School / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In "A Story With a Disappointing Ending", Paul gets hypnotized into thinking Leslie's ears turn into candy whenever she says the word pencil. Unfortunately, despite the latter half of the chapter revolving around her breaking and then losing her pencil, she never actually says the word "pencil". Nine chapters later, the students throw a pencil sharpener out of the window and it breaks. Leslie remarks on how they're going to need a new pencil sharpener... At one point, Bebe Gunn claims to have a brother named Ray, which her parents say she made up. It's later revealed that he's a member of Miss Zarves' class, along with all the made up students in the book. Or, Ray met the same fate as Allison finding his way into Zarves' class, and never got out... The pencil sharpener incident also involves throwing down Mr. Kidswatter's coffee pot (they're testing Galileo's theory of objects with different masses falling at the same rate). Several chapters later, he asks on the intercom if anyone's seen it. What is the first thing Mrs. Jewls does upon finding out Mark Miller's name is actually Benjamin Nushmutt? She hands him the lunch that's apparently been sitting on her desk since his first day of school. At the beginning of the third book, it's revealed that Louis has gotten all the cows out of the building, but still sometimes hears a "moo" coming from somewhere inside the school. In the nineteenth chapter, it's revealed that there's a cow in Miss Zarves' room. When Deedee asked Ron what the surprise was when he tried Miss Mush's mushroom surprise, his face flushed, his eye changed color and he gave Deedee a huge kiss across the lips (completely unaware that he had done it). Mrs. Jewls later asked Ron the same thing, Ron's face flushed and his eye changed color... A few chapters later, we learn that Mrs. Jewls has not only made Miss Mush throw away the rest of the mushroom surprise, she also made her promise to never make it again. In "The Gonnnnng," Mr. Kidswatter learns that Louis has written books about Wayside School, and suggests to write a chapter called "The Best Principal Ever!!!," with three exclamation points, but Louis states that Mr. Kidswatter needs to do something to earn it first, like letting one of the kids ring the gong at the end of the day. Eight chapters later, Mr. Kidswatter does just that. Guess what the chapter is called. Also in Cloud of Doom, Sharie at one point gets caught in an updraft and loses her umbrella. At the end of the book? Louis finds it on the roof. An impressive example that spans all four books: towards the beginning of the first book, Mrs. Jewls asks Calvin to deliver a note (which she never actually gives him) to Miss Zarves on the nineteenth story. Miss Zarves, however, does not exist (neither does the nineteenth story), and so he's not able to pull it off... At least until the end of the fourth book, where everyone in Mrs. Jewls's class has to evacuate to avoid the Cloud of Doom, and somehow winds up inside Miss Zarves's classroom. Calvin, reaching inside his pocket, finds the note, and finally gives it to Miss Zarves. This was a gap of 42 years.
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