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Class Pet
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In American kid's series based around school (especially kindergarten or elementary school), it's not uncommon for classes to have a pet. It's usually a relatively "low-maintence" caged animal like a hamster or a snake. They're sometimes a Team Pet but oftentimes are a background character who is referenced when it's relevant. The class pet allows the usually young students to learn about life and responsibility. There will usually be an episode where one of the characters is asked to take the pet home over the weekend. Another common plot is the pet dying unexpectedly either from natural causes (as rats and hamsters only live around 2-4 years) or from being in the care of a Chronic Pet Killer. This will teach the characters (and audience) about death. Sometimes a character will even try to "free" the pet from its cage into the wild in a well-intentioned attempt at helping them. In real life, very few schools allow class pets anymore for ethical, health, and budget issues. When they do, they tend to be short-term animals that are usually released later, like caterpillars, designed to teach kids about the life cycle. Aquariums with fish are also still common in classrooms for this reason. Despite this, class pets still appear in media. Not to be confused with a Teacher's Pet, which refers to something completely different. |
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In The Simpsons there is occasionally a class pet present at Springfield Elementary, usually a hamster. The plot of the first part of "Who Shot Mr. Burns" begins with the burial of one such pet, which led to the discovery of oil in the school grounds. One episode featured a pet snake that got loose and had swallowed some of the kids, including Milhouse. School hamster Nibbles appeared in "Skinner's Sense of Snow," "She of Little Faith," and "Lisa the Veterinarian," in which he finally died while in Lisa's care. He's survived by his wife, Mrs. Nibbles, who remains with the school. |
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In the Full House episode, "Bye Bye Birdie", Michelle is excited for her first day of preschool, wherein she meets Dave, the class' pet bird. When she opens the door to his cage, Dave flies out the open window, and despite her best attempts to bring him back, he doesn't come back, making her classmates angry at her. Feeling bad for her, Danny, Joey, and Uncle Jesse bring Michelle a new pet bird, Sammy, which she gives to the class to replace Dave. | |
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In About Vera and Anfisa, as Vera spends five days a week in kindergarten, Anfisa the monkey becomes the Team Pet for the entire kindergarten group. | |
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Bubble Guppies plays with the trope. Mr. Grouper adopted Bubble Puppy for Gil, and Gil spends the most time with him, but Bubble Puppy has a doghouse at the school and is treated like the class pet. | |
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As Told by Ginger: Ginger's little brother has a naked mole rat for their class pet. | |
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On American Dad!, a flashback to Hayley going on her first rampage from being dumped in elementary school ends right before we see her murder the class hamster. According to Stan, the hamster's autopsy showed that it was pregnant when she killed it. | |
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The titular protagonist of Leo is a talking lizard who's the class pet of a fifth grade class who upon learning that he's on the last year of his natural lifespan decides to make the most of it. | |
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The one classroom Pokey Oaks Kindergarten from The Powerpuff Girls (1998) has Twiggy the hamster. The Bully Mitch likes to hurt her. In the same episode, she gets flushed down the toilet and into a sewer (with got toxic waste dumped into it) that warps her into a monster. | |
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The Moose and Zee shorts Class Pet Time are about a class pet. | |
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In the Scribblenauts Unlimited level "Inkwell High", one of the objectives requires you to create a pet for one of the classes in the titular school. | |
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Wonder Pets! features three class pets: Linny the Guinea pig, Tuck the turtle, and Ming-Ming the duckling. The series started out as shorts depicting them doing stuff around the class, like saving other baby animals in distress when everyone was out. | |
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Mentioned in passing in Thief of Time is that Miss Susan's class had a hamster named Henry ... and that the last time Susan saw the Death of Rats, he was there on business. | |
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Naturally, Sadie: In "Coma Chameleon", after convincing her teacher that she's the most qualified to take care of the science class's pet reptile, a bearded dragon, Sadie accidentally loses it. | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In "Girl's Day Out", Star gets sent to detention for freeing the class hamster. | |
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The Loud House has at least 3: "Along came a Sister" has Frank/Frances the tarantula The Coach mentions in the yearbook episode that another class has a hamster whose name is spelled either "Skippy" or "Skippie". Lana and Lincoln rescue live frogs from being dissected. They all end up in a tank in Lana's class. |
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Speedy from Recess is a class pet hamster who suddenly dies. It's eventually revealed that there have been various "Speedy"'s, as hamsters don't live long. The teachers replace him when the old one dies without telling the students. | |
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Gullah Gullah Island: In the Season 2 episode "The Pet Show", there was a rabbit named Petey who is a class pet at school that Vanessa brought home to watch for the weekend. | |
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In the Bob's Burgers episode "Adventures In Chinchilla-Sitting", Louise is asked to take care of the class chinchilla for the weekend. Wayne, a kid who is obsessed with the chinchilla, comes to the Belchers' home to take it back, which leads to the chinchilla getting loose and running away. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: Chris Morris was the class hamster until Gumball and Darwin took him to live in nature, in his desire. | |
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Barney & Friends has Zippity the hamster as the kids' class pet in the first 2 seasons. | |
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Invader Zim: Zim once turned the class hamster Pipi into a rampaging Kaiju. | |
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The True Love Loophole: As a kid, Raven's class had a pet goldfish-serpent that died. | |
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Lemmiwinks the gerbil from South Park started out as one of these, before he was shoved up Mr. Slave's ass and presumably ran away. In his second appearance, he's living at a kid's house, so he presumably isn't a class pet anymore. Later episodes of the show have a different gerbil living in the fourth-grade classroom. | |
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Love in the Villa: Julie's third graders have a pet snake in the classroom, and they're more interested in feeding it than listening to her read Shakespeare. | |
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In one Timothy Goes to School, episode Lilly wishes to take care of the class pet. She gets passed over because she's too forgetful. | |
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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023) has an episode where Lunella gets to bring home the class hamster, leading to Devil becoming jealous. Things only get worse when Devil accidentally breaks the hamster's cage and causes him to run away, and then has to go looking for him. | |
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Nibbles from HouseBroken is normally a class pet when she isn't in group therapy sessions. | |
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