Wayside School/YMMV


 * Complete Monster: Mrs. Gorf and Mrs. Nogard
 * Mr. Gorf also seems like one, especially since he stole  for no explained reason.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Mrs. Nogard uses her Telepathy to subtly manipulate everyone into feeling as miserable as herself. But as cruel as she is, she doesn't come that close to pure evil until
 * They Changed It Now It Sucks: What some readers said after reprints of the books received illustrations that looked more abstract than those used from the 1970s through the '90s.
 * Toy Ship: The books are full of them. Jason and Allison is probably the most prominent but others include: Paul and Leslie, Dana and John, Calvin and Bebe, DJ and Kathy, Terrence and Rondi, Ron and Deedee, and Todd and Joy. A possible canon example is Mac and Nancy, a girl from another class. She's his friend in the first book but is said to be his girlfriend in the second. It's unknown if that's meant in a romantic sense but she does carry his books.
 * In Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School, Word of God confirms that Jason and Allison are secretly in love with each other.
 * The Woobie: Miss Zarves in Gets a Little Stranger, in which she is upset over being unnoticed by the rest of the school despite loving her job and students.
 * Allison definitely needed a hug when