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''Flying Rhino Junior High'' is a Canadian [[Western Animation|animated television series]] produced by [[Nelvana]] Limited and Scottish Television. It originally aired from October 3, 1998 to January 22, 2000 on CBS (as part of a Nelvana-produced block termed the ''CBS Kidshow'', that included ''Rescue Heroes'' (based off the Fisher-Price toys, ''Anatole'' (about a mouse who worked in a cheese factory), ''Mythic Warriors'', ''Birdz'' (which, according to the creator, was [[Screwed
[[Once an Episode|Pretty much every day]] at Flying Rhino Junior High, the series resident [[Big Bad|villain]] Earl P. Sidebottom (an [[Evil Genius|evil boy genius]] who once got a "D" grade in shop class and so fled in shame to the school's basement, where he now works and lives ala [[The Phantom of the Opera]]), along with his [[Non-Human Sidekick|evil mutated rat sidekick]] Ratticus, extracts his revenge on the school by using a machine of his design that can warp reality to transform the school into many strange and dangerous places (he transforms the school into everything from a [[Everything's Better
The principal of the school is also a talking rhino in a suit, and the janitor is a former-secret agent humanoid-pig. There seems to be little reason for this outside of the fact that they just are.
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* [[Almighty Janitor]]: Buford, a former CIA agent, now the school's janitor. His expertise is usually called upon to help the students deal with the Phantom's latest reality-warping attack on the school. In one episode, a running [[Shout
* [[The "B" Grade]]: Why Earl became the Phantom. A D in shop class was too much to bear.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Ratticus is frequently either being beaten up by Phantom or being insulted by him.
* [[Chekhov's Classroom]]: The Phantom usually transforms the school into a death trap based on whatever lecture (or sometimes just topic of discussion in general) the children were having that day. This naturally leads to the students who were paying attention being the one to get everyone out of trouble.
* [[Edutainment Show]]: See above.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Frankenstein's Monster]]: An episode revolves around Earl creating one.
* [[Large Ham]]: Earl, of course.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Ratticus is, of course, a talking rat.
* [[Mind Screw]]: 'Phantom Christmas' revolves around the Phantom receiving one of these.
* [[Minion
* [[Mirror Universe]]: One episode had Earl send the kids to a parallel universe where most people's personalities were reversed and their school was a miniature distopia. Raticus hung a lampshade on this, saying that he's seen that in a cartoon before.
* [[Once More
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'''Raticus:''' He/She said that...
'''The Phantom:''' I HEARD HIM/HER!!!!! }}
* [[Shout
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: no matter how many times Earl's computer get wrecked, destroyed, broken or other at the end of each episode, it's back to normal the next one.
* [[Weirdness Censor]]: The principal is a rhino and the janitor is a pig who used to work as a spy, two facts which (outside of the show's theme song) are never commented upon by anyone. The teachers at the school also never seem to realise that their entire school completely changes into something incredibly dangerous and new on a daily basis (either that or they're in denial.)
* [[X Meets Y]]: Pretty much ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' meets ''[[
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