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The series ran for five years with almost no cast turnover. This did stretch credulity after a time, but it didn't cause problems until the network was forced to replace the teacher with a [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] in the fifth year.
Oh, and Robin Givens [[Retroactive Recognition|played a student here before she married Mike Tyson]]. Also launched the likes of [[Dan Schneider]], responsible in some way for [[All That|most]] [[The Amanda Show|every]] [[Drake and Josh|recent]] [[Zoey 101|live-]][[iCarly|action]] [[Victorious|hit]] on [[Nickelodeon]], and Brian Robbins, who went on to produce and direct shows [[The Amanda Show|with]] [[All That|Schneider]] [[Smallville|and]] [[One Tree Hill|without]] (as well as work with [[Disney Channel|the enemy]] [[Sonny With a Chance|sometimes]]). Unlike Brian Robbins, Dan Schneider has yet to direct a big-screen movie, [[Norbit|which may be a wise move.]]
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*** Basically most of the cast other than Tannis Vallely (Janice), who was the first one to leave (she was ''really'' smart).
* [[Dean Bitterman]]: Dr. Samuels
* [[Devil's Advocate]]: In a school debate club meet, Alan has to extemporaneously defend a position he is personally against. He wins the debate.
* [[Egg Sitting]]
* [[Enemy Mine]]: [[Invoked Trope]] by Mr. Moore on one occasion. The students were fighting each other, so he became a bad teacher, giving them a greater enemy that would force them to put aside their own differences.
* [[Famous Ancestor]]: In one episode, Mr. Moore has the class research their family trees, and Darlene discovers that she is a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson.
* [[Famous-Named Foreigner]]: Jawaharlal Choudhury is obviously named after India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. It is very unlikely that an Indian or an Indian-American in his teens in the mid-1980s would have a name like Jawaharlal.
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* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: More than once.
* [[Save Our Students]]: Somewhat of an inversion, in that Mr. Moore's kids are academically gifted and high-achieving but socially and emotionally underdeveloped.
* [[School Play]]: ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'', ''[[Grease]]'', and ''[[Hair (theatre)]]''
* [[Snap Back]]
* [[Spin-Off]]: The eminently forgettable ''Billy'', which ran for half a season in 1992.
* [[Status Quo Is God]]
* [[Strawman Political]]: Of various flavors. And it's just not a [[The Eighties|1980s]] sitcom without a blatant [[Family Ties|Alex P. Keaton]] ripoff, er, neo-conservative among the students.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: After Howard Hesseman quit the show, his Charlie Moore was replaced with Billy Connolly as new teacher Billy MacGregor.
* [[Teen Genius]]: The majority of the teenage cast, although arguably Janice (who was really a ''pre-''teen genius) and Arvid in particular.
* [[Vacation Episode]]: The class went to Moscow, the first American show to film there.
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