Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: Difference between revisions

* [[Beautiful All Along]]: Lisa Zemo

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Inverted with Mr. Sweeny in "Gross Biology Dissections." After his frogs are stolen, he goes into his usual angry mode to scare Ned, Cookie and Gordy into giving them back. When that doesn't work, he does "something different": politely asking them, which has this effect:

* [[Big No]]: Lampshaded.

** Then there's the episode where they're all trying to break bad habits. Ned finally learns to say no to people, and unfortunately unintentionally denies a chance to go on a study date with Suzie. After being informed of this, he does the standard "drop to knees [[Skyward Scream]]" version.

* [[Billy Elliot Plot]]: The episode where Cookie joins the cheer squad.

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Missy

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Many characters, but [[Brainless Beauty|Seth]] in particular.

* [[Compressed Vice]]: Setting tables to collapse, "a Ned Bigby classic", seen ''only'' in the ''Guide to Records''.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: In "Math," Ned tries to help a classmate, but wrongly answers that two negatives multiplied together make another negative. This ends up coming back to help him in "Positives and Negatives" in an [[A Worldwide Punomenon|unexpected way]] when he cheers up two [[Emo Teen|emo teens]] by introducing them to each other.

* [[Credit Card Plot]]: In "[[A Worldwide Punomenon|Extra Credit,]]" Cookie's B-story involves him running up a massive debt on his "emergency" card, buying everything from pizza to a pony from an instant-delivery company.

'''Cookie:''' DUH! [[Logical Fallacies|I'LL JUST PUT IT ON THE CARD!]] }}

* [[Cross Dresser]]: At different times, both Ned and Cookie dress up as girls. Cookie specifically employs [[Gender Bender Friendship]] to learn what Lisa looks for in a guy. Both also have a bit of [[Attractive Bent Gender]], especially when Loomer falls for Cookie's alter-ego.

* [[Dodgeball Is Hell]]: But Moze is good enough to nearly single-handedly beat Loomer's team after [[Came Back Strong|Coming Back Strong]].

* [[Double Standard]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when Ned loses to Moze in martial arts:

'''Gordy:''' Well, if you ''lose,'' *starts laughing* then you got beat up by a girl! But if you ''win,'' *sounds horrified* then, dude, you just beat up a ''girl!'' }}

* [[Elaborate University High]]: They seem to have a lot of free time for middle school kids, although the short episode lengths mean that "today"'s action can easily take place within not much more than 10 minutes' worth of real time.

** He even "passes on" the fame to Ned at one point.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In a fake parenthood class experiment, Ned and Cookie are partnered together. Mr. Monroe even pushes two male dolls together to represent the relationship.

** This gets even more evident when, a year latter, Loomer, his posse and Martin [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Qwer]]ly join the class and become other two "alternative couples".

** There is also a rather interesting moment during the first episode of season 3:

'''Gordy:''' Ummm, I can't answer that, due to the fact that I'm 40. }}

** There is Suzie's habit of wanting to share lockers with whoever her current boyfriend is, which is treated akin to moving in together as adults.

** No mention of that Seven Minutes In Heaven scene in Valentines day? It certainly looked like the Huge Crew were having fun...

** In ''Guide to Dismissal'' at the beginning of the episode:

** In "Guide to Crushes" Ned not only pretends to be so enamored with Susie that he pours fruit juice on her shirt while they work together on decorating for the school dance, he then tries to get a bottle glue open which [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|sprays all over her]].

** One episode that talks about how to ask someone out has Ned unintentionally get a date with Seth while he's trying to tell him that Moze wants to ask him out.

** From "Guide to Gym":

** An ''entire'' episode was spent around Ned painting a picture of an orange ''naked lady''.

*** And yet another entire episode was focused on Ned trying not to scratch his pubes in public. We're never outright told where the "embarrassing itch" is, but the placement of Ned's hands (and the massive amounts of itch-relief powder that eventually resolves the issue) make it pretty clear.

* [[Girlfriend in Canada]]: In one episode, Cookie pretends he has a girlfriend to make Lisa jealous. Unfortunately, the only person he makes jealous is [[Yandere|Evelyn]]...

* [[Glove Slap]]: Leads to a duel over Moze between Faymen (who she was currently going out with) and Seth (who had broken up with her in the previous season). [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Moze:

* [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]]: Cookie's glasses have something very much like a full-function Windows PC built into them. He seems to ''see'' perfectly well without them, and Ned doesn't seem to suffer any ill effects while wearing them for a full episode.

* [[Gossip Evolution]]: " 'Moze' is a great nickname! I like 'Moze' " turns into "Ned is in love with Moze and he wants to ask her out" in "Guide to: Rumors."

** And Moze, even despite the fact that she and Ned are the official couple.

* [[Mistaken for Murderer]]: Cookie sees a body dressed in Faymen’s clothing fall past the window, and becomes convinced that Moze killed him because he’s a bad kisser. Eventually he starts to think that Ned, Mr. Monroe, and Gordy are in on it too. Naturally, it's just an old CPR dummy they want to get rid of.

'''Gordy:''' [[Comedic Sociopathy|I just did it for the fun of it.]] }}

* [[Monster Is a Mommy]]: {{spoiler|Weasel is a Mommy, only without the defeat and death.}}

* [[Noodle Implements]]: Subverted, along with [[Noodle Incident]], in "Procrastination." Moze and Ned bet "[[Noodle Incident|the usual]]" over whether Ned will put off his social studies project and fail, and she gathers a ton of odd costume parts and props (clown shoes, a toilet plunger, fairy wings, etc.) throughout the episode for the bet itself. Ned passes and we get see what the bet entailed: dancing in a circle in the school's foyer, wearing all the costume parts and yodeling into the plunger while a whole crowd of students looks on.

* [[Noodle Incident]]:

** Not to mention the varying number of times Ned has been trapped in the girl's bathroom...

* [[Not So Different]]: The "Guide to Stress" ends with the three protagonists' frightening realization how they're [[Not So Different]] from their [[Mentors]]: Ned and Gordy, Moze and iTeacher, and Cook and Mr. Wright. Their role models were also a little freaked out.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Several to ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' (Which is appropriate considering Daran Norris, the voice of quite a few characters on FOP, plays Gordy), many to (what else?) ''[[Star Wars]]'' in the "Guide to Dodgeball"

** Two were made in "Guide to The New Kid". In the end, a new kid from Britain shows up with a [[Harry Potter (film)|Hogwarts Uniform]] and earlier than that:

** Another episode has Ned's gross school lunch [[Better Off Dead|slowly moving off of the plate.]] It helps that both the film and the episode were directed by Savage Steve Holland.

** Vice Principal Crubbs' whole character is a shout out to [[Miami Vice]].

** Many [[Star Wars]] examples as said before; some are a less obvious bonus ("I don't care if your locker is on the [[Star Wars|ice planet Hoth,]] you're still late!")

** In the later half of Season 2, Episode 17 (Career Week), the show makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shout-out to ''[[Austin Powers]]''.

* [[Single-Minded Twins]]: Nerdy oboe-playing [[Theme Twin Naming|Stacy and Tracy]]. Comically subverted/deconstructed in "Guide to: Shyness" in that Tracy is actually much more dependent than her sister and copies whoever she gets close to... leading to her taking on personas like "Troze," "Treth," "Trisa" and "Tred" throughout the episode.

* [[Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty]]: Not ''quite'' as shiny as contemporary and subsequent [[Disney]] and Dan Schneider equivalents, but pretty darn close.

* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: Ned and Moze

* [[The Voiceless]]: One of Loomer's sidekicks—except for one instance. Lampshaded when, in aforementioned instance, Moze said something along the lines of "You talk!?" when the sidekick spoke.

'''[[The Voiceless|Rodriguez]]:''' Everything's been fine up to this point. }}

* [[Voice with an Internet Connection]]: literally iTeacher

* [[Webcomic Time]]: Sort of; the show was [[retool]]ed after the first nine episodes; after that (and a year-long [[hiatus]]), the "new" first and second seasons each covered one semester, while the third season covered all of eighth grade and first aired roughly concurrently with the [[Present Day|2006-07 school year]].

* [[Where's the Fun In That?]]: A variant of this became a [[Running Gag]] whenever Gordy does his [[Zany Scheme]] and someone (usually Ned) asked him the reason for it while [[Stating the Simple Solution]]:

* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: Some of [[Two Lines, No Waiting|the B-stories]] (especially a number of Cookie's in Season 3) fall under this. For example, "Positives and Negatives" had Cookie trying to get back at Loomer after a static charge attack, and "Extra Credit" had him [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] the pun when he showed Ned and Moze [[Credit Card Plot|the credit card his dad lent him for the episode.]]

* [[Yandere]]: Evelyn