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• Crosses the Line Twice -- And then comes back and cross it again.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome / Crowning Moment of Funny -- Jonah's farewell gift to the school.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Jonah: "All... of... the teachers... here... are... gay. Except... [his teacher]... who is... mad... for wh... wast... ing... her time... on me."
• Funny Aneurysm Moment -- After the ecstasy overdose of a student named Annabelle, Mr. G writes a musical supposedly in her honour. Unfortunately, eleven days after that episode was shot an actual girl named Annabelle died of an ecstasy overdose. There was no time to re-shoot the scenes with a different name, so many people thought this was a deliberate reference. This may not seem too bad unless you've actually heard the musical which has the lyrics: "She's a naughty girl/ with a bad habit/ Bad habit for drugs." and "She can't help being a slut/ on a Saturday night." The real Annabelle's parents were not amused, and the ABC had to apologise and put one of those "any similarity between actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental" disclaimers on the start of every episode.
  • It ended up being a case of Life Imitates Art, because in the show, Annabelle's parents are upset with Mr. G's potrayal of their dead daughter, and he is forced to quickly change it to Mr. G: The Musical (though he's not happy about it)
• Memetic Mutation: Puck YOU!
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Jonah's English teacher comes across as a rather shrewish, bitchy, impatient woman - however, any teacher who has ever had a student like Jonah will find her completely and utterly sympathetic.
  • YMMV. Anyone who has known (or been) a student with learning difficulties who has had a teacher like her would not find her quite so sympathetic.
  • She does however get a Pet the Dog moment at the end of the series in which she sincerely wishes Jonah good luck for the future (only to find that he's tagged her car).
  • This troper found her quite sympathetic for most of the series, considering Jonah's attention seeking and general Jerkassishness. In fact, the only time he didn't sympathize with her was in the last episode when she finally snaps and humiliates Jonah in front of the whole class before going into hysterics.
• Viewer Gender Confusion -- Ofa. Who's a girl.
• The Woobie -- Jonah, at times.