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[[File:EmperorsNewSchoolsmall_1199.jpg|frame|<small>[[Aesop Amnesia|He's still a jerk.]]</small> ]]
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'''''The Emperor's New School''''' (2006-2008) is a [[Disney Channel]] show based on the [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney Film]] ''[[The
Kuzco, the main character, is still an obnoxious self-centered emperor (in spite of how [[The Movie]] [[Aesop Amnesia|ended]]) who has been temporarily dethroned and must attend [[High School|The Kuzco Academy]] and pass all his classes to become Emperor, as you can't become one without finishing all schools. The Kuzco Academy is run by
Yzma wants to usurp Kuzco's throne which, given her controlling personality, wouldn't be good and thus schemes to prevent Kuzco passing his classes -- at first by [[Baleful Polymorph|transforming him]] into all sorts of different animals. In Season II she finds an evil hall of evil machinery. Luckily for Kuzco he has Malina, straight-A student, cheerleader, and "Hottie-Hot-Hottie" as well as his foster family of Pacha, Chicha, and the kids to help him out. Occasionally [[Minion
Usually the episodes center around teaching Kuzco some sort of [[Aesop]], though it started to get away from that later in the run.
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* [[The Ace]]: Ramon.
* [[An Aesop]]
** [[Aesop Amnesia]]: Kuzco just wouldn't be Kuzco without his personality. He's still a jerk who thinks of himself first, others second.
*** Better than his movie personality of himself first, others never.
* [[Alternate Continuity]]: The series seems to ignore a high majority of things about the first film while also containing elements that hint the series occurs after the movie. Kuzco still retains his [[Jerk
* [[Ambiguously Jewish]]: Kronk. [[Rule of Funny|Remember what series you're trying to make sense of before you attempt to make sense of it.]]
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Even more so than the movie, and that's saying something!
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: {{spoiler|Kuzco and Princess Lalala}}, right after Kuzco and Malina planned for a date.▼
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: The Moon Beast episode. There are magic potions that can change people, there are gods that grant wishes, but there are no man-eating monsters.
▲* [[Arranged Marriage]]: {{spoiler|Kuzco and Princess Lalala}}, right after Kuzco and Malina planned for a date.
* [[Art Shift]]: Kuzco's doodles. Occasionally other characters join in.
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: "Don't worry sir. I won't rest until I-- HEY! There's that monkey with the funny hat! Here, monkey-onkey-onkey!"
* [[Averted Trope]]: One episode has the [[Running Gag]] of Izma telling Kronk to [[Catch Phrase|"pull the lever"]]. Usually the lever is pulled and something comical regarding Izma happens. In one episode nothing happens.
* [[The "B" Grade]]: "Girls Behaving Oddly"▼
* [[Bad Future]]: In the season 1 finale, Kuzco wishes that he'd never been Emperor, causing one of these where Yzma was always Empress.
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: It is (initially) Yzma's intention to use this trope to turn Kuzco into something useless in order to get him to fail school (and thus, lose the kingdom). It never works out, no matter how often she tries.
▲* [[The B Grade]]: "Girls Behaving Oddly"
* [[Big No]]: Kronk when he fears that he'll never receive his [[Department of Redundancy Department|Patch Patch]].
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Princess Lalala.
* [[Can't Get Away
* [[Couch Gag]]
* [[Cowardly Sidekick]]: Guaca.
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** Also, surprisingly, Kronk all the time when he and Yzma are scheming together.
* [[Death Glare]]: The "Malina Stare".
* [[Depending
* [[Dumbass Has a Point]]: Whenever Kronk points out a very obvious flaw in the first [[Zany Scheme]] Yzma comes up with.
* [[Early
* [[Egopolis]]: Everything is named after Kuzco.
** There was also an episode where everything was named after Yzma, and another where everything was named after Guaca.
* [[Expository Theme Tune]]▼
* [[Every Year They Fizzle Out]]: Inverted. The team is really good... until Kuzco joins in.
▲* [[Expository Theme Tune]]
* [[F Minus Minus]]: In "Kuzclone", Kuzco's clone does so poorly that he [[Broke the Rating Scale|gets a G-]].
* [[First Kiss]]: {{spoiler|Malina and Kuzco in "The Emperor's New Musical"}}
* [[Fountain of Youth]]
* [[Christmas Episode|Giftmas Episode]]▼
** [[You Mean Xmas]]▼
* [[Gender Bender]]: Kuzco and Kronk turned into girls at "Girl Behaving Oddly".
▲* [[Christmas Episode|Giftmas Episode]]
* [[Good Angel Bad Angel]]: Parodied lots of times. In first season ALL CHARACTERS had small Kronks on their shoulders.▼
▲** [[You Mean "Xmas"]]
▲* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: Parodied lots of times. In first season ALL CHARACTERS had small Kronks on their shoulders.
* [[Grand Finale]]: "Graduation Groove"
* [[High School]]
* [[I See London]]: Kuzco in "The Emperor's New School Spirit", when he gets thrown into a wastebasket head first and his skirt flips up, revealing light blue under-shorts with rainbow-colored hearts that Guaka got for him as a birthday present.
* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: {{spoiler|Yzma. Would you believe it?}}▼
** Likely a reference to ''Kingdom Of The Sun'' where {{spoiler|Yzma's primary motivation was to retain her youthful good looks.}}▼
* [[Idiot Hero]] / [[Book Dumb]]: Kuzco, intermittently. It comes and goes, depending on the episode.
* [[Informed Attractiveness]]: Malina. Sure, some might consider her pretty attractive as far as physical appearance goes (as well as the art style), but that still doesn't change the fact that they feel the need to mention she's a "hottie" in the show's theme song. As well as most episodes.
* [[Inventional Wisdom]]: Carries Over from the Movie
* [[
** Heck, it's in the theme song. Verbatim. Delivered by Kuzco.
▲* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: {{spoiler|Yzma. Would you believe it?}}
** [[Jerk
▲** Likely a reference to ''Kingdom Of The Sun'' where {{spoiler|Yzma's primary motivation was to retain her youthful good looks.}}
▲* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: Kuzco
▲** [[Jerk With a Heart of Jerk]]: Depending on the episode, Kuzco [[An Aesop|might]] or [[Broken Aesop|might not]] learn his life lesson.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: In "The Emperor's New Tuber" Malina cheats to win a largest potato contest and gets away with it because [[It Makes Sense in Context|the foot of Yzma's giant stone robot]] crushed it into mashed potato and she instead gets 1st place for the best tasting category and doesn't confess to cheating.
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Nicely toyed with. Kuzco was a nasty kid, but the other kids are just defending themselves.
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Changed in season 2, in which Kuzco had three or four sets of clothes. In series 1, all he wore was the school uniform.
** Season 1 would also fit in the [[School Uniforms Are the New Black]] trope.
* [[Line
** Brad Bananastaircasehat
* [[Merit Badges for Everything]]: the Junior Chipmunks.
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* [[Mood Dissonance]]: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|The "Kuzco Mambo",]] a cheery [[Audience Participation Song|sing-a-long]] with flashy colors and praise about how awesome Kuzco is. Right after Kuzco was bemoaning how few friends he had and got captured by Yzma.
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Quite well done.
* [[Not a Date]]: This was a running gag. Whenever Kuzco and Malina would end up doing something together, Kuzco would call it a date, and Malina would tell him "it's not a date". In the series finale they went on a date.
* [[Once an Episode]]: "Pull the lever, Kronk!" "Wrong lever!"
** Also Kronk forgetting Amzy and Yzma are the same person. The concept is, of course, lampshaded in "Yzma Be Gone."
* [[Only One Name]]: Everybody.
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Pacha: "I'd be more surprised if you did." }}
* [[Open Secret]]: Everyone knows Principal Amzy is actually Yzma despite her really bad attempts at hiding it. Likewise, everyone knows Kronk works for her, [[Minion
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Fred Tatasciore replaces John Goodman as Pacha for the first season.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Kuzco, just like in the movie. One episode even deals with a sort of "family Olympics," and he immediately goes to join Pacha's family. He himself claims he was "birthed from a glorious union between the Moon and the Stars." It's even painted Renaissance-style on the school's ceiling. It's implied in another episode that Yzma is behind the disappearance of Kuzco's Dad.
* [[Playing Sick]]
* [[
* [[Popular Is Dumb]]: Averted. Apparently at Kuzco Academy cheerleaders are required to have perfect grades.
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Kuzco (Id), Kronk (Ego), Malina (Superego).
* [[Put Me
▲* [[Purely Aesthetic Era]]
▲* [[The Poor Mans Substitute]]: It's pretty obvious that J. P. Manoux sounds like David Spade doing a very bad impersonation of David Spade doing a...you get the idea
▲* [[Put Me in Coach]]: even when Kuzco learns how to play the game... he never actually scores.
* [[Rage Against the Author]]: Rage Against The Animators, really. As per the absence of the fourth wall in this series, when Kuzco becomes [[The Caligula]] and starts abusing his power in one episode, he fires the colourists (leaving the show penciled in black and white until he rehires them).
* [[Rashomon Style]]: "Oops All Doodles"
* [[Recycled: the Series]]
* [[Rhymes
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'''Kuzco:''' Yeah, yeah, mine is "[[Hypocritical Humor|Mottos that rhyme should be a crime]]." }}
* [[Running Gag|Running Gags]]: Most of them are jokes [[Recycled the Series|recycled from the movie]].▼
* [[The Rival]]: Ramon.
▲* [[Running Gag|Running Gags]]: Most of them are jokes [[Recycled: the Series|recycled from the movie]].
* [[Small Reference Pools]]: Averted. There was a DEVO joke. In a DISNEY CARTOON. If only because of this, you can't hate the series.▼
** The "Kuzco Dance" segment of the [[Musical Episode]] also includes a [[Shout Out]] to the [[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]].▼
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Yzma/Amzy, and Kronk/Knork.
▲* [[Small Reference Pools]]: Averted. There was a DEVO joke. In a DISNEY CARTOON. If only because of this, you can't hate the series.
▲** The "Kuzco Dance" segment of the [[Musical Episode]] also includes a [[Shout
* [[Spelling Song]]
* [[Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish]]: Kronk
* [[Swiss Cheese Security]]: Yzma's lab.
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* [[Tsundere]]: Malina. Especially Towards Kuzco
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Kuzco
* [[Villain Song]]: Yzma gets ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL1G40piqy0 Yzmopolis]'' in the [[Bad Future]] episode, explaining what she's done with the kingdom...rename literally everything after herself.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]: The last episode has Kuzco providing this over the end credits.
* [[Wild Teen Party]]: Kuzco tries to persuade Malina to throw one while her parents are out of town. She refuses. In the end, he ends up throwing one. At her house. For a bunch of manatees. ([[It Makes Sense in Context]].)
* [[Wonderful Life]]: "Yzmopolis"
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: Averted. The show's title was originally going to be spelled ''The Emperor's New '''Skool'''''; perhaps [[Invader Zim|Jhonen Vasquez]] threatened to sue.
* [[You Mean "Xmas"]]: Kuzmas (and Kuzcoween and whatever other holiday they feel like parodying). The most painful is that in the Christmas episode a kid's wish is to see snow... And Kuzco freezes to near-death in the same episode.
* [[Zany Scheme]]: Just about any plot Yzma comes up with to get rid of Kuzco.
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