History WesternAnimation / TheKidsFromRoom402

* KiddyCoveralls: As stated by Jordan herself, in "Mrs. McCoy's Baby Boy", she only likes to wear overalls despite her mother buying her so much fancy clothes.

* AskAStupidQuestion: Polly does this in the episode called "The Election Show". [[spoiler: Polly ends up being the only candidate in position running for school president. Just after her long and grueling debate which Ms. Graves finally steps in and declares over, in class in the next scene, Ms. Graves is about to announce the winner. Polly tells her to hurry up and announce the results because she can't take the patience anymore, and Ms. Graves responds with "What are you so nervous about? You're the only one running." With that as a fact, Polly still asks her "So, who won?", making Ms. Graves having to respond with "You."]]

* DressesTheSame: Polly and Freddie wear the same sweater in "Pretty as a picture day" and Freddie is embarrassed. What's worse is that it's a picture day.

* FalseReassurance: Jesse's attempt to cheat in an eye exam backfires when he's forced to wear glasses. When he has enough of the troubles brought to him by wearing glasses he never needed, he confesses and expects Miss Graves to punish him. When she says it isn't up to her, he is relieved until she points out his mother will punish him.

* FoodAsBribe: When Besser asks Graves to change Polly's grade from an A- to A+ (she lost points because her essay while good was full of random Lithuanian trivia) she notices that he is eating a cake that he claims is a Lithuanian's specialty.

* HighSchoolHustler: Arthur will get you what you want for an (exorbitant) price and is way more cunning than your regular kid.

* MotorMouth: Polly [=McShane=]

* PlagiarismInFiction: Vinnie Nasta makes a habit of presenting his big brother Tony's reports as his own but the teacher always remembers having already evaluated them back when Tony was her student. One time included a contest entry, which Vinnie checked to be sure Tony wasn't her student back then. She is a judge for the contest.

''The Kids from Room 402'' is an obscure Canadian-American cartoon from Creator/CineGroupe and Creator/SabanEntertainment (both of whom had cooperated on other shows like ''WesternAnimation/BadDog'' and ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy''). Created for [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]] and Creator/{{Teletoon}}, the show is based on the children's book ''Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402'', which was written by the mother-son team of Betty and Michael Paraskevas (the creators of ''WesternAnimation/MaggieAndTheFerociousBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/MarvinTheTapDancingHorse'').

** Vinnie's password for Arthur's secret library is "call me Ishmael".

* ClothingSwitch: Freddie switches his sweater with another girl in "Pretty as a picture"

* AteItAll: Jessie eats most the food that he and Nancy are selling at a school charity fair.

* TheAce: Penny Grant. She's a nice smart girl who everyone wants as a friend, especially Nancy. In the opening of "Bing, Bing, Bing, and a Shot," she is ''covered'' in merit badges and has to have a badge she's won nineteen times already pinned to her sock.
* AllForNothing: Freddie goes through a whole episode trying to change his clothes since it's a girl's shirt,Polly wears the same and it's picture day. At the end Graves has him sit at the front and hold the plaque with the class number, which cover his shirt.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Jesse's Mom, without a doubt.

** Jesse probably also counts to a lesser extent. When he's not cheating at schoolwork, he's telling BlatantLies to everyone in and out of school to make himself look cool. He tends to fail even more miserably than Nancy.

* BigFancyHouse: Jordan's as revealed in "Mrs. [=McCoy's=] Baby Boy". Even her ''gardener's'' house was big enough to impress Nancy.

* ButtMonkey: In a matter of speaking, Jesse [=McCoy=] and Vinnie Nasta could be considered to be. Basically because they always try to pull pranks that end up backfiring on them in the end, often making them face worse consequences for it than what they tried to evade.

* CashLure: One episode started with Mr. Besser falling victim to the classic dollar bill with a string prank. The prankster later placed a coin with sellotape for another prank. At the end, someone dropped a ten-dollar bill and Mr. Besser, wrongfully assuming it was another prank, didn't try to pick it up.

* ControlFreak: Polly [=McShane=] who can (and will) manipulate the lives of everyone around her to fit her needs. She also manages to force the class nerd Freddie into doing a project about spoons by only screaming the word at him.

* DoubleEntendre: In one episode, as a sly prank Vinnie tries to pull on Ms. Graves during art class, he draws a picture of "two mountain peaks" that we never see, but we hear that they are pink, and unlike anyone else especially Mr. Besser, Ms. Graves when first seeing them immediately gets the idea that the two pink mountain peaks are hinting other, inappropriate thing. Her patience gets less to the point of eventually taking action as it gets circulated even to the point of going in a picture frame and being hung in the school hall. Mrs. Graves calls Vinnie's parents, and his mother punishes him for doing that picture. There is even one point while Vinnie gets sent to the principal's office for his drawing, and right in front of Ms. Graves who gets even more annoyed with him, he makes a remark about how he was thinking of also making a painting about a bakery called "two buns." For supposing to be a kids' show, the episode this happens in (which is "By Invitation Only") appears to be the only episode where there appears to be any DoubleEntendre jokes involved in the content.

-->'''Graves:''' I'll choose a number between one and a hundred and the one who guess the number will have the job.

-->'''Graves:''' He is good.
* InnocentBigot: Happens in episode "Don't know, Don't care, Smells" when the kids have an assignment to write about a different culture and ask classmates to help. For example, Nancy, says "I'm so hungry that I would eat a cow" while having dinner with her classmate Sanjay's family who happens to be from India where eating beef is a religious taboo. Polly is even worse by saying China copied Lithuania and isn't worth talking about.

* KarmaHoudini: In one episode, Vinnie wrote a paper titled "Mr. Besser the Coldhearted Liver Butcher", hoping Mr. Besser would never see it. Mr. Besser saw but failed to realize it was about him because Vinnie misspelled the surname as "Beeser".
** Mrs. Bellanchof got away with lying to a judge in order to get the custody of her daughter Melanie, winning an award by submitting Mrs. Graves' lesson plan as her own, and using her position as teacher to make Melanie win a cheerleading contest. Without any consequences (although Melanie dislikes and often criticizes her), with the closest thing she gets to consequences are her daughter deceiving her into thinking she gets invitations from her classmates in order to escape her mother's punishments, being rude to her and openly favoring her father over her, the last two leading to her mother throwing a fit.

* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: In "The Peep and the Sheep", Jesse and Vinnie once taught a parrot to say rude things as part of a prank. Unfortunately, for them, the parrot heard them using their names while discussing ideas.

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Jesse trying to cheat his eye exam get brought up a few times even by Mrs. Graves.

-->'''Graves:''' Shames it didn't also erased my good work Tony message at the back.

* StealingTheCredit: In "Election Day" episode Jordan blames another classmate for using Jordan's idea.

* AttentionWhore: Nancy. Almost every episode focused on her is about her trying to impress her friends by bragging about something or trying to ape something popular, usually with hilariously embarrassing results.

* DoubleEntendre: In one episode, as a sly prank Vinnie tries to pull on Ms. Graves during art class, he draws a picture of "two mountain peaks" that we never see, but we hear that they are pink, and unlike anyone else especially Mr. Besser, Ms. Graves when first seeing them immediately gets the idea that the two pink mountain peaks are hinting other, inappropriate thing. Her patience gets less to the point of eventually taking action as it gets circulated even to the point of going in a picture frame and being hung in the school hall. Mrs. Graves calls Vinnie's parents, and his mother punishes him for doing that picture. There is even one point while Vinnie gets sent to the principal's office for his drawing, and right in front of Ms. Graves who gets even more annoyed with him, he makes a remark about how he was thinking of also making a painting about a bakery called "two buns." For supposing to be a kids' show, the episode this happens on (which is "By Invitation Only") appears to be the only episode where there appears to be any DoubleEntendre jokes involved in the content.

** Nancy promised not to tell anyone Jordan is wealthy. However, she didn't promise not to tell that she (Nancy) has a wealthy friend.
** Three girls decided to dress like a celebrity known for, among other things, wearing a bell as a pendant. Not liking that, Mr. Besser threatened to punish them if he ever heard any of those bells again. The girls then stuffed their bells with socks so Mr. Besser wouldn't "hear" them. The loophole worked until one of the socks fell and he heard a bell. He then made good on his threat, only that he made ''all'' the students wear school uniforms.

* FalseReassurance: Jesse's failed attempt to cheat in an eye exam backfired forcing him to wear glasses. When he had enough of the troubles brought to him by wearing glasses he never needed, he confessed and was expecting Miss Graves to punish him. When she said it wasn't up to her, he was relieved until she pointed out his mother would punish him.
** In another episode, Polly was standing in for Mr. Besser and found out a teacher wasn't technically qualified for the job. When she begged Polly not to tell Mr. Besser, Polly said there was no need to bother him. Polly fired the teacher by herself.
* FalseTeethTomfoolery: Jessie's grandfather has them and shows them to Jessie.

* FowlMouthedParrot: Averted. When Jesse and Vinnie taught insults to a parrot, Jesse suggested teaching curse words but that was as close as the trope came to being played in the cartoon.

* NoFameNoWealthNoService: Nancy saved $200 to have a haircut at a fancy salon only to learn that, because she's not a celebrity, the salon's janitor would do the job.

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Jessie trying to cheat his eye exam get brought up a few times even by Mrs. Graves.
* PictureDay: In "Pretty as a picture" episode.
* PhonyDegree: In "It takes your breath away" episode Dr. Tenorio is not a real doctor and is arrested at the end of the episode.
* PlagiarismInFiction: Vinnie Nasta made a habit of presenting his big brother Tony's reports as his own but the teacher always remembers having already evaluated them back when Tony was her student. One time included a contest entry, which Vinnie checked to be sure Tony wasn't her student back then. She was a judge for the contest.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Polly looks rather nice in her old fashioned Lithuanian outfit to the point where Sanjay (who was forced by her mother to be her dancing partner at a school play) calls her "a vision of beauty" and develops a crush on her, right after the play ends he asks Polly to be his wife for once his parents arrange his marriage when he is eighteen but Polly rejects him, rudely critisizes his performance and leaves with Sanjay following after her.

** In one episode, Jesse was forced to wear glasses that actually damaged his eyesight. (He had a cheat sheet but failed to notice the doctor asked him to read the second line instead of the first one) The episode was titled "Jesse [[WesternAnimation/MrMagoo Magoo]]".

* SnowedIn: Happens to Jessie when he is visiting his grandparents and there's a big snowstorm.

* UnwantedGlassesPlot: Jessie was so afraid of needing to wear glasses he cheated on the school-sponsored eye exam and ended up forced to wear thick glasses (his family's insurance wouldn't cover anything cooler) or, as the shop called it, glasses "for the not so active". Not only he was constantly mocked by his peers but the glasses damaged his eyesight making it harder to run. He eventually broke them and faced the consequences of cheating. In the end, Vinnie had to wear a similar pair of glasses (his family's insurance wouldn't cover anything cooler either) and, to Jessie's dismay, managed to look cool with them.
* VerySpecialEpisode: "It Takes Your Breath Away", deals with Nancy being diagnosed with asthma, and going with a non-professional doctor who gives her a "miracle cure" for it. This leads to Nancy having an asthma attack in front of all her classmates, and afterwards Nancy decides to deal with her asthma after some of the other kids from the class reveal they have also had medical problems, some worse than Nancy's. The doctor, by the way, is actually arrested at the end of the episode and just barely avoids being beaten up by Nancy's mother.
* WackyHomeroom: The whole point of the show.

''The Kids From Room 402'' is an obscure Canadian-American cartoon from Creator/CineGroupe and Creator/SabanEntertainment (both of whom had cooperated on other shows like ''WesternAnimation/BadDog'' and ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy''). Created for [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]] and Creator/{{Teletoon}}, the show is based on the children's book ''Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402'', which was written by the mother-son team of Betty and Michael Paraskevas (the creators of ''WesternAnimation/MaggieAndTheFerociousBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/MarvinTheTapDancingHorse'').

An obscure Canadian-American cartoon series from Creator/CineGroupe, based on the children's book ''Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402'' by Betty and Michael Paraskevas (creators of ''WesternAnimation/MaggieAndTheFerociousBeast''), ''The Kids from Room 402'' is about schoolchildren and the school they attend. The main characters are, as the title suggests, the problematic and mischievous students at Room 402. Their teacher is Gracie Graves. The series aired in the United States on [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]], in Canada on Creator/{{Teletoon}} and in Latin America and Europe on Fox Kids/Jetix.

An obscure Canadian-American cartoon series from Creator/CineGroupe, based on the children's book ''Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402'' by Betty and Michael Paraskevas (creators of ''WesternAnimation/MaggieAndTheFerociousBeast''), is about schoolchildren and the school they attend. The main characters are, as the title suggests, the problematic and mischievous students at Room 402. Their teacher is Gracie Graves. The series aired in the United States on [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]], in Canada on Creator/{{Teletoon}} and in Latin America and Europe on Fox Kids/Jetix.

An obscure Canadian-French cartoon series from Creator/CineGroupe, based on the children's book ''Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402'', is about schoolchildren and the school they attend. The main characters are, as the title suggests, the problematic and mischievous students at Room 402. Their teacher is Gracie Graves. The series aired in the United States on [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]], in Canada on Creator/{{Teletoon}} and in Latin America and Europe on Fox Kids/Jetix.

-->Sanje:''' ''He was in the car when you did it''.

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-->'''Arthur(over all the other screaming students without raising his voice):''' 71.

An obscure Canadian-French cartoon series, based on the children's book ''Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402'', is about schoolchildren and the school they attend. The main characters are, as the title suggests, the problematic and mischievous students at Room 402. Their teacher is Gracie Graves. The series aired in the United States on [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]], in Canada on Creator/{{Teletoon}} and in Latin America and Europe on Fox Kids/Jetix.

** Nancy promised not to tell anyone Jordan is wealthy. However, she didn't promise not to tell she (Nancy) has a wealthy friend.
** Three girls decided to dress like a celebrity known for, among other things, wearing a bell as a pendant. Not liking that, Mr. Besser threatened to make all students wear uniforms if he ever heard any of those bells again. The girls then stuffed their bells with socks so Mr. Besser wouldn't "hear" them. The loophole worked until one of the socks fell and he heard a bell. He then made good on his threat.

* FatIdiot: Besser, some focus is brought up on his belly and he is usually and idiot.

* GoldDigger: Mr. Besser and, as it seems, every other man who ever married his (ex) wife.

** Mrs. Bellanchof got away with lying to a judge in order to get the custody of her daughter Melanie, winning an award by submitting Mrs. Graves' lesson plan as her own, and using her position as teacher to make Melanie win a cheerleading contest. Without any consequences (although Melanie dislikes and often criticizes her).

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Polly.

* WouldHitAGirl: No one wants to throw a dodgeball at Penny because she is practically a saint, but when it's Polly's turn to play everyone including boys throw it.

* SmallAnnoyingCreature: Polly [=McShane=].