Trivia / Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide

• Actor Allusion: When Ned talks to Mr. Gibson, the music teacher, about wanting to be a rock star, one of the bands he mentions is Everclear. Gibson is portrayed by Art Alexakis, the frontman of Everclear.
  • Possible case involving Jim J. Bullock's character of Mr. Monroe. His Star-Making Role on Too Close for Comfort was named Monroe Ficus.
• Adored by the Network: It was a matter of time, after obsessively rerunning Zoey 101 and Drake & Josh (both shows that previously overshadowed it on the main channel), it was inevitable Ned's would become TeenNick's new favorite show to rerun. Wouldn't you know it? TeenNick now is obsessed with running this show. It's the first thing they show in the morning as people wake up and the last thing they show before the nightly Degrassi: The Next Generation reruns and is shown in hour-long blocks at least twice in the afternoon hours.
• Billing Displacement: During the first season, Jim J. Bullock was placed in the opening credits alongside the main cast despite Mr. Monroe not being any more prominent than any other teacher.
• Blooper: In "Tests," Ned realizes that he has to do the opposite of what he normally would in order to beat his test anxiety and prepare for the upcoming exams, which prompts Gordy to refer to him as "Den Ybgib" (complete with Ned's name being reversed on-screen. At the end of the segment, Ned has succeeded in acing all of the tests, with help from the brainier students, and is presented with a membership card for the "Genius Exam Enthusiast Klub"...which identifies him as Den "Yibgib."
• Continuity Lock-Out: As "Guide to: April Fools' Day/Excuses" rarely aired, it causes confusion as to Superintendent Brown's debuting in the former (and isn't seen again until "Principals" a season later), Cookie pushing Vanessa's grandmother down a flight of stairs in the latter (which Vanessa mentions a few episodes later in "Science Fair"), and Seth ending things between him and Moze also in the latter (which is brought up in "Jealousy" the following season), which is significant context.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: In "Reading", Ned tries to give an oral report on Green Eggs and Ham to cover for how he didn't actually read a book for English class. In it, he claims that Sam doesn't like the titular food. However, Sam likes the food, and the story's about him trying to convince the unnamed man to give it a try. This is possibly a deliberate case however due to Ned's dislike for reading.
• Dawson Casting: The characters are supposed to be 13 (7th grade) and for the most part they aimed to get actors in the realm of 12-15 to play those kids (at the start Devon Werkheiser and Daniel Curtis Lee were both 13 and Lindsey Shaw was 15). But the series progressed slower than real life and the actors ended up pushing 17-18 when they were supposed to still be 14.
• Life Imitates Art: Cookie's glasses are eerily similar to Google Glass, featuring computing technology and a fully functional web browser nine years before Google would bring the idea to the real world.
• Off-the-Shelf FX: Some of the high-tech add-ons of Cookie's glasses in earlier episodes seem to use BIONICLE parts.
• The Other Darrin: Since Ned's is dubbed in Chile and The Fairly Oddparents is dubbed in Miami, the episode that featured a cameo from Cosmo and Wanda had them voiced by different voice actors in the Latin American dub.
  • Same for the Italian dub, as Ned's is dubbed in Milan and Fairly Oddparents in Rome.
  • Oddly, the same happened in Polish dub, in spite of both Ned's and Oddparents being dubbed in Warsaw.
• Out of Order: Despite being produced after them, "Excuses" aired earlier than "Secrets" and "Spirit Week". This is notable as how in the former, Seth breaks up with Moze, while the latter two episodes has them still be together.
• Romance on the Set: Devon Werkheiser and Lindsey Shaw got together late in the final season and dated for about a year after the show wrapped.
• Suppressed Mammaries: Lindsey Shaw mentioned in a Tik Tok that her Moze's habit of wearing hoodies and layers was actually to hide her developed breasts, since she was more developed than most middle schoolers.
• Technology Marches On: In "Video Projects" most of the advice still holds up well: immediately delete embarrassing footage or don't procrastinate. The one that doesn't, is hit the protector tab on the tape to avoid deleting your project by accident since most video projects use SD cards or are just done using cell phones.
• What Could Have Been:
  • A number of pilots where shot that had minor differences from the final series, such as Moze having a different personality. Cookie was also originally supposed to be a white kid named Boogie, but he was changed for racial diversity, with that actor later getting recast as the character Albert Wormenheimer later on.
  • Cookie's bio on the Nickelodeon website reveals that he was originally envisioned as being from a rich family but chose to keep it a secret so that he could have a normal middle school experience with his friends.
  • There were plans for a sequel series unofficially called Ned's Declassified High School Survival Guide. A pilot episode was shot, but Nickelodeon declined on greenlighting the series. According to Devon Werkheiser on a now privated video, while Ned's was popular, its success was less than that of everything being produced by Dan Schneider, such as Drake & Josh and Zoey 101.
  • In The New '20s, Scott Fellows pitched a revival of the series to Nickelodeon/Paramount, focusing on a now 20-something Ned creating a guide to help young adults navigate the world. Despite all three leads and several of the supporting actors being onboard, as well as Paramount+'s success with iCarly (2021), the company passed.
• Word of Saint Paul:
  • According to a Tik Tok by Lindsey Shaw, she imagines that in the future, Moze would become the school’s shop teacher.
  • Both Shaw and Devon Werkheiser have stated their belief that Ned and Moze didn't last as a couple and would ultimately go back to being friends.
• You Look Familiar: Fred Stoller appeared in the first season twice, as a school portrait photographer, then as a bus driver, before getting the recurring role of Mr. Lowe in season 2. It's not clear if they're all meant to be the same person, though.

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