wait remember wayside also known as wayside school was a canadian animated show produced
by nilvana for teletunes before eventually being aired on nickelodeon have you ever had
to start a new life at a new school with new friends and teachers i have a couple of times
when moving throughout my childhood and maybe in some cases of yours you had to transfer schools
for whatever reason but that is also what's happening here to our main character who we
center our story on todd a new transfer student to wayside school a fictional weird and zany
30-story grammar school that had accidentally been built sideways
thus the name wayside the show has always fascinated me before it even was a show so
today we are going to take a look at the weird wacky and maybe even wonderful world of wayside
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to wayside todd is a new member of miss jules class who does his best to be a good student
but finds himself having trouble adjusting to a strange new school during his first couple days
often resulting in him being sent home early on the kindergarten bus the unique design of the
school has resulted in each of the school's 30 floors acting as a single classroom so instead
of there being one story of 30 classrooms there are 30 stories of single classrooms remember just
a moment ago i used the word accidentally for when they built the school sideways how did that happen
what is this this looks like someone who's playing tetris really bad regardless this leaves you with
the building that has the principal's office on the first floor and todd's class on the 30th floor
with all the other classes cafeteria etc scattered haphazardly up and down the other floors beyond
just the sideways design of the school wayside also has other strange features instead of being
where they're supposed to be doors lockers and stairs are at bizarre upside down backwards and
sideways angles or sometimes suspended high off the floor or way too close to the ground
wayside is a peculiar and unique school filled with peculiar and unique students such as todd's
fellow classmate mauricia a mood-changing greed hedgehog owning member of miss jewel's class who
is always in roller skates and has a small small crush on todd there's also students like dana the
resident overachiever who carefully monitors the school rules and does her best to help
her friend myron a self-centered fellow student become class president and just kind of meddle
with everyone else's lives there there's sherry a girl who just constantly falls asleep in class
that's something i can relate to there's steven a boy who dresses like an elf every day and
jenny a girl with fabulous blonde hair even as weird or if not weirder the wayside faculty is
fairly interesting themselves there's miss jewel todd's airheaded but well-meaning maybe teacher
who adores her students to an extent but also really just doesn't get taught in fact most of
the conflicts that result in todd being sent home are in the misunderstandings between the teacher
and todd there's also mr kidswater and by the name should tell you everything he's an eccentric
child-hating school principal there's lewis the relaxed yard teacher probably one of my more
favorite characters from the show and miss mush the lunch lady in the cafeteria and now i'm hungry
and now a word from the star of the new nick show wayside that's me todd oh look it's a monkey
wayside it's a show about school that you can watch in the comfort of your own home and the only
work you have to do is sit back and enjoy now get to work now before it was just a regular series
it started off with an extended pilot episode the pilot for the series aired on november 19
2005 has a 48 minute movie called wayside the movie very original produced street for tv for
teletune in the movie todd transfers to wayside and joins miss jewel's class todd finds himself
having to adjust to the new unusual school and despite trying to be on his best behavior
especially from what is rumored about what he did at his last school causing him to transfer
to this one quickly gets his name written on the display board with a warning from miss jules that
if he doesn't shape up he'll be sent home early on that kindergartner bus todd does his best to
stay good and fit in for all of five seconds but when the walls of miss jewel's classroom seem to
start closing in during a pa announcement by the principal todd freaks out trying to warn everyone
miss jules sees this as a distraction to his fellow students and sends him home early the next
day todd once again tries to be good he starts helping those weird inconveniences he's noticed at
the school but again after the walls start closing in during another pa announcement todd freaks out
and is sent home early what a shocker as the days go on todd actually ends up meeting with his new
classmates more and the faculty like the lunch lady miss mush and her corrosive mushroom surprise
yum and even participating in events like a dodgeball tournament to determine the class
president what if real elections were held like that see that would be more entertaining one day
after todd is once again sent home for freaking out about the walls he sneaks back into the school
where he discovers that miss jules classroom is actually a trash compactor and this may seem weird
to me explaining it but in the movie itself when looking through the blueprints of the school and
how everything was mishmashed and put together there's a reason why a certain kitchen things
like a compactor and a tiny classroom being put in the kitchen makes sense from not making sense
does that make sense at this point i don't know as a particularly long announcement over the pa
drones on miss jewel's class begins to be crushed noticing this todd rushes into action rescuing
the class by using miss mush's corrosive mushroom surprise to melt through miss jewel's locked door
and freeing his class just in time with that todd is welcome back to class with open arms
i think this intro movie to the series is pretty funny it's filled with good jokes like this one
and oddly enough having a different main lead voice acting talent for todd from the
pilot movie to the show in the show todd is voiced by rick zief but in the movie pilot
todd is voiced by michael sarah neat oh someone needs to feed that goldfish i'm sure he's just
sleeping weird he's green now he must be one of those chameleon fish i've heard so much about
oh and he's back sorry i'm so hyper fixated about this fish also this terrified me so bad that i
had to stop working on the video for a whole day as i pondered my existence on this floating rock
officially the wayside series ran from june 25th 2007 to july 9 2008 for a total of two seasons
with the pilot movie not being counted into the main run wayside was developed for nilvana for
john darivlani devlani is a writer director and performer who has co-created series for lego
written for tv shows like the angry beavers and co-found the heavy metal ukulele band till you
puke now that's what i call ukulele but much like how we went back to the start of the show with
the pilot movie we don't just start there going back further wayside is based on the book series
wayside school by lewis satcher satcher was born in east meadow new york in 1954 he is
an american young adult mystery comedy arthur who is best known for writing holes the beloved young
adult novel about a falsely accused young man at a correctional boot camp in the desert that later
became one of shia labeouf's most famous early roles in film now creative liberties have been
taken during the creation of the show that has led to there being some differences between the
two works some critics found the show clever citing a fondness for its offbeat humor while
others criticize the differences between the show and the book series just ask any harry potter fan
about the differences between the works of the books and the movies to see how serious this
stuff can be taken by fandoms but in wayside there's a lot different here in general will
be right back don't go too far or we'll have to send a search party and they are really expensive
brace yourself wait that is back recess is over and these kids are taking over your screen
while stuff like principals that hate children have been used many times in school-related tv
shows and movies um max keeble's big move having teachers that solely pick on the student's
intellect or just pick on the main character is a rare sighting that stands out for the relationship
miss jules has with her students and todd as well as having a girl have the crush on the guy
all the while the main character just wants some sort of normalcy in the most unorthodox of places
and to just help out around the school while there is no season three of wayside interestingly enough
there was a hoax for a while floating around that in 2012-15 episodes making up a supposed
season 3 aired though there are no recordings of these episodes existing anywhere on the
internet according to a still existing list of these episodes season 3 included titles like
sherry's revenge and que pasa de paul john himself has stated that there were roughly 300 stories for
wayside written and clearly we didn't get anywhere near that number by the time the show went off
the air but thanks to specific wording from jon claiming only 52 were made it puts to rest the
rumors of a supposed season 3. for now when the show came to an end in 2008 it was very abrupt and
when doing research i came across this it was too funny not to show but 11 years ago when someone
asked the same question the best answer award winner here says because it's a stupid show ah
internet never change one thing i love about the weirdness of the school is the little blink and
you miss it details that flood the backgrounds of scenes like here from the movie pilot itself where
in the pool this boy and girl are talking things seem to be going well until the water drains let's
just ignore that shark over there real quick but you see that he is actually a short king
and she well she's not too happy the details of the floors and areas of the school being
literally sideways or built different make for some of the more unique backdrops for scenes
to take place as it will take you a second to realize oh the basketball court is on the wall
none of this is practical almost the points of m.c escher inspiration plus the character
animations look very similar to kablam and i love that it's different and quirky and i overall liked
the vibe that it gave off sometimes a break from the normal embracing silly going against tradition
in tropes can make for something truly special like a sideways school or it can be too much
at once ending up more nonsensical than enjoyable and the whole jenga tower of random can come
crumbling down let me know how you felt about wayside if you ever watched it i remember when
it originally premiered and i enjoyed the limited episodes i saw of it but upon this re-watch
i found it very enjoyable and something that would and should have stood out more in its time
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