Wayside School (TV Series)

Wayside School is an upcoming TV series based on the Wayside School series of books. Not to be confused by the series which aired from 2007 to 2008 entitled Wayside, Wayside School is proposed to be far more similar to the book series, with the characters being closer to their descriptions, and each episode being based off of stories from the book. While some episodes such as "Sharie" and "Myron, the Best Class President Ever" only draw inspiration from one story, some such as "Field Trip" draw inspiration from many. (The example given includes the chapters Deedee, The 3 Erics, Ron, and Terrence from the first book in the series.) The series also is said to have some more unique episodes, inspired by no story in particular, although none of been announced yet. Unlike in the previous TV series, each character seems to be given an equal role, meaning there is no main character in particular.

Sypnosis
Wayside School takes place in the titular location, which is a school built sideways by accident. Due to this, the school is very tall rather than wide, and the kids who reside in it are glad, as they have an abnormally large playground, where Louis the Yard Teacher works at. The structure of the school also has no floor 19, another mistake made by the architects, who actually seemed to forget about it altogether, as it had no prior planning. Floor 19 however, in the episode "A Wonderful Teacher", the location is seen, hinting it may exist on an entirely different dimensional plain.

The students which attend the school, however, are just about as abnormal as the school itself. The teachers are also just as strange, if not stranger than the students, and the characters are usually what drive the series.

Episodes
See list of Wayside School episodes.

Characters

 * Mrs. Jewls - The teacher on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School. The series focuses on her classroom. She is said to be the nicest teacher, and gives the kids Tootsie Pops if they behave. She has a goal to teach every student three new things every day, as the goal of being a teacher is.
 * Eric Ovens - The nicest of the three Erics, but is unfittingly given the nickname "Crabapple" since the other two Erics are constantly negative.
 * Dameon - A student with large pupils who is in love with Mrs. Jewls. He constantly is sent up and down the 30 flights of stairs, which constantly becomes a problem for him. He apparently always has trouble with pencils.
 * Eric Bacon - The skinniest of the Erics, but despite that, is unfittingly given the nickname "Fatso" since the other two Erics are fat. Due to the assumption, it is constantly assumed that if all 3 Erics sat in the same column that the school would topple over, despite Eric Bacon being the skinniest kid in the class.
 * Terrence - The school bully who is bad at sports. He is always seen kicking balls over the fence, and Deedee blames him as the reason she can not get a green or red ball, and is always stuck with the yellow one.
 * Eric Fry - Despite his size, is the most athletic of the three Erics. However, since he dropped a ball once, and the other two Erics are not athletic, he has been given the unfitting nickname "Butterfingers".
 * Myron - One of the nicest kids in the class, who seeks for freedom, and eventually stopped sitting in his chair, and befriended a bird named "Oddly". He was class president once, and was the best one ever, since he took the class out for pizza and saved Dana's dog; Pugsy.
 * D.J. - A constantly positive student with the biggest, brightest smile in class. He is the best friend of Myron and Dameon. He is seen negative once when he loses a golden watch since he fears a bird may choke on it, but is accidentally cheered up by Kathy by the end of the episode.
 * John - The smartest student in class, who has only one horrible flaw: he can only read upside-down. He always flipped his book upside-down until he couldn't read the blackboard, but due to his round head, could not do a headstand. After Joe stood on his head, his brain was flipped upside-down though, allowing him to read normally.
 * Joe - A student with a large orange, square-shaped afro who for a while, didn't know how to count. He eventually woke up one day, with the sudden ability to count. His best friend is John, who helps him on tests. He helped flip John's brain upside-down.
 * Allison - A student with many teeth who is portrayed as being smart, but having a short temper. In "A Wonderful Teacher", she is sent to Floor 19 when everyone stops noticing her.
 * Sharie - A student with a large red and blue coat who is constantly seen sleeping. She is seen as only being awake in the dark, and lives an exciting life outside of school. She also has brought a hobo to school, and has fallen out of a window in her first appearance. Although her sleeping would typically be thought of as disruptive, she is respected by Mrs. Jewls, as she says that you learn in your sleep.
 * Kathy - The mean girl in the school, who seems to have a messed up brain, filled with constant thoughts of death, gore, and all those sorts of things. She likes no one, except for Sammy, who was only part of the class for a day, although once she did cheer up D.J. She actually is responsible for the reasons she hates everyone.
 * Sammy - A dead rat who only showed up in one episode. He wore many raincoats, which Mrs. Jewls had to remove in his one appearance. He only speaks through crude handwriting, and always walks in an awkward movement due to being a dead rat. Once, Mrs. Jewls actually gave him a fourth strike in her system. Later on, he is seen assisting Ms. Mush.
 * Benjamin Nushmutt - A new student who is always called Mark Miller for unknown reasons. He thinks he is one of the strangest students in class, although proved later on, he is actually one of the most normal, and the incident surrounding his name is not thought of as being significant.
 * Stephen - A student with poor fashion taste who shows up in a different outfit in each episode. Stephen is apparently self-proclaimed leader of the classroom, and everyone else seems to abide by it. He became class president after Myron, and although he was good, was nowhere near as good as Myron was.
 * Rondi - A student who is always respected for what she doesn't have. The most notable example are her missing front teeth, which everyone seems to call cute. She has also been respected for her non-existent hat, boots, and a joke she doesn't tell.
 * Leslie - A student with very long pigtails which Paul likes to pull. She generally finds her toes useless, and tries to get rid of them, but does not accept the offer of 50 cents from Louis.
 * Dana - A student who always seems to find her emotions uncontrollable. She generally laughs and cries way more than she could, and some make fun of her for it. She also has many mosquito bites, which to help with, Mrs. Jewls turns them into numbers. She worries often that she may like John, or that people will mistake her for a male due to her hairstyle and unisex name.
 * Jason - The student with the figurative second largest mouth in the class. He always tells on other students, and seems to chew on pencils often. He often seems to get stuck to things, with examples including when he was stuck to a chair by Joy's bubblegum, and when he had his mouth taped shut.
 * Joy - Has the literal largest mouth in the class, which she always has filled with bubblegum. She is also constantly stealing lunches. She once stole a toy from Todd, which turned against her in one episode. She is not punished often.
 * Deedee - She is interested in sports, but never gets to play with the red or green balls, since she is on the thirtieth floor, and those are always taken. She is Ron's best friend.
 * Paul - Paul has a constant urge to pull Leslie's pigtails, but whenever he does, she ends up yelling, getting him in trouble. Later on, he was hypnotized to believe the pigtails were rattlesnakes, so he stopped pulling them.
 * Sue - An intelligent student who seems to be the only one who knows about numbers. She eventually teaches the rest of the class her way of doing math, as they use words for math.
 * Maurecia - She really likes ice cream, until she gets bored of every flavour there is. At this point, the class has to invent new flavours to please her. Everyone except Kathy likes her, and Joy is her best friend. She secretly has a crush on Todd.
 * Todd - A good student who sits next to Maurecia. Despite having nice behaviour however, he is always sent home on the Kindergarten bus after accidentally talking in class. Currently, he is attempting to achieve the goal of finding out what regularly happens at the school from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM.
 * Ron - Ron is a student who always wants to play kickball, even though he is bad at it, but no one ever joins him, until Louis joined, taking all 8 roles on the opposing team. His best friend is Deedee.
 * Jenny - A girl who is always late for school, and rides on her dad's motorcycle. She is always wearing a motorcycle helmet which seems to obstruct her hearing.
 * Calvin - A slow artist who is the best friend of Bebe Gunn. He always helps Bebe draw, by lending her materials. He also has a tattoo of a potato on his ankle, since he likes potatoes.
 * Bebe Gunn - She is the best artist in the class, and draws very quickly as well. She works with Calvin on her art projects, which helps her draw more. She can draw a dog in less than 45 seconds, a cat in less than 30, and a flower in less than 8. She also has an imaginary brother named "Ray Gunn".
 * Nancy - Born under the name "Mac", she is a shy girl who traded names with Mac (born Nancy) in her first appearance. She is Mac's girlfriend later on in the series.
 * Mac - Born under the name "Nancy", he is a man which was ashamed of his previous name before trading with Nancy. He has a tendency to tell long, boring stories with no purpose, usually about socks, as one time he lost a sock, and found it in his refridgerator.
 * Louis - The yard teacher at Wayside School, who everyone seems to be friends with. He has a rainbow mustache, and likes telling stories about a school which everyone at Wayside seems to find strange, which is actually where you went to school. He is usually who the students turn to for help. He is based off Louis Sachar, author of the book series.
 * Ms. Mush - The lunch teacher at Wayside School. She is very bad at cooking, and only John and Louis have ever eaten her meals. The only things she doesn't ruin are milk, and nothing, her most popular meal, which she regularly runs out of. She also is known to make various "Surprise" meals, such as Tuna Surprise and Mushroom Surprise.
 * Mrs. Gorf - The old teacher at Wayside school, and generally one of the meanest teachers. By wiggling her ears and sticking out her tongue, she can turn any student into an apple. She was eventually eaten by Louis, but is still said to live on, as she appears later as a ghost, on the monkey bars, and out of a potato salad.
 * Mr. Kidswatter - The school principal, who dislikes most of the kids and calls them by their wrong names. He actually does not seem to intentionally have negative intent, but actually just wants respect, as he was very upset when called a "Mugworm Griblick".

Books

 * Sammy is unable to speak, and rather, always communicates in crude handwriting.
 * Everything is measured in metric measurements, rather than standard units.
 * Sue is part of the main series, rather than being a spinoff exclusive.
 * Many characters greatly differ from their illustrations in the book.
 * Dameon is pictured with larger pupils than said in the books.
 * Leslie's pigtails are far more exaggerated than depicted, and appear braided in this series.
 * Allison's eyes are dark brown, rather than sky blue.
 * Many of the characters have darker skin, including Dameon, Eric Bacon, Myron, D.J., Allison, John, Benjamin, Bebe, Ron, Mr. Kidswatter, and Mrs. Jewls.

TV Show

 * Most characters are portrayed more similarly to their book counterparts.
 * The three Erics now have different roles, with Eric Fry being the largest, Eric Bacon being smallest as well as African-American, while Eric Ovens simply resembles none from the show.
 * Calvin, Ron, Paul, Jason, D.J., Kathy, Allison, Dameon, Terrence, Joy, Mac, and Benjamin all make appearances.
 * Sharie's coat is red and blue rather than a smoky purple, and her name is spelled with an "e" rather than being spelled "Shari".
 * Maurecia is no longer on roller skates, never wears a helmet, and acts a lot less violent. She also appears chubbier, due to her ice cream obsession.
 * Todd is no longer a transfer student.
 * Mrs. Gorf was the full-fledged teacher before Mrs. Jewls rather than being a substitute.
 * The animation is greatly improved.
 * Many more episodes are based on stories from the books.
 * Every character is given an equal role, and no characters seem to be main.

Broadcast history
The show is set to air on Cartoon Network, but it is unknown when it is to air.