About
The Kids from Room 402 is a television program that originally aired on Fox Family in the USA starting in 1999, previously aired on Teletoon, and currently airs in the UK. The show is focused primarily on the students from Room 402, as the title implies. Miss Graves, the teacher, is usually shown as an interlocutor in the problems and injustices that are inflicted upon the students, whether the dilemmas be internal or external. Each show usually ends with a substantiated moral or lesson, resulting from such aforementioned situations. The show is based on the children's book, The Kids from Room 402, by Betty Paraskevas and Michael Paraskevas. It was developed for television by Cindy Begel and Lesa Kite, who wrote all 52 episodes.
Cast
Andrew Lawrence
as Vinnie Nasta
April Winchell
as
Edie McClurg
as
Lori Alan
as
Bryton James
as
Mindy Cohn
as Nancy (voice)
Olivia Hack
as
Tara Strong
as Sanjay
Lauren Tom
as
Rodger Bumpass
as
Episodes
Season 1
Son of Einstein
Jesse is tired of failing math. When it is time for the class to get new math books, instead of getting a student's text, he gets a teacher's edition with all the answers! Instead of reporting this, he uses this, only bringing his D minus average to an A average. When Jesse competes with Penny in math for an award at school for Monster Land tickets, he, of course, beats her by one point. When he finds out Penny's sick aunt died without Penny getting to say goodbye, he starts to feel guilty.......NOT FOR LONG! He says, ""I'm goin' to Monster Land!"" Just as Jesse is about to receive his award, Mister Besser decides to give him a tough math question to show everyone his ""genius,"" which Jesse couldn't figure out, he crashed and burned, forced to give the award to Penny.
Welcome to Safety Corner
Nancy returns from her trip to Mexico ready to show off her tan and her new charm bracelet, but when class starts the kids are more interested in the choosing of the new crossing guards. When Miss Graves selects Polly and Arthur as the new guards, the kids soon discover that both her choices are a nightmare to have helping you cross the road. While Polly insists that every student learns the seven safety tips, Arthur begins charging people to cross at his corner. When Polly is almost hit by an ice-cream truck, Miss Graves learns that Arthur has been charging and forces him to use the money to buy Polly a get well present and when Arthur gets to the crossing the next day, he learns that crossing lights have been installed. Meanwhile Nancy's good luck bracelet goes missing and she tries to find out who has stolen it, only to discover that it was never stolen in the first place, it just got misplaced in her coat.
The Used Gum Chewer
During a special assembly Jessie gets hungry and buys a packet of chocolate raisins from Arthur, but by the time the pack reaches him there is only one raisin left. As the documentary film Chinook of the North starts, most of the kids fall asleep until Vinnie sees a scene where the Eskimos all strip their clothes off. The film is immediately stopped but everybody is talking about what would have happened in the rest of the film. Back in class Jessie gets so hungry that he ends up eating a used piece of gum from under his desk, but Freddie sees him and soon the whole school is laughing at him. While Jessie tries to make people forget that he is a ""used gum chewer"", Arthur organises a secret screening of Chinook, but the rest of the film turns out to be just as boring as the beginning was and all the kids demand their money back. The next day lunch is cancelled because of a fire in the kitchen and as Miss Graves leaves the room, Jessie teases the other kids by pretending to eat more of t
The One Man Committee
Nancy is excited when she gets a Fish Book Baggie Baby from the local store, but when she gets to school she finds out that all the other girls bought the Caterpillar design and hides her own bag, embarrassed that it is different. When class starts, Miss Graves has to pick the three students to do a report on Columbus and teams up Jessie with the two smart kids, Polly and Freddie. While Polly and Freddie argue over who will do which part of the report, Jessie does everything he can to get out of doing any work at all. The next day at school, Penny arrives wearing a small fur hat and all the girls love it deciding to get them after school, but in an attempt to be more popular Nancy claims to already have one. When all her attempts to get one of the small hats fails, Nancy ends up with a really big hat that everybody makes fun of, but she ignores the insults and tries to convince everyone that it's a new trend. However when Nancy arrives at school the next day having trimmed her hat down
The Half Wit
Arthur loses his ring, but when he goes to the lost and found office to try and find it he finds himself up against Polly who insists on him filling out sheet after sheet of paperwork and decides that it isn't worth the effort. However when Mr Besser comes back on duty, Arthur takes the opportunity to look for his ring, but rather than taking his own ring he takes somebody else's. Signing up to work in the lost and found office, Arthur volunteer Polly for a role as trash monitor and is soon taking whatever he likes from the collection. However when Miss Graves finds Arthur's ring, he demands it back and realises that what he has been doing is wrong, returning all the lost items to their rightful owners. Meanwhile Jessie becomes funny when he buys a book of 101 insults, but on the eve of Mary-Ellen's party he uses up all of the insults and is instantly booed off stage when his improvisation proves to be the unfunniest thing ever.
Shy Kidney
As the class prepares to go on a school trip to the museum, Arthur has trouble going to the bathroom while other people are in there. Just before the class boards the bus, Mr Besser introduces Johan, an exchange student who will be going on the trip with Miss Graves' class and Nancy is picked to be his chaperone. The kids prepare to board the bus just as the class chaperone, Jessie's mother, arrives and immediately begins humiliating Jessie with various stories and photographs of him. When the group arrives at the museum, Jessie and Vinnie find themselves trying to escape Mrs McCoy who is desperate to pair up with them and Arthur, still in need of a bathroom, ends up partnered with Freddie. As Arthur searches for an empty bathroom, Freddie finds that he has also become kidney shy and the two desperately seek an empty rest room without success until Miss Graves recommends they visit the fourth floor exhibit on ancient napkins, the only place in the museum with an empty bathroom. Meanwhi
Is Your Refrigerator Running?
Vinnie and Jessie find a list of teachers' phone numbers and decide to prank their teachers, however after Jessie calls Miss Graves, Vinnie is caught pranking Mr Besser and is forced to be his helper for a week. The next day, Miss Graves asks Jessie what his phone number is and he begins to worry that she is going to phone his mom about the phone pranks. In an attempt to intercept the call, Jessie fakes illness in order to stay home and guard the phone, but when he returns to school the next day he learns that Miss Graves only wanted to call his mom to tell her that he had won the perfect attendance award, but seeing as how he missed school she didn't need to call her. Meanwhile Nancy becomes friends with Polly in order to join Penny on a trip to the International Lithuanian Dance Festival, but when Penny has to stay home sick she refuses to come, not wanting to get in the way of the close friendship that Polly thinks has grown between the two girls.
The Arthur Kenneth Vanderwall Library
During a visit to the school library, Polly realises how disorganised the librarian Mr Jackson is and volunteers as a Junior Librarian. As Polly begins a strict regime that infuriates the kids, Arthur learns that most of the kids have overdue library books and volunteers to take them off their hands in order to start up his own library. When the others learn of his library they all want to join even though Arthur charges for the books and supplies, but soon Miss Graves stumbles on the library. Polly informs Miss graves that there is no way to tell which books are overdue, nor who has them, and although the suggestion of an amnesty horrifies the Polly, Miss Graves forces Polly to hold one, insisting that she pay the students for each book they return. The next day the class prepares to start a topic on Indians and Arthur buys all the books he can, only to discover that the topic is on the country of India, not the American tribes. As the library amnesty begins, Miss Graves suggests that
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