Guide to: Notebooks & Math
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| Ned's Declassified episode | |
|---|---|
| “Guide to: Notebooks & Math” | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 4 |
| Writer(s) | Mike Priester, Lazar Saric |
| Director | David Kendall |
| Production no. | 204 |
| Original airdate | October 22, 2005 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| "Guide to: School Clubs & Video Projects" | "Guide to: Vice Principals & Mondays" |
"Guide to: Noteboks & Math" is the 4th episode of the American teenage show Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide. It originally aired as the 17th episode of Season 2 on October 22, 2005
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[edit] Plot
[edit] Guide to: Notebooks
‘The key to test success is a good notebook’. And frankly, Ned’s notebook isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Plus, and important science test looms. Sweeney shows Ned ‘the Golden Notebook’, written by a former A+ student. It’s perfect, as soon as Ned sees the book, he makes plans to steal it. Moze on the other hand, has lost her notebook, and in looking for it, comes across a notebook written by a mysterious SC, that contains loads of secrets about Moze’s classmates. Cookie has his own unique way of taking notes, he films the day on camera, and re-watches it later. A large amount of the tape, he isn’t even in the class, and puts a cardboard cut-out of himself in the class instead!
Later, Ned and Gordy manage to steal the Golden Notebook from the classroom, and pretty much destroyed the science lab in doing so. It’s amazing, and Ned is actually enjoying learning science using it. Moze is glued to SC’s notebook, but soon grows angry when she reads an insulting comment about herself in it. Then Moze works it out, SC- Suzie Crabgrass! Moze starts to show the notebook to her friends, and when the students read all the lies written about them in Suzie’s supposed notebook, they get extremely angry, and chase her through the school.
Last night, Cookie forgot to watch his tapes of the previous day’s classes, and doesn’t realise there’s a major test today! Because of this mishap, he goes back to handwriting notes. The angry mob finally catches up with Suzie and don’t believe her when she swears she didn’t write it, but Moze can prove it when she shows something nasty written about Suzie in the notebook, and why would she insult herself? Suzie then reads ‘I can’t believe the Wolves volleyball team made the play-offs’, but the Wolves volleyball team hasn’t made the play-offs in ten years. Moze realises that the notebook was written years ago, about different Jennifers and Suzies, and the angry mob finally disperses.
When Ned tries to put the Golden Notebook back in the lab, he’s caught by Sweeney, who tells him that he was the one who wrote the book not Sam Golden. He told Ned that if he had loaned him the book, Ned would have just ignored it, so he encouraged Ned to take it. If he hadn’t had done so, he reveals, Ned wouldn’t have gotten an A on his test!
[edit] Guide to: Math
Cookie has been promoted to 8th grade math, and Moze’s class is starting pre-algebra. Ned couldn’t care less about Math, and in an attempt to avoid it, starts a study group with Albert Wormenheimer and the Oboe Twins. They go under the name ‘The Math Magicians’, and Ned happily lumbers them with all the work. Elsewhere, Gordy is still trying to catch the weasel, but his new flawed math equation of how to catch the animal is failing him miserably.
It’s Cookie’s first day of 8th grade Math, and although he expected it to be fun and exciting, the teacher, Dr. Xavier makes it boring and depressing, and constantly reminds her students that ‘without Math they are cavemen eating mud’. Cookie later tries to liven the class up via song and dance, but to no avail. Moze also has problems when she’s horribly confused by the new material, and starts to get ‘math anxiety’, which is a rash that appears when students get nervous or worried in maths. Ned continues to lumber his math work on Wormenheimer and co., and tells the group about a hand gesture called the ‘Magic M’. Whenever one of the Magicians makes the signal, the other members of the group will jump in and try to save the day. But the first time Albert shoots the Magic M at Ned, Ned fails to answer the question correctly, leaving Albert to pull out of the study group, as does the Oboe twins, leaving Ned by himself. What’s more, a test is due tomorrow! And Gordy still hasn’t caught that weasel!
Luckily, using a leaflet a teacher gave Ned last year, both Ned and Moze sort out their problems. By being positive and asking plenty of questions, Moze overcomes her Math anxiety, and understands the material in class, and Ned manages to reform his study group, and promises to share the load evenly with his friends. Later, Dr. Xavier concedes that perhaps her teaching methods are slightly old fashioned, and so starts ‘Super Fun Math Dance Party’, to Cookie and the class’s delight. Finally, Gordy has one last attempt at catching the weasel without the help of math. The past few attempts have taken their toll, his face is swollen, his uniform is ripped and he carries a large club in his hand. He launches himself in a slingshot at the weasel, but misses and lands face first in a pile of mud, shouting incomprehensible gibberish. Remember: ‘without Math we are cavemen eating mud’!
[edit] Trivia
- In the Notebooks short, when Sweeney flicks through Ned’s notebook, a drawing of the Crimson Chin from Fairly Odd Parents can be seen in it.
- In Notebooks, Ned is lowered into the Science Lab in a spoof of Mission: Impossible
- In Notebooks, Suzie is dressed in the same disguise that both Ned and Crony wore in Guide to: School Clubs & Video Projects
- Again, in Notebooks, the cardboard cut out of Cookie was last seen in Guide to: Pep Rallies & Lunch
- The Math short has the first appearance of Albert Wormenheimer. He is played by actor Stephen Markarian, who was originally cast as Cookie in the first version of Ned’s Declassified. Stephen was later judged to be too tall, so the part was recast. This episode is also Vanessa and Dr. Xavier’s first appearance
- In the Math short, Ned says the line “I’m really starting to question why I hang out with you guys” to Cookie and Moze. Moze said almost the exact same line to Ned and Cookie in Guide to: Pep Rallies and Lunch
[edit] Tips
Notebooks
- Take neat, easy to read notes
- Copy your notes into a second notebook
Math
- Be positive, believe in yourself
- Ask questions right away, don’t wait!
- Study group + friends = negative Math anxiety
