Guide to: Reading & Principals
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Guide to: Reading & Principals is the second episode of the third season of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.
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[edit] Synopsis
[edit] Guide to: Reading
[edit] Main Plot
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When Ned forgets to read a book and an oral report is due, he hurriedly reads a children's book and has to do it over many times. He reads many different books but iTeacher (his English teacher) catches him trying to cheat again.The real book Ned reads is "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" by Ann Brashares, but from listening to the book club which talks about rumors instead, it causes a big hold-up and a fight. Also, a mob comes after Ned. iTeacher gives him some reading report tips. Finally Ned decides to join a book club. Then the wordophobic teacher reminds him she forgot something. Then she remembers: telling everyone that what the said was all a big missunderstanding.
[edit] Subplots
- Moze starts a book club with other girls, but all of the other girls just want to talk about boys.
- Cookie wants to get into Moze's book club, but Moze won't let him enter.
[edit] Trivia
- It is revealed that Gordy has written a book that has sold a total of five copies worldwide, Janitor by Day, International Art Thief By Night. Unfortunately, one of those 5 was sold to iTeacher, so she stops Ned from cheating.
- Moze has the same locker she had last year (or she had the wooden door moved to her new locker).
- Missy talks about Lena, Bridget, Mike and Paul, who are names of characters in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", except for Mike.
- The "first rule" of missy's book club is "Don't Talk about Book Club", this is a homage to the 1999 film "Fight Club" where the first rule is "Don't Talk about Fight Club."
[edit] Guide to: Principals
Principal Irving Pal, making his very first appearance in this short, continuing the streak of at least one faculty member being introduced each season, is retiring, much to the fears of Ned, Cookie and Moze. They fear that Pal's retirement would make Vice Principal Crubbs the new school leader. However, there is no direct line of succession for school principal, meaning that Crubbs might not take the top spot.
The superintendent is coming in on the same day to conduct interviews for a new Polk Middle principal. Upon arrival, he expresses displeasure that no one has come in to interview yet. Crubbs plans to keep it this way. Ned and Cookie split into one group, with Moze and Gordy split into another group. Ned and Cookie try to talk to other teachers and convince them to interview for the job. However, every teacher either runs off in another direction or shakes their head, as Crubbs had earlier threatened them with termination if they interviewed for the job.
Meanwhile, Moze and Gordy take Pal around the school in order to get him to change his mind. However, they run into many things that only further fuel his decision to quit, such as kids bullying others and a massive food fight in the cafeteria.
Part two of Crubbs' plan involves redirecting arriving interviewees not to the room where they're supposed to go (Room 112, to be exact), but rather, to an outdoor room surrounded by walls, with vents and a large pipe; the door is locked from the outside. Several interviewees become trapped in the area, and eventually, so does Mr. Sweeney, though Ned and Cookie directed him there, since he professed an interest in interviewing himself. Ned, Cookie, Moze and Gordy then become trapped in the room when Pal shoves them into it on rollerblades (his post-retirement wish was to rollerblade across Africa). One angry interviewee expresses to the quartet that none of them want the job if they get out. Seconds later, Mr. Wright arrives with his doctorate from Harvard, and lets them all out.
Ned, Cookie and Moze then try to convince Mr. Wright to interview, but he resists. Crubbs then begins to profess each negative aspect of being principal, each a different way of saying, "You can't do the job." This fuels Mr. Wright, and soon, he and Crubbs race through the halls to get to the interview room with the three teens in tow. Hiding behind a corner, Pal knocks out Crubbs with a broom, and drags him into the outdoor area. Wright and the others arrive at the door, and convince the superintendent to interview him. Minutes later, the two step out, with the superintendent most likely indicating that Alistair Wright would be the school's next principal.
[edit] Trivia
- The part in the episode where Crubbs was having the "Quarantine" Sign he talks about his plan and then he realizes that Ned, Moze, and Cookie were behind him seemed similar to the "behind the back" joke on Bob and George.
[edit] Running Gags
- Ned, Moze, Cookie, and Gordy split up then end up with each other again.
- Principal Pal (or some other unlucky character) gets knocked out and then somebody (Crubbs, Gordy) puts a pillow under his head. He also keeps lapsing into his days in the military, using a rollerblade as a walkie-talkie.
- Teachers constantly falling for the fake interview and get trapped in a special prisoner of war room.
- Principal Pal keeps calling Moze a boy.
[edit] Goofs
- When Crubbs is talking to Mr. Wright and the kids, you hear a polyphonic tone. Crubbs leans to his watch to listen, and that starts the big race to the interview. While the tone is going, you can clearly see that Crubbs is wearing a regular watch and not a digital one. Therefore, it is unlikely that a regular watch has digital tones.
[edit] Characters
- Ned Bigby
- Simon Nelson Cook
- Jennifer Mozley
- Mr. Wright
- Principal Pal
- Gordy
- Mr. Crubbs
- Missy Meany
- Candy Manderson
- iTeacher/English Teacher
- Popular Kids
