The Kids from Room 402
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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 afflicted 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 popular 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.
Characters
- Nancy Francis (Mindy Cohn) - Nancy is the red-head with the glasses, you see Nancy is always trying to fit in with the other girls and is always is helping out Jesse because she sees him being picked on a lot. Nancy is a good kid but bossy and she usually gets up to mischief and that's what gets her in trouble. She is always trying to befriend Penny, but can never achieve that goal, and will sometimes end up being "friends" with Polly McShane who she resists instead. Nancy's a Straight A Student.
- Jesse McCoy (Shawn Pyfrom) - Jesse is not the smartest kid from school, and he is often picked on by friends including Vinnie because his mother treats him like a baby. Whenever he has a task or a homework to do, he usually gets out of it by telling a lie to Miss Graves, but she catches on and gives him different punishments. Jesse is bald and wears an orange sweater with blue jeans.
- Penny Grant (Tara Strong) - Penny is one of the wealthiest girls in the entire school. Penny is not a snob just because she is one of the richest kids in town. She is very nice and has blonde hair that helps her fit in very nicely. Nancy is always near her because of how wealthy she is but sometimes Penny doesn't even realize that she is rich.
- Vinnie Nasta (Andrew Lawrence) - Vinnie is the prankster of the bunch. He is a tall boy who likes to pull pranks on people. Vinnie is always found wearing a football shirt and spiked up black hair. Vinnie always has some eggs with him to chuck at the innocent kids of the school. He is also friends with Jesse, and the two pull pranks together on occasion.
- Freddie Fay (Bryton McClure) - Freddie is sadly also picked on and teased like Jesse. Freddie is basically classified as a nerd in the school and he doesn't like that at all. He has glasses, black hair, wears a yellow shirt and sticks out as an easily found school nerd. In one episode everyone picked on him because they thought he wet his pants when in reality the Water Fountain sprayed him by accident and Nurse Pitts came to talk to Freddie's class about Bladder Control.
- Polly McShane (Colleen O'Shaughnessey) - Polly, a proud Lithuanian, is a big girl who is a 'teacher's pet'. Polly is the teacher's pet and looks very like it too. Polly is very smart and has glasses, black hair and a plaid dress. The teacher's pets are very annoying but not like this one, Polly loves goats and tries to hang out with others epecially Nancy who she refers to as "Nan" and can never fit in but she always keeps trying. She has an obsession with spoons. Also, the other children frequently know when she is coming, because she exclaims: "yo-da-lei-hoo".
- Arthur Kenneth Van der Wall (Chris Marquette) - Arthur is always trying to sell really awesome things. Even if you don't buy from Arthur you usually end up paying him in the end. He has brown hair and wears a nice blue suit, now this kid's got everything indeed. But how he gets his cool stuff he sells is unknown, most kids think he steals it from stores or is very rich.
- Miss Gracie Graves (April Winchell) - Miss Gracie Graves is a really great teacher. The thing is that she is stuck with a tough class. So whenever you see her she's probably just trying to get her class to take at least one pop quiz without getting excuses from Jesse and the others.
- Mr. Besser (Rodger Bumpass) - Mr. Besser is the incompetent principal of the school. Noted for his stupidity and overweight stature, he is often satirized, whether it be vocal or written, by his students. His negligence and ignorance serves as recurring comic relief within the television show.
- Melanie Bellanchof (Debi Derryberry) - A newer student to the school, she is Mrs. Bellancough's daughter, her parents are either divorced or split up, as Melanie comes to town to live with her mother. When asked how she likes the school she always exclaims: "smells".
- Nurse Pitts (Lori Alan) - The school nurse.
- Coach (Cam Clarke) - The school gym teacher.
- Sylvia (Marsha Clark) - A student.
- Gabrielle (Olivia Hack) - Another fellow student.
- Mrs. McCoy (Edie McClurg) - Jesse's overprotective mother.
- Mrs. Bellancough - Mrs. Bellancough Melanie's mother who is a teacher attending Melanie's new school.
- Mr. Bellancough - Mr. Bellancough is Mrs. Bellancough's ex-husband. He is not seen and Melanie would rather live with Mr. Bellancough than live with Mrs. Bellancough.
Episodes
Season 1
| # | Episode Title | Summary | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Son of Einstein | After Jesse discovered a book with the answers to the math test, he becomes "smart". Meanwhile, Nancy tries to sit with Penny. | Unknown |
| 2 | Welcome to Safety Corner | After Nancy returned from vacation in Mexico with a good luck bracelet, the bracelet soon goes missing and she thinks someone has stolen it. Meanwhile, Polly and Arthur become the crossing guards. | Unknown |
| 3 | The Used Gum Chewer | Jesse eats used gum on Freddie's eyes and, after Freddie told others, everybody laughed at him. Meanwhile, everyone wants to see naked Kinok and his family. | Unknown |
| 4 | The One Man Committee | Jesse, Polly and Freedy must do an assignment about Christopher Columbus. Jesse decides to not do the project. Meanwhile, Nancy buys the same fur hat, like her friends, but it's big and everyone thinks Nancy got a big head. | Unknown |
| 5 | The Half Wit | Jesse buys a Joke Book. Meanwhile, Arthur lost his ring. | Unknown |
| 6 | Shy Kidney | It's school trip time! Arthur looks for the toilet and Jesse discovers that his mother joined the field trip as a chaparone. Meanwhile, Nancy takes care of a boy who can't speak English. | Unknown |
| 7 | Is Your Refrigerator Running | After Jesse and Vinnie prank the teachers by the telephone, Vinnie becomes Mr. Besser's helper by punishment and Jesse fakes illness to guard the phone as he believes Miss Graves decides to call his mother about the telephone pranks. Nancy pretends to be Polly's friend to have a friendship with Penny. | Unknown |
| 8 | The Arthur Kenneth Vanderwall Library | After learning Polly replaced Mr. Jackson and created lots of rules in the library, Arthur decides to create his own library. | Unknown |
| 9 | Free Lunch | Arthur decides to forget his lunch. Nancy learns Karate. | Unknown |
| 10 | The Moocher | Unknown | |
| 11 | The Girl in the Plastic Bubble | The illness problem appears and Nancy tries to don't be ill for sports day and Jesse hurts his nose. | Unknown |
| 12 | Over the River and Through the Swamp | Arthur begins sing solo, but Polly decides to have a duet. After the problems with Polly, Arthur decides to change the words on the song. Meanwhile, Jesse cuts the pictures from the book to his report. | Unknown |
| 13 | Pretty As a Picture | While on the picture day, Freddie tries to hide his blouse for this day after he discovers Polly wearing the same blouse. Meanwhile, Jesse tries to get a good grade on a Biology test. | Unknown |
| 14 | 'The Anti-Mucous Forming, Artery Clogging, Energy Zapping Diet | After overhearing that Penny's on a diet, Nancy decides to go on a diet too. Meanwhile, Freddie decides to have a birthday party at Beastland.' | Unknown |
| 15 | All Polly All The Day | After Mr. Besser gets a case of the Hiccups, Polly replaces him and makes some of the kids angry. Meanwhile, Jesse hurts his ankle. | Unknown |
| 16 | Spoons,Spiders and Space Beasts | The entire school is doing the school project for the contest and the winning duet will go to Space Town. | Unknown |
| 17 | Mercury in Retrograde | Nancy has a bad luck and discovers it was a fault of the Mercury in Retrograde. Meanwhile, Freddie splashes his pants on water, but Vinnie belives Freddie was "peeing" his pants. | Unknown |
| 18 | Bad Seed | Jesse is sent to Mr. Karl's class by Mr. Besser. Meanwhile, while on the fire alert season, Arthur is having the pool party. | Unknown |
| 19 | There Must Be A Pony | Polly shows everyone her pony. Meanwhile, Jesse "sends" his report about Tom Sawyer to his grandparents. | Unknown |
| 20 | Mrs McCoy's Baby Boy | After Jesse's mother treats him like a baby near some of his classmates, his classmates begin treat him like a baby. Meanwhile, Nancy becomes arrogant after discovering Jordan is rich. | Unknown |
| 21 | Eenie Meenie | Jesse and Vinnie begin swear in the school, but they must stop it or Mr. Besser and Miss Graves call their parents about this. Meanwhile, Nancy and her team try to play ping-pong. Also entitled Holy Bleep. | Unknown |
| 22 | Bing, Bing, Bing and a Shot | Jesse is forced to have a shot when Polly decides to check the class' medical cards. Meanwhile, The Squirrel team delivers the cookies, only to go into camp for a best duet. | Unknown |
Season 2
| # | Episode Title | Summary | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | Nancy babysits Lara Johnson, but soon Nancy becomes lazy and this causes her to quit. Meanwhile, Arthur plays with some little kids. | Unknown |
| 24 | The Low Sodium, Adult Swim Only,Early Bird Special Vacation | Nancy visits her grandparents at Miami, but soon Polly joins her. | Unknown |
| 25 | Jesse Magoo | After cheating at the watch tests, Jesse is forced to wear glasses. Meanwhile, Nancy and Charlie are having a rampage on compitetion for the best sportsmen. | Unknown |
| 26 | Your Body is Changing | The class watches in the evening at school a movie called Your Body is Changing. Jesse wants to find out from where the kids come from, but thanks to his mother, he misses most of the movie. Meanwhile, Polly opens the hospital for spoons. | Unknown |
| 27 | I Got a Boyfriend | Nancy begins flirt with Vinnie. Meanwhile, Arthur tries to learn swimming for pool party at Saturday. | Unknown |
| 28 | The Peep and the Sheep | At the school it's time for a Halloween dance. | Unknown |
| 29 | The School Fair | The students make the school fair in duets to win two bicycles. | Unknown |
| 30 | A Visit to Nana and Pop-Pop's | Jesse visits his grandparents. | Unknown |
| 31 | Chi Whiz | After learning about Chi and Feng Shui, Nancy begins change all thanks to Feng Shui. | Unknown |
| 32 | Simon of London | Nancy wants to her hair cut by Simon of London, but she's unaware he cuts the hair of the stars. Meanwhile, Polly is angry when she gets an A-. | Unknown |
| 33 | The Dumb Bunny | Jesse is sent to the class for geniuses and he decides to escape from school while on the class. Meanwhile, Polly opens up a spoon shop. | Unknown |
| 34 | A Very Nancy Christmas | The performance about Santa Claus starts, but Nancy becomes arrogant with this. | Unknown |
| 35 | Mr Beeser the Liver Butcher | When Miss Graves becomes ill, Mr. Besser replaces her. | Unknown |
| 36 | The Election Story | Polly wins the Election Story and she decides to change all at school to Lithuania. | Unknown |
| 37 | The Clique | Nancy wants to have a friendship with The Clique. Meanwhile, Jesse must write the report about planes. | Unknown |
| 38 | The Gazotski | Polly wants to dance with Sanjay at Gazotski. Meanwhile, Miss Graves helps Miss Belanchof with the problems. | Unknown |
| 39 | The Sidewalk Boys | Nancy wants to see the concert of her favourite band, Sidewalk Boys. | Unknown |
| 40 | Uncle Bonehead | Vinnie discovers his Aunt Kooky is getting married to Mr. Besser. Meanwhile, Polly opens the fire school. | Unknown |
| 41 | Squirrel Girls and Boys | Unknown | |
| 42 | Don't Know, Don't Care, Smells | A new girl named Melanie arrives to class 402. Meanwhile, Nancy changes herself to India. | Unknown |
| 43 | Don't Put Your Fingers in the Light Socket | After Jesse terrorizes his babysitters, his new babysitter is Polly. | Unknown |
| 44 | Squeezed Out | While on the vegetable contest, Nancy leaves to her grandmother. | Unknown |
| 45 | By Invitation Only | Melanie becomes grounded and she "invities" someone to destroy her grounding. Meanwhile, Vinne creates the wrong sketch for the art class and this makes his mother and Miss Graves angry, but not the others. | Unknown |
| 46 | It Takes Your Breath Away | Nancy gets an Asthma attack. | Unknown |
| 47 | No Refunds, No Exchanges | Jesse is sent to the Maledonia for the exchange. Meanwhile, Polly opens the spoon school. | Unknown |
| 48 | The Slam Book | Melanie wants to the other kids like her and decides to make the slam book to write someone's name. | Unknown |
| 49 | Schnitzy R.I.P. | Polly becomes depressed after her goat, Schnitzy, dies. | Unknown |
| 50 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Nancy, Jordan and Gabrielle wear the bells and beautiful clothes and this makes Mr. Besser angry. Meanwhile, Jesse and Vinnie decide to have the rings. | Unknown |
| 51 | Believe It or Not | Miss Graves is having the problems with taking the school nurse, Miss Pitts, to the school. Meanwhile, Nancy is afraid of Billy Moufchuk. | Unknown |
| 52 | HIQ | Mr. Besser switches Jesse and Polly's grades and this makes Jesse smart and Polly stupid, but soon the truth is discovered. | Unknown |
Broadcasting
- In Turkey, it airs on Jetix (formerly on Fox Kids), under the title "402 Nolu Sınıf'ın Öğrencileri"
- In Bulgaria, it airs on Jetix and has previously aired on Fox Kids on bTV. The title was translated literally: "Децата от стая 402".
- In Georgia, it airs on Rustavi 2, under the title ბავშვები 402-ე ოთახიდან.
- In Romania, it airs on Jetix under the title " Copii de la clasa 402 ".
- In Poland, it airs on Jetix under the title Dzieciaki z klasy 402.
- In Russia, it airs on Jetix (Russia), under the title Детки из класса 402
- In The Netherlands, it airs on Jetix, under the same title.
- In Israel, the show aired on Fox Kids (now Jetix) under the name "כיתה 402" (Kitta 402=Class 402).
- In Czech Republic, the show aired on Fox Kids (now Jetix) under the name Třída číslo 402.