S01E01 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...
The Kids from Room 402
S01E09: Free Lunch
As lunch time begins again, all the kids are complaining about the awful lunches that their parents have packed, except for Freddie who is looking forward to his lunch until he discovers he has accidentally brought the wrong bag and his lunch now consists of a bag of potatoes. Martha, the dinner lady, takes Freddie over to the kitchen where she gives him one of the spare meals that the teachers usually have, and Freddie comments that it would be great to get a free lunch every day, a comment that intrigues Arthur. The next day, Arthur pretends to forget his lunch and is given one of the teacher lunches and he decides that this is a good idea, doing it again and again. Martha suspects that Arthur isn't really forgetting his lunch but that he is too poor to afford one and so she and some of the other members of staff hold a collection for his family, however when Miss Graves finds out she makes Arthur donate the goods to real poor families. Meanwhile Nancy learns karate in an attempt to
Overview
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.
Episodes
S01E02 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....
S01E03 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...
S01E04 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...
S01E05 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...
S01E06 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...
S01E07 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...
S01E08 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...
S01E09 Free Lunch
As lunch time begins again, all the kids are complaining about the awful lunches that their parents have packed, except for Freddie who is looking forward to his lunch until he discovers he has accidentally...
S01E10 The Moocher
Nancy arrives at school and immediately begins bragging about her new boyfriend Jeremy, and while the other girls are impressed to begin with, they quickly become bored of Nancy's stories and Tilly begins to doubt...
S01E11 The Girl in the Plastic Bubble
As Sports Day approaches, Nancy is sure that she will win all the events she enters, but as the flu season hits she becomes increasingly concerned about falling ill and missing the even. However as...
S01E12 Over the River and Through the Swamp
During practice for the Chorus recital, the music teacher starts to give birth and practice ends before Arthur can rehearse his solo, and when Mr Besser becomes the new music teacher, things go from bad...
S01E13 Pretty as a Picture
Picture Day arrives and Freddie is really proud of his cowboy shirt until he finds out that Polly is wearing one just like it, but his attempts to hide the fact quickly fail and the...
S01E14 The Anti-Mucous Forming, Artery Clogging, Energy Zapping Diet
In order to eat the same foods as Penny, Nancy goes to the health store and ends up being scared into trying a totally healthy diet, and soon all of the girls are eating only...
S01E15 All Polly All the Day
Polly takes over reading the announcements over the school's public address system and soon starts to broadcast everyone's misdeeds. Meanwhile, Jesse stays at home for few weeks due to his ankle injury. At first, he...
S01E16 Spoons, Spiders and Space Beasts
Jesse and Vinnie enter a science fair when they learn that the winners get to go to Space Camp, but they are caught cheating. Nancy and Penny do a project about bugs for the science...
S01E19 There Must Be a Pony
Polly becomes popular when she gets a pony, but as the kids all take turns to meet Snowball they find out that it's not as great as they thought as Polly forces them to answer...
S01E20 Mrs McCoy's Baby Boy
Jessie's mom finds out that the other boys are bullying him and tries to help him out, but only ends up embarrasing him further. Meanwhile Nancy finds out that Jordan is really rich, but the...
S01E21 Eenie Meenie
The girls get excited when a new ping-pong table is introduced to the playground, but deciding who gets to play first causes problems as each method of choosing meets with conflict from everyone else. Meanwhile...
S01E22 Bing, Bing, Bing and a Shot
The Squirrel Girls hold their annual cookie-selling contest for two girls to win places at Squirrel Camp, but Nancy's ruthless tactics to go on camp with Penny end up forcing Penny out of the contest,...
S01E17 Mercury in Retrograde
Nancy has a lot of bad luck and learns that Mercury is in Retrograde. This means she might miss a baseball game, but at 2.15 PM everything will be the same again. And poor Freddie...
S01E18 Bad Seed
The kids are very thrilled to see a new car during their baseball game, until they realize the new car is Mr. Besser's car. He doesn't want the kids to mess with his car. But...
Cast
Andrew Lawrence
Vinnie Nasta
April Winchell
Bryton James
Edie McClurg
Lori Alan
Lauren Tom
Mindy Cohn
Nancy (voice)
Olivia Hack
Rodger Bumpass
Tara Strong
Sanjay
