Wayside
Based on Louis Sachar's critically-acclaimed book, "Wayside" follows Todd, a young boy who is starting at a new school, Wayside: a wacky 30-story building filled with adventures and laughs with Todd and his new best friends, Myron, Dana, and Maurecia.
- 2007-2008
- 3 seasons
- Nickelodeon Network
- Animation, Comedy, Family
- TV-Y
Based on Louis Sachar's critically-acclaimed book, "Wayside" follows Todd, a young boy who is starting at a new school, Wayside: a wacky 30-story building filled with adventures and laughs with Todd and his new best friends, Myron, Dana, and Maurecia.
Season 1 Episode Guide
14 Episodes 2007
Episode 1
Pull My Pigtail/Class Cow
Wed, Jun 27, 2007 24 mins
On Valentine's Day, Dana tries to get Todd to fall in love with Maurecia by making him pull her ponytail. / While Mrs. Jewls is on a faculty retreat, a cow wanders into her class and the students mistake it for their substitute teacher.
Episode 2
Meet the Pets/Oh, Great Leader
24 mins
After finding out that Todd once lost his goldfish, everyone brings their pets to school for Todd to watch so that he will learn to be more "responsible". However, the pets escape and run all over the school. / The students try to throw Principal Kidswatter a surprise birthday party, but he thinks they are trying to get rid of him.
Episode 3
Honors Class/Cabbage, My Boy
Fri, Jul 6, 2007 24 mins
Maurecia accidentally gets promoted to the 29th floor Honors Class instead of Dana, and she does everything she can to escape the class, which only has one other student in it: Sammy the Dead Rat. / Myron adopts a head of lettuce as his baby brother, inspiring Mrs. Jewls to assign the class a project about their families. Todd frets that his project will fail since he is an only child.
Episode 4
Mascot Madness/He Is It
24 mins
Myron dresses up like a giant-headed, mascot version of Todd in order to inspire the school's tetherball team. Todd protests, but when Myron breaks the costume, he must take the place of the Big Head Todd mascot. / A casual game of tag goes awry when Todd tags Myron. Myron uses his newfound status as "it" to demand special treatment from all those around him, eventually turning into a Caesar-like despot.
Episode 5
Best Friendzzz/Kindergarten King
Tue, Jul 10, 2007 24 mins
Best friends Dana and Myron have a fight, and Myron decides to make sleeping Shari his new best friend. Since she is always asleep, he uses an empty glass pressed up against her head to "hear" her thoughts. / Todd saves a kindergarten kid's stuffed animal, and the 5-year-olds make him their king. Doing everything they can to serve and protect him, drives Todd crazy and makes Myron extremely jealous.
Episode 6
Myron vs. Normy/Age of Aquarium
Tue, Jun 26, 2007 24 mins
In order to avoid getting in trouble, Myron pretends to be "Normy," his made up twin brother. When he returns to the class, everyone thinks he is cool (and in Dana's case, sweet and cute) and they want him to be class president. / On a Wayside field trip, instead of the kids going to the aquarium, the fish come to them. The classroom is filled with water and fish, but Todd has to sit it out in a life raft since he forgot his permission slip. Seeing this as a perfect chance to be alone with Todd, Maurecia eats her permission slip and has to sit with Todd.
Episode 7
Channel Kidswatter/The Elevator
Tue, Jul 3, 2007 24 mins
Todd tries to prevent Principal Kidswatter from running a home shopping channel out of his office, and getting the students to supply his cheesy inventory of trinkets under the guise of a new "arts" curriculum. / When Todd and Principal Kidswatter get stuck in the school's elevator, which only goes sideways (instead of up and down), Dana, Maurecia, and Myron attempt a daring rescue before Kidswatter completely flips out.
Episode 8
Mad Hot/Mamaland Blues
Tue, Jul 3, 2007 24 mins
When Principal Kidswatter sees Todd deliver his "oral report" in mime, he drafts him for the school's ballroom dancing team. But Todd actually can't dance. / Dana finds a marriage certificate that she thinks might make Miss Mush related to her.
Episode 9
Principles of Principals/Teacher's Parent Conference
Fri, Jun 29, 2007 24 mins
Todd wins the "Principal for a Day" contest while Kidswatter goes on vacation. No one else has entered it because it is a trap, as the winner has to do everything on Kidswatter's super-long to-do list. Todd decides to complete the list, and improve the school all in one day. / It's Teacher-Grading-Day, and everyone in the 30th class must submit a report card on what they think of Mrs. Jewls. Todd gives Mrs. Jewls a bad mark on her Class Room Skills so that she won't send him home on the kindergarten bus. Now they both have to stay after school for a meeting with her father, Papa Jewls.
Episode 10
A Rat in Shining Armor/Mrs. Gorf
Thu, Jul 12, 2007 24 mins
After Todd snubs Maurecia at the spring Halloween dance costume party, she falls head over heels for a mystery kid in shining armor. When Todd discovers that knight is actually Sammy the Dead Rat, he switches costumes with it so that she won't learn the truth. / The 30th floor class is on a camping trip on the 6th floor. Maurecia promises Todd she won't punch him in the arm if he sits with her, but he doesn't believe her. Dana explains to Todd that back when Mrs. Gorf was their teacher Maurecia was never rough due to her kind nature. She then explains who Mrs. Gorf was and just how different their class used to be.
Episode 11
Todd Falls in Love/French Fried
Fri, Jul 13, 2007 24 mins
Maurecia posts love posters about Todd all over the school. Todd decides he would do anything to prove that he will not be her boyfriend, so he eats Mush's mushroom surprise, which makes him fall in love with Mrs. Jewls. / When Miss Mush quits, she is replaced with a French chef who is a great cook, but is mean to the students. In the end, the kids would rather have the friendly Miss Mush back, than someone who actually cooks well.
Episode 12
Music Lessons/Todd & Bull Story
Tue, Jul 10, 2007 24 mins
Myron discovers a strange nose flute called the Strumplefloozle, and uses it to control his friends. However, it also makes cows tear down the school. / When the kids mistake a pile of stage props for a Wishing Well, Todd accidentally makes their wishes come true. Principal Kidswatter then makes them re-create a bullfight from his past.
Episode 13
My Partner Gets All the Credit/Daring Love
Fri, Jul 6, 2007 24 mins
Hyper-athletic Maurecia is paired with slothful Myron in the "Wayside Games," and she must literally carry him to victory. But somehow Myron always ends up getting all the credit for their wins. / Todd thinks both Maurecia and Jenny have crushes on him after the girls perform a series of unrelated daredevil stunts over his head. He decides to show them how he feels about their presumed relationship by doing a ridiculous stunt over them.
Episode 14
Louis Gets Some Class/My Fluffy Hair
Wed, Jul 11, 2007 24 mins
Louis is sent back to class when Kidswatter discovers he never graduated. Myron is upset that "student" Louis is more popular than him, and does everything he can to get him to graduate. / Feeling rejected by Maurecia, Fluffy the porcupine runs away, and is mistaken for a new hairpiece by Kidswatter. While Maurecia desperately searches for him, Fluffy uses his new position to control Kidswatter and get revenge on Todd.