Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
TV-Y7 | 12 September 2004 (USA)
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    Anonreveiwer

    There's nothing outstanding about 'Ned's Declassified'. It's a basic concept with a basic storyline. Ned Bigby is a lazy under achieving pupil attending the wacky James K. Polk middle school with his two best friends Cookie and Moze. Wanting to help future generations, he creates a guide to with tips and facts to survive school. Simple enough.Devon Werkheiser is excellent as Ned, offering an extremely likable and relate able performance. He has excellent comedy premise and delivers the lines with hilarity as well as sincerity. He remains believable in an exaggerated world. Lindsay Shaw also shines as Moze, Ned's Tom-Boy best friend but the real show-taker here is Daniel Lee Curtis as Ned's computer-geek friend Cookie. Not only are his misadventures comic thunder, but he offers such a likable persona you just can't help but feel sorry for the tech-obsessed geek even if he is in the wrong. Tylor Chase, Daran Norris and Rob Pinkston all offer up good supporting performances and some could even hold a show on their own if a spin-off ever came about.The sitcom is a breath of fresh air as it is one of the few teen-coms that doesn't focus on looks, popularity and guest stars. It's just three middle school friends trying to find their place in the world which can connect to teenagers everywhere. That and it offers up some very funny slapstick.However, the sitcom can feel childish (but hey, that's who it's aimed at right?) at times and most of the characters, whilst likable, are fairly forgettable. It offers nothing to to teen-coms but it never tried to. It's just an easy watch in an easy afternoon.

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    drybones87

    I love this show so much. There are so many different situations that Ned always gets involved in. And his friends Cookie and Mose usually have side situations too, which usually is a confusing thing for shows like Malcolm in the Middle which all the side situations are completely different and hard to manage. Usually in this show, Cookie and Mose have side situations that relate to the tip Ned is mainly getting across, like in the episode "Lunch", they each have problems regarding food and lunch. And the tips Ned gives sometimes are useful in school, like being organized, and it shows what could happen if you're not. And how to stop bad habits. And the best part? NO LAUGH TRACK. All the shows on Nick like Drake and Josh and iCarly have the laugh track and it is starting to get annoying. In this show, you don't need an aid to tell you: "LAUGH! This is the funny part!" You just find out by watching. All the episodes are unique in their own way, are funny, and in a strange way educational. But this show does have a little bad acting. But it still is really entertaining. The rivalry between Gordy and the weasel never gets old, cuz he always comes up with new ways to get rid of him. So this show is very entertaining. It is worth a watch or two. It is a great series and you may learn a thing or two about surviving school, you never know.

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    annevejb

    This is special. Start to read girl stuff there tends to be such as pics of celebs who populate worlds that I do not access. Television culture. Girl food of the English, populated in a large part by stars and starlets from the USA? The Nickelodeon – Paramount DVD TEENick Picks 1 has an episode each of five of these. I would have thought that most would look to their TV set for such content, but I found it useful. The series and episodes are: Zoey 101, 1-05, Prank Week Drake & Josh, 3-03, We're Married Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, 1-09, Computer Labs - Backpacks Romeo!, season 3?, Good Press Unfabulous, 1-11, The Little Sister First viewing, August 2007, in order, one a day, it was culture shock. This is stuff from a different planet. Do I really honestly want to, need to, access girl waterholes? * Zoey 101 was handy. I had got the impression of university type students played by school aged actors, nice but this says an expensive boarding school for maybe the full school age range. What was emerging for me in 2007 was some polished acting and storytelling but an inane plot. Is this plot inane, reflecting a lowish budget script, or is it sophisticated, reflecting what happens if it is difficult to think things through and talk clearly, taboo? They film at a bona fide university site. Prank Week: The girls are in trouble, the boys feeling that it is okay to mess up newbies, tradition, the girls should not retaliate. Except they do and she gets expelled. She shows a real ineptness about being able to explain herself with this level of stuff. What emerged for me was a story that read as inept. But the basic situation is a real one. First viewing, the character who stood out for me was the geek, Quinn, who appears in most episodes. Me considering her as really beautiful and allowing that to mean that her acting is impressive too. Which of course it is in this case. Except that second viewing I was starting to notice how her judgement has been knocked askew by RAGE, the pressure that can turn a pacifist into a homicidal type. The producer's next series, iCarly, I was wondering if the producer himself had gotten knocked out by RAGE. At 2013 I rate Zoey 101 as one of the best of the series made for kids. It is a long way from perfect, a few episodes are alien to me, but it has something. All of the episodes are available on DVD. * I read Drake And Josh as a story about young men and male world does need that sort of thing. Drake And Josh, episode 3-03 with its Titanic advert. I sat up and took notice as soon as the credits mentioned Miranda Cosgrove, a central character in School Of Rock. Except it felt flat. She has a wooden physical style. Miranda is the lead in iCarly and what I have seen, seasons 1 to 4, has a lot that is magnificent as well as chunks that feel to be sick. This is not something that I re-watch as often as Zoey. * Ned's Declassified. Way too weird for me to be able to get into this straight away, but now I rate season 1 as mostly tops, hot stuff, at the level of Pete And Pete for most of season 1, right up to the introduction of bad girl Bitsy, friend of Crabtree. Ned season 2 felt as if the storytellers had gotten sunk, but re-watch it and I now rate it as much as season 1. No season 3 disk set yet. Note, Crabtree later emerges in Twilight as Angela. Clarissa season one is worth checking too. Tragedy that the other seasons of Clarissa are not available on disk. * Romeo! By now, first viewing, I could watch it and enjoy it all the way through. This has the fewest IMDb user comments but that does not mean that it is lacking. * Unfabulous had stood out for me by a dreamy photo of Addie and her guitar, so it really was way different to expected, but easy to appreciate. This puts that photo into perspective. A dreamy photo of her in a full skirted grey frock now has different meanings too. I really like the IMDb user comment that Addie – Emma cannot sing as it tells me that others have difficulties appreciating these alien worlds as well. I like it that her singing has that sort of quality. October 2009 I now have the first two seasons of this and the singing improves in season 2, but it all fits the stories. My DVDs have a small flaw, 2-13 has a flawed song, but check the words closely and it has to be a deliberate flaw. * These are USA Lunar culture and I would really prefer European Lunar culture, but what I have from the UK is not as good. The age group. These are mostly stories about 'big girls' during the years of their transition to becoming established as young women. I really prefer series that deal with the pre-teen years and so far I only have Skippy 1992 and Full House 1987 for that. Ned and Pete as borderline territory.

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    kellyhof_422

    this is my favorite Nick show! It is so funny! You can laugh when Gordy tries to catch the weasel -who turned out to be a girl, who knew!-, when Cookie makes that face when he gets nervous, when Moze punches Ned, when Ned overreacted when he thought Suzie was going to break up with him, and basically almost every minute!!! To me, the episode, Field Trip, was funny (especially when Gordy destroyed the school door and when Ned told Suzie that he just had to have the Wild Boy skirt- short thing). Although, I wish it would be a little bit more exciting when Moze and Ned finally got together and I don't know, there was something missing! It didn't feel complete to be the "biggest Ned's Declassified Ever." And the Alternate Ending was so disappointing! But I know everyone has different thoughts, so if you liked to more than me, OK and if disliked it more than me, OK. Anyway, my main point is, I love this show and I hope Field Trip wasn't the end of it...

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