50 Fun Facts About Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide

On Ned's Declassified, which animal does Gordy obsessively try to trap as it runs loose around Polk Middle School?

A weasel runs loose in the school all series long while Gordy's traps keep failing. In the finale the staff tear the school apart to catch it, then spare it on finding it has just given birth.

Ned Bigby began writing his school survival guide after accidentally wandering into which room back in kindergarten?

The girls' bathroom was the scene of the kindergarten blunder, and his old elementary school substitute had to rescue Ned from it three times.

Ned nicknamed his best friend Moze because their first-grade class already had three other girls with which first name?

Jennifer was shared by four girls in that class, so Ned invented Moze to tell his friend apart; her surname is Mosely.

On Ned's Declassified, what name does Cookie use for the female persona that gets him into parties?

Simone is a play on his real first name, Simon, and the disguise fools everyone except Ned and Moze. Bully Billy Loomer even develops a crush on her.

Moze, the record-setting athlete of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, plays which team sport for Polk?

Volleyball is her game, and she holds more school records than anyone at Polk, including the record for most records.

Sunglasses-loving administrator Crubbs on Ned's Declassified is an exaggerated spoof of which TV cop show?

Miami Vice even supplied his name: Crubbs blends its detectives Crockett and Tubbs. He admits that as a teenager he wanted to be a cop in Florida, not a school official.

In the series finale of Ned's Declassified, which longtime crush does Ned pass over to start dating Moze?

Suzie Crabgrass had been his dream girl since he was eight, but she ends the finale back with the reformed bully Billy Loomer.

Which dorky Ned's Declassified character, played by Rob Pinkston, is a favorite target of Billy Loomer's gang?

Coconut Head is named for his coconut-shaped hairdo, and his real name is never revealed, though he turns up in almost every episode.

Gordy, the adult Ned turns to for advice on Ned's Declassified, holds which job at Polk Middle School?

Janitor Gordy is a former Polk student who dodges real work by leaving it for the night shift, and he once taught dance.

Which future movie star landed his first regular job as background student Zippy Brewster on Ned's Declassified?

Austin Butler spent two seasons in the background, and co-star Lindsey Shaw introduced him to the manager who launched his career.

Which lab-coated teacher on Ned's Declassified does Ned consider evil, yet calls Ned a favorite student in the finale?

Mr. Sweeney hides Ned from the administration in the finale as an early graduation present, then admits Ned was among his worst students and his favorites.

Before her season 3 makeover on Ned's Declassified, allergy-prone Lisa Zemo almost always carries a bottle of what?

Nasal spray is her trademark because she is allergic to cats, dogs, trees and nuts. After the makeover, Cookie suddenly has to compete for her attention.

Cybernerd Cookie on Ned's Declassified wears glasses with a computer display and pants that double as what?

A printer is built into his pants, and he keeps a motherboard in his locker to round out the setup.

Moze, a trusted student on Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, shows exceptional talent in which hands-on class?

Woodshop teacher Dusty Chopsaw calls her his best student and coaches her through her confusing feelings for Ned.

The first season of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide follows the trio through the first semester of which year?

The trio's 7th grade year fills two whole seasons, one per semester, and only the third season moves them up a year.

Besides sunglasses and mini powdered donuts, Crubbs on Ned's Declassified is obsessed with which kind of bird?

Flamingos are one of his three fixations, and he also keeps a special room stocked with items taken from the lost and found.

Life Science teacher Mr. Monroe on Ned's Declassified coaches boys' basketball and also oversees which student group?

The Sewing Club is also where the bully Jerry Crony tries to hide his flair for fashion design.

Which business-suit-wearing student on Ned's Declassified keeps reminding classmates that she plans a career in law?

Claire Sawyer introduces herself that way even to friends who have known her since pre-kindergarten, and classmates consult her on anything that sounds legal.

Which relentlessly optimistic Ned's Declassified student talks so fast that classmates cover his mouth or walk away?

Martin Qwerly also holds elected class office, and classmates sometimes prop a cardboard cutout of themselves beside him to escape.

Christian Serratos, Ned's dream girl on Ned's Declassified, later starred as Rosita Espinosa on which AMC drama?

The Walking Dead promoted her to series regular in its fifth season, and she later played the Tejano singer Selena for Netflix.

Lindsey Shaw, who played Moze on Ned's Declassified, later had a recurring role as Paige McCullers on which teen drama?

Pretty Little Liars cast her as Paige from 2011 to 2017, after she had led the ABC Family comedy 10 Things I Hate About You.

After Ned's Declassified ended, Daniel Curtis Lee played Kornelius "Kojo" Jonesworth on which Disney XD sitcom?

Zeke and Luther was his next series, and he went on to earn a linguistics degree and release a rap album.

Which head writer for The Fairly OddParents created both Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and Johnny Test?

Scott Fellows also invented a private backstory for Gordy with actor Daran Norris: a trust-fund kid who took the school job only to keep his father happy.

The creator of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide went on to make which later Nickelodeon sitcom?

Big Time Rush follows four hockey players from Minnesota who are picked to form a pop group, an idea its creator modeled on The Monkees.

Daran Norris, the actor behind Gordy on Ned's Declassified, voices which character on The Fairly OddParents?

Cosmo is one of four characters he voices in that franchise, along with Mr. Turner, Jorgen Von Strangle and Anti-Cosmo.

Which Atlanta-born actor plays Ned Bigby, the tip-writing narrator of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide?

Devon Werkheiser won the part in February 2003, then waited ten months before the series was picked up.

Which High School Musical star played Spencer, the theatre-obsessed drama club student on Ned's Declassified?

Corbin Bleu's Spencer plays a lead in the school's Romeo and Juliet, and a jealous Ned ends up wrecking the production.

Which former child star directed several episodes of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide?

Fred Savage, the boy from The Wonder Years, became a go-to director for kids' sitcoms, also working on Zoey 101, Drake & Josh and Hannah Montana.

Which comedian and future daytime talk show co-host played Rose, the fortune-telling lunch lady on Ned's Declassified?

Loni Love, later of The Real, plays a lunch lady who reads the future in beans, peas or corn, and her predictions always come true in ways nobody expects.

On Ned's Declassified, Moze's boyfriend Faymen Porchin leaves Polk to play professional soccer in which country?

Brazil is his homeland, which he admits to missing when the foreign language teacher chats with him in Portuguese.

The double-length finale of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide sends the Polk students on a field trip to where?

A museum hosts the trip, where the trio foil a plot to steal a painting while the staff demolish the school back home.

A reboot of Ned's Declassified that its star revealed in 2021 swapped the word School in the title for what?

Adulthood was the hook of the pitch, but the studios turned it down and would not let the cast shop it to other networks.

In 2023 the three lead actors of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide reunited to launch what kind of project?

A rewatch podcast brought the trio back together, launched through a network run by Even Stevens star Christy Carlson Romano.

James K. Polk Middle School on Ned's Declassified wears gold and green and has which animal as its mascot?

Wolves decorate the school's interior, and a gang of older jocks once pummelled Ned after wrongly blaming him for stepping on the logo.

Pants-stealing Palmer Noid on Ned's Declassified shares his surname with an old mascot of which pizza chain?

Domino's once had a mascot called the Noid, and Palmer, known around Polk as the kid who takes pants, starts out as a pesky fifth grader.

Art Alexakis, who guest-stars as music teacher Mr. Gibson on Ned's Declassified, is the lead singer of which band?

Everclear's frontman plays the teacher in an episode where Ned would rather become a rock star than sit through music class.

Rob Pinkston, a bullied regular on Ned's Declassified, also appeared several times on which MTV series?

Punk'd used him in its fourth season to fool stars including Serena Williams and Dirk Nowitzki.

Mat Hoffman, the hero Ned hopes to meet during a flu-season episode of Ned's Declassified, is a legend of which sport?

BMX riding won him back-to-back X Games vert golds in the 1990s, and Ned spends the episode dodging flu germs so he can meet him.

Dr. Xavier, the strict Russian-accented super-genius of Ned's Declassified, teaches which eighth-grade subject?

Math class turns friendlier after Cookie suggests it should be fun, and its fearsome teacher also loves romance novels and has a crush on Gordy.

Which Polk clique on Ned's Declassified, led by Doris Trembley, bullies classmates yet is obsessed with Ned?

The Huge Crew dislike Billy Loomer's gang, and one Valentine's Day they receive a letter that Ned meant for someone else.

Comedian Judy Tenuta guest-stars on Ned's Declassified as loud Polk librarian Mrs. Holler, who plays which instrument?

The accordion was already a trademark prop of Tenuta's stand-up act, and her librarian also has a bad singing voice.

Which friend of bully Billy Loomer on Ned's Declassified stays silent for years before finally speaking in season 3?

Buzz Rodriguez explains that everything had been fine until then, so he had never felt any need to talk.

In the original 2003 pilot of Ned's Declassified, Ned's tech-savvy best friend was called what instead of Cookie?

Boogie was played by Stephen Markarian, who stayed with the series as the nose-picking geek Albert Wormenheimer.

Which popular Polk student on Ned's Declassified never shows his face because admiring girls always surround him?

Doug Secksay stays hidden even after the girls abandon him for Cookie, when the camera shows him only from behind.

When the trio join the school newspaper on Ned's Declassified, Cookie takes over which column to benefit himself?

Horoscopes become his beat, while Ned and Moze chase a story about $20,000 missing from the maintenance budget.

During a season 2 dissection project on Ned's Declassified, Ned steals which animal from the classroom for his crush?

A frog is rescued because Ned's crush opposes dissection, and Cookie and Gordy end up growing attached to it.

Ned and Cookie must find other ways to raise money on Ned's Declassified after eating which fundraiser item?

Chocolate meant for the school fundraiser disappears into the two boys, while Moze struggles to sell her very last bar.

Ned, Moze and Cookie land in detention on Ned's Declassified after accidentally throwing which object?

A paper airplane lands all three in detention, where they find themselves at risk from the older students.

Meshach Taylor, who played Principal Wright on Ned's Declassified, earned an Emmy nomination for which CBS sitcom?

Designing Women cast him as deliveryman Anthony Bouvier for seven years, long before he became Polk's history teacher turned principal.

Logan Browning, Cookie's girlfriend Vanessa on Ned's Declassified, later starred in which Netflix satirical drama?

Dear White People made her its lead in 2017, a decade after she appeared in Bratz: The Movie.