Who Needs School? is a Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! episode from season one.
Characters Present[]
Summary[]
Wubbzy is afraid to go to school on his first day after being convinced by Buggy, Huggy and Earl that it is scary.
Recap[]
It's the first day of school and Wubbzy is really excited. He finds his friends Huggy, Buggy, and Earl at the playground looking depressed, because they said that it's no fun to go to school. After overhearing those complaints, Wubbzy decides to find routes to learn without having to go to school. First, he goes to Walden's library to study his books, when he gets discouraged by the number of books he has left to read, and all the books topple over when he tries to get the "Z" book. So Wubbzy goes to see Widget who has built the Peachy Teacher 3000, but after a while it goes haywire. Wubbzy then plays at the playground, but misses his friends. He hears laughing coming from the school and discovers that school is fun! He also learns that his teacher is Walden.
Transcript[]
See: Who Needs School?/Transcript
Quotes[]
Wubbzy: Who needs to learn all this stuff anyway? I just wanna play!
Post-Show Skit[]
The short, "Trampoline", is played.
Name in other languages[]
- French: Pourquoi aller à L’école? (“Why Go To School?”)
- German: Schule macht Spaß ("School is fun")
- Portuguese (Brazil): Quem Precisa De Aula de inglês? ("Who Needs English Classes?")
- Portuguese (Portugal): Não Quero ir à Escola! ("I Don't Want to Go to School!")
- Spanish (Latin America): ¿Quién Necesita la Escuela? (Who needs the school?)
- Spanish (Spain): ¿Quién quiere ir al Cole? ("Who Wants to Go to School?")
Trivia[]
- Morals:
- Don't believe everything you hear.
- School is a welcoming place.
- In this episode, Walden was Wubbzy's teacher. But in New Kid on the Block, Miss Appletree was Wubbzy's teacher. It was possible that Walden was a substitute, or he moved up a grade level between Season 1 and 2.
- This is the first episode in where Wubbzy's voice became noticably higher.
- When Widget first appears this episode she is seen working on the Hi-Fi Humdinger Horatio Hornblower 3000 even still having a hoopty-horn with it.
- After giving Wubbzy an idea about reading books, Walden says that he is going out for a while, foreshadowing his job as Wubbzy's teacher at the end of the episode.
- The Peachy Teacher 3000 exploded in this episode, but it was seen rebuilt in Daizy's Favorite Place and Wubb Girlz Rule.
- This is the first of the two times Wubbzy goes to school. The second time he goes is in New Kid on the Block.
- This is the first episode that Kooky Kid appears in where he makes a cameo instead of saying "kooky".
- This episode was adapted into a Taco Bell kids meal book.
Goofs/Errors[]
Where did the paint go? I don't know!
- The closeup of the Peachy Teacher's buttons only have three instead of four. The subject of the fourth button is never explained either.
- When there was science stuff on the pile of stuff, you can barely see the paint. But when the Peachy Teacher 3000 exploded, the paint was removed.
- Also, when the Peachy Teacher spits science stuff at Wubbzy, his mouth is seen underneath the paint layer, although before it was on top of the paint layer. On the same scene, a corner of Wubbzy disappears when the Peachy Teacher says "1 + 1 = 2".
- Wubbzy's tail is not animated or placed when the Peachy Teacher throws reading sheets, and paint. When it throws things of science, the tail of Wubbzy is reanimated.
- When Wubbzy's tail raises when he hears the kids at school laughing, a frame shows the end of it cut off.
- When Widget knocks on the door, Kooky Kid was missing from the circle.
Differences Between Book and Episode[]
- In the episode, it was Buggy who said "(There’s/They put you in a room with) a bunch of kids that you don't know". In the book, it was Earl who said it.
- In the episode, it was Huggy who said "And (they don't allow you/you can’t go out) to play Kickity Kick Ball or Hippity Hop Scotch". In the book, it was Buggy who said it. And Hippity Hop Scotch wasn't mentioned in the book.
- In the episode, it was Earl who said "And the teacher (uses big words that you don't understand/can be really mean)". In the book, it was Huggy who said it.