The Kids from Room 402
Created by Betty Paraskevas, Michael Paraskevas
On Teletoon, Fox Family
A gentle, morality-focused animated classroom comedy where a teacher and her students work through everyday dilemmas and learn substantive lessons.
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.
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Questions people ask
Is The Kids from Room 402 easy watching? Yes, very. More comforting than 97% of series.
Is The Kids from Room 402 scary? No. Less frightening than 92% of series.
Does The Kids from Room 402 leave you hopeful? Yes, very. More hopeful than 92% of series.
Is The Kids from Room 402 violent? Barely. Less violent than 89% of series.
Is The Kids from Room 402 sad? Barely. Less sad than 88% of series.
These describe how the series comes across across its whole run, compared with other well-known series. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked episode by episode, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.
Cinnamon Score
How much this series gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.
Familiar shape, done well.
How unlike any other series this one feels
How much more it delivers than it promises
How much audiences actually like it
Ensemble
Like The Kids from Room 402
Nearest across the full emotional profile.
Same Mood as The Kids from Room 402
Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.
Like The Kids from Room 402, But Darker
Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.
Like The Kids from Room 402, But Lighter
Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.
Like The Kids from Room 402, But Less Popular
Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
