Wayside School

Hmm.

Well, I do know that at Side- uh, at Wayside School, um, Mrs. Zarriss teaches the class on the 13th story, but there is no 13th story, so there is no Mrs. Zarriss, so...

Yeah, and I think we just made pop culture references that the other person doesn't understand in both cases.

[laughs]

Maybe not.

It was the Slimer half of the Slimer and Real Ghostbusters cartoon.

And you need more Louis Sachar and Sideways Stories from Wayside School in your life.

Okay.

You total bastard.

Although now I think about it, I kind of want a Paul Cooley version of Sideways Stories at Wayside School.

Huh? I

don't know what that

Well, I would always go to Dana's room in third grade, and what was our thing, Dana? What was that story we read?

Wayside School.

If you're a teacher and you've never done this, Dana, tell them what we would do with Wayside School.

Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh.

When you would come in, "Can I read today?" And you would come charging in-

[laughs]

... and have this, all this energy, and the kids adore you and loved Wayside School with you because you changed all the names to my kids.

I have a couple.

One is like a gem from my childhood that I randomly saw at the library, which is The Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sackar, who wrote Holes.

I remember our first grade.

It's the same author as Holes? Same author.

It's really

fun, like, goofy.

The premise of the story is that Wayside School was a school that was, like, meant to be – have – I'm going to get it wrong.

It was, like, meant to have, I guess, 32 rooms side by side.

A fudge squiggle.

I would never do that, but I heard someone in Wayside School do it.

Well.

Okay, so we were talking about Wayside School.

Wait, first,

let me show you my real handwriting.

So we were talking about wayside.

Sure.