Virginia Wilkos

The Horace B Smedley School football team, the Smedley Tornadoes, "hadn't won a game all year. They hadn't scored even a single point" . When Miss Nelson overhears some of her students complain about the team at Lulu's, the local ice cream parlor, she decides to shape up the team by again becoming Miss Viola Swamp, her alter-ego, and substitutes for the present coach, who "had cracked up" (Allard, 10). Coach Swamp applies her trademark discipline to the team and they start getting better. (wikipedia)

Chrysanthemum thinks her name is perfect -- until the kids at school make fun of her. (netflix)

Wendell learns, at a sleepover, that Sophie has to be the boss sometimes, too. (netflix)

In "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom," the letters of the alphabet race each other up the coconut tree. (netflix)

Miss Nelson is out for tonsillitis and the boring Mr. Blandsworth takes over the class.