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That's just the beginning. Rebecca's class consists of six students and several cloned extras, and she also has to deal with the general mayhem that ensues at Momotsuki Academy. Did we mention that she's accompanied by a mopey, luckless rabbit named Mesousa, and is being monitored by aliens? Then there's the strange cat-like creature who claims to be a god, likes to hide in vending machines and keep the sodas warmed-over with his body heat, and seems to be following Rebecca and her class...

 

Originally licensed by the fine folks at [[ADV Films]], now licensed by [[FUNimation]].

 

* [[Actor Allusion]]:

** An extended one for [[Mugihito]], the voice of the Alien Captain, who played Jean-Luc Picard in the Japanese dub of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' -- including a part where the aliens randomly turn into TNG lookalikes. At one point he watches the movie ''Excalibur'', specifically the part where Patrick Stewart's character vainly attempts to lift the sword from the stone.

* [[Affectionate Parody]]

* [[The Alcoholic]]:

'''Miss Igarashi''': No, actually, it was this morning. }}

* [[All-Star Cast]]: ''Both dub versions''.

* [[And the Rest]]:

'''Rei''': That's efficient. }}

* [[Animated Actors]]

* [[Art Shift]]

* [[Aside Glance]]: Almost everyone, but the most common one of doing this is Ichijou.

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Two Words: Tsurugi Inugami. He's got a cool name, but is he a badass? Not really.

* [[Back From the Dead]]: Some characters die from time to time. And then they come back in the next episode, [[Negative Continuity|and the issue is never mentioned.]]

* [[Cultural Cross-Reference]]: While most of the jokes are based around Japanese pop culture and anime, there are moments where people like Colonel Sanders and Chuck Norris are mentioned.

** Among ''many'' others. This is, after all, Studio SHAFT.

** Episode 15 has Himeko imagining their bus crashing onto the [[Discworld]]

* [[Curtain Camouflage]]

* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: Akane Serizawa. Media gets them in the OVA.

* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]]

'''Old Geezer''': What a damn buncha cowards. }}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Tsurugi Inugami and Rei Tachibana.

* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: One episode had a segment that was possibly inspired by ''Schindler's List'', where everything was black and white except for the girls' uniform ties and Mesousa's bandana.

* [[Depending on the Writer]]: The last 4 episodes written by Sarah Alys Lindholm and Christine Auten (voice of Mesousa, and even directs these episodes) on the english dub goes into this direction by making the dialogue more looser than usual. Here's a sample from the most notably changed epsiode, the 26th episode:

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The United States Defense Department of Defense.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Happens in episode 25.

** The characters themselves DO break the fourth wall in recognizing every once in a while that they're in a show -- such as Himeko crashing into the camera in the first episode, Becky mentioning the number of episodes left near the end of the series and Kurumi hearing, then talking to the narrator in episode 23.

** From the first episode:

* [[No Name Given]]: The Alien Captain and his subordinates, and also lampshaded. One scene confirms that they ''have'' names, they just don't use them.

* [[Only Six Faces]]

** He also likes eat living cans with his VERY long prehensile tongue. Also, the cans '''scream for their life!'''

* [[Precision F-Strike]]

** And then there's Nanjo and Serizawa calling each other bitches in the English dub of episode 19.

* [[Princess Curls]]: Misao Nanjo.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyZVcugd3D8 Shoujo Q]

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: Episode 1.

'''Alien Subordinate''': "[[Lampshade Hanging|Let me give you some time to think up a better excuse.]]" }}

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: In the OVA, Media and Behoimi set up a booby-trap to prevent Team Fail from kicking the can. The trap consists of M18 Claymore anti-personnel mines, an infantry mortar, a grenade launcher, and two tactical robots [[BFG|(one mounted with a machine gun and another shaped like a small tank)]], all sensor-activated. Once again, this was all to stop the other team from kicking a can.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: There are at least three:

** Serizawa and Kuruzu fits the trope the most.

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: When Class 1-C contracts a mysterious virus, Rebecca and Class 1-D attempt to find the original carrier. Unfortunately, 1-D starts trying to use [[Mystery Tropes]] to find him/her, blaming Akira for being a minor character and thus the one everyone would least suspect, and then Rebecca herself for bringing up the whole issue in the first place, and thus also the one everyone would least suspect.

* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: Just when Mesousa is being respected and celebrated by Becky and her students for supposedly shrinking Ichijo's little sister back to normal, the space aliens [[Retcon]] the entire scene to cover their own mistake, relegating the rabbit back to [[Butt Monkey]] status.

* [[You Are Number Six]]: Sayaka is sometimes referred to as "Number 6" or "Rokugou" due to being the sixth girl named Suzuki at the school.

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Kurumi, Yuma.

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