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Episode

"Perfect School" is the eleventh episode of season three of the Goosebumps TV series, and the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth episode overall. It premiered on November 15, 1997 on Fox during the Fox Kids block.

Cast

Shawn Roberts as Brian O'Connor
Daniel Lee as C.J.
J.J. Stocker as Joe
David Roemmele as Billy Brown
Malcolm Stewart as Howard O'Connor
Ann Turnbull as Paula O'Connor
Sean Dick as Riley O'Connor
Victor A. Young as Head Master
Dylan Berryman as Perfect Boy
Cameron Graham as Guardian #1
Joshua Peace as Guardian #2

Plot

So maybe Brian O'Connor does like to play practical jokes on his little brother, Riley. And maybe he doesn't clean his room or make his bed often enough to please his parents, but that's no reason to send him away to boarding school, is it? Brian's parents just won't settle for anything less than perfect, so they send him away to "The Perfect School". The grounds are pristine, the hallways are spotless, and the students that graduate really are perfect. Maybe a little too perfect!

Differences from the story

In the short story, the school creates robots of the students. In the television episode, the school creates brainwashed human clones of the students.
The end of the story has Brian forced to act perfect so his parents don't suspect that he isn't a robot. On the TV version, Brian fakes acting perfect so he can secretly break the other students/prisoners of The Perfect School out.
In the story, Brian gets sent to The Perfect School because his parents don't think that he's perfect enough. In the TV episode, Brian is sent as punishment for repeatedly pranking his younger brother.
In the story, the Perfect School is coed (has both boys and girls). In the episode, The Perfect School is an all-boys school.

Home media

Title	Release date	Media type
Perfect School	September 5, 2006	DVD

Trivia

This was originally shot as a one-part episode, but its producers saw it as having high potential; as a result, extra scenes were shot, and it was turned into a two-part episode.^[1]
David Roemmele (Billy Brown) played Mike in season one's "Welcome to Camp Nightmare".
Billy Brown's name is likely a reference to show writer/story editor Billy Brown.
The DVD cover uses the cover art for the book The Haunted School.
Like the short story, the episode appears to be based off of The Stepford Wives, which follows a similar plot.

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Characters

Scenes

Refernces

↑ "The Bumps" — GB TV: Season 3 (archived)

Goosebumps TV series
Season 1	The Haunted Mask • The Cuckoo Clock of Doom • The Girl Who Cried Monster • Welcome to Camp Nightmare • Phantom of the Auditorium • Piano Lessons Can Be Murder • Return of the Mummy • Night of the Living Dummy II • Stay Out of the Basement • My Hairiest Adventure • It Came from Beneath the Sink • Say Cheese and Die • A Night in Terror Tower • The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
Season 2	Be Careful What You Wish For... • Attack of the Mutant • Bad Hare Day • The Headless Ghost • Go Eat Worms • You Can't Scare Me • Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes • Ghost Beach • Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns • The Haunted Mask II • Let's Get Invisible • Scarecrow Walks at Midnight • Monster Blood • More Monster Blood • Vampire Breath • How to Kill a Monster • Calling All Creeps • Welcome to Dead House • Don't Wake Mummy • The Blob That Ate Everyone • Night of the Living Dummy III
Season 3	Shocker on Shock Street • My Best Friend Is Invisible • The House of No Return • Don't Go To Sleep • Click • An Old Story • The Barking Ghost • One Day at HorrorLand • The Haunted House Game • Perfect School • Werewolf Skin • Awesome Ants • Bride of the Living Dummy • Strained Peas • Say Cheese and Die... Again • Chillogy • Teacher's Pet
Season 4	How I Got My Shrunken Head • The Ghost Next Door • Cry of the Cat • Deep Trouble

[1] "The Bumps" — GB TV: Season 3 (archived)

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 *The DVD cover uses the cover art for the book ''[[The Haunted School]]''.
 *Like the short story, the episode appears to be based off of ''[[Wikipedia:The_Stepford_Wives|The Stepford Wives]]'', which follows a similar plot.
-*Brian shares the same name as Brian O'Connor form the fast and furious franchise.
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