Mr. Young

Mr. Young is a Canadian teen sitcom made by YTV which debuted in 2011 about a teenaged prodigy named Adam Young who is teaching a high school science class. On the way, he runs into an old friend, gets hounded by a bully, falls in love with a student, and tries to convince the principal that he has valuable contributions to make to Finnegan High School.

The show has become highly popular, is adored by YTV, and gets a LOT of crap past the radar.

This show contains examples of:

• Adored by the Network: YTV shows it nearly every day.
• AI Is a Crapshoot: ARTHUR
• All Asians Know Martial Arts: Dang and his estranged brother Ding are both martial arts experts.
• All Just a Dream: Mr. Moth
• All Love Is Unrequited: Adam loves Echo, Ivy loves Hutch, Derby loves Ivy and Mrs. Byrne loves Mr. Elderman.
• Alma Mater Song: Mr. School Song
• Ambiguous Gender: Slab's Mother.
• Asleep in Class: Derby and Slab fall asleep upon hearing Adam's lesson. Even Adam admits to falling asleep in class.
• Attack of the Fifteen-Foot Hamster
• Bi the Way: Adam and Hutch, if Mr. Servant and Mr. Impossible are any indication.
• Breathless Non-Sequitur: Dang's school song, which he translated over the internet.
• Butt Monkey: Derby
• But You Screw One Goat!: Dang's brother Ding:

Dang: Ding marry Duck! Adam: His wife's name is Duck? Dang: Her name not Duck! She a quack-quack duck!

• Child Prodigy: Adam graduated from college at age 10.
  • The new student Joseph in Mr. Brain.
• Continuity Porn: A scene in Mr. DNA parallels an exchange from the first episode and acknowledges the episode Mr. Younger Man:

Mr. Slabinski: You're a kid. Adam: Well, yes, but... Mr. Slabinski: How old are you? Adam: I'll be fifteen in March. Mr. Slabinski: Wait, you mean you're only... Adam: Fourteen. Mr. Slabinski: Fourteen?! Adam: Wow. I guess the Fruit-Ball doesn't fall far from the tree.

• Creepy Child: Chloe chases Derby all across a city and beats Ivy in a fight.
• Dirty Old Woman: Mrs. Byrne.

Mrs. Byrne: All rise for the honourable Judge Byrne. Mr. Tater: Honourable? She obviously doesn't remember last year's staff party!

• Dream Within a Dream: To an absurd level in Mr. Moth.
  • In Mr. Masterpiece, Derby daydreams about his past daydreams.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Several episodes have implied that Principal Tater's first name is actually "Principal".
• Fawlty Towers Plot: Mr. Elderman
• Gag Nose: Bethany in Mr. Servant.
• Hollywood Nerd: For a guy that skipped ten or so grades, Adam's pretty attractive.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode's name starts with "Mr."
• Inept Talent Show Contestant: Echo is a far worse singer than she thinks.
• It Makes Sense in Context: It's nigh-impossible to start watching an episode halfway through without being incredibly confused.
• Japanese Ranguage: Vietnamese Ranguage on the part of Dang.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Slab takes ballet, and his dream is to play the Prince in Swan Lake.
• Lyrical Dissonance: Musician Dark Demon's rendition of his own Death Maggot in Mr. Rock Star qualifies.
• May-December Romance: Mrs. Byrne flirts with the disguised Adam and, later, Derby.
  • Mr. Tater starts dating Rachel Young at the beginning of Season 2.
• Multi Part Episode: Mr. Space in the USA.
• Name's the Same: Mrs. Byrne
  • Professor Gallifrey
  • An In-Universe example with Mr. Tater's former mentor Bruce Willis.
• Never Trust a Hair Tonic: Derby's hair tonic contained clorophyll, which somehow causes the hair to grow to absurd lengths when exposed to sunlight.
• Picture Day: Mr. Picture Day
• Rube Goldberg Device: Slab presents his nerd-powered grape juice maker in Mr. Roboto 2.0, accompanied by, of all songs, not-Powerhouse.
• Sequel First: Due to being a christmas special, Mr. Claus was broadcast before the double-length episode Mr. Space in the USA.
• Shout-Out: In Mr. Detention, Adam and Derby dress as Chewbacca, Darth Vader, R2-D2, and Princess Leia.
  • A character in the first episode likens being crushed by lockers to the Trash Compactor scene from Star Wars: A New Hope.
  • Echo says that Adam's description of the (fake) aliens' plan is just like every Sci-Fi movie ever, including Independence Day and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
  • Echo calls Mr. Tater "Mr. T in Mr. Detention.
• Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy: Ivy is in love with Hutch, a football player.
• Sequel Escalation: Occurs in spades in Mr. Roboto 2.0.
• Special Guest: Victoria Duffield appears as herself in Mr. Spring Break.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: Mr. Young.
• Talent Show: Mr. Talent Show
• Talking in Your Dreams: Dang dreams of being the janitor for Lady Gaga.
• Teacher-Student Romance: Adam would love one with Echo, but it never seems to pan out.
• Teen Genius: Adam.
• Token Minority: Dang, the janitor.
• Too Dumb to Live: Derby is an idiot, Mr. Tater is even more of an idiot, and Slab is utterly brain-dead, the latter two needing to check to verify their own names.
• Totally Radical: The Eighties flashbacks in Mr. DNA.
• Truth Serums: Adam accidentally creates a "truth gas", forcing him, Derby, Echo, Slab, and Ivy to speak only truth.
• Twist Ending: In Mr. Roboto, it turns out that ARTHUR is still "alive".
  • In Mr. Big Brother, Chloe finds Derby at Adam's house.
• Wilhelm Scream: The kid who gets crushed by lockers in the Pilot.