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The Dog Ate My Homework

• TV panel show
• 2014 - 2021
• 97 episodes (8 series)

School-themed panel show for CBBC . Stars Lauren Layfield , Iain Stirling , Ian West , Reis Daniel , Chris Lawrence and more .

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The Dog Ate My Homework is the school-based panel show that lets you down, lets CBBC down, and above all, lets itself down... It's the series that throws out the text books along with the rule book, and turns everything about school on its head.

BAFTA-nominated comedian and CBBC favourite Iain Stirling hosted the first six series, but now the show is hosted by Lauren Layfield .

On every show there are two teams, featuring comedians, celebrity guests and a junior sidekick. Both teams are faced with a mischievous mix of tongue-in-cheek comedy, off-the-wall questions, nonsensical studio games, and slapstick challenges.

The Dog Ate My Homework is the show that finally puts the cool back into school.

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• Wednesday 22nd December 2021 at 7:20pm on CBBC - Christmas Special
• Thursday 16th December 2021 at 8:00pm on CBBC - Christmas Special
• Sunday 12th December 2021 at 10:00am on CBBC - Christmas Special

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Two teams fight it out to dodge detention, and put the cool back into school, in a mischievous mix of tongue-in-cheek comedy, off-the-wall questions, nonsensical studio games and slapstick challenges.

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The Dog Ate My Homework

Two teams fight it out to dodge detention, and put the cool back into school, in a mischievous mix of tongue-in-cheek comedy, off-the-wall questions, nonsensical studio games and slapstick challenges.

Official site: www.bbc.co.uk

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Previous Episode

Harvey v maya, episode 8x12; mar 21, 2021.

Lauren Layfield is joined by team captains Harvey and Maya and special guests Gemma Cairney, Rosco McClelland, Ben Shires and Naomi Wilkinson.

Previous Episodes

Iain Stirling

Lauren Layfield

Cast of The Dog Ate My Homework

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Where Did The Phrase “The Dog Ate My Homework” Come From?

Dogs are known as man’s best friend. Dogs keep us safe, are hard workers … and can provide a handy excuse in a pinch. Maybe that’s why versions of the classic expression the dog ate my homework have been around for hundreds of years.

Today, the dog ate my homework is used as a stock example of the kind of silly excuses schoolchildren give for why their work isn’t finished. Very rarely do people say, “the dog ate my homework” and expect it to be taken literally; they use the expression as an example of a typically flimsy excuse.

So where did the phrase come from?

Forrest Wickman, a writer for Slate , describes the legend of the 6th-century Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise as the alleged first recorded “the dog ate my homework” story. According to the tale, Saint Ciarán had a tame young fox that would take his writings to his master for him. One day, the fox grew up and decided to eat the leather strap binding the writings together instead. Still, this tale is more Garden-of-Eden parable and less terrible schoolchild excuse.

The notion that dogs will eat just about anything, including paper, turns up in lots of stories over the centuries. An example comes from The Humors of Whist , published in 1808 in Sporting Magazine . In the story, the players are sitting around playing cards when one of them remarks that their companion would have lost the game had the dog not eaten the losing card. Good boy.

Some attribute the creation of the dog ate my homework to a joke that was going around at the beginning of the 20th century. In a tale found as far back as an 1894 memoir by Anglican priest Samuel Reynolds Hole, a preacher gives a shortened version of a sermon because a dog got into his study and ate some of the pages he had written. However, the clerk loved it because they had been wanting the preacher to shorten his sermons for years.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the first example of the dog ate my homework excuse in print can be found in a speech given by retiring headmaster James Bewsher in 1929 and published in the Manchester Guardian : “It is a long time since I have had the excuse about the dog tearing up the arithmetic homework.” The way this comment is phrased suggests that the whole dog ate my homework story had been around for some time before it was put in print.

When was the word homework created?

But in order for a dog to eat homework specifically, homework had to be invented (oh, and how we wish it hadn’t been). True, the word homework , as in what we call today housework , appears as early as 1653. But homework , as in school exercises to be done at home, isn’t found until 1852. Once we had homework , it was only a matter of time before the dog was accused of eating it.

How we use this phrase now

No matter the origin, sometime in the 1950s, the expression became set as the dog ate my homework . This inspired any number of riffs on the theme, like my cow ate my homework or my brother ate my homework . In the 1960s, the dog ate my homework continued to gain popularity. The expression popped up a couple times in politics over the years, like when President Reagan said to reporters in 1988, “I had hoped that we had marked the end of the ‘dog-ate-my-homework’ era of Congressional budgetry … but it was not to be.”

It seems unlikely that the dog ate my homework was ever used consistently or frequently by actual schoolchildren. In fact, it’s the unlikeliness of the story that makes it so funny and absurd as a joke. Instead, teachers and authority figures appear to have cited the dog ate my homework many times over the years as such a bad excuse they can’t believe students are really using it.

In the 21st century, students don’t spend as much time working with physical pen and paper as they once did. That may contribute to the decline in the use of the phrase. So, maybe soon we’ll see a new equally absurd phrase pop up. Come on Zoomers, you’ve got this.

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The episode starts with Dakota eating Fruit Roll Ups with another kid named James until Ms. Smith walks into the room and tells them to stop eating the Fruit Roll Ups. Ms. Smith then tells everyone that it was time to turn in their homework. Dakota tells his friend that he didn't do his homework because he was up late playing Fortnite. He then notices a buddy keychain on his backpack and when Ms. Smith comes and tells him where's his homework. He then tells her that his dog Buddy, ate his homework as everyone laughs. Ms. Smith tells him that she was born at night but not last night and points out that it's the oldest trick in the excuse book. Dakota says that he's telling the truth. Ms. Smith points out that last week, he said someone stole it and before then, it flew out the car window. Dakota tells her that he was just as mad at Buddy and he saw the whole thing happen and points out that he loves the taste of Improper fractions.

Lies will always catch up with you.

• Dakota - Jake McDermott
• Connor - Jacob Childress
• Ms. Smith - Monica Mauro
• Student 1 - Ian Massimino
• Student 2 -Stevie Ray Allen
• Student 3 - Shane Tyler Smith
• Student 4 - Iliana Reider
• Student 5 - Aaliyah Garcia
• Student 7 - Deborah Moon
• Student 8 - Amber Ragunas
• Student 9 - Samuel Parker
• Student 10 - Kailey Scalesse
• Principal Riley - Eliot
• Pizza Delivery Guy - Zachory Sweeney
• Dakota's Mom - Kate Bowman
• Gog Buddy - Rachel Sedory (Dog Owner)
• Vet - Jai Brandon
• Nurse - Junie Hoang
• Nurse 2 - Louise Olinzock
• Nurse 3 - Keisha Harris
• Teachers Aid - Samina Engel

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• Also, it is unlikely that Dr. Fisk and the other employees would want to waste their time with Dakota's mom's plan to teach him a lesson.
• The dog in the thumbnail is misleading, because the dog in the video is white & more furry, & the one in the thumbnail is brown.

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• 2 Mikey Miller
• 3 Sofia Chicorelli Serna

The Dog Ate My Homework (TV Series)

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