As Our School Bus Turns was a series of shorts designed as a parody of popular soap opera As the World Turns. Unlike the soap, the episodes were unconnected. After each episode, much like the soap at the time, each episode dramatically listed its cliffhangers (which were obviously never resolved). Instead of dealing with typical soap opera topics (love, pregnancy, terminal illness, divorce, etc), the shorts revolved around childhood issues (bullying, shyness, etc).
