Waktu Rehat

Cast and characters

Nik Adruce portrays Johan Hamzah, the school sports captain who captains the red sport house and the football team. He enjoys helping friends and seeking mischief with his best friends Faiz and Syed, and is Julie's older brother. Johan always wears a jacket to indicate his role, loves animals, and has severe blattodephobia (fear of cockroaches). He transfers to a sports school in Season 2.

Juzzthin plays Syed, a 15-year-old prankster and rapper who has a crush on Amirah and is best friends with Johan and Faiz. Tengku Iezahdiyana Nurhanie Tengku Alaudin appears as Luna, nicknamed the earnest problem solver, whose motto is don't crumble when there's trouble; she is smart, resourceful, and the love interest of Anding. Iezahdiyana also played Lina, Luna's mischievous cousin, in the episode Nice Luna, Naughty Luna. Farhanna Qismina plays Julie Hamzah, a librarian, student council member, and straight-A student who loves reading teen fiction and romance and dreams of a prince like Nick Jonas; she is Johan's younger sister and always wears her school librarian uniform.

Aedy Ashraf is Faiz, reputed as the person who can get whatever you want, whose catchphrase is time to disappear; he wears a red jacket and in Season 2 had a crush on a student named G from SM Bukit Gangsa. Nurul Elfira Loy plays Amirah Aminuddin, the most popular girl in school, who receives about 20 fan mail messages daily and is the love interest of Syed; in Season 2 she becomes head cheerleader. Sharon Alaina Stephen plays Kieran, a tomboyish girl who does taekwondo, prefers tracksuits or a taekwondo uniform, and always wears a headband; she becomes the new sports captain in Season 2, the first girl to hold that position at S.M. Jalan Mas.

Theme song and opening sequence

The theme song, titled Waktu Rehat, is a Malay translation of the original Italian version used by most international adaptations and was performed by the cast. The opening sequence shows the main characters introducing themselves, then a comical drawn classroom where they wait for recess; when the bell rings, they dance cheerfully, and the sequence ends with a class photo and the title logo.

Mini episodes

The Challenge is a game set by the characters, appearing as mini-episodes. Examples include the Shuffle challenge by Faiz, Durian eating challenge by Kieran, Thumb wrestling challenge by Mindy, Cake decorating challenge by Anding, Pantun challenge by Luna, Make-up challenge by Amirah, Rapping challenge by Syed, and Impersonations challenge by Wai Chong.

Rule numbering

A behind-the-scenes feature by Nicholas Cheng reveals that the rule book of S.M. Jalan Mas contains 54,321 rules. Examples include 115B: No eating anywhere but the canteen; 12A Paragraph 5: Do not set up a picnic spot without a permit; 17F: Don't wear too many hair accessories; 18C: Do not cause people to faint in the corridor; 2055F: Do not wet the school floors; 300A: Do not plot revenge on anybody; 3000A: No gossiping; 302B: No bad breath; 303/303E: Don't lie to the king/emperor about reality (made up by Wai Chong in his dream); 3082A: Do not make fun of prefects; 382A Paragraph 5: No tricking a prefect and no framing of any best friend; 342C: No illegal gatherings at school corridors; 5D: Don't throw rubbish into the fish pond; 532B: Don't put a plastic cockroach on a prefect's sandwich; 533B: Invite the prefect if you're having a party (made up by Wai Chong); 633C Paragraph 10: No shuffling in the school building/corridor; 75F: You can't have a rubber snake without a special license; 200A: Don't forget to shuffle in the school corridor; 44 Paragraph 4: Do not torture people in public walkways; 208 Sub-Section 3: No jumping jack drills in the school corridors; 333A: Do not burp in the laboratory after eating durians; 444A: No conspiring in the toilets; 444B: Do not faint along the corridor; 555A: Do not eat fried chicken around the school's chicken coop; 666A Paragraph 10: No devil worshipping anywhere.