19th April 2011, 6:32 AM
No, you're wrong about it being like Azumanga Daioh. See, what Azumanga Daioh did so well was taking a series of four-panel gags and weaving them together and fleshing them out so that it provided a seamless 22 minutes of characters, jokes, and story. Nichijou constantly jumped around from one scene to the next, often without any seeming connection between them.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.