Teachers on TV vs. Teachers in Real Life 

“Ms. Frizzle kidnapped those kids, but it was fun”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Totally reverse with me. A teacher from my oldest's school seen me sitting in at Olive garden sipping a drink with my(now Ex) husband during our anniversary meal. Both kids were with my Parents at Chuck E cheese at a younger cousin's birthday party. That Monday, She gave my kid a note to explain what is appropriate as a parent. I took the note to the school the next morning. Turned out she had done that to other parents and was shortly fired afterwards.

💖 My senior quote was the last line ever spoken by Mr Feeney on Boy Meets World... "I love you all, class dismissed."

The creepiest part of Ezra Fitz and Aria wasn’t even that they got married or they made out, it was that it turned out he knew exactly who she was and how old she was before he ever met her. So he was like a true creeper. I had a teacher from 7-12 grade, my band director (save the band geek jokes I was on drum line, didn’t count lol) that was like a dad to me. I had a really hard time with serious stuff at home, and he was the one who helped me find my talent and even got me ready for a conservatory audition for college.

When I hear yall talking about teachers drinking in their free time, I think of the show Mr. Iglesias. Unlike most TV shows about schools, Mr. Iglesias is involved in the students lives (but not in a creepy way to me). He is their support system and he roots for all his students to succeed.

I love hearing stories about crap you’ve dealt with as a teacher.

I love Miss Frizzle. I tried to be like her without the field trips when I was a younger teacher. But in my present life, I identify with Mrs. Howard from Abbott Elementary. I have become the elder stateswoman of school.

THANK YOU MRS. ROGERS!!! Omg...I thought the three kids who got sent home from my D.C. trip in 8th grade was a scandal....but your NY trip puts that to shame. We're in San Diego, and in April there was always a trip to D.C. & Pennsylvania/New York (they alternated every other year) and we did fundraising for it throughout the year. Breakfast and dinner were included but lunch and snacks were on us to buy. We actually ate at some kind of off-base military cafeteria the day we went to the Pentagon, which was super cool. One night we stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel and got breakfast and dinner there. There were at least 20-25 of us, but we also had 4 teachers + a BUNCH of parents for chaperoning. The kids that tried to pull shenanigans were caught in the middle of them and sent home immediately (the next morning for one, because he tried to climb out the window to sneak into a girl's room at like 11pm). When done right, with the correct support, cross-country trips can be great. I'm so glad ours didn't end up like yours. Thanks for finally telling it!!

Rebecca Rogers does look like Miss Appleberry from Cocomelon. She's very sweet and patient with great creative ideas. And Bri really needs to read some Roald Dahl. He also wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. Amazing author. Specializes in dark stories about traumatized children that have something magical happen to create a happily ever after.

How did Hogwarts Professors not get brought up??

I think an episode on things you learn about teaching but that you're never officially taught would be really interesting. It'd be a peek behind the curtain for us non-teachers, and useful for baby teachers.

One of my favorite things about living in a small town, our principals really don’t care what we do in our free time! We’ll all go out to the one nice restaurant in town and they’ll drink with us. The last day before winter break was a half day and we all went to lunch, two newer teachers, our principal, his wife (who is a para at the school), and I were the last ones there. Just having a few drinks and talking about how things have been going so far and moving forward.

I definitely feel strange watching a teacher podcast Very out of character for me BUT I AM OBSESSED

On my high school choir trip, they taped our door the night before our competition but 1) it was Friday the 13th and my roomies and I were watching a horror movie so the sound of our director placing the tape terrified us. 2) I actually got so so anxious being taped it bc it made me feel trapped. I wasn’t planning on going anywhere, but not even having the option just made me feel so enclosed and trapped

Their was one teacher I remember from Riverdale, the one Archie hooked up with Ms.Grundy. But all the kids do end up being the teachers in season 5. But my favorite tv teacher is probably the one from Freedom Writers

Just finished binging all the episodes I missed! So glad you guys are back! Loved this pod!

Mr. Feeny from Boy Meets World 🌎. One of my favorite TV teachers ❤️

Recess! I loved that cartoon!

In 2013, when I was in middle school, .. the school didn't have a sub for my class so we just did the lesson our SELVES. It was 8th grade English accel and we were at the CLIMAX of a novel so instead of telling any teacher next door:...... We did a popcorn reading of the book and discussed the questions we had for the essay we had to do on the novel. The class after us was so confused and the admin had to interview all of us before we went home. No cap

27:34 There was this one time when I was in my health class in 7th grade my teacher wasn’t in for the day since she was sick and when we walked in the class room it was empty and there was a substitute teacher that arrived 35-40 minutes after we were in there.All we did was just sit with our friends and hang out since everyone in that class was finished with the school work for health so kids either played games or tell dark humor jokes. The sub that was supposed to be in the classroom at the beginning got fired since my principal was very serious about kids safety.

im a student and i love listening to this on spotify everyday in class, YOU GUYS ARE SOO FUNNY MORE EPISODES PLEASEEE

I was surprised that nobody mentioned any teacher from neds declassified school survival guide. From what I remember there was a good variation of the kinds of teachers you'd come across.

My chorus teacher took about 100 of us to Disney to sing at candlelight every year. It was only 1 night but I just can't imagine.

Joe Clark from Lean On Me is the teacher/admin that everyone wish they could be.....shutting out the criminals and allowing teachers to do their jobs. Showing kids they can succeed with positive expectations.

This is for Tell specifically, but everybody can answer as I know we’ve all had moments like this as teachers. But, Tell, as a pre-k teacher, how do you manage to stay calm all the time when dealing with the many antics of 4-5 year olds? Have you raised your voice at a student because of inappropriate behaviors they constantly repeat, or for inappropriate things they’ve continued to say multiple times? On another note, for all of you, when you need help with a child, is your admin good with helping you, or do you find it a struggle to get admin to help you? Do you feel like they haven’t been in your classroom, or any classroom long enough to even know/understand what you go through on daily basis?

SO Happy to hear Sideways Stories from Wayside School mentioned. My absolute favorite as a kid

I feel like the reason you guys forgot about Mr. Feeny at first is because he really was basically the best tv teacher. He cared about his kids, but he wasn't creepy about it. He was there for them. His relationship with Shawn was one of my favorites, because he knew how capable Shawn was.

Roald Dahl also wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!

I’m going to school to be a teacher and I have to say I love this podcast and I’ve been binge watching it🙌🏻 Also, I feel you on Ezra Fitz😭 When he found out that she was his student he tried to end it but Aria was persistent to stay in the relationship. It was such a weird part of the show but they did end up getting married🙃

Our ROTC commanders did the tape the door as well. That first night I called them asking hey, we ordered pizza..... um... can we please get it? They said yes. That night everyone kept coming into our room to eat and hang out. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Talking about Miss Honey and Miss Trunchbull. We had a production of Matilda the musical at my school, I played Miss Trunchbull! It was so fun

This is the best, I love this podcast! Also it’s the funniest them trying to work out Roald Dahl's name! He’s so well known in England but I hadn’t realised he wasn’t so much in America! ❤️love you guys x

Yo so happy to see you guys I just got Covid laying in my bed coughing love to see you guys doing your thing Be safe

One of my favorite TV teachers is Mr. Clark from Stranger Things because he’s so excited to teach the kids and genuinely enjoys interacting with them and encouraging them to ask questions

@ 21:14 the laugh syncs up pretty nicely, makes me laugh too :)

That's what's so good

Jessica Day from New Girl is one of the best TV teachers!!

I’m a rower and when we go to regattas (races) we take a bus with no coaches, there is usually 2 or 3 parent chaperones. We are assigned to a hotel room (4 in a room based on gender) with the coaches and chaperones in the hotel but we don’t usually see the coaches until we arrive at the regatta sight. For the varsity girls alone there are about 60 rowers. The amount of trust they put in us to go to a different state and remain well behaved while in a hotel room is insane. I have so much respect for all chaperons and coaches

My school, any trip was an overnight trip, especially if we had to take the ferry. Ferry or plane were our only travel options. We students would all end up getting really close with the other schools as a result, especially since we would always house them when they came to us and they would house us when we went to them. My favorite time of seeing someone get sent home though is what I always think of when people say "boys will be boys" because it was basically that. This one 15 year old from one of the other schools, his dad had given him a tazer to take with to protect himself. Well, said boy and his friend got sent home because they were caught outside taking turns tazing each other. From what I heard afterward, they were having a blast too 😂

"Welcome back Kotter" Great 1970s show about a high school teacher and his student. John Travolta played one of the students.

Okay but do y’all remember the Children’s book where little girl lived on the edge of a forest and would always pick flowers parents warned her not to go too deep or the monster would get her and she got distracted by the beautiful flowers and the monster tries to get her but she makes it in time back home it was kindof a rhyming book to like what the monster said rhymed

I've only seen Bad Teacher once, but now I have to watch it again, because I remember thinking it was such a funny movie! Also, I used to LOVE the Junie B. Jones series! That was one of my favorites as a kid!

Rebecca: some people say I look like the teacher from cocomelon. Everyone: YOU DO!! *Looks up cocomelon teacher* *Shooketh*

A student teacher at my junior high school worked at hooters..I didn’t judge I was too young just found it funny but amazing a few years later she was teaching!

Y'all should watch Doc Martin to watch Luisa. She's a teacher in a small town in the UK and I feel like she's accurate, but the show doesn't revolve around the kids or her, so maybe that's why it's a good portrayal of a teacher. Luisa is just my favorite TV Teacher.

The Secrets of Ms Snickle!! That’s the book about the girl who is allergic to secrets!

Recess was just Hogan's Heros set on a playground with children. Even the theme song is the same.

My kids HS has an McXplorers group, where 2 teachers take a group of kids at least twice a year to out of country trips! They've been doing it for years. Granted these kids must be passing, it costs a lot of money (students fundraise) & they must have full parent permission.

Watching four teachers be anything less than completely positive about Roald Dahl having written Mathilde is hilarious

There's so much difference between US and UK teachers like so many of the parents were friends with teachers and like going out on a Saturday together or join in. At our prom and trips our teachers drank alcohol and it was normal

I was waiting for them to talk about "Mr Holland's Opus" or "Mona Lisa Smile" or even "Sister Act 2"

Thank u for the vampire diaries shout out!!!!!! But Caroline was totally too young for him 🤣

All the adults “voices” in peanuts were made by a trombone muted by a toilet plunger hehe Schulz wanted the focus to mainly be on the children’s points of view so the adults never actually spoke.

I'm like Mr. Simmons from Hey Arnold. Cool, calm, collected a little granola free range and kinda a pushover. 🤭

Billy Madison teacher lmao the kindergarten teacher where she puts glue on her eyes! lmao

What about Mrs. Frizzle from the magic school bus????

I love how they mentioned feney

oh my goodness..yeees all the old school books!! And the Witches was a great movie!

I love William Tell! He's so funny!

In the show Teachers (2016-2019), the elementary teachers were NEVER in their classroom or with students. They were always leaving their kids unsupervised. Lol

Mr. S aka Dewey Finn from School of Rock is my favorite movie teacher. Despite the fact that he got away with impersonating and pretending to be someone else to earn money and wasn't receiving any consequences (basically illegal), he inspired "his" students and was able to reach them. Mr. Feeny is my favorite TV teacher 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Oh my gosh. I want to go to the Western Reserve Village now to see that, but I don't really want to do the fair! I haven't been there in years, but the last time I was, it was so packed. I'm afraid my crowd anxiety would be horrible!

First year teacher (3rd/4th grade) in KY! Love this podcast and love seeing teachers being real.

Not a teacher but a crazy experience when I was in high school. I don’t remember all the details as it was roughly 20years ago but the French teacher at the high school would take students from her classes on a trip to Europe for 2 weeks in the summer. For context of when this was I was a rising junior and in 2001 before 9/11 We had paired up with friends on the trip for rooming and this worked at most hotels except for one. We had to room with one of the rising sophomores and this girl I kid you not try to hang out with random boys in whatever country we were in and left the door to the hotel room open while my friend and I were napping. Needless to say the teacher had a stern talking with her and her friends.

speaking of creepy teachers, how did the Potterhead not bring up Moody, Dumbledore, or the pink evil lady from Harry Potter? lol all fun and games

My high schooler is in class a lot without teachers. It’s been a yearly thing. This year was the worst, for the most awful, not the teacher’s fault, reasons. Like her AP Spanish teacher got really sick this year. So she was only there the first 2 weeks of the 2nd semester, and no long term sun was ever issued to the class.

Freedom writers is worth mentioning , one of my favorite movies ever still remember seeing it the first time in 10th grade psychology, definitely the best teacher on tv I’ve ever seen

Literally watched that episode on Recess🤣🤣

I am in 6th grade and I just watched that movie (Matilda) like 2 days ago and I’m now so more appreciative of my great principal and teachers

I watch lots of teacher movies like Ron Clark story and Freedom Writers and both show how great teachers can be !

We get to go on trips out of state but yeah it’s a lot of forms and stuff bc u want them to be safe.

Im so glad you guys brought up Abbott Elementary! My mom is an assistant teacher for a PreK class and I was just telling her that I can see similarities between her/ her coworkers and the teachers at Abbott and I love the advocacy their creating with that show as well. Also speaking of Riverdale idk why I can’t get this out of my head but Mr.Williams lowkey reminds me of Mark Consuelos and his son who was also on Riverdale. I think they’re all handsome so I don’t mean it in a bad way but something about him reminds of Hiram and young Hiram

I love all of Y’all so much! I love just watching you guys ALL the time! I love my teachers and I have a whole new respect for all of my teachers! I have a teacher that would be so perfect for this podcast if she were on it haha

I forgot that I'm an adult and when yall said if yall are children turn away I instinctively turned away from the screen 🤦‍♀️🤣

I love "Best Friends" faces. I've never watched most of these shows.

My sister watches Cocomellon, and when Rebeca said people said she looked like the Cocomellon teacher (Ms. Appleberry ) I bursted out laughing yelling yessss!

That whole teacher having a life outside of class brings up the question: do you want there to be teachers to teach your kids or not? There are not enough people willing to teach and not have a social life to be able to teach all the kids. There's not enough as it is!!

One of my favorites is The Ron Clark Story with Matthew Perry. It's based on a true story and it's really heartwarming 🥰

I just did this this year. It’s awesome!

I saw you guys on tick tock and I've got to say I instantly have fallen in love with every single one of you I do not have kids I am not a teacher but I love connection in it human to human and I love the stories and I love the camaraderie I love how you guys play off of each other I like to look back on my past too and I was basically everything from teacher's pet to wild child everything and the stories that you have portrayed I see a little bit of me and them and it's fantastic keep rocking it and I can't wait to see more of your podcast and see more amazing topics that you guys will cover

I was just watching a movie like two days ago where I was like “WHERE ARE THE TEACHERS???”

You got "Fe..he..he...heny" stuck in my head!

Yes the magic school bus was amazing

Becca definitely looks like Ms. Appleberry, had to look it up to confirm, it's definitely her! Lol

That’s wild to hear about NHSMUN a decade later

They literally could have referenced Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when talking about Roald Dahl and I think they would have known who the author of Matilda was 😂

I went on band trips in middle school, we went on a cruise i can’t imagine

Her name is Mrs. Appleberry , Appleberry ? Appleberry A double p r y b e double r y

We went to Spain for a week in high school with our spanish teacher - i had to pay for it myself but it was amazing

DUDE- WAYSIDE SCHOOL HAS TO BE ONE OF MY FAVE BOOK TRILOGYS TO THIS DAY! IT WAS SO GOOD. AHH THE NOSTALGIA

I was 100% Ms. Norbury (mean girls). Mathletes pushing, cares about kids, works multiple jobs, teacher. Sarcasm for days!

as someone who travels with my highschool as a student it’s an amazing experience. I travel to Japan and Guam for school competitions

I stumbled upon Teachers Off Duty and recently and I'm watching old videos. This might date me, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the only show with teachers on it. I guess Beverly Hills 90210 (the first run) potential had teachers that were sometimes seen.

Best TV teacher is Hailey from One Tree Hill

The teacher from Cocomelon is named Mrs. Appleberry

I’m a nanny lol however I identify with Ms. Frizzle from magic school bus 😂

Am I a teacher? No. Am I living in America? No. Do I listen to every single episode. YES, yes I do!

The nostalgia I got from Ms. Nelson Is Missing, man. I loved that book so much 😭 And I'm just a liiiittle offended that y'all didn't know Matilda was a book, since it's my favorite to this day and I read it a million times in elementary lol

Have yall thought about making a podcast about inspiring teachers or paraprofessionals. I'm starting my degree as a elementary teacher, I'm currently a paraprofessional for SpED in high school. So I would like to hear your experiences and advice.

I have to go see if I can buy Tikki Tikki Tembo to add to my collection now! I’ve been able to recite the whole name always!