Watching a cartoon is supposed to be a fun escape from your real world problems. When I was in school, most of my real world problems involved having to deal with terrible teachers every day. It's really sad when you are 10 years old and regularly outsmart your adult teachers. I grew up in the South so the only requirement to teach was that you had to be able to read at a 5th grade level be able to count to numbers higher than the amount of fingers and toes you have. Here are the worst cartoon teachers.
Mr. Crocker (The Fairly OddParents)
Most of the characters in The Fairly OddParents are completely oblivious to the fact that Timmy has fairies that follow him everywhere and constantly give him insane wishes. Crocker knows that there's something up. He spends all of his time trying to invent new ways to detect and capture Cosmo and Wanda. With that kind of intelligence, he could be teaching generations of children how to better the world. Instead, he gets himself blown up and beaten down because he's dumb enough to try to take on magical creatures that can make absolutely anything happen. He's just lucky that Cosmo and Wanda have spared his life so far.
Mrs. Krabappel (The Simpsons)
Mrs. Krabappel is a pretty stereotypical burned out teacher. She really doesn't care what happens to any of the kids in her class. She just wants to show up to work, make her paycheck, and go home. She kind of reminds me of most of my real teachers when I was in school. The only difference is that most of my real teachers were a lot fatter and showed up to work drunk. There's a reason Tennessee has one of the worst education systems in the country.
Coach McGuirk (Home Movies)
Why is it that gym teachers are always so out of shape? When he's not trying to bang one of his student's mothers, he's giving them terrible advice. It would be a lot easier to hate the guy if he wasn't so sad and desperate all the time. His students are really his only friends. I'm sure he became a gym teacher for the same reason that most gym teachers decide to teach gym. No reading.
Mr. Garrison (South Park)
I don't think anyone on this list has done anything nearly as inappropriate as Mr. Garrison does on a regular basis. He regularly belittles his students and tries to make them feel stupid. One time, he even brought a sex slave in to the class named Mr. Slave and put a gerbil in his butt named Lemmiwinks. It seems like nothing he does could ever get him fired. He must tenure. At least, he's spending so much time doing ridiculous stunts that he never actually gets around to teaching anything.
Mrs. Puff (Spongebob Squarepants)
Mrs. Puff teaches at the boating school in Bikini Bottom. I took driver's ed in highschool and the class lasted about two seeks. Spongebob has been in her class for years and never passed his boating test. Spongebob's repeated fails finally drove Mrs. Puff insane. She entered Spongebob in to a demolition derby and tried to kill him with a monster truck. No matter how much you dislike a student, thats no excuse to try to kill them. Maybe instead of blaming Spongebob for failing the boating test over and over she should blame herself.
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
When you are a Jedi Master and you are training your Jedi Apprentice, there is pretty much only one way to decide if you are a good teacher or not. You have to ask the question, "Did your student turn to the dark side and kill all of the Jedi and destroy the republic?" If they answer to that question is "yes", then you are a terrible teacher. Anakin even killed all of the younglings. The Jedi Council was right. Anakin was way too old to start training as a Jedi, but Obi-Wan insisted that he could train him. They should have left him to be a slave on Tattooine.
The Gromble (Aaahh!!! Real Monsters)
The Gromble is the teacher and head master at the Monster Scaring Academy. He is insanely strict and pretty much just screams constantly without really having anything important or helpful to say. I think the screaming is a sign of insecurity in his ability to teach. I can't stand teachers that scream constantly. If you were actually a good teacher, then you wouldn't have to be yelling at us all the time. We would pay attention because what you had to say was actually interesting.
Do these cartoon teachers remind you of any of your real teachers? Let me know on twitter @zachlunch or in the comments below!
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