#mrs. grotke

[goldieo-gilt]

Some of my favorite cartoon teachers 🥰

[imsparky2002]

DC & Marvel AU: Teachers

DC

Caline Bustier: Hugo Strange

Olga Mendeliev: Chief (The One in the Wheelchair)

Alonzo Grotke: Black Lightning

Dahlia Winters: Crazy Quilt

Principal Denis Damocles: Warden Sharp

Marvel

Caline Bustier: Medusa

Olga Mendeliev: Hank Pym

Alonzo Grotke: Blade

Dahlia Winters: Chameleon

Principal Denis Damocles: Thunderbolt Ross

Lemme know what you think in reblogs and comments. Names will come soon. @artzychic27 @msweebyness @nerd-chocolate

[littlemissartemisia]

This is unrelated to tmnt but I gotta know

Who’s the best teacher

[megahorous]

Mr. Ratburn, Ms. Grotke and Mr. Simmons drinkin’ some COFF !

[principledstarfish]

Few queer Recess headcanons:

1) Spinelli and Mikey are both gay (obviously.)

2) when she's in her early '20s and going to a nearby lesbian bar for the first time, Spinelli is shocked to find Miss Grotke there.

3) 40 years earlier Miss Grotke had the same exact experience with Miss Finster

4) Speaking of Miss Finster, she took part in some of the early Pride marches. One time the administration caught wind that she was still there and called her into the principal's office. Luckily Mr. Prickley was passing by and totally bulshitted something about her doing him a favor and getting pictures of the march for a current events assignment he was giving his students. Mind you he had no idea she was a lesbian until then. Next Pride he was marching right alongside her.

5) She also volunteered caring for AIDS patients in a nearby hospital in the '80s

6) In 2023 TJ is a high school history teacher and he keeps a safe space sticker on his door because two of his best friend are gay and he wants kids like them to know they're always welcome in his classroom.

7) Miss Grotke married her longtime partner soon after Obergerfell v Hodges.

8) Miss Finster was a bridesmaid. Never one to settle down, her current squeeze was her plus one.

9) Mikey is currently a member of a local gay men's choir and a regular at a bear bar in town. He's married and he and his husband are fostering queer teenagers who've been kicked out of their homes.

[artzychic27]

Incorrect Quotes (VicTORIous edition)

Chloé: WHAT UP WITH THE DISCO?

Simon: I'm sorry I hit the wrong thing!

Chloé: NO! 15 years ago your mother gave BIRTH to the wrong thing!

—

Zoé: Ugh. Gross. Talk shows are for tourists and Canadians.

—

Luka: On Splashface, the top seven most popular kiddie songs are all about food. So let's write a kiddie song about food.

Max: ♪ oh, broken glass ♪ ♪ is not a food ♪ ♪ so don't you listen ♪ ♪ to some dude ♪ ♪ who says put cheese ♪ ♪ on broken glass ♪ ♪ and make a sandwich ♪ ♪ out of broken glass ♪

Juleka: What is wrong with you?!

Kim: I like it.

—

Zoé: *curtsying* Well, hello, if you please.

Marc: Are you a good witch? Or a sandwich?

Zoé: Who me? Well, I'm neither a witch nor a snack. You're talking some crazy chizz.

—

Nathaniel: Look, I just wanna say you all make me sick.

Marinette: Why?

Nathaniel: 'Cause you're all great looking, and talented, and popular. I mean, you guys always have something going for you. Marinette had her hat modeled, Alya’s blog is the number 1 source for all things Ladybug, Rose, Juleka, and Ivan are in a band slowly climbing the charts, and Max made a damn sentient robot. You guys have it all! And you're really worried about which one of you has the most followers? *The Akuma Class looks ashamed* Yeah, feel ashamed, 'cause you should feel ashamed.

—

Alya: I love mass texting!

—

Lila: We won because we rock!

Denise: Yeah, don't believe everything your daddy says.

Lacey: Like when he tells you you're pretty!

—

Jean: Eat your pants!

Lila: You eat your pants. Wait!

Mme. Bustier: Ehh, sorry Lila, but the next letter was...

Lila: F, I know!

—

Austin T: Guys, Mr. Grotke really wants everybody back in class.

Austin Q: And you really wanted a date to the prom last year but you didn't get one.

Austin T: What's that supposed to mean?!

Austin A: Quinlan!

Austin T: Tell him to quit being mean to me!

—

Zoé: Where are you goin'?

Cosette: For a... walk in the sunshine!

Simon: Oh, I'll come with you, I love sunshines!

Zoé: Hey, are you guys just going to get more followers?

Cosette: No...!

Simin: Yes, that's right! *He and Cosette leave the room*

—

Nathaniel: I think I've learned something about myself.

Marinette: That you're ungrateful to your friend who tried to fix you up with a cute boy?

Nathaniel: No. I just think I like to date a guy who, you know, fights back.

Marinette: You...

Nathaniel: I mean, a guy who's got strong opinions. You know? And a big mouth.

Marinette: Why?

Nathaniel: 'Cause it's not easy. Easy's boring.

—

Denise: Play that funky music, white boy!

Jean: You know I'm half Latino.

Denise: Well, then hit it, muchacho!

—

Mme. Mendeleiv: Ready? Drive-by acting exercise: You're all angry Englishman. Go!

Ismael: I insist you tell me who sat on me crumpit!

Reshma: Me grandmummy went to the loo while I snogged the Prime Minister!

Jean: This flock of Whip-poor-wills is bothering me trousers!

Marc: Good heavens! There's a dead cockroach in me brassiere!

Mireille: I told you not to put plump sauce on me banger!

—

Mme. Bustier: Nathaniel, what did you do that to your hair?

Nathaniel: What? You mean the color?

Mme. Bustier: Do you hate your mother?

Nathaniel: I love my mother!

—

Adrien: *singing and playing piano* My grandpa has a nose and my grandma has a nose. Everyone you know has a nose, nose, nose.

Nathaniel: … My zeyde’s nose was blown off in the war, so that song is a filthy lie.

—

Cosette: Hi, kids!

Aurore: Apparently, we're The Diddly-Bops!

Jean: And we're here to sing you a special song...

Simon: All about your favorite foods!

Kid: Sing about dinosaurs!

Marc: *Cheerfully* Nooooo!

[princesssarisa]

Character Ask: The Ashleys (Recess)

Favorite thing about them: They're funny characters who serve as the catalysts for some good plots, and sometimes (though rarely) they share moments of sincere friendship with T.J. and the gang.

Least favorite thing about them: Well, they're a catty clique of mean girls who sometimes do nasty things, like forcing Spinelli to join their club just because her first name is Ashley too, or entering her in a beauty contest as a prank.

Three things I have in common with them:

*I've grown up in relative wealth and privilege.

*I like pretty, bright-colored clothes.

*I liked to jump rope and play with dolls at their age.

Three things I don't have in common with them:

*I was never part of a snooty clique in school.

*I've never had plastic surgery.

*I don't have a little brother or sister, as they all do. (Each Ashley, lest we forget, has a 2nd grader brother named Tyler and a kindergartener sister named Brittany, and they're all best friends too.)

Favorite line:

From "First Name Ashley," when Ashley A. tells the others that they have to make Spinelli one of them:

"What choice to we have, Ashleys? I mean, if we let her go around being her crude, disgusting Spinelli self, the name Ashley will be ruined forever. No longer will it stand for beauty and specialness! Soon other girls will be considered cooler than us, and if we're not careful, by the time we're in junior high, our first dates will be with guys named Paul or Joe!"

From the same episode, also Ashley A., when the rest of the school hounds them into letting Spinelli go:

"I hate it when I don't get my way!"

From "The Pest," when everyone is teasing Gretchen about Jeffrey's crush on her:

Ashley T.: "Hey Gretchen, where's lover boy?"

Ashley B.: "Hey Gretchen, how's Mr. Grundler?"

Ashley A.: "Hey Gretchen... what's it like?"

And of course their catchphrase:

"Ooh, scandalous!"

brOTP: Each other.

OTP: Some "acceptable boys" in their future.

nOTP: Gus or Mikey (too nice for them), Randall (the opposite), or, God forbid, Principal Prickly.

Random headcanon:

(1) Their mothers are all named Susan, and were a clique of their own when they were in school.

(2) The show's inconsistency about which 4th grade classroom they're in (i.e. in "The Great Can Drive" it's a plot point that they're in Miss Furley's class, but in other episodes they're in Miss Grotke's class with the main gang) can be explained. They're mainly in Miss Furley's class, but they join Miss Grotke's class for certain subjects, like history. I took part in that type of class-swapping when I was in elementary school; I'm sure it's common.

Unpopular opinion: I don't think it's nonsensical or bad writing that in "Outcast Ashley," the other Ashleys kick Ashley A. out of the gang for not wearing purple on Purple Day, even though she's their leader. Ashlely A. probably isn't their appointed leader, but just the most forceful personality of the group, and if they can be petty and mean enough to kick her out just because she forgot to wear purple on the anniversary of the day they met, then they can be ridiculous enough to do it even though she leads most of their schemes.

Song I associate with them: The show's theme song, even though they don't even appear in it – I just can't think of a better choice.

Favorite picture of them:

[thecartoonblog]

She spilled the 🍵

[patchworkghost]

The holy trinity of Gay Teachers from 90's kids shows

[rcbinpenn]

hey hey hey!! i’m jay (he/him), and i’m here live to bring robin penn to the scene. he’s your run of the mill uber progressive film bro whose interests include whole foods, organically-rolled joints, and being the wokest person in the room. more info below the cut, and feel free to message me if you wanna plot :))

( avan jogia, cis male, he/him ). hey, isn’t that [ ROBIN PENN ] walking down bennington street? i think the [ 25 ] YEAR OLD [ FILMMAKER ] is from [ CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, CO ]. i’ve heard some rumors down at ginger’s, saying that they're [ SELF-RIGHTEOUS AND GUARDED ], but then again they’re known to be [ CHARMING AND INNOVATIVE ].  either way, they seem to be interesting, hope they’ll stick around.

stats ; 

full name: robin chatura penn

place and dob: cherry hills village, co on november 23rd, 1994 (did i do that math right oh god) 

sexuality: pansexual

zodiac sign: sagittarius

hogwarts house: gryffindor

parallels: kyle scheible (lady bird), vanessa abrams (gossip girl), elliot alderson (mr. robot), miss grotke (recess), tyler durden (fight club), kate stratford (10 things i hate about you), diane nguyen (bojack horseman), jay gatsby (the great gatsby) 

background ; 

okay so! first thing to know about robin is that he’s hella disingenous about his background, so even though this is like ~ the truth ~ he’s definitely told your character something different (although he tries to mention his past as little as possible, mostly just sprinkles tidbits that he knows he can keep up) when they ask 

but with that being said !!! robin penn grows up in upper class suburbia and it’s the thing he hates the most about himself. he’s the third of five kids so he’s got huge middle child syndrome, but also since his parents had like four other kids to show off they were kind of content with him doing his own thing? so he becomes the black sheep of the penn family easily, and is also kind of the outcast of his entire neighborhood? but i mean, they looked down on him and at the same time he looked down on them from his high horse of progressivism, so it was all very mutual

but growing up without any tangible people to relate to isn’t all bad, because it’s how he discovers movies! he watched every classic there is pretty quickly and moved onto niche foreign films, which is why he’s now so well-versed in like absurdist french films from the late 80′s when nobody else gives a fuck

he makes his first film at fifteen and uploads it to youtube, where it does fairly well!! it by now means makes him a viral sensation or anything, but it’s successful enough to make him a god amongst the outcasts and artsy types at his high school. this is where a lot of his ego and confidence and “i’m woker than you” complex gets super intensified, because the kids he was surrounded by were all entitled rich preps who were like ~wow you know about the war in iran~ and loved to put him on a pedastal of knowing so much about the world and being such an activist when he’s really just another left-leaning anarcho-socialist

his parents try for like .2 secs to convince him that the film industry is unreliable and not the best to go into, but he obviously doesn’t listen so they cough up some money and send him off to usc

and finally!! he is free from his upbringing!! he can be whoever he wants!! so that’s exactly what he does. i’ll just insert this portion of my app in bc i think it encapsulates it pretty well: and this is where robin 2.0 begins. it’s not that he’s ashamed of where he comes from - except that, well, yes he is. he hates the idea of making all these pictures about oppression and class struggle only to come from the dictionary definition of affluent privilege. so he doesn’t lie, necessarily, but he does borrow some storylines from the thousands of movies he’s seen in his life. at freshman orientation he comes from a poor village in east india; at a party downtown he’s from the wrong side of the tracks in the bronx; and at a local art gallery, where he first meets raphael brooks, he’s from a broken home on the outskirts of san francisco. he is the writer of his own life, able to keep each storyline perfectly separate, and he doesn’t say a word to anyone when he goes back to his million-dollar estate in the hills of colorado

he does well at film school, he makes some pretty decent films and because of his charming and magnetic nature he gets a good bit of job offers that would have him staying in la BUT he’s like “fuck that, la is superficial and pretentious and i’m gonna go to new york and make REAL art”

so he does, kind of? i’m literally so tired asfjkaslj i’m sorry i’m just gonna copy and paste more from my app, fuck original wording all my homies hate original wording: new york is everything he imagined it to be and yet nothing like it at all. he’s a stranger in this city all over again, and while that excites him as far as being able to craft a new character for himself, it also means he’s starting from scratch. and while everyone in california is obsessed with the glitz and glamour of movies, it feels like robin’s style of grit and provocativeness is the status quo amongst new york filmmakers. he finds himself resorting back to that rich boy attitude buried deep within him, wanting to be worshipped for his artistry and originality without wanting to put in any of the work. it’s been months now since he’s been able to beat this lazy streak and start on a new project, and it’s left him relying on asking his parents for rent money while telling everyone he’s just raking in an income from old and new projects alike. still, now that he’s in this rut, he can’t help but pass the days and wonder: is this it for him? is he a one-hit wonder only capable of regurgitating what everyone around him has already produced, or is there still a story inside of him to tell?

that’s it, i think !! i’m sorry i’m functioning on so little sleep, feel free to message me with any questions or concerns or complaints or PLOTS very excited to get started, xoxoxo

[ashleyspinelliburnbook]

S1E10: Teacher’s Lounge/Randall’s Reform

A bit of mystery, a bit of disappointment, a bit of...accidentally reading Randall’s secret diary oh my GOD no one tell Miss Finster!!!!

Teacher’s Lounge

It’s a big day at Third Street School, so as usual, Gus is out of the loop. Gretchen is pacing, nervous about something, Spinelli has ribbons in her pigtails, TJ combed his hair, Mikey tucked in his shirt, and Vince...why, Vince is wearing a tie!

Obviously, this can only mean one thing: it’s the day the teachers turn in their annual budget requests!

Gus is still out of the loop. To be fair, I would be too, had I not had a vague memory of what this episode was about based on its title. It turns out each class selects one student to take the annual budget request to...THE TEACHERS�� LOUNGE. WHAAAAAAT

Gus never knew anyone who got to see the teacher’s lounge at his old school, and the gang laments that Vince had the chance in second grade, but when he knocked on the door to hand over the folder, the door opened and closed so fast that he didn’t get a look. Just like that, the folder was gone.

So class starts, and the gang is charming the hell out of Miss Grotke, all hoping to avenge Vince’s grave error. And it looks like it’s going to work, until Miss Lemon, the receptionist, shows up...asking for the annual budget request. “What a fine idea!” Miss Grotke exclaims. “We won’t interrupt our studies to run a silly errand!”

The mystique surrounding the teacher’s lounge feels pretty universal, doesn’t it? I wasn’t the kind of kid who investigated these things (especially at the expense of playing with my friends in other classes during recess), but I still wanted to know what the teacher’s lounge looked like.

I think it was third grade when I finally got that chance — I was walking and talking with my teacher (yep, that’s me) and he needed to go in there for a moment. He held the door open for me, as if inviting me in after him, and...I mean, it was just a room. Tables, coffee machine, couch. I didn’t have any preconceived notions about what it should look like, and still, that mystique was preserved — it was a space just for teachers. We didn’t really have any spaces that were just for us students on campus.

Not that these kids have that problem — they’re running a whole society independent of staff intervention — but they’re still pretty bummed about once again missing this chance. “We all debased ourselves today, and for what?” Gretchen sighs. She really wanted to see the bunsen burners and petri dishes, see.

You can almost hear the record scratch after she says that. It’s then that we learn that every kid has a different view of what the teacher’s lounge looks like: Gretchen sees them as scientists, “pushing the boundaries of knowledge on every frontier”; Spinelli says it’s stupid to think they’re spending their free time doing work stuff and that they must be working out; Mikey, meanwhile, sticks to his brand and says he thinks they’re meditating, burning incense, and walking across hot coals while dressed as Tibetan monks.

There’s an obvious solution to settle this, and TJ’s on it right away: why not just go see inside themselves? (Surely they might have thought of this in a previous year, but, eh, the cameras weren’t rolling yet.) They hire Crier Kid to distract Finster, who is guarding what is apparently the only entrance into the school — fire codes, anyone? — and they make their way outside the teacher’s lounge.

Spinelli unlocks the door with a bobby pin, and after distracting constant teacher’s lounge resident Mr. Yamashiro by telling him his car is on fire, the gang walks in and sees...a dilapidated old room with a coffee machine and broken furniture. All things considered, it’s a dump.

The kids are disappointed and leave as Mr. Yamashiro returns and goes to get a coffee...by which I mean he pushes a button on the machine, revealing a secret room to the real teacher’s lounge. A butler offers him a drink, he puts on a smoking jacket, and we see this spa-slash-man cave where teachers can watch TV, get massages, or relax in a hot tub.

“That’s no kindergartener, that’s my wife!” Principal Prickly says, and the teachers all laugh.

Takeaway: Never, ever get your hopes up about anything ever. You’ll just be disappointed, and that disappointment will only be compounded with the knowledge that the person snatching your hopes away is probably concealing something better. (Okay, maybe some hope is good sometimes, but “prepare to be disappointed” is sometimes okay, too.)

Randall’s Reform

THE SECRET DIARY OF RANDALL WEEMS - DO NOT READ

I WILL TELL MISS FINSTER IF YOU DO AND YOU’LL BE SORRY

Dear Diary,

I wish I was popular.

I know, I know. Being popular isn’t everything. But I see kids like TJ Detweiler with all the friends he could ever want, even though he’s dirty and ugly, and I get so mad! Why do kids like him get everything and kids like me get nothing?

I have to go make sardine and pickle sandwiches for me and Miss Finster’s lunch tomorrow. More later.

-

Dear Diary,

I got the good ball again today! Miss Finster hand-selected me! TJ and his friends got stuck with the flat ball, which they deserve. They’re just a bunch of losers. I mean, look at the ball they got!

But here’s the thing. They got the worst ball in the bin, and they still managed to have fun at recess. TJ even told a joke that I heard Principal Prickly say in the teacher’s lounge the other day about his wife being mistaken for a kindergartener! But I just didn’t have the will to snitch on him.

I got the best ball in the bin, and I didn’t have fun at all. I just hit myself in the face with the ball, if I’m being honest here.

Spinelli said she and her friends would rather play with a flat ball than a slimeball. It hurt more than I’d ever tell them.

-

Dear Diary,

I learned what “whiplash” is today, because it’s what happened to me. The day started with me framing TJ pretty good — I wrote a note that said “I did it! –TJ” and left it by the trash can, like he had just littered or something. Miss Finster was on him right away! It was great!

When TJ was serving his punishment at the wall, I told him I was going to make his life a living nightmare. But then I told him something I didn’t expect I would tell him. I said I wished I was him. I said I didn’t get why everyone liked him and not me.

He told me it’s because I’m always snitching, as if that’s not my job! But we made a deal: I won’t snitch on him if he lets me hang out with him and his friends.

I’m worried, but I’m excited.

-

Dear Diary,

Today didn’t go well at first. I tried to eat my sardine and pickle sandwich at the table with the gang, and no one but TJ even acknowledged my existence except to say mean things. Then, at recess, they all shut me out of their games. TJ told me it’s because my history is gonna be hard to shake.

So I decided to show them something to prove I’m for real! I took them to Miss Finster’s secret ball room, where there are 83 brand-new balls! We went to the window above the playground and gave them all away! It felt good to be liked for that.

Miss Finster caught us, of course, and we were all lined up as she asked everyone if they did it. She got to me and I said...I didn’t know who did it! It felt kind of bad to lie to Miss Finster, but the gang all accepted me after that. That felt good.

-

Dear Diary,

My life is over.

Miss Finster has a new snitch now, this kid named Douglas. He called me “ex-weasel” and told me Miss Finster had shared all of our secrets with him.

I’m too distraught to write any more today.

-

Dear Diary,

Well, that was fun while it lasted. TJ gave me some good advice: that we only get a few really good friends in life, and that being popular is no reason to give up a friend like Miss Finster.

It turns out she really cares about me, because she got rid of Douglas as soon as I told her TJ and all them were responsible for the balls! They had to go to the wall! It was really great.

Takeaway: Snitches get stitches (I just assume Randall got stitches after beaning himself in the head with the good ball).

[imsparky2002]

DC and Marvel AU - Extra Names

DC AU

Jessica Keynes-Hill (Batgirl) - Grey Bat

Aeon Keynes-Hill (Bumblebee) - Swarm

Socqueline Wang (Mr. Mxyzptlk) - Miss Soklinebryglk

Wayhem Dana (Bat-Mite) - Supe-Mite

Fei Wu (Cheshire) - Chai Jun

Tomoe Tsurugi (Lady Shiva) - Lady Gozen

Barbara Keynes-Hill (Batman) - Black Bat

Olympia Keynes-Hill (Atom) - Tiny Titan

Luka Couffaine (The Shade) - Shadow Snatcher

Ondine Rivas (Enchantress) - Sea Enchantress

Caline Bustier (Hugo Strange) - Miss Mystery

Olga Mendeliev (Chief) - The Professor

Alonzo Grotke (Black Lightning) - Soulshock

Dahlia Winters (Crazy Quilt) - Threaded Thespian

Denis Damocles (Quincy Sharp) - Warden Damocles

Delmar Stahl (Ravager) - Ravage

Camilla Stahl (Deathstroke) - Reaper

Vivica Maricel (Punk Rocket) - Rockin’ Robber

Marvel AU

Delmar Stahl (Cyclops) - X-Ray

Fei Wu (Daredevil) - Sonar

Wayhem Dana (Ant-Man) - Insectisize

Socqueline Wang (Wasp) - Buzz

Jessica Keynes-Hill (White Tiger) - Akicita Igmu

Olga Mendeliev (Hank Pym) - Ant-Woman

Vivica Maricel (Ghostrider) - Dead Rebel

Caline Bustier (Medusa) - Gorgana

Alonzo Grotke (Blade) - Nocturne

Dahlia Winters (Chameleon) - Professor Polymorph

Denis Damocles (Thunderbolt Ross) - “Darkwing” Damocles

Camilla Stahl (Binary) - Cosmica

Lemme know what you think in the comments. @artzychic27 @msweebyness @nerd-chocolate

[gfanz4ever]

You know what Recess did right? They showed their teachers as PEOPLE--sure, they were people who the kids maybe didn't always get along with or like, but they were still realistically-written educators.

So many kids shows paint teachers as the enemy, the harsh disciplinarian or boring adult who's always trying to keep their students down--they only exist to make school life unpleasant for the kids, and even the good ones are only ever allowed to BE good teachers...not people. Mr Crocker from Fairly Oddparents (bad), literally every teacher in the Captain Underpants series (bad), Miss Frizzle (good), Mr Lancer from Danny Phantom (bad)...look at any teacher character in a series and see how flat they are.

But Recess was on another level. When Spinelli's parents can't find someone to watch her, she spends a weekend at Miss Finster's (who knew Spinelli's grandmother as a friend). Principal Prickly is a Señor Fusion superfan, and he gleefully watches the debut film next to his students with the same joyful expression on his face. Miss Grotke spent an entire episode preparing for a magic show that she was performing, in secret because she didn't think anyone at school would think it was any good.

Not every teacher is fleshed out with the same amount of detail, but little moments like these really make you empathize with the teachers as people, instead of root for their fall as the bad guys.

[megahorous]

Ms. Grotke [Recess], Mr. Simmons [Hey Arnold!] and Mr. Ratburn [Arthur] drinkin’ some COFF !

[artzychic27]

~Fourth Grade~

Mr. Grotke: Austin Armmmm… B- no… Rustler?…

Austin A: … 😤 ARMBRUSTER!

Headcanon for Armbruster

Almost nobody can say his name rigth at the first try, so when somebody does he just goes(⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

Barista: a coffe for Ar- arm... armbrultler- armybrut- no wait, Armmmmmbrustrer?

A: ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

(Armbruster from @artzychic27 )