Educators are some of the most important people in our lives, except our families. Like second parents to us, educators (most notably teachers) mold viewers' childhood. They often hold special positions in hearts, as much as they can also be a source of deep antagonism for students everywhere. Their power and authority imbues them with strength. Put it simply, they can make or break each student's educative career, and even their professional career.
With such a huge influence, it is no surprise that TV show creators are obsessed with educators. Teachers like Miss Honey in Matilda teach viewers what a good teacher should be. In television, however, the craziest characters get the most recognition. Consequently, the most memorable educators are often the most unconventional.
Principal Lewis (American Dad!)
The drug-smuggling, human-trafficking, drug-addicted principal of forcibly drugs his students when he needs them to win championships. Likewise, he uses all sorts of drugs on school grounds. He swears excessively in front of his students, mocks them, and calls them names. In one episode, he pulls some of his students out of class to take them to an underground poker game so they can count cards for him. Later, the Chinese mafia would come after both Lewis and the high schoolers.
Principal Lewis's lifestyle does not fit that of an educator. It is not clear why or how he got the job.
Mr. Frond (Bob's Burgers)
Phillip Frond, known to students as Mr. Frond, is Louise Belchers' arch-nemesis and good, close friend. The sweater-wearing, always-knitting guidance counselor values the importance of feelings and emotions. He might like to think of himself as always being there to emotionally the students of Wagstaff School, but he has shown time and time again that he is more concerned with winning recognition for his work as a guidance counselor.
He merely sees the children as tools for reaching his glory. Despite his badly-hidden vanity, Mr. Frond slightly cares about his students and cries when the Belcher kids write stories villainizing him as a nerdy spoilsport. Phillip is well-known for creating obnoxious slogans that he hopes would inform and educate children on emotional intelligence.
Principal Li (Daria)
Angela Li, the principal of puts her students' needs last whenever doing so would make the school look good. Sometimes, this is to hilarious effect, such as when the school computers were stolen, and she announced a mandatory school-wide fingerprint collection for absolutely no reason.
In another episode, she suffers a mental breakdown when she enters into a contract with the soft drinks mafia to allegedly make more money for the school's betterment.
Principal Lawler (That's So Raven)
Principal Lawler (Wesley Mann) is the principal at Bayside High. Mann appeared in many children's classic TV shows like Drake And Josh, Full House, and Even Stevens. He started out as an English teacher before becoming a principal. As the principal, he hates his job and punishes students for minor infractions, because he cannot be bothered to actually discipline and correct his students.
He is most noted for his distinctive manner of speaking in which he spits on his students when pronouncing the letter "P." He also has an unfortunate quirk of choosing a vocabulary heavy on the same letter. As a result, his students often end up soaked in saliva when he is near.
Ross Geller (Friends)
A certified paleontologist with a Ph.D., Dr. Geller is highly unprofessional and has no boundaries with his students. He dates one of his students, twenty-year-old Mona, for a few months. During that time, he impulsively follows her to Florida for spring break, because he is scared that she would cheat on him.
In another episode, he gives a student a ing grade after the student lies to Ross that he is in love with him and cannot concentrate in class as a result.
Peggy Hill
Peggy Hill is The narcissistic, egotistic, ignorant Spanish teacher, who can't speak Spanish, is another of many vain educators represented on screen. Peggy is so bad at speaking Spanish, that she accidentally kidnaps a Mexican child when she takes her students on a school trip to Mexico. Her lawyer is able to prove her innocence when he proves how badly Peggy understands Spanish. Winner of many Substitute Teacher of the Year Awards, Peggy is too deep in denial to actually spend her free time improving her Spanish.
In later seasons, Peggy pretends to be a nun to secure a teaching job vacancy at a Catholic school. This is but a blip in the many narcissistic schemes that Peggy would hatch to make herself look good.
Principal Skinner (The Simpsons)
Springfield's mama boys, and a strict believer in Alfred Hitchcock's Pyscho.
Beth Baerly
Ms. Baerly is George Michael's teacher on US's misguided war on terror.
What does she love about a power-hungry tyrant? The answer is chilling if pondered.
Miss. Simian
Lucy Simian, known as Miss Simian to her students, is to her boyfriend, Principal Brown, and has made enemies of nearly everyone in the school, particularly Gumball and Darwin. In one episode, she pretends to turn over a new leaf just so she can win the award for Best Teacher. She fools everyone and is voted Best Teacher, only to immediately revert back to her evils ways of throwing surprise quizzes and bullying her students once she wins.
Miss Simian is a reminder of every evil teacher that audiences have been forced to endure in their own childhoods.
Dean Pelton
Craig Pelton is one of TV's most memorable characters. A character who changes into over-the-top ridiculous outfits to greet his students every day, Dean Pelton makes no logical sense. One unanswered question remains where he finds the budget for all his elaborate costumes - some of which are not easy to find. Knowing how corruptible he is, it is fair to say, he probably uses the school's funds. When Craig is not changing into his costume of the day, he is stalking his most attractive student, Jeff; reading his confidential emails; touching him inappropriately, or moving right next to his house for optimal stalking.