Teacher's Pet (also known as Disney's Teacher's Pet) is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and directed by Timothy Björklund.
The series follows a 9-year-old boy and his dog who dresses up as a boy. Created by Gary Baseman--the artistic designer for the Cranium board game--Bill Steinkellner, and Cheri Steinkellner, it was broadcast on Disney's One Saturday Morning on ABC and later Toon Disney, from 2000 to 2002.
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Premise
The series follows Leonard Helperman (voiced by future singer Shaun Fleming of the indie rock bands Diane Coffee and Foxygen), a 9-year-old boy in the 4th grade, who lives in fear because his mother, Mary Helperman, is his teacher. Because of this, he is often teased and called a "teacher's pet", but he wants to be considered normal. Meanwhile, his dog Spot (voiced by Nathan Lane) misses Leonard while he's at school, and yearns to be a human boy. So on the first day of the school year, he decides to come to class disguised as a new student named Scott Leadready II, who quickly becomes the coolest, dreamiest kid in school. However, Leonard eventually finds out his secret. Although he disapproves of this at first, he allows Spot to come to school.
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Episodes
Programming
The show aired on ABC's "One Saturday Morning" on Saturday, September 9, 2000, and remained on ABC until September 7, 2002 due to a new Saturday morning block called "ABC Kids". In January 2002, the show began airing reruns on Toon Disney, and they used the channel to air the remaining Season Two episodes every Friday beginning January 11, 2002 (Although new episodes were aired on ABC until February 9). As of 2006, it vanished from Toon Disney all together and hasn't been put into reruns in America since then.
There are rumors that if "Teacher's Pet" had stayed on ABC, there would have been a third & fourth season, leading up the 65 episode limit. Other rumors claim that Season 2 and Season 3 were merged into one season, hence why there is a Thanksgiving and Christmas episode in the second season despite it being aired in the spring time and why the second season has 26 (It would have split the 26 episodes in half, saving the other 13 episodes for the 2002-2003 season had ABC not created ABC Kids).
International broadcast
- ? Season Two was only aired
- + The show also aired previous years, but may or may not have been documented.
- ± Further evidence of the show airing cannot be found as of now
- ? Unknown how long it aired if at all as there is no solid evidence that it ever actually aired on said channel.
Reception
TV.com gave the show a 7.9 out of 10 and IMDB gave it a 6.5/10.
Awards
Film
On January 16, 2004, Walt Disney Pictures produced a full-length animated feature film based on the show in theaters, simply titled Teacher's Pet. Originally planned to be released in September 2003, it serves as the end of the series' continuity.
When Spot sees a mad scientist on TV who can turn animals into humans, he sees this as a chance to become an actual boy. However, when Spot becomes human, he soon realizes the experience isn't what he thought after all. Most of the actors from the series reprised their roles for the movie. The movie was a box office failure, only making over half of its budget back. Despite this, the critical reviews were mostly positive.
References
Notes
External links
- Official website
- Teacher's Pet on IMDb
- Teacher's Pet at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- Teacher's Pet at TV.com
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