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This is unrelated to tmnt but I gotta know
Who’s the best teacher
#best teacher ever#teachers#Arthur#mr ratburn#magic school bus#ms frizzle#powerpuff girls#ppg#ms keane#hey arnold#Mr Simmons#recess#Ms grotke#avatar the last airbender#uncle iroh
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Mr. Ratburn, Ms. Grotke and Mr. Simmons drinkin’ some COFF !
#MHArt#Nigel Raturn#Arthur#Alordayne Grotke#Recess#Robert Simmons#Hey Arnold!#teachers#education#coffee#dessert#St. Patrick's Day#Hey Arnold
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Ms. Grotke’s cousin Ms. Drotke 😗💨
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The holy trinity of Gay Teachers from 90's kids shows
#recess#disney#mr ratburn#Arthur#PBS arthur#hey arnold#NT#Id say call me when theres a recess revival and they make and give Ms Grotke a GF but this is a disney property
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If Disney+ has reminded me of anything, it’s that Ms. Grotke from Recess knew what was up. Woman taught her class all about evil corporate polluters, European savagery against Native Americans, planet conservation...
Every kid deserved a Grotke.
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For lack of a better word. Ms. Grotke was fucking woke for a character in a 90s kids cartoon.
#she was really out here calling out white privilege#native american genocide#oppression of women#gender roles#etc#in 1997#in the background#of a cartoon with 4th grade protagonists#revolving around the importance of recess#like#they really don't make 'em like that anymore do they#smh#recess#random not fandom
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I know that I’ve talked about Disney’s Recess on here before, but it really does still hold up well after all these years. Though, I will say, now that I’m older some of the episodes do hit a bit different. Hell, I guess it’s also because I’m going into education that I get this effect.
For instance, the episode concerning the fourth graders finding out their class pet hamster (do schools even still do class pets these days?) died over the weekend. When you watch Ms. Grotke trying her best to calm everyone down with ‘oh, he’s probably just sleeping or hibernating or meditating’ as a child, it’s funny.
When you watch Ms. Grotke desperately trying to find a way to calm everyone down before a panic arises, just for Gretchen to keep disproving her offerings as an adult, all I find myself thinking is ‘Girl, if you do not shut your smartass up..!’
It does remind me, though, of one time when I was volunteering as a teacher’s aide in one of the churches my mother and I used to attend. It was around Christmas and my mother was trying to conduct the kids to sing a song (I think it was that “Happy Birthday, Jesus” one) and there was this one kid who didn’t want to cooperate.
Not because he was bored, mind you, but when my mother kept asking him why he wasn’t participating, he kept replying with ‘How could Jesus have been born in the Winter time? It’s too cold in the Middle East during that time!’
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this is so random but:
once, in eleventh grade, i went on a trip at the end of october with my theatre class to london. i was still relatively new to the school so i didn’t know most of my classmates that well. one night we were all hanging out in the common room in the hotel we were staying at and watching tv. a repeat episode the cartoon show recess came on and the few americans in the room begged that we watch it. everyone else complained that they didn’t want to watch an american show bc it would inevitably be about how great america was. to which all the american’s were like, “that’s bullshit, recess isn’t like that, just give it a chance”
and then it turned out to be the episode the kids thought ms. grotke was a russian spy and spent the whole episode asking her questions that only a true american patriot would answer correctly. questions along the lines of “do you think america is the greatest country in the world?”
we were not allowed to choose what we were going to watch after that
#kat liveblogs her life#this has been a random memory#prompted bc buzzfeed has an article up about ms. grotke#recess
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Ms. Grotke vibes! 😏
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S1E2: The Experiment/The Great Jungle Gym Standoff
I can’t believe we’re already at the episode that gave us one of the best clickbait screenshots of all time. Let’s do this.
The Experiment
The gang are all discussing urban legends, and the seeds of conspiracy are planted right away as son-of-Army-guy Gus deflects Vince’s alien abduction story with one about a guy who only ate carrots! The indoctrination starts early, my friends.
Anyway, Butch appears, and he’s got a new look — a grey streak through his brown hair. Because Butch has seen something traumatic: his brother kissing a girl...AND LIKING IT.
“At least our stories are believable!” TJ says, but Butch has more.
“I’ve seen the future,” the weathered, world-weary 9-or-10-year-old says, “and the future is girls.”
It’s at this point that Gretchen and Spinelli both give us a big “EW” at the idea of girls kissing boys, and boys kissing girls. Gretchen says, “Surely there must be some mistake!”, and while that’s totally on-brand for an elementary school kid, it doesn’t not lend credence to my “Recess kids in high school” theorizing.
We learn that Mikey is a romantic, willing to entertain this idea because he thinks it’s sweet, and the guys in movies seem to like kissing! The rest of the kids are notably traumatized for the rest of the day, though.
Gretchen, being the great scientific mind she is, proposes an experiment: One boy and one girl should kiss, and then tell everyone else how they feel afterward. She says it has to be a boy and a girl from the gang, or else they won’t be able to trust the results. This, in case you’re not keeping track at home, means there’s a 50-50 chance of her being selected, since she and Spinelli are the only girls. Way to take one for the team in the name of scientific advancement!
Anyway, TJ and Spinelli are selected by the sacred procedure of drawing straws. “No decent kid will associate with me after this,” TJ whines, to which Gus says, “I will! Just...not at school or anything.” (How. HOW did I ever think that Gus was meek? LOOK AT HIM ROAST THE LEADER OF THE GROUP IN HIS VERY SECOND EPISODE.)
After an anxious night, TJ and Spinelli get all gussied up, ready to kiss. While they’d like to get it over with, they learn that their “friends” are actually TRAITORS who told just enough people that the entire school now knows what they’re up to. But the kiss happens anyway, and of course, it goes badly.
Takeaway: Gretchen deserves a Nobel Prize, even if she did tell a few of her colleagues in the Science Club that the kiss was going to take place. (So they could be impartial observers, though, surely!)
The Great Jungle Gym Standoff
PRINCIPAL PRICKLY SIGHTING!
If I remember correctly, the guy really redeems himself in “Recess: School’s Out.” But this is not that. On his introduction in this episode, he’s just a guy who really wants a cushy job at Spiro Agnew Middle School. (Yes, the guy who was so bad at being Nixon’s vice president that he resigned before Nixon. Oh my god, this show.)
“What brings you to the playground?” TJ asks.
“Your happiness, son,” says Principal Prickly.
It turns out Old Rusty, the school’s beloved jungle gym, is set to be torn down and replaced with a new play structure. The kids are all sad to hear this news, but when the bell rings for class, they all go back inside, ready to accept their fate.
TJ doesn’t, though, because TJ instead stages a sit-in on Old Rusty. “If that’s how I have to go,” he tells the workers who have arrived to demolish the jungle gym, “then so be it.” This raises the obvious question: How was “Recess” not the liberal propaganda we were warned about?!
Miss Finster arrives to be a killjoy, asking what “disgusting, perverted thing” TJ is doing now — remember our discussion of how you really have to go all-out to teach kids important lessons? Holy hell, does this work! — and soon enough, all the faculty are in a big meeting (it’s not recess, so I’m not sure where they found this time) discussing how to approach the situation.
Ms. Grotke, the fictional teacher to whom the rest of my real teachers and professors for the rest of my life would be compared, stands up for the students. In the same way that I hoped to have a teacher like her, I hope that kids who watched this show who are now teachers were inspired to be her, and not be like Miss Finster or Principal Prickly. What a good lesson that spans across the lifespan!
Miss Finster also worries that if they give the kids what they want, they’ll just keep asking for more, which totally doesn’t sound familiar at all.
The kids cycle through all the greatest protest hits — “We Shall Not Be Moved,” “Kumbaya,” and a rousing chant of “Heck no, we won’t go!”, which moves the administrators to call the kids’ parents. When they arrive, Principal Prickly attempts to control the narrative once more, telling the parents that the kids are “rioting.” He wants to intervene, but Miss Finster points out that the president of the PTA and the superintendent’s brother-in-law are both part of the protest — power talks, see.
Amazing! Just amazing how this 1997 children’s TV show has no current implications whatsoever.
Anyway, oops, all the parents are attached to Old Rusty, too, and they all join the kids in their protest. Unfortunately, they exceed the weight capacity, and Old Rusty tumbles down anyway.
Luckily, the workers — union guys, it’s said earlier in the episode — are willing to rebuild Old Rusty rather than replace it, and so they do. TJ christens the structure “New Rusty,” and all was well.
(There’s a scene at the very end that takes place in 2097 where a bunch of kids are playing on, presumably, New Rusty, and...man, maybe in 1997 that seemed all futuristic, but will there even be a world in 2097? That innocent closing scene sure hits different now.)
Takeaway: I don’t think Gus was in this episode. Perhaps it was written before he was written into the show. It’s too bad, really; he probably would have...been the only kid to counter-protest, maybe? Having no attachment to Old Rusty? Maybe it’s better he wasn’t around for this.
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Ms. Grotke [Recess], Mr. Simmons [Hey Arnold!] and Mr. Ratburn [Arthur] drinkin’ some COFF !
#Robert Simmons#Hey Arnold#Alordayne Grotke#Recess#Nigel Ratburn#Arthur#teachers#education#coffee#the gang's all here
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Fit inspired by Ms. Grotke. #133DaysTillSummer (at Cincinnati) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8SctTclK_P/?igshid=kkpyxffaqhnt
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Little question, but do you think/have any headcanons about Recess chars who may be in the LGBTQ community?
I personally haven’t had any headcanons about it, but I could definitely see Spinelli in that community, and possibly Ms. Grotke as well. They had one or two episodes about people having crushes on other people, like Spinelli’s mom said she had a crush on TJ, or the boys kissing girls! Girls kissing boys! episode, but since they are kids it’s one hundred percent possible they haven’t really discovered how they lean yet.
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I was having some lovely conversation with the woman placed behind me on set today And she seems so familiar I know she's been in thins for real And it hits me She was the voice of Ms. Grotke on Recess!!!! And guys, she is the sweetest lady
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new hair cut + beach humidity = ms. grotke vibes
#I am triangle#she's got hairy legs and believes in gender and racial equality just like me#and is a lesbian#maybe i should have a personal post tag lulz
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Im starting to understand why cornchip was taking out the teachers, they were ruthless.
But Ashley A. snapped Ms Grotke’s neck.
terrible
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