Mrs. Munger's Class



"Simmer! Simmer! Simmer down, students!"

Mrs. Munger's Class was a series of 90-second shorts directed by Tim Maloney that aired between commercial breaks on ABC's One Saturday Morning block from 1997 to 1998. It is a yearbook page of students and their exasperated teacher exchanging funny insults and dialogue. Each student had a different personality to go along with his or her portrait.

Actual school portraits were used for the characters, though distorted and manipulated to avoid clearing personality rights. Despite this, it still eventually led to a class-action lawsuit against Disney from the teacher and four of her former students whose portraits were used in the show.

After the lawsuit, Maloney created Centerville, which used the same premise of talking student photos.

Episodes from both shows can be watched here.

""WE'RE NOT TWINS!""
 * Always Identical Twins: George and George.


 * Butt Monkey: Grace, often because of her weight.
 * Catch Phrase: Many characters have one.
 * Mrs. Munger: "Simmer! Simmer!", and variants thereof.
 * Grace: "Cut it out!"
 * George and George: "WE'RE NOT TWINS!"
 * Mahoot: "What?"
 * Gordon: "Olé!"
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Half the class.
 * Cross-Dressing Voices: Mrs. Munger is voiced by OSM executive producer Peter Hastings.
 * Goth: Karyn, complete with a morbid sense of humor.
 * Hidden Depths: The two times Mahoot said something besides "What?" During an oral report he said a complex sentence praising the diversity of America. Another time, he gave a sympathetic "Oh." when Dawn revealed her Freudian Excuse for being a perfectionist and teacher suck-up.
 * Pig Latin: Lance speaks entirely in this manner.
 * Pokémon-Speak: Mahoot, though by saying "What?".
 * The Quiet One: Rock, though he eventually starts talking (and sounding a lot like Yoda).
 * Screwed by the Lawyers / Author Existence Failure: The aforementioned lawsuit, which led to Centerville.
 * Speech Impediment: Theodore. He frequently gets called upon to answer questions regardless.
 * Straw Feminist: Yvonne.
 * Teacher's Pet: Dawn, who sits right next to Mrs. Munger.
 * Verbal Tic: Gordon. Olé!