Teacher-Student Romance: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'', Hanon has a gigantic infatuation with her music teacher, who she refers to as Tarou-chan.

* The ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima|Negima]]'' metaseries does it differently, in that the teacher is actually younger than the students... but it's deliberately set up to ''look'' like a [[Harem Series]] without actually being one.

** For added impact about Negi's [[Harem]], when his students [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v20/c179/11.html saw how he was speaking] to his [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] so casually and it looked like he was only using formal forms of address with them? They did ''not'' [[Hilarity Ensues|take it well]].

* A running gag in ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'' anime series is Reiji Shinjou's obsessive loyalty to his coach, the [[Ms. Fanservice|busty and gorgeous]] Aoi Hanamura, which borders on a [[Stalker with a Crush]] level. In the ''Atobe kara no Okurimono'' mini-movie, Reiji is constantly spouting ''... Sensei!!" at her while looking betrayed during a scene that parodies dating shows. Hanamura-sensei herself practically ogles and [[Fan Girl|fangirls]] her own pupils when in really high spirits, both in the Jyousei and the Senbatsu arcs.

* Played for dark laughs in [[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]. The plot revolves around a suicidal teacher who accidentally wins the hearts of nearly all of his students, some more extremely devoted than others. Itoshiki himself rarely returns any of the feelings of his [[Harem]].

* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]''. Maria Machiavelli discusses this trope when she hints that Triela is in love with her instructor/handler Hillshire. Triella replies that even if she was in love with him, it's [[He Is Not My Boyfriend|not that kind of relationship]].

** Petrushka is around three/four years older than Triela and loves her handler. {{spoiler|They sorta get their happy ending.}}

* In the ''[[Blue Drop]]'' anime there is Mari's infatuation with her chemistry teacher, Yuuko .

* Mentioned in a [[Flash Back]] in ''[[Hanamaru Kindergarten]]''. Anzu's mother got pregnant by her art teacher, married him, and dropped out of school. [[Generation Xerox]] takes effect, as Anzu has the same idea for Tsuchida, her kindergarten teacher. Sakura, Anzu's mother, ''approves'' of this.

** It's played off as a tremendous [[Precocious Crush]], which is common with little girls and guy teachers in real life. It's never really stated whether Anzu's mom realizes this and counts the relationship as harmless (to encourage Anzu to develop feelings of love and friendship), or if she's actually serious about approving their [[Squick|marriage before she even turns 6]].

* ''[[Mahoromatic]]'': Miss Shikijo seems extremely attracted to Suguru

* There IS a hentai with the same name as the trope's title, but not the trope namer.

* This was {{spoiler|Miyabi's backstory}} in ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]''. She had a crush on her teacher. When she found out he was engaged, she {{spoiler|pretended he had raped her and ruined his reputation as she spread the rumor over the school.}} However, this would backfire on her as {{spoiler|one of her classmates would be expelled for assaulting said teacher and the teacher quit rather than explain his innocence.}}

** Also in the manga {{spoiler|Urumi Kanzaki}} develops a crush on Onizuka and it gets even stronger {{spoiler|after he saves her when she tried to commit suicide.}}

== Comics ==

* This student-has-crush-on-teacher version can also be found in ''[[Peanuts]]'.

** Linus doesn't worship Miss Othmar, he is just very fond of the ground she walks upon...

* Multiple stories in ''[[Cherry Comics]]'' feature Cherry or one of her friends having sex with a teacher.

* In another of Paterson's books, ''Jip: His Story'', the eleven-year-old protagonist has similar feelings for his (female) teacher.

* Of all places, this shows up in ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'', with ''dragons''. Saphira approaches the older male dragon mentoring her (they're apparently the [[Last of His Kind|last of their kind]], BTW), but he isn't interested. Then she gets nasty...

* In the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' Ahsoka unsuccessfully flirts with her Master, but of course he's [[Single-Target Sexuality|Padmésexual]].

* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' novel ''Proven Guilty'', {{spoiler|Molly}} ends up thinking this is what is going to happen when {{spoiler|she becomes Harry's apprentice.}} He rather [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilariously]] disabuses her of the notion though not entirely. In ''Changes'' {{spoiler|Susan studies Molly's reaction to her and Harry. Later on when Molly leaves, Susan is surprised [[Oblivious to Love|Harry is oblivious to Molly's feelings for him.]]}}

* In ''Middle Ground'' by Ursula Zilinsky a gay man in his 30s mentions having been in love with his housemaster at school.

* ''[[Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets]]''. Hermione has a pretty obvious crush on Lockhart, [[Unrequited Love|much to the chagrin of Ron.]]

* In ''[[Anne of Green Gables|Anne of Avonlea]]'', Anne receives a rather verbose love letter form one her students [[Les Yay|Annetta Bell]]. Although, the letter is revealed to be [[Plagiarism in Fiction|plagiarized]] from several love letters Annetta's mother's former beau wrote. Annetta insists she really does love Anne with all her heart.

* In the ''[[Noah's Arc]]'' movie, {{spoiler|Brandon has a crush on his teacher Chance, who consistently ignores his advances....until Chance is having problems in his own relationship. Chance gives in for one night, but things return to the [[Status Quo (band)]] afterwards}}.

* In ''[[Glee]]''; when Rachel Berry gets a crush on Mr Schuester, he reacts [[Oh Crap|with horror]], remembering the dreadful outcome of the ''last'' student to have a crush on him. The old student then comes into play, giving Rachel advice about why she's crushing on Mr Schue, leading to a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] when Mr Schue tells Rachel that one day she'll find a man who values her for herself. Awwwwwwwwwwww!!

* An episode of ''[[Teachers]]'' had the rare variant of a gay pupil having a crush on one of the teachers. Also has a jarring case of [[Hey, It's That Guy!]], with the gay pupil in question being played by the woman-obsessed [[Casanova Wannabe|Jay]] from [[The Inbetweeners]].

* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' George Michael develops a crush on his [[Heather Graham|ethics teacher]]. His tentative attempts to explain this to his father lead him to believe his son is trying to get them together, and he ends up dating her.

* Briefly touched in ''[[Cold Case]]''; in one episode, a student had a crush on his idealistic teacher, who helped set his life on the right path. However, when he grew up and became a teacher himself, he understood why there was a line that teachers and students could not cross.

* Invoked by Stephen Colbert during the Wisconsin Teacher's Union Strike. Hi, Stephen!

* Ruby Buckton on ''[[Home and Away]]'', first having a short-lived crush on her English teacher Miles, then two years later falling in love with her music teacher and songwriting partner Liam. The latter did not end well.

* In ''[[The Wonder Years]]'', Kevin Arnold has a crush on Miss White, who later gets married. Kevin finds her name change to Mrs. Heimer and subsequent pregnancy rather jarring, as they clash with his idealized vision of Miss White.

* Throughout ''[[The Parkers]]'', Nikki Parker, who is attending junior college with her daughter, has the hots for Professor Oglevee. The professor always hated her and avoids her whenever she chases him until by the end of the series, their relationship becomes mutual.

** [[Fridge Brilliance|Makes sense from a certain perspective, though.]] It's obvious from very early in the link that Kenji [[Cloudcuckoolander|lives in his own little world]], and has a habit of [[But Thou Must!|not listening to you]] when you try to bring him down to earth. Since you can't really change anything about it, you might as well play along until it all blows up in his face, at which point he needs his supportive friend to help him get over it. Additionally, {{spoiler|the main character is [[Not So Above It All]]. See "Hot for student", below.}}

* In ''[[Professor Layton and the Unwound Future]]'', one of Professor Layton's students has a very obvious crush on him.

* Because the protagonist of [[Canvas 2]] is a teacher, you're of course going to have several of these. Five, in fact. There are more students with a crush on Hiroki, but they're not heroines.

* In [[Katawa Shoujo]], Lilly had feelings for her English tutor in the past, and turned down her many [[Love Confession|love confessions]] to save herself for him, but knew that she could never have him, and never confessed. Hisao thinks of such relationships as "taboos born of such things as purity and youth," and is glad Lilly never acted on it.

* ''[[As Told by Ginger]]'' has Ginger trying to ask her teacher out on a date. During an inter-school quiz. ''Which is being televised.''

* In ''[[Cybersix]]'', the protagonist is pined after by one of her female students. Of course, seeing as the protagonist is a [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] and the student doesn't know, this [[Played for Laughs|makes for funny]].

* [[Braceface]] had an episode with one of the characters having a crush on a substitute teacher. Rather noticeably it's one of the few kid's shows where someone points out that a teacher-student relationship would be ''illegal.''

* [[Handsome Lech]] Kid Flash flirted with [[Black Canary]] in an episode of ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' during their first training session.

== Anime & Manga ==

* In [[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu]] Deluxe when Hare tries to cheer up his scary [[Mood Swinger|Mood swinging]] substitute teacher after her attempted relationship with his regular teacher fails, she turns her attention to him to Hare's horror.

* In ''[[Chou Kuse ni Narisou]]'', Nagisa is chased by a [[Yaoi Guys|homosexual male]] teacher who [[Cross Dresser|mistakes her for a boy]].

* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', in which it's a deliberate psychological ploy by the [[Big Bad]] to manipulate the [[Tragic Hero]]. Very [[Squick|Squicky]].

* There is a squicky one-way instance in ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', in which Kimura becomes obsessed with Kaorin ([[Schoolgirl Lesbians|of all girls]]), declaring that they will always be together. Kimura himself is pretty squicky, since he apparently became a teacher ''just to ogle teenage girls''. It's later revealed he has an incredibly hot and incredibly nice wife.

* ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' features a teacher (Neko-sensei) who threatens his delinquent female students (often the main character) with having to marry him. This is taken as a severe threat by everyone but the rare students who actually like him, whom he is deathly afraid of and avoids or turns down (the subversion). His actions are based on a Japanese myth, but it plays like a commentary on this trope.

* In ''[[Gokusen]]'', [[Evil Teacher]] Miura, however, falls for Shin. Busty teacher Fujiyama makes much of her lust for her hot students but we never actually see her do anything.

* ''[[Lets Nupu Nupu]]'' features amongst other randomness, a hot school nurse who [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit|acts like the grade school kid is the one who is molesting her]] when its blatantly obvious she's the full blown [[Shotacon]].

* Naruko Yokoshima, the only teacher ever seen in ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]'', is a [[Christmas Cake]] [[Bottle Fairy]] who's way too excited about former [[One-Gender School|all-girl Ousai]] becoming co-ed. Her main victim is Takatoshi Tsuda, [[The One Guy]], of whom she has high hopes [[Likes Older Women|liking older women]]. She has nearly taken advantage of him when she locked him up together with her in a room.

* In ''[[Loveless]]'' a source of major [[Fetish Fuel]] is the relationship between Ritsu and his student Soubi, he teaches Soubi lessons about how to take pain (these feature a whip and a very shirtless Soubi) and later {{spoiler|goes on to take the boys virginity.}}

== Comics ==

* One of [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Professor Xavier's]] deepest secrets was that he was in love with Jean Grey as a student. His [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], Onslaught, was all too happy to share this with her, much to Jean's horror.

== Western Animation ==

{{quote|'''Ms. Li:''' If someone asked me to teach a class, I'd be honored. Besides, we wouldn't be in this fix if it weren't for your mother.

'''Daria:''' Yeah. Hire one pedophile and she gets all bent out of shape. }}

* Benjamin Britten, 40, living with a long-term gay partner his own age, needed a boy to sing the part of Miles in his new opera, ''The Turn of the Screw''. He found David Hemmings. Hemmings came to live with Britten for several months while he prepared for his role. Britten fell in love with the 12-year-old boy, who loved him back, but not that way. Even though they shared a bed sometimes, nothing ever happened. Britten had crushes on and friendships with various other boy singers of his.

* John Gambril Nicholson, a Victorian poet who wrote about almost nothing but boys, worked as an English teacher at various boys' schools and fell in love with several of his pupils, to whom he dedicated various of his books of poetry. Timothy d'Arch Smith notes of one such boy, Frank Victor Rushworth, 22 years younger than Nicholson, that "Nicholson's friendship with Victor began when the boy was thirteen. It was not altogether a happy relationship for it laboured under the usual difficulty that the boy was not able to respond to the ardour of Nicholson's passion."

* Robert King, founder, artistic director and conductor of the celebrated period music ensemble The King's Consort, was convicted aged 46 for sex with boys of 12-16. The sex had happened when King was in his 20s; King had since married and had a kid. The boys were all at the time pupils of King's at a secondary school or music students referred to him by other teachers.

* ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' plays this trope straight with the relationship between Miki's best friend Meiko Akizuki and her teacher Shinichi Namura. Also one of the few times a match up like this is portrayed in a sympathetic manner, specially due to [[Star-Crossed Lovers|the crap they go through]]. {{spoiler|And they ''do'' get [[Happily Married]] by the end of the series -- the last episode of the anime series features their wedding party.}}

* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]''

** Heck, Sakura's own ''parents'' are part of this trope. Her father Fujitaka married Nadeshiko, ''one of his students.'' They fell in love when he was her teacher, but married when she graduated high school, if that helps. It was only his first year as a teacher, and since Nadeshiko was in high school, they weren't too far apart.

** Touya's relationship with teacher Kaho Mizuki is actually an aversion, as they only confessed to loving each other after Kaho's term as student teacher had ended.

*** Kaho's later relationship with [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Eriol]] is even more of an aversion, as not only was Kaho never Eriol's teacher, he's actually older than her and she's one of the few people to know that he's old enough to be a father.

* The central relationship in ''[[Suki: A Like Story]]'', also by [[CLAMP]], is teacher-student as well.

* ''[[I My Me! Strawberry Eggs|I! My! Me! Strawberry Eggs]]'' likewise offers the promise of a happy ending several years later after the girl in question has matured a little.

* The ''raison d'etre'' of ''[[Please Teacher]]''.

* In ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', Kyoko married Katsuya just after he finished being a student teacher there.

* {{spoiler|Alice}} in the ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' anime is shown {{spoiler|masturbating to a fantasy involving her teacher}}. The final episode {{spoiler|shows an older Alice married to him.}}

* Kouko and Yoshino from ''[[Clannad]]'', though they only started to seriously pursue a relationship long after Yoshino graduated.

* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Schoolgirl Lesbian]] Naitou and her teacher Hayato in ''[[Shoujo Sect]]''.

* One arc of ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' features a [[Hot-Blooded]] student teacher as the girl Keima has to woo over. Getting her attention isn't that difficult, with his playing in class, so she views him as a troubled but brilliant student that she absolutely must help (she's that kind of person).

* As the title suggests, this is the basis of the plot for ''[[My Wife Is a High School Girl]]''. Student Asami and teacher Kyosuke marry and have to keep their relationship a secret to outsiders. [[Hilarity Ensues]] in one episode when a woman who was told they were siblings spies on them and ends up getting an [[Brother-Sister Incest|even worse idea]]. Also, Asami's father's response to the marriage is to make them sign a [[Jail Bait Wait]] contract until she finishes school.

* In ''Teacher's Pet'', Misuzu-sensei ends up having sex with her fifteen-year-old student, Masahiro. Who is also the younger brother of her co-worker and boyfriend. Oops.

* In ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'', Very [[Hot Teacher]] Aoshika slowly develops feelings for Inugami Akira, the [[Badass]] Werewolf who enters her life. This would be entirely normal except for the fact that she's already divorced and he's fifteen. As a [[Seinen]] piece, this is actually played for drama and Aoshika finds the source of her defensiveness of the boy just as disturbing to her as it would be to child services. [[Fan Service|Not that it'll stop her in the end]], most likely.

* This is the plot of ''[[Junsui Adolescence|Pure Water Adolescence]]'', except it's with the ''school nurse''.

* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' we get a hint that something could have happened between Yukiji and her foster father had Hinagiku and her's parents hadn't abandoned them. He used to be her teacher and is said to still favor her.

* ''[[Tenshi ni Narumon]]'' has Raphael and Mikael - believe it or not, it's not as squicky as it sounds, although they are also angels, which may make it sound even worse. And it's pretty much consensual on both parties (Mikael may have problems admitting it, though)

* In [[Speed Grapher]], 33-years-old Saiga starts as a mentor figure to 15-year-old Kagura, and teaches her about the outside world. And the [[Your Mileage May Vary|saddest/worst/best/whatever]] thing is that, considering the [[Crapsack World]] they live in, this is actually the ''best'' relationship they have in their whole lives. {{spoiler|And it's ultimately what ''saves'' her life.}}

* ''Black Bird'' has a relationship between the main character, Misao, and her teacher, Kyo. To be fair, he's only her teacher because the head of a demon clan who marries Misao brings prosperity to that clan.

* In ''[[Kiss X Sis]]'' Keita and his teacher both seem to have a strong attraction towards each other, despite both knowing that a student/teacher relationship is wrong.

* In the manga, ''[[Gakuen Alice]]'' shows {{spoiler|Mikan Sakura's parents, Izumi and Yuka}} are an example of this. {{spoiler|Izumi}} was a teacher at the academy from the time {{spoiler|Yuka}} was in elementary school. The attraction was eventually mutual, and was particularly ''developed'' when she was in high school.

* ''[[Yuru-Yuri]]'' throws some pretty blatant [[Les Yay|hints]] that [[Student Council President|Rise]] [[The Quiet One|Matsumoto]] and [[Mad Scientist|Nishigaki-Sensei]] have...something going on between the two of them.

== Comics ==

* Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel ''[[Fun Home]]'' centered around her closeted gay father, a high school English teacher who over the years had affairs with his students and at one point underwent a trial for buying beer for one of them. She noted that though the offense was for buying alcohol for minors, the real offense "dare not speak its name." As Bechdel is a lesbian herself, she at one point wonders how she would have fared if she came of age in the repressive 50s like her father did... "Would I have had the guts to be one of those Eisenhower-era butches? Or would I have married and sought succor from my high school students?"

* The title character of ''Skim'' gets into a lesbian relationship with her art teacher, but as far as we know, it never gets past the kissing. The teacher is deeply troubled by it and gets herself transferred to another school.

* Alexander Payne's ''[[Election]]'' has the relationship between overachiever Tracy Flick and her teacher Dave Novotny.

* The Australian movie ''The Heartbreak Kid'' (''not'' related to any of the American movies called ''[[The Heartbreak Kid]]'') revolves around a male student and a female teacher falling for each other while setting up a high school soccer team. Unlike many examples, the two are fairly close in age and both over the (Australian) age of consent (he's 18 and in the final years of high school, she's 22 and fresh out of university), which tends to alleviate the [[Squick]] factor inherent in this trope somewhat, if not necessarily the ethical concerns.

* ''Lust och fägring stor'' (''All Things Fair''). Affair between a 15-year-old male pupil and his 37-year-old female teacher.

* 15-year-old Trish "the Dish" in ''[[Mallrats]]'' is sleeping with dozens of men, including some teachers, as part of a research project.

* Technically it's a sports coach rather than a teacher, but the relationship between Neil and his coach in ''[[Mysterious Skin]]'' has strong elements of this. Neil looks back on the experience positively at first, but eventually realizes he was used, and the coach himself is a [[Depraved Homosexual]] who doesn't seem to care one way another about consent. (Please note that Neil, at the time, isn't even capable of consenting, seeing as he is ''eight years old.'')

* In ''[[Never Been Kissed]]'', Drew Barrymore's character's teacher gets a thing for her... good thing she's actually an undercover newspaper reporter in her late 20's. When the teacher finds out, he's equal parts confused, angry, and relieved.

* In ''[[The Pelican Brief]]'', the main character is dating one of her law professors. We're apparently supposed to forgive this gross violation of ethics because she's a brilliant student and doesn't need an unfair advantage to get an A.

* ''Il sapore del grano'' (''The Flavour of Corn''). Lorenzo, a university student doing a year's teaching, develops a romantic friendship with twelve-year-old Duilio, one of the boys in his class. The [[Lover and Beloved]] dynamic is both invoked and subverted. Duilio teaches Lorenzo to drive a tractor and identify trees and offers him the simple affection which Lorenzo, who lacks a family and whose sexual relationships with women are emotionally unsatisfying, needs. When Lorenzo's girlfriend, seeing a postcard from Duilio, asks if he's one of Lorenzo's pupils, Lorenzo says, "No, he's the one who taught me everything I know."

* In ''[[Warrior Cats]]'', when Fernpaw's mentor was exiled and she needed a new mentor, Dustpelt, who had feelings for her (and was already mentoring her twin, Ashpaw), asked if he could be her new mentor. She was thrilled at the idea, but Dustpelt's request was denied because he wouldn't be tough enough on her, hindering her training.

* In ''[[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]]'', the title character actually grooms one of "her" students (Rose) for an affair with the school's art teacher (Mr Lloyd). It is ultimately another student (Sandy) who takes this teacher for her lover.

* In [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''The Immortals'' quartet, part of the series of books set in the medieval-esque country [[Tortall]], 16-year-old Daine hooks up with her 30-year-old teacher Numair. Admittedly, Numair had a TON of hang-ups about their age difference, and by that point Daine reads more like 20 than 16. Strangely, and Pierce even points this out when questioned about this relationship, it is actually in fact very age appropriate for the time setting. Girls were often considered of marrying age once their periods started, as it was a sign they could give birth, and often ''would'' marry even younger - and with larger age gaps - than what Daine and Numair ended with.

* J.M. Coetzee's ''Disgrace'', with the affair ending rather badly.

* In Mark Behr's ''Embrace'', the 13-year-old protagonist has two simultaneous homosexual love affairs: one with his best friend, a boy the same age, the other with his 30-something choirmaster.

* In Fritz Peters's ''Finistère'', published in 1951, one of the first mainstream novels with homosexual themes, a 15-year-old boy at boarding school has a love affair with a male teacher in his late 20s.

* Lois McMaster Bujold's ''The Curse of Chalion'' has a romance between the 35-year-old protagonist and his 19-year-old student.

* ''[[Vampire Academy]]'': Rose and Dimitri. He takes the high road and insists they can't pursue the attraction, but that obviously doesn't work.

== Live Action TV ==

** When Wesley first appears in the third season, he and Cordelia circle each other. In fact, when they first met he assumed she was a teacher (possible [[Lampshade Hanging]] on the [[Dawson Casting]]), but heavy awkwardness ensues when he realized she was a student, and he promptly drops the subject. Though it is brought up a few times with him ogling her, and the episode where Buffy read minds. She was hinted at being seventeen as Faith teases him, saying "Jailbait". She evidently had a birthday before the prom though, when Giles informs Wesley she's 18. Wesley has a first dance with her, and they share a hilariously awkward kiss that obliterates half a season of romantic tension, and never brought it up again. Even three years later in the alternate universe of the ''Angel'' episode "Birthday," Wesley and Cordy still remember what a flop their "relationship" was and quickly change the subject when Gunn mentions it.

** In the first-season episode "Teacher's Pet," a new hot-babe teacher seduces boys (including Xander) and invites them to her home. Of course, she turns out to be a giant man-eating mantis who preys on virgins. Hooray for metaphors.

** In season two, there was the episode "I Only Have Eyes For You," where a pair of poltergeists repeatedly acts out moments from their teacher/student romance--including the student's anguished murder of his older lover, who tried to break it off, and suicide--by possessing hosts to play the part.

* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' defended a teacher who slept with her student in a [[Ripped from the Headlines]] case.

** Darcy is struggling after being a victim of an attack, she tells Snake (Mr. Simpson) her secret. He's the only person she wants to let in and becomes desperately attached to him. And flirty. "I think I can do better."

* ''Degrassi'' faux-spinoff ''The Best Years'' has a subplot about Noah, a geeky college freshman, getting involved with the teacher of his film-studies class, and about her husband, who turns out to be the teacher of his business class, eventually finding out.

* In the ''[[Rumpole of the Bailey]]'' episode "Rumpole and the course of true love" the case Rumpole is defending is a young high school teacher who slept with his student. Privately none of the lawyers seem to care very much, least of all the prosecuting attorney. She reasons that the girl was almost 16 anyway and "probably asked for it."

* On ''Swingtown,'' Laurie Miller is ferociously pursuing her hot teacher Mr. Stephens. He discourages her affection and when they do get together, they avert the trope since he's not her teacher any more..

* ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent|Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]'' did a fairly obvious by-the-numbers [[Ripped from the Headlines]] episode based on the Letourneau case, even casting an actress (Anne Dudek) who kinda looks like her.

* There was an episode of ''[[Nip Tuck]]'' about this, though the teacher and student were married. The student wanted to get surgery so he would look older so people would stop looking at them. He got some hair plugs. Then he walked in on his wife having sex with his younger brother, presumably because he still looked like a teenager.

* In ''[[Cutey Honey the Live]]'', we have [[Psycho Lesbian]] Mayumi Karasugawa, who often seduces her female students.

** In another case, Brennan while wondering about why the victim was into younger men casually asked her intern whether he would date a woman much older than him. The intern reacted with shock and thought she was flirting with him.

* ''[[Strangers with Candy]]'' has an episode in which Tammi Littlenut, normally the [[Only Sane One]], is revealed to be in a relationship with her biology teacher. (During one class, he spells out "I <3 U" on her desk with an eye, a heart, and a bit of intestine.)

* In ''[[Numb3rs]]'', we have the villainous duo of Crystal Hoyle and Buck Winters.

** And on the side of good and true, we have Charlie and Amita. To be fair, Amita completed her thesis in Season One, so by the time they started dating in late Season Two, they were ''former'' teacher and student. Also, Charlie's a prodigy, so their age difference is somewhere on the order of just 5 years.

* [[Pretty Little Liars]] has a 16 year old girl meet an attractive young man at a bar. They talk, find out that they have similiar music taste, and that he is teaching English and she is "majoring" in it. They then go to make out in the bathroom. First day back at school, guess what? He's the new English teacher. "Holy crap," are his exact words.

* In the UK ''[[Queer as Folk]]'' Stuart narrates to camera how he lost his virginity to his (male) PE teacher. When he was ''eleven''.

* In Season Four of One Tree Hill, Brooke Davis enters into relationship with Nick Chavez, whom she met online, who later turns up as her new English teacher at Tree Hill High. They continue dating, in secret until it is revealed that he has cheated on her.

* In the [[30 Rock]] episode "Queen of Jordan", Susan Sarandon plays Frank's former teacher, who was in a relationship with him when he was 14. Surprisingly(considering the [[Double Standard]]), based on Frank's apparent age and the fact that the teacher was only recently released from prison, it appears that she served a significantly longer sentence than is typically associated with female-teacher/male-student cases.

* Steven and Selina on ''[[Home and Away]]'', and later Lucas and Naomi. In the latter case, the two had met and hooked up before she knew she'd be teaching in Summer Bay.

* In an early episode of ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', a girl at the high school that Cameron and John are attending under assumed identities is exposed as having carried on a relationship with one of her teachers, and kills herself when this is made public.

* Arguably Puck and Shelby of [[Glee]]. Arguably, both because Shelby is kind of reluctant and thinks it's a really bad idea (which it is!), and because Puck's motives are kind of unclear. Shelby is the adoptive mother of his daughter, Beth, and he's expressed multiple times how much he cares about Beth and that he wants to be in her life. So, does he want to be with Shelby because of Shelby herself, or because he wants to be a family with her and Beth?

* ''[[Smallville]]'' has Lana and Jason in Season 4. Made somewhat less squicky by the fact that the two had already been dating for a while when he gets the job, and the fact that he was a football coach and had little to no involvement in the context of school.

* Pretty much the whole plot of ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'', where the Phantom falls in love with his voice student Christine.

* One of the main plots of the play/film ''[[The History Boys]]''. The male students like one of their teachers so much, they let him harmlessly grope them so he can get a cheap thrill. Later, another teacher attempts to start up an actual relationship with one of the boys, but it never actually gets anywhere despite mutual interest. {{spoiler|The second teacher spends much of the film extremely aware of how inappropriate it is, and is only able to give in to the student's flirtations once the year is over.}}

* In Tom Stoppard's ''Arcadia'', a young man, Septimus, is the private tutor of a teenaged girl named Thomasina and they eventually fall in love. {{spoiler|Thomasina's death the night before her 17th birthday breaks Septimus's heart and turns him into a half-mad hermit.}}

* ''Butley'' by Simon Gray. Butley, a lecturer in English literature at a London university, finds out that his wife of a year is leaving him for another man. He also finds out that his long term live-in friend/boyfriend is leaving him for another man. Said friend/boyfriend, now a colleague of Butley's, used to be his student and it's implied that that's when their relationship began.

== Films -- Live Action ==

* ''[[Loving Annabelle]]'' is a lesbian variant, and one of the most awesome-yet-heartbreaking movies ever.

* ''Notes on a Scandal'' is all about this.

* The main plot of ''July Rhapsody''.

* Subverted in ''10 Things I Hate About You''; in order to shed her 'good-girl' image, Bianca fakes a rumor about her relationship with an older man, who is later though to be the Geometry teacher, Mr. Ross. Things go too far, of course, and nobody believes that Bianca was lying. {{spoiler|Mr. Ross never heard the rumor, but was revealed to, in fact, have a relationship with ''another'' girl, and sent to prison.}}

* ''[[Medium]]'': Indirectly causes a lot of emotional stress for psychic teen Ariel Dubois: {{spoiler|Her college interviewer's dead husband fathered a child with one of his students, and asks Ariel to erase the file with incriminating photos on his (now his wife's) computer in exchange for a perfect interview with his wife. Ariel does so, but then decides to do the right thing and restore the file. The interviewer returns to tell Ariel that she's going to help the baby financially, but unfortunately for Ariel's future she also thinks that she planted the file after being dumped by her husband. Even the dead husband is stunned despite knowing what would happen.}} <br />''The very next episode,'' Ariel starts losing time ''[[Futurama]]''-style, jumping hours, then ''years'' into the future where she's [[Happily Married]] to a friend from high school and they have an adorable daughter. {{spoiler|She's certain the time-skips have to do with a teacher who was murdered right before the decade-long jump, and right before her mom is about to tell her how the teacher's kid ties into all this, she's thrown ahead another seven years -- where her mother is ''dead'', killed that same night. Desperate for answers, she goes to see the dead teacher's son, who's ''the spitting image of high school sweetheart husband '''who's about to kill her''''' -- and then she wakes up, safe in the present and a few hours before her teacher's murder by her teenage babydaddy (he had a full-ride scholarship and wasn't about to risk it for his desperate ex-lover).}} Needless to say, after all that Ariel really, really needs a hug.

* There are indications of such feelings in Grissom and Sara's dialogue on [[CSI]].They met when he was a lecturer at the college she was attending. But, they did not act on anything to do with those feelings until many years later, likely sparing both a lot of trouble.

* There is an episode of [[Yeralash]] where a boy prints photos of his female teacher. His father calls him a sycophant. However, right then, the teacher comes and complains the boy doesn't like her. They go into his room to show her wrong... turns out he's been using the photos as [[Dartboard of Hate|Dartboards of Hate]]. When one of the suction cup arrows intended for a photo sticks of the father's forehead, the mother's only response is "That'll teach you not to say our son's a sycophant"