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Teacher's Pet (2000)
Worth waking up for!
Teacher's Pet is the best cartoon I have watched in a long time. There's no defeating evil monsters, no tired storylines, and no predictable or just plain bad scripts. This show makes me laugh out loud.
The Cast. Nathan Lane definitely deserved the Daytime Emmy he won for lending his voice to Spot/Scot, a dog who desperately wants to be a boy and go to school. Nathan Lane has also done other Disney characters (The Lion King's Timon) but he makes Spot a whole new zany, hilarious character. David Ogden Stiers is the lovable Mr. Jolly, a neurotic housecat, and Jerry Stiller is extremely funny as Pretty Boy, the pet bird. Shaun Fleming is Leonard Helperman, Spot's owner and best friend. You can also hear Debra Jo Rupp (of That 70's Show fame) as Mrs. Helperman, mother and teacher. Wallace Shawn, permanently attached to his cat Tallulah, is Principal Strickler.
What I like about Teacher's Pet: it's never been done before! It's a creative new idea with a great cast and a great script. Even adults will like this one- some of the humor probably goes right over kids' heads. Check out Teacher's Pet on Disney's One Saturday Morning.
The Mighty (1998)
An inspiring must-see
I recently saw -The Mighty- on TV one night and was immediately sucked in to it. The basic idea of it is that two young boys, different in almost every way, come together one year to form a friendship. Kevin "Freak" Dillon is a physically-disabled genius who loves quests, knights, etc... Maxwell Kane is a quickly growing learning-disabled boy who lives with his grandparents because his father is in prison. Freak rides around on Max's shoulders, calling them "Freak the Mighty."
This movie made me cry and it made me laugh.
The only thing I don't like about it is that the title was changed from the original title of the book by Rodman Philbrick, -Freak the Mighty-. I think that title is better since that's what they called themselves. But anyway, it's a great movie and all the actors did a nice job. ********