Teachers don’t have to be stuffy, boring, and angry — they can be the most awesome and hilarious authority figures in your life. Those people are educators who go above and beyond the call of duty, using humor and shock to help their students learn about life.

Bored Panda collected the most exquisite examples of teachers doing funny things, so you can enjoy yourself while waiting for the weekend to start. It’s lists like these that really make you appreciate school more and not groan when thinking of an approaching Monday. Scroll down, upvote your favorite pictures, and leave a comment somewhere below about the funniest teacher stories that you know. And be sure to share this post with your family, friends, and fave teachers.

We know you can’t get enough of hilarious educators, so when you’re done scrolling through this list, check out our previous posts about the most awesome teachers ever, funny teachers who know how to deal with students, as well as the epic times that teachers trolled their students.

#1 My Professor’s Door (Once You See It…)

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#2 This Is How History Professor Teaches About The First Man In Space

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#3 Today Was “Meme Day” At My Old High School For Homecoming Week. I Appreciate This Science Teacher Even More Now

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Humor is a wonderful learning tool and helps us retain information much better. That’s because humor activates the dopamine reward system in our brains, stimulates our long-term memory, as well as our goal-oriented motivation.

Or, to put it succinctly, we remember that which makes us laugh. It’s a fact that has been known throughout history. And it’s one of the main reasons why people living throughout history have suggested that jokes (especially naughty ones) help us remember things quicker and better. The next time you need to memorize something, try associating it with something funny and shocking.

#4 Our Professor Wears His Hat And Cape Every Time He Conducts An Experiment

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#5 My High School Art Teacher’s Amazing Van Gogh Costume

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#6 Students Were Asking This Professor If His Shirt Is Missing The 2nd Part

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Sarah Henderson explains on Edutopia that humor helps unite separate individuals into a cohesive, supportive community. That’s very important in the classroom (not to mention outside the classroom as well).

#7 Sitting In My Immunology Class When

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#8 So My Drivers’ Ed Teacher Only Has 3 Fingers On His Left Hand And Took Advantage Of It When He Went To A Museum

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#9 After Not Taking Attendance All Quarter, My Teacher Assistant Was Out Of Town On Exam Day. This Was The Last Question

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However, not all forms of humor are equal in the classroom: the humor that educators use has to be related to the topic for us to retain the information for longer. But cruel or forced humor, as well as sarcasm, doesn’t always have the same positive benefits that genuine laughter does.

#10 Genius Teacher

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#11 College Professor Advice

#12 My Teacher Hand Draws/Writes Memes And Jokes Every Day

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#13 A Theorem And A Proof

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#14 My Nephew’s Teacher Looks Very Familiar

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#15 All Set For My Meeting With The Student That Missed More Than 30 Classes This Semester And Emailed Me To Set Up An Appointment To Talk About His Grade

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#16 A Series Of Unfortunate Events

“Professor Hendel, I am writing this email very embarrassingly. As I began writing my paper, I wrote out the template. Unfortunately, I could not remember your last name, so I filled it with something completely unprofessional. It was my intention to change the name before submission, but it completely slipped my mind. I attempted to resubmit the assignment but was unable to. I am so very sorry for the lack of respect that was used and again I apologize for this mistake. I hope that this does not reflect what you think of me and that the next assignment I can address by the correct name. Thank you again and I am so sorry. Thank you, Zoey”

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#17 This Is My Chemistry Teacher

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#18 My Teacher Said If The Class Could Get An 80% Test Average On Our First Exam He Would Dress Up As Batman For A Day. A Pic From The Day We Got Our Test Results Back

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#19 This College Professor Has Been Dressing Up As Papa Smurf For Halloween For Five Years

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#20 Professor Reads His Reviews During The Course

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#21 My Professor Doesn’t Believe In Laser Pointers So He Uses A Fishing Pole With A Foam Finger Attached And I Can’t Contain Myself During A Lecture

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#22 There Is A Student In Class Who Likes To Draw A Cat Of The Day. One Day That Student Wasn’t In Class So The Teacher Drew One Instead

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#23 My English Teacher Can Balance An Office Chair On His Chin

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#24 My Biology Professor Was Wearing An Awesome Tie Yesterday

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#25 My Teacher Nailed His Student’s Phone To The Wall For Using It In Class 20 Years Ago. It’s Still There Til This Day

..or he just probably bought an old phone and nailed to scare students.

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#26 My Old Math Teacher Played This Before We Started A Test. It’s A 10-Minute Video Of Him Mowing His Lawn. We Had To Turn In Our Tests After The Video Is Done

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#27 My School Just Got A Ton Of New iMacs. This Is What They Did With The Boxes

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#28 My Religion Teacher’s Windows Background

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#29 Professor’s Dog

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#30 3 Of My Professors Share An Office. This Was Just Put Up On Their Door

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#31 Teaching Level: Michael Jackson

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#32 A Little Wisdom From My Physics Professor

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#33 One Of My Old Teachers Does Different Costumes For Her Yearbook Photo Every Year

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#34 “My Face Physically Hurts From Smiling So Much Today, I Love Teaching You Guys” – My Professor, Who’s Such A Good Soul

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#35 My Teacher Put Up A Picture Of Himself On His Door So It Looks Like He’s In His Office

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#36 This Physics Teacher Teaching A Lesson About Gravity

#37 Teacher Made A Cake For The Last Day. It Is Meant To Be His Own Face

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#38 My Chem Teacher Announcing Our Quiz

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#39 Math Teacher Has A Rubber Stamp Of His Own Face That He Uses To Grade Tests

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#40 This High School History Teacher Has Been Drawing Picture Of The Day For His Students The Past Five Years

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#41 My Professor Lost His Pointer. He’s Been Using This For The Past Couple Classes

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#42 Straight To The Point

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#43 My Cooking Teacher Pinned This Poor Pizza To The Blackboard

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#44 My Math Teacher’s Board Today

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#45 This Bathroom Pass At My School

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#46 On A Door In The Health Sciences Building At School

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#47 Spotted In The Window Of A Biology Professor Office At A Community College

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#48 The Teacher Said Those Who Are Done With The Task Could Come To This Room

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#49 My Teacher Raises A Picture Of His Own Face To Make Sure No Student Is Lost During The Fire Drill

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#50 My Teacher Came On The Morning Video Announcements Dressed As An Ear Of Corn

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#51 My Professor Brought In A 10 Mb Hard Disk From The 1960’s

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#52 My Professor Exploding A Hydrogen Balloon Looks Like Defense Against The Dark Arts

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#53 Physics Professor At My School Teaching In Costume

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#54 My History Teacher Uses A Floppy Disk For Her Hall Pass

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#55 My History Teacher’s Presidential PEZ Collection

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#56 My Education Professor Duct Tapes Her Own Mouth Shut During Presentations So She Doesn’t Interrupt, Distract Or Intimidate The Presenters

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#57 Newton’s Third Law Of Motion: As Demonstrated By My Professor, A Skateboard, And A Fire Extinguisher

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#58 Photo Of My Professor Today. There’s Something About His Shirt

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#59 Our Teacher Told Us To Get In Groups And Practice Theses Shakespearean Insults, I Love English A Lot More

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#60 We Had A Test Today And My Teacher Couldn’t Make It So He Told The Sub To Put This On The Screen

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#61 My Professor Asked Me To Bring My 7-Week-Old Kitten To The Class. He Learned A Lot About Poetry

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#62 When Teachers Cover The Clock In Their Classroom

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#63 Teacher Dressed As The Man Himself

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#64 My Biology Professor Is Playing Qui-Gon’s Conversation About Midi-Chlorians In Class To Talk About Mitochondria

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#65 If You Passed A Note In Class, Chances Are Your Teachers Did Not Throw It Away

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#66 Sister-In-Law Showed Me Her Professor With A Much Better Solution Than A Laser Pointer

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#67 My American Federal Government Professor This Morning

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#68 My Professor Gets The Internet

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#69 I See Your Teacher’s Yearbook Photo, And I Raise You This. 2 Years In A Row

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#70 This Is How My Chinese Teacher Makes Us Present To The Class

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#71 Frustrated With The Same Old Questions, My Professor Ripped Off His Shirt In The Middle Of Lecture

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#72 Geometry

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#73 My Economy Teacher Covers Up The Light That Comes Through The Door In The Afternoon With Pictures Of Himself

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#74 My Professor Wore This Today With No Explanation

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#75 My Physics Teacher Made A Flow Chart Of Where He Is At

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#76 My Economics Teacher’s Hallpass

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#77 My Arts And Crafts Teacher Made A Graveyard For Misused Tools

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#78 A Chemistry Professor With A Good Sense Of Humor

#79 My Professor Said He Spent Two Hours Trying To Match His Powerpoint With His Tie

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#80 My Calc Teacher Bombed My Golf Course On My Test

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#81 The Coolest Math Teacher In Town

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#82 My Professor Gave Me A Present Today

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#83 A Group Of Co-Workers Messed With A Teacher Who Was Very Picky About His Chair By “Borrowing” It Every Weekend And Taking It To All Sorts Of Crazy Places And Taking Pictures

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#84 Every Friday During School, One Of My Substitute Teachers Dresses Up In A Banana Costume And Sings A Song About “Going Bananas Because It’s Friday”

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#85 My Teacher Was Dressed As Arthur

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#86 The Struggles Of A Substitute Teacher

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#87 My Teacher Came Dressed As A Colonial Man Today For History

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#88 My Teacher Is Showing Off His Minecraft World To Our Class

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