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->''"I was so unpopular in high school, the crossing guard used to lure me into traffic."''
-->-- '''Annie''', ''Series/{{Community}}''

This is the kid at school that nobody likes. Not because they're stupid, or annoying, or a bully, but because they suck up to the teacher. [[AppleForTeacher They'll bring the teacher the traditional apple every day]], they'll ''always'' volunteer to answer any question, and more often than not they'll be TheInformant to the teacher, tattling on the other students whenever they make the smallest infringement of the rules.

Needless to say, most of the other students tend to despise this person, and they're often portrayed as a traitor to the rest of the class. Typical of series that are set in elementary school. The older the kids are in the setting, the better the chance that the teacher really hates their guts. If the students are in college though, the tables are turned as everyone needs to get close to a professor for participation marks, reference letters they'll need for adulthood, or introductions to industry contacts who can help with their internship or entry-level job search.

{{Foil}} to the TeachersUnfavoriteStudent.

See also: ProfessionalButtKisser.

%% Not to be confused with the 1958 RomanticComedy.
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!!Examples
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* PlayedWith in ''Manga/InTheHeartOfKunoichiTsubaki''. As [[TheAce the Akane Class's top student]] and a stickler for the rules, Tsubaki is effectively the middle ground between the students and the teachers, the latter of whom have full confidence in her. However, unlike the trope, Tsubaki isn't resented for this and has the admiration of her fellow students as a result.
* Deconstructed in ''Literature/RunWithTheWind''. Kakeru Kurahara easily outmatched everyone else in his former track team, much to the delight of the coach. Much to the dismay of everyone else in the team, he gave Kakeru special treatment. All of this resulted in Kakeru being isolated and loathed by his peers. Also a subversion, as Kakeru was simply ''that'' good at running but never intended to be placed on a pedestal like that. The bad experiences of this trope is partly what causes his reluctant attitude towards being a part of a new track team in university in the current day.
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[[folder:Comedy Performance]]
* Creator/BillyConnolly joked that growing up in [[ViolentGlaswegian Glasgow]], his school was one step up from a Borstal[[note]] Juvenile Hall in America [[/note]]. He fondly described one of his classmates as Teacher's Pet -
-->She kept him in a cage at the back of the room, and every so often she'd dob a bit of raw meat in, to keep him quiet.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''[[ComicBook/TheBeano The Bash Street Kids]]'' has Cuthbert Cringeworthy. The only pupil in the class who wears a uniform or gives [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Teacher]] any respect whatsoever. He also ''looks'' like Teacher, a VisualPun on his status as "pet" and UncattyResemblance.
%%* ''ComicBook/ZipiYZape'': Peloto (although to what extent depends much on the story). (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Margaret from art class in ''Film/GhostWorld'', who gets constantly praised by her teacher for her comments and incomprehensible artworks.
* In ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', Music/TheBeatles are troublemakers who make their manager's life a misery, ''except'' for Music/RingoStarr, leading to the others referring to him as this.
%%* Summer Hathaway (Creator/MirandaCosgrove's character) from ''Film/SchoolOfRock''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' has the character Melvin Sneedly, who in addition to being this is also a huge tattletale. Unsurprisingly, all of the {{Sadist Teacher}}s in the school love him.
* Chichikov from ''Literature/DeadSouls'' became this when he had a SadistTeacher who'd give the best grades to, well, teacher's pets, and bad grades to smart kids who were even a little bit unruly -- or showed too much smartness.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** Hermione Granger starts off as this, but then gets CharacterDevelopment, starting when Harry and Ron save her life and she lies to get them out of trouble.
** A one-sided version occurs with Durmstrang headmaster Karkaroff who lavishes praise and clear favoritism towards Krum who mostly brushes it aside.
** Another one-sided version occurs in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'', with Lockhart giving this treatment to an unenthusiastic Harry as part of his [[TheObiWannabe Obi-Wannabe]] shtick.
** Draco Malfoy seems to have been this to Snape, partially owed to the fact he was friends with Lucius Malfoy back when they were students and later became Death Eaters. He also acts this way to Dolores Umbridge during the fifth book as the leader of the Inquisitorial Squad. When Snape is replaced as Potions Master by Slughorn, Draco seems dismayed to have lost his status.
* ''Literature/LanguageArts'': Charles becomes Mrs. Braxton's favorite student due to his excellent penmanship, earning him the hatred of the rest of the class, especially the bullies Bradley and Mitchell and the overachiever Astrida. Dana becomes his OnlyFriend.
* Agnan of French novel series ''Literature/LePetitNicolas''. And in this setting, where the turbulent classmates are the main protagonists, he's portrayed as a ButtMonkey.
* [[ScholarshipStudent Molly]] in ''Literature/ThePoisonApples'' is this, wanting nothing more than to discuss her favourite books with her Humanities teacher when no one else in the class really cares, to the extent that he has to shut her down because she's talked about the topic so much already.
* In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' series, one book has Steffi, a no-nonsense sort of girl who tells the teacher about the April Fool's pranks -- though part of it's because of Jack Frost taking her sense of humor away.
* ''Literature/TeachersPet1989'' by Johanna Hurwitz. Cricket initially resents the new girl, who seems to please the teacher better than she could -- until she learns that the new girl is just a genuinely nice person, and that she doesn't have to be a teacher's pet to be special.
* Niles Sparks in ''Literature/TheTerribleTwo''. He's the type who always has his hair combed neatly and is the first to have his hand raised for a question. [[spoiler:It's actually a coverup for him being a prankster. Not only is he the last person you'd suspect, as a student aide he has access to things and places that other students don't, like the teacher's lounge.]]
* Vincent in ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', who is always bursting to tell Miss Susan the correct answer to her questions, despite her attempts to give everyone else a turn, and is desperately proud of his [[GoodBehaviorPoints gold and silver star collection]]. Susan privately has him down as Boy Most Likely To Be Murdered By His Wife, and trips him up with a question that requires a bit of imagination rather than memorising facts.
--> '''Susan:''' Does [the existence of timezones] mean it's "then" there when it's "now" here?\\
'''Vincent:''' Ooo ... Doesn't make sense, miss.\\
'''Susan:''' Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent. But answers do.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* An ''Series/AllThat'' skit has two students actually ''competing'' to be the teacher's pet.
* Detective Amy Santiago in ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' was apparently this in her youth (or at least ''wanted'' to be this; there's some hints that the teacher wasn't very fond of her either).
-->'''Holt:''' Santiago, when I greet the Deputy Chief I want you there by my side to make a good impression. No offence, but you are something of a teacher's pet.\\
'''Santiago:''' ''[proudly]'' None taken! [[ComicallyMissingThePoint People love their pets]].\\
''[Detective Diaz gives her a withering stare]''
* Annie in ''Series/{{Community}}''. For example, instead of putting his binder back, Señor Chang drops it on the floor and orders Annie to pick it up.
* ''Series/GenV'': Jordan is Brink's teacher's assistant, and it's shown that Brink greatly cares for them and helped shield Jordan from the marketing problems their gender usually caused with Vought's practices, and was even willing to throw Marie under the bus to protect them. It's telling that barely a day after Brink's death Jordan gets immediately dropped from Rank 2 to Rank 5 and suddenly dropped hard by Vought's marketing people due to how inviable they are with middle America. It's revealed in "Jumanji" that he offered them the position as a bribe in exchange for their silence about Golden Boy's mental state.
* In ''Series/HankZipzer'', Nick [=McKelty=] is this to Miss Adolf. Emily would love to be a teacher's pet, but most of the teachers find her incredibly annoying.
* In the ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' episode "Guide to: Teachers", Ned tries to become one to his science teacher, believing it would help him get his grades up. It doesn't work. Meanwhile, Moze is accused of being one when she tries to help the new student teacher stand up for himself.
* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'':
** An unusual example is Walter Denton, who likes Miss Brooks so much he's usually driving her to school. However, he doesn't sit in the front of the classroom, is BookDumb, and apparently popular amongst the student body.
** Also applies to Harriet Conklin, who is Miss Brooks' best student. She's also the daughter of the principal to boot. However, this doesn't stop her from being popular enough to be the president of the student body.
* Sally in ''Series/SimonAndTheWitch'' doesn't like anyone doing better at school than her (and is willing to destroy Simon's craft work when it outshines hers). She's also outraged when the witch seems to have done better than her in a general knowledge test, although she does come top in a spelling test and sits and smirks when this is announced. At the jumble sale she's both on the door and running a stall, and she later takes the lead role in the school panto. She finishes her Maths ahead of everyone else, then asks for more. She's class monitor, gives out and collects just about everything, and is always sucking up to Miss Phoeble. Not surprisingly, she isn't popular. The second series is set in the school holidays and sees her looking for "intelligent" activities to fill the time.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Referenced in Music/ThePolice's song "Don't Stand So Close To Me", though [[Literature/{{Lolita}} disturbing]] TeacherStudentRomance subtext:
-->Her friends are so jealous\\
You know how bad girls get\\
Sometimes it's not so easy\\
To be the [[DoubleEntendre teacher's pet]]
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Ms. Applegate's mission in ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten|2017}}'' is a darker take on this. It revolves around earning gold stars by getting your fellow students in trouble, with the ultimate goal of earning a lunch pass that allows you to eat lunch with her. However, the thing is that getting the students into trouble means getting them ''killed'', which Ms. Applegate is ''counting on'', since no kids means she (and her "little rat" as she so affectionately calls you) gets to go home early.
* Aqua from ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' is a more benevolent version. [[WordOfGod Nomura]] has described her as an "honour student-type", and she follows Master Eraqus's teachings the closest out of the three protagonists, [[spoiler:even spying on Terra for him]]. This does not stop her being very loyal to the other two, however. Mess with them and she ''will'' kick your ass. Also, it turns out this is a very much [[JustifiedTrope justified]] example of the trope, because [[spoiler:Terra ends up repeatedly tricked into committing evil up to and including ''killing Master Eraqus'', and Ven leaves home without permission and almost gets used as the X-Blade. So Aqua's path was the correct one all along.]]
* School swot Einstein in ''VideoGame/SkoolDaze'' and ''Back to Skool'' answers every question in class, prefacing the answer with "Please sir, I cannot tell a lie...". Will also tattle on other students' misdeeds.
* In ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', "Teacher's Pet" is a personality type for students. If a Teacher's Pet finds a corpse or you commit a murder in front of them, they will run for a teacher and bring them to the scene of the crime. If you can clean up the crime scene and dispose of the corpse before they come, the teacher will assume the student to be playing a bad joke on her, and the student will be mentally scarred from the experience.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Jared Sun from ''Webcomic/WeakHero'' is a member of the student council and goes out of his way to suck up to the teachers, making him popular with them but not with the other students.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Oblina from ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' is The Gromble's favorite student and his best pupil when it comes to scaring humans.
* Nanette Manoir from ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda''. To the point where in Angela's fantasy, Nanette [[LiteralAssKissing kisses Mrs. Brinks' butt... literally]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', when Mr. Ratburn moves in with Arthur's family for a little while due to his roof needing repair, the other kids say that Arthur will now be the teacher's pet and always get high marks. Then he gets an "A" on a quiz, apparently confirming their suspicions, although Arthur claims it was because he studied. Binky taunts him with a song:
-->Teacher's pet, Teacher's pet\\
Something, something...\\
[[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion Something that rhymes with pet.]]
* Ginger Foutley from ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' is a self-described "science geek" and frequent kiss up to her chemistry teacher, Mr. Celia. She also happens to be a favorite of her English teacher, Ms. Zorski, due to her talent for writing.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Hide from the episode "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheHeadband The Headband]]" is a star student who gets special treatment from the headmaster and rats out Aang's secret dance party.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Detention}}'' has Shelley, the only kid Ms. Kisskillya likes.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' doesn't have teachers show up on screen due to AdultsAreUseless and MinimalistCast, but [[TheRival Kevin]] mentions that he compliments teachers to get higher marks in the episode "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E11PickAnEd Pick an Ed]]". However, this was out of manipulation and he isn't actually a teacher's pet.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In the episode "[[Recap/KaelooS1E8LetsPlayTeachers Let's Play Teachers]]", [[DitzyGenius Quack Quack]] becomes one since he can answer all the questions correctly in class. [[BookDumb Stumpy]], who never gives any correct answers, angrily calls him a "teacher's pet" and threatens to beat him up at recess.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has a background character named Teacher's Pet. Given how names typically work in this universe, he is most likely exactly what you expect. Twilight Sparkle also served as this while she was still in Canterlot and in the early seasons of the show, doing her best to make Princess Celestia proud of her to the point where the mere ''possibility'' of being tardy on an assignment drove her temporarily insane.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': "Escaping Expulsion" plays the trope for laughs. The student who seeks out and basks in every scrap of praise from her instructor (to the point of making statues of 'Ms Teacher' for extra credit) would be a standard example [[spoiler:were it not for how Lilith Clawthorne is pushing fifty and [[TheDragon commanded Emperor Belos's enforcers]] before [[HeelFaceTurn going rogue and sacrificing her magic]] for the sake of her marginally younger sister; whereas her instructor in the use of [[GeometricMagic glyphs]], Luz Noceda, is a [[TrappedInAnotherWorld fourteen year old human girl]] and said sister's [[FamilyOfChoice foster daughter in all but name]]]].
* Randall from ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' is the class tattletale, who snitches on the other kids for [[SadistTeacher Ms. Finster]].
* Martin Prince from the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is this to Ms. Krabappel. A bookworm who serves as a sort of rival and {{foil}} to Bart (famously an "underachiever and proud of it"), his enthusiasm makes him the only student who cares about what Ms. Krabappel does and also a giant BullyMagnet.
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