!!Series

* ActingForTwo:
** Taylor, Tyler and Trevor are all voiced by Creator/PamelaAdlon.
** Chelsey and Kelsey are both voiced by Creator/CreeSummer.
** All the kittens in "A Few Good Boys" were voiced by Creator/KathSoucie.
* ActorAllusion: This wasn't Creator/WallaceShawn's first time [[WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie voicing a school principal]], [[WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle nor would it be the last time]]. Bonus points for the fact that these are ''all Disney works''.
* CelebrityVoiceActor: One of the show's biggest draws was Creator/NathanLane voicing Spot/Scott and, to a lesser extent, Creator/JerryStiller as Pretty Boy. While celebrities in animated features had become the norm by that point, having big names star in an animated TV series was ''always'' a huge rarity.
* ChannelHop: From ABC to Creator/ToonDisney midway through its second season.
* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Leonard and Leslie's voice actors, Shaun Fleming and Mae Whitman, were twelve and eleven respectively when recording began in 1999. Minor characters are also occasionally voiced by real kids on the show, like Emma.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
** French: ''Scott''
** German: ''Klassenhund'' (''Class Dog'')
** Greek: ''Spot, to oneiro enos skylou'' (''Spot, the Dream of a Dog'')
** Polish: ''Pupilek'' (''Teacher's Pet'')
** Brazilian Portuguese: ''O Cãozinho Esperto'' (''The Smart Doggy'')
** European Portuguese: ''Este Cão é um Craque'' (''This Dog is an Ace'')
** Russian: ''Любимчик'' (''The Pet'')
** Spanish: ''La Mascota de la Clase'' (''The Pet of the Class'')
** Swedish: ''En jycke i klassen'' (''A Pooch in Class'')
* DawsonCasting: Played straight with all the fourth graders except Leonard and Leslie (well, played ''somewhat'' straight with them too actually, since they are both about nine or ten and in fourth grade. Shaun Fleming was twelve and Creator/MaeWhitman was eleven when recording began and probably in sixth grade).
* DuelingShows: Almost. The ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' short ''Stewy the Dog Boy'' was planned to receive a spin-off (which was about a dog wanting to go to school, so he disguises himself as a human), but when Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} found out about ''Teacher's Pet'', the ''Stewy'' spin-off was cancelled. Funnily enough, Gary Baseman, the creator, did a short for ''[=KaBlam!=]'', ''The Louie and Louie Show'' during it's first season.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Over the years, the only official release was the VHS/DVD for the feature film, which included the pilot as a bonus feature. To make matters worse, the only torrents available seem to be a couple of Russian-dubbed episodes. At one point, the entire second season was available in [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120629024845/http://www.cosmoleech.com/news/spot_to_oneiro_enos_skyloy_2h_sezon_ola_ta_epeisodia_teacher_s_pet_complete_season_2_dvb_t_clgrtv_metaglwttismena_sta_ellhnika/2012-06-24-26615 Greek]] before the [[https://ezaccess.at.ua/news/spot_to_oneiro_enos_skyloy_2h_sezon_ola_ta_epeisodia_teacher_s_pet_complete_season_2_dvb_t_clgrtv_metaglwttismena_sta_ellhnika/2012-06-24-6847 links]] were taken down. Only [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1yptn7 one episode]] was saved before this happened.
** '''2008-13:''' While a good handful of VHS recordings were uploaded in late 2008 (and later on in early 2013 by another uploader), Disney took down every episode from Website/YouTube back in June 2013 due to copyright infringement. Later that year, many episodes that were on [=YouTube=] were re-uploaded to a [[https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Disneys-Teachers-Pet/237014486449604 Facebook Fan page]] and later onto [[http://www.dailymotion.com/disneys-teachers-pet#video=x1eskjh Dailymotion]] in March 2014.
** At one point, Creator/{{Netflix}} had asked Disney for the rights to it, but nothing ever came out of it.
** As of '''January 2017''', 37 out of 39 episodes have been found in English (Although some recordings suffer from low quality due to poor recordings), and while the other two missing episodes have been uploaded in Russian or Tagalog, it's still one of the rarest Disney shows to be found, given how poor many of the VHS-rips are (Let Sleeping-Over Dogs Lie, Costume Pity Party, etc)
** '''January-July 2017:''' The second season aired in English [[https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ms&u=http://www.mptv360.com.my/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TV3-January-Schedule-2017-as-of-22-December-2016.xlsx&prev=search once a week]] on the Malaysian channel [[https://www.facebook.com/237014486449604/videos/779668195517561/ TV3]]. In mid–June, [[https://www.facebook.com/237014486449604/videos/860758880741825/ "The Flipper"]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/237014486449604/videos/864674897016890/ "The Blight Before Christmas"]] aired, and the recordings were made available online, completing the series.
** Cut to '''November 12, 2019''', when the entire series was added to Creator/DisneyPlus in its original widescreen format as opposed to the "Pan and Scan" copies that aired nearly two decades ago.
* NoExportForYou: The series and movie were never released in Japan.
* NonSingingVoice: Whenever Pretty Boy sings opera, you can bet your sweet tuckus that's ''not'' Jerry Stiller singing. Averted with any musical number featuring him, however, as he provides his own vocals for the character.
** Spot/Scott is a bit of an interesting case. While Lane was able to play his role for the entirety of the first season and half of the second, whenever Spot/Scott would sing in season 2, Kevin Schon would take over instead, likely due to scheduling issues on Lane's part (see TheOtherDarrin below).
* TheOtherDarrin: Spot/Scott Leadready II was voiced by Nathan Lane for the majority of the series, but throughout various episodes in the second half of season two, Kevin Schon was the one to voice the character since Lane was working on Broadway in ''Theatre/TheProducers'' (Schon also previously filled in for Lane as Timon in the [[WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa animated spin-off]]).
* RecursiveAdaptation: The episode "The Nose Knows" is adapted from "Food for Thought", a four-page comic story based on the cartoon that was featured in the October 2000 issue of ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures''.
* ReleaseDateChange: The Season Two premiere was originally slated to air on [[https://www.facebook.com/DisneysTeachersPet/photos/a.462789757205408/1618499688301070 September 15, 2001]] before airing the following week. The reason for this was because of the [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11 attacks]], which had all four major networks broadcasting uninterrupted news coverage (Teacher's Pet originally aired on ABC). This resulted in many premieres of TV shows being delayed by a week or two.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The show had great ratings and reviews, however Disney cancelled it in 2002 because of the Creator/OneSaturdayMorning block getting the boot for ABC Kids (only ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', which was '''the''' most popular show on the block, survived the block switch, and it was in reruns). It doesn't help that during its' second season, ABC damned it to a 7:00 AM time-slot, when (most of the time) the target audience would still be asleep.
** It did get a theatrical movie, though... which unfortunately bombed in the box office due to poor promotion on Disney's part.
* SimilarlyNamedWorks: "The Turkey Who Came To Dinner" is also the name of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' Thanskgiving episode...which has a very similar premise.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** According to an interview with Gary Baseman, Mary Lou was originally intended to be more of a hot mom, and was going to be [[HartmanHips more buxom and wear tighter pants]]. [[ExecutiveMeddling Disney said no.]]
** An early drawing of the characters have surfaced, showing that Leonard's father ''was'' going to be in the show (which includes an early Mary Lou design), [[https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/teachers-pet/images/e/e4/Image.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20130825001845 but never appeared]].

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!!Film

* AcclaimedFlop: It received glowing reviews, but Disney's InvisibleAdvertising kept it from making a profit.
* ActorAllusion: Creator/KelseyGrammer voiced [[WesternAnimation/RunawayBrain another mad scientist in a 1995 animated short film produced by Disney]]
* BoxOfficeBomb: A complete lack of marketing, as well as a decidedly un-Disney appearance (at least according to the filmmakers), resulted in poor sales for TheMovie. Disney didn't even advertise the home video release. Some would even say that the film should have been direct to video. Budget: $10 million. Gross: $6.5 million.
* DeletedScene: There was a deleted ending in the movie where Spot dresses up as Scott Leadready again and convinces Leonard’s mom to drive him home (with the other pets holding onto the RV’s ladder), so she doesn’t figure out they are in Florida.
* GenreKiller: Its failure made it the last Disney TV series to be adapted into a theatrical movie, and besides the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' film being theatrically released in Spain, it's likely to remain that way.[[note]]Disney ''was'' planning to release a proper theatrical ''Phineas and Ferb'' film at one point and the studio originally aimed to release ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'' theatrically before it was announced during pre-production that the film would be streaming exclusively on Creator/DisneyPlus, so perhaps not all hope is lost.[[/note]]
* InMemoriam: The film is dedicated to Hubcaps, Gary Baseman's dog, who died during production.
* TheOriginalDarrin: Creator/NathanLane returns to voice Spot/Scott after Kevin Schon took over the role for the last few episodes.
* ReleaseDateChange: The movie was going to be released on September 5, 2003. For unknown reasons, it was moved to February 2004, and then got moved up to [[DumpMonths January 16, 2004]].

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