Favorite fictional professor

[pokerfan]

Poll question: Favorite fictional professor

[PassingFair]

1. What? No Dumbledore?

http://blog.sanriotown.com/b-side:mymelody.com/files/2007/10/albus_dumbledore.jpg

[pokerfan]

2. I've never seen or read HP

[jobycom]

15. Maybe you should skip Gilligan's Island for a week to read it?

:P

[Twillig]

3. Wernstrom!!

He owns Professor Farnsworth in all ways.

Nevermind the undeserved A- he received at his hands.

[pokerfan]

4. He gets points for the ponytail (n/t)

[Ptah]

5. Professor Ned Brainard

[yawnmaster]

6. No jones?

[poiuytsister]

8. Absolutely Jones, duh!

I love the co-ed in his class with "love you" written on her eyelids.

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Ooh! Gets my vote for sure!

[NMDemDist2]

36. +1, that was who popped into my mind immediately n/t

[graywarrior]

7. Professor Snape

*swoon*

[NecklyTyler]

9. Doctor Emmett Lathrop "Doc" Brown

[poiuytsister]

10. Julius Kelp

Aww... That's no way to talk. Tsk, tsk, tsk. "What'll it be?" That's no way to treat a customer. C'mere. Try it like this. Pay attention. You'll feel better and the customers'll be happier. Try this: "What'll it be? Hmmm?"

[Graybeard]

11. Prof. Barnhardt, a very thinly veiled Albert Einstein.

Played by Sam Jaffe who had graduated City College of NY and studied Engineering at Columbia University. Movie lore says that Jaffe provided the calculus equations on the blackboard himself, making sure that they were all accurate (except of course the ones that Klaatu corrects.)

[El Supremo]

17. Yes!

"They allow me to travel the galaxy." Or something like that.

[Graybeard]

22. Barnhardt: "Sit down please...

...there are several thousand questions I'd like to ask you."

[Flaxbee]

12. Hm. Can't decide between Barnhardt or Seldon

Well, my husband probably couldn't decide between the two. I'll choose Dumbledore :)

[kayakjohnny]

13. Probably these two....

[MrScorpio]

14. Indiana Jones!

[david13]

16. Dr. Pangloss.

[jobycom]

19. ..

delete

[El Supremo]

18. What ? No Jerry Lewis?

[Whoa_Nelly]

20. Mr. Chips?

:( Goodbye Mr. Chips :(

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064382/

[jobycom]

21. Zelda Spellman

As a sidenote, try to think of fictional female professors. McGonagal (who was a high school teacher, not a professor by American terms), Zelda (from Sabrina the Teenage Witch), Elaine Miller (from Almost Famous), and Diane Turner (from Back to School), were the only reasonably prominent ones I could think of.

[Duer 157099]

23. I must go with the skull full of mush guy

That was a great show

[canoeist52]

24. Professor Henry Higgins - Rex Harrison in "My fair Lady"

[canoeist52]

25. Professor Harold Hill - Robert Preston in "The Music Man"

[canoeist52]

26. Professor Irwin Corey

"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."
- Professor Irwin Corey

[BarbaRosa]

41. 'The World's Foremost Authority'

:thumbsup:

[proteus_lives]

28. You forgot Professor Xavier!

"To me, my X-Men!"

[Auggie]

29. Moriarty -- one bad dude

[Orrex]

30. Roy Hinkley

Which of those other slackers could have built a fully functional dentist's suite out of bamboo and thatch?


Yet somehow the esoteric art of the boatwright managed to elude him.

[bluesbassman]

31. Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

[cemaphonic]

32. Charles Kinbote.

If that is his real name...

[MilesColtrane]

34. We musicians have a saying, "Too hip for the room.".

[cemaphonic]

37. Oh trust me, I can do it with music too.

OTOH, someone else downthread posted Nabokov's *other* famous mentally-ill academic. So I'm not the only one.

[hunter]

33. Buckaroo Banzai

"You can check your anatomy all you want, and even though there may be normal variation, when it comes right down to it, this far inside the head it all looks the same. No, no, no, don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to."

and

"Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don't be mean; we don't have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

[nolabear]

35. Humbert Humbert

though I may take some heat for being so fascinated by someone who, by the simplest explanation, is a pedophile. He's a great delusional literary character, though, and I have to confess Jeremy Irons' audio book version of Lolita makes me weak in the knees.

[Vidar]

38. Hari Seldon. I miss Asimov.

[AsahinaKimi]

39. Why No Dr. Jones?

I love Indiana Jones... and Harrison Ford is great!!

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

40. My sweet Professor Pnin

One of my all time favorite books

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

[Gidney N Cloyd]

42. Waldo Wigglesworth

[Ikonoklast]

43. "Good news, everybody!"

"You are all going to die in a hideously painful and gruesome manner! Ta-ta, now!"

[Tikki]

44. Oooh...Charlie and Amita...

p.s. Amita is, also, a professor...


Tikki