The Substitute Teacher

"Come one! Quit the mean teacher act! It's me, ya' boy."

- Ginger

The Substitute Teacher is the 13th episode of third season of Talking Tom and Friends.

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Talking Ben’s a substitute teacher and he’s got epic ideas for the kids’ science fair project! But with Talking Ginger in the class, things don’t quite go to plan.

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Ms. Vanthrax has a cold, so she asks Talking Ben to be the substitute teacher for her class. Ben is elated, especially since today the class is going to be deciding on a project for the science fair. But when Talking Ginger tries to blow off the assignment, thinking that his friendship with Ben will keep him from doing any work, Ben has to show the class he means business.

Plot
Ben was repairing the fridge when his phone rings. Vanthrax was calling because she was sick and asked Ben to be the substitute teacher. She also wanted Ben to think of a project for the class' science fair.

Ginger walks to school to find Ben in the classroom. During class Ginger draws an offensive drawing of Ben, so Ben loses his temper and gave the whole class recess detention. Meanwhile, Hank was at home, traumatized that the fridge was broken. He madly eats the food before it spoils.

The class was angry at Ginger for losing them their recess, but Ginger convinces them to attack Ben with pea shooters instead. Ben storms home and rants about the misbehaving kids. So, Tom instructs him to be a "cool teacher" instead. Ben walks to school and they play video games and skateboard in the hallways together.

However, in the end they had to figure out a project for the science fair. However, when Ben tried to explain it to them the class started to rebel. Ginger throws a paper airplane but misses. Ben explains how the plane was off-balance, and the class is interested. So, for the project they decide to work on paper airplanes.

Velma enters to find the class throwing paper airplanes. At first she is greatly disappointed by Ben, but then sees Ginger writing an equation on the board for his plane. Amazed that he somehow got Ginger to do math, she quickly changes her mind. It also turns out that Angela hired someone to fix the broken fridge.

Characters

 * Tom
 * Hank
 * Ben
 * Mrs. Vanthrax
 * Angela
 * Ginger
 * Darren (non-speaking)
 * Ronnie
 * Mel (non-speaking cameo)
 * Pilar (non-speaking cameo)
 * Mike

Locations

 * School
 * The Studio

Cast

 * Colin Hanks as Tom
 * Tom Kenny as Hank
 * James Adomian as Ben and Ronnie
 * Laraine Newman as Ms. Vanthrax
 * Lisa Schwartz as Angela
 * Maria Bamford as Ginger

Trivia

 * This episode was originally called “Ben the Teacher“ and later “Substitute Ben”.
 * The song that was played when Ginger threw the paper airplane was "Air on the G String" by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
 * The preview for this episode misled people to believe that Velma was going to pass away in this episode.