Teacher/Student Romance - TV Tropes

"I've got it bad, got it bad, got it bad, I'm hot for teacher."

• Call of the Night: While Niko doesn't go out of her way to encourage her students into falling for her, she absolutely loves it when they develop a crush on her and then return to her years later as grown adults. It makes Yamori wonder how she's allowed to be a teacher in the first place.
• The Quintessential Quintuplets has a rather unusual case, with a character being on both ends of the trope at different stages of her life. Rena Nakano, the quintuplets' late mother, fell in love and married her former teacher Mudou but he abandoned her after he learned of her pregnancy. She became a teacher herself and eventually married again, this time to Maruo, one of her own students.
• School Mermaid plays this trope a couple different ways:
  • The teacher Noriko (who's approaching Old Maid territory) wants her student Morita for herself, which puts her at odds with Misaki, whom Noriko thinks wants the same boy, and is willing to both activate the mermaid curse and eat the flesh of the M mermaid to force Morita to love her, and kill Misaki to ensure she doesn't get him first. She only learns too late that Misaki is going after someone else whose name starts with the letter M, but is unable to eat the flesh of the M Mermaid in time and becomes a mermaid herself.
  • That 'M' person Misaki was trying to get? Her English teacher Manabe. And unlike Noriko, she succeeds. At the end of the story, she's seen in his car as they plan to be together after he divorces his wife. Later revelations put this in a much worse light. The mermaids went feral around Misaki, which (as revealed in later chapters) only happens if the object of the hunter's affections already returns them. In other words Manabe was already in love with Misaki.
• In Tona-Gura!, Hatsune Arisaka's former teacher Kogorou, also leading to a case of Teacher/Student Romance on Hatsune's part. Younger sister Kazuki's awkward pursuer Yuuji Kagura suspects he also holds these feelings for Kazuki, also a former student. Best evidence is, Yuuji's wrong, although Kogorou is flattered by her attention. Given the age difference between Hatsune and Kogorou, some feel this may make him a bigger pervert than Yuuji.
• In UQ Holder!, Touta gets himself wrapped up in a very weird Time-Travel Romance with a younger version of his teacher/adoptive mother Yukihime. Note that none of this took place during the time that she was his teacher.

• 21 Jump Street, Ms. Griggs gets the hots for Jenko the first time he attends her class. Of course, he's actually an undercover cop in his twenties and not a real high school student, so there really isn't any issue. She does a terrible job at hiding it and Jenko is confused by her actions, however it's revealed during the end credits that they had sex while he was high as a kite and he doesn't remember it.
• Blame (2017): Abigail and Mr. Woods grow increasingly close while rehearsing The Crucible, getting to the point that he kisses her. He realizes that it was wrong though, backing away from anything else. Unknown to him though, Melissa also has feelings for him, with her jealousy over this resulting in her plotting against him.
• The Eiger Sanction. A pretty blonde female student writes a note to her friend about their art professor (Jon Hemlock, played by Clint Eastwood) who is also a mountain climber: "He can climb all over me." When she approaches him after class seeking Sextra Credit however he brushes her off, as he "refuses to sleep with students or drunks".

  Student: If there was anything I could do to get a better grade. I mean, I'd be willing to do anything. [Hemlock turns to look at her] Anything at all, really.
  Hemlock: Are you...busy this evening?
  Student: [smiles] No!
  Hemlock: Do you live alone?
  Student: Well my roommate's gone for the week...
  Hemlock: Good. Then go on home, break out the books, and study your little ass off. That's the best way to maintain a "B" average.
  [The student walks off in a snit, giving the audience a Male Gaze look at her rear]
  Hemlock: [smirks] Don't study it all off.

• If These Walls Could Talk: Christine was having a relationship with her college professor, Jim Harris, who is decades older than her and married. Given the age difference and him being in a position of authority over her, it's not presented as a healthy situation for Christine, especially when she tells him she's pregnant; he is quick to end their relationship and just hands Christine some money for an abortion, leading her to realise he never really cared about her.
• The Invisible Maniac played with this a bit. Kevin Dornwinkle, who's got some... major sexual hangups due to his atrocious upbringing gets the old "I'll do anything for an A" come-on from one of his more voluptuous blonde remedial students, but basically brushes her off by advising her to study more. The school principal, a gal who evidently Really Gets Around, manages to seduce one of his rather lecherous and weak-willed male students, who's also the Designated Hero with a similar ploy, however. This rather sordid situation culminates with the Principal later attempting to seduce Kevin Dornwinkle as well, who proves to be no pushover despite the rather prurient ways he's previously shown using his invisibility formula.

  Kevin Dornwinkle: "Ever since I was in grade school, I've wanted to do this to a principal." [Moves in to kiss her, sliding her blouse down off her shoulders...]
  [ ...and then stabs her to death with a letter opener. That is indeed what a lot of kids in grade school would like to do to their teachers and principals.]

• The school psychologist and Micah get it on in Easy A. He's not the brightest bulb in the tree, though, and is well over the age of consent. Of course, his wildly conservative parents aren't too happy once he gets chlamydia...
• Liberal Arts: Jesse Fischer has had a crush on his former Professor Judith Fairfield since his days as a student. They had a one-night stand near the end of the film that ended on a terrible note.
• A Simple Favor: Implied between Beth and Sean. He's a professor and she's his TA. Emily says they all had a threesome together, but Sean denies it.
• This concept is viciously deconstructed in the aptly named indie film (and Hulu series based off the film), A Teacher, where the affair between Diana, the teacher, and her teenage student Eric is shown to be toxic and comes off as more creepy and uncomfortable than sexy, or captivating. What starts as a hot, infatuated fling grows into obsession as Diana is shown to be extremely mentally unstable and Eric obviously has no idea how to deal with it; the looming threat of being caught and the fallout that would arise also does no favors for their relationship. The film ends with Diana crying, alone, in a motel room while listening to a voicemail that very heavily implies that Eric confessed, meaning she's not only going to be thoroughly humiliated, possibly criminally charged, and certainly fired, but she's also lost the object of her obsession. In the series, Claire (the teacher's name for the series) confesses, serves prison time, and loses everything. While Claire's trying to apologize, Eric makes it clear that she scarred him for life and that he’ll never forgive her.
• In Teachers (1984), one of Alex's students has to get an abortion after she's impregnated by the gym teacher.

• Doing It by Melvin Burgess subverts the hell out of this trope by showing just how psychologically messed up a teacher would have to be to want to have sex with her student and why, in the long run, this sort of relationship would be damaging to the student in question.
• The protagonist of Election hates the student who had an affair with his friend and ruined his career then starts having an affair with her too, but she's already out of school by then.
• The Empirium Trilogy: Subverted with Rielle and her tutor, Tal. Rielle had a crush on Tal when she was younger and had erotic fantasies about him every so often when she got older. Tal states that he loves Rielle, though whether or not his feelings are romantic or purely platonic is left ambiguous.^note 
• The short story "Hands" revolves around a teacher who's been falsely accused of an affair with a student and run out of town.
• Subverted in We Need to Talk About Kevin, in which the titular character claims his teacher made advances toward him. Though we only hear about the incident through an unreliable narrator, it is likely that nothing of the sort took place, and Kevin is just trying to get the teacher fired for the hell of it.

• Subverted in 10 Things I Hate About You; in order to shed her 'good-girl' image, Bianca fakes a rumor about her relationship with an older man, who is later thought to be the Geometry teacher, Mr. Ross. Things go too far, of course, and nobody believes that Bianca was lying. Mr. Ross never heard the rumor, but was revealed to, in fact, have a relationship with another girl, and sent to prison.
• Happens with almost disturbing frequency in 21 Jump Street. It helps that Johnny Depp's character was in his mid-twenties, not actually a student, and in the most egregious example, met before he was actually assigned to her school.
• At least half of the plots on Boston Public consisted of this trope, or fake-outs (where it was revealed at the last minute that the relationship was a hoax).
• There are indications of such feelings in Grissom and Sara's dialogue on CSI. They met when he was a lecturer at the college she was attending. But, they did not act on anything to do with those feelings until many years later, likely sparing both a lot of trouble.
• Franklin & Bash has an episode dealing with this where the teacher unknowingly had a one-night stand with a student who seemed older. They met at a beach before she started teaching at his school, and took her to a bar so she thought he was over 21. Franklin has to defend her to the school board, and crushes on her a little during the case, leading to Bash invoking the page quote.
• One episode of The George Lopez Show addressed the Double Standard of this trope.
• Medium: Indirectly causes a lot of emotional stress for psychic teen Ariel Dubois: Her college interviewer's dead husband fathered a child with one of his students, and asks Ariel to erase the file with incriminating photos on his (now his wife's) computer in exchange for a perfect interview with his wife. Ariel does so but then decides to do the right thing and restore the file. The interviewer returns to tell Ariel that she's going to help the baby financially, but unfortunately for Ariel's future, she also thinks that she planted the file after being dumped by her husband. Even the dead husband is stunned despite knowing what would happen. The very next episode, Ariel starts losing time Futurama-style, jumping hours, then years into the future where she's Happily Married to a friend from high school and they have an adorable daughter. She's certain the time-skips have to do with a teacher who was murdered right before the decade-long jump, and right before her mom is about to tell her how the teacher's kid ties into all this, she's thrown ahead another seven years — where her mother is dead, killed that same night. Desperate for answers, she goes to see the dead teacher's son, who's the spitting image of high school sweetheart husband who's about to kill her — and then she wakes up, safe in the present and a few hours before her teacher's murder by her teenage baby daddy (he had a full-ride scholarship and wasn't about to risk it for his desperate ex-lover). Needless to say, after all that, Ariel really needs a hug.
• Modern Family: After getting arrested for underage drinking and assaulting a cop while at college, Haley must appear before a disciplinary board that will decide whether or not she will be expelled. She breaks down and confesses some of her misdeeds to the board. One of the things she confesses to is dating a teaching assistant, something that she apparently did twice. In the end, Haley is expelled from college.
• One episode of Shark involves characters theorizing that the motive a boy had for the murder of his father involved a sexual relationship with his art teacher. Stark quotes the public official alluded to the top of this article. The theory was inaccurate.
• This was a category on Win Ben Stein's Money. As every category had a terrible pun for a name, this one was "Teachers Who Got Hot Under The Scholar".
• There is an episode of Yeralash where a boy prints photos of his female teacher. His father calls him a sycophant. However, right then, the teacher comes and complains the boy doesn't like her. They go into his room to show her wrong... turns out he's been using the photos as Dartboards of Hate. When one of the suction cup arrows intended for a photo sticks on the father's forehead, the mother's only response is "That'll teach you not to say our son's a sycophant".

• In Anne of Green Gables, there is definitely something sexual going on between Mr. Phillips and Prissy Andrews. The dynamics of the relationship are never elaborated on, but a Teen Pregnancy and a Shotgun Wedding are implied as a result.
• Happens in The Sparrow between student-body president/cheerleading squad captain Jenny McGrath and biology teacher Mr. Christopher. Jenny goes into Mr. Christopher's room during the Homecoming Dance to confide in him, as she is jealous of Emily Book's popularity after she used her telekinetic powers to save Jenny from falling off the Greenview banner that hangs in the gym. Jenny giggles after receiving attention from Mr. Christopher, which reminds him of his dead wife. They slow-dance, which leads them to share a kiss.

• Parodied in Brütal Legend. The Battle Nuns are latex-clad demonic nuns who talk like very, very naughty teachers to their demonic servants.
• In Psychonauts Milla jokingly calls Raz a "flirt" when he attempts to suck up to her.
• The questline starting with The Legend of Stalvan in World of Warcraft introduces you, after the fact, to a one-sided version of this gone very, very wrong.
• In Yandere Simulator, the substitute School Nurse Muja Kina is one of the rivals Yandere-chan must stop from winning Senpai's affections.

• Freeware game don't take it personally babe, it just ain't your story takes many Shoujo and Visual Novel tropes and runs with them, and this one is no exception. However, by casting the Player Character as the teacher instead of the student, it allows the player to determine whether the Trope is Subverted, Averted, Deconstructed, or even Reconstructed. This works because the Teacher Student Romance student is, otherwise, the most emotionally well-adjusted member of the class.
• In Fate/hollow ataraxia, Souichiro's wife Medea feels jealous of his students because they get to stare at him and listen to him talk for hours. (Then again, she feels jealous of everyone.) This is one of many things that alienate her from Shirou, an actual student who knows how boring modern schools are and doesn't understand Medea's belief that her husband is the best guy on earth.

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• Echo Rose: Discussed as backstory, where the disappeared Zoey was reportedly bullied due to rumors that she was having sex with a professor.

• In Birdz, Eddie Storkowitz has the hots for his teacher, Miss Finch. It's entirely one-sided, though.
• Family Guy:
  • In "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High," Chris crushes on his sexy, scantily clad English teacher Mrs. Lockhart. When she learns of his feelings from Peter ("Our son would like to... plow you?"), she instructs him to kill her husband so that they can be together. (Of course, she has no intention of "being together" with Chris at all; she just wants her husband dead.) The plot was loosely based on the Real Life case of Pamela Smart.
  • In "Running Mates", Lois is running for School Council president, she refers to the fact that her opponent opposes background checks for teachers and questions what kind of person she would hire. Cue cutaway to an algebra teacher slipping a student a note asking her "Do you like me? Yes? No? Maybe?" before grinning lecherously at her.
  • Then there was "E. Peterbus Unum", where Peter seceded from the US and Lois had to teach Meg and Chris. Chris tries to pass a note to Meg, Lois sees it...

    Lois: Read it out, Chris.
    Chris: "I think Mrs. Griffin's hot!"
    Lois: Go to your room.

• The Simpsons:
  • In "Bart the Lover", Bart finds out that his teacher Mrs. Krabappel has a classified ad in the paper. He answers it with a fake name and picture, gets her to really fall for him, then stands her up when they're set to meet, breaking her heart. At this point, he realizes that the joke has gone too far and, with his family's help, writes a letter that breaks off the relationship in a kinder way.
  • In "That '90s Show" it is revealed that Marge in The '90s was in love with her professor Stefane August at Springfield University. Marge left Homer for Stefane and they started dating until Marge found out he didn't want to get married at all and that he was actually not at all like her.