Ms. Flamiel

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Ms. Flamiel was a fictional character in the Warner Bros. animated television series Animaniacs. She made only a few appearances, but her first and most prominent one was in Chalkboard Bungle, which first aired October 4, 1993.

She was hired by Thaddeus Plotz to try and teach the Warners. She didn't seem to be able to think of life outside the classroom, telling Plotz off for gum chewing and drawing a red 'F' on Ralph The Guard's head for using a double negative by telling her that he "ain't never seen her before".

After being warned that the Warners could be difficult she said that so could she, and there had never been a child she couldn't handle, except Buddy Hackett.

Ms. Flamiel favoured the old fashioned strict rules of teaching. Her actual age was indeterminable, but she seemed to be middle-aged to elderly. She had brown hair tied back in a bun and wore steel-rimmed spectacles. She always wore a plain purple school marm dress.

She also was quick to anger if people didn't cooperate with her. This meant that she became very frustrated and annoyed with the Warners who took everything she said literally and misunderstood what she was trying to ask them—for example when she asked Wakko to multiply he made multiple copies of himself, and when she later asked Dot to tell her something about the great scientists of the 19th century she replied, "They're all dead." When Ms. Flamiel angrily told her that wasn't the answer she was looking for she replied "All right, they're all living!" She also asked Yakko if he could conjugate and he replied, "I've never even kissed a girl!"

In the same episode the Warners misinterpreted her pop quiz to be something involving pop music and soft drinks. When she tried to get them to recite the Pledge of Allegiance by repeating after her they repeated everything she said, such as "Please repeat after me," "No, no wait until I start THEN repeat after me," "Stop that, I'm warning you!," "STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!," "If you don't stop it right now I shall scream!," "All right, that's it!" and "AAAARRGH!" Also, when she was accidentally taken to the Warner Tower, she screamed: "If you don't let me down right now, I'll give you an F! F! EEEEEFFFFF!"

By the end of the episode, Ms. Flamiel had not been able to teach them anything and had only been met with frustration and gave them Fs. That made Yakko disappointed, Dot crying, and Wakko really, really, really boiling mad. The Warners managed to lock her in a crate that had been designed to take them back to their water tower and instead took her there, where she screamed that she'd give the crane driver an "F".

Despite this, she continued to be the Warners' teacher, though she only appeared in short sketches which usually preceded a song which ironically had some educational content in them. In these over sketches the same humour of her trying to teach them and them misuderstanding what she meant continued, but both her and the Warners seemed a lot calmer and co-operative with one another.

Once she appeared she had a book with her called Mathematics, as Easy as Pi and tried to get the Warners to answer questions by turning the classroom into a game show. This quite zany approach actually worked, though perhaps given how weird the Warners were it isn't surprising. This skit was arguably one of the funnier moments in the show's history, as when asked to name all 50 states and capitals, Wakko successfully gives them all out in a comical song routine. After finishing the song, however, Wakko is disappointed to find out that the answer was judged wrong, because he failed to give the answer in the form of a question, Jeopardy!-style. (See also Jeopardy! in culture.)