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If you children are bad, or if you answer a problem wrong, I'll wiggle my ears, stick out my tongue, and turn you into apples!

— Mrs. Gorf in "Mrs. Gorf"

Mrs. Gorf was the meanest teacher in the history of Wayside School and used to teach the thirtieth story. She had the power to turn students into apples. However, after being hit by a shot she sent reflected by a mirror, she was turned into an apple and eaten.

Personality[]

In the Wayside School books, Mrs. Gorf is immediately introduced as the "meanest teacher at Wayside School." She dislikes children, and was very strict, and if the students did anything she disliked, such as crying or sneezing, she'd turn them into apples, something she does like, as is stated in "Mrs. Gorf." While the reason she dislikes students is unknown, it leads to her playing a recurring antagonistic role in the Wayside School series, tormenting the students with her mean and wicked personality. She is quick to punish students, even transforming them into apples for minor offenses such as sneezing in class or falling out of a chair. It is possible that Mrs. Gorf is also somewhat lazy, as in "Mrs. Gorf," she feels relieved when all the students are transformed into apples, as she thinks she'll never have to walk up thirty flights of stairs ever again. However, when attacked by the students in her class, transformed into apples, she begins to threaten them, but gives up fairly quickly, eventually agreeing to turn them back into children. That being said, she does not hesitate to change them back to apples, as she almost does so to Maurecia when she plans on getting Louis, only getting transformed herself due to a mirror held up by Jenny. However, in the cartoon, Maurecia held the mirror.

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Trivia[]

  • In the cartoon, she had magical, evil powers to turn anything into any type of fruits until she was defeated, her beam color was yellow with a orange outline.
  • Mrs. Gorf is portrayed by Julie Lemieux (the stand-in voice for Mrs. Jewls when Kathleen Lasky is absent).
  • She has a son named Mr. Gorf.
  • In the cartoon, it is revealed that she is responsible for Maurecia's tomboyish personality. Maurecia's pet porcupine, Fluffy, was also turned into a pineapple. Oddly, before she turned Myron into a potato, she seemed to be inspired by Myron's rebellion and hinted that she might be friends with him. From then on, the evil teacher was never, ever seen again.
  • In the books, she first turned Joe into an apple, while in the cartoon, she first turned Leslie into an apple.
  • In the books, Jenny held up a mirror and turned her into an apple, whereas in the cartoon, Maurecia held up the mirror and turned her into an apple.
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