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Im 14 years Old and I looove Our miss Brooks!! matter of fact My last Name Is Brooks!! =D but i download her shows for free on itunes its awesome My ipod is full of her episodes LONG LIVE OUR MISS BROOKS!! ♥♥

A guest wrote, "Everyone's favorite high school English teacher never got Mr. Boynton..."

That is not exactly true. Shortly after the TV series ended, the cast reunited in the Our Miss Brooks movie where Brooks and Boynton finally tied the knot.

NEVER!!!!!!!! This was one of the few shows that made a seamless transition from radio to television! (The others are Jack Benny and Burns and Allen). Eve Arden was perfection in her role. Arden beats out Lucille Ball in my books any day. and special mention must be made of Gale Gordon. This guy was COMEDY LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!! Every thing from Fibber Mcgee and Molly to The Lucy Show to Our Miss Brooks was better because of him. Any one who hasn't seen him lose his temper tantrum needs to!!!!! I can't believe this show has been relegated to the 99 cent bins. It rocks!

This is not a JTS comment, but rather an amusing point regarding my watching this show as a kid (around 5). By this time the show was already in syndicated reruns. Anyway, I saw an episode that really scared me. Connie, Walter, and Principal Conklin were painting the principal's office. They were using a new paint that was the brainchild of (I think) Walter and it contained liquid cement. While testing the painted surface to check for dryness, Conklin, Connie, and others got stuck to the walls, telephone (why in the world did they paint the telephone?), furniture, etc. To this day I don't know why, but it scared me that they might be permanently stuck to the painted surfaces. It was the only time in my life that I was scared by watching a sitcom.

When they started releasing old time radio shows for customers in the early 1970s, I became a fan of this show with the story about the new French teacher. He was a hunk and his accent drove the women crazy. Even Miss Brooks was tempted to dump Mr. Boynton for this guy! Loved the part where they agreed to meet in the park after school. Of course, school didn't let out until three, it was a twenty-minute walk to the park, and there were many errands that she had to do in school after dismissal. So naturally she asks if they can get together at three ten! Then when he makes his proposal, Connie is shocked to find out that he is married. He says that for her, he has another proposal. To which Connie replied, "Any other proposal is only good for a sock in the nosal!" Only Eve could have made those lines funny. The show was a hit because it was taped to allow Eve time to work in the movies. If it had to be performed live, it never would have caught on and eventually become a smash hit for the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. I just wish TV Land would rerun this show again.

When Connie Brooks left Madison High and became headmistress at the private school

Relatively harmless show. I caught it on late night during summer break when I was 12. Apparently, they were showing 50s shows all summer. Like the above posters, Miss Brooks was the High School English Teacher I wished I had. Some students would crack jokes about her age (ie Wow, Miss Brooks, you went to school here, too, I didn't know this place was around in the Olden Days). Instead of getting mad, Miss Brooks would come back with a witty sarcastic remark and make the student look like an idiot (ie That's right. I came here every day on a horse and buggy with my textbook personally autographed by Ralph Waldo Emerson). She also had good lines about the pittance of a salary that she was paid (even today, teachers are grossly underpaid). It always seemed that the premise was that Miss Brooks wanted to do something and the Nazi school she worked for didn't want her to do it and was always threatening to fire her (despite the fact that these things had nothing to do with the school, or occurred on school property, or on school time). There was one episode where Miss Brooks wants to get a loan for a car, but can't get one because of her low salary at the school. However, she can easily get a job as a waitress in a diner at night to make extra money, and the loan officer will then approve her loan. The only problem is the school says she's not allowed to moonlight (despite that she can work both jobs and it DOES NOT affect her teaching). Fearing, that she might be recognized, she pretends to be her twin sister, Bonnie Brooks. It works for a while until a school official walks in the diner. Impressed by "Bonnie's" get-go, he offers her a job at the school - the same one her twin sister works at. She plans to go in to turn down the job, but has to pose as both people for a while. Using, a secret hallway, she switches from Bonnie to Connie, and drives poor Gale Gordon nuts as he suspects that Bonnie and Connie are the same person. Eventually, Miss Brooks is busted, but after confessing to buying a car, and seeing that the second job does not affect her teaching performance, the Nazi school graciously "allows" Miss Brooks to continue working her second job at the diner until the car is paid off.

As I remember this show never jumped. Miss Brooks was the school teacher I wish I had. Smart and not condescending or preachy. I remember her riding to school in Walter Dentons jalopy. That look on her face!! Also Mr. Conklin as played by Gale Gordon. And Mrs Davis' cats' name was Minerva.

Everyone's favorite high school English teacher never got Mr. Boynton, Mr. Conklin never had a heart attack, Dexter Gordon never got smart, Mrs. Davis never lost Minerva and Our Miss Brooks never jumped!

This was a great show, and was even better on radio. Although I loved seeing Eve Arden

About 12 or so years ago I had the pleasure of sitting next to a very old Eve Arden in a college theatre during a horrendously boring matinee performance of some dumb-ass Mime Review Extravaganza show. Ms. Arden's knee pressed against my leg for some time (lightly at first and then with more pressure) until, finally, I turned my head and looked at her -- praying to not catch her winking and licking her lips in my direction or something. What I saw was that the poor gal had fallen asleep. I decided to let her keep her leg pressed against mine as I did not want to wake her. This is the point whereupon all her shows jumped for me: she let rip a juicy, loud, ripe and stank FART. Yes, Eve Arden farted on me. She farted on me while snoring and drooling away. So, not only was I forced to endure a Mime Review, but all the while I was steeping in a steamy cloud of old lady farty smell. Silly Eve! God bless ya'! My story is 100-percent true.

When the show left Madison High School and Miss Brooks became an grade school teacher She was always everyone's favorite High English teacher. Her landlady was Mrs. Davis Oh Connie she would say Wish reruns were on the air.