The Best Ms. Ingram Quotes

Ms. Ingram: He's so intelligent, I had to study every night just to keep up.

Ms. Ingram: [Is teaching, then stops] Georgie, where's your brother?
Georgie: I dunno. Do you really want him here?
[She thinks for a beat, then goes on happily teaching]

Ms. Ingram: [in the teachers' break room] I mean, why'd I bother becoming a teacher? He knows what I'm gonna say before I say it, or I say it and look like a dumbbell.
Ms. MacElroy: Mm-hmm.
Sheldon: [flashback] Ms. Ingram, may I offer a suggestion?
Ms. Ingram: [trying to hold back her frustration] What?
Sheldon: Never mind. You do it your way.
Ms. Ingram: No, no. You tell me. Tell me how I'm wrong.
Sheldon: You assumed an extra axiom of Euclidian geometry without stating it.
Coach: [returning to the break room] Was he right?
Ms. Ingram: 'Course he's right. He's always right.
Ms. MacElroy: Tell you what I do. I send him on little errands. Like, the other day, I told him "Go to the supply room and get me a framastan."
Coach: What's a framastan?
Ms. MacElroy: No such thing. I made it up.
[they share a laugh]
Ms. MacElroy: He was gone the whole period!
Coach: That's genius.
Ms. Ingram: I'm using that.
Ms. MacElroy: Don't use "framastan". That's mine.