Pop culture educators who led wild double lives

Sure, Henry Jones Jr. could have just settled for being the professor all the students were gaga over. However, the man who goes by Indiana had a thirst for adventure, and a passion for hands-on archaeology. The Indiana Jones films, starting with the seminal “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” are only exciting because Jones steps away from his office hours to do stuff like hunt the Ark of the Covenant.

Walter White had a major-league double life, as he kept his secret from just about everybody for as long as he could. Diagnosed with cancer, Walt decides to use his chemistry skills to make meth to try and earn some money for his family when he’s gone. Of course, over the course of “Breaking Bad,” Walt becomes more and more ingrained in his Heisenberg persona, emerging as a ruthless drug kingpin in the iconic AMC show.

“Riverdale” took the “Archie” comics and added a degree of soapiness and, to use the ratings guide parlance, sexual situations. Look no further than the tweak on Miss Geraldine Grundy from the comics for that. In the comics, Miss Grundy is an older, stern woman. In “Riverdale,” she’s an attractive woman in her thirties. Also, in addition to teaching, she’s secretly having an illicit, illegal affair with Archie. It ends up turning out that “Miss Grundy” is Jennifer Gibson, who stole the identity of a dead woman and is on the run. Anyway, in the season two premiere the “Black Hood” strangles her to death with a cello bow. You know, “Archie” comics!

If you wanted a delightfully-smarmy antagonist in an ‘80s comedy, you cast William Atherton in the role. Case in point, “Real Genius,” where he plays Professor Jerry Hathaway. Hathaway is the leader of a prestigious laser science lab at the acclaimed Pacific Tech (modeled after Caltech), and he has his elite students working on a laser project. Unbeknownst to them, at least at first, Professor Hathaway has secretly been hired by the CIA to develop a laser weapon for them. Fortunately, Hathaway gets his comeuppance, and it’s great, because he’s played by William Atherton.

In the bananas world of “South Park,” all sorts of characters get up to all sorts of stuff. Mr. Garrison is no different. He effectively has a secondary persona through his puppet Mr. Hat, which is kind of like a double life, if not a secret one. However, late in the show's run, he also inexplicably became President of the United States, even if he was never referred to as Mr. Garrison during that time.

Assistant principal Lamar Bone is a strict taskmaster at Doug Funnie’s school in “Doug.” However, that doesn’t mean he can’t let loose. On the side, Mr. Bone is a fan of clog dancing, but also yodeling. In fact, he makes yodeling music, sometimes solo, sometimes with a group. He once even recorded a yodeling song that got into the hands of Patti Mayonnaise unintentionally.

In one specific episode of “The Simpsons,” Principal Skinner reveals quite the secret life. In “The Principal and the Pauper,” it is revealed that Principal Skinner is not the “real” Seymour Skinner. No, he was a street hood named Armin Tamzarian who took the identity of his commanding officer after the Vietnam War, under the presumption the real Skinner was dead. Now, this has been retconned out of existence for the most part, even by the end of said episode, but it happened on the show, and that gets Principal Skinner on this list.

When Sherlock Holmes needed an archenemy, he got James Moriarty. The “Napoleon of Crime” has to match wits with Sherlock, and he has the brains to do that. While, in the books, Professor Moriarty was booted from his college before he really began his criminal career, he was an esteemed professor of mathematics, and in some versions he is still a teacher.

Robert Langdon is basically Indiana Jones, but dumber and more boring. Well, not necessarily Langdon himself, but the book series, and films, he comes from. Dan Brown’s books, starting with “The Da Vinci Code” have more in common with the “National Treasure” films than the Indiana Jones movies, but Tom Hanks did play the professor turned adventurer.

Basically every “Harry Potter” teacher has a double life. Atop the list, though, there’s Albus Dumbledore. You'd think being the headmaster of Hogwarts would be enough, but Dumbledore is also the leader, and founder, of the Order of the Phoenix, a group dedicated to fighting Voldemort.

The thing about “The Nutty Professor” is that you don’t really think about the fact that, oh yeah, Sherman Klump is a professor. It’s right in the name of the movie! We just focus more on the fact that when Sherman takes the formula he created, he turns into Buddy Love. That takes living a double life to the extreme!

First, if you haven’t watched “3rd Rock from the Sun” in a bit, give it a viewing. It’s a fun show! Dıck is the professor of physics at Pendleton State University in Rutherford, Ohio, where he is frequently annoyed by his students’ inability to grasp his lectures. And yet, Professor Solomon seems to barely understand basically societal interactions and cultural touchstones. Could it be because he’s an alien secretly masquerading as a human with the rest of the Solomon family? Yeah, it’s probably that.

Zelda has a little in common with Dıck Solomon. She’s an extremely successful teacher, later professor, with a lot of success to her name. She has a bit of an upper hand, though, given that Sabrina’s aunt is, like her niece, a witch. Zelda tends to be the more antagonistic of Sabrina’s two aunts, and also much more self-aggrandizing than Sabrina or Aunt Hilda.

It’s good to have hobbies outside of work, but if your passion becomes an obsession, that can be a problem. In addition to being an elementary school teacher, Mr. Crocker is preoccupied with proving the existence of fairies. That’s tricky for Timmy Turner in “The Fairly OddParents,” as he has fairy godparents he has to keep away from his teacher.

Cinnamon Scudworth is ineffective as the principal of Clone High in the series of the same name. That being said, his scientific work is impressive. The guy managed to create clones of the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Joan of Arc! Unbeknownst to the amusing genetic copies, Scudworth is also part of a secret government conspiracy. Fortunately, he’s bad at it.

Senor Chang teaches the study group in “Community” Spanish 101. In addition to his sordid personal life, and his secret paintball skills, it turns out that Ben Chang has a secret: He’s not a qualified teacher. That leads to him becoming a student, and later a security guard, and then even later the dictator of Greendale Community College. It’s quite the journey.

Ms. Frizzle may seem like your typical daffy elementary school teacher, but there is more than meets the eye with Frizzle. She apparently has a bus driver’s license! Oh, and she has access to a magic school bus that she uses to take her kids through space and time. Yes, Ms. Frizzle takes her class on field trips during school, but when you can drive a bus into space or into the digestive system, you get to be considered somebody with a double life.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein is trying to distance himself from his grandfather Victor, so much so he insists on pronouncing his name as “Fronk-en-steen.” You can see this frustration about his family’s past when he is working as a lecturer at a medical school in America. Then, he heads to his family’s castle in Transylvania, and he decides to secretly follow through on his granddad’s experiments. Hilarity ensues in “Young Frankenstein.”

In the self-aware comedy “21 Jump Street,” Rob Riggle’s Mr. Walters seems like your typical gym teacher and high school coach. Then, we get the late-movie twist. The drug that Schmidt and Jenko are sent undercover to ferret out turns out to be distributed by Walters. He was the main antagonist all along!

Shale takes the secret life of a teacher to a whole new degree. In fact, when he’s working as a substitute in “The Substitute,” he uses the name James Smith and has a whole false identity. See, Shale isn’t actually a teacher in this ‘90s thriller, but a mercenary who returns from a botched covert operation in Cuba, only for his girlfriend to be attacked, presumably by the Kings of Destruction, a gang that runs things at her high school. Thus Shale takes on the Smith persona to get to the bottom of things. Violence ensues. Somehow they made sequels.