Mr. Peabody & Sherman2014

Teacher:
George Washington. Who can tell me who he is?

Sherman:
[raising his hand] Oh, me! I can! I can!

Teacher:
[looking through her student checklist] Uh, Sherman.

Sherman:
The first president of the United States of America.

Teacher:
Good job. And when President Washington was a little boy, what kind of tree did he cut down?

Sherman:
[raising his hand again] Oh, oh, me, me! Me, me!

Teacher:
[as Penny raises her hand] Penny?

Penny:
A cherry tree.

Sherman:
Apocryphal.

Teacher:
What kind of tree is that?

Sherman:
It's not a tree; it's a word. Apocryphal. It means that story is not true.

Teacher:
Really?

Sherman:
Yeah. George Washington never cut down a cherry tree, and he never said he couldn't lie. People made those stories up to teach kids a lesson about lying, but they're not true. He did cross the Delaware River Christmas night, 1776, though. My dad took me there this summer. We crossed it, too. I fell in.

[The class, except Penny, laugh]

Teacher:
[astonished] Well, looks like someone really knows their history, huh, Penny?

[Penny glares and growls jealously at Sherman and snaps her pencil in half]