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"Hot for Teacher" is a song on Van Halen
Van Halen

Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
's album, 1984
1984 (Van Halen album)

1984 is the sixth album by United States hard rock band Van Halen. One of the band's more popular albums , 1984 is the final album featuring singer David Lee Roth, who later left the band in the spring of the following year due to escalating tensions between him and guitarist Eddie Van Halen, as well as Roth's desire to pursue a sol...
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The sexually suggestive song was best known for its near motorcycle like drum fills and its music video
Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
 featuring the band as both adults and young students in a high school
High school

High school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term originated in Scotland and spread to the New World countries as the high prestige that the Scottish educational system had at the time led several countries to employ Scottish educators to develop the...
. The PMRC protested it, calling for it to be pulled from both the radio and television, due to the song's sexually suggestive lyrics referring to sex with a teacher, and a beautiful female teacher stripping in the video, among other issues.






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"Hot for Teacher" is a song on Van Halen
Van Halen

Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
's album, 1984
1984 (Van Halen album)

1984 is the sixth album by United States hard rock band Van Halen. One of the band's more popular albums , 1984 is the final album featuring singer David Lee Roth, who later left the band in the spring of the following year due to escalating tensions between him and guitarist Eddie Van Halen, as well as Roth's desire to pursue a sol...
.

The sexually suggestive song was best known for its near motorcycle like drum fills and its music video
Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
 featuring the band as both adults and young students in a high school
High school

High school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term originated in Scotland and spread to the New World countries as the high prestige that the Scottish educational system had at the time led several countries to employ Scottish educators to develop the...
. The PMRC protested it, calling for it to be pulled from both the radio and television, due to the song's sexually suggestive lyrics referring to sex with a teacher, and a beautiful female teacher stripping in the video, among other issues. In 2009 it was named the 36th best hard rock song of all time
VH1 Greatest Hard Rock Songs

VH1 Greatest Hard Rock Songs was a program on VH1 Classic provided by VH1. Hosted by Bret Michaels, it was a five-part program that first aired from December 29, 2008, to January 2, 2009....
 by VH1
VH1

VH1 is an United States cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in television, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slighter older demographic than its sister channel, focusing on the lighter, softer side of popular music....
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The ending of this song comes from a studio outtake from the band's club days, entitled "Voodoo Queen".

Music video detail

The music video (directed by Pete Angelus and David Lee Roth
David Lee Roth

David Lee Roth is an United States Rock and roll vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality, best known as the lead singer of Van Halen....
) was filmed at John Marshall High School, with Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman

Phil Hartman was a Canada-born United Statesn actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family emigrated to the United States when he was ten....
 performing the voice of Waldo, the video's hero. Along with Waldo, the "kid versions" of Van Halen face the trials and tribulations of (shown in black-and-white
Black-and-white

Black-and-white is a number of monochrome forms in visual arts. Most forms of visual technology start out in black and white, then slowly evolve into color as technology progresses....
) grade school, until the swimsuited schoolteacher arrives. In the end, the kids grow up to become gynecologists (Alex
Alex Van Halen

Alexander Arthur Van Halen is a Dutch-American drummer and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen.Originally, his brother Eddie Van Halen had taken lessons for drums, while Alex practiced guitar....
), sumo wrestlers (Mike), psychiatric hospital
Psychiatric hospital

A psychiatric hospital is a hospital specializing in the treatment of serious mental illness, usually for relatively long-term inpatients.Two rules usually govern whether someone should be placed in a psychiatric hospital: if someone is an immediate threat to harm themselves, or to harm other people....
 patients (Eddie
Eddie Van Halen

Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen , is a Dutch-American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and music producer, most famous as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen....
), playboy
Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, with a presence in nearly every medium....
s (Waldo) and game show hosts (Dave
David Lee Roth

David Lee Roth is an United States Rock and roll vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality, best known as the lead singer of Van Halen....
's real-world aspiration). There are also scenes that show badly-choreographed dance moves of the rock band.

The music video for 2006's "Situations" by Escape the Fate
Escape The Fate

Escape The Fate is an United States post-hardcore band from Las Vegas, Nevada. Their first full-length album, Dying Is Your Latest Fashion, was released on September 26, 2006, and their second full-length album, This War Is Ours, was released on October 21, 2008....
 is based on the video for this song.

The song is also well known for its long opening drum solo.

Cultural references

The song is also referred to in the NewsRadio
NewsRadio

NewsRadio is an United States Situation comedy, originally broadcast from 1995 in television to 1999 in television on NBC.The show was created by executive producer Paul Simms and taped in front of a studio audience at CBS Studio Center....
 episode Kids
NewsRadio season 3

This is a detailed list of NewsRadio episodes from the third season. See List of NewsRadio episodes for a complete list of all NewsRadio episodes....
, a sitcom which starred Hartman. The song reportedly was inspired by high school teacher Meaghan Walsh.

The song also appears in Guitar Hero World Tour
Guitar Hero World Tour

Guitar Hero World Tour is a music video game developed by Neversoft and published by RedOctane and Activision. It is the fourth main entry in the Guitar Hero ....
 as one of the most difficult songs on the setlist. In fact, potential Guitar Hero game testers must be able to pass the song on Expert difficulty.

In the Family Guy
Family Guy

Family Guy is an animated cartoon Television in the United States Situation comedy created by Seth MacFarlane that airs on Fox Broadcasting Company and regularly on other television networks in syndication....
 episode Untitled Griffin Family History
Untitled Griffin Family History

"Untitled Griffin Family History" also known as "The Griffin Family History", is the twenty-seventh episode of the fourth season of Family Guy....
 Nate Griffin says to an African version of Joe, "I'm going off to find a log to build a drum so I can play the opening part from Hot for Teacher."

Chart position

Chart (1984)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 10056


External links

  • on VH1 Classic
    VH1 Classic

    VH1 Classic is an American television network started on May 8, 2000. It is operated as part of MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom. It primarily features music videos and concert footage from the 1970s through the mid-1990s, though it formerly included a wider range of genres and time periods....
     website