Mr. Blankenship

Mr. Blankenshipis the antagonist in the second story in Tales to Give You Goosebumps, Teacher's Pet, as well as one of the antagonists in the television adaptation.

Story
When Becca Thompson and Benjy Connor enter the sixth grade, they unfortunately ended up with Mr. Blankenship as their teacher. Mr. Blankenship is a skinny, balding man who fills his classroom with cages of snakes. Day after day, Mr. Blankenship adds more snake cages, to the point that Becca and Benjy think something must be up with him. Not only does he enjoy snakes, but he even acts like one, hissing over a lost mouse. Becca and Benjy sneak into the school one night to free all the mice that Mr. Blankenship has been using to feed his snakes. However, they soon discover Mr. Blankenship shed his human skin and is actually a giant snake himself. The two kids make a run for it. The next day however, they promise to feed Mr. Blankenship mice as long as he doesn't hurt them.

Episode
Becca and Benjy, along with their class, are at a nature center to learn about the food chain. To demonstrate, Mr. Blankenship feeds a mouse to a snake, which bothers Becca and Benjy. Later on, Becca finds a bunny with a lizard's face. They eventually discover that Mr. Blankenship has been experimenting on animals and himself to create the ultimate predator. He then transforms into a giant snake. Becca manages to defeat Mr. Blankenship by throwing a formula on him that turns him into a fly. The next day, the kids return home, thinking they no longer have to worry about Mr. Blankenship, but the now fly Mr. Blankenship follows them, saying that they're wrong.

Appearance
Mr. Blankenship is described as a skinny balding man, who wears a long turtleneck sweater with a snakeskin pattern.

Trivia

 * Mr. Blankenship's actor, Richard McMillan, also played Spidey in "Say Cheese and Die".