Professor Marie Katherine Wiseman is a museum scientist in the television series of Curious George. She works in both research and administrative capacities. Her intelligent colleagues include Professor Alvin Einstein and Professor Anthony Pizza. She is also a step-motherly figure to George and a close friend with Ted.
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- Professor Wiseman makes her first cameo appearance in Curious George 2: Follow that Monkey.
- She is often a workaholic.
- She wears a lab coat with glasses.
- When Pizza and Einstein threatened to withdraw sponsorship unless she participated in a race, Professor Wiseman reluctantly learned how to run.
- George was her running mentor.
- She took George to a dog show.
- Chef Pisghetti and Netti taught her how to cook.
- Before she learned how to properly cook, Professor Wiseman's cake caused George's mouth to stick shut. Fortunately, Betsy was able to help him.
- The Man gave her a CD for her birthday, and George gave her a peeled clementine glued to a banana peel.
- Professor Wiseman taught George how to make a metal detector from a calculator, a radio, and tape.
- She knows when George is down or sad from his tone of monkey sounds.
- The Man often works with her when there's a problem at the museum.
- Professor Wiseman is the Man's possible close friend/partner.
- In Curious George Gets a Medal and Early Learning Adventure, this character is a male.
- In the book, George wrecks a dinosaur exhibit at the science museum. The museum guards catch George --who wrecked it-- and tell him (Professor Wiseman). And they complain to him about getting a dinosaur exhibit (in their museum) with a monkey in it and he wrecked it. Professor Wiseman gets their story and he (Professor Wiseman) is terribly furious and surprised. He orders them to lock him (George) right way and take him back to the zoo.
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Why, it wasn't two minutes, it was an hour and two minutes. My mistake.
Professor Wiseman's First appearance in Follow that Monkey