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Cameron Diaz has made a whole lot of movies throughout her career, her recent and seemingly concluded hiatus from acting notwithstanding<\/a> … but if you haven’t seen her pitch-dark 2011 comedy “Bad Teacher,” you’re missing out. If you haven’t seen the 2014 TV adaptation of “Bad Teacher,”\u00a0which happens to star Sara Gilbert \u2014 a veteran of “The Big Bang Theory” \u2014\u00a0that’s … probably for the best.<\/p>\n Let’s start with the original movie, which stars Diaz as Elizabeth Halsey, the titular “bad teacher” who barely cares about her job and is thrilled at the idea of quitting after she marries her wealthy fianc\u00e9 Mark (Nat Faxon) \u2014 only for Mark to break up with her because she’s so selfish and treats him horribly. Stuck in her job as a middle school teacher, Diaz develops a wild fixation on a new teacher named Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake) \u2014 much to the chagrin of her work nemesis and fellow teacher Amy Squirrel (Lucy Punch), whose bubbly exterior masks a seriously dark mind. When Elizabeth finds out that he typically dates seriously busty girls, she decides she desperately needs a breast augmentation and concocts a demented plan to fudge her class’ standardized test scores to secure a bonus. Along the way, she forms an unexpected bond with the school’s equally careless but deeply affable gym teacher, Russell Gettis, played by “How I Met Your Mother” and “Shrinking” star Jason Segel<\/a>.<\/p>\n The film was definitely a box office success \u2014 earning $216 million on a modest $20 million budget \u2014 but didn’t fare as well with critics. Still, CBS decided to launch a TV adaptation with Diaz as a producer … and it flopped after just 13 episodes, earning a cancellation partway through its inaugural season. So what happened, and who did Gilbert even play? (Hint:\u00a0not<\/em> the character based on Elizabeth.)<\/p>\n