Tiffany, Gunther and the other outsiders......

As I've said before, the 'adult' members of the cast of Luann are fairly stupid and tend to see what they want to when they look at the teenagers; this, of course, means that they fall like a ton of bricks for the witless machinations of the former queen bee, Tiffany; this meant that she could do a lot of damage and simply blow it off because she made a point of not seeing what she was doing was wrong. The problem, of course, is that not everyone in Pittsville is a cretin; the Powers-that-be decided one fine day that they'd rather not have a brassy, opportunistic tart be the face of their town. This vacuum was, to her displeasure, filled by Luann; it's too bad that she's so selfish and vain. Otherwise, she'd hook up with that dime-story Anthony Gunther and get under the new boss's skin. It's not as if he wouldn't be eager to do so; since the girl he's imprinted himself on has the annoying habit of hanging out with boys that make him bear an even stronger resemblance to a ventriloquist's dummy than he usually does, trying to make Luann jealous would probably appeal to him. The problem is, of course, that he doesn't really have to; Evans seems to have it in his head that he and Luann are destined to be shoved together in the relationship dynamic called "Shlumpy Guy and Hot Wife." This might not be what Luann herself wants right now but, well, when she gets out into the World, she'll see things differently. For instance, she'll realize that Crystal the Goth hangs out with Tiffany because she's a blast to be around and seems salvageable; she might even realize that grinning idiot Knute doesn't open his eyes because he's either baked half the time or he thinks that he's the second coming of Crazy Harry Klinghorn from Funky Winkerbean.