Miss Lenhart

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Miss Lenhart

Miss Lenhart from comic 499: Scantron, the first named apperance.
First appearance 135: Substitute (mentioned only)
Appearances 30

Miss Lenhart is the go-to character when Randall needs a teacher. She has white hair of shoulder length, and is thus a named version of Blondie, like Rob is a named version of Cueball.

Miss Lenhart has only been named two times where she actually appears. The first time she is both drawn and mentioned by name is in 499: Scantron and the only other time (so far by comic 1731) is in 1050: Forgot Algebra. But her name was used before for a not shown teacher in 135: Substitute, which is why it makes sense to call the math teacher in 263: Certainty for Miss Lenhart. That would thus make it the first time she appeared as a character in a comic.

Her family name is again the only thing used in 416: Zealous Autoconfig, although there it does not directly say she is a teacher although school is mentioned but it is for her children. Thus the name is first connected directly to the blonde teacher in her fifth "appearance" after she has also been drawn in 442: xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel.

Later her name is used again without she is present, except on the phone in 704: Principle of Explosion. Here she is Mrs. Lenhart, but maybe this character is just the mom of Miss Lenhart, or because she here obviously have a son, she may have been married after she was originally named miss.

So her name is mentioned in total five times. So the other comics with Miss Lenhart refers to a teacher with her appearance, just like Megan only has been named a few times, but is still used to describe the general dark haired woman. However, Miss Lenhart must have long blonde hair, so a teacher with her hair in a ponytail, like in 982: Set Theory, is not Miss Lenhart but Ponytail, even though the teaching method reminds of the one in 1724: Proofs with Miss Lenhart.