Klaus Kendall

Klaus Kendall (Paul F. Tompkins) is, along with Bill, one of the Shop teachers at Hamilton High School. He was the guest on Season 1, Episode 1 of the Teacher's Lounge.
He never takes off his safety glasses and requires his students to say a prayer before working with any wood. He has also been known to eat wooden food, such as “balsabaisse” and pine nuts (pine whittled down to acorn-sized chunks), which he brings in to share with his students. Unbeknownst to the class, they are currently working on building a church for Mr. Kendall's druidic sect.
Mr. Kendall built his own house, including the foundation, entirely out of wood. Many of Mr. Kendall’s neighbours have complained that the house is a “tinderbox” that could catch on fire at any moment.
Mr. Kendall is also the founder of a nature-worshipping church of reformed druids that currently has 10 members. Many of the church’s rituals require the members to be nude, but they do sometimes wear cloaks. However, Mr. Kendall’s “cloak” is more of a short, brown, cloak-colored shirt that doesn’t cover his genitals, because he can’t afford a real cloak on a teacher’s salary. He has requested that anyone at the school donate any spare brown clothing that goes past the thighs.
Despite his worship of nature, Mr. Kendall has a profound hatred of animals, as he believes that animals are unnecessary when people and plants exist. He will even goes so far as to insult meat before eating it. Conversely, he will thank Mother Gaia for wood before he eats that.
During his episode of the Teacher’s Lounge, Mr. Kendall participated in a segment entitled “The Cafeteria Critic” where he would eat and review various food items from the cafeteria. To ensure that this be a blind taste test, the teachers painted all the food items green. Unfortunately, this complicated the food-reviewing process as all the food items tasted strongly of paint with the beverage being entirely paint.
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