Miss Deer Teacher

> And I asked him, "Why do you eat your homework?" And he said, "'Cause I don't have a dog!"
>
> Miss Deer Teacher, "Be Still My Harp"

**Miss Deer Teacher** is a supporting character in the series *Kiff*. She is Kiff and Barry's homeroom teacher at Table Town Middle School.

## Profile

Miss Deer Teacher is, as her name implies, a deer who is a teacher at Table Town Middle School. Her homeroom class includes Kiff Chatterley, Barry Buns, and their friends. Miss Deer Teacher teaches Kiff and her classmates several subjects, including history and science. She is 33 years old, as stated in "Fresh Outta Grandmas".

## Appearance

Miss Deer Teacher is a deer with orange and cream fur, with a brown nose, antlers, and hooves. She typically walks bipedally like the majority of Table Town's animal residents, but is sometimes seen walking on all fours.

## Personality

Miss Deer Teacher is a cheerful and enthusiastic teacher who loves her job. Nonetheless, she can also be stern when her class misbehaves, as seen in "Life on the Inside".

## Relationships

### Kiff Chatterley

Miss Deer Teacher views Kiff as a model student and is happy to help when Kiff needs her assistance, even in matters unrelated to school. In "Be Still My Harp", Kiff seeks her help when Barry gets stuck between the strings of a harp, and in "Lost and Found", she suggests to Kiff and Barry that her old college acquaintance Rob Sadly may be the owner of a lost journal in Kiff and Barry's possession.

Kiff helps Miss Deer Teacher liven up her dates with Dante by giving her advice inspired by the soap opera *Smoldering Cove* in "Soup Opera". Later, Kiff and Martin attempt to rescue her when they fear that Dante may be plotting to steal her identity.

In "Life on the Inside", Miss Deer Teacher is disappointed in Kiff when she incorrectly assumes that Kiff defied her order to stay seated in class. She sends Kiff to detention, then does the same to Barry when he calls out Kiff's punishment as unfair.

### Mr. Ri-Peppa

Mr. Ri-Peppa steals and eats Miss Deer Teacher's sandwich in the faculty lounge in "Faculty Lounge", and nearly gets away with it until Kiff makes his colleagues aware of his offense.

### Dante

Miss Deer Teacher briefly dates Dante in "Soup Opera". After an awkward first date, she is able to smooth things over with him thanks to advice from Kiff, and manages to enliven their subsequent dates using Kiff's tips. However, she breaks up with Dante after realizing that his mild-mannered personality is incompatible with her own, and decides to concentrate on loving herself for the time being.

## Trivia

* She is shown to have antlers, despite only males having antlers in most species of deer. Caribou (or reindeer) are the only species of deer in which both males and females have antlers.
* She is seen performing stand-up comedy in "Be Still My Harp".
* She talks to her childhood stuffed toys and has dinner parties with them as if they were alive, as shown in "Ghost Wolf's Art".
* In an early concept sheet for the series:
	+ Her real name is given as "Lisa Deer", though this name ultimately went unused.
	+ She is described as "terminally single" and prone to mentioning her love life, traits which were downplayed in the final series, with only one episode ("Soup Opera") referencing her love life.

## References

1. ↑ Confirmed in "Fresh Outta Grandmas".
2. ↑ burai1992 (May 5, 2023). Concept Art for "Kiff". *Reddit*. Retrieved on September 6, 2023.