“Uh huh. Look, can we wrap this up? Mindy and I still have to wash the dishes, serve our other customers, cook the pizzas, wipe down the tables, balance the cash register, mop the floors, empty the trash, wash the windows, and wind up the band box.”
OK, so apparently the whole thing with Luann and Mrs. Horner didn’t actually result in any meaningful change since she’s still taking a bunch of random classes next year with no direction and has no interest in doing anything medical. So what was the point of that whole storyline again?
True, he’s that way now, but at the very beginning of the strip he was presented as a clueless loser. He stabilized later on.