Macdonald Hall starts off the year in a fix due to a new dress code, and Bruno, Boots, and the rest of the ensemble soon find out that a new assistant has arrived, Walter C. Wizzle - a strange man intent on instituting a new set of rules at the school.

She turns the school into a military camp with her strict physical training exercises and morning calisthenics.

Through romantic flirting and planned dinners, they actually manage to get them married, and the two schools turn back to normal.

His goal is to modernize Macdonald Hall as the school of the future with his software program and rules based on his psychological research.

As a result of his teaching methods the school atmosphere becomes tense and rigid due to his dress code and the teachers don't like him, including the Headmaster, Mr. Sturgeon, who has an intense dislike of the man.

He is a firm but kind headmaster who privately harbors admiration for his students and is nicknamed the Fish due to his name and his "cold, fishy stare."

Miss Gloria Peabody An ex-marine from Fort Constitution (a marine training camp) who becomes Ms. Scrimmage's assistant.

[4] The name Gunhold has appeared in other works by Korman, as a marathon runner, the recipient of a diploma, and the namesake of a warehouse.