Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for April 17, 2023

Who are you and what have you done to my real students?

Give them some kind of reward for it. Studies show that an unexpected reward after someone does something increases the likelihood of them spontaneously doing that thing in the future, where promising them a reward beforehand decreases it.

Call Mulder and Scully. Your class has been replaced with aliens.

Celebrate the class!

…and then he woke up…

Skip the ticket, you’ve used up your alloted luck for the week.

Don’t press your luck.

Sorry but you are too late. All of the luck has been used for the next two months, at least.

I don’t know if this has ever been brought up before, but how come Michael and the teacher wear identical shirts?