Tiffany Blum-Deckler

Tiffany Blum-Deckler
First appearance	Esteemsters
Last appearance	Is It College Yet?
Voiced by	Ashley Albert
Episode count	41 (2 non-speaking) 2 TV movies
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Gender	Female
Age	15-17
Occupation	Student at Lawndale High
Family
Significant other(s)

Tiffany Blum-Deckler is a member of the Fashion Club. She is largely known for her cluelessness.

Character Overview

Tiffany is a member of the Fashion Club of Lawndale High. She is portrayed to be clueless and terminally narcissistic. She speaks with a semi-Valley Girl drawl, and almost always speaks it veeeeerrrryyyyyy ssssslllloooowwwwllllyyyy.

She is in many of Quinn Morgendorffer's classes.

Tiffany's Cluelessness

It is difficult to exaggerate this character's cluelessness. Many of her scenes in the show deal with this, and it is often used as the basis of the humor in her scenes. Tiffany's cluelessness defines the character and is critical to it.

For example, in the episode It Happened One Nut, where Tiffany, volunteering as a career counselor "to help the socially challenged," is unable to get through what appears to be a simple, written speech that serves as an introduction to the counseling program.

In the Season Two episodes The Daria Hunter and Fair Enough, Tiffany switches her loyalties from Sandi Griffin to Quinn at the drop of a hat. This led to speculation in the fan community that perhaps the character wasn't as clueless as she appeared to be, and perhaps was even attempting to take over the Fashion Club by using Quinn as a wedge against Sandi. However, subsequent episodes appear to have indicated that, yes, she really is that dumb. More excellent examples of her cluelessness are found in the episode Fat Like Me.

In Lucky Strike, a substitute teacher even attempts to flirt with her, even going so far as to stroke her hair in class and this all still goes completely over Tiffany's head. Later on, when her class is told to write a 200 word essay on what they think about a play, Tiffany's horrified objection is "think?".

Early Tiffany

In her first few episodes in S1, Tiffany actually spoke at normal speed and seemed less clueless. There is never an in-universe reason for the change.

In the shooting script for "The Invitation", she is simply called "Popular Girl Two" (Popular Girl being Popular Girl One and Sandi being named). Presumably, it was only later on that MTV decided to make her into a full character.

Fanfic Stereotypes

Jewish Tiffany

Because of her last name, Tiffany is usually seen as Jewish. Nothing is ever done with this concept in the show, and Tiffany's entire religious side is summed up in the (unintentionally) ironic comment she makes in "Dye! Dye! My Darling": "I love philosophy."

Adopted Tiffany

Also because of her last name and her Asian appearance, she is usually depicted as an adopted child. Her ethnic origins are debated but usually boil down to Chinese, Japanese, or Vietnamese. Her biological mother is occasionally named as Angela Li, for obvious reasons.

Fantastic Tiffany

Many fanfic authors have commented that because Tiffany is portrayed as so unintelligent and one-dimensional, it is difficult to elaborate on her character. This leads some authors to reveal that she is actually a robot, an alien, a super-hero, or has some other surprising twist in her background that no one knows about. But all we know she is just a mutated fugu fish: slow, quiet, brainless, deadly for human neurons and looks very similar ;)

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Fanfiction about Tiffany

• Her First New Dress by HeirOfNorton
• Not So Slow by Jim North
• tutor by Jim North

Trivia

Tiffany's surname name was originally established in "The Invitation", as one of several people called Tiffany. It was only much later that it was revealed that was Tiffany Blum-Deckler.

External Links

• "It's Only a Paper Moon," on the Daria Fandom Blog II