Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 10, 2013

“Wink Wink"….

And that goes along with the example I gave of international students training abtoad, coming here to Juliard, then going abroad again to study or play… it should be a toss up, but the power to dictate will ultimately come from the ink and the pen….

Groan Award! Lol!!!!! Good one!….

Here’s a hint: If Bernice is excited and hopeful about it, it’s almost as good as done…. unless this will be the old bait and switch….

Ok, now Luann is moving up to be a senior, so she can graduate with Q… I love this strip but, you have to take the timelines with a grain of salt… not to mention disbelief ;)

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Yeah, it would seem here that the “Temporal Prime Directive” is being violated…. ha ha!

i don’t get the lip gloss reference.

Friday Night Videos? Fer sure! Ha ha… that hour and a half of at least halfway decent (if not more…usually more) top 40, rock and R&B video block…. and also “Night Flight” on Friday or Saturday nights, with all of the independent films, funny clips, interesting segment blocks, music videos and the like……

Wow, what’s with that green LCD?

Also remember when they had all the NBC stars hosting the videos in pre-recorded clips to introduce each one… and of course before the oversaturation of 24 hour channels, the over exposure (literally and figuratively) of celebrities and performers… FNV and the like was the only times when we got to see the “stars”… and that made it a weekly event to sit and watch, and appreciate… “the last vestiges of the human touch”, as it were…. =My wife and I talk about it all the time, and we search YouTube for some of the clips and the like…

Yeah, my wife and I do that, too! Got a bunch of music DVDs VHSs, (and also some sitcom DVDs from that era, for the TGIF block)… we try to stay up and watch shows the way they used to be on Friday nights, and the music videos, too…. and sometimes on Saturday mornings, we pop in the cartoons the same way, when our schedule allows us to…. =And she loves Mannix, Ironside, classic Perry, and CHiPs, and the like… we include that, too… in the key of Archie and Edith, “Those were the days!”…..

We even turn down the sound and do the “voice over” for some of the music videos and tv shows, where we do like they did on “whose line….” replacing people’s dialogue with ad-libs, or coming up with our own literal videos, sort of like the ones they do on YouTube….

Ha ha! Except we don’t have anybody here named Mr. Drysdale!… of course, I didn’t check the phone directory, yet….

I have to say: It would be a great big bomb if Lu and Co. did all of this hopin’ and upbeat speculatin’, as if it would seem a foregone conclusion, and then, wham! A brick wall made up of NO….

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I’m dating myself here but … what about Elvis: “I’m gonna stick like glue … ‘cause I’m stuck on you.”

Well as much as i love the big Q his plane went down over the pacific ocean no survivors

Lip gloss would make the screen a blurry mess when she kisses it.

He’s Soooooo not coming back…

That’s right, Luann. Be practical for a few weeks. You can do it! (?)It’s about 14 hours to the land of OZ, so I’m not sure if he’s landed yet, in Luanniverse time….

I think the “Ray Stevens” version would fit better,

“Ever since I got that tube of ‘Instant Wonder Glue’. . . "

Also, Comic time is NOT congruent with Real-World time.

You’re seriously spiraling……..What does any of this have to do with a cartoon?

LEOYour right theses are only cartoon character

Burmuda?

Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russel’s son spent several years in ALABAMA (with parents) so the kid could play hockey (THAT’s WHERE ELSE). Played for the UAH Chargers.

Don Drysdale did a cameo on Beverly Hillbillies more than once as a distant relative of the Mr. Drysdale character.

“Jay – remember the music videos prior to MTV, – – I think it was “Friday Night Videos?””

Actually, Friday Night Videos debuted well after MTV had launched. It was the first Broadcast network’s response to MTV.

MTV launched 08/01/1981 “Ladies & Gentlemen… Rock & Roll” Friday Night Videos (many of which found their way onto my 1st Betamax tapes) started 07/29/1983, and was an offshoot of the old Dick Ebersole series “The Midnight Special” with “Wolfman Jack.”

“And let the midnight speical….. shine its ever lovin’ light on you!….”

Trivia Quiz: What was the very first video aired on MTV, right after “Ladies & Gentlemen… Rock and Roll…”?

Yeah, when aspiring actors all over the world think about the great drama schools which they would most like to attend and would travel halfway across the globe for the experience, the name that comes up most often is “Pitt High School, California”. It’s practically a factory for cranking out Oscar-winners. That’s certainly worth Quill leaving his family behind and quitting his school in Australia, where he is already half-way through his senior year now!!!

I know this is just a comic (and it strives to be a “funny” one, or at least a moderately amusing one, at that), but doesn’t Greg Evans want us to regard this “slice of life” comic strip as being in any way realistic? The only way this story line could be more far-fetched is if Quill and Luann decide to spend their senior year together by both enrolling in high school on Mars.

Ok. Next stop college….

That is why there is more than one preset on your radio.

I think RETRO carries BJ and the Bear.

How about a plane crash where Q survives but is injured?

Future prediction Brad and Toni have a baby girl who they name Luann in “remembrance” of little sister.

Hope that prediction is wrong. No need for anther Luann to exist for entertainment value.

“Appropriate enough, it was “video Killed the Radio Star,” by The Buggles.”

And…We have a winner!

Video Killed the Radio Star

Oh, BTW, MTV: Ladies and Gentlemen…

Luanns eyes are starting to overtake her head.

… and the week ends with a whimper (or a sigh)…

Skype to my Lu… clever!…..

MeTV runs “Perry Mason” twice a day, at 10 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. (different episodes, not the same episode twice a day).^Yeah, we get it on channel 208 on our cable provider… when I was saying "those were the days, I meant that there were nights when you only needed public broadcast (heavily emphasize the hidden word in it- free and mostly equiptmentless, but 99% emphasize free, LOL!) television to watch it, and quality shows were more abundant for the whole family….. =You also reminded me that I forgot to add Emergency and Wild Wild West onto the list=Oh yeah, almost forgot to “gripe” about how TV Land is subtly changing, too… no more of the all weekend marathons of “Chico And The Man” or “Welcome Back Kotter” or “Get Smart”, etc….. their marathons now are just “not the same”…

“During the 1960s, there was a “Mr. Drysdale”…but he was a pitcher named Don, not a banker named Milburn.” ^For the Angels? Yeah, but I was saying that the difference between Kalee- for-ni-a and here is that we never had a Drysdale at all, but now you just brought up another one… thanks for making us feel more "neglected for us here on the East…LOL! (Just funnin’ with ya!)

As far as I know, BJ and Eight are not on the schedules right now for summer…. check their FB page to see what they have planned for fall…

Yeah, that’s one gripe many have with Comcast… they even took NFL Network off in my area… seriously thinking about Verizon..

Oh yeah, and no “Boomerang” on our Comcast, here… again, tempted to seek out Verizon….

RETRO like METV is a syndicated channel usually offered by local network affiliates on one of the two side and channels made available to them by conversion to digital. In my area, METV is offerred by the NBC affiliate and RETRO by the CBS affiliate. The advantage to this is that they are available over the air as well as cable/satellite.

JPWhiz beat everyone to the answer… of course, I was nowhere near my computer, so I missed the grand prize… at least the one that didn’t involve sharing in the treasure of knowledge….

Well, there was the whole “room incident” where it was in private……but, yeah, I’m sure he loved the PDAs just as much……and probably under the shiniest lights he could find… ha ha!

Am I the only one who thinks that Quill’s plane has crashed…. ????

So, nobody else remembers “Night Flight”, huh?… oh, well…=But, aah, here you go! …. Who was the guest host of the first episode of Friday Night Videos?…..

Go taunt some elderly people

Dave, I’m elderly and don’t feel taunted. I just consider the source…

No, actually…. it’s a “memento in Sacramento”…. it’s the “badge of knowledge”…. the right to be correct… and no taxes to declare, unlike a real contest… =And technically, though the show officially launched after MTV, it was seen by many way before MTV was… even when I did live in the city, there wasn’t a widespread audience for cable… so, in a way, one could say it was out before MTV, not in the official and chronological sense, of course, but only in the sense of getting more opportunity to see FNV before MTV, since FNV was on regular TV and cable was not the widespread medium it is, today…

Ha ha! The logo to me was always like the “pencil of doom” (though I know it represents the videos being seen by the eyes)….

I could look at that clip over and over again (I theoretically could … but I wont… Lol!)… Midnight Special is another one that I miss, though they do have the DVDs….I used to wish that they remade stuff like FNV and the like for the modern day, but in a way, I’m glad they didn’t…. and now I definitely don’t want my MTV… Viacom really messed stuff up… well, I guess not in the sense of their bank accounts…

Okay, Scooby was a “Dobie Gillis” thing…. Fred is the “Dobie” type of image… and each (except for the aforementioned hungry but scaredy cat canine) was a clone from a character in that show…

At first, I was going to edit out the commercials^I was in one of those families without a tape machine back then… If I did get to archive a back log, I think I’d insure them before the house… just kidding! =I did get a good supply of some things, now, but if I was able to record stuff directly, back then, I’d probably have more VHS than I do vinyl… but now I might have another reason to hunt around the thrift store….

I wonder if anyone knows what was the forerunner to “Luann”?….

Yeah, that sign would be something to hang in an entertainment room, or over a basement bar set or so….

Only thing, is I haven’t seen any of the drawings from “Fogarty”, myself… wonder if anyone out there has?….

Yeah, and I don’t see any trace of them on the net… maybe Greg Evens had Frank to take care of that… Lol!….

Actually, GerryLee embedded a video a couple of months back, it was a Star Trek clip of Kirk in a brief scene or something…

I don’t believe the gang will be seniors- there isn’t enough proof and I believe Luann will remain a cherry Jr. There is no evidence they are moving to their senior year.

Isn’t Luann saying, “He’d graduate with us!” evidence that she’ll be a senior too?

“pitched for the L. A. Dodgers.”^Sorry about that… at least I remembered it was L.A….

You know what? Was thinking about his media stint with the Angels…

and a couple of nice Cars performances and one by War, and the "jam session between Gladys Knight and B.B. King… that show just had something special….. too bad about the demise of the show for SNL, but glad they managed to preserve it…

> People are calling for Quill, a nice enough guy whose only “crime” is that he isn’t Gunther__On the contrary, Quill’s main crime is that he’s boring. By comparison, whiny Gunther’s “crimes” are too numerous to list.

Captain Kirk in his undies? Oh, the horror!What’s next — Uhura in a bikini? LOL! ^Or Jim Palmer, Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Joe Namath, and some actor to be named later, to balance it out… all in an “expose” to “uncover” some story….

It’s funny that people keep linking the fact that she hasn’t heard from him yet with something wrong happening….

~ Shudder ~

i’m afraid they are going to kill him off in a plane crash of something. would they do something that awful?

About their senior year being this September, Luann says: “To do his (Quill’s) senior year here! He’d graduate with us!”It troubles me that some posters think he’ll be in a plane crash…a lot of young people read “Luann,” and I don’t think Greg would write such a terrible storyline with a (somewhat) major character dying just when things are starting to go right. There’s enough blood and gore in games, movies, and TV…shouldn’t there be someplace that doesn’t buy into all the violence stuff?…JMO

ATTENTION! ^There is a concern that somehow there is a plane crash… while I could not possibly know for sure, there is no conclusive evidence of such a thing happening… possibly the “Sherrif” (Mr. Mordecai) may have some clue (?) But it is not like Mr. Evans to kill off any characters in such fashion… such a thing would be a major step to take….. there is no need to fear the worst so soon… while such a thing may not be totally impossible, history and patterns would indicate that it could be improbable… =Again, while such a thing would not be totally out of the realm of possibility, there is no reason to think that it is imminent…

“Back in the 80’s, I copied quite a number of the FNV’s on VHS. "

Ironically, they’re all pretty much on YouTube now.

And keep in mind the need for “Airplane mode” while in the air at times… please remember that the flight may take some time from the US to Australia, and then the drive to his house, and the “jet lag” that would follow… it could be the results of travel… and also remember please “Luanniverse time”…. it could also be possible that he just left the same day that Bernice came over to Lu’s house, as well…

“Well, some of the FNVs are… I had run across one FNV guest hosted by Malcolm Jamal Warner and Tempestt Bledsoe on there, but there weren’t a lot of separate episodes of the show popping up when I searched before…. perhaps lately there has, though….”

Sorry… I meant the individual videos themselves… not so much the show episodes as a whole. Although I do find this whole FNV episode in 3 parts:

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

And still nobody remembers Night Flight….

“Hey, that’s the episode that has Eddy Grant talking about his style and how it was as a member of the Equals….”I liked the Huey Lewis – Heart and Soul Video.

Now, I can’t get that theme out of my head! ;-P What a great blast from the past.

Boy, people are gonna be going crazy whatever comes Monday… if it’s another arc, people are gonna be: “What happened to the flight?”… if it’s the flight, people will say: “Again?”… if it’s not their fav character arc, there will be that…