Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 23, 2014

So… since they’re doing “Shipoopi”, this must be “The Music Man” Musical…. – Shipoopi= girl who’s hard to get… an invented term…. – Oh, that Lena!

Well, Luann (or should I say “Lorraine”), it looks like you are definitely headed in the right direction… ;)

“The Girl Who Knew Too Much”“Designing Woman”" Set In Their Way"“Don’t Lorraine On My Parade”

or " Wherefore Art Thou Luann?"

I can’t tell (yet). Is the women trying to be snobbish or is she really that clueless.

“Go get us some quiche, Lorraine.”

It looks like she has all intentions to “stick” around…. I do think she has been bitten by the drama “bug.” ;)

Monica Lewinsky played “Shipoopi” in high school.

There’s 2 positives here. Ms Manezone (sp) sees Luann’s worth and also that Quill chose a good assistant. I think Luann will wind up in the show!

“I think Quilly’s replacement just arrived.” ^Yeah, his “understudy” just “undercut” him, Lol…-And now, you can say; “Good Ny, Quill…”

Okay, so Ms. Manezone’s going to flashdance Luann into Mooney U on a drama scholarship or something. Aaaand…Lu ends up rooming with Tiff, after all. Or maybe with Bernice. Or hey, maybe they have four in a suite, and they all are in one suite with one new character.

LOL on the “Shipoopi” song! ;)

“Bdrshppi,” Hahahahahah!!! ;)

Speaking of “shipoopi,” I’m going to stick my neck out and ask if there Really Is such a thing?… Watch out for the tomatoes! ;)

Buddy Hackett did it so well in the movie!

And Peter Griffin parodied it so well on Family Guy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r62_qMog1Mw

No, I meant the kind as in “The Nightime Sleepy….etc…Medicine”….– “If you can make it in your dreams, you can make it anywhere…”

The “rhymes” the thing, ya know?! ;)

IJB, ahhh, so there “is” such a thing! =-O

Toot, toot! ;)

Make yourself usefull and folks will fight over you.Act needy and folks will try to use you for far less than your potential.YOU GO! “LORRAINE”

I knew, too… just was trying to “continue” the N,Q. train with another one I had in mind.

I neglected to mention “Ya Got Trouble” (also from the “Music Man”! That’s "Trouble with a ‘Capital T’! And that rhymes with P… and Z… and B… come to think of it, there’s a few other letters it rhymes with….

"She is bitten, now smitten. On her way to be Shipippin’..

Doesn’t make sense, but, heck, it rhymes "

^It could make sense, if she was on her way to see “Pippin” the musical!

And a song mostly played by the wind section…

“The Music Man” is a standard production for high school and other amateur musicals, year after year. If those small stages all have room on their stages for the “Shipoopi” dance routine, how come this production doesn’t, and it needs to be rescued by Lorraine’s singular act of inspiration to move the gazebo? How do all those other productions manage, without doing that?

Blame the Santa Anna Current….

Yay! Luann had a good idea and suggested it! Things are looking up.

Looks like Lorraine has locked in Good Standing with Melodee Manezon, thanks to Shipoopi!

Ah. Soooo, They’re Producing “SNOOPY,” eh?

Great! Charles Schultz would be PROUD, I TELL Ya.Hey, Hey, Hey, Get Needle-Nose Knox to Play the Red Baron!

……Uh, anyone Seen My Glasses?

“Shipoopi”, or some spelling similar to that, is also the brand name of a pooper-scooper invented by the brother of actor Tony Shalhoub. (Mr Shalhoub’s design catches the payload before it hits the ground.)

@Mordock999 – I hope your glasses comment was a tip of the hat to your joke. Shipoopi was a song from the Music Man. And not one of the better songs in the set but still worth saving.

Of course, super special Luann saves the day. If Quill and Proffy Poo are that stupid that they can’t figure that out maybe they just need to quit.

I KNEW I knew “shipoopi” but couldn’t place it. Thanks to all for the Music Man reference.

A. Actually, “Shipoopi” is usually the biggest dance number.

B. If you’re asking about her personality and attitude, well, I have known women in high positions in theater who are like her. If you’re asking about her lack of spatial vision, heck, I can act about as well as any amateur can (and I’ve been in professional productions in New York), but my wife can run rings around me when it comes to solving on-stage traffic problems. Just like Luann in this strip, she just looks and says, “Do this”, and she’s always right. Me—I understand why she’s right, in hindsight, but I don’t see the answer myself until she says it.

That’s good, Evans is having the camp put on a play that actually exists! (Instead of clown nose theatre.) I am grateful for that.

The “Family Guy” version includes the entire original dance music, as-is, and was based on the original Broadway choreography (allowing for the change to a completely different venue). Onna White’s daughter, Jeanne, praised it.

Doesn’t the Moony Uni drama department have entire classes in set design? Don’t they have upperclass students on the camp staff who have taken those classes, or even instructors who have taught them? Why are they relying on Quill!, who hasn’t even started at Moony yet, and Lorraine, who isn’t even a student there, to perform this critical part of producing the camp’s play?

Since Bernice is going to be be a Moony U student, I’d like to see Luann & Quill talk her into auditioning for the part of Marian the Librarian!

> some people just can’t help getting up on the wrong side of the bed.>Yeah – the side of reason and logic. Too much to expect of a comic strip, clearly.

Yeah, that’s it— Bernice as Marian Paroo, but a new character would have to be created for the part of Professor Harold Hill. Possibly, he could be based upon one of the readers of this strip, whose nickname is “professor.”

> No money.>I thought Quill! was getting paid? If not, then when he “hired” an assistant, she too must be unpaid. I’ll bet “Lorraine’s” parents wish she were spending the summer before entering Pitt CC working at a paying job, instead of doing unpaid work just to hang around her boyfriend!_If the job does pay a salary, even if it isn’t very much, some Moony Uni student who has studied set design would probably take it, for the experience plus the small stipend.

Something about the strip, the song titles, the lyrics, or the postings, brought an old tune into my head and I had to spend awhile on Google to track it down:.Kenny Rogers singing “You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me Lucille”

The latter. I don’t participate in Facebook at all. (I have an account, but I’ve never used it.)

Tried to toot and instead went shipoopi…

Uh Ohhh… ♫♪ We got Trouble… Right here in River City

… with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for Pool!….♪♫… :-)

Ah, she has a career as a techie.

-Only if you figure that ‘lucky’ and ‘logic’ are similar in nature because they have the same number of letters….

“well, aren’t we the lucky ones!!!”.Sheldon Cooper and I wish we could recognize sarcasm.

…don’t shipoopi in the pool!

Ya know…. only Buddy Hackett could get away with singing that song… ;-PPP

With Delta not going to Moony , and Rosa being effectively written out (along with Gunther ), will Greg create a new woman-of-color within Moony ’s drama corps or as a fellow student for Luann at Community College ?

And… it seems it’s still “double entendre” week (3rd panel)… ;-PPP

“have you posted…on the Luann Facebook page, where it might…be read by Karen or even Greg , or was it posted only here for the edification of us poor plebeians?”-————————————Yes, Greg may ignore us plebeians from his elitest heights on +Face (steal my info) book* . But he might find his finest fans down here in the coal mines of GoComics .

Say Shippoopi three times fast..woot!

Uh oh! Warning, Will Robinson!! I think I see the “A Star Is Born” plot starting up here! Luanne starts upstaging the acknowledged star and gets all the kudos from Manezon. Quill gets relegated to second-tier status, and doesn’t take it very well…

I get a kick out of this when the late Buddy Hackett does this’

G’Day, Quill? True… – “…where will she…?”^Good one!

Or El Shipoopi… the day that all the plummers have been waiting for…

Good old Buddy..When he was on the Carson show years ago I wonder if he told him his yacht was called the Shipoopie?

Was your mother frightened by Weird Al? I like your parodies.

I think the robot from Lost in Space said, “Danger, Will Robinson”.

You got the wrong person. That wasn’t mine.

“…some of his best fans are here. unfortunately, along with some of his most vocal detractors.”-—————————————And Greg ’s ego is apparently so fragile he (and you) can only abide “yes men”.

He thinks you’re as good as Weird Al in your parody style….

Actually, most of the college stages I’ve seen have been smaller than most of the high school stages I’ve seen. (I live in the NJ suburbs of NYC.) The most awful example I can think of offhand is Minor Latham Theater at Barnard College, which doesn’t even have a left wing or any kind of access from backstage to stage left.

High-school stages, though, almost never have usable fly space, and the one I went to had (and still has) the light board in one of the wings, 90% of the lighting coming from directly overhead, and the rest at about a 45º angle from a ceiling cove, though that’s been corrected somewhat since my time with a couple of ladders in the house.

It’s an old joke. One version was, Was your mother ever frightened by a mule? Because the child is stubborn like one. In your case, it’s because you come up with crazy puns, titles for songs or parodies. So, you see, I’m using it in a complimentary way comparing you to Weird Al Yankovic..