Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 07, 2017

I totally agree, Flash Gordon. I can’t stand him.

well, Gunther tried to liven the party upon which he pooped

I hope Gunther tells all four of them that he’s not going to any of those gatherings anymore. I hope he moves away from all those people, gets a full scholarship to MIT or another equivalent school, and makes a good life for himself.

When did Gunther turn into Richard Nixon?

The funniest thing about this is that no one is listening to what the other people are saying. Les pretends to listen to Tiffany reciting her long history of her acting ‘career’, and Gunther is busy trying to duplicate Les’s trick with the cherry stem. As soon as Gunther manages the trick, though, it’s obvious the Les wasn’t really paying much attention to Tiffany. And she isn’t listening to either guy; she’s just going on about herself. So here’s the result: no one ends up with anyone…

Less is getting More of Paris’ (Tiffany’s) attention. Gunthy is beginning to look dorky, and punching Less out is not what will solve his problem this time.

Why is Gunther so concerned if Les and Tiff hit it off? They deserve each other.

also Less got his necklace back from Pru(ne) and should he decide to give it to Paris (Tiffany) Gunthy will be totally out of contention.

I sincerely hope Less is incarcerated soon.

Before this week I had never liked anything much at all about Les, due to his devious and dishonest nature. Even so, I appreciated how he added humor to the strip, so I was OK with that angle.

But this week I’m really impressed. Considering that he was a bully in high school who tried to coerce kisses from girls, it seems he’s come a long way. He’s very successfully charming Tiff, and is even being a gentleman. He may have a long way to go in his personal character, but all this suggests that he is improving. I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for a while.

Gunther, in contrast, is suffering from being “nothing but a gentleman”. He’s clueless about being romantically charming and interesting, in a way that would attract most women.

Oh come on everybody. It’s LES, not less.

This is all just a Tiff show now, she is exaggerating EVERYTHING. She was a tiny extra in a mob of people in the Eye of Zeye, the modeling is exaggerated, and come on, a stereotype blonde being a British brunette Emma Watson. Come on Tiff! I thought you were better than trying to impress Less, and I thought we were going to see growth in characters, but nooooo this is the same high school Tiff-ster we’ve seen through all of the Luann series.

Wizard, Les still gets my goat! Let’s see: Devious, dishonest, and a bully. And the way treats Gunther, it looks like none of that has changed. So he’s added “charming” to his resume: I guess he’s graduated to con man! I think I agree with all the women on this page (except Tiffany) that Les appears to be without any redeeming value.

Said before, if Greg had mercy, this arc would have ended last Saturday. But I guess Greg is related to a Martian: Ming the Merciless!

Gunther, you fool – that’s your retainer!

Gotta say there is yet so many ways this could go. Not to mention surprises like Rosa (back from Peru) looking for Gunther; or police looking for Les. If Les gets too full of himself in the next few moments, one icy comment from Mr. Gray could totally change the weather.

Yesterday, Airman suggested that perhaps the tide will turn against Les this week, and that Tiff will go home affectionately with Gunther. I’d acknowledge the possibility, but it really depends on how the Evanses have decided to take it, and for me that’s too close to call.

But I think that the only way that might happen is if Les says something really crass and puts off Tiff. Up to now, he’s been charming her very successfully. She acknowledged that she’s been having a great time. And that was all due to Les, and in no way to Gunther.

Another day of brilliant acting by Tiffany. Somehow I feel that she’s not really enjoying recounting her life story, and is doing it only to give Gunther some time to try that cherry stem trick himself. It’s inspiring how she’s giving him space to work out how to become a manly man all on his own. And note how she’s distracting Les so he won’t make fun of how ridiculous Gunther is looking while he’s doing it, all the while keeping a subtle eye on his progress. And such mastery of the thespian’s improvisational skills, giving an extemporaneous 11-minute monologue, culminating in a brilliant finale that places her career firmly in the tradition of great actors who have gone to college. Bravo, Tiff! We all appreciate your sacrifice for Gunther’s sake. Be sure you don’t break the spell by letting on what you’re doing – keep up the illusion of being a self-centered bimbo.

Tiff is just being Tiff. Les turned a spotlight on her dreams, and she reacted as we might expect. But, she has also developed something for Gunther, her study buddy. Trust? Loyalty? A soft spot? She did try to help him with Bernice, and they did share that “moment” in Tiff’s dorm room, so I’m hoping that by evening’s end, Tiff strokes Gunther’s ego and makes him look good in front of everyone.

Les, ever the gentleman, is just pretending he doesn’t remember Tiffany’s famous high school career, and is patiently giving her the time and space for self-validation. And being something of an actor himself, he seems to be admiring her skill at extemporaneous speaking.

I’m thinking of the time Gunther asks Tiffany if she’d ever had a real boyfriend. She replies with a dismissive joke BUT DOES NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION. Gunther is not fooled and says “I thought so.” Later she confides to Crystal that Gunther was right. She even confesses that she likes to flirt but wishes that someday a boy that she likes would like her back. She’s confident of her attractiveness but aware that she’s failed to attract someone who would love her. The only person she has gone out of her way to help, encourage, be good to without a selfish motive, again and again… is YOU KNOW WHO. She’s more self aware and a better person than many commenting here realize, perhaps more than SHE realizes. Many of the things she does and says are simply coping mechanisms, the only “tools” that have consistently worked for her. I think there’s also a case to be made that Gunther has likewise been good to her, is concerned for her well being, in a fundamentally unselfish way. They each treat the other in a way that is patient, kind, keeps no score of wrongs, is not vain or self indulgent. There’s a word for that.

Has anyone noticed that when Gunther is annoyed by Les’s moves on Tiffany, and attempts to get her to leave, there is a strong parallel with the way he’s been uncomfortable with his mother dating Mr. Gray (or presumably anyone)?

Gunther does not have a developed romantic side. With his life empty in that way, he clings to an Oedipal attachment to his mother, and wants to fend off any other competition.

With Tiff, Gunther was actually terrified of having a real relationship with her, when she clearly gave him the chance. So he discarded her for a pipe dream about Bernice that had no reality to it. So now, Gunther invites Tiff to what he thought would be a lame party, just because he wanted an escort. And when he sees another guy making time with Tiff, he’s defensive and possessive over her, just like he is with his mother.

Gunther’s complexes are not trivial; they run very deep!

Going to get the feeling Tiffany is not going to happy with Les in any way.

I hope that somebody tells Tiffany that to ‘pursue a Degree’, in this case, does not necessarily mean that you find the right temperature for making sure the pizza rolls don’t come out all charred…

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…And that it also doesn’t mean picking up that brand of deodorant, at the store…

Why is Gunther behaving like a jealous 15 year old? Hasn’t he matured at all? He’s almost 20, you’d think he’d be past this sort of stunted behavior.

“Accumulating Interest”

“Give Her Some Credit…She Likes Credit”

“A Freeze, On Your Account”

“A Plus B Equals ‘C’ Your Way Out”

“Better Eliminate, Than Never”

“A Looney Eclipsing”

“Radio Free Gunther”

“Can’t Find The Exit”

“All In All, It’s Just Another Trick In The Stalls” (♪)

“Caught In A ‘Ticking Off’ Trap” (♪)

“To Lose The Race To Rats” (♪)

“Catch Them, Subdivided” (♪)

“Frame! I’m In A Big Endeavor….” (♪)

“She Is The Very Model, Of A Major General Motion Picture Flop” (♪)

“Serious….Eye In The Zeye” (♬)

“He Don’t Want Clever….Conversation….” (♪)

“Sheraton… And Share Your Likes”

“Ladies And Pageants”

“At The Tone, It Will Be Half Past Gunther”

or

“The Troll Gets The Billy Goat’s Gruff”

Most women would LOVE for a guy to take 11 minutes to tie a cherry stem with their tongue.

The moment doesn’t play true. Tiff surely remembers Les from high school and vice versa. They both should be aware of each other’s history. Gunth ought to send her one black rose to work. Maybe LuAnn could explain the meaning to her.

Gunther? With Heartfelt Apologies, to Lyricist JAYBLUE and those of the Readership with “Delicate Sensibilities,” You SHOULD take a Tip from the Great, Bugs Bunny, as He sang during the Unforgettable “Hillbilly Hare:”

♪♪ “GRAB a Fence Post, Hold it Tight!”

“WHOMP Old Lester with ALL Your MIGHT!

“HIT Him the Shins, HIT Him the Head,”

“HIT Him A-GAIN, the Critter Ain’t DEA…..,” ♪♪

Well, You “GET” the Idea.

And You should “Do It” Right at the Dinner Table……,

UGH, enough already! Les has no redeeming qualities and Tiffany barely has any. Gunther deserves better and I’m ready for this particular arc to be OVER!

Les will be disappointed again. Tiff is not into relationships.

Les is beyond creepy and still conniving, a bully, out for what he can get.

This is 2017 – who calls their parents friends “Mr or Mrs”, maybe little kids but not adult kids – some days it’s like Greg is in 1950 and other days, I don’t where he’s at – Gunther and Les in suits for a family dinner at home, really ? Jeans and a shirt are more like it. He needs to bring his characters into “real time”

I really do not understand what Greg thinks Les brings to this strip – don’t think much of Tiff either, I think it’s time they both went the way of Quinn

Bernie & Gunther has gotten crazy, Rosa and (forgot her other friend) have disappeared.

Luann still acts like she’s in high school and needs to start growing up at least a little bit

Brad & Tony seem to have disappeared.

I have to say this strip is not what it use to be, I don’t look forward to reading it anymore

Well, no one predicted today, but with a center panel this funny, who cares?

goes to show that with patience and training, Gunther can hold his own.

It’s no coincidence that Gunther looks like an Archie character in that middle panel.

Gunther wanted Tiffany to feel the same way about the dinner as he felt they were – boring. She got some attention from Les, so she’s the center of the universe and is having a great time being Tiffany and Gunther can’t stand it. All three of them are pretty unlikeable and it’s a very uncomfortable situation.

Someone yesterday mentioned how people fake the cherry stem trick. Gunther is unlikely to have spent 11 minutes faking it. Les is another matter…

Meanwhile, weren’t there multiple teen girls who said that Gunther was a great kisser? I can not personally recall the thread w him kissing Bernice but someone mentioned it sometime in the last month or two. Both Luann and Rosa found him good at it. If i remember right, Luann even told him that one of his assets is that he is a great kisser.

Shouldn’t Tiffany remember Les from high school? Tiffany has not changed at all from the beginning of the strip. It is time for her to grow up a bit.

both guys need haircuts.

Hey, Tiffany! Can I have your autograph?

Also Eyez of Zeye was a total flop.

Does anybody know the date of the strip where Les sexually harrased/intimidated Tiffany? I’d like to look at it again. I really don’t believe she’d have forgotten it or would be so comfortable with him now.

I just had a fantasy that Gunther will yell, “Tiffany is MY girl” and punch Less in the nose. Then the ball is in Tiffany’s court. Prediction? We’ll see.

5

The best part of today’s comic, to me, is how it points out how utterly out of touch Gunther is being in terms of this dinner, his interactions with Tiffany, his interactions with Les, and Mrs. Berger and Mr. Gray. His damned, dogged determination in the middle panel to knot a maraschino cherry to prove he can be like ’ole Les misses the point in its entirety. Les did the “cherry trick” because he spontaneously decided on his own that it would be a way to be suggestive to Tiffany of his a) interest in her and b) his “prowess” and “machismo”. Gunther trying so very hard to mimic Les only makes him look like a compliant, desperate puppy…. which he does act like most of the time.

Predictions:

I still think that Tiffany’s “interest” in Les is all for show. I believe she is acting at being interested in Les to try to help Gunther, but Gunther is being too obtuse to realize it.

Also, for my prior comment…. while Les may view his “cherry trick” as showing his “prowess” and “machismo”… it is, IMO, a silly trick that I believe did not really impress Tiffany at all. I am not sure how this will be resolved, but I suspect that Tiffany will, in the end, be able to easily get Les to know she is not interested in him… and I suspect she will do so in a pretty classy way.

Just like in the movies/or in a book if you hate a character the actor is successfully doing his job. Les is doing his job so you have a reason to like the hero(es) .

I guess Mr. Gray and Mrs. Berger went in the bedroom for their dessert? The younger folks are alone if they are behaving like this.

When one delves deeper into the symbolic achievement of tying a cherry stem in a knot with one’s tongue in order to impress a potential paramour, it is generally Gunther’s persistence and endurance that is more highly valued than Les’s speed.

“Seriously…..I Am The Guy (A sort-of ‘conversation’)”

(By Ellen Parsnips’ Failed Project)

(Les:)

Don’t you get up from the table, just yet-

But don’t say things that Gunther’s gonna regret….

We’re shifting away from T-Squares…

To run the highlights of your shining hair

Don’t ask me what that means….just as long as you keep on talking

I won’t say words you haven’t looked up, yet

Oh? That’s just Gunther, don’t let it worry your pretty head!

You may have had this conversation, before

But I’m sure, you’ll like to hear it, some more

Maybe the light in your eyes will reflect this here necklace…

(Gunth:)

Well, I am the ‘I’ in ‘diguise’, looking at ‘u’!

No, the other ‘I’, and you can’t leave me behind!

I follow the rules, suffer no fools!

And I could treat you right…

But I don’t need to see any more, to know that he will be unkind….

♦

(Tiff:)

I got burned, in the meal scam- but that was a long ago time

We’ve got some things in common, In my ‘picture perfect frame’ of mind…

I’m a model, but I think I could be so much more

Don’t know why Gunther said you’d be a bore!

Wait- did you say you acted with Pru? Or did you just ask about my Jimmy Choo’s?

You know, I was in “The Eyes Of Zeye”!?

They fell asleep watching it, so it watched you

But don’t let that change your mind

If it’s pie in the sky, I’ll still take a bite

Cos it’s all about how it’s looking good, you’ll find!

And when I walk through the door, I’m looking for something more…

I’ll let you know, when I find it Yeah, you’ll know, when I find it…

(Gunth:)

I am the “I” in disguise, right next to ‘u’!

In stealth, I sit and hope you’ll find

I am the guy cutting in, to help you out!

No, you don’t need his kind, and I want to find-

Why his laugh is the sound of a wild boar-

And why you don’t even seem very bored?

Did you know you’re the

Did you know you’re there, next to a boor?

….Guess I’ll just sit here, some more…..

…Guess it’s the best, that I can hope for….

Tiffany is more interested in an acting career than in Les. Her expressions over this arc say it all. The one time she really lit up (w/ innocent excitement) was when Les mentioned Uncle Al knowing someone in Hollywood. The rest of the time they have ranged from suspicion to snide acknowledgement. If she’s engaged now, it’s because she has found an audience to brag to. She’s in interview mode for a modeling or acting job.

@CHRYSTOS B MINOT: Sorry, I got back so late! Read your message, and thanks!

And that’s a really nice talent that your son Raphael has been given, to be able do that!!!

so who does Tiff drive off with …Les or Gunth?

Now that Tiffany seems to have Ma Berger’s seal of approval, maybe Gunther will feel he has Mama’s “permission” to pursue her.

Going by today’s replies Les has no fan base whatsoever. I myself would like to see him go and never return. But as in real life, we must deal with those we wish we didn’t have to. Les is a jerk and life is full of jerks. I think Greg is only keeping it real.I see in this strip that les discovered the secret to Tiffany’s heart, get her to talk about herself, her favorite subject. But I don’t think she is as dumb as to think Les is relationship material. Instead I think she is making Gunther jealous on purpose. Let us not forget, back when Brad and TJ recruited Tiff to help get rid of Toni’s old boyfriend, she proved she could really act. And after she let Gunther know she was interested in him but learned he liked Bernice, she was willing to run interference with Piro to clear the way for Gunther. So we know that one, she can act and two, she likes Gunther, a lot.

Tiffany gets to be the center of attention while people, especially guys, fawn over her, and compete for her. She hasn’t had that since high school, and she loves it.

Okay, ladies and gentlemen: Place your bets. Will Tiffany revert to her old fickle self and fall prey to Les? Or will we see the new Tiff who comes down on the side of her friend and mentor, Gunther? I know that Gunther is like a fish out of water, and that Greg has not been very kind to him, but I think Tiff will stay loyal to her treasured “study buddy.”

YEP, she and Emma are practically spiritual twins.

YEP, she and Emma are practically spiritual twins.

YEP, she and Emma are practically spiritual twins.

I think Gunther is missing the Big Picture here.

Clearly, it is not Loser Les who is exploiting Tiffany! (Never fear, Gunny!)

It is Tiffany Farrell, in her alter ego guise as Sheraton St. Louis, who is using Leslie Knox—“whoever!”—as a foil to re-run her jacked-up autobiography for the edification of all present! (Hey, maybe Mr. Gray knows a big Hollywood producer, or at least a Vegas showgirl producer!)

Psh, she’s just making Gunther jealous so he’ll pay more attention to her.