Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 18, 2020

she knows how to put her mind to it

Nancy has the talent to managing the Fuse!Nancy has the right attitude that the business needs badly!Frank should bow before the “Master” .

“tips out the wazoo”. “i can work hard” “it’s cuddle time.” So many double-entendres. After all that, I think Frank would agree with anything Nancy said.

Way to seal the deal at the end of your job interview to ensure you get hired, Nancy. I’ll have to remember that for my next job interview

Can’t last. ✨

Nancy is good looking with people skills. If some guy asks for a “sidecar,” Nancy can probably get away with saying “how do you make that?”

When my wife comes home I have her dinner done and an after shower drink ready.I then continue with my house work well into the night.She’s the master!!

Good distraction move in frame three.

Get it on. Halley’s comet makes more appearances than a romantic rendezvous in this strip.

She kind of looks and sounds like Tiffany in panel 1.

The rent earned by renting Brad`s old room is what pays for Luann’s Community College Education. Is it time for Luann to pay for her education like an “Adult Student”?

With apologies to Peter Schikele,

“Those sound like final notes!”

(PDQ Bach On the Air, Beethoven’s Fifth as Sportscasters might announce it)

Yes – Some customers will notice Nancy’s “Wazoo” and tip well.

Everybody seems to be playing the “I am Woman! Hear me roar!” card. Sorry folks. It’s time to get slapped in the face with reality.

Frank is right. Nancy has neither experience, nor training in working a bar. As a manager, she has already shown the skills. But there’s a lot of work that goes into just being a competent bartender.

And no, the whole “She’s a beautiful lady. Who will charm everyone into forgiving her mistakes” won’t cut it. No bar management would keep a bartender under those circumstances.(Oh wait. She is management. Never mind.)

You know what people with experience have in common? They had a boss who was willing to give them a chance at a time when they didn’t have experience.

Give your wife a chance to prove that she can do the job, Frank. You two agree to try it out for a month and maybe bring in a trainer to help her get the hang of it.

Done deal. which it always had been anyway. It will work out.

Frank is about to be sated, so no more arguments from him!!!

Hmmmm…I think maybe Nancy will totally flop at the job and they will hire Tiffany. Oh…but maybe she’s not old enough to tend bar. How old is the gang?

She’ll convince him one way or the other.

Nancy s sounding a little like Luann just now…

Nancy just skipped the “work” part of the deal.

Nancy still has her figure, Frank not ! Frank has a desktop jockey look with a hot trophy wife.

I want to know what they’re going to do with the spare bedroom now.

Speaking as someone whose income is in great part dependent on tips, I could use some of that sweet wazoo revenue stream myself.

She hopes so.

Is tipping at a bar the same as at a hair salon? You don’t tip the owner.

Hon, who said anything about playing hard? I just want to go to bed! XD

Win the battle and lose the war Frank.

So Nancy is going to “sleep her way” into an entry level position?

I mean, what is this? “Undercover Boss, Pittsville Style?”

And I wouldn’t get too excited over the tips, Nancy. One, you gotta pay TAXES on them, and TWO, not everybody is a good tipper. Just ask Tiffany.

Just wait until Ann Eiffel slithers in there and gets in YOUR grill the way she did her boyfriend’s daughter. Then leaves a lousy tip……,

Reverse Casting Couch.

That won’t turn out very well.

You can leave the vest on…

Nancy shouldn’t be saying that she CAN work hard. Modern reality would have her say that she ALREADY WORKS HARD (around the house.) Bartending, managing event booking at the Fuze might seem like a vacation.

Cuddling. Is that what they’re calling it now?

Workin’ hard, playin’ hard;Helps me get thru each day and night.Workin’ hard, playin’ hard;Makes everything all right.- Ted Nugent

I still think it’s a midlife crisis. But I like Nancy’s positive (and kinda reckless) attitude. Luann can help with the theater and TJ with the Bar. Maybe this will be good for her and for The Fuse.

Frank, remember “Take your pleasure where you find it….”

Looking like another week with Nancy or Nancy and Frank. Can’t think they’ll end with the deal sort of sealed. I’m expecting Nancy at the Fuse and seeing how well she fits with her new job.

Men hate it when women are so direct …/s

No, last time before Nancy starts full time work at the Fuse as Bartender and Events Manager .

It seems we are about to get a lot of strips where Nancy works hard and makes a lot of mistakes. And hilarity ensues.

Frank married above his grade …

Work hard, play hard, negotiate hard

She plays him like a fiddle!

Ah yes, the Claire Booth Luce career path; sleep your way to the top

Don’t forget to take bartending lessons, Nancy…assuming miserly Frank will be willing to pay for that.

Enjoy it now, Frank…

Enjoy it while you can Frank.

No skills and no experience. She’s got this!!! Seriously I do admire her enthusiasm and Nancy is smart and a quick study. She will do fine but she has a big learning curve ahead of her.

People, people, people! It will work because GnK will make it work… and they need fresh material. Back in the day (before 2015) whoever would’ve thought Irma would find new love; and with Les’ Uncle to boot!

She’s got the managerial chops for the office stuff but she’s going to need lessons if she’s going to be a bartender. That’s not a good job to learn on the fly as you’ve got ten people yelling at you for their drinks and you’re trying to look up the recipes in the manual.

Nancy might want to read Toddlers to Tycoons . . .

Nancy becomes Tiffany’s mentor.

I doubt the writers will go this way but I’d like to see Nancy take bartending classes, get to know some new (and probably very different) people, and expand her horizons a bit. That way she’ll approach her new job with skill instead of it being a likely comedy of errors. I’d also like to meet some of the people in her classes.

Just another restaurant owner sleeping with the help

Nancy has absolutely NO experience as a bartender. Nancy has no idea about soliciting and syphoning event business into the Fuse. Nancy knows nothing about getting permits with the local governing bodies to stage any events. Nancy is utterly WRONG for the job. (which should probably be TWO jobs really) Frank should stand up to her and explain all this and tell her to look for a job outside of the Fuse. But since Mr. Grey is managing the place, he will inherit the task of telling one of the owners that she isn’t a good fit there – despite the vest.

She knows the sure way to settle the question and terminate the discussion.

Reality is gonna punch her right in the snoot. This ain’t a shot n’ a beer joint. Bartending in an upscale place is a learned art. Event planning? Well, you don’t need a degree but working as the assistant for a while helps you avoid very expensive mistakes.

Poor Frank doesn’t have a clue.

Nancy has her priorities in order.

Two words: Midlife Crisis.

While I don’t like when someone gets a little too cocky about what they think they can do, I have always thought Nancy has potential beyond what G&K have allowed for her. She is level headed (compared to others). I’m sure she can learn to mix a few drinks by watching youtube videos and working with TJ. I have a feeling G&K had Nancy in mind when they decided to move Pru out.

Frank will find it hard to squirm out of this one… not that he will want to.

…and Luann catches them in the act in…3…2…1! ;-)

The Fuse has been where they have been getting their income including the money from Pru’s rent. Pru earned that money working at The Fuse. By taking Pru’s position, they no longer have to pay someone else. Nancy will be paying herself.

Has anyone else thought about Pru leaving without enough notice to her employers so they could get a replacement and have Pru train the new hire? Don’t recall anyone mentioning that.

tomorrow: the first “virus strip” ….

Nancy is ready to “keep the home fires burning, and Frank, too”.

I think Frank could learn to enjoy stopping at the Fuse on the way home from work, sitting at the bar, ordering a whiskey sour from his wife and relaxing a bit.

Why does an adult woman need permission from her husband to work at a business she owns? And then to use cuddle time to convince him – he should use cuddle time to admire his strong wife.

No experience or training – that’s usually the root cause for bars that end up on the show “Bar Rescue”

I kinda imagined The Fuze as a kind of tween/early adult type of place, not one that people the age of Frank and Nancy would attend. So most of their client base might not be old enough to actually drink alcohol. I like the fact that the G&K team took this approach. It is their business, they should be there. And since, it seems everyone likes Nancy, she might be a mother figure that both Less and Tiffany could use. As for the spare room, even with the somehow financial strains, I wish they would be foster parents. I do wish we could get a segment with LuAnn and Faye. She was such a sweet character.

Get to work, Frank! Duty calls!

She’s going to show him her Wazoo?

‘Twas ever thus. Nancy is using “her feminine wiles” (read: sex) to win over Frank. To be sure, the matter was already decided; Frank just hasn’t realized it yet….

Attitude = Competence?

Smoking Super Mom with the vest

Whats with the K2 on her vest? Is she carrying on with Dan Pirarro? Is he eating her pie?