Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 13, 2020

Also, you don’t want to be around when she takes off her shoes after a long shift.

Stop yawning you’re making me sle-ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ-Glort-ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz…….

oh, that sounds like a fun topic

That’s important information for later when she is awake and denies that she snores.

Well, it’s a start…

Gee whiz, Nancy! Luann is an adult. She’s not in 3rd grade, where you must ensure that she does her ‘rithmetic homework. Luann is in college, and should be mature enough to do her essay without needing Mommy’s emotional (or whatever) support. Now, if her assignment was to “interview your parents about […] and contrast with today’s […]” I’d get it.

C’mon folks. seriously… when any of you were in college, did you need your parent to sit with you because they were worried that you were “stuck” on your assignment? I used to do my COBOL programming at the kitchen table when dinner was over. My parents basically gave me the time, quiet and space I needed to do my assignments, and that was all I could realistically want or expect from them. My COBOL programming = my responsibility. Already knew that at age 18.

Luann’s essays – a cure for insomnia.

So! Shift work is harder than she thought. Maybe being a stay-at-home wife and mother doesn’t look as stifling now!

All Luann needed to do is ask her pop.

Weak, Luann. Try again. Unless the professor is Zebo, then, he’ll love it.

Sounds more like a middle school or maybe high school essay assignment, not college.

Wise Mom asks leading questions, like:

a) What did you do today?

b) What did you know after you did it that you didn’t know before?

c) How would you describe it?

d) How would you describe what you learned?

e) How does it tie in with what you’re learning in the psych class?

f) What larger lessons can you draw from it?

g) How would you write it up in an essay

(BTW – last time I was in school was so long ago, Nancy was just a toddler.)

Clueless Mom says "I’ll just sit here and quietly show my support …. zzzzzzz

Irritated Mom says:

g) Do you have any idea what I’m talking about?

h) Why are you wasting your time and our money on rubbish like this?

Such a kindergarten level assignment and response. I hope you edited it to upgrade your response to something more fitting for your assignment. Such as you learned that your brother wants children but is struggling with his wife who hesitates at starting a family due to a number of reasons. Your question is whether your sister in is hedging for legitimate reasons or is there an underlying reason she doesn’t want to reveal such as questioning her own maternal instincts or lack of?

G&K continue to paint Luann as one of the least likable characters in the strip. I was with them all the way up until the last panel – where it looks like Luann is now making fun of her mother for her class assignment.

What IQ is Luanne have? 85?

Only because your homework is so boring.

“Today I learned that my mom cares.”

There. Fixed it for you.

Hate or sarcasm as usual. Whether it’s appropriate or lot the love and encouragement that mom is showing is something that Luann should relate too her. The gag panel at the end is just that a gag panel, a punch line. Not an exhibition of Luann being some of unlikable, stupid, useless waste of space. This is Tuesday, lets see where this leads before being so judgmental. The trolls, and the troll lites are in danger of dominating this comments section.

2nd panel: very strange hairdo

Picking up on TYGE’s timeline yesterday of stories post Ann Eiffel. The end of the Eiffel arc was sudden and brief. We were still in the middle of the Hall A story, which actually had a lot going for it. Tiffany learning to live with others. Tiffany learning that money only goes so far. Then there was the gang itself who seemed to have nefarious plans for the Tiffster. That jellybean gambling could easily turn into penny-ante poker, then two-bit games and even unlimited games, which could wipe out Tiffany in one night. Then there was Kip who always had an eye on Tiffany even though he had a girlfriend already. How was Stephi going to take that. Would she try to sabotage Tiffany’s schoolwork? But suddenly Ann leaves incriminating evidence in plain sight for Tiffany and was gone just like that. It’s almost like the Evens were reading the comments here and noticed how many people were hating on Eiffel. But without Ann they had nothing. So they came up with this desperate plan of having Bernice move into the DeGroots house only to draw a blank for story ideas. Now they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel having Luann write a grade school level essay. Even watching Luann watch paint dray after painting her room would be more interesting than this.

Luann; what yo have learned today is not that your mother snores (when exceptionally tired [presumably,] but that “she works hard for the money…” (I can see that video of Donna Summer and that waitress’ tray now)

Go to bed, Nancy. Luann isn’t a 3rd-grader anymore.

A Sally Brown scholastic move.

Luann is becoming aware of her environment. :DI want to see the face of her teacher when reading that essay.

Inspiration! Let’s Embarrass Mom, an essay by Luann DeGroot….

If Luann turns that essay in, she’s liable to wind up getting a grade of 42, just like her ex-nemesis Tiffany got in Dr. Fabbi’s class last year.

And speaking of Tiffany, maybe it’s time those two started butting heads again. Some of fans found that sort of ‘conflict’ entertaining. Having Luann work alongside Tiff at the Fuse would be a good place to start.

You learn something new every day.

“It’s odd. She sleeps quietly after our bedroom sessions. Must be the sitting up part.”

Great lesson. But I dunno if Nancy will be happy to know she was the subject of the essay. Sure she work a lot.

As usual, Luann comes up with a third grader response and doesn’t have any qualms at all about humiliating her mom. Nice.

College level stuff there

That’s going to be a short essay. Luann can milk “my mom snores” for maybe three or four more sentences.

(Something the readers learned today: Luann has lived with her mother for some 19 years and never heard her fall asleep and snore.)

I am beyond amazed at the people who think she would actually think her essay is DONE with one sentence, whatever the subject.

You’re off to a great start, Luann! Now all you need to do is expand on that theme for a great 500-word essay…huh?

What a wasted opportunity! Luann could have typed today I learned that my mom works hard. This just drives home the point that she has the emotional development of a sixth grader.

Well, goody for you, Poindexter! Your parents gave you all the free time you needed because basically they’ve had their fill of you and anytime away from you was a much-needed relief for them (you must have been a really annoying brat that repelled parental love – they probably never realize whenever you leave the house). Most parents are always there for their kids whether they asked for help or not, because that’s what they do (Sorry, if your parents gave up on giving you support so long before you reached your teens). Their kids are still their “babies” regardless of age. If you find that too stifling, well that explains your longing loneliness, but it doesn’t seem to bother Luann. Her mom ending up helping her anyway and Luann is smiling contently. Your argument is invalid. Sit down.

Today I learned that my Mom works hard.

I took several psychology classes in college. The professors’ assignments had to do with psychology. We weren’t made to write essays about ourselves. Because the classes were about psychology. I think Luann’s professor is on the goofballs.

Well I like Luann but I hate the way they keep juvenilizing her! Can’t she ever have a mature insight once in a blue moon? This “punchline” isn’t even funny. It might have been at age 12 but she’s in college for crying out loud! And Nancy was obviously looking for a chance to bond with her daughter. She wasn’t hovering over her.

Geez, what a shock. Not EVERY daily strip is a superbly laid out logical premise! I’d never have suspected!

Prediction: today will be the least commented on strip of the past 3 weeks. Tomorrow may set another low record. we shall see.

meh

My mother didn’t even sit with me in grade school….

Today’s idle wonderment: How many people who read this strip daily somehow don’t know how to spell its name?

Luann makes a brilliant discovery: Why Frank never gets any sleep at night.

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets, rattling along the housetops, and fierce thunder …”

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No, wait – that’s mom snoring!

Looks like argythree wrote the dialogue today.

Nancy, don’t be a helicopter. Luann, what a childish, riduculous thing to write in an assignment. Are Greg and Karen losig it? How about telling us what is going on in some of the other soap opera story lines?

I love Nancy. Mom, manager/server, wife. Nails all she does.

Mom shows support. Teen seems oblivious. If Luann doesn’t come up with a more in-depth observation, this will be a grade school composition at best. :-/

That kid is a jerk.

Wow. The comment count is way down. Where’s Tiffany?

She carries this place.

What? She always thought it was her Dad making that racket?

As someone who took psychology classes in community college, I just want to say this is the dumbest and least-realistic assignment Luann could get. You NEVER write about yourself in a psych course, that’s not what the class is about. Intro to Psych is a survey of past and current practices and concepts; Development Psych is about the stages of human growth and development; Abnormal Psych is about disorders, conditions, and varieties of treatments.

I wish the Evanses would hire an outside editor/contributor who’s actually been to college and interacted with other people. They write like the biggest homeschooled goobers on Earth.

I lived with my mother most of my entire life. She passed away from cancer last year. It was about a decade ago when we went on a cruise in the Aegean Sea (Greece is awesome, BTW!), and one night in our cabin, she was shocked to discover that I snore when I’m on my back.

NO! Today Luann learned how much her mother sacrifices to support her family.

that’s actually quite cute

tomorrow: Bernice wanders in …

One night I heard loud snoring.

Daddy was at work, so I wondered. I slipped through the house, seeking the snores’ source. Howard’s beagle snored. Silly dog.

Nancy getting some zzzzzzzzz’s

I does dream my mom running me down to tickle me.