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The options being read off was Luannâs weak attempt to make her parents think they had a choice of âgourmetâ dinners so theyâd think sheâs helping out. When in reality Luann had NO intent on making them, she already had a pizza in the oven. Frank and Nancy just didnât want to say anything
Bernice is neither playful nor mischievous around this family, at least not lately. Utterly humorless. Iâve no doubt sheâs attempting to make the grossest sounding item on the menu. The other items sound tasty, though.
Whatâs with all these cooking gags? First Luann tried to make E-Z beef stew with a million ingredients. Then there was (I hate to cook) Bets with E-Z vegetable soup, and now Luann and Stepford-Bernice offering to cook any of a half-dozen advanced cooking meals, not tp mention Bernice breakfast of pancakes? Do all the girls in this strip now have to prove that they can cook to be allowed to continue? Or is the joke that none of these young women know any more about cooking then Frank does. which is to say nothing? And why is this even funny since Frank and Luann agree to cook supper because Nancy was working. Clearly by now theyâve learned how to make something without burning down the house? Itâs just stupid, stupid, stupid, and demeaning to Luann and Bernice.
What a forced gag, though. Luann researched recipes and put them on paper. Then she put a frozen pizza in the oven. Then she told them about the recipes, anticipating their apathetic snide reaction (not hard to do, actually, theyâre easy to predict). All this. For this gag, for three peopleâs lack of amusement. And mine, too!
Iâm still trying to figure out why everything else gets a sauce or starch, but the pork chops get a dessert. And one that can burn down the kitchen, at that.
At least they pretend to try to do something good for them to please them âĄ. Itâs funny and sweet to see Luann and Bernice team up in this farce âĄâĄ.By the way, homemade pizzas are way better than frozen ones and really easy to make. You just have to prepare the dough a few hours before to let it rise.
My mother only taught my sisters how to cook. I learned how in the Boy Scouts, so what I make is basic campfire cooking. I also learned to eat what I cooked, as that was all the food that was packed in.
Bernice and Luann are getting along like imaginary sisters, and deluding Ma and Pa DeGroot over dinner choices.
And (GASP) Bernice is actually lying in the last panel and is in GRAVE danger of having a bit of âfun.â Saints Preserve Us!
It just goes to show. That as long you remove a âGuyâ from the equation, (Zane, Piro, Brother Ben, or Mr. Jack) Bernice actually becomes semi-bearable. ;)
Berniceâs moving in with the DeGrootâs has been a rather harmonious cohabitation from the start; including with Frank and Nancy. Bernice is being presented more as a member of the family. As if she has been adopted!?
Her living with the DeGrootâs has encroached even into Sunday strip appearances. Since sheâs moved in the Sunday strips have alternated among: Luann with Frank and/or Nancy; Brad and Toni: Luann with Bernice alone; or Luann and Bernice with Frank and Nancy.
How long will this relationship continue and is there some larger schema in it?
Funny! I wonder what the excuses would have been for each of the four selections, had Nancy and Frank chosen one? Loved Berniceâs remark about shelling the scallops. I never saw them with shells! ;-)))
I was in high school in my home country. Our Civics teacher came in and calmly said, âJohn F. Kennedy has been killed.â The reactions of my classmates was that probably the teacher made a mistake; maybe it was his brother Robert.
Later, our Language teacher came in and, with a voice that she was terrorized said the same thing. This time the reaction of my classmates was different; they believed that JFK had been killed; there was concern.
I was in 5th Grade in November 1963. When we heard the news, one of the kids, in all seriousness, said âKhrushchevâs first moveâ. That actually made it scarier (I donât remember much about the Cuban Missile Crisis, but I certainly remember my parents being very worried).
Templo S.U.D. about 4 years ago
so much for the girlsâ attempt to make dinner gourmet
Brdshtt Premium Member about 4 years ago
Pizza: Number eleventy â eight.
Cheapskate0 about 4 years ago
Shelling the scallops? Kitchen already ruined!
Rhetorical_Question about 4 years ago
This sounds like Bernice is becoming a permanent resident of the Degroots household. Maybe Luann will move out to an apartment.
Rhetorical_Question about 4 years ago
Nancy Degroot is reading a book on JFK?
gnmnrbl about 4 years ago
The options being read off was Luannâs weak attempt to make her parents think they had a choice of âgourmetâ dinners so theyâd think sheâs helping out. When in reality Luann had NO intent on making them, she already had a pizza in the oven. Frank and Nancy just didnât want to say anything
Tyge about 4 years ago
Great bluff!
Joe1962 about 4 years ago
Busted!!!
Tyge about 4 years ago
Interesting to see the girls cooperating, or colluding, whichever it may be!
âI Think This Is The Beginning Of A Beautiful Friendship.â
Caldonia about 4 years ago
Bernice is neither playful nor mischievous around this family, at least not lately. Utterly humorless. Iâve no doubt sheâs attempting to make the grossest sounding item on the menu. The other items sound tasty, though.
beb01 about 4 years ago
Whatâs with all these cooking gags? First Luann tried to make E-Z beef stew with a million ingredients. Then there was (I hate to cook) Bets with E-Z vegetable soup, and now Luann and Stepford-Bernice offering to cook any of a half-dozen advanced cooking meals, not tp mention Bernice breakfast of pancakes? Do all the girls in this strip now have to prove that they can cook to be allowed to continue? Or is the joke that none of these young women know any more about cooking then Frank does. which is to say nothing? And why is this even funny since Frank and Luann agree to cook supper because Nancy was working. Clearly by now theyâve learned how to make something without burning down the house? Itâs just stupid, stupid, stupid, and demeaning to Luann and Bernice.
SHIVA about 4 years ago
Well, at least they had good intentions.
Brdshtt Premium Member about 4 years ago
Earlier in the afternoon, Luann and Bernice were at the local aquarium.
âMom, Dad â tonight you guys are each having a live squid, fight it to the death and eat it. Along with steamed rice.â
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Bernice and I are having pizzaâŠ
Caldonia about 4 years ago
What a forced gag, though. Luann researched recipes and put them on paper. Then she put a frozen pizza in the oven. Then she told them about the recipes, anticipating their apathetic snide reaction (not hard to do, actually, theyâre easy to predict). All this. For this gag, for three peopleâs lack of amusement. And mine, too!
kaffekup about 4 years ago
Iâm still trying to figure out why everything else gets a sauce or starch, but the pork chops get a dessert. And one that can burn down the kitchen, at that.
Aladar30 Premium Member about 4 years ago
At least they pretend to try to do something good for them to please them âĄ. Itâs funny and sweet to see Luann and Bernice team up in this farce âĄâĄ.By the way, homemade pizzas are way better than frozen ones and really easy to make. You just have to prepare the dough a few hours before to let it rise.
Ellis97 about 4 years ago
Boy Luann, I didnât know you had dreams of being a gourmet chef.
luannfan about 4 years ago
Nice subtle homage.
Namrepus about 4 years ago
Seafood might remind Bern of Merman Jack.
david_42 about 4 years ago
My mother only taught my sisters how to cook. I learned how in the Boy Scouts, so what I make is basic campfire cooking. I also learned to eat what I cooked, as that was all the food that was packed in.
Ignatz Premium Member about 4 years ago
Steak and sauce is pretty easy. Fish and fried rice is easy, but Iâd worry about Luann frying.
Mordock999 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Wow.
Bernice and Luann are getting along like imaginary sisters, and deluding Ma and Pa DeGroot over dinner choices.
And (GASP) Bernice is actually lying in the last panel and is in GRAVE danger of having a bit of âfun.â Saints Preserve Us!
It just goes to show. That as long you remove a âGuyâ from the equation, (Zane, Piro, Brother Ben, or Mr. Jack) Bernice actually becomes semi-bearable. ;)
ctolson about 4 years ago
Shouldnât that have been Bernice sauce!
mac04416 about 4 years ago
I remember the default âquick supperâ was a can of baked beans and a can of brown bread.
smsrt about 4 years ago
JFK⊠âThe Real Storyâ
tutibug5 about 4 years ago
Funny todayâŠI like that.
WilliamVollmer about 4 years ago
I know Luann has âlimitedâ cooking skills (like in below TJ/Gunther beginner class.) But is Bernice any better?
Tyge about 4 years ago
Berniceâs moving in with the DeGrootâs has been a rather harmonious cohabitation from the start; including with Frank and Nancy. Bernice is being presented more as a member of the family. As if she has been adopted!?
Her living with the DeGrootâs has encroached even into Sunday strip appearances. Since sheâs moved in the Sunday strips have alternated among: Luann with Frank and/or Nancy; Brad and Toni: Luann with Bernice alone; or Luann and Bernice with Frank and Nancy.
How long will this relationship continue and is there some larger schema in it?
FassEddie about 4 years ago
Is BĂ©arnaise sauce a honey flavored mayonnaise? Asking for a Pooh.
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 4 years ago
At least theyâre trying to help.
locake about 4 years ago
What would she have done if Mom and Dad picked one of the fancy dishes? I would have picked the scallops.
YorkGirl Premium Member about 4 years ago
Funny! I wonder what the excuses would have been for each of the four selections, had Nancy and Frank chosen one? Loved Berniceâs remark about shelling the scallops. I never saw them with shells! ;-)))
locake about 4 years ago
TJ could make any of those dishes without ruining the kitchen.
NadaComplicado1 about 4 years ago
I was in high school in my home country. Our Civics teacher came in and calmly said, âJohn F. Kennedy has been killed.â The reactions of my classmates was that probably the teacher made a mistake; maybe it was his brother Robert.
Later, our Language teacher came in and, with a voice that she was terrorized said the same thing. This time the reaction of my classmates was different; they believed that JFK had been killed; there was concern.
Cincoflex about 4 years ago
Glad to see someone remembers what happened today in â63
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 4 years ago
Not to forgetâŠin the end pizza will be served!
Jogger2 about 4 years ago
Berniceâs BĂ©arnaise?
cats_in_bowties about 4 years ago
And here I thought todayâs strip would be sponsored by Blue Apronâą
raybarb44 about 4 years ago
Pizza before Thanksgiving is a traditionâŠ..
reedkomicks Premium Member about 4 years ago
Well, Dog was wrong this Sunday, but was mostly right 2 Sundays agoâŠ
tutibug5 about 4 years ago
Monday⊠back at Tiffanyâs kitchen â watching TJ cook up Dezâs garden food. I wonder who will be eating the feast?
Roy G Biv about 4 years ago
HAHA
Those rascally but adorable kids are playing a trick on the parents. The kind of trick that a 5-year old thinks is funny.
Stick-in-the-mud parents refuse to go along. Boooo humorless parents; five-year-olds love it when their parents join in pretending.
WF11 about 4 years ago
I was in 5th Grade in November 1963. When we heard the news, one of the kids, in all seriousness, said âKhrushchevâs first moveâ. That actually made it scarier (I donât remember much about the Cuban Missile Crisis, but I certainly remember my parents being very worried).
Faith :) about 4 years ago
One and four sound best in my opinion.
Sisyphos about 4 years ago
Nancy and Frank arenât as dumb as typical cartoon parents.
Pizza is goodâŠ.
Schrodinger's Dog about 4 years ago
tomorrow: The Great Turkey Adventure !
DamSkippy about 4 years ago
The correct answer is: âWhatever you feel like cooking, weâre always happy whenever anyone volunteers to cook and clean up!â
momofalex7 about 4 years ago
I would have gone with the menu that had dessert.