Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 17, 2023

Karen really hates Luann. She would never do the ridiculous garbage Tara told her to do.

Nobody cares if someone else has hiccups in class.

A few hiccups in that plan

Everone likes t watch a car wreck

“Most hiccup cures are for the amusment of the patients friends.” – Hobbs

T-shirt I saw the other day: “If you say ‘gullible’ slowly, it sounds like ‘oranges.’”

Ever since the beginning of the internet this hiccup cure article has been making the rounds, digital rectal stimulation. Yeah, a finger in the butt. Nope! I’m good! Hard pass!

“Will this help?”

“It’s helping me laugh! LMAO”

Sure cure for hiccups: eat a teaspoon of sugar. I guess it disrupts the air bubble or something. I’ve used it for decades on students and friends. Only once out of maybe a hundred episodes was there one solitary remaining hiccup.

Over the top. Tara is a friend – she wouldn’t do that to Luann.

Oh Tara- that’s so mean!

Anything can happen in the Sunday strip. Luann isn’t the type to do that in public, but I bet she would say “Gullible” slowly to see if it sounded like “Oranges”. I can see Tara getting herself behind Luann to scare the hiccups out of her. Tara is the type to do that in public.

It would be nice if G&K wrote some of these interesting players into the daily strips again.

Intresting. Th comic has been saying by Greg an Karen Evans for a while. Today it jus says by Greg Evans. Karen take Sundays off?

Someone (yesterday perhaps) complained that Luann never gets noticed by guys as much as she was in high school. Well she’s getting noticed now.

This may be the most preposterous hiccup cure I’ve heard yet.

Luann can’t resist Tara Starr suggestions?

Gunther and Tara would be a hilarious storyline.

Stealth Nil spotting! Whee! :-)

Heavy backpack?

Only one character laughing?

I feel like if you view this as “a character has the hiccups as comedic shorthand for being a drunk” (you know, that old trope) it makes this strip make more sense. Luann’s just drunk enough to do something stupid that any sober person would realize is utterly nonsensical.

Tara’s from the Ministry of Silly Walks an shes havin Luann try one out

And once again, a “good friend” makes their “pal” look like a fool.

In public yet.

Congrats, Tara.

You join an illustrious list of “good friends” that includes Knute, and of course, Old Smiley, who down thru the years, made their “buddies” look like Chumps.

And, while many of Us justifiably vilify Bernice, at least she only made Luann look foolish in private.

Luann has great balance. Standing on one foot with the eyes shut is hard enough but this, I imagine, would be very difficult.

How can you be old enough to be attending university and still not have figured out which hiccup cure works best for you? Most people I know figured it out in grade school.

Dunno if Tara is playing a prank on Luann or thinks that’s actually a valid way to stop hiccup, but she seems really happy to see her again.How nice to see the whole group together again. the community college has resumed its classes and they are all there again, already dressed for autumn. Luann always ends up being the center of attention for everyone, especially for Jack, who always worries about her. I hope that during this school year the relationships between the two of them will be more intense.

So, is Tara actually trying to help Luann, or embarrass her before class??I rarely get the hiccups. On the rare occasions that I do, I get happy that I finally have the hiccups, and I try to make the hiccups stay. Without fail, they always stop immediately.

Nice double entendre. Tara probably quietly snickering.

And Tara is recording it to post on YouTube™.

I’m doubly embarrassed: first, because I read the strip, and second, because I commented on it.

If she’s trying to avoid humiliation, she’s doing a pretty bad job at it.

Jack looks like a Mincecraft character, I just noticed.

Why are there all these weird hiccup cures when just drinking water actually works?

It also cures the yips if one is shanking.

See ‘Tin Cup’

The Dearest Ann❤️Eiffel solution is simple. Never do anything that will embarrass yourself and you will never be embarrassed. Darling Ann❤️Eiffel never does anything embarrassing, however, manipulating her marks into embarrassing situations is one of the key issues addressed in international best seller “Seduction for Fun and Profit”. Take the time Clever Ann❤️Eiffel took all of Tuff❤️Tiff’s Shoog Daddy Daddy’s clothes while he and Tuff❤️Tiff’s mom were staying in the same luxury hotel in Monaco and Shoog Daddy Daddy was “visiting” Sultry Ann❤️Eiffel in the same hotel. On his tab, of course. Sultry Ann❤️Eiffel said she would not return them… and not scream rape"… until Shoog Daddy Daddy gave her an American Express Black credit card with no spending limit. And don’t even ask what she did to get the deed to The Manse. No wonder we all ❤️ Ann❤️Eiffel! Sooooo… Enjoy your Sunday, lowly unworthies. Yrs Trly, The Count certainly will. The Countess and I are all set to enjoy Oktoberfest, the Home Opener, and dinner at the new Jeff Ruby’s Downtown after. That said, See You in Church and, like Yrs Trly The Count… put a bit extra in the collection plate for those in need. TTFN and Have an Ann❤️Eiffel Day. (Glad the last arc is over… did not care for that one at all.)

Can’t recall who referenced adventures of Tara and Luann – but whomever was prescient!

Next, she’ll do the Elaine Benes dance

All things are relative.

The best and truest punchline to this gag would be at the end where people crack open their ubiquitous cellphones and livestream her antics, and she goes “viral”.

Agree. Also agree with the post that she hates Gunther and Tiffany. And she clearly doesn’t like the Degroot family, they are regulated to the Sunday comics only. I really looked forward to Brad and Tony’s adventures after they got married , but there’s no story now and I found them to be the most interesting

No one cares except the Prof.

Tara is my favorite, even if this is only a Sunday.

Standing on one leg, head tipped back and eyes closed.. is hard to do.

I wish the viewpoint character (Luann) actually had a good friend who happened to be a girl. Right now, her best friend really seems to be Jack. Between B’s sarcasm and this effort by Tara to make a fool of her, Luann seems to be a punching bag for the female characters in this ’toon who the writer (Karen) probably identifies with most closely.

This kind of reminds me of the old standby. If the police officer suspects you of drinking and driving and asks you to say the alphabet backwards as a test, don’t say “What?! I can’t even do that sober!”

This is a fun comic. The comments are not.

It’s so refreshing to have a sunday strip with a scene outside of the DeGroot household, and with other characters.

Tara knows how to go after the easy target. She is an archer, after all.

Never fails (for me) cure for hiccups: Inhale as much as possible. Hold ten seconds. Inhale more, hold ten seconds. Try to inhale the tiny bit left, hold ten seconds, exhale slowly through nose. It’s quiet, non-disruptive, and effective.

Just hold your breath and relax, exhaling slowly after about ten seconds. Works for me.

and maybe doing what Luann is doing requires so much mental and physical concentration that she may be holding her breath and doing just what ORD recommends and so it will work.

Luann, Tara is not your friend!

That girl has an evil side.

Take ten swallows of water without taking a breath. Works every time.

In style though….

Tara 1, Luann 0

I usually just eat some sugar. That usually works for some reason.

Karen doesn’t HATE Luann. This is just a funny commentary on the ridiculousness of so many things out there on the Internet, including hiccup cures. Just think about how many YOU have heard in your lifetime. I know whenever I get them I will try ANYTHING to get rid of them ASAP. My best method is simply to drink 8 sips of water without breathing. Sip them one at a time. It always works for me. Or if you can sip something carbonated like a soda through a straw—-same thing try not to breathe between sips. It’s very effective. Once my father had a seriously loud case of hiccups after an endoscopy. The nurse gave him a small plastic cup of Mylanta to drink. It did the trick! There’s no hate here today—-just funny. And it’s ironic that, like many of us, Luann will do anything to avoid embarrassment, only to have it zing back around on her. It happens to the best of us. Tara isn’t being mean here.

And no one is recording this?!?

Tara is classless.

Lots of wet blankets commenting today. NEVER HAPPY about anything. Why even get out of bed? Life sucks, so just give up on humor of any kind. You PAID so much for this strip. O wait….

Eh, Luann won’t be embarrassed. People will just think it’s the latest social media challenge thing. Heck, they will want in on it!

nicely played

It’s picturesque anyway.

I wonder if I could get a hiccuping friend to do that? Hmmmmm

Where is Tara’s cell phone? I thought for sure she would “capture” that pose on purpose. Luann doesn’t need any help standing out in a crowd. The more she tries to blend in, the more she sticks out. Let Luann be Luann!

This makes me feel better. Luann’s and my picture can be seen in the dictionary next to the word gullible.

Encore, Encore!

After that it is much harder to be embarrassed.

1. This was funny (good prank, Tara!) and 2. Super cute outfit on Tara! She needs to help Luann, who must be shopping from her grandmother’s closet (Luann’s mom has great style sense!)

With friends like that…..

My Imaginary Spies™️ report that Tara’s cure actually worked. Meanwhile, however, the guy pointing at Luann in panel 3 started laughing so hard that he now has hiccups.

It’s just meant to be funny. Remember Lucille Ball anyone? Her thing was to take normal events and make them funnily ridiculous, As the name character Luann is called upo to do that. Tara is definitely not being mean.

I’m not so sure that is avoiding embarrassment.

Hiccup cures were invented to amuse your friends.

In class. SO much better to be embarrassed outside of class.

Where are all the cell phone cameras?

Luann has been given (by Tara, I mean) the moves of a Drum Majorette. She does the moves well, but I suppose that out of a cheerleaders-and-collegiate-band context, she might be a tad embarrassed, if she had a clue what Tara had done to her out in public….

One of my high school teachers had a sure-fire cure. If a student had the hiccups, he’d bring them to the front of the class while everybody stared. it seriously worked every time.

I had hiccups so often as a kid, I learned how to tense up internally to allow the air bubble to pass by the vagus nerve, which initiates my hiccups. I still get hiccups every day, often starting before I get out of bed. My wife thinks it’s amusing to hear me hiccup once or twice, then shut them off.