Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 19, 2023

Mel Must Let Mac Cook Toms Butt Crack. Market List Abbreviations.. That’s a cute one!

But why not just say “I wanted to be a Rock Star!” ?? ;)

Crack away.

This is going to fly over so many heads.

Good Sunday strip! :+)

Not a Car, a Zeppelin or a Pistol?

Well a little thought went into this one.

Not until I saw the spelling of “Byrd” did I catch what he meant!

Or a turtle or a seed or an electric prune.

Frank was a former musician who followed the music of 60’s ?

I understand that Stones, Doors, Eagles, Byrds, Monkees, Beatles, are all old rock groups, but I don’t get “Mel Must Let Mac Cook Toms Butt Crack.” What does that mean, other than the first letter of the shopping list?

I liked the Rolling Stones and later on, The Eagles rock band.

MELon, MUSTard, …..

I think he is about to be committed!

Luann generation is not familiar with Frank and Nancy generation?

The online delivery service will have a tough time with this.

Haha. This was a very funny gag.

Hmm…doesn’t sound like a Thanksgiving shopping list. Could they be going to skip past the holiday this year, because there isn’t time to develop a story about it?

Wait until Luann finds out her dad is planning to bury Paul.

Frank wanted to be a rock star. Given the same question, I would have said, “Dolly Parton’s wardrobe manager”.

In the third panel Frank is talking about Music groups from the 1970’s and 80’s poor Luann is clueless about music from the 70’s and 80’s.

I remember my dad and I making jokes about this when I was a kid.

Love this strip! :-D

That could be a lyric for one of today’s “music” groups.

Can you even picture button-down Frank as a rock star??

Try reading the sentence: “Mel must let Mac cook Tom’s butt crack.”

He must really miss Woodstock.

THAT was GOOOOOOD!

MEL Tormé, Fleetwood MAC, TOM Petty, and the BUTT CRACKS were a Country an Western band

Wow. To be a Monkee…the song list I assembled for when my day comes has “I’m A Believer” on it, starting with “Linus & Lucy” and ending with some CCM with a TV theme bracketing the song list, fore & aft.

Took me awhile to get because I was trying to find the connection between the shopping list gag and musical gag. I still haven’t found it. These seem like two separate strips sewn together.

I wanted to be a 1910 Fruitgum Company.

Is Greg wishing for a comeback from Pastis; or is this a tribute to him?Very clever on several levels.

Oh, Gawd!

Once again, I spoke the Devil’s name and once more, she APPEARED. And on a Sunday, yet! (SHUDDER)

But on much a lighter note, that’s quite an impressive line-up classic supergroups Frank wanted to be part of. I’ll even forgive him for not wanting to be a “Dan” or for not wanting to be Experinced.

Now.

Instead of calling 911, ladies, why not dust off Frank’s vinyls from back in the day and listen to some REAL Music for change?

Oh and Lu?

Don’t forget to take Bernice with you when you go skydiving.

She can take notes on your “reactions” on the way down after they shove her out of the plane. ;-)

Pastis is an influencer…

Again the Evans not doing their math, if dad is 50 he would have born in the early 70s and in high school in late 80s/early 90s and not likely no more familiar with 60s groups than a boomer would be with Glen Miller/Tommy Dorsey.

I like that they included some bands with odd spelling so WE would know what Frank was talking about.

This is incredibly CLEVER! (Don’t know if I would have used butt crack though) LOL!

Luann is right, that’s really a dangerous situation, even Bernice seems genuinely worried. I wonder if she see Frank like a second father to her. Changing the subject, Frank had beautiful dreams as a boy.

So … Stephan Pastis is moonlighting today?

“Mel Must Let Mac Cook Tom’s Butt Crack” sounds like some kind of Mad Libs game.

Thank you Greg Evans and Karen Evans for a wonderful belly laugh….“cook Tom’s butt crack”…. laughed again just writing this note… “I’m calling 911”…

Frank’s extremely old.

Generation Gap. What we have here is failure to communicate.

The girls are not in the room when Nancy tells Frank the list. If I had not seen Byrds and only heard Frank’s list of careers I would not have known it was musical groups. So Luann hears Frank’s odd list of careers and then hears Bernice read his odd sentence and assumes Frank is having a stroke. I would think the same thing.

Only the audience, the readers, can see everything that is going on. Luann and Bernice have no idea that Frank is writing down an abbreviated grocery list.

“Gonna get my picture on the covah / Gonna buy five copies for my motha! / Gonna see my smiling face…”

If I took that list to the grocery store, I would never know what most of the items were. The only things I abbreviate are TP and PB and those are easy to recognize. It would only take Frank a couple more seconds to write out Melon instead of Mel, or Butter instead of Butt.

Looks like Frank’s musical tastes haven’t kept up with the sliding timeline. Either that or he’s seventy years old.

Next we’re gonna have 19-year-old Luann talking about how much she enjoyed watching new episodes of Seinfeld during high school.

So, is the extended DeGroot family just relegated to the Sunday strips now?

This one made me LOL for reals…

As they said sometimes in ‘Peanuts’: What was that all about?

So next week’s arc will be getting dad out of the mental hospital before Thanksgiving

it looks like my mother’s grocery list.

Ah, that magical time of life when everyone around you thinks you’re constantly having a stroke….

Old bands? Luann and Bernice aren’t keeping up. Both the Stones and the Beatles (!) have had new releases this year. 2023.

The Beatles

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=Opxhh9Oh3rg

The Stones

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=_ePte74_qiU&list=PLxA687tYuMWjj8CPAs5noVE8LFXEMKabs

Best laugh of the day.

Really humorous Capstone to the week (see what I did there). The girls have none or just a nodding awareness of these rock star bands but Bernice has the funny punch line.

Interesting that their first reaction is that Frank must be having a mental breakdown and not simply asking him for an explanation.

Stephan Pastis homage?

ROFLMAO!

I laughed so hard that my hubby came to see what got me chuckling and chortling away. Okay, guffawing. “They” may say that women don’t snore, sweat, or guffaw, but…

Would they be as worried if he replied, “Smashing Pumpkins”?

I’m trying to decide if the two gags work together. I think they do since neither works as a stand-alone to the punch line. Combining them helps the premise.

If those are the groups LuAnn’s father listened to as a kid, shouldn’t he be approaching 70ish?

Brilliant! Thanks!

Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) would be proud. He is the master of groaners like this – though most are pretty clever, like this one.

So sexy!

We DID like their music back then and still like it now. Because we were young then and it was our tiime……

Hey, if it works for Frank, leave it alone.

Perfect.

Congratulations to Greg and Karen for bypassing the censor.

The cleverest Sunday Luann strip in memory.

But it raises the continuing philosophical question – is Luanniverse in the 1980s or the 2020s?

The best guess is that it’s still the 1980s, with 2020s electronics (and nothing else from any time past 1990). Like many other comic strips that remain in the era they were created, but have to have electronics.

There sure are a bunch of tro…, er, commenters today griping about sketchiness of the timeline as if that were a huge surprise in a comic strip with a 19-year-old protagonist who was 13 in 1985.

I bet Nancy would understand it. My question is how Nancy is reciting a list of refrigerated items, while looking in the cupboard.

Well, we have the lyrics, now for the music.

I haven’t laughed this much in a Long time!

This comic reminds me of the story about The Emperor’s New Clothes and the effect it had on people. The ones who sought to be smart and perceptive raved about the new clothes. The boy unaffected by image or admiration, simply said the emperor was “naked as the day he was born.” Greg Evans distracted people from realizing that he had a made a crummy, meaningless cartoon by having them argue among themselves as to who knew the real meaning of Frank’s gibberish.

Ok… took me a minute and I had to re-read it a few times, but I get it now. Ha Ha

@sallymargret The Doors, The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, The Eagles, The Monkees, The Beatles….. etc…

The generation gap just swallowed everyone.

I can’t believe there are readers who didn’t ‘get this’….I found it delightfully funny

My take is dad wanted to a rocker and the girls thought he was off his rocker.

ROTFLMAO !!!

I’m wondering if some one is talking an they say Birds or Byrds can the one who’s listening tell th difference?

I suddenly have a much higher level of respect for Luann’s dad. Great music is timeless, and he is obviously a connoisseur of great music.

What we have here, nosey girls, is a failure to communicate! Nothing wrong with Frank! Can’t say the same for Lulu and Bernie….

Well, that’s a catchy acronym. Made me laugh, in a twisted way.

Luann is no code expert

One of the better Sunday strips I’ve seen in awhile

It’s what men hear when women talk to them; especially shopping!!