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?
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?
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.
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. ;-)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
lvlax about 1 year ago
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!” ?? ;)
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace about 1 year ago
Crack away.
J. Scarbrough about 1 year ago
This is going to fly over so many heads.
pseudomao about 1 year ago
Good Sunday strip! :+)
Namrepus about 1 year ago
Not a Car, a Zeppelin or a Pistol?
Tyge about 1 year ago
Well a little thought went into this one.
ACTIVIST1234 about 1 year ago
Not until I saw the spelling of “Byrd” did I catch what he meant!
Crann Bethadh about 1 year ago
Or a turtle or a seed or an electric prune.
Rhetorical_Question about 1 year ago
Frank was a former musician who followed the music of 60’s ?
sallymargret about 1 year ago
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?
Rhetorical_Question about 1 year ago
I liked the Rolling Stones and later on, The Eagles rock band.
Rhetorical_Question about 1 year ago
MELon, MUSTard, …..
ronaldspence about 1 year ago
I think he is about to be committed!
Rhetorical_Question about 1 year ago
Luann generation is not familiar with Frank and Nancy generation?
kenhense about 1 year ago
The online delivery service will have a tough time with this.
Rockabore about 1 year ago
Haha. This was a very funny gag.
Azul0858 about 1 year ago
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?
Dirty Dragon about 1 year ago
Wait until Luann finds out her dad is planning to bury Paul.
nightflight about 1 year ago
Frank wanted to be a rock star. Given the same question, I would have said, “Dolly Parton’s wardrobe manager”.
Joe1962 about 1 year ago
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.
TwilightFaze about 1 year ago
I remember my dad and I making jokes about this when I was a kid.
overtherainbow about 1 year ago
Love this strip! :-D
snsurone76 about 1 year ago
That could be a lyric for one of today’s “music” groups.
snsurone76 about 1 year ago
Can you even picture button-down Frank as a rock star??
Luna_d_Paita about 1 year ago
Try reading the sentence: “Mel must let Mac cook Tom’s butt crack.”
French Persons' Celebration of Peeved Harry Dinkle Premium Member about 1 year ago
He must really miss Woodstock.
Shirl Summ Premium Member about 1 year ago
THAT was GOOOOOOD!
Wilkins068 about 1 year ago
MEL Tormé, Fleetwood MAC, TOM Petty, and the BUTT CRACKS were a Country an Western band
cdillon85 about 1 year ago
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.
dlkrueger33 about 1 year ago
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.
WaitingMan about 1 year ago
I wanted to be a 1910 Fruitgum Company.
ewaldoh about 1 year ago
Is Greg wishing for a comeback from Pastis; or is this a tribute to him?Very clever on several levels.
Mordock999 Premium Member about 1 year ago
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. ;-)
MS72 about 1 year ago
Pastis is an influencer…
Gen.Flashman about 1 year ago
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.
Ignatz Premium Member about 1 year ago
I like that they included some bands with odd spelling so WE would know what Frank was talking about.
comic reader 22 about 1 year ago
This is incredibly CLEVER! (Don’t know if I would have used butt crack though) LOL!
Aladar30 Premium Member about 1 year ago
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.
Ken Otwell about 1 year ago
So … Stephan Pastis is moonlighting today?
Ellis97 about 1 year ago
“Mel Must Let Mac Cook Tom’s Butt Crack” sounds like some kind of Mad Libs game.
BoydAdams about 1 year ago
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”…
Caldonia about 1 year ago
Frank’s extremely old.
Doug K about 1 year ago
Generation Gap. What we have here is failure to communicate.
locake about 1 year ago
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.
locake about 1 year ago
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.
strandedonearth Premium Member about 1 year ago
“Gonna get my picture on the covah / Gonna buy five copies for my motha! / Gonna see my smiling face…”
locake about 1 year ago
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.
BJShipley1 about 1 year ago
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.
French Persons' Celebration of Peeved Harry Dinkle Premium Member about 1 year ago
So, is the extended DeGroot family just relegated to the Sunday strips now?
txmystic about 1 year ago
This one made me LOL for reals…
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 1 year ago
As they said sometimes in ‘Peanuts’: What was that all about?
hoffquotes2 about 1 year ago
So next week’s arc will be getting dad out of the mental hospital before Thanksgiving
pls50 about 1 year ago
it looks like my mother’s grocery list.
thevideostoreguy about 1 year ago
Ah, that magical time of life when everyone around you thinks you’re constantly having a stroke….
Need coffee about 1 year ago
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
sperry532 about 1 year ago
Best laugh of the day.
luann1212 about 1 year ago
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.
sueb1863 about 1 year ago
Interesting that their first reaction is that Frank must be having a mental breakdown and not simply asking him for an explanation.
TekoaMT about 1 year ago
Stephan Pastis homage?
Yakety Sax about 1 year ago
ROFLMAO!
SukieCrandall Premium Member about 1 year ago
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…
tammyspeakslife Premium Member about 1 year ago
Would they be as worried if he replied, “Smashing Pumpkins”?
pripley about 1 year ago
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.
Saurischia about 1 year ago
If those are the groups LuAnn’s father listened to as a kid, shouldn’t he be approaching 70ish?
Eliezer about 1 year ago
Brilliant! Thanks!
hollyd58 about 1 year ago
Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) would be proud. He is the master of groaners like this – though most are pretty clever, like this one.
mindjob about 1 year ago
So sexy!
raybarb44 about 1 year ago
We DID like their music back then and still like it now. Because we were young then and it was our tiime……
The Quiet One about 1 year ago
Hey, if it works for Frank, leave it alone.
ellisaana Premium Member about 1 year ago
Perfect.
rob about 1 year ago
Ignatz Premium Member about 1 year ago
Congratulations to Greg and Karen for bypassing the censor.
RolloTheGrouch about 1 year ago
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.
outonalimb about 1 year ago
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.
eced52 about 1 year ago
I bet Nancy would understand it. My question is how Nancy is reciting a list of refrigerated items, while looking in the cupboard.
eced52 about 1 year ago
Well, we have the lyrics, now for the music.
Curiosity Premium Member about 1 year ago
I haven’t laughed this much in a Long time!
nightflight about 1 year ago
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.
namelocdet about 1 year ago
Ok… took me a minute and I had to re-read it a few times, but I get it now. Ha Ha
ridenslide65 about 1 year ago
@sallymargret The Doors, The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, The Eagles, The Monkees, The Beatles….. etc…
eddi-TBH about 1 year ago
The generation gap just swallowed everyone.
Fedup Bear about 1 year ago
I can’t believe there are readers who didn’t ‘get this’….I found it delightfully funny
peterbratke about 1 year ago
My take is dad wanted to a rocker and the girls thought he was off his rocker.
davecat about 1 year ago
ROTFLMAO !!!
Wilkins068 about 1 year ago
I’m wondering if some one is talking an they say Birds or Byrds can the one who’s listening tell th difference?
BlitzMcD about 1 year ago
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.
Sisyphos about 1 year ago
What we have here, nosey girls, is a failure to communicate! Nothing wrong with Frank! Can’t say the same for Lulu and Bernie….
rgcviper about 1 year ago
Well, that’s a catchy acronym. Made me laugh, in a twisted way.
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] about 1 year ago
Luann is no code expert
rklynch about 1 year ago
One of the better Sunday strips I’ve seen in awhile
missyhyattfan about 1 year ago
It’s what men hear when women talk to them; especially shopping!!