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

She’s too smart for her own good. Poor Puddles.

Clearly Bernice doesn’t know her stuff.

Poor Puddles….

Here we have one of those unusual cases of a Sunday strip being connected—albeit somewhat indirectly—to the weekday story line.

This is reminding me of several years ago when I served as a house and petsitter for my aunt and uncle while they were away for the weekend. They had a really crazy weenie dog who was such a spastic little character, I figured the weekened would be a blast for both of us . . . but nope. He spent the entire time pouting – he wouldn’t eat, he wouldn’t play, he wouldn’t go potty, nothing. I kept trying to engage and play with him, but he just remained on the couch under his blanket.

Mr. Ed would have made a better animal psychologist than Bernice.

My dog goes where I go.

If Bernice has Puddles hop on the couch and he ends up peeing on her, that would make so many people happy.

Puddles showing us what he really thinks of Bernice!

She’s outsmarted herself. She’ll find out the hard way. Typical psyche major. Or at least typical of the ones I knew in college. Always analyzing every word or emotion their friends had. Made us nuts.

I took it as his opinion on her own self-importance.

Puddles what are you doing.

Just pee on her, she’ll learn.

Go for it, Puds!! Poop all over her!!

Bernice can use her psychology education to get a job as an advice columnist for a small town newspaper: Dear Bernie.

C’mon, Bernice! Can’t you see his whine is yellow?

Well, Puddles, I think you are just going to have to live up to your name.

About to live up to his name.

panel 4 is missing where Ms Psychology is cleaning the dog pi$$ off the couch and her clothes.

Go on Pudd, make Bernie a glass of lemonade.

I am going to make a mess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, <————Puddles whining translation

Whiz on her leg, puddles!

Fry the keyboard.

Gads Bernice! He has to go out!

She’s about to find out why he’s called Puddles.

Wow! I thought Sunday strips were independent of the weekly arc? This is a rare one, indeed.

Bernice better take Puddles for a walk before he shows her how he got his name.

I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s strip, where we can hopefully see the inside of the cabin.

Cute comic. Bernice is a trying to figure out why Puddles is whining and thinks it is because he misses his family, which is reasonable. She is planning to give him some cuddles and talk to him to help him feel better. When you think about dogs and people, dogs use body language and can’t understand most words people are saying to them. Bernice is trying to help Puddles feel less lonely and Puddles can’t tell her what he needs. If it wasn’t a comic strip, the next frame would be Puddles getting her attention and going to the door. Greg and Karen have created a funny comic strip. I appreciate the humour in it.

Lord knows what damage Bernice will do if she completes her studies and goes into practice…

Clean up on aisle 1.

If Bernice doesn’t let Puddles out, she will have a puddle in her lap.

Will Puddles hop up on her lap or on her laptop?

Oh the arrogance of what she’ll be like if and when she earns her “Dr.” name tag.

And in a minute, Bernice will be worried, confused, and stressed.

Once again, Bernice shows how unsuitable she is to become a psychologist and how much she considers herself to be way better than she is. I really hope Puddles doesn’t get on the couch, because he’ll soon show Bernice why he’s fussing. Poor, misunderstood lil dog! This makes you understand that for the entire time Bernice was a guest in the Degroots house, she never took Puddles out by herself. She just accompanied Luann when she did it and only sometimes. I love to see a Sunday page linked to the arc of the week.

A good dog owner can always tell.

Go to the door Puds!

Oh c’mon Bernice. You’ve lived there long enough that you should know his bathroom routine and sometimes there is no routine & they want out just to go out. I always say that I am a doorman for my dogs. No, a dog door would not work for us.

We trained our Mastiff to ring a bell at the back door when he wanted to go out, it worked great, he caught onto it the first try and with that system never had another accident in the house.

Oh oh, going to do a puddle on the couch? That ought to be fun to explain…

Every time I see a comic like this I remember several years ago there being a very prolific poster who kept insisting that they bring back Bernice. Be careful what you wish for.

Bernice’s hairdo looks like a bush and well ….

They don’t call him Puddles for no reason

I have yet to see Bernice actually have a clue when it comes to the emotions of others. She really should consider changing majors. :)

Go to the door and scratch at it, Puddles!

Once again we are shown that Bernice is far too enamored of herself and her own self-importance to ever do anyone any good.

Just pee on her she’ll get the idea.

Dog talk 101. Walk Dog + Feed Dog + Pet Dog = Happy Dog. Otherwise face dire consequences.

I’m amazed the Sunday strip actually relares to the current story! it’s usually annoyingly random.

Excellent rendition of why Puddles is whining.

Puddles about to show why he is called puddles.

It’s clear that Bernice is looking at other people’s issues to ignore her own issues and just by this strip alone, I can tell that she’s got a lot of them.

I’ve never seen anyone so impressed by their own major as Bernice is.

Use her legs, Puddles.

This time of year you can usually buy a strip of jingle bells which will hang on your doorknob. You can train your dog to ring the bells when they need to go. We did that.

She’s right, Pud.

Just hop up there and…, you know. ;-)

They shoulda taken the dog.

My mother was going to Ggrand Chapter of the Eastern Star here in Florida. Her little miniature dachshund, Snoopy, came up to me and he sat up on his hind legs and I praised him for it. He looked really worried in a doggy way. He barked and I thought about it. I finally realized what he was trying to tell me, so I opened the door and let him relieve himself outside. After that we did well enough. I understood enough doggy language to get by.

Wow, I wonder how long it’s been when a Sunday cartoon followed the weekly arc

Berniece misses the mark again

She’s going to get a nasty surprise on the floor in about two minutes.

And pee all over her for being so dense, Puddles!

He wants to pee….

Poor Bernice, clueless in multiple species

She’s an educated idiot. Common sense can’t be taught.

Maybe Piro should have taken a lesson from Puddles when Bernice wanted him to “sit right down here” and get psycho-analyzed! If only there was another panel! We could see the correct response demonstrated!

Dear God! Save us from Psychology students!

Now THAT is funny. Over-analyzing the case. It almost makes up for the skydiving letdown.

I hope Puddles..puddles on her.

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I would think a Psychology major would have learned about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Physical needs come first.

Like my family.No one else is around to let the dog out. Even when the are home.

I really see Bern as much smarter and mature than the artists give her credit.

In Luann comic time (if she and Luann are still 18/19 in the Fall semester of their sophomore year) she has only been living there about 4 months.

Dr. Bernice missed the mark on this one.

“Doctor” Bernice is going to go into business with Mal Practice!

I hope Puddles pees on her.

And leaves a nice “pile” in the middle of her bed.

She just might get the message, then.

Oh, dear. Bernice will have to call crime scene cleaners before the fam returns! Poor Puddles.

Her family just doesn’t want her back.

Puddles is about to show Bernice the origin of his namesake.

One of our cats whines anytime Hubby disappears on the other side of a closed door. He’s the one who rescued her from the backyard as a hungry stray kitten.

She’ll get the message soon enough…

P is for pretentious. It is also for pee.

She’s going to have a wet lap.

She tends to overlook the obvious.

Oh, Bernice, a psychologist you’re not. During the whole I care for you Puddles moment, you never put down your laptop. Humans as with pets, follow body language over words.

Puddles may live up to his name.

weird, the sunday strip sort of does carry on the weekly arc

Tomorrow, the Russian Family, Zhivago enter the Zeus Lodge and discover Kip and Steff, who dropped by for “a quick one”.

Now that’s funny! But I’ve also enjoyed the arc this past week. Very refreshing. And whoever is drawing the snowflakes is doing a bang up job…

I think SHE thinks she is smart – but smart is as smart does and she is about to have some extra laundry! She is so full of herself she cannot realize Pud is going to explode.

We see yet again how pompously wrong Bernie can be! Puddles needs to go out to pee, Ms. Psychology Major….

Go ahead and hop,Puddles.those are last year’s pants anyway