Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 04, 2024

TRANSLATION: “Why can’t I have a best friend who is actually a best friend??”

With how slow time passes in the Luanniverse.. 80,000 years is probably pretty accurate. ;)

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So is it just me or is anyone else actually missing the Cabin Arc ?

Bernice kind of has a point to a degree: there are some people who do put forth the effort in trying to do something, and then there are some people who do put forth the effort in trying to do something. “Effort,” in this case, is a subjective term, and it doesn’t seem like Luann’s idea of putting forth effort may be more effortless than she thinks.

I believe the action of repetition with the expectation of a different, more desirable result is called “insanity.”

would you settle for a best friend who is, i don’t know…friendly?

Tryin’ is lyin’, Luann. “Do. Or do not. There is no try.” — Yoda

Say! That would be great to have a BFF bakery chef in training!

To give her credit though, apparently she makes great crepes! 8^ )

I think it comes down to how hard one tries. I can try my hardest to understand trigonometry, but that doesn’t mean that I will become good at it. But just because I don’t master it, doesn’t mean that the effort was wasted.

Before you go any further Bernice; how many personality quirks have you resolved to change? And FAILED?!

forget the major, luann, just find a friend. bernice ain’t it.

After all this time, she should realize that Bernice is not her best friend.

A bakery major! The best best friend ever!

I see many ruined lives in Bernice’s future, should she continue on this career path. (Or maybe she’ll become a Dr. Ruth)

Bernice means to say: What do you think is stopping you from having a clean room? What would it mean to you if your room were cleaner? Can you make a plan to work some basic cleaning into your routine, so your room is mostly clean, most of the time? But she’s more excited about making connections with what she’s learning than she is about helping Luann.

Luann tell Frank you need to put a sign in the front yard haring for a New friend.

This strip has jumped the shark-time to retire it(ya,ya I know l-if I don’t like it stop reading,well trust me…everyone with a clue has)

She needs a best friend who’s a maid.

Keep it simple, like Kip. His major is football and he’s getting a minor in carnal knowledge.

Luann needsta go back to th first day of the comic an skip over th second day. That’s when Bernice came in

How do you gently tell someone to stop being so full of herself.

I’ve a feeling that when Bernice hangs out her shingle, her clientele will be VERY small.

“….. not that I don’t enjoy being psychoanalyzed with every breath. It shows she finds me fascinating. And all those people on the other side of the screen find me interesting.”

yawn…

“80,000 years??”

Wasn’t there an “ice age” going on around about then, despite the fact that there NO Internal Combustion Engines around?

Oops.

Shouldn’t have mentioned that. ;-)

[DUCKS]

Does she really think Luann is going to understand this stuff?

Bernice seems to prove pure joy in analyzing Luann. But it’s hard to understand if it’s the enthusiasm of a student or the morbidity of someone who depersonalizes others to make fantasies about them. Of course Luann is annoyed by how she acts! But I have to agree with Bernice on one thing. Luann should choose resolutions that she can accomplish. Let’s hope Bernice will also sets resolutions on how to be a better person and tries to achieve them, helped by Luann.

Who knows Luann? Bakery Science BF could happen when you yeast expect it

It’s not about her major. She’s a narcissistic control freak no matter her major.

The psychology book is correct about repeated failure. 80,000 is a LOT of resolutions to make. Appears, though, Luann will still be friends with Bernice.

Luann is right. Bernice is a terrible friend. She’s rude, has no manners, puts people down, thinks she’s better than everyone else and she’s a bore. I don’t get what Luann sees in her.

Bernice is a fruitcake, so that could put her into the “bakery science” category.

Some of my friends did sciences and languages and I had ones that did business like me!

Sorry Bernice, some of the most successful people are the ones who tried and failed repeatedly, until they succeeded.

There is nothing wrong with trying and failing if one learns something from it.

Bring on the donuts!

Or at least a best friend who isn’t half baked.

“Bakery Science Major” = Food Production Engineer. G&K are at fault for this poor arc. Also, showing Bernice going into the STEM field would have been inspiration to young women to pursue the science to help society.

Perhaps, Bernice, you might make a resolution to avoid being a snarky, condescending know-it-all, and for once just try to be a supportive friend?

It’s just a bit of post-holiday time-filling. Greg had a week’s worth of New Year’s resolution jokes to get through. Things should return to being more interesting next week.

Someone wrote a piece online about how CHEERS indulged in ‘smart-shaming.’ Characters like Diane, Frasier, and Lilith, and anyone else who tried to say anything educated, became objects of ridicule, as if the average person automatically interprets intelligence as pomposity and arrogance and nothing else.

But, of course, Cliff was an idiot, and he got his share of derision. I suppose we learn to like an average somewhere in between.

It’s like shes walking around with her fingers in her ears saying, I’m not listening!!!!

Bernice has no idea how to actually talk to or interact with people, so she attempts to mask that by approaching EVERY. SINGLE. SITUATION. with psychobabble and jargon. Case in point, she couldn’t even tell Puddles needed to go outside and blathered at him about the pain he must be feeling at being separated from his people.

I also think she is studying psychology in a misguided attempt to help fix herself, because she definitely has some problems that need addressing, but she isn’t handling them. Just masking.

Bernice is destined to be the crazy cat lady that no one talks to.

This has been a plot device 75,000 years ago! Darn, I’m really ancient. The effort is worth the try, but as TG reminds, quoting from that computer generated puppet Yoda, “no try, do”

Surprisingly, Kansas State University actually has a four-year Bachelor of Science in Bakery Science and Management!

Why is she still your best friend? She is an arrogant pain in the “rump”

free donuts!

So What? So What? There’s the problem right there. Luann has never taken resolutions (or anything else) seriously and she never puts any kind of a demand on herself to improve. She always just wants to push it off on other people, and she brings this reaction from Bernice on herself – with her objectionable behavior that would be impossible for any psych major to ignore. Expecting other people to take responsibility for her actions, or non-actions, is arrogant, rude and childish. No normal person would seriously consider her request. At least Bernice is trying to get her to realize the flaw in her thinking – Nancy and Frank gave up years ago.

Tomorrow Luann gives Mrs. Horner her list! LOL!

We all know Luann won’t make any change in her life here, and no resolution will be achieved. So it begs the question: what is the point of all this? There’s no character development (unless I’m wrong and Luann DOES achieve something, which I highly doubt) and we’re not learning anything about the characters that we didn’t already know. So is this just more filler, or is there a point other than beating an already-dead horse?

Though I take back all my complaints if Luann ends up giving Bernice a fistful of knuckles.

In grad school, I had two roommates, one studying landscape architecture and one studying Russian literature. I learned a lot about landscaping and read the first half of the first chapter of Anna Karenina. I doubt either of the roommates learned anything valuable about physics.

Making a resolution is meaningless unless you act to make it happen. Just putting it on the list won’t accomplish anything.

What is Luann’s major? Education? Or undecided?It seems they’re sitting in her bedroom or Bernice’s. It’s not shown as a mess. If her bedroom needs to be cleaned, Bernice could suggest helping her get started, making sure she isn’t doing all the work. Analyzing isn’t helping either.

My best friend has a masters in psychology she has never tried to use her degree on me but she is a good listener.

restitutive fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural restitutive fantasies) (psychology) An imaginary reality created by someone to avoid what they cannot handle emotionally. maybe Denise hit the nail on the head

Bernice is Luann’s best friend?!? That’s depressing!

Denise IS Luann’s best friend, always has been. Bernice has been there from day one for Luann to complain to about life, and usually with helpful suggestions. Yesterday, she asked Luann to help her keep her resolutions. If she didn’t want feedback, she shouldn’t have asked.

If Bernice is your “Best Friend”, there’s the problem, Luann.

Your friends are the people whose faults you accept.

Beware of friends full of “psycho-babble”.

Watching paint dry is pretty interesting…by comparison.

Make a New Year’s resolution not to waste time making New Year’s resolutions.

In just shy of 70 years I have yet to make a New Years resolution. I think I have a good streak going here. No need to break it now.

My Nerdar has been tripped

“In this essay, I will…”

That’s a great question Luann. In fact I was going to say time for a new friend that isn’t stuck on her self.

Resolved, get a best friend who is a Bakery Science Major!

Oops, another revolution that failed. Hi, Bernice!

she needs to kick Bernice to the curb.

The more I read these, the more I dislike Bernice. I wish Greg had never written Delta out of the strip!

Luann, you need a new best friend.

Because Bernice likes feeling superior.

If I had a friend like Bernice… Oh wait, I wouldn’t. I do not know what Luann sees in her. We need a Jack and Luann storyline. Or Toni and Brad without Shannon storyline. Just NOTHING with BURNice.

Is it just me or is Bernice getting tedious?

You made Bernie your BFF, Luann. You. So, deal with it, or cut her off….

I was hoping that the DeGroots would find out that they were in the wrong cabin the whole time

I always found it very easy to get tired of Bernice, rather quickly.