Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 20, 2024

Gross!! You never put your mouth on anything that is in the toilet!

Time to ask Gunther for help or get a plumber out there ASAP, Les.

I have no idea what Leslie is trying to do blowing into that hose shoved into the toilet but I sure wouldn’t do it. The blowback would leave a you with a mouthful of sewerage.

Dude, the toilet is running. If it were clogged and still running, water would be everywere already.

He’s not to bright

Gunther will discuss the physics of clogged toilets while Bets rolls her eyes and calls a plumber.

There was an apocryphal story going around the nearby RV park a few years ago about a pile of vomit found one morning next to a hose inserted not into the gas tank of a motor home, but the blackwater tank.

Gunter: ’What’s goin on in here?’

Les: ‘I chased a rat down th swirlyhole an I’m making sure it goes down. Might be another in th tank cause the water keeps running. Uncle Al needsta call a pest control company..’

Yup, Les you likely looked up the wrong information based on wrong diagnosis. Gunther is a logical thinker and will figure out.

Must of been one heck of a hairball

I wonder who “we” are. If it’s Irma and Al, this arc could become pretty dramatic!

Most likely Bets can figure it out if anybody can.

Jiggle the handle.

You have wird toilets in the US – why have moving parts in the bowl when none are needed? Tin foil hat guess – it’s a plumbers association plot to get more jobs… (In Europe there are NO moving parts in the bowl that can mess up and it works really well.

Saved by Gunther and Bets?

Punk. Patient, brave, loyal, and forever cute.

Jiggle the handle. If that doesn’t work, lift the lid off the tank and reset the float/valve mechanism.

Les dropped a super grogan!

Get that filthy cat OUT of the bathroom!!! ICK!

You should have called a plumber!

If this is supposed to suggest that Les wouldn’t be having this problem if he went to college, I don’t think college would have helped here unless it was plumber college.

Les, you are hosed!

He never did check the tank.

IF the problem is that the toilet won’t stop, shouldn’t you be checking the tank, not the bowl?

All this is, is that the flap in the toilet tank got stuck in the ‘up’ position. All Les had to do was take the top off the tank, and knock the flap down.

Why would you pour soda pop into the toilet?!

Jiggle the handle!!

What does the coke do?

Um… Shouldn’t he check the tank if the water keeps running? It’s probably the chain rapped around the handle lever, preventing the valve from closing.

A tragicomic show, beautiful how Punk was always present supervising everything. I suppose that now Les will see the engineering student Gunther solve the problem in a few minutes and will understand that living avoiding any kind of effort is not as satisfying as he thought.

Give it up Les, and let Gunther handle it.

And Gunther comes in and jiggles the handle and it stops flushing.

Les, just call a plumber.

Mentos and Diet Coke.

Boy I say boy is sharper than a marble!

Was he DRINKING that ???

I KNEW it!

Gunny comes home just in time to clean up Les’ mess.

Gun?

I’d spend the night in Bets’ Mystery Van if I were you, and let Mr Knox deal with this disaster.

Or better yet, crash on the couch at the dorm.

Dez won’t mind and both Tiff and Bets will SILENCE Stef if she squeaks. .

And if you want to REALLY drive Les over the edge, take Punk WITH you as the Gulag is now an unhealthy environment for any cat. ;-)

LMAO! Mr. Happy doesn’t even know how a toilet works!

I would ask how anyone could be this clueless but then I remember having interns, all engineering students working on their Masters thesis, that had no clue how to actually DO anything. They were great at theory but nearly useless with anything hands-on.

Les is not smart.

Nooo! You BLOW INTO IT! You don’t SUCK!!!!

OMG. From the sound shown, the toilet is still running. Take the lid off the tank and flip the flap back down.

Regarding panel #3— Very bad move by the Evans for drawing that panel. Somewhere out there, someone is reading today’s strip & thinking – hey, that’s something I can try next time my toilet is clogged. Just awful.

Who’s “we”?

Oh boy, guy blowing into a dirty toilet with a hose. What’s for breakfast???

Sometimes DIY works pretty well.

All he had to do was jiggle the handle.

He needs to buy a new flapper

I’m outta here …

Wasn’t the issue a cistern drip? He is trying to unclog the toilet to fix a drip?

ASAP…..is right!

And tomorrow Gunther will jiggle the handle and that’ll be the end.

What a crappy story arc.

I really, really hope G&K spend the next several weeks exploring each and every one of the suggestions on how to fix, who will fix, why to fix the effing toilet!! ENOUGH ALREADY!!

I expected the toilet to explode and cause significant damage. Sometimes the simplest fix is best. When I had a clog, lacking the ability to use a plunger, I filled a few buckets with water and poured them into the toilet allowing the water to push the clog through. I think many of the readers who said, “Jiggle the handle” are likely correct.

After this he may reconsider college

Remind me why they didn’t want to tell uncle Al about the broken toilet…..

I wonder where Les got his ‘How to’ information from? I mean, not even a parody from SNL would have thought up bringing a hose to the commode to blow through after dumping a bottle of lye in the bowl (Unless maybe that was Coca-Cola).

I tried everything, , water…nope…finally called a plumber, they didn’t have a big enough " reamer" called a bigger company. Brought in a COMMERCIAL machine. Turns out the pipe is broken and offset an inch. Normal usage is fine but the handful of Kleenex was too much.

One thing’s for sure; this was a “different” story line.

It’s on the tank, Les, not the bowl.

At least he tried. He is very trying! ;-)

For over 60 years, I’ve fixed toilets for people (non-commercially) so everyone who suggested the problem is in the flapper value, the small chain that connects it to the flush handle are likely correct. There is one other possibility: a stuck fill valve float. All of which could be readily inspected if Les had simply removed the lid and looked inside the tank.

Once, I stayed at a large Australian station in the Outback, I used the toilet in my room in the evening and all was fine. The next morning it continued to run after flushing. Out there, water usage is a big deal, so I immediately notified the grazier who said, “Bloody tiddaliks!” Taking the lid off revealed two small frogs, sitting on the float, with just enough weight to cause the water valve to open, sending precious water down the overflow tube. I’ve never run into that particular problem here in the US.

Now clean up your mess.

Are K & G trying to prove to each other that we will be happy seeing literally anything? Next up: Paint drying. Grass growing. Sorry, but I feel like I’ve been flipped off with this one.

Busted.

It appears Les’ has run out of fixes suggested by whatever site Google linked him to. Now it’s Bets and Gunther’s turn. I doubt if the skills Gunther has learned in college would help here. Hopefully some of things his mother taught him about running a house included situations like this. Or, like some posters have suggested, maybe Bets knows what to do.

Plenty of Youtubes that would have told him to look in the tank to determine the setup there. I have three toilets, each different, and only one has a flapper. I was able to replace that with a replacement from Amazon. The old flapper just had to be eased into place to keep water from running.

Les is assuming there is a clog.

Guaranteed that Gunther will be a jerk about the situation.

Oh boy, bet this ends up fun! So every toilet made in at least the last 50 years or so has a shut off for the water, why not here???Still funny though! ;-)

He’s blowing not sucking ; I posed the question of Les’s approach to Google and got this reponse: “………yes, pouring a carbonated beverage into a clogged toilet can help break up some minor clogs, but it’s not the ideal solution: Pour a can of soda into the toilet. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap to trap the pressure. Let the soda sit for 30–60 minutes. Try flushing. The phosphoric acid in cola can help clear out grime in pipes that’s causing a clog……” I think Les is blowing to try to create more pressure

What on earth is this fool doing??

Oh, dear. Did he just drink toilet water?

amazing what you can find online; 1 or two cups of dishwasher detergent and hot water might help break up a lot of poo. but he might have to snake out the toilet. I’ve done the latter; it requires a special device.

Tips found on internet…Bucket of water. Plastic wrap across the bowl. A stick. Dish soap. Or, I imagine, any combination thereof.

If this ever happens to a fellow Go Comics Fan…………Two generous squeezes of dish detergent and a pail of hot water should unblock the mighty deuce.

Oh, THAT kind of toilet problem. I thought it was that it wouldn’t stop flushing. If the plunger didn’t work, the only thing to do is get a snake, or just go straight to the Roto-Router™ guy.

I bought a bellows plunger, and it works GREAT!

And here comes the Uncle Al lecture: “You can’t fix it because you’re a no account. I’m sending you to trade school. It’s time you made something of yourself”. There goes those lazy ramen daze…..

cola is for cleaning stains in the toilet, not fixing running toiletes.

He is trying to blow air through! Straight man idea! Why is the toilet always so fascinating to them? Pen!s envy?