Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 11, 2025

Chef TJ to the rescue.

Interesting way TJ is holding that knife. I would have held it with the thumb closest to the guard so I could bear down more. Does any one else hold it like TJ is?

How many sexual metaphors can they cram into one strip?

Double entendre?

What does TJ have in mind?? Something is definitely up his sleeve!

Why does TJ have his little pinkie up, while he’s cutting the cake?? LOL

Call them brownies.

Maybe he’s carving a message into it. Now THAT’S creative.

Hmm, Toni’s not the one faking it this time but she does look a little like Sally Albright

Mrs. Horner’s old residential home.

Is that protrusion in the front of the house supposed to be Shannon’s room? Remember, they did build an extra room for her.

Uh-oh Spaghettios!

In other words, “FAKE it ’til You MAKE it,” eh?

Brad?

WHEN are you going to STOP listening to this guy??

TJ is referring to baking a cake, right? RIGHT?

I don’t think we’re talking about cake anymore.

Double entendres anyone?

I did that decades ago – decided to make a cake for my girlfriend The Mk 1 was so bad the engineers at work would not eat itThey ate the Mk 2

Are we still talking about baking??

This seems kind of predictable…TJ will use his actual chef skills to make a fancy-looking, maybe heart-shaped, iced, maybe layered dessert, which he’ll push Brad to claim as his own. Toni will find/figure out that of course it isn’t and be upset that Brad lied to her. They’ll have to have the ruse, the reveal and the fight by Valentine’s Day, then make up on Saturday because Brad meant well, etc.

Just grind it all up an mix it in to some vanilla ice cream. Then top it with some whipped cream. No one has to know about th failure. That’ll save the day

O yes she will ask for more, but believe me. She will know…

Oh, Lordy, here we go again… TJ will direct b-WAD down the path of disaster, and when it all falls into the fire, he will make a discrete exit and leave b-WAD holding the bag… as usual…

Don’t! Honesty and trust are the basses for a long marriage.

Turning it into brownies, we love brownies more than cake!

We…we’re talking CAKE here. Right?

TJ can never be trusted.

Pinky up, TJ. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Yeah.. fallen chocolate cake is a brownie.

It didn’t rise and Brad will have to fake it. At this juncture, Brad will not become a father this week. TJ is conjuring up an aphrodisiac.

TJ to the rescue!!

Sometimes a cake is just a cake.

Just call them brownies instead of cake…

Brad should know that his best friend is a very skilled chef. If TJ says that a collapsed cake can still become a delicious dish, he should believe him. I’m really curious to see what TJ’s idea is.

Maybe it passes as a brownie.

If your cake didn’t rise, it’s chewy brownies or blondies, whatever.

TJ strikes again with inanity.

Tj’s dirty mind at work

Forgot to put in the Baking Powder I’ll bet. Just call it unleavened chocolate cake.

A fallen chocolate cake = a batch of brownies.

it will be brownies with frosting hearts on it.

TJ. Are you as clueless about women, as Brad is about baking? Toni will notice. She’ll probably ignore it, to save Brad’s feelings, but she will see through anything TJ is doing to disguise Brad’s bad baking.

We’re not talking about a cake are we? The innuendo is rather heavy.

Only TJ (in this strip) would think of turning a flat cake into brownies.Next, he’ll probably sprinkle some magic dust that will petk things up…

Tell her they’re brownies.

In the dark TJ will slip in and pretend to be Brad.

More importantly, why is he holding the knife in a reverse grip (the stabbity grip) and not a forward grip? Go ahead — try to cut a cake in reverse grip, I’ll wait!

It doesn’t take long to mix up and bake a cake.

I don’t remember their house looking this way…

I smell trouble, “TJ made me do it” kind of trouble. TJ has always been a terrible influence on Brad, and now on Toni and Brad. Go away TJ.

“I’ll have what she’s having.”

Hey! Want some more innuendo?

Sorry about your – anxiety – Brad!

So are we going to have a week of Brad bumbling about and stressing out, only for Toni to show up on the last day and say everything’s fine, thus ensuring nothing memorable actually happened and the status quo remains firmly unchanged?

It’s nice that Brad went through the efforts of trying to bake the cake to impress his wife, though it appears that he didn’t succeed. I really don’t think he should let TJ fix his efforts, though. If TJ does come up with something brilliant, and in some manner it does taste terrific, it’s a hollow victory for Brad since his efforts aren’t the ones that created the finished tasty delicacy.

If not for TJ, Tony and Brad would starve, which is why he has an integral role in their household.

“Yeah, but now there’s no room for the 35 icing words!”

I overcooked some brownies and they were all edges. I will continue to do that.

Alright another fun storyline, nothing gets some people goat around here like a good TJ yarn ! ;-)

a bad cake can turn into good brownies, just remember to put more baking powder in next time…

A lady I have always respected once made a chocolate cake and omitted the flour. It was delicious. My aunt cooked a chocolate cake which always sank. I worked out how to stop it. The sunken cake was the best.

What are you doing TJ?

A woman really in love with her man will think it is adorable what he tried to do.

Usually the woman fakes it. Not that I have ever experienced that

I am liking that this is not just another “Brad & Toni Googlie Eyes” story arc (at least at the moment). That gets a bit repetitive.

I also like that TJ is seemingly playing a bigger role that he has in a long time in an arc.

Even though Brad messed up the cake somehow, it is unlikely to have altered the taste too terribly. I will be interested to see how TJ “gussies up” the errant cake. Perhaps he will cut out multiple hearts and then stack them into a multiple layer (somewhat flat) cake that he then frosts with especially good frosting and decorations?

Brownies.

When I was a kid, my dad tried to make a flourless chocolate cake. It didn’t rise. It was more like a brownie or fudge, but it was only about an inch thick. He was disappointed at the result. I told him I wanted him to make 2 of them exactly like that for my birthday, put some chocolate frosting in between, and stack them on top of each other.

Happy with my Effort. Wowed by my Skill. Faking it. Begging for More. Are we still talking about baking a CAKE??? I don’t think so.

Toni married you so I’m sure she’s used to disappointment.

The apotheosis of double-entendres! All I can say is, “I’ll have what she’s having!”

This is not going to end well for Brad.

Austin Powers Dr. Evil pinkie?

Double entendre?

When I was courting my wife, I decided to impress her by baking bread, which I had never done before. But how hard could it be?

So, I made two loaves, one for her and one for me. Took hers to her house and left it with her mother. Then I went home to eat my loaf.

Except, I couldn’t slice it. It was hard as a rock! Finally, I tried hitting it with a hammer, and it broke. The crust was like two inches thick. There was a little cylinder of soft bread in the middle, and it tasted pretty good, but…

When I saw her that evening at work (We worked together,), I said, “Um, about that bread…”

She replied. “Bread!!!??? I thought it was a door stop!”

Bad advice T.J.