Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 07, 2020

So, everything happened just as everyone suggested yesterday. Oh hum. So what happens Saturday? Either Bernice turns around and sees the entire DeGroot family blurry-eyes wondering what she doing up so early. Or, and this is the better joke, Bernice sits down with her tea and toast and fall asleep, not waking up until Nancy slides breakfast in front of her.

So quiet.

… until it isn’t. ✨

Hey – Bernice knows the kettle will go Wheee… What’s this look of surprise??

I think she must have turned that toaster up to 11, the way that toast is flying in the air.

I lost count of how many predicted this yesterday.

i dunno what else to say but she’s picking the loudest things to do to make as much noise as possible apparently

So, it has been a gag-o-rama this week. Okay, let’s skip gags. Just give me an arc next week.

I keep waiting for some kind of punch line. Maybe tomorrow?

then everyone else in the DeGroot household will wonder what all the commotion in the kitchen was

All that was so loud and violent that in the third panel, Bernie had to hang on to one of her boobs to keep it from falling off.

Oh my. I think I just dozed off on panel 2 of a 3 panel comic.

Frank or Nancy who do we think or both of them.

Funny twist: Degroots left already for breakfast. Shes being quiet for nothing.

Can’t wait for the Saturday sunrise! Nancy probably made breakfast for Bernice.

The bread toaster has a Toastmaster Logo. The stove is an electric appliance, not gas.

Let’s go back to Tiffany and Leslie for another passionate kiss. It gets Mordy excited.

Only one piece of toast and a cup of tea for breakfast?

We’ve sure come a long way since the drawn-out mystery of who Dez was. Now she’s apparently been sent off to “former character land” to join Crystal, Knute, Delta, Aaron Hill, Rosa, Mr. Fogerty, Miss Phelps, Quill, Dirk, and most recently Pru.

I suppose we should be preparing ourselves for the eventual departure of Zebo, Jack, and Tara.

I worked on a cruise ship; Nearest thing to “peace and quiet” was when I got off watch at 4 a.m.; by then all the drunks had passed out and the kids were still asleep in their beds.

Well you might as well prepare enough for EVERYBODY in the house, because it’s for darn sure “They” are awake now after all that racket, Bernice.

And by the way. Puddles likes his Blue Buffalo breakfast sautéed and served with a sprig of parsley along with a cup of white wine as most classly canines do! ;)

I think this is the longest set of Bernice solo strips ever.

Hypersensitive to noises.

It’s good to see Bernice finally relaxed and maybe – just maybe – feeling like she’s “at home.” Too bad it didn’t last long.

I’m surprised the dog has not made an appearance by now to investigate.

They should get Bernice a little flashlight.

I conjecture the payoff will be the DeGroots slept through all of this.

Poor Bern. Trying to be the very soul of discretion and getting thwarted at every step!

This has been a very long week. Bernice has been made as the most boring character in this whole series.

I’m going back to bed. Wake me up when something happens.

Well I like Bernice. She’s considerate, insightful and witty. We’ll be seeing much more of her in the DeGroot household, so get used to it! 8^ (

Boil water for tea?? No microwave?

At least those weren’t the sounds you were making two days ago! ;-) (gross :-p )

If you’re standing that close to the tea kettle, you should be able to hear it before it gets that loud

Wake up, DeGroots and tell Bernice to go back to bed!

The difference between a guest and a family member. Hopefully she’ll settle in soon

I find Bernice more and more lovable ♡. So naive, so pure♡♡♡. That’s the true Bernice, a young woman who covers her nativity wearing an annoying and exaggerating serious "Know it all " mask. She’s so funny ♡.

It looks like somebody chopped Bernice’s right hand off.

She and Luann have been friends forever, with many sleepovers. Why is she suddenly feeling like a stranger?

The DeGroots are apparently not ‘morning people’. This should be interesting.

So, what did you expect, dorkie Bernie?! There shall be NOISE!

Luann could sleep through a world war, and father’s are notorious for never hearing anything go bump in the night (or morning or noon). So the only person likely to get up is Nancy.

The noise! Oh no! The shock! What did she think was going to happen?

Bernice would probably welcome this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWyzwo1xg0

Raised in a bubble, was she?

Bernice’s discomfort is making me uncomfortable. Must face the truth. Luann and Bernice have not made the transition from cute little moppets to interesting young women. Now, Gunther and Bets supply the action, and Tiff vs. Ann showcases Tiffany’s struggle for maturity while trying to hold on to her sexy image. Head’s up, Greg, it’s getting very crowded on the back burner.

Do you think Greg has been watching the old 1966 TV show with Batman & Robin? pow…bam…zok

Ok, we got it, people make noise when they get up in the morning

First time she ever used a teakettle? I guess she’s lived a pretty sheltered life; probably the maid always brought her her tea.

we actually have a kettle just like that on our stove, green and all.

What, has she never done these things before?

I’m enjoying this. I am! Not to get philosophical over here, but it occurs to me that we got so wound up with all the Tiffany/Ann drama that we’ve quite forgotten how to enjoy the tiny trials of life. Like trying not to wake up the rest of the house when we’re an early riser. It seems to me that real life is the same. If we don’t have some godawful drama to keep us “entertained,” then life seems boring. Whatever happened to just enjoying the sweet moments of life? We don’t have to be “on edge” every second of every day. Not even in a comic strip.

Congrats to everyone who called it. And that means everyone!

Bernice does not have to worry about waking up the DeGroot family. They all went into a coma after one day of living with her. This is the most boring story line I can recall reading in Luann.

Wouldn’t a bowl of cereal (not Rice Krispies) and a cold drink have been quieter?

Rule of thumb……never zone out while cooking or walk away from a pot on the stove.

Not sure why all the hate for this week. These are just fun snippets of life. I love it

I can’t believe she used an actual tea kettle with a whistle. I thought she was smarter than that.

Doesn’t she have experience using a tea kettle? You can take it off the heat before it starts to whistle.

I thought Bernice was a lot smarter than this. Maybe only book smart…

Oh, for goodness sake! Just wait, on Saturday, Frank will appear in fine form: Unshaven and in his PJs/undershirt. Bernice will run in terror.

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I still say that the majority of folks can and would sleep through the common noises of another person in the household doing normal, routine things, so Bernice really doesn’t have to worry.

The toaster noise (a bit louder, but still nothing ear-shattering) and the whistle of the kettle (the loudest noise so far, but IMO still just a normal sound that most would/could sleep through in a bedroom that is probably pretty far from the kitchen) are both the loudest noises thus far…. but even these, I know I personally could easily sleep through, and I suspect most could as well.

Even though it was pretty obvious these would be the noises that surprised Bernice today… to me they are the weakest in terms of comedic value this week. I think Bernice being hypersensitive to the noises at the moment would have easily predicted the tea kettle noise at least. Not all toasters are big “boing” noisy, so that could be one she overlooked.

* * * * Still, for me the BIG PICTURE of this week is that this really helps to show that Bernice is a caring and sensitive young lady who tries mightily to do the right thing…. so much so that she often has her efforts actually backfire on her. But…. her heart is in the right place.

I think it would be delightfully funny if tomorrow’s installment shows that Bernice somehow realizes all her machinations at being quiet as a mouse were for naught…. because everyone in the house already had gotten up and left for the day.

Who is missing Brad and Toni from last Sunday Strip.

Everything is louder when you’re trying to be quiet.

That sounds like our kitchen at full gallop.

I think it is ok to do an arc on Bernice but we need to spice it up. How about a steamy romance with Bernice and TJ. Maybe we can learn more about him and make Bernice happy for a change. I remember she liked a guy in a wheelchair that she met working in a bookstore. I think Ann fired him which ended his story line. Ann seems to have her fingers in slot of pies.

Leaf blower nearby ! (May the inventor of the leaf blower be dancing in Hell tonight !)

She forgot to take the Whistle out of the Teakettle spout.

Abraham Lincoln said something once that no matter what one does publicly some will like it and others will not. I think this week is important to show how caring and concerned Bernice really is, in a funny, could happen to me sort of way. Personally it is tiresome to read how booored people are, or wishing for something else. If something else was drawn there would be just as many booored and why don’t we see more Luann, and we never hear about Bernice, she must have died or something. I like to let the story guide me here, not any picayune impatience.

You still have Ann Awful on this website? She should be in a crossover in Lio as the scariest monster yet.

Love the look on her face in the third panel….

It’s been a while since I’ve lived up to my display name and gone out on a limb with a guess at what happens next, so here goes: Later this morning (Luanniverse time), one of the DeGroots will ask Bernice about how she’s doing (did she sleep well? is everything comfortable? …), and Bernice will politely reply to the effect that all is well and not say anything about the feelings of awkwardness we’ve seen her exhibit in the last few days (our time).

That prediction notwithstanding, I expect that Bernice will quickly learn to fit into the household and that we’ll be done with the “unsure how to behave in her new living situation” theme by the end of this week—or next week at the latest. If learning “how we do things here” would require conversations that we don’t see on-panel, I’ll just assume that the needed conversations take place off-panel, at least unless and until we see Bern commit some faux pas that proves otherwise.

I never understood those tea kettles – a sauce pan boils water quite well.

Man… he sounds dumb in that clip!!… I almost forgot… it gets funnier as it gets older I guess.

Are electric kettles not a thing in the USA, they’re so much easier to use and more convenient for everyday life

Low comment count. This week has been exciting as… toast.

Such pointless paranoia. I hope Bernice ends up saying, “Sorry I made so much noise this morning” and the Groots say “What noise?” I also hope this storyline never, ever continues past tomorrow, because it makes NO sense. It’s as if Bernice forgot she’s ever met this family before, and they’re total strangers to her. She’s surely had sleepovers with Luann as a kid. This friendship is doomed if this has gotta make sense. Why don’t these writers ever write stuff that makes sense? It’s so funny!

“…required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you’re really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn’t usually work out that way.”― Ted Conover