Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 13, 2023

Who takes a bath at 9am, in a 1 bathroom house, with 3 other people there?? Very inconsiderate!

Poor Les and Gun. It maybe time to use the sink… or better yet, pee all over Al’s car! LOL

I want to see Bets and Tiff discuss the living arrangements. This can’t stand.

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So will Al find out Bets stayed the night.. or will she get away with it??

Um, where did Betts get the lilac colored bathrobe? She didn’t go back to the dorm last night.

So we are looking at a co-ed quad where, apparently, Tiffany rules the roost.

Soooo many unaddressed questions yet to be sorted out – hope GnK are obliging!

@1212 You guessed wrong. They didn’t wait until Tuesday to break out the robes! 8^ )

At my age when I have to go to the bathroom seconds matter. That door would be in pieces and Tiffany exposed to old man whizzing.

For sure Bets had this kind of problem when living in a university dormitory not just with Tiffany, but also Dez and Stefani.

Both girls need to be gone.

So Bets did spend the night. Good for them.

I guess sharing a bathroom with three other girls, and Kip, is much easier for Bets. Wimmin be taking baths, it’s funny! (I am being sarcastic)

For the past week a subset of the “Heart of the City” has been at an anime convention and Steenz displays a sure knowledge of what a cosplay convention would be like. Bets was introduced as a Trekkie and cosplayer but Greg has largely avoided anything like real knowledge of cosplaying or conventions.

So Tiffany takes a bath as long as she wants while others are waiting? I can’t get myself to believe that Gunther & Les allowed this on a daily basis. They can’t stand up to their guest at all?

Al kicks everybody out except Tiff who he and Irma both like.

Well – Bets is in a robe – so maybe she had nothing on last night.

This little backyard apartment is not intended for 4 occupants so it would make more sense for Gunther and Bets to just move out and get an apartment together. Tiff can move into Gunther’s room if she continues to balk at moving back home or the dorm suite. Bets’s income from her Snapgram should cover the apartment rent.

Why do we keep coming back to this dreaded arc and stay on it for twice as long as we do others? This arc has long run its course back in the fall! Can we please wrap it up and move onto something else?

Steel toed boot

And just like that the Gulag setting finally becomes interesting.

And after Uncle Bigot, I mean Uncle Al finds out and kicks EVERYBODY out, everybody move into the Manse with Tiffany..

ALL “problems” will be solved.

Thinking Bets will have no problem being the one to give Tiff the boot.

Tub?

The 1st Panel, Gunther looks cold?

If anything, I’ll bet that Irma and Al would aim their ire not at Tiffany for staying too long and taking advantage of les and Gunther but at Bets for having stayed the night. Considering how they’ve behaved toward Bets, I wouldn’t put it past them.

OK, look- it’s a passage door, so the lock is openable with a pointed object from the outside. “Tiff, we’re coming in, ready or not!”

This isn’t the dorm where there can be votes about Privacy Huts, stay-overs, and who gets to stay and leave, you want that status, you pay the piper.

So, last night the Gulag became the passion pit of Pitts, Bets’ private brothel, Gunther’s goodbye to virginity, but now, in the cold light of morning a new, desperate desire has fallen upon them…..they gotta pee.

Everyone in the Gulag seems to be pissy this morning.

Now, Les appears to be the most vehement that Tiff must be told to move out. Since he was the one who invited her, it’s only fair that he should be the one to disinvite her. He has, however, not taken that responsibility. Rather, he has tried to manipulate Gunther or the parents to do so. So far, though, he has only succeeded to arouse moral support from Gunther & Bets. Maybe that’s what he needs in order to strengthen his own weak personality and bolster his resolve. However, a fracas over bogarting the bathroom is hardly a good foundation for an amicable or reasonable discussion about moving out.

On the other hand, with a bit of determination and the help of G&B, Tiff’s belongings could be packed up and ready to go back to the mansion. Bets could pick out for her some basic outfit to put on after the bath, while the rest of her things are packed. In fact, the car could be packed and ready to go. Meanwhile, Bets also could be all dressed and ready, so that if Al or Irma were to look outside, all they would see is a fully-clothed Bets helping to load Tiff’s things into Gunther’s car. They would not have sufficient reason to infer that Bets had been there all night, rather than having returned early in the morning to help Tiff to move out.

This solution would be not unlike some suggestions from commenters a few weeks ago that Tiff’s things should be left outside as an undeniable hint that she is no longer welcome. It’s not quite as friendly as my previous suggestion of a surprise party that begins at the Gulag as a going away party, which then moves to the mansion and transfers all of Tiff’s belongings back there with the help of her friends. But it’s better than just leaving Tiff’s things out at the sidewalk. It reminds me of a popular song from some decades ago about “Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover”, that included the advice: “Just hop on the bus, Gus, don’t need to discuss much…”. Tiff’s departure doesn’t need much discussion or explanation.

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. What, if anything that might that have to do with this arc. Finally sex, between two consenting young adults, clearly in love, has happened in spite of disapproving parents;between the girl they scorned and Irma’s suffocated son, while the girl they welcome is quickly wearing out her welcome. So typical the irony. Bets has given the boys backbone (puns can fly in hardening up here -:). As I’ve been pointing out the original issue still lies, why they are so for Tiffany, while so against Bets. Al"s plan to keep the boys cozy in his house, expense free to them and apparently Tiffany, is being put to a serious serious test. For those who thought this never would happen, or for whatever reason didn’t want it to sorry, I can’t help but point out HILARITY ENSUES. The laugh is on you.

Is that Gunthers lovely pink robe Bets is wearing?

Al: So why is Bets here at 9 AM?

Les: Last night she spilled hot coffee in Gunther’s lap. She came to pickup her purple bathrobe.

After months in the dorm with Stef, being with Gunther and Les must really feel like a dream for Tiffany. The two don’t give her limits and they seems to be starting to do it just now. I hope arguing with Bets helps Tiffany to regain the consideration for the others that she had and seems to have lost. But if Bets really intends to stay, Tiffany could go back to the dorm and share the room with dear Dez, leaving Stef alone.

Bets, tif owns you all now since she knows that les lied to al and Gunther had you overnight.

And they can’t hire a contractor and plumber to build a new bathroom.

Here’s the easy solution. They ALL move into Tiffany’s mansion. Enough bedrooms and baths for all and company for Tiffany. And out of the gulag under Uncle Al.

Tiffany is as Tiffany does.

Will Tiffany be out by Saturday?

Nice robe Bets. How did Les know that Tiff was taking a bath? Did Les scrub Tiff’s back? Maybe Al needs to build another cottage.

Time for action, amigos!

Pffttt… Ann Eiffel isn’t even up at 9 AM.

The leech is now dictating what happens in a house she doesn’t own and doesn’t live in?

And it continues….

Barge in and use the toilet! Maybe she’ll move out on her own!

I guess Bets packed her bathrobe?

I never bathe in the daytime. I prefer the nighttime because it helps me sleep better.

Hit the Road Tiff, and don’t’cha come back no more no more no more:

Hit the Road Jack, by Ray Charles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I

Man, there are only two people here, and we always tell each other when we’re about to take a bath.

I seem to recall a character named “Luann” in this strip…is she still around?

So Bets spent the night with Gunther. The $54 dollar question is, did they do anything besides sleep in the same bed?

Wasn’t Bets making over 2000 a month via the Internet? What is Gunther doing for money? Surely they could manage to live together independent of this post adolescent zoo?

I don’t mean to start anything (I never would -:) but why are so many here focusing on the bathroom? It’s only a plot device to illustrate how much Tiffany’s selfishness is running into events where the boys, and Gun’s GF, Bets, are all demanding she move? This against the backdrop of the closest thing to sex in the strip, and the seemingly implacable opposition of the parents to that act, and who is doing it with Gunther. I mean I like all the various lenses people view graphic toons, but this is a storyline comic, not gag a day. I guess I just like more story discussion. Sorry, if I seem preachy, don’t mean to offend anyone (truly) but I just wonder.

OK, ‘scuse me while I go whip up all the “Super Bowl snacks” that I didn’t make yesterday because I don’t watch the Super Bowl. Be sure to call me back IMMEDIATELY if the commercial ends before I get done – I don’t want to miss a second. This is shaping up to be what could be the most spectacularly entertaining show in the history of the Luannverse!

9 AM? This is why I took 8 AM classes in college. You could actually get a seat in a required course and get parking close to the campus.

It’s obvious, since Betts is wearing Gunther’s robe she stayed over. (Betts may have planned ahead for the previous night, but bringing her own robe?) But why is Gunther fully dressed, and, why do the boys not look like they need a shave?

If you don’t like it, Bets, GO HOME.

I grew up in a family of 13 in a house with one and a half bathrooms. We had a curtain around the bathtub and several people could use the room at the same time. The sink, toilet and bathtub could all be used by different people without interfering with each other.

Just close the bathroom curtain and someone can use the toilet. I can’t believe the guys have not thought of that. If those 2 dummies have not ever stood up to Tiffany, they deserve the treatment they are getting.

So inconsiderate. Back to “normal”. Gentleman start the morning by peeing on plants in Al’s backyard.

Bet’s slept over. BOTH her and Gunter need a shower.

It’s always painfully obvious when Greg wants the reader to hate a character (Usually Tiff)… but here it’s totally backfiring. ¬_¬ Hey, Betsy, listen up: This. Is NOT. Your. HOUSE! No one is making you live here! In fact, you’ve been disallowed from sleeping over. Now, you’ve been here for one night and a morning and you’re already throwing your weight around demanding Tiffany be kicked out… for using the bathroom?

How does that make Bets look ANY better than Tiffany? It makes her look worse, especially after disregarding the property owners’ rules. But somehow, Tiffany gets presented as selfish for living in a home where the owners like her and want her to stay. She went to a party, yeah, but she’s not doing anything against the rules. She gets along with Al and Irma and is responsible enough to keep a job and balance school (I’m not sure Gunther and Bets even work a job).

Now if Tiffany, say, lied to the owner’s face directly (like Les) or invited a boyfriend to stay the night with her (like Gunnie), THEN she’d be in trouble and would get consequences. But “taking too long in the bathroom” being the last straw? Gimme a break! It’s such author bias.

Tiff’s always framed as unsympathetic even when the content of the strip rarely ever makes the characters who rip on her look any better. I’m getting flashbacks to when Luann put freezing-cold water in the dunk tank when Tiffany volunteered to do the dunk tank to help raise money for Delta’s ticket to DC. Tiffany’s quitting after being pranked was framed as unfair to Delta even though it was LUANN’S fault she quit.

If this were a crime drama like SVU or CSI, the three would somehow get the door open, only to discover that something horrible has happened to Tiffany…But since it’s a comic strip, they’d find her sound asleep after a hard night of partying. Or: Al snuck in and spent the night to check out everyone’s stories!

Tiff!!!

tomorrow: Gunth and Les discuss the situation while “relieving” themselves outside in the bushes. =:-O

OK, I know what happened … Gunther’s robe was originally blue , but Les , doing the wash for the week, carelessly threw it in with a red polo shirt and set on warm/hot water ( since hot water cleans everything better, right?). The resulting color bleed changed the robe to blue+red= lavender. !

Two weeks ago Tiffany appeared in a Monday strip, promptly exited and then never appeared again, except by mention. Today she leads off, again on a Sunday. Are we to anticipate another two weeks of strips of the Seraglio happenings. (Seraglio – the women’s apartments (harem) in an Ottoman palace.)

Indeed, at least for now, the women rule the roost in the seraglio (formerly known as the Gulag). Bets has (enticed/coerced/induced) Gunther into acting against his parents’ wishes. Until now, he has complied with those wishes. Tiffany has Les over a barrel, both romantically and financially with her financial arrangement at the Fuse.

To this point, Bets and Tiffany have managed to get along. Their living in close proximity in the Quad and at the McManse has not overtly exhibited any negativity between the two. But here, we are starting to see some jealousy on the part of Bets to the disparity in treatment by the boys’ titular parents; Al and Irma. Tiffany, for her part, seems typically unaware that she is being treated deferentially, just as she has been treated all her affluent life.

I’d hate to see these two ladies(?) relationship degenerate into the old Luann-Tiffany feud of the past!

… Bets you dont’ live here. I agree it’s inconsidrate but you have no right to say she’s got to go. Though i’m also hoping this storyline goes instead of the inevtible month more we have of this nonsense.

can’t wait till Tiff emerges and sees Bets in a bathrobe waiting.

Tiffany loves her baths. She probably felt all sticky from all that dancing at the party. And the robe is probably one Gunther had—perhaps as some have said, a gift from his mom. (Wouldn’t she have a cow to know BETS is wearing it right now?) I’m thinking Bets will convince/encourage Tiffany to move out. Maybe they will discover that Stef and Kip have moved in together somewhere else and Tiffany can magically have her coveted private room at last!

I’m sure they have only one bathroom at the dorm suite; so maybe Bets (as a girl) would be comfortable going in to use the toilet with Tiff in the tub, and start a conversation there.

Bets clearly believes she is staying. Why else would she demand Tif has to go?

“Mother” Pink Floyd

Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb?

Mother, do you think they’ll like this song?

Mother, do you think they’ll try to break my balls?

Ooh, aah, mother, should I build the wall?

Mother, should I run for president?

*Mother, should I trust the government?

Mother, will they put me in the firing line?*

Ooh, aah, is it just a waste of time?

Hush now, baby, baby, don’t you cry. Mama’s gonna make all of your nightmares come true.

Mama’s gonna put all of her fears into you. Mama’s gonna keep you right here under her wing.

She won’t let you fly but she might let you sing. Mama’s gonna keep baby cozy and warm.

Ooh, babe, ooh, babe, ooh, babe! Of course mama’s gonna help build the wall.

Mother, do you think she’s good enough for me?

Mother, do you think she’s dangerous to me?

Mother, will she tear your little boy apart?

Ooh, aah, mother, will she break my heart?

Hush now, baby, baby, don’t you cry. Mama’s gonna check out all your girlfriends for you.

Mama won’t let anyone dirty get through. Mama’s gonna wait up ’til you get in.

Mama will always find out where you’ve been. Mama’s gonna keep baby healthy and clean.

Ooh, babe, ooh, babe, ooh, baby, you’ll always be a baby to me!

Mother, did it need to be so high?

Gotta give credit to Evans, though. This strip consistently engenders more commentary that any of the editorial cartoons. Not even close.

This is what roommate living is all about. Learning to deal with this stuff like grownups. I say toss out Tiffany and Betts. They’re both annoying and bossy.

BREAK DOWN THE DOOR AND THROW CHANGE AT HER NAKED BODY!!! She’ll HAVE to leave then!X’D

Oh for Pete’s sack…..boot her out!! She is so thoughtless and self centered!!

Al’s fault for not building more bathrooms.

So…. as I predicted, the romantic proclivities of Gunther and Bets are just going to MUDDY the waters about the real issues:

1. Tiffany’s significant overstay of her welcome.

2. The poor attitude Irma and Al shows towards Bets.

Again, I do not really care one way or the other if Gun & Bets are romantic together in whatever context folks imagine in their minds. It is fine if they are intimate. It is fine if they are not intimate.

But, as it seems now…. it seems possible that Bets will possibly confront Tiffany…. or at least add into the discussion if Les or Gunther push it. Then this likely leads to some sort of situation where Tiffany will be upset, potentially leave crying, and Al and/or Irma will see Tiffany leaving very upset, and come over to the Gulag and find Bets there in her bathrobe. It will not really be “hilarity ensues” in my opinion.

If Gunther and Bets want to live together, they should work to have the resources to make it economically on their own. Folks do this all the time while in school. By having Gunther and Bets go against the guest rules for Gunther (a free guest himself)…. just makes their own ability to actually talk with Al and Irma about their problematic behavior much more difficult.

Yep. Time for her to go.

At this point who is sleeping in their own bed?

So, like all the old movies, we skipped over last nights events, to arrive at the morning, where…

No idea how this is going to develop, but I like it a lot so far!

But what happened between Gunther and Bets???

Is this the time we get to see Tiff ask for a towel and get a big no time.

Meanwhile,Dez and Steff have LOTSA room

“Say,is it my imagination or is it getting crowded in here?”

Groucho Mar—A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

What a difference a day makes.

Just yesterday (Luann time), Tiff was was a beloved favorite with every right to stay in the Gulag as long as she wanted, regardless of the boys’ wishes.

Today she’s the inconsiderate, selfish one.

And did I say manipulative? https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2022/11/24

This is the lamest arc… so contrived and over-extended as to why Tiffany is staying there so long after such a minior injury.

BTW. Neither one of them look like the morning after the night before. 8^ )

Bets in a robe? So, an over-night hookup. Or so it appears to be.

Hope Tiffany comes out of bathroom alone.

I really thought Tiffany was changing her self centered attitude at least a little. She is really being totally inconsiderate to the guys that has allowed her to stay there.

How about EVERYONE move into the mansion. Plenty of bathrooms, no rent, security and no noise questions from mom and Al.

Is Gun crossing his legs. Uh-oh. He might be in TROUBLE! ;-P

It would be excellent if the bathroom door opens to show Uncle Al, who has been fixing a leaky faucet.

Ruh-roh. Looks like this embarrassment could have an “explosive” ending! Poor Gunny, and Leslie. And Bets. Or maybe they should be severely practical and just barge in and use the toilet whilst Tiff lounges in the tub?

9am? Seems safe. Real people left for work/school/errands well before 9am.

I have a solution: Tiffany can live there at the guest house, and eat all her meals with Al and Irma, because they love her so much. Les, Gunther, and Bets can all move into the Farrell Mansion.

I should have said this Saturday, but here it is: ‘Come and knock on our door . . .’

Now here’s a possibility for a good arc: Al is in the tub with Tiffany.

These kids are getting up at 9? No responsibilities apparently.