I understand that Stones, Doors, Eagles, Byrds, Monkees, Beatles, are all old rock groups, but I don’t get “Mel Must Let Mac Cook Toms Butt Crack.” What does that mean, other than the first letter of the shopping list?
Hmm…doesn’t sound like a Thanksgiving shopping list. Could they be going to skip past the holiday this year, because there isn’t time to develop a story about it?
Wow. To be a Monkee…the song list I assembled for when my day comes has “I’m A Believer” on it, starting with “Linus & Lucy” and ending with some CCM with a TV theme bracketing the song list, fore & aft.
Took me awhile to get because I was trying to find the connection between the shopping list gag and musical gag. I still haven’t found it. These seem like two separate strips sewn together.
Once again, I spoke the Devil’s name and once more, she APPEARED. And on a Sunday, yet! (SHUDDER)
But on much a lighter note, that’s quite an impressive line-up classic supergroups Frank wanted to be part of. I’ll even forgive him for not wanting to be a “Dan” or for not wanting to be Experinced.
Now.
Instead of calling 911, ladies, why not dust off Frank’s vinyls from back in the day and listen to some REAL Music for change?
Oh and Lu?
Don’t forget to take Bernice with you when you go skydiving.
She can take notes on your “reactions” on the way down after they shove her out of the plane. ;-)
Again the Evans not doing their math, if dad is 50 he would have born in the early 70s and in high school in late 80s/early 90s and not likely no more familiar with 60s groups than a boomer would be with Glen Miller/Tommy Dorsey.
Luann is right, that’s really a dangerous situation, even Bernice seems genuinely worried. I wonder if she see Frank like a second father to her. Changing the subject, Frank had beautiful dreams as a boy.
The girls are not in the room when Nancy tells Frank the list. If I had not seen Byrds and only heard Frank’s list of careers I would not have known it was musical groups. So Luann hears Frank’s odd list of careers and then hears Bernice read his odd sentence and assumes Frank is having a stroke. I would think the same thing.
Only the audience, the readers, can see everything that is going on. Luann and Bernice have no idea that Frank is writing down an abbreviated grocery list.
If I took that list to the grocery store, I would never know what most of the items were. The only things I abbreviate are TP and PB and those are easy to recognize. It would only take Frank a couple more seconds to write out Melon instead of Mel, or Butter instead of Butt.
Really humorous Capstone to the week (see what I did there). The girls have none or just a nodding awareness of these rock star bands but Bernice has the funny punch line.
I laughed so hard that my hubby came to see what got me chuckling and chortling away. Okay, guffawing. “They” may say that women don’t snore, sweat, or guffaw, but…
I’m trying to decide if the two gags work together. I think they do since neither works as a stand-alone to the punch line. Combining them helps the premise.
But it raises the continuing philosophical question – is Luanniverse in the 1980s or the 2020s?
The best guess is that it’s still the 1980s, with 2020s electronics (and nothing else from any time past 1990). Like many other comic strips that remain in the era they were created, but have to have electronics.
There sure are a bunch of tro…, er, commenters today griping about sketchiness of the timeline as if that were a huge surprise in a comic strip with a 19-year-old protagonist who was 13 in 1985.
This comic reminds me of the story about The Emperor’s New Clothes and the effect it had on people. The ones who sought to be smart and perceptive raved about the new clothes. The boy unaffected by image or admiration, simply said the emperor was “naked as the day he was born.” Greg Evans distracted people from realizing that he had a made a crummy, meaningless cartoon by having them argue among themselves as to who knew the real meaning of Frank’s gibberish.
lvlax 11 months ago
Mel Must Let Mac Cook Toms Butt Crack. Market List Abbreviations.. That’s a cute one!
But why not just say “I wanted to be a Rock Star!” ?? ;)
David Huie Green AmericaIsGreatItHasUs 11 months ago
Crack away.
J. Scarbrough 11 months ago
This is going to fly over so many heads.
pseudomao 11 months ago
Good Sunday strip! :+)
Namrepus 11 months ago
Not a Car, a Zeppelin or a Pistol?
Tyge 11 months ago
Well a little thought went into this one.
ACTIVIST1234 11 months ago
Not until I saw the spelling of “Byrd” did I catch what he meant!
Crann Bethadh 11 months ago
Or a turtle or a seed or an electric prune.
Rhetorical_Question 11 months ago
Frank was a former musician who followed the music of 60’s ?
sallymargret 11 months ago
I understand that Stones, Doors, Eagles, Byrds, Monkees, Beatles, are all old rock groups, but I don’t get “Mel Must Let Mac Cook Toms Butt Crack.” What does that mean, other than the first letter of the shopping list?
Rhetorical_Question 11 months ago
I liked the Rolling Stones and later on, The Eagles rock band.
Rhetorical_Question 11 months ago
MELon, MUSTard, …..
ronaldspence 11 months ago
I think he is about to be committed!
Rhetorical_Question 11 months ago
Luann generation is not familiar with Frank and Nancy generation?
kenhense 11 months ago
The online delivery service will have a tough time with this.
Rockabore 11 months ago
Haha. This was a very funny gag.
Azul0858 11 months ago
Hmm…doesn’t sound like a Thanksgiving shopping list. Could they be going to skip past the holiday this year, because there isn’t time to develop a story about it?
Dirty Dragon 11 months ago
Wait until Luann finds out her dad is planning to bury Paul.
nightflight 11 months ago
Frank wanted to be a rock star. Given the same question, I would have said, “Dolly Parton’s wardrobe manager”.
Joe1962 Premium Member 11 months ago
In the third panel Frank is talking about Music groups from the 1970’s and 80’s poor Luann is clueless about music from the 70’s and 80’s.
TwilightFaze 11 months ago
I remember my dad and I making jokes about this when I was a kid.
overtherainbow 11 months ago
Love this strip! :-D
snsurone76 11 months ago
That could be a lyric for one of today’s “music” groups.
snsurone76 11 months ago
Can you even picture button-down Frank as a rock star??
Luna_d_Paita 11 months ago
Try reading the sentence: “Mel must let Mac cook Tom’s butt crack.”
French Persons Premium Member 11 months ago
He must really miss Woodstock.
Shirl Summ Premium Member 11 months ago
THAT was GOOOOOOD!
Wilkins068 11 months ago
MEL Tormé, Fleetwood MAC, TOM Petty, and the BUTT CRACKS were a Country an Western band
cdillon85 11 months ago
Wow. To be a Monkee…the song list I assembled for when my day comes has “I’m A Believer” on it, starting with “Linus & Lucy” and ending with some CCM with a TV theme bracketing the song list, fore & aft.
dlkrueger33 11 months ago
Took me awhile to get because I was trying to find the connection between the shopping list gag and musical gag. I still haven’t found it. These seem like two separate strips sewn together.
WaitingMan 11 months ago
I wanted to be a 1910 Fruitgum Company.
ewaldoh 11 months ago
Is Greg wishing for a comeback from Pastis; or is this a tribute to him?Very clever on several levels.
Mordock999 Premium Member 11 months ago
Oh, Gawd!
Once again, I spoke the Devil’s name and once more, she APPEARED. And on a Sunday, yet! (SHUDDER)
But on much a lighter note, that’s quite an impressive line-up classic supergroups Frank wanted to be part of. I’ll even forgive him for not wanting to be a “Dan” or for not wanting to be Experinced.
Now.
Instead of calling 911, ladies, why not dust off Frank’s vinyls from back in the day and listen to some REAL Music for change?
Oh and Lu?
Don’t forget to take Bernice with you when you go skydiving.
She can take notes on your “reactions” on the way down after they shove her out of the plane. ;-)
MS72 11 months ago
Pastis is an influencer…
Gen.Flashman 11 months ago
Again the Evans not doing their math, if dad is 50 he would have born in the early 70s and in high school in late 80s/early 90s and not likely no more familiar with 60s groups than a boomer would be with Glen Miller/Tommy Dorsey.
Ignatz Premium Member 11 months ago
I like that they included some bands with odd spelling so WE would know what Frank was talking about.
comic reader 22 11 months ago
This is incredibly CLEVER! (Don’t know if I would have used butt crack though) LOL!
Aladar30 Premium Member 11 months ago
Luann is right, that’s really a dangerous situation, even Bernice seems genuinely worried. I wonder if she see Frank like a second father to her. Changing the subject, Frank had beautiful dreams as a boy.
Ken Otwell 11 months ago
So … Stephan Pastis is moonlighting today?
Ellis97 11 months ago
“Mel Must Let Mac Cook Tom’s Butt Crack” sounds like some kind of Mad Libs game.
BoydAdams 11 months ago
Thank you Greg Evans and Karen Evans for a wonderful belly laugh….“cook Tom’s butt crack”…. laughed again just writing this note… “I’m calling 911”…
Caldonia 11 months ago
Frank’s extremely old.
Doug K 11 months ago
Generation Gap. What we have here is failure to communicate.
locake 11 months ago
The girls are not in the room when Nancy tells Frank the list. If I had not seen Byrds and only heard Frank’s list of careers I would not have known it was musical groups. So Luann hears Frank’s odd list of careers and then hears Bernice read his odd sentence and assumes Frank is having a stroke. I would think the same thing.
locake 11 months ago
Only the audience, the readers, can see everything that is going on. Luann and Bernice have no idea that Frank is writing down an abbreviated grocery list.
strandedonearth Premium Member 11 months ago
“Gonna get my picture on the covah / Gonna buy five copies for my motha! / Gonna see my smiling face…”
locake 11 months ago
If I took that list to the grocery store, I would never know what most of the items were. The only things I abbreviate are TP and PB and those are easy to recognize. It would only take Frank a couple more seconds to write out Melon instead of Mel, or Butter instead of Butt.
BJShipley1 11 months ago
Looks like Frank’s musical tastes haven’t kept up with the sliding timeline. Either that or he’s seventy years old.
Next we’re gonna have 19-year-old Luann talking about how much she enjoyed watching new episodes of Seinfeld during high school.
French Persons Premium Member 11 months ago
So, is the extended DeGroot family just relegated to the Sunday strips now?
txmystic 11 months ago
This one made me LOL for reals…
Otis Rufus Driftwood 11 months ago
As they said sometimes in ‘Peanuts’: What was that all about?
hoffquotes2 11 months ago
So next week’s arc will be getting dad out of the mental hospital before Thanksgiving
pls50 11 months ago
it looks like my mother’s grocery list.
thevideostoreguy 11 months ago
Ah, that magical time of life when everyone around you thinks you’re constantly having a stroke….
Need coffee 11 months ago
Old bands? Luann and Bernice aren’t keeping up. Both the Stones and the Beatles (!) have had new releases this year. 2023.
The Beatles
https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=Opxhh9Oh3rg
The Stones
https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=_ePte74_qiU&list=PLxA687tYuMWjj8CPAs5noVE8LFXEMKabs
sperry532 11 months ago
Best laugh of the day.
luann1212 11 months ago
Really humorous Capstone to the week (see what I did there). The girls have none or just a nodding awareness of these rock star bands but Bernice has the funny punch line.
sueb1863 11 months ago
Interesting that their first reaction is that Frank must be having a mental breakdown and not simply asking him for an explanation.
TekoaMT 11 months ago
Stephan Pastis homage?
Yakety Sax 11 months ago
ROFLMAO!
SukieCrandall Premium Member 11 months ago
I laughed so hard that my hubby came to see what got me chuckling and chortling away. Okay, guffawing. “They” may say that women don’t snore, sweat, or guffaw, but…
tammyspeakslife Premium Member 11 months ago
Would they be as worried if he replied, “Smashing Pumpkins”?
pripley 11 months ago
I’m trying to decide if the two gags work together. I think they do since neither works as a stand-alone to the punch line. Combining them helps the premise.
Saurischia 11 months ago
If those are the groups LuAnn’s father listened to as a kid, shouldn’t he be approaching 70ish?
Eliezer 11 months ago
Brilliant! Thanks!
hollyd58 11 months ago
Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) would be proud. He is the master of groaners like this – though most are pretty clever, like this one.
mindjob 11 months ago
So sexy!
raybarb44 11 months ago
We DID like their music back then and still like it now. Because we were young then and it was our tiime……
The Quiet One 11 months ago
Hey, if it works for Frank, leave it alone.
ellisaana Premium Member 11 months ago
Perfect.
rob 11 months ago
Ignatz Premium Member 11 months ago
Congratulations to Greg and Karen for bypassing the censor.
RolloTheGrouch 11 months ago
The cleverest Sunday Luann strip in memory.
But it raises the continuing philosophical question – is Luanniverse in the 1980s or the 2020s?
The best guess is that it’s still the 1980s, with 2020s electronics (and nothing else from any time past 1990). Like many other comic strips that remain in the era they were created, but have to have electronics.
outonalimb 11 months ago
There sure are a bunch of tro…, er, commenters today griping about sketchiness of the timeline as if that were a huge surprise in a comic strip with a 19-year-old protagonist who was 13 in 1985.
eced52 11 months ago
I bet Nancy would understand it. My question is how Nancy is reciting a list of refrigerated items, while looking in the cupboard.
eced52 11 months ago
Well, we have the lyrics, now for the music.
Curiosity Premium Member 11 months ago
I haven’t laughed this much in a Long time!
nightflight 11 months ago
This comic reminds me of the story about The Emperor’s New Clothes and the effect it had on people. The ones who sought to be smart and perceptive raved about the new clothes. The boy unaffected by image or admiration, simply said the emperor was “naked as the day he was born.” Greg Evans distracted people from realizing that he had a made a crummy, meaningless cartoon by having them argue among themselves as to who knew the real meaning of Frank’s gibberish.
namelocdet 11 months ago
Ok… took me a minute and I had to re-read it a few times, but I get it now. Ha Ha
ridenslide65 11 months ago
@sallymargret The Doors, The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, The Eagles, The Monkees, The Beatles….. etc…
eddi-TBH 11 months ago
The generation gap just swallowed everyone.
Fedup Bear 11 months ago
I can’t believe there are readers who didn’t ‘get this’….I found it delightfully funny
peterbratke 11 months ago
My take is dad wanted to a rocker and the girls thought he was off his rocker.
davecat 11 months ago
ROTFLMAO !!!
Wilkins068 11 months ago
I’m wondering if some one is talking an they say Birds or Byrds can the one who’s listening tell th difference?
BlitzMcD 11 months ago
I suddenly have a much higher level of respect for Luann’s dad. Great music is timeless, and he is obviously a connoisseur of great music.
Sisyphos 11 months ago
What we have here, nosey girls, is a failure to communicate! Nothing wrong with Frank! Can’t say the same for Lulu and Bernie….
rgcviper 11 months ago
Well, that’s a catchy acronym. Made me laugh, in a twisted way.
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 11 months ago
Luann is no code expert
rklynch 11 months ago
One of the better Sunday strips I’ve seen in awhile
missyhyattfan 10 months ago
It’s what men hear when women talk to them; especially shopping!!