Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 17, 2018

Gotta loathe the words “some assembly required.” Do the retailers think the customers are fans of Ingvar Kamprad from Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd?

“Cheap” is the operative word. ✨

Oh Gee Whiz! The Lads can’t afford decent new furniture with $783. What a nasty surprise1 (Rolls Eyes)

Well, they can head down to Goodwill or the Salvation Army and buy 3rd hand stuff. Or they can go to the “Rent-To-Own” place and buy stuff at 500% interest.

Or one or both the young lads can meet up with and start dating a wealthy middle-age “Cougar,” who’ll “sponsor” furniture for them in exchange for….., Well….,

Other that, their “options” are a bit limited.

PS: Oh Yeah. Al could buy them new furniture when he gets back, after he YELLS at them for 45 minutes for selling Irma’s furniture…..,

Sellers’ remorse setting in?

Furniture priced just under the $783 they earned in the garage sale. Coincidence?

For pete’s sake, just buy one sofa. That’s all you need. All others are affordable and could be purchased one piece by one piece over time. Only the sofa is expensive and a quality sofa is a good investment.

The assimilation has begun. They are both wearing virtually identical shirts (except for color) that are buttoned all the way up to the top.

Hopefully Crystal and Knute can take them to the thrift-stores, or as my friends like to say, they can go in for some Urban Archaeology. Then there’s do-it-yourself provisions, like the classic brick-and plank bookshelves, crate end-table, or the homemade desk like the one I’m typing on right now, consisting of planks laid between a secondhand filing cabinet and a hardware-store metal shelf, with a slide-out keyboard tray bolted under the planks. You don’t have to spend a lot of money, just be creative.

What are some of the things you’ve done to improvise cheap furniture?

Maybe it was a stupid idea selling all of Mrs Burgers’ furniture

Where a Ikea when you need one

Add 25% tariff to that.

They might have to try and tap the Gray & Berger Loan Co. LOL

And the rich uncle isn’t buying you things because…? He literally built you a house, you KNOW he can afford to furnish it! Just sit on the ground till then, you’re young!

When I was in school I had friends who had scouts that would go out and look for free couches on street corners. They ended up having 4 couches in the living room, one for each room mate.

It’s not that hard just buy something already!! Were Tiff when you need a good laugh.

Haven’t these guys ever heard of Craigslist or Goodwill, or the Salvation Army, or thrift stores?

Getting the feeling they regret selling it all off.

Box o Furniture? This so reminds me of when, after my grandmother died I sold a whole apartment full of furniture for a price I am ashamed to admit, and regretted it forever, both for practical reasons, and emotional ones. Oh well, they have to improvise, hopefully lesson learned. Maybe Uncle Al will come to the rescue.

A Box o’Furniture is all you’ll get unless you have a Bucket o’Cash! :D

Box-o-Furniture – just add water.

I got out of the service and bought a house. I had some used furniture and went furniture shopping and blanched. The prices were unreal. I wound up building my furniture from scratch. All assembly was required. Most of the furniture in the house is either stuff I bought used or built.

The box is lying, you have to do all the assembly

When my son was in college he stacked plastic milk cartons for hold his books. Worked quite well actually.

Probably the most humorous part of this arc is seeing that these guys have absolutely no clue what they’re doing. And that goes for both of them. I wonder how many life lessons they’ll learn before they get settled in?

(organ music) Will the stepbrothers ever agree? Will Mr. Gray be forced to step in? Will one of them have the idea to, maybe, build some furniture? And… (organ note stinger) what about Naomi? For the answers to these and other questions, tune in again tomorrow for The Odd Couple: The Next Generation. (applause; organ music up and out)

The lesson here is they should have gone to the store first and determined how much money they needed. With that information they just might have realized they were better off holding on to what they had. That is called executive planning.

Hey, Les and Gunth, you guys are looking at it all wrong!… I think….

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Maybe if you try standing on your heads. Or kinda lean to the left…. or maybe squint-

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…aw, forget it! Well, still- just be glad it’s not made of balsa …

They should find an IKEA. :)

I thought Gunthie was shopping for an area rug.

Came here for some cartoon entertainment and got another episode of The Boring Twins , Series 2 Episode 5.

This arc is so bad that even the comments today read like a bunch of Facebook entries:

Headed to Fine Furniture From Finland with Les and the Gun-man.

@ FFFF. Bummed out by the lame furniture and downer prices. See pics. Saw an empty cable spool on the side of the road. We’ll pick it up on the way home. It’ll make a boss table. It’s the same shape as pizza.

On my way back to Les and Gunner’s crash pad in my truck. Picked up a cable-table, a six pack, a dozen donuts and two large Meat Monster Supremes from Imo’s Pizza Palace.

SWEET! These guys know how to PAW-TEE!!

Greg and Karen, please! Have mercy on us. PLEASE!?!?

I’ll take the Box o’ Furniture over the old lady furniture that Irma gave them.

You know, for all of Gunthers Tech knowledge. He sure doesn’t know how to shop online very well. Sort though craigslist and you can find some pretty nice furniture for a really good price. That’s how we picked up our Lazy boy Set. Couch, love seat, and recliner for 150 bucks. REALLY nice condition and only 9 years old. Non Smoker/Pet home.

“….And then your wife seems to think you’re part of the furniture….”

-Some tramp that everybody thought was ‘just Super’, for some reason

“Worst Chaise Scenario”

“No Rest For The Wicker…. Or On It, Even…. "

“Oh, Yeah!? Chaise Who!?”

“No Accounting For Expensive… Anything…”

“Lame! I’m Gonna Pay On It, Forever!…. " (♩)

“Things That Make You Say ’Mmmph!”

“Ugly Is As Ugly Sits On”

“A Constructive Criticism”

“Lego; My Ego”

“A Big Buildup, Just To Let Yourself Down”

or

“I Think We’ve Been Set-Up!”

Will we now be treated to a week of “The 2 Stooges Try to Assemble Furniture”? Sorry, but if this whole story arc is in fact a pilot for a planned Luann sit-com, as it nearly seems to be, then it will be cancelled before the third episode.

Getting tired of this arc.

Back in late 60’s you get sets of furniture for $99. 2 couches and a coffee table, not bad quality either, lasted 10 years and a trip to the Arctic

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

ARRRGHHH!!!! I am totally mystified with this whole arc. The BIG WEDDING IN LOST WAGES takes up one strip! ONE!!! Yet talking about furniture, moving furniture, selling furniture, shopping for furniture goes on for weeks! What’s next? Purchasing furniture, assembling furniture, arguing about furniture placement, running out of ideas about how to string this furniture arc out even more excruciatingly but some how finding a way to torture the readers even longer with furniture?

Are we supposed to be seeing Gunther and Les coming to some sort of detant in their relationship? Surely that could have been done with less PAIN!

Starting with the deal Les made with his mother, EVERY arc has been about conflict resolution in one way or another. Or, at least, abatement. Once this arc is milked out I suppose we might expect Tiffany, he father and Ann all to move into a happy place? “There’s the signpost up ahead; Toon Town.” Cue music Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella.

These two agreed on something? ;o)

I believe that this arc is like the box of furniture. Machine drawings in a pre-fab setting. Greg put his drawing gizmo on automatic and emailed the results in to the publisher.

Scenes I’d Like to See #832

Gunther – “Rats! All my $783 bought was one small love seat, a lamp table and a lamp! I Should have kept my Mom’s Old furniture!”

Le$ – “Aw FLAKE-Off, Gunth! That love seat will be PERFECT for Me and Tiff…., Uh I MEAN, You and Me to sit in!”

Gunther – “Say. Where’s My sewing machine? Have You seen My sewing machine, Le$?!!?”

Le$ – “Well I uhhh, mmmm, errr…….,”

Gunther – “LE$-WHERE-IS-MY-SEWING MACHINE????”

Le$ – "Okay, OKAY! I Sold it, alright? And I got 25 Bucks for it! Besides, this a “Man Cave” and We don’t filled up with a bunch of Siss…, WAIT! What are You going to do with that Ginsu Knife?!!? Wait, STOP….., NOOOOOOOO…..,"

And later, while a weeping Irma buried her head in husband Al’s mighty chest, the police led a smiling, vindicated Gunther away in handcuffs. Meanwhile, detectives were sickened to see that someone had written “Helter-Skelter” in blood upon the Gulag’s walls…….,

TGIF Has taken on a whole new meaning. I hope this doesn’t stretch over into next week

I believe most Super-Walmarts have Futons and endtables and such.

Why did GnK send these two to a new-furniture store? I can’t imagine any real-life teenager who would do that. I guess the ways that people get cheap furniture these days (or 50 years ago for that matter) are too edgy for GnK. They’re sticking with stodgy.

But..but…it comes with Bonus Art! And Eight Free Thumbtacks!

Seriously, this is the first time I remember where you need a large version of the strip in order to read everything

Back to Craigslist!

Next week, Les and Gunther assemble the furniture for their house, and then Quill moves into the cardboard box. At least that would be funny (although only by way of comparison with the last 2 weeks, of course).

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Even though the furniture-in-a-box, does not seem to be to their liking either…. I think they should probably buy it or rummage around quickly this weekend…. then get the place set up. Even though in theory this may be a day or two of Luanniverse time… I would like for them to get on to other things.

I kinda done with these guys, I hope we move on next week

At least no one mentioned The Donald (Godwin’s Law, 1.02 as applied to story arcs)

This week’s episode is a modern-day remake of “The Odd Couple.”

If that box really does contain 2 couches and a table it must be RIDICULOUSLY heavy

IKEA!

My dad used to say: The value of an object isn’t how much you pay for it. It’s how you pay to replace it.

Here’s where “Shoulda kept it till they had a plan” would have been a wise move. Sometimes the young need to learn things the hard way. Only after the fact do they realize the folly of their actions. Learn to appreciate what you have and work for what you want.

They’re guys. Get them each a Lazyboy recliner and they are good to go!

They should have shopped for the Replacement Furniture Before they sold the stuff they Had.

They got enough from the Sale to buy One Couch, Used, from a Consignment store. If they are lucky.

I hope Gunther at least kept his own Bedroom Furniture because, otherwise, he’s going to be sleeping on the floor.

“Some assembly required.” In other words, we might be in for another week of this godawful storyarc while these two try and put this furniture together. Brace yourselves, kiddos.

I live in NYS. Not a cheap state. Round off their money to 800.00 bucks and I could bet you that the place I know, they could get a decent couch, a recliner and a coffee table, and a dining room table and 4 chairs for that money.

Funny that “Luann Againn” is about shopping, too. Only that is back-to-school shopping, with Frank thinking that he can quickly accomplish helping Luann buy the clothes she figures will make her school year (meaning she will want to take forever, and find something that will attract a boyfriend). Meanwhile, this Gunther and Les arc is kind of back-to-the-future, with two totally different guys trying to furnish a tiny house they are shoe-horned into, in a way that would help them tolerate each other (and help attract female company)…

Should have gone to an estate sale.

Four years ago at a store I bought a brand new sofa for around $200 that converts to a guest bed. It still looks like new. A couple of padded folding chairs around $12.99 each come in handy.

I wonder how Irma is going to react……..

they’ll get it put together and wish they had Irma’s furniture back again.

Imagine a new reader coming across Luann for the first time today, in a carbon-based newspaper or on a website. What would they make of it?

They both hate it. But they can afford it. I expect to see the Box-O-Furniture in the Guest House gulag tomorrow….

So, ladies and gentlemen, we bid good night to The Price is Right.