Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 18, 2018

Welcome back, Auntie Lu.

What’re watching? For me, this would be The Road to Insanity.

Reminds me of that one bit in “Toy Story 2”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPguqGyV4OU

How long till that battery runs out?

They are catching the highlights.

Ann Eiffel as a child…

Shannon reading the IQ test.

Sunday foible. Will we go back to Tiffany, Tom, and Ann, or another arc? That is the question.

wow, good one! but in all honesty I hope she wont grow up to be that. I’d rather see her as Tiff pt.2

Which with a father like hers, may happen.

Italics AND quotation marks on the same titles? Oh, how you spoil us, Greg.

I don’t recall Luann wearing pants with a hole in the knee. Hopefully this signals that Luann is thinking about looking sexy.

Back in the old days before TV’s had remote controls, you had kids so you could tell them to go change the channel to save you from having to get up and turn that knob. It must have stuck, because now, with every set being remote control, they are still changing the channels.

I hear my mom’s voice in the back of my head: “If you keep changing the channel like that, you’re going to break the knob again!”

Brat!

Not picking,clicking.

OMG… LOSE that brat Shannon already – PLEASE.

That looks like me when I try to do something with the “clicker.” :o(

Luann recognized signal diagnostics…? I’m impressed!

This is where a TV Guide comes in handy.

Shannon works much better as a single-gag character than as the subject of a week-long story arc, since a quick glimpse at her annoying behavior may be funny, but just a little bit goes a long way and becomes tedious really fast. I wish she would be part of the Sunday cast as needed but just not appear in the weekday strip, which gets along better without her.

I know adults that are like that. They never watch a complete program, but spend all their time flipping through the channels.

Luann has an AMAZING memory.

Uh, Mom? Where do we keep the extra batteries?

she checks what to watch like my wife does …

Ms. Shannon is being entertained. At least for now. Maybe Brad, Toni, and, maybe even TJ,an make some significant progress in finishing Shannon’s room. (Or, maybe Brad and, Toni are enjoying some alone time, together. I just hope that they aren’t on shift, today.)

Funny thing, both my wife and I have flipped through TV and radio channels, and some of the dialogue seems to comically transition humorously and coincidentally between ‘station A’/‘station B’/and so on…

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Like: "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen!… /…Welcome to the…. /….Wheel…. /…Chronic Halitosis! And what better way to deal with it, than to…/…pay $19.95, plus shipping, and… /…Bananas, whole, ripe smooth ones, layered in… /…Pig fat commodities that dropped to an all time low this tear, are what experts are calling… /…Our local headlines for this evening, to be followed by… /….a few snowflakes will be on tap, thisd weekend, in our local/….High school gym. Doesn’t that sound exciting, Kramer?…/….What’chu’talkin’bout, Willis?…/…All that, and more, next week, on… /….top of your refrigerator, and that’s where you want to install these types of cabinets!… Now, in order to get started, you have to…. /….ask your parents for permission, before ordering! /….but it may just be because, Mr. Bunker, that you… /….could experience dry mouth, itching or rashes, have problems with other joints, along with excessive dandruff. Do not continue this product for longer than…. /Eight days, a week! (♩)…/….No, Mr. Tibbs! I think this case will take a bit longer than that!…. /…Wait’ll you see my Gidget! You’ll want her for your… /….Dog show, coming tbhis week, to the Municipal Convention Center…./….of attention. If you think your child is suffering from…. /…this week’s teen boy band singing competition hopefuls! This week, on… /…McNeil, Lehrer, and Company. With this week’s Host…. /…Hi! I’m Dooley Noted, from the law firm of Sockett, Tooem, and…./…George! George! George of the(♩)…/…Desert Isle!… With(♩)…/….this kitchen wonder that will help you!…. but, first…. /…ask your doctor if you should… /….make it a true daily double, Alex!

Stop on Andy Griffith black and white shows. In color version just did not cut it.

“You Just Push My Buttons!”

“From A Remote Location”

“300 R.E.M.s Per Minute”

“Type Casting”

“No Keypad Left Behind”

“The Whole 9…. Hundred….”

“A Few Good Menus”

“Shannon Attempts To Navigate The Flow Of All The Channels In The World”

“My Little Surfer Girl (♪♩)”

or

“I’m Getting Mixed Signals!”

Channel surfing, the great american pastime!

Can you say ADD?

Oh, dear, never give the remote to a child. They mess up the TV and makes it complicated to get it back to normal. I put the remote on a high-level surface where my grandson can’t reach it. He has to come to me to ask to change the channel. Not just that – they drop the remote just anywhere and it gets kicked into the netherworld. Could take hours or days to find it.

Shannon: “I’m picking!”

Luann: “I’m grinning!”

R.I.P., Roy Clark.

My husband is like this with Netflix.

Let me get this straight. Shannon’s mother dumped the kid (like Tiffany’s mother, and Gunther’s father, Les’ father was killed, and TJ’s dad cut him loose with a trust fund income). Okay, so now the kid is dumped by her dad onto his sister and Brad, who in turn dump her onto Luann, who has Nancy lurking in the on deck circle. But, now, with great anticipation, we are about to meet one of the missing links: Tom Farrell. Will Greg show his face? Does he look like George Hamilton? Will we cop out to a different arc? Will Florida ever be allowed to hold elections again?

No one knows how to say no.

Actually, that is how my DH chooses what to watch……same result. <3

At least Luann doesn’t look bothered … She looks rather amused! :)

Mindless switching between channels. What was that song? 57 channels and nothing on?If I don’t see something I like to watch, I turn off the TV and read. Which is exactly what I did last night. Right after I watched the local news-right after the weather report

Very patient of Aunt Luann.

you can’t cycle through the channels that fast anymore. In the analogue days you could, but now that TV is digital it takes a second for the screen to load an image, if you flipped through the channels that fast all you’d get is a blank screen.

so Luann is wearing pants with fashionable holes and tears.

I had a roommate who whold channel surf like that. She’d click through several stations and then stop on one, watch it for anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes then surf some more only to repeat. It drove me crazy.

The Short Attention Span Avenger goes Nuts when the TV has 500 Channels.

At Shannon’s age, Tiffany was already doing her research at Victoria’s Secret.

Don’t take Shannon on a elevator with you if you’re in any kind of a hurry!

Keep telling yourself: it’s just harmless amusement for the little kid; would you rather see her bratty behavior? I think not….

aww…that’s sweet

tomorrow: Tiff sticks a shrimp fork in Ann’s eye !!!