The two weeks with Luann weren’t so bad because she was pushing back on their insanity with common sense and an appreciation of self. But now it’s just the two of them and the stupidity knows no bounds.
Looks like they may not be giving up on Luann. I do agree with Eladee that Ox could be a good candidate. If done right (by the Evans’), they could make Ox into such a standout, even Tiffany would take notice.
Ahh… to boldly brand where no brand has gone before… Whatever happened to their intention to use AI to analyze characteristics and develop a “brand”? A true intelligence might reveal the error they’re making. But I suppose they’re too far gone to retrace their original idea and the opportunity they missed weeks ago to develop a useable product of potential interactive progressive personal development evaluations.
We may abbreviate that as “p.i.p.p.d.e”, to be pronounced “pip-i-dee”. For those willing to “do dat”, the slogan might become “pip-i-dee do dat”, since B&T like catchy slogans. Whether it can be done in the BATUBS remains to be seen.
Bets y is a bad influence on the entire comic stip Greg created that some people have read for years but do not enjoy so much now. This is not funny or entertaining or educational – just a drag.
They’re looking at this the wrong way. What does the before video reveal about Luann? Her positivity! So she could become Miss Positivity, the Turn-that-Frown-Upside-Down Gal. On the other hand, they could use the video to promote their idea: ‘Are you content to be full of potential? Or would you like to stand out from the crowd and really Be Someone?’
This whole idiotic arc started back on March 25th with Toxic Bets and Tiff in a room. Tiff just finished a 6 hour shift a Kafe Kablooie and it looks like it’s dusk out and Tiff is “gonna go sleep for 15 hours” and they have an 8 AM math class.
Tiff has her uniform on and Toxic Bets a red tank top
Through out week 2, they’re plotting their wealth (Math class forgotten), attire unchanged and little had changed throughout week 3. Racing along with the blazing speed of a herd of turtles.
Week 4 (April 15th), enter Luann in a black square neck top. Somehow Toxic Bets has changed into a purplish button down top
Week 5 (April 22nd), while still talking up Luann, Luann now has on a charcoal top and Toxic Bets an orange button down top
Week 6 (April 29th) it now appears to be morning, 8 AM math class forgotten, sleep forgotten and Tiff is finally out of her K2 uniform and wearing a purple top and Toxic Bets in a black 3/4 sleeve tee shirt.
Look like Tiffany just had an idea that can really start their business and give them a good grade. Let’s see if it works or, more importantly, if Luann will like it and actually use it. Because the success of this project lies entirely in the satisfaction of the costumer. I’m still hoping Dez will come along and tells them what she thinks of their project.
PLEASE!!! Somebody tell Karen that she is not funny or clever, just boring and repetitive. It’s like she thinks she’s so funny she can’t let go of a stupid concept or end it when it starts getting annoying. There is a point where each story should end and this one should have been finished when they left Luann’s house. I can picture her chuckling to herself at all of these stupid interactions between Bets and Tiff and thinking her “ad slogans” are so cute and inspired that people will love them. She needs to learn where the cut-off point is and stick to it. Karen Evans is ruining this comic with her boring storylines and inane dialogues.
I HAD thought this arc would have concluded this past Saturday…. and at that time, even though it was NOT a favorite arc….. I felt good about the idea that Luann remained true to herself and was not bamboozled by “Batubs”.
Then, come Monday, and the arc continues….. I was (incorrectly) presuming that AT LEAST the arc would now lay off of Luann. But….. NO. Unfortunately, the now, “non-dynamic duo” of “Batubs” is scheming again on new ways to “fix” Luann.
Bets and Tiffany as characters are both now QUITE insulting, IMO. I am not sure what G & K’s plan is here…. but…. to my manner of thinking…. they are coaxing us (at least ME) into thinking of both Bets and Tiffany as annoying on the level of Stephanie.
I am so done with people saying that I need to change. One says my fashion sense is drab, another says my clothes don’t fit right, someone else said that I needed to ‘dress my age’, ad nauseam. All my ‘fashion’ preferences have become ‘vouge’ at some point after the fact. I don’t sweat it anymore.
When my hand heals I’m going to sew myself some fun bright coloured clothes and enjoy myself for once.
As for dressing my age? The Sunday following the comment, I, in my 40’s, wore a tweed skirt suit to Church and my girlfriends all gushed that I looked “so cute!” I wanted to “Look my age” and wasn’t able to enjoy the compliments because I let that woman get in my head. :((
So the creators of this comic obviously feel that it’s okay for certain people who feel they are superior, to “label” other people that they consider inferior. Otherwise, they would have never published this “branding” scenario and the (really messed up) conversations between these two (used to be) nice girls who have now become crass, judgmental bimbos.
It’s just another example of how they can’t maintain any consistency with their characters.
Sheesh! Enough with the taglines. So Bets thinks Luann is expecting something from this duo? This is going nowhere, unless some real sad sack walks in the door.At least Tiff changed out of her work clothes, but what about classes and work!?
mnexplorer+ 7 months ago
Nope, nope, and nope!
beb01 7 months ago
The two weeks with Luann weren’t so bad because she was pushing back on their insanity with common sense and an appreciation of self. But now it’s just the two of them and the stupidity knows no bounds.
Joe1962 7 months ago
1) Stefi 2) Les 3) Bernice 4) Piro 5) Les and just for fun Shannon.
Willow Mt Lyon 7 months ago
Okay. So her brand is blossoming woman, or instead of woman, a flower that blossoms slowly. Blossoming Iris?
9thCapricorn 7 months ago
Sigh. More word play?
lvlax 7 months ago
“Blah-Some”… was that the one with Mayim Bialik??
. Well, at least Tiffany changed out of her work clothes.
kenhense 7 months ago
Are they going to do something with “Blossom?” (hope not).
snsurone76 7 months ago
If those two proceed with this, I hope Luann files a defamation suit!
IMO, Bets is a bad influence on Tiff, who had been growing and maturing in recent years. Bow, it looks like she’s regressing back to her earlier self.
cmxx 7 months ago
What I keep wanting to know: after BATUB delivers a fabulous new brand to the customer, what difference does that brand make?
RabbitHole 7 months ago
Looks like they may not be giving up on Luann. I do agree with Eladee that Ox could be a good candidate. If done right (by the Evans’), they could make Ox into such a standout, even Tiffany would take notice.
ProclaimLiberty 7 months ago
Ahh… to boldly brand where no brand has gone before… Whatever happened to their intention to use AI to analyze characteristics and develop a “brand”? A true intelligence might reveal the error they’re making. But I suppose they’re too far gone to retrace their original idea and the opportunity they missed weeks ago to develop a useable product of potential interactive progressive personal development evaluations.
We may abbreviate that as “p.i.p.p.d.e”, to be pronounced “pip-i-dee”. For those willing to “do dat”, the slogan might become “pip-i-dee do dat”, since B&T like catchy slogans. Whether it can be done in the BATUBS remains to be seen.
Mordock999 Premium Member 7 months ago
“Wants to change.”
Key statement.
That pretty much eliminates a number of characters in the Strip.
Even most of the guys.
Honestly? Judging by her expression, the next “victim-client” just might be Tiffany as some fans have suggested. ;-)
Wilkins068 7 months ago
In th first picture Tiff looks pretty much well like her old self
Instead of blossoms those two are more like blooming idiots
R.W.Singer -SF 7 months ago
Will this ever end? Meanwhile nothing about Brad and Toni and the whole baby thing. Is this the longest (and most boring) story arc ever?
jea9hrkr 7 months ago
Bets y is a bad influence on the entire comic stip Greg created that some people have read for years but do not enjoy so much now. This is not funny or entertaining or educational – just a drag.
sakula3694 Premium Member 7 months ago
It’s getting from bad tot worse
jeff_e 7 months ago
This arc: shark is jumped.
Dave.wood 7 months ago
I can’t believe they are still beating this dead horse.
preacherman Premium Member 7 months ago
They ought to change their company from rebranding to slogans-are-us.
robinafox 7 months ago
They’re looking at this the wrong way. What does the before video reveal about Luann? Her positivity! So she could become Miss Positivity, the Turn-that-Frown-Upside-Down Gal. On the other hand, they could use the video to promote their idea: ‘Are you content to be full of potential? Or would you like to stand out from the crowd and really Be Someone?’
OneTime59 7 months ago
Tiffany sure is the headline writer and the moniker maker. Isn’t or wasn’t there Hollywood publication that made up those off-beat puns?
weikelk 7 months ago
Three weeks of this and it’s going no where fast.
sueb1863 7 months ago
They go to class to talk to their instructor.
“Hi, we have some ideas about our assignment that we’d like to talk to you about.”
“You mean the one that was due two days ago?”
Windfall35 7 months ago
First rule of consulting…You can’t sell business to someone who isn’t made unhappy about something…
mgl179 7 months ago
Here’s a depressing thought.
This whole idiotic arc started back on March 25th with Toxic Bets and Tiff in a room. Tiff just finished a 6 hour shift a Kafe Kablooie and it looks like it’s dusk out and Tiff is “gonna go sleep for 15 hours” and they have an 8 AM math class.
Tiff has her uniform on and Toxic Bets a red tank top
Through out week 2, they’re plotting their wealth (Math class forgotten), attire unchanged and little had changed throughout week 3. Racing along with the blazing speed of a herd of turtles.Week 4 (April 15th), enter Luann in a black square neck top. Somehow Toxic Bets has changed into a purplish button down top
Week 5 (April 22nd), while still talking up Luann, Luann now has on a charcoal top and Toxic Bets an orange button down top
Week 6 (April 29th) it now appears to be morning, 8 AM math class forgotten, sleep forgotten and Tiff is finally out of her K2 uniform and wearing a purple top and Toxic Bets in a black 3/4 sleeve tee shirt.
French Persons Premium Member 7 months ago
This is “Dull Done Wrong”.
loubarra 7 months ago
Just kill me now
baboese 7 months ago
Is this arc going to last a month?!? Let’s get back to literally anything else.
Ellis97 7 months ago
Here’s an idea! Why don’t you just leave Luann alone and mind your own beeswax?
Smitty 7 months ago
this story arc is as stale as Luann is bland. Let’s get some action! What’s Ox been up to? How about some Tony? Anything’s better than this stuff.
The-miner! 7 months ago
Panel two Tiff looks like she had a nerd-gasm !
Colonel B 7 months ago
Will this lame arc never end?
IWannaBeLerxst 7 months ago
Stupidest. Story. Arc. EVER.
mac04416 7 months ago
Tiff’s got a knack for buzz word. She should blend her business major with advertising.
bigplayray 7 months ago
You have a reader who’s unhappy and wants to change.
ctolson 7 months ago
Tiff got the last word right – Huh?
Aladar30 Premium Member 7 months ago
Look like Tiffany just had an idea that can really start their business and give them a good grade. Let’s see if it works or, more importantly, if Luann will like it and actually use it. Because the success of this project lies entirely in the satisfaction of the costumer. I’m still hoping Dez will come along and tells them what she thinks of their project.
baskate_2000 7 months ago
This really has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. Are we in a never-ending “ground hog day” loop?
Out of the Past 7 months ago
Man, this is still going on.
comic reader 22 7 months ago
PLEASE!!! Somebody tell Karen that she is not funny or clever, just boring and repetitive. It’s like she thinks she’s so funny she can’t let go of a stupid concept or end it when it starts getting annoying. There is a point where each story should end and this one should have been finished when they left Luann’s house. I can picture her chuckling to herself at all of these stupid interactions between Bets and Tiff and thinking her “ad slogans” are so cute and inspired that people will love them. She needs to learn where the cut-off point is and stick to it. Karen Evans is ruining this comic with her boring storylines and inane dialogues.
Call me Ishmael 7 months ago
Make it stop, Mommy ! Please!
RonMcCalip 7 months ago
LMAO! These two are actually working to find a way to make mediocrity sound appealing!
GirlGeek Premium Member 7 months ago
The fact that they’re still doing this and we’re a month into this, I’m going to call them crooks.
DaBump Premium Member 7 months ago
Love the persistence and optimism.
dblbaraje 7 months ago
This is starting to get too ridiculous, going on way too long.
lemonbaskt 7 months ago
this story is going nowhere maybe a book signing at a indian reservation would spice it up
nightflight 7 months ago
Stef knows what her brand is and doesn’t mind giving out a few samples.
Angry Indeed Premium Member 7 months ago
They just need to convince Luann that’s she’s unhappy being Luann.
cfkelley 7 months ago
Yaaaaaaaaaaawn!!!!
locake 7 months ago
Tiffany finally changed her clothes! I guess they already slept, had their early morning class and this must be the next afternoon.
kenhense 7 months ago
I still think Tara will be the friend to expand Luann’s horizons. Tara warrants more time than she’s getting.
GojusJoe 7 months ago
Chic Geek.
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member 7 months ago
I am feeling a bit frustrated now.
I HAD thought this arc would have concluded this past Saturday…. and at that time, even though it was NOT a favorite arc….. I felt good about the idea that Luann remained true to herself and was not bamboozled by “Batubs”.
Then, come Monday, and the arc continues….. I was (incorrectly) presuming that AT LEAST the arc would now lay off of Luann. But….. NO. Unfortunately, the now, “non-dynamic duo” of “Batubs” is scheming again on new ways to “fix” Luann.
Bets and Tiffany as characters are both now QUITE insulting, IMO. I am not sure what G & K’s plan is here…. but…. to my manner of thinking…. they are coaxing us (at least ME) into thinking of both Bets and Tiffany as annoying on the level of Stephanie.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member 7 months ago
I am so done with people saying that I need to change. One says my fashion sense is drab, another says my clothes don’t fit right, someone else said that I needed to ‘dress my age’, ad nauseam. All my ‘fashion’ preferences have become ‘vouge’ at some point after the fact. I don’t sweat it anymore.
When my hand heals I’m going to sew myself some fun bright coloured clothes and enjoy myself for once.
As for dressing my age? The Sunday following the comment, I, in my 40’s, wore a tweed skirt suit to Church and my girlfriends all gushed that I looked “so cute!” I wanted to “Look my age” and wasn’t able to enjoy the compliments because I let that woman get in my head. :((
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member 7 months ago
And…. I had previously felt positive about both Bets and Tiffany. But, that is changing.
jadoo823 7 months ago
…There goes my hero Watch him as he goes There goes my hero He’s ordinary…
pearlyqim 7 months ago
Someone please let me know when this story line is done!
The Quiet One 7 months ago
No Betts, she is not expecting you to deliver a new brand. Are you that dense? Did you not hear anything she said?
petermerck 7 months ago
Still haven’t figured out how to do it.
Uncle Bob 7 months ago
zzzzzzz…
eladee AKA Wally 7 months ago
That’s a heavy lift there, Tiffany.
mindjob 7 months ago
I’m not getting the vision here
arges53 7 months ago
Will these two bimbos give it a rest, already.
comic reader 22 7 months ago
So the creators of this comic obviously feel that it’s okay for certain people who feel they are superior, to “label” other people that they consider inferior. Otherwise, they would have never published this “branding” scenario and the (really messed up) conversations between these two (used to be) nice girls who have now become crass, judgmental bimbos.
It’s just another example of how they can’t maintain any consistency with their characters.
Fuzzy Kombu 7 months ago
I suspect a developing case of New Coke syndrome.
Dragoncat 7 months ago
Tiffany is scary-looking when she thinks she’s having a brain-storm.
YorkGirl Premium Member 7 months ago
Sheesh! Enough with the taglines. So Bets thinks Luann is expecting something from this duo? This is going nowhere, unless some real sad sack walks in the door.At least Tiff changed out of her work clothes, but what about classes and work!?
eddi-TBH 7 months ago
Some people just don’t know when to quit.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace 7 months ago
You never hit a homer without taking a few swings. You never lose until the game is over.
(I will admit I’ve been wayyyyyyy behind when I stopped playing the game but I hadn’t LOST until then.)
Otis Rufus Driftwood 7 months ago
I hate to say this, but Tiffany does have a future on Madison Avenue.
dlestersprint0 7 months ago
This arc needs to end very quickly. It’s is dumb.
TravelinMan 7 months ago
I’m sensing a vague negative vibe in the comments today.
Kenezg 7 months ago
LuAnn was home, minding her business. You two went to her. She didn’t ask for a brand, therefore, she wasn’t expecting an awesome new brand.
Donna S 7 months ago
Really ready for this to end. J/s
washatkc Premium Member 6 months ago
Oof. I usually don’t complain. But egads this one is boring and just won’t stop.