Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 06, 2011
Transcript:
Gunther: "Pretend you're married. Discuss what makes a good marriage" Rosa: "You go first, 'dear" Gunther: "Ok 'amoret" Rosa: "Amoret? That's what you'd call me?" Gunther: "She's from Spencer's "The Faerie Queene" Rosa: "Yes. She represents marital love" Gunther: "Right. So... um. Let's see.... where...." Rosa: "I'll call you 'pip"
wiselad about 13 years ago
this means Rosa has “Great Expectations”?
FatTonyBalducci about 13 years ago
My ex used to call me stuff I can’t repeat here.
ZacBSM about 13 years ago
They’ve got the ball rooooollllliinnggggggggggggggg……good start here.
memo.from.daddy.warbucks about 13 years ago
greg has dumped gunther, after all these years of devoted puppy love with luanne.
are we going to stand for it
we need is a massive outcry, hundreds of us with stage a sit in on greg’s lawn, we will funds for bill board ads and tv commercials
ps. i will treasurer of said funds
ComicLaff about 13 years ago
Right. Remind me to send a Christmas card out to Amoret and Pip. :/
JerryTheK about 13 years ago
Luann and Gunther are still more. They are friends always were. Gunther has a problem with Rosa he go to Luann. Don’t know if Luann would go to Gunther if she had a problem with Quil. It’s up to a pen Greg.
flashman.ace about 13 years ago
Hmmm… Rosa is as well-read, yet it hasn’t stopped her from acquiring some social poise.
JerryTheK about 13 years ago
GOD BLESS STEVE JOBS. He changed the Computer World.
flashman.ace about 13 years ago
Speak for yourself, kemosabe – I was a silver tongued devil with smooth moves all through school. ;)
There’s hope yet! I only see 1 “um” from Gunther today.
wiselad about 13 years ago
oh Gosh, tomorrow is the “other couple”, will they “kind of insult each other” or surprise us tomorrow with very sweet words to each other?
Sisyphos about 13 years ago
Unlike some of the pessimistic visitors here, I see encouraging signs in today’s episode. Gunther is a known bookworm (snerk); now, we see that lovely Rosa can keep up with him, or even surpass him, in matters literary. It becomes a common ground for them on which to build….
Chuck373 about 13 years ago
This might be a ploy Gunther is using. As long as Rosa is not Rosa, but some fictional character from some play, he might be able to get through this assignment without going into his usual brain lock.
BigKid about 13 years ago
Very nicely done, Gunther. Thank god for a babe of substance like Rosa. Now don’t screw up!
4shadow about 13 years ago
Very smooth, I approve. Now we see he’s got the moves.
wicky about 13 years ago
Luann is still awaiting the return of Aaron Hill.
eugene.montague about 13 years ago
Edmund Spenser, not Spencer, wrote The Fairie Queene
mjb515 about 13 years ago
Was not Pip’s love interest raised as a weapon to destroy men? Yikes, Rosa, the boy is enough on edge.
LisaRookie about 13 years ago
Ach! Gunther is so blah. I’ve never thought he and Luann were good together. She needs someone who isn’t wishy washy. He has the personality of a wet dish rag. Gee, can you tell I don’t like him?
weblais about 13 years ago
I think Gunther said “Amoret” because his bookish nature linked up the character with the exercise they are doing, and not because of anything he sees in, or feels about, Rosa. I’m a little skeptical that Rosa has read both “The Faerie Queen” and “Great Expectations”— but if she has, it might explain why she’s tolerant of the one guy in the school who might also have read them.
I have not read “Great Expectations”— but I have seen South Park’s send-up. Isn’t Pip unlucky in love?
AnonymousUser about 13 years ago
I know the reference… sorta… but why the heck did he start out with nicknames?
samuraicat01 about 13 years ago
You would think though that a bookworm like Gunther would have known that “The Faerie Queene” was written by Edmund SpenSer.
GS1100EX about 13 years ago
Is Pip a reference to the character Pip in “Great Expectations” or the character Pip in “Moby-Dick”? Both could apply.
medinamn about 13 years ago
“Spencer” should be spelled “Spenser”. Emund Spenser wrote The Faerie Queene".
Pink_Belle about 13 years ago
I think Rosa and Gunther are GREAT for each other. Luann didn’t truly appreciate how smart Gunther really is, but Rosa seems to appreciate it, and even be on level ground with him.
memo.from.daddy.warbucks about 13 years ago
pip from dickens. that aint no romance name to be calling gunther for then would rosa be cold hearted Estella
vldazzle about 13 years ago
I also never read “Moby Dick”- story idea never appealed to me so I was thinking of Dicken’s Pip and that did not promise much for Gunther- glad there is another!
flashman.ace about 13 years ago
Whether Estella was a bitch or not (and she was raised to be that way, remember) is immaterial, it’s Pip’s steadfast character Rosa’s referring to. Melville’s Pip abandoned his whaleboat twice and has permanent break with reality after that. Sure you want to hang on to that reference?
flashman.ace about 13 years ago
And next time I see all the complaints about “too many posts” I’ll know that a lot of youse guys don’t bother reading any of them anyway before you start typing, so spare us all the beefs about word trauma.
Say, did you know it’s Spenser with two "s"s, not Spencer, who wrote The Fairie Queene? >P
burleigh2 about 13 years ago
Wow… and she’s smart, too! That’s a perfect fit for Gunther… except that she’s so pretty that he’ll just stumble over himself all the time he’s around her. Could you imagine if they got married? “Do you, Gunther, take this woman?” “Well… um… gosh, I… uh…” ;-) LOL!
mojitobaby about 13 years ago
On days like this, it is like being stuck in a railroad siding with nothing to read.
Archimago about 13 years ago
Whoever wrote “Spencer” obviously was never taught by Prof. Sheila Cavanagh (“horrible things will happen to anyone who spells ‘Spenser’ with a ‘c’”). On the other hand, how nice to see Faerie (not ‘fairy’, all due respect to Gordon Braden). As for ‘Pip’, I assume that this is Sir Philip Sidney (‘Sir Pip’ in Astrophel and Stella), not Pip of Great Expectations, even though Dickens got that title from Astrophel and Stella. If you think I am an English Major, someone has to be.
cabermacallum about 13 years ago
Spencer is spelled with a second S, Spenser, like the fictional Boston based detective.
edward5150 about 13 years ago
I think it’s Spenser with an “S”
mojitobaby about 13 years ago
“but Pip from Moby Dick could also be applicable.”
Not unless you’re calling Luann or Rosa a whale.
marvee about 13 years ago
I was guilty of not reading all the comments first. I’ve learned a lot here today inasmuch as I’m only semi-literate. BTW, we can’t blame Gunther for misspelling Spenser. Greg or maybe some anonymous person ?
The Life I Draw Upon about 13 years ago
Well, Rosa must have had her head in a book to know about Spencer’s “Faerie Queene.” Maybe that suggest why she likes him. hmmm
doverdan about 13 years ago
Gunther did not misspell anything ! ! He did not spell anything out at all. He spoke.
odp Premium Member about 13 years ago
Except that it’s Spenser, not “Spencer”…
GreenEyes02 about 13 years ago
Omgoodness! If my BF would quote books to me i would be the happiest! <3
RinaFarina about 13 years ago
Rosa is such a sweet person! And in her presence, Gunther becomes sweet too.
lmross about 13 years ago
wow, greg is very literate. great expectations we can understand, but wow, faerie queen?
firedome about 13 years ago
i’m just glad gunther didn’t call roas “dulcinea”
Auntie_Venom about 13 years ago
Gunth, me thinks ye expects too much.
richard.d.hanson about 13 years ago
who the heck is Pip?
Isaac Chen over 6 years ago
The fairy queen? Did they both read the whole thing??