Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 22, 2012
Transcript:
Ann: "Jill's sick. Can you work overtimes?" TJ: "Pay's double, right?" Ann: "No! It's time and a half!" TJ: "Pay's double, right? More of a confirmation than a question, there, Ann" Ann: "You are THIS FAR from being fired, TJ" TJ: "Yeah? Who'd lose then?" TJ: "Hi! Hey, you need a double wowie, am I right?" Customer: "Uh- sure!" Ann: "Fine. Double"
FatTonyBalducci over 12 years ago
It’s “Double Trouble” with these two
homfencing over 12 years ago
In fencing terms, I’d call that “Attack from Ann…parry-riposte by TJ. Touch to TJ.”
Catfeet Premium Member over 12 years ago
Is the double wowie the one with the special sauce?
lance96816 over 12 years ago
Hottie hot under the collar
wiselad over 12 years ago
I am starting to see TJ as Steve Urkel, and Ann as Laura, and TJ thinking " I am wearing you down"
ReneTray over 12 years ago
He’s “yanking her chain.” She’s going “to turn on him.”
JerryTheK over 12 years ago
Double Dumb Double Stupid
JerryTheK over 12 years ago
He’s missing
da11a5 over 12 years ago
upsetting Hot bosses, under your control is HOT…..although i wouldn’t know…..i’m not human =[
Sleuth over 12 years ago
This is playing like a Rom-Com. So when do think the wedding will be?
dunner99rok over 12 years ago
@ ReneTray: She can’t afford to, literally. While he’s making her numbers look good now, the moment TJ leaves her sales would plummet and the Area and District Managers will notice. Depending upon how big the drop is, she could possibly lose her job. So TJ’s got her by the short hairs; Ann’s in a no-win situation and TJ knows it.
Mordock999 over 12 years ago
See? SEE???
THIS Broad’s a FAKE!!!
The REEEEEEEAL ‘Ann’ would have FIRED Jill for bein’ SICK!!!!
Hey, Kid?
I’d wouldn’t EAT that ‘DOUBLE-Wowie’ if I WERE You!
You’d probably be WOLFING down the moral remains of the Late Ann Effiel!!!
Troglodyte over 12 years ago
Seems Ann Eiffel is a major turn-on for most of the (male) people here. No wonder – I was laways told “Good girls are good, but bad girls are better!”. Case in point.
ZacBSM over 12 years ago
I am getting really tired of the guys sprouting all those sex innuendos about Ann and TJ. This is not about sex. Sheesh. Ann is drawn to look attractive, but I really wish Greg would lengthen her skirt so the guys would not howl and whistle at her. Some men on this forum appear to have one-track mind about females.
lilrabbit over 12 years ago
Must be nice to live in comic land where freedom of contract really means equal bargaining power between labor and capital. In the real world, it means freedom to take whatever crap the boss offers….Or starve. Because some poor peasant in China will risk conditions that make the Triangle Shirtwaist Company look like a model factory and do so for 50 cents a day.
lilrabbit over 12 years ago
Zac, there are a bunch of new clowns here who have leaked out of the woodwork. They appear to live for the sole purpose of seeing their words appear on this bulletain board. But I wouldn’t take very seriously anyone who is sexually excited by a character in a comic strip.
My experience is that the most intelligent posters here don’t show up until normal daylight hours, but unfortunately, their posts are generally buried by the weirdos who like to stay up past midnight so they can be “FIRST!” on the LuAnn comic strip board. It is sad that GoComics decided to put the first comments on top rather than the latest ones, or the “most recommended” ones, but the result is that it really isn’t worth while to try to write an intelligent comment about the comic strip. Frankly I don’t know why I am wasting my time on it right now.
Sisyphos over 12 years ago
Ann’s slow burn continues. So far, so good, TJ. But my warning remains the same: beware! She will strike back at the opportune moment!
Tinyman over 12 years ago
@Adako200:Na i wont even suggest that TJ even has sex with her. Looks like she might have rabies or something. I love the way she is being controled like this even all this is made up.
kenwarnerfordictator over 12 years ago
this is going too well for TJ for too long. I smell a plot twist coming. In the meantime, I like Gregs answer to " the Taming of the Shrew"!
chazandru over 12 years ago
TJ never needed this job. He felt partially responsible for Brad being fired resulting in one of the very few cartoons where TJ’s smile was upside down. I submit TJ detests guilt & chose to get back at this abusive boss his way. We know he doesn’t intend to retire as a WW worker, so…as Richard Dreyfuss yelled in “American Grafitti”….“Stand By For Justice.”
bird3678 Premium Member over 12 years ago
Guys, I’d like to share something with you from the world of sales, which I was in for about a year. I know wherof I speak.I worked in an office selling home pest control services. We had Shannon, who repeatedly broke sales records for the entire company. We were supposed to be in the office noon to eight every day. Those were our hours. But if you made 4 sales, you could go home early. Shannon would come in around 2pm, HUNG OVER, then suddenly switch it on, pick up the phone, make 6 sales or so in a couple of hours, and then go home. Our manager went to a sales conference in Vegas for a week. For that entire week, Shannon No-called and No-Showed. Yes, for the entire week.When the manager returned from his trip, she also did about a day later (no, there wasn’t anything going on between them). Immediately when she came back, he yanked her into his office, yelled at her for about an hour, then…PUT HER RIGHT BACK TO WORK! If ANYONE else in that office had pulled the stunt she had, there was NO way she would’ve had a job to come back to.Do you know why she got away with all this: coming in whenever she felt like it, leaving early, doing a no-call no-show for a week? BECAUSE OF HER SALES!!! BECAUSE OF HER NUMBERS!!! I used to joke that if she brought a gun to the office and took a shot at our General Manager, she’d probably get away with it as long as she just winged him. Why BECAUSE OF THE MONEY SHE WAS BRINGING IN TO THE OFFICE!!!Yes, it’s exaggerated a bit. I don’t see her literally bowing anywhere. But it’s not exaggerated as some of you think. Keith
bikenboatn over 12 years ago
Yup. Money talks. Everything else is just chewed-up grass.
bagbalm over 12 years ago
Bosses are not rational. I was the only machinist in a shop of 20 who could do a complex job that brought in 1/3 of the business income. One day the boss gathered everyone and asked what could be done to improve income. I told him three simple actions, but it wasn’t what he wanted to hear. He fired me and the business went under. He ended up in a mental hospital for a few months. He couldn’t fire the bank when they didn’t say what he wanted.
dieseldude over 12 years ago
that’s my boy t.j. you have to love him , and everbody wishes they could be like him.
reedkomicks Premium Member over 12 years ago
For all of the commentators who think hot sex is coming, I think you are wrong. I don’t think there is any chemistry
Mitchtheone over 12 years ago
ROFLMAO Now this funny…
JoeStoppinghem Premium Member over 12 years ago
Great to see Ms get the crap she’s been giving to everyone else.Port it on TJ and don’t let up.I wonder it she can get in trouble with corp if they see her treating him special like this. Could there be a dismissal in her future?
DoctorBeach over 12 years ago
I’m loving this! Monday’s was the best! For those who keep on writing that Luann is not based on reality, what part of “comic” strip do you not understand????
rocketscientist over 12 years ago
Wow, this is just light Dave and Maddie on Moonlighting.
sunshinesdaddy over 12 years ago
This is Luann, right? Has she shown up in the last 2 weeks? Ok maybe twice.
ArtCreator over 12 years ago
Don’t even think about that.
ACTIVIST1234 over 12 years ago
She’s fuming and she’s smart. I can’t wait to see what plans she’s making!As for me, the Teenie Weenie special is just fine. “The small ones are sweeter.”
Alabama Al over 12 years ago
I strongly doubt Ann could authorize TJ double-time pay even if she wanted to. If WeenieWorld is suppose to be like any other multi-unit franchise corporation it would have very strict regulations on who got paid how much for what.`This storyline is moving more and more out of the realm of reality. I wouldn’t be too surprised to learn by Saturday it was all just a dream of either Brad’s or TJ’s.
monawarner over 12 years ago
Okay. Now I’ll comment on the strip. I think there is definitely chemistry between these two. Anne is fighting it and TJ is laughing at it. I won’t speculate as to how Mr. Evans plans to continue or end this arc.
WillG over 12 years ago
Wow and I thought it was harsh at my JoB hats off for keeping it together
Chuck373 over 12 years ago
I still believe that Brad is going to come home one evening and find TJ and Ann together on the couch.
LiviaBay over 12 years ago
She’s going to screw him over…big sales or not, she lives for being a tyrant.
WaitingMan over 12 years ago
Compared to this drivel, the Gunther storyline is Plato’s “Republic”.
imbaldeagle over 12 years ago
No subs available? That’s strange. I didn’t think you’d put up with virtual blackmail, Ann.
doublestop over 12 years ago
Am I the only one who thinks of Regina from “Once Upon a Time” when I see Ann?
doverdan over 12 years ago
Time for the regional manager to show up, with an award for Ann. .T J may let her get it, thus tighten his control over her.
tbritt99 over 12 years ago
It’s a love-hate relationship
Dr Sheriff MB esq PhD DML over 12 years ago
Yo Mojito Man…!!! Thanks for cleaning up those sour grapes on table #3… (what a noob..)
I’m sure AE will give you a big raise…!!!!BTW, love reading your posts… keep it up..!
terrycox51550 over 12 years ago
He wasn’t as overbearing as yesterday. If I was thinking of “double” I probably would have said, “Uh, sure.” But if I wasn’t then I would have said, “Uh, nah, I’ll have . . ..” Anyway the point is the punch line and the arc being played out at the moment. Keeps me hanging on to see what will happen. It hasn’t been [b]real[/b] funny yet but there may be a good one on the way. :)
terrycox51550 over 12 years ago
Hmmmmm, my bold tag code didn’t work. Maybe html code works.
terrycox51550 over 12 years ago
Yup
kenhense over 12 years ago
Can’t remember if Ann knows TJ is Brad’s friend. If not – she may see him outside talking to Brad – and figure it all out. When that happens – Ann calls TJ into her office – and gives him a kiss. Is it love? Truce? TJ looks surprised. What next?
Busy_Bee over 12 years ago
I think I was once a TJ (without an Ann double). The pizza joint fired me and immediately lost 40% of their business. They came crawling back – Ann style.
mrsullenbeauty over 12 years ago
Well said!
Doctor11 over 12 years ago
TJ: 10 Eiffle: 0
reedkomicks Premium Member over 12 years ago
agree. this isn’t Sam and Diane from Cheers.LOL
Airman over 12 years ago
Mojito…always enjoy your input, even when I don’t enjoy the storyline, but last night my server went out and I was forced out of our little exchange. I would still rock TJ’s jaw, and let Crystal deal with Ann. Cheers.
dfowensby over 12 years ago
this is gonna get good. unless i miss my guess, in about 3 weeks of this theme, tj is gonna be manager, and ann will be his sex slave. ok, well maybe not that extreme. tj may only be running it by “proxy”, more so than he is now….but ann? oooh, yeesssss.
Pickles 5202 over 12 years ago
Go TJ !!!!!!
BillWa over 12 years ago
I have a feeling that Eiffel’s short skirt is one of TJ’s requirements.
coldsooner over 12 years ago
Talk about waggin’ the dog…
mojitobaby over 12 years ago
“Ceci n’est pas une pipe.”
ZacBSM over 12 years ago
Hate to break this to you….but Ann is just a cartoon.
ZacBSM over 12 years ago
When did Ann meet TJ? I don’t think she ever met him before his coming in to apply for the job. Back when she was Bernice’s boss at Borderline, TJ did not come into the store. When Brad worked at WW, he didn’t come into the store either. Just Toni and Luann. TJ knew what was happening because he heard it all from Brad at home. He breezed in there to tell her that Brad got his firefighter job back – to rub that in her face. Then he told her he was applying for his job. She even asked “Who are you?” in her office at WW. They never met before that day.
mojitobaby over 12 years ago
Alors, je pense que vous ne connaissez pas Magritte.
mojitobaby over 12 years ago
Actually, it’s not clear that Ann knows what their relationship is – TJ just told her “Brad DeGroot got his firefighter job back”, and she didn’t know who he was. He immediately applied for Brad’s old job, so his giving her that info didn;t come across as rubbing her nose in anything. http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2011/12/03 .Quite frankly, I can’t see why that’d be an issue, since Ann makes a point of retaining control in the face of a challenge – she would have hired TJ anyway just to prove Brad was nothing to her, and if she found out now, she’d still be in the same spot – unable to fire him because her sales would slump.
mechaman over 12 years ago
Oh, this is TOO good. I laughed out loud until i cried. The late Bernie Mac used to throw a line in his stand up and then TV show where he said that someone who had irritated him ‘made his butt itch’. Ann’s rear end must be on FIRE by now!!
kaystari Premium Member over 12 years ago
I’ve never liked TJ more….or ever for that matter, cept for now,