She was a plain girl in middle school. Quill didn’t date a plain girl, and Jack the jock didn’t get interested in a plain girl. She doesn’t dress as if she’s going out on a date around the house or at the day care, but she’s drawn as a pretty girl with thick blond hair, height and weight proportionate and a nice smile.
It’s just gentle humor about the gap between what we imagine and what can really happen. If that was a Regency romance, Lily probably lives in England, where summers are (or were) not as hot as in some parts of the U.S. People who don’t like Bernice will always say that she looks bad or is bad, no matter what she does. She put on a cute, picnic appropriate outfit. Luann’s makeup will probably melt. It’s nice to see them doing something fun and different together. And it’s creepy when commenters slaver over the drawn body and features of a cartoon 19-teen-year-old who still lives with her parents and best friend from elementary school.
Bernice looks as if she’s actually going on a picnic in the park. Luann — more like going to the club. But it’s nice to see them having fun together…hope the park is not somehow a disaster.
Do we know if either Luann or Bernice is working? Not that they shouldn’t have days off, but most college students have summer jobs, whether they’re paying for expenses or internships for experience.
A gift at the end of the stay would be a nice thing to do. But presenting Jonah with an invoice itemizing every bite of food Shannon ate, an estimate of what she adds to the water bill and breakage/damage costs would be outrageously cheap and mean. It’s not as if they’d be selling the time they spend on her to anyone else. They’re not destitute and don’t need the money. This is Toni’s brother she’s helping; Brad is doing it because she’s his wife, and he doesn’t seem to mind Shannon’s antics as much as most people.
Or he does well, he and Shannon move to be closer to his work, she settles down with more stability, and they have a happy life, occasionally visiting Aunt Toni.
Cats would be infinitely preferable to some of the people who comment here — especially those who express unhinged hatred of a cartoon teenage girl.