Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 16, 2012

Yeah, sure whatever you say, Annie.

no here is stoopid… if TJ was named Chief and was female we would call her Miss Chief… which is what he’s up too

Maybe this is an episode of “Undercover Boss?”

Ann submits idea as hers, gets disciplined & sacked, TJ takes over.

Do not forget that he is setting her up for failure. That was his promise to Brad. “Your time’s a comin girl.”

I think Greg knows perfectly well what he’s doing. Patience, Grasshopper… with any grace, your eponymous character will be sent down the chute to the garbage bin in relatively short order. :)

I’m with you Alain H., he knows precisely what he’s doing. If he didn’t, the strip would have died years ago. You can’t just concentrate on ONE story arc all the time -he has a number of story lines going -personally, I like the complexity of multiple plots (I mean, such as it is, within the bounds of a comic strip). Feedback from fans is all well and good, but if he doesn’t have a mind of his own, and the force of will to see his own story told as HE sees fit, then he is doomed to being a follower, not the story teller.

Soooooo, WHAT will happen Next?

The Local “Nanny-State” Shutting Wienie World because it sells “unhealthy food” or Local Activists (Led no doubt by Delta) Picketing WW Because it serves “Sexist Food”??

Almost feel sorry for her

TJ is playing her like a vintage violin! She will defiantly pass the “idea” up as hers, and Corporate will come down so hard and fast she won’t know what hit her until two days after she’s been run out of town….

When is little shannon going to meet up with ann again?

of course a woman who is in charge is a total b*tch, and of course she has to be put in her place, right?

“Weenie” to talk this over….

It seems unlikely that Ann would be fired if she just suggested it to corporate. They might say “dumb idea” but being fired just for making the mistake of liking an idea is silly. However if she implements the idea without telling corporate and has bad press due to it I can see corporates reaction being a bit more extreme

Mordock: maybe new meaning to “order up”?

Remember folks, TJ’s only mission at WW is to irritate Ann. He doesn’t need the money.

This story line won’t wrap up until they start dating and then both get fired for an inappropriate romance.

they should hook up & get it over with

Two problems with the “Teeny Bikini Weenie” (of, actually, a myriad):`1. A lot of people (including teens and twentysomethings) actively dislike olives (eewww!!); many wouldn’t buy it because of that.`2. Properly placing the olive top and bottom with the toothpick arms and legs with the face would be too labor intensive. Seemingly simple, but not something the workers can quickly (and mindlessly) slap together. (The same would be true if it was pre made and shipped to the stores.) Also, quickly wrapping it for carryout with those toothpicks sticking out could prove problematic. Just another thing for the hired help to screw up.

Does this wind up w/Ann in a bikini?

Are these two about to start making out?

since TJ always seemed to have money and no job, I figure he is actually the son of the owner of the Weenie World and is working like an Undercover Boss but just on the side. I think Ann is fixing to go DOWN, big time. (and yes, in Texas ((fixing to)) is a word. lol

Ann Eiffel = “an eyeful”

I still think these two are made for each other. I’m still waiting for the day when the strip shows Brad coming home and finding these two on the couch.

TJ should have recorded this conversation, I doubt Ann will give credit where credit’s due.

My five year old will not be eating any Teeny Bikini Weenies!!!!!

TJ better know when to hold ’em and know when to fold ’em.

someone could get hurt with those toothpicks and sue them.

Good for Ann for finally putting her foot down! Maybe now TJ will be fired/quit so we can stop these awful story arcs. Though Ann should never have listened to TJ’s terrible idea. Permanent markets and toothpicks? Seriously? (Wouldn’t unique gourmet toppings make more sense…? Ah, what do I know.) And I have a feeling that Ann asserting herself over an insubordinate and rude employee in panel 3 will be used as further her somehow being a “bully” instead of a manager.

A recent article by a Microsoft researcher outlines why Nigerian scam letters sound so unbelievable: it’s supposedly because they’re reaching for the dumbest of the dumb. Here TJ has plumbed the depths of Ann’s arrogant ignorance, and is manipulating her into adopting a catastrophically offensive marketing strategy. Without informing corporate. And when corporate hears about it, Ann will be out in a place so cold that even Hokkaido in February will seem warm by comparison. Great work, TJ.

You can actually blame “affirmative action”-type policies for that one. []You see, thanks to such programs, there is a lot of unspoken sentiment questioning whether or not someone from a “protected” class made their way to the top based on their skill or based on their being from that protected class. []For example – http://www.economist.com/node/16064321 – . France decided to pass a law mandating a minimum percentage of women serve on the boards of public corporations headquartered within the nation. Thing is, France doesn’t have enough women with the skills, experience, and education that one would expect of a person sitting on a board. Thus, a number of companies have taken to meeting the minimum by drafting the wives, girlfriends, and mistresses of key individuals; the women are nothing more than figureheads, with the men still holding the real power. As such, all France’s law did was encourage crony capitalism. []Or you have the disastrous case of Lt. Kara Hultgreen. Washington wanted female combat pilots in the Navy, but Hultgreen did so poorly in training (multiple safety violations + mediocre test scores) that her instructors refused to certify her for flight. Rather than listen to the instructors, the Navy pushed her on through. She wasn’t ready to fly, and so lost her life through a rookie mistake (F-14 pilots were warned not to make a certain maneuver for fear of engine stalls; she ignored the warning one too many times).[]As you can imagine, a lot of folks who are part of these protected classes feel compelled to “prove” that they worked their way to the top rather than let their status secure them their present berth.

hey, i’m all for TJ taking over and AE getting kicked to the curb

In that nether space between when the alarm goes off and I actually roll out of bed, two things hit me this morning:1) Does TJ actually realize how lame his ideas are? That every one fails, whether it’s for friends or enemies?2) Our product promo has a solution: raise the black-olive halves higher on the hot dog and make them sunglasses. Use a pimento or catsup (with a fine-point squeezer) make a mouth. To replace the olives, make two points of yellow mustard (with a medium-point squeezer) and a yellow triangle below. Sprinkle diced onions on the mustard. Use carrot strips for arms & legs.Thus we both get rid of the horrible toothpick dangers and can sell the “Teeny-weenie yellow polka-dot bikini” dog as a health food! (TJ could sell the idea— at least to AE)

Ooh, TJ is REALLY getting to Eiffel on this one.

I bet they meet in the middle, locking lips over the desk top…

Why hasn’t Ann Eiffel been fired already? Do something, Greg!

I still say that TJ will end up being the owner.

i don’t care what anybody says…Annie’s HOT !!!!!

Actually, on some level, T.J. is starting to get pushy, and a little ‘too big for his britches’. There is a policy for how things are done, and Eiffel’s aware of that. If a corporation’s attorneys say it’s a go, then Eiffel can go ahead with it. But those are toothpicks in the hotdog. (or, weenie) T.J. would be on the hook for a lawsuit filed against the corporation, if he insisted on going ahead with this ‘brilliant-bulb-light’ idea, and someone got hurt. He’s got good ideas most of the time, but then he also nearly destroyed the Degroot’s rental property. :]

Of course Ann’s WW can’t put out a product without corporate approval. So from there it would be a crap shoot. Would anybody at corporate like it? If so – would the public go for it? Crazier things have happened (anybody remember pet rocks?).

I think TJ is setting her up to be fired.

“1. A lot of people (including teens and twentysomethings) actively dislike olives (eewww!!); many wouldn’t buy it because of that.`“2. Properly placing the olive top and bottom with the toothpick arms and legs with the face would be too labor intensive. "-I know olives were discussed but the idea that the bikini was simply drawn on would not require any olives. In fact a sort of branding iron set to scorch the wiener to make the appearance with a slight scorch it wouldn’t hurt the taste appreciably.

As the saying goes, “Even evil has its standards.”[]TJ might be a con artist, but he still puts Brad and everyone else first when it comes to it. []She crossed several lines when she tried to play “cougar” with Brad, and so TJ’s been using his skills to set her up for a major fall. []For starters, look at how TJ’s been able to drive the store numbers up. TJ can never leave the store now, or else she’s going to have to explain why numbers bottomed out in such short order. She knows this, and so she suffers him as long as possible for the sake of her own career. []Additionally, TJ now has blackmail on her: he, like the rest of the characters, know about Anne attempting to coerce someone into falsely signing an affidavit, something for which she could go to jail. If she steps out of line, an anonymous phone call and she’s done.[]Now we have this. Either it’s going to be a flop and TJ will be able to shift the blame on to her, or it’ll be a success and TJ will be able to steal her thunder. If the former, she’s cooked. If the latter, he’s just eclipsed her.

They still are using magic marker on the weenie.

Gosh I hope so. Both are so one dimensional, move on.

Now that we have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous, I still would rather see Ox with his lawyer uncle and rich dad come into play here.

But what parent is gonna buy their kid a “Teeny Weenie Bikini?” It’s supposed to be aimed at teens and young adults.

Now I kind of want Evans to write an arc where TJ does have to go to jail (but just for a short time) and how this affects Brad and the rest of the Degroots… I think it’d be interesting. Evans did used to have arcs on hard-hitting topics like drug use, drunk driving, and abusive partners. Why not give this a shot?

What did I say a few days ago when the whole “corporate wants ideas” panel was posted? She’ll submit it as her own. But it’ll backfire, just like everything she tries does. She’s going against the master there, she’ll lose.

So, is it next week we find out that TJ’s rich family owns the Weenie World corporation and he’s just been messing with Annie’s head all this time?

Priests are scared of sex? Don’t you read the news?

“TJ blackmailing Ann. That is rich. Here is a dude with no morals, standards, decency, integrity, honesty or any other redeeming features and he will blackmail Ann?”-Actually, even though I disagree with your characterization of my buddy, TJ, the kind of person you describe is exactly the kind to attempt blackmail. This usually doesn’t wind up in a court of law because the blackmailee doesn’t want to be in court.