If you have to ask…
Mary Worth, 1/14/05
Can I lick your tonsils? Just askin’.
When I was trying to describe to my fiancée Gil Thorp’s fast-paced, breakneck pace (which is ten times more fast-paced and breakneck than the pace of an actual high-school basketball game), she remarked, “It’s like the anti-Mary Worth.” This is, I think, a pretty accurate assessment. In Gil Thorp, gender-equality-supporting pair Steve and Hadley went from awkward introductions to revolutionary power couple in three panels. Anna and Dr. Brian’s lip-locking reunion, meanwhile, has been in the works for nearly ten weeks.
This is as good a time as any to relay an exchange from the Golden Girls sent to me by faithful reader Luna:
Blanche: I love my comics. Every day, Marmaduke and Apartment 3-G.
Dorothy: I haven’t read Apartment 3-G since…1962.
Blanche: Oh, well, let me catch you up! It is later that same day…
Hubris
January 14th, 2005 at 11:48 pm
“Hamh youb hamb a bloob tesb im da past yearm?”
J
January 15th, 2005 at 12:00 am
Now THAT is very funny, Hub’!
Coming (no pun intended) this Sunday: Mary & her squeeze Jeff enter the parking lot from a nearby restaurant. Doing her Kravitzian Neighborhood Watch Thing in the lot, Old Mary espies Anna’s beheeled foot popping out the window of a red sedan. Upon further inspection, she is sure she recognizes–yes, it IS–Brian’s white bum jogging up & down.
Mac
October 8th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
This is years later that I am reading the archives, but I do feel that I have to say this: I have used that line. That is, tell the lady you have one more thing to tell her, then when she turns in for the info, hit her with the kissies. It works around half the time.
Lambnesiac
November 1st, 2006 at 8:23 pm
You have done it more than once. OH.
That may be Golden Girls, but it is funny as hell.