YES YES YES YES YES YES
Mary Worth, 10/29/06
TOMMY’S COMING BACK! TOMMY’S COMING BACK! TOMMY’S COMING BACK!
Oh, let’s bask in the anticipatory Tommyness, shall we?
As noted, if you’re not already familiar with the gospel of Tommy, now’s the time to get ready for the hijinks. Start here and work your way forward chronologically.
Anyway, based on the sub-Crossing Over with John Edward chicanery on display here, I’m going to guess that Ella is not actually a psychic, but is a one of Tommy’s friends from the joint in drag, pulling some kind of scam over on dear old mom. It’s all going to end in tears and recriminations and basement meth lab explosions. I’m a very happy man.
Family Circus, 10/29/06
The sequence of dialog is important here. “If people see you they’ll know who we are!” “And we’ll miss out on any extra candy!” So, you give more candy to total strangers than to kids that you know? There’s only one possible explanation: Their neighbors hate them as much as we do.
Judge Parker, 10/29/06
Raju: Scholar. International traveller. Wrestling nutritionist. Renaissance man. Cockblocker.
Cockblocker
October 29th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Wait, how is he a cockblocker?
Oh, and FIRST
Colonial
October 29th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
Nice to see The Unknown Comic agreeing to step in and take the Keane spores trick-or-treating.
Joe
October 29th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Damn, I thought I was gonna be the first to make an Unknown Comic reference.
Doug Puthoff
October 29th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
MW–WTF?? Karen Moy didn’t kill Tommy? That’s a violation of Rule 53.105(c) of the Official Rules of Comics:”No Interesting character in a soap opera comic my live more than six months.” I’m telling Commissioner Ian “Bud” Cameron about this!
reader-who-posts
October 29th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
I assume Ella moved in to Aldo’s place? Obviously she found out through her psychic powers that Aldo was going to die, and instead of warning him she waited for him to die so that she could get his place. She’ll fit in well with the rest of these sociopaths.
Doug Puthoff
October 29th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
#2 and #3: I thought it was a ________(fill in the blank with the name of any of this season’s sucky NFL teams) reference.
Doug Puthoff
October 29th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
Hey everbody, am I the first to realize Tommy looks like Keanu Reeves? Probably not.
Amber
October 29th, 2006 at 9:37 pm
Re: MW- I’m excited for the newest old biddie to be an actual psychic. The psychic’s arrival just might be the timeliest event ever to occur in Mary Worth.
Imagine the vibes that have to be coming off of the Interventionist gang! Oh man! Maybe she’ll be a medium, and ALDO CAN TALK TO US THROUGH HER!
Also, when I read Family Circus in the paper today, I thought the same thing Josh did, that no one likes the children. And then I realized I’ve become a Curmudgeon myself, and my good friend Johnny Walker and I had ourselves quite a cry.
Doug Puthoff
October 29th, 2006 at 9:37 pm
#5 (reader) I thought Aldo’s brother sublet the place to Stalker dude.
Harry Paratestes
October 29th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
MW: I’m a little disturbed that Ella, Tommy and Iris all have approximately the same hairdo.
Amber
October 29th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
Er, I meant “The psychic’s arrival just might be the timeliest event ever to occur in Mary Worth” because it’s almost Halloween.
Harry Paratestes
October 29th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
All of us should fear Ella: she knows that we’re secretly thinking of her gray beaver.
dramashoes
October 29th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
When I read Family Circus the first thing I thought was that these monstrous demon larvae have finally made their father such a laughingstock that he must hide his face to avoid being tarred and feathered. Also I figure Tommy has a shaved head and is covered in Aryan Brotherhood tattoos by now, but that’s probably a pipe dream.
Cornwhacker
October 29th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
#1: Because Raju’s heading back to Spencer Farms right now, and will likely interrupt Sam & Abbey’s intimate moment. Although I’m not sure the term “cockblocker” is accurate, as it appears she’s more into it than he is.
Oh dear, I just realized how much your screenname looks like mine.
Josh
October 29th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
#1 — Raju and co. are about to be dropped off back at the Drivers’ palatial estate, where Sam and Abbey are about to get it on because they think they have the place to themselves. Try to keep up.
Also, please don’t post “First post” just to post “First post.” I will purge you, I swear.
Josh
Lisa
October 29th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
LOL. The first thing I thought this morning when I read MW is that Josh will probably be squealing in delight over his breakfast over the return of Tommy.
Doug Puthoff
October 29th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
Comment on the comment of the Week:
Wrong, Splinky! In a perfect world. Aldo would’ve raped, shot, and killed Mary; and the jury would’ve called it “jusifiable homicide.”
P.S.: Guess who’s peed at losing the COTW contest again.
Cornwhacker
October 29th, 2006 at 9:51 pm
#15 -Jinx! You owe me a coke
Doug Puthoff
October 29th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
10-29 RMMD: The juxaposition of Slut Queen and Niki’s story with Mrs. RMMD’s peeohed at having to wait in line at the DMV is pathetic.
Fox Trot–Scariest. Strip. Ever.
Doug Puthoff
October 29th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
8 (Amber)–Thank you, for giving me hope that Aldo may still be out there–if not in body, then in mind.
Doug Puthoff
October 29th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
“Cornblocker” and “Cornwhacker”–I haven’t seen this corn since “Hee Haw” got cancelled.
JonboyDC
October 29th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
Raju may be a cockblocker, but I think he’s on the way to getting some college wrestler loving. He is staying in the guesthouse, right?
Cornwhacker
October 29th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
Good point, Jonboy. Raju has always stated that he has never had a girlfriend. He’s never mentioned anything about boyfriends.
And Doug, there’s still only one Corn here. The other one’s a Cock.
“Colonblocker” would be a good name for someone, too.
Dasmarius
October 29th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
Anyone else notice how closely that car is following them in JP? With its high beams on, no less? I’d imagine its filled with fat pasty white guys desperate to see some man-on-Raju wrestling action. Or just some normal jerkwad tailgating. Whichever!
andreavis
October 29th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Full Boat Bobby’s next question should be: “Raju? Do you like gladiator movies?” Bobby’s taking waaaay to much interest in Raju’s life here…
MonkeyHawk
October 29th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
Thanks, Josh for the link to Tommy’s back-story. I was afraid it would connect me to day-by-day MWs from long ago, but was pleasantly rewarded with your careful archiving of Curmudgeon-ness.
How quaint that a mere two years ago, your posts usually prompted only 7 or 8 comments compared to todays 100+ daily average. Congratulations on your contribution to time-wasting! This isn’t just a web site, it’s a (non-enema-horn-induced) movement!
Doug Puthoff
October 29th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
23–oops, trying to catch up with all these post makes my eyes glaze over sometimes.
Comic Slash Fiction Artist
October 29th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Late at night, Mary Worth left Charterstone and walked in the rain to Also’s grave. As she stood there, she began to cry while looking at his grave.
Suddenly, she was comforted by Toby, who hugged her close and then whispered, “I want you, Mary.”
Mary shoved her tongue down Mary’s throat, shoving her fingers down the front of Toby’s pants as Toby ripped off her shirt in kind.
Suddenly, they both heard a rumbling. Aldo was climbing out of his grave! He lumbered out of the grave and began to laugh maniacally and lumbered toward Toby.
Aldo immediately extended his new zombie arms and crushed Toby’s head into a little peanut. He then used his new laser eyes to vaporize her body.
He turned to Mary.
“Now… you’re mine!”
Mary replied, “I am so happy you finally got rid of that bitch, Toby. I’m going to fuck you raw.”
Also Kerast dropped his pants and began to thrust inside of Mary Worth. As he pulled out to spew his seed all over Mary’s chest, she pulled a knife out of her magic pouch and lopped off Aldo’s cock.
“That’s what you get for trusting me!” Mary said as she pulled out a magic laser zombie gun and vaporized Also for good.
THE END.
treedweller
October 29th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
Huh, I thought I was keeping up, but I assumed the cock getting blocked was Mohawk Boy’s. Look at him in the first panel. He’s staring morosely out the window, thinking how if this dothead wasn’t such a hopeless nerd there would only be two in the car, and he could be tongue wrestling with his good buddy in the front seat right now.
Cheer up, Mohawk Boy. Frenching and driving don’t mix, anyway.
Mr. Barkie
October 29th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
So Raju “did a study for the Indian Olympic Team on nutrition.” Excuse me, but I call bullshit on that. It’s exactly the sort of plausible lie this pathological Brainiac nerd would concoct. I mean. how incredibly bored would you have to be to ask for details. Oh, wait, never mind…..I see that question has been answered.
Mr. Barkie
October 29th, 2006 at 10:54 pm
Furthermore, I think Daddy Keane should keep wearing the bag. In fact, everyone in that creepy family should adopt the baghead look. Even Barfy or whatever they call their rat dog.
Len
October 29th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
That Elrod! Everything you’d ever want to know about spiders has been presented in Sunday’s Mark Trail Nature Exposition… Except, what about the bites of radioactive spiders giving young men the power to stick to walls and ceilings by thier keesters?
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20061029&name=Mark_Trail
Len
October 29th, 2006 at 11:07 pm
#22 — No cockblocker, our Raju! I’m convinced he’ll service Bobby manfully in the sack (“Let’s wrassle! Loser takes bottom!”), then surprise Abbey and Sam and become the spicy “filling” in their love sandwich (“I see it’s true what they say about men with big noses, Raju!”). India is the land of the Kama Sutra, after all. Stock up on Zinc supplements, Raju, and teach those pallid Westerners how to indulge in some sweet lingam worship.
But Moron in a Mohawk better keep his mitts off li’l Sophie.
Poteet
October 29th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
MW — Thanks for the Tommy review. I still say he’s too robust for a tweaker, but his thought patterns run along the right lines, and with some luck and an unobservant parole officer, he’ll soon be shedding pounds, trying to scratch the bugs out of his face, and cowering behind his mother’s sofa fending off the demons with a big sharp knife.
Ryan
October 29th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
I wonder what will trauimatize Sophie more. Walking in on Abbey and Sam or seeing Abbey invite Raju to join in?.
Uncle Lumpy
October 29th, 2006 at 11:17 pm
#32 Len -
More information about spiders may be found on the spinneret.
Islamorada Girl
October 29th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
If Ella is so psychic, why doesn’t she forsee the impending stupid storyline and run screaming from Chatterstone into the night?
flippyshark
October 29th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Not especially relevant, but I was really hoping Josh would say something about today’s (Sunday) FBOFW. I have never hated an installment of that strip more than this horrifying coconut-brassiered entry. When the punchline is John Patterson’s chafed man-boobs, I’m tuning out. Thanks for letting me cry on your collective shoulder for a moment.
Mudman
October 29th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
No wonder the neighbors are withholding candy…how many years have these kids been milking the streets of FamilyCircusville? Speaking of dry teats just how long has Family Circus been around?
Derelict
October 29th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
Frankly. I’m amazed that Josh did not point out the striking resemblance between Ellie’s Halloween costume and Granthony’s everyday appearance.
I’m equally disturbed that FBOW did not have a Halloween storyline featuring Liz locked in Granthony’s little playhouse in the basement. Or, perhaps more horrifying yet, a scene of the two of them waking up together. YIKES!
Heckler123
October 29th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
#36 – Uncle Lumpy, I want to have your babies.
MacGyver
October 29th, 2006 at 11:48 pm
daddy keane is totally wearing chucks.
anon
October 29th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
I am simply astonished. I followed the old links back on the MW articles. Only 2-6 comments a post?!
Wow, things sure have changed around here…
Uncle Lumpy
October 30th, 2006 at 12:07 am
#41 Heckler123 -
They’re on the way – UPS tracking number is 1ZR3A3721968243553.
Josh
October 30th, 2006 at 12:08 am
In response to the several people who have pointed out how few comments those old posts have — while the number of comments per post has increased markedly since then, in the interest of strict accuracy I need to mention that everything before about October of 2004 was originally posted on the Blogger site where this blog was born, then moved over to the current site by hand; the comments were lost in the process. I still think there really weren’t ever more than 10 or so comments per post back then though.
Josh
Bobdog
October 30th, 2006 at 12:22 am
Apparently Ella’s psychis powers are at their strongest when she’s holding a tea-cup over your crotch, or at least that’s what I’m inferring from the pen-ultimate panel.
Bombcar
October 30th, 2006 at 12:56 am
I’m more frightened by the eyes that guy in the back seat is making at, what, a 12 year old?
blessened
October 30th, 2006 at 1:36 am
I first saw mention of cc in newsweek. I don’t know if that accounts for some of the increase.(in comments) I’ve always read all the comics in the newspaper. Thanx to Josh now I know why.
Kyle G
October 30th, 2006 at 2:17 am
Anyone else wondering why the Keane family is going trick-or-treating two days before Halloween?
My guess is Bil Keane thought up this joke and was so gosh darn excited that he couldn’t bear to wait until Tuesday or – God forbid! – not use it at all due to daily comic syndication restrictions that he just had to use it right away. Well, after he changed his pants, of course.
Johan
October 30th, 2006 at 2:20 am
To 45. Josh:
There weren’t, I’ve been lurking around here since it was only about 6 months old, and there never were that many comments back then.
Nowadays I rarely bother to make a comment, because there’s so many that it just gets lost in the sea.
Robert Whitaker Sirignano
October 30th, 2006 at 4:27 am
in reference to #49: you mean Big Daddy Keane changed his Depends, right?
Imagine Mamma going out with the kids, dressed as a Hooker. Anything to show off that hour glass figure after pumping out those cracker retards.
Actaully, the strip is probably being done with Keane’s son, who was so eager with his former career at Disney. He helped on TREASURE PLANET, and we know how that bomb sank.
deeeeeeeeelightful
October 30th, 2006 at 5:08 am
I’m beggining to think that the world of Mary Worth is some sort of purgatory for gossipy old biddies and hell for all the aldo kelrasters who kept stalking jesus upstairs, or the pound where they stash all of the irritating grandmas who got left outside of real nursing homes. I mean, outside of miami, you never saw so many jogging sweatpants in one setting!
maidhc
October 30th, 2006 at 5:44 am
The Pattersons come and go to the Hallowe’en party in a taxi. I’m pretty sure that they actually own a car. So they must have gone out with the intention of getting so snockered that they exceed the legal limit and hence would not be legally able to drive.
I’m glad they’re not emulating Aldo, but it doesn’t set a good example for April, does it?
And just why is it more painful to glue real cocoanuts to your chest than plastic cocoanuts? I must admit the whole concept of the joke has eluded me.
Pinback65
October 30th, 2006 at 6:04 am
51, I hate to sound like a total geek, but the Keanespawn who worked (and still works) at Disney is Glen Keane. Jeff is the one who has taken over Papa’s strip. Glen is generally considered to be one of the finest animators who has ever lived, and he’s an awesomely talented draftsman. Perhaps he was adopted.
Grundoon
October 30th, 2006 at 8:32 am
This just in! The top story on the local news in Watch Your Head is on Black Licorice Danger – and the screen crawler helpfully informs us that “More information on licorice may be found on the internet.”
Opus
October 30th, 2006 at 8:36 am
Things I want to know about Judge Parker:
1. Where was Abby’s right hand before she put it on Sam’s face?
2. What is the big lunk in the back seat staring at?
No. Stop. Ew. I don’t want to know any of those things. Nor, HarryParatestes, do I want anything about Ella’s “grey beaver” in my head. Gah.
Opus
October 30th, 2006 at 8:55 am
Attention: I will worship forever anyone here with the Flash skills to take this and turn it into “The Biddie Song.”
Here’s a biddie
There’s a biddie
and another condo biddie
Nagging Biddie
Psychic Biddie
Biddie Biddie luck!
Biddie Biddie
Mary Biddie
Aldo, Tommy, DocJeff Biddie
Biddie, Biddie, Mary Biddie
Biddie, Biddie – f**k!
Hysterical Woman
October 30th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Family Circus: And when the neighbors see Bil hiding behind the tree watching the children with his vacant expression, they’ll call the cops! Perfect!
andreavis
October 30th, 2006 at 9:19 am
#53– well, the coconuts were tied on, so I don’t think it was a glue issue. Also, real coconuts have sharp edges, and a fuzzy covering, which I’d have thought would have made them uncomfortable to wear from the get-go. But no, Dr. Patterson must have been so liquored up before the party, that he didn’t notice his tender man-boobs were a-chaffin’ until it was too late. So the only joke appears to be on us poor saps who read this crap.
Dennis Jimenez
October 30th, 2006 at 9:24 am
10.30.2006
A3G – Rare swooping head bobble – 7.8 – damn those East German judges.
MT – What the…. Come on and say it Mark – F***!
MW – Good news – I’m gonna be rich – Amway!
Pluggers – Is the wit half full or half empty?
Len
October 30th, 2006 at 9:30 am
Re: Poppa Patterson’s man-boobs… The moral of the story is, sandpaper smooth the rough edges of your coconuts before tying them onto your sensitive pectorals!
(Cute pairing of Elly as an “ugly American” tourist, and Dr. P. as an exotic grass-skirted Island maiden. And Monday’s Monty pairs the sardonic non-girlfriend as a cat with Montague’s scratching post.)
The kids don’t Trick or Treat much in my apartment building. Sometimes an un-costumed adult will indeed accompany the tykes. Wonder if any will wear a paper bag over their heads, like the Family Circus daddy. (This is a no brainer to chose paper over plastic here, yes?)
xopher.tm
October 30th, 2006 at 9:36 am
Is it just me, or do those damn kids dress up in the same costumes every freakin’ year?
Len
October 30th, 2006 at 9:36 am
I really liked Ink Pen’s Sunday “Trick or Treat” special. Like cross-overs from Dilbert, Nancy and Sluggo, Charlie Brown, and Mickey, all in one panel.
http://www.gocomics.com/inkpen/2006/10/29/
Ohyes
October 30th, 2006 at 9:37 am
53 & 59 – yes, I think Dr. Patterson failed to tape or otherwise smooth the rough edges of a cut coconut, before binding them to his chest. For a physician, that seems thoughtless. He must have been really drunk not to notice the chafing and cutting throughout the evening.
Truth is, Lynn chose to provide a “Hollywood Code ending,” showing the bad ends to which frivolity and cross-dressing inevitably lead.
Concerned Citizen
October 30th, 2006 at 9:38 am
Let’s see…an old bat channeling for Aldo enjoying a psychic link with Tommy. We can see the degree of expertice the Charterstone 4 have with interventions: How are they with exorcisms? I am gleefully anticipating oddly colored projectile vomiting, blasphemous hijinx, and many head spinnings.
Stay tuned for The Wrath of Aldo.
Concerned Citizen
October 30th, 2006 at 9:39 am
And to top it off, Ella looks like Gandhi (Mohandas, not Indira) with an ugly gray wig.
ISBN
October 30th, 2006 at 10:06 am
STOP THE PRESS!!! What is the world coming to??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061028/ap_on_fe_st/dennis_the_menace_missing_2
RentedMule
October 30th, 2006 at 10:33 am
JP: I was initially afraid that the definition of “awesome” had changed over the weekend, but I looked it up on the internets this morning and it has not. My new theory is that wrestling has restricted the bloodflow to Bobby’s brain and he has confused the words “awesome” and “bullshit”.
hogenmogen
October 30th, 2006 at 10:38 am
MW: I like the new mind-reading biddy.
“I know what you’ve been doing with that bald man, Iris.”
“Wilbur, I know that you’re wearing your girlfriend’s bra.”
“Mary, I sense that you had feelings for a – I can’t get the name… Load Stalker?”
“Ian and Toeby, I know what you have done. I know what ALL of you have done!”
Archivalist
October 30th, 2006 at 10:39 am
Sunday’s FBOFW — My eyes! MY EYES!
hogenmogen
October 30th, 2006 at 10:41 am
#8 – Amber said “Maybe she’ll be a medium”
Nope. She looks more like a small, especially in the chesty department.
Sorry, that’s an oldie but a goodie.
hogenmogen
October 30th, 2006 at 11:03 am
#49 – Kyle said “Anyone else wondering why the Keane family is going trick-or-treating two days before Halloween?”
I took my kids last night. There are different trick-or-treat days depending on where you live. I don’t know if that is a modern thing or if it is due to the custom of the area. I reminisced that when I was a youngster, we’d anxiously wait to get home from school and then immediately begin running amok around the neighborhood in ever expanding circles until well after dark, risking the ire of the parents in order to scam some more candy from the farthest regions of the planet.
Sunday’s Foob demonstrates exactly why all right-minded folk in North America find it so simultaneously annoying and hopelessly depressing. Here, we see the Pattersons go out, have a good time for a change (with the ugliest people in the world), only to pay in physical pain for their audacity to enjoy themselves once in a while.
hogenmogen
October 30th, 2006 at 11:14 am
And one final word – I love what the new JP artist did in panel 5 with the extreme closeup of Raj. Subtle sideways glance. Does the crinkle in his brow signal concern? Is he asking himself “Is stupid American wrestle-boy actually falling for this bullshit?” Is he wondering why Bobby keeps reaching for the stick shift when he’s driving an automatic?
Christopher
October 30th, 2006 at 11:32 am
Man, my life is a horrible nightmare of backpain and menial labor.
I know what’ll cheer me up:
Mallard Fillmore!
That’s pretty good. I decided to go as a bitter, burned-out cartoonist who long ago sold his soul for the privelage of being a cog in the Republican message machine, and takes out his sublimated self-loathing on his comic strip, refusing to spend more then a few minutes a day pasting Republican talking points onto pictures of a Duck, because each minute he spends on that blasphemous cartoon reminds him of his days as a callow youth, when he was flush with creativity and a sense that he could change the world.
Anyway, I don’t entirely disagree with Tinsley about the whole New York fat ban thing, but I do have two complaints:
A: Sloppy sourcing. Can’t you be more specific then PBS.org? By the time I got there whatever story he was referring to was off the front page, and I just don’t feel like looking for it.
B: The wording is slightly misleading. The New York ban has to do not with fatty foods in general, but with trans fats. While these occur in small amounts in nature, my understanding is that the New York ban accounts for this; it does allow for small amounts of trans fats.
No, what the ban is meant to address is partially hydrogenated oils, used in products like Crisco or Margerine, and widely used to make deep fried foods.
So, it would be just as accurate (By which I mean, technically accurate while still being slightly misleading) to say that New York is considering banning an artificial food additive that has been linked to thousands of deaths each year.
Phrased that way it doesn’t sound quite as ridiculous.
I’m not even going to address the the sunday strip, in which he essentially calls the police a bunch of fat sacks of shit.
It’s the weirdest Fillmore I’ve seen in a long time.
Christopher
October 30th, 2006 at 11:33 am
Also, didn’t these two college guys in Judge Parker go on to be mutated by the Shredder into Bebop and Rocksteady?
Foobaphobe
October 30th, 2006 at 11:36 am
Ella is the single scariest comic strip character I think I’ve ever seen. I’m going to have nightmares about her for years, after seeing the Sunday strip you’ve posted. While in a fever her face will float above me. She has replaced the hag Iris Richards, would-be murderer of Grampa Jim, as the incarnation of everything that supresses the male member and causes it to shriver.
Dennis Jimenez
October 30th, 2006 at 11:38 am
Re: 75 – I thought they were skiffle cats ala Lonnie Donegan.
Magnolia
October 30th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Calling the police fat and lazy?! Man, Mallard Fillmore’s getting way too edgy for me!
hogenmogen
October 30th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
Ok, Mallard’s Sunday strip is just wrong on so many levels. There should be a law requiring people to work out? That would merit huge critique from the right wing, arguing (correctly) that it is an overreach of the government. It is a law that would garner wrath from people just like Tinsley (and Mallard, by proxy). So why does he suggest it unless he’s A TOTAL MORON?
SmartPeopleOnIce
October 30th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
RMMD: Heh heh. Are there any three words in the English language more cringe-inducing than “Department (of) Motor Vehicles”?
Yes. Yes there are: “blow off cock”.
I saw this stamped on a piece of plumbing gizmology at Home Despot this weekend.
Man, plumbers, huh? In a world of their own…
Reid
October 30th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
Yeah, nice lesson for the kids. You’ll get more candy of it looks like you’re travelling alone, with no adults. You’ll also get to go inside the houses more, and invited down into the basement to see their “puppy.”
http://www.reidaboutit.com
Uncle Lumpy
October 30th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
#80 SPOI -
No, man, it’s Pluggers, with a “g”. In a world of their own.
JohnWadd
October 30th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
FC: my son (who is nearly six) got a chuckle out of the Sunday strip.
What he was probably thinking when he read it:
“Daddy, why didn’t you wear a bag over your head instead of carrying a bottle of Scotch and that steering wheel you found at the dump? I would have scored waaay more candy that way.”
SmartPeopleOnIce
October 30th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
#74/79 (Chris/Hogen) Dudes, you got to let it go. Tinsley is just an insane heifer that has wandered off the herd and is heading for the bluffs. You can’t save him. He’s sold his soul for syndication. Like Limbaugh (nice job there BTW, picking on Michael J. Fox. Holy freaking christmas).
majolo
October 30th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
A3G: Panel 1 may be the most non-angry I’ve ever seen Margo, I didn’t believe it was her at first. I would almost trust her with a sharp knife.
Harold
October 30th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Sunday’s Mallard Fillmore is just an expression of Tinsley’s Norquistian anarchist leanings. The government forces us to wear seatbelts, so let’s take it out on the overweight cops! Screw the government for wanting us to wear seatbelts! No taxes to pay for fat cops!
I suggest that Mallard Fillmore and Tinsley be exempted from seatbelt laws. In fact, that they be prohibited from using seatbelts, ever.
Laura Brown
October 30th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
I demand a “my very own meth lab” T-shirt. If we can reconstruct Finger-Quotin’ Margo, we can reconstruct this!
Da Scrodfather
October 30th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
OOookay, all things MW will be forgiven if just ONCE, “sickic” Ella utters the immortal line, “Mary, Aldo’s spirit wants to tell you why you haven’t heard from Dr. Cory.” Bonus points if the good doctor is actually working with Tweaky Tommy.
Dennis Jimenez
October 30th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Not just any foob can play the beerbongaphonium.
King Folderol
October 30th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
MW – Some varicose veins on Ella’s legs would have been nice. And I also thought that she was going to smack Iris in the face with the tea cup in the last panel, based on that awkward reach she’s doing for her cup.
FC – Why is Jeffy a tiger whose costume is entirely black with no stripes?
JP – This strip has become an emotional rollercoaster for me. I was initially with Josh in worrying that Raju was going to get beat up and praying her wouldn’t. Now I’m hoping that he does.
SmartPeopleOnIce
October 30th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
This probably belongs on the metapost board, but speaking of how much traffic has increased since the old days (#26, #43, #45), I am amazed at how civil this place has remained. Sure, there’s a few grumbles from time to time (like the anti-GF faction, but we’ll straighten them out once we get them to the reeducation camps). But no raging flame wars, name spoofing, etc. Josh, do you ever worry that the blog is a few insufferable pricks (as I think you called them) away from chaos? I mean, jeez, take a look at most public message boards. Yahoo? Yikes, to call that place chaos is an insult to Lyapunov (a liitle math joke for the Foxtrot fans with us today). It’s not even a million monkeys on typewriters; it’s like what you would get if you threw your keyboard down the steps and posted what came out.
And now a Newsweek article, an FAQ, etc. You ever worry about a September that Never Ended happening on CC?
Keith
October 30th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
Jeez, Mary Worth makes me think I got into Tommie’s “Stash” by mistake…all those trippy colors! Hey Mary – don’t harsh my buzz…
Brendan
October 30th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Tommy, you say?
He’s free! He’s free!
Dennis Jimenez
October 30th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
And freedom tastes of reality Oh, wait – where talking about Mary Worth, here.
Anonymous
October 30th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
I know we’re talking about Mary Worth. Tommy’s out of prison. What?
JohnWadd
October 30th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
#95: The Who, not the What.
Mibbitmaker
October 30th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
Above:
MW: Panel 5: While most people’s cups of hot coffee have little whispy steam clouds circling around above them, this biddy’s has “Moy + Giella 10/29″ up there. Those may not be “clouds in your coffee”, but you’re so vain, Moy and Giella!
JP: I don’t have to be a mohawk moron to not ‘get’ all that “awesome” crap. And the close-up of Raju’s eyes… now can they not be going for a gay thing out of the blue? And the last panel with our bombed lovebirds… God, I hope that’s her hand there!!
Concerned Citizen
October 30th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
84 – Great! I was hoping that someone would mention the blustery 3d comic character. Michael J. Fox should be thanking Rush. I would never have heard of these commercials had that obnoxious blowhard not lambasted them. I feel a little sorry for Rush. I’m sure he can’t walk well after shooting himself in the feet for years.
Len
October 30th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Hello. I’m Ella Byrd, your psychic friend. At only 6.95 per minute, I’ll answer all your questions hidden behind the mists of time. Pay no attention to Miss Cleo, hiding behind the curtain.
Mary Worth! Who’s the dashingly handsome spirit who keeps watching you from the Otherworld? He says he likes your hot pink Depends, and finally got a good look at the silver beaver. Are you harboring wildlife in your apartment?
Toeby and Ian, if you open your third ears while preparing for the evening’s connubial bliss, you’ll hear the same spiritual stalker murmuring lovingly, “You’d better not!”
Wilbur, the stalker says you’re lucky there are no cameras in Heaven, or he’d show everyone your chubby thighs.
With news from the Otherworld, I’m Ella Byrd. I see dead people. I see DEAD people!
SmartPeopleOnIce
October 30th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
#99 – Any time I see someone refer to Toby as “Toeby” or Mary as “the Silver Beaver” I just giggle like a school girl.
Probably says something about me.
Good times…
dramashoes
October 30th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
Well, looks like old Bo and Luke Plugger was a-flyin’ off the ground in their good old talkin’ pickup truck! Yep, them good old Plugger boys was too damn stupid to set their watches, but they still wasn’t gone get caught by Boss Rhino Man! ‘Course, they was down to one Plugger boy, on account of Boss Rhino went and ate Luke, but still.
Monkey's Paw
October 30th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
#99 #100 We could have a MW MT crossover where Mark has to protect the elusive silver beaver from poachers.
comix
October 30th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
The “don’t harsh my buzz” comment should be COTW! LOL!
Liz
October 30th, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Here’s a Curmudgeon success story if there ever was one… it’s been ages since I posted anything on this website, just around the time of the Beglar brouhaha. I randomly check the comics on Sunday, see this Mary Worth fiasco, and go, oh I HAVE to see what Josh is saying about this.
Thanks Josh, for taking up those brain cells that were formerly occupied by Sesame Street ditties. :)
Splinky
October 30th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Frankly, unless the Keane clan lives in central Utah, I find it hard to believe that the neighbors won’t piece together their identities based solely on volume. Unless they’re somehow thrown off by the fact that none of the Keane children wears an eyepatch.
MetalBruceAZ
October 30th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
RE: “…one of Tommy’s friends from the joint in drag, pulling some kind of scam over on dear old mom. It’s all going to end in tears and recriminations and basement meth lab explosions.”
Hey, Josh, thanks for “RUINING” it for me, “man.” How about a little Spoiler Alert next time? “Huh?” Or “maybe” I’ll have to get-a-little-meth-lab-of-my-very own on yo’ ass?
Poteet
October 30th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
#91 — SPOI, maybe we shouldn’t talk about that, lest we break the spell(?)
treedweller
October 30th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
I don’t want to be the one who “gets” Patterson, but surely Elly was dressed as Doonesbury’s Duke. I’d like to believe it was Gordon, but I don’t believe that’s what she was going for.
Key Lime Pie
October 31st, 2006 at 1:58 am
Every Sunday I take MW from the Seattle Inteligencer online and install it as the wallpaper for the week for my husband’s computer. The unrehearsed wince that he made this Sunday, after getting a load of the profile of the new psychic bag in panel one, was priceless.
Tonyman
October 31st, 2006 at 3:34 am
I’ll bet two garden snails that are trapped inside an extra-cold refrigerator could get it on faster than Sam and Abbey.
Sam,
You waited too long, when Abbey goes to Paris, some European stud will sniff our her sexual frustration and pounce on her like a lion chasing after a wounded gazelle.
Braniff
October 31st, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Family Circus: In my town, trick-or-treat usually takes place on the night before Halloween (October 30). However, perhaps Daddy is about to violate the court order which was imposed by Mommy when they had that ugly divorce. (I see Mommy smiling–she seems to be glad to get rid of Daddy . . .)
lefthanger
October 31st, 2006 at 3:28 pm
#99 gets my vote for COTW.
Ella Byrd is a very good psychic.At 6.95 per min. she is a bargain as she gave me some very good advice just in time.
She told me i had better go to buy some candy just in case that scary bunch of F.C. was still trick-or-treating tonight in the neborhood. I would have paid her twice as much if i could have just talked to her over the phone.But she has prepaired me for all the witches and gobblims and any thing that comes around tonight.Shes not very easy on the eyes!