Can I call in a wellness check on a cartoon character
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Mary Worth, 8/31/26
Hey, everyone, here’s a fun fact, if by “fun” you mean guaranteed to deliver the epiphany that oh my god I’m so old, how did I get to be so old: we are mere weeks away from the 20th anniversary of the death of Aldo Kelrast. Can contemporary Mary Worth come up with a storyline that could come close to that magic? Well, today we’re launching a new one, and I’m mildly hopeful, as it introduces two intriguing things: Mary and Ian spending time together socially and, apparently, enjoying themselves in a quite manic fashion; and some anhedonic old lady sitting in her Charterstone kitchen fuming about how nothing is as good as it used to be when she was young and had her whole life ahead of her. Not even putting oat milk on oat-based cereal (or “oatmaxxing,” as the kids call it) can bring her a frission of pleasure anymore! Looking forward to learning how she’s about to make this everybody else’s problem and nip Mary and Ian’s ha ha!ing in the bud.
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/31/26
OK, fine, I guess we’re not going to get to see the scam twins try and fail to pull off a child kidnapping, but at least we’re going to be treated to a Socratic dialogue between Rene and his elaborately coiffed and mustachio’d jail buddy, in which the former attempts to explain how rating on a criminal associate entails turning them in to the authorities, usually in exchange for reducing one’s own looming criminal penalties, and is quite different from activating family networks to dissuade a loved one from a course of action that you don’t believe they’re equipped to handle.
Pluggers, 8/31/26
You could definitely have done a panel with this caption where the plugger is cheerfully strolling ahead with a measured pace, just like many older heavyset adults I see every day do. But we’re in the late Pluggers era, so instead we have to look at this, a “fun” comic in which a plugger is clearly in genuine distress.
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It definitely makes sense to predict that this cereal-filled and hate-filled curmudgeon will nip Mary and Ian’s ha ha-ing in the bud, but this being Mary Worth, I feel like there’s a strong possibility that their ha ha-ing will nip her hating in the bud. It could go either way!
Mary Worth:
“My goodness, Mary! — I’m higher than a kite! I haven’t been this wasted since the ’60s!”
“Ha ha!”
“Breakfast isn’t what it used to be! Food isn’t what it used to be! Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be! Ten years ago the pang of lost things was excruciating, now it is just annoying!”
RMMD:
“By the way, what in you in for, anyway, pal?”
“Sporting a mullet! — it’s a felony here in Glenwood!”
“I don’t get you Belluso. One moment you encourage your nieces to run their cons, the next you turn around to rat them”
“Are you forgetting where we are?”
“We are in prison and you are an unsavoury character?”
“No, we are in Rex Morgan MD and there is no character consistency”
RMMD. In today’s example of comics as cutting edge chroniclers of pop culture trends I see that the RMMD artist has made time to see Joe Dirt a mere (checks Wikipedia) 25 years later.
MW – Of course Nelly isn’t going to get much out of a box of Cheerio. Next time, buy the box with more than one in it, Nelly.
Mary Worth:
“I’d throw out this insipid breakfast food, but that would make me a cereal killer!”
Pluggers: Joe Feline’s body odor is giving away his presence to his prey. It’s time for a tongue bath!
MW Mary and Ian, forced into a car together – despite no carpool obligations – to satisfy the writer’s desperate plotting to have them hear or witness together the start of the next meddle-plot, at least *try* to escape their fate by not using the seatbelts. Ha ha! they laugh – an anniversary drive by Kelrast Kurve and we’ll be free! free of plots so laboriously drawn-out that you need a specific pan exchange excuse to have a character meetup, and changing one seafood entree for another at the denouement counts as excitement!
Mary Worth:
“So I ask Jeff if he can get his leviathan of a boat into the travel lane so that he can dock us before we go to the BumBoat, and he says ‘Yes — but wait a minute. There’s a ketch!’ ”
“Ha ha!”
GA: Look, if you’re so forgetful that you forget the friend you drew realistically in the strip, at least use post-it notes.
MW: The laughter ends just as the tape does. Ian asks Mary if she has another Cheech and Chong cassette.
Pluggers:
Pluggers realize, to their chagrin, that it’s hard to keep one’s balance using one’s arms when one only has four digits on each hand.
MW: Goes out with Jeff, comes back with Ian? You naughty, naughty girl!
DtM: George learns that Martha, in her infinite spite, has signed him up to homeschool Dennis.
H&L: The Flagstons have sprouted small, purple mountains in their back yard. No wonder the weather’s wonky.
MW: This Mary Worth becomes especially amusing if you imagine that Ian and Mary are spying on Nelly through some kind of hidden camera. I mean, they wouldn’t be privy to her inner monologue, but they could clearly see she wasn’t enjoying herself. And that would be enough to bring them pleasure.
RMMD: Hey, Panel Two Rene Belluso, is there some reason you’re not making eye contact with your friend? You know, the one who’s actually talking to you? Is there some other, more interesting inmate you’d rather be talking to across the yard?
Pluggers: This Pluggers represents a new low … for me. I saw that this plugger had coordinated his T-shirt and his sneakers and thought, “God, I wish my life were that together.” So, yeah, I’m now an aspiring plugger.
JP:
Alan, back when Woody Wilson was running the show we could afford to eat here!
Katherine, may I remind you that when Woody Wilson ran the show, we didn’t even have to look at the prices because he always wrote in some plot angle where we got to eat for free.
Mary Worth:
“That big ol’ boat of Jeff’s is compensatory, isn’t it, Mary….”
MW: Gary Larson’s masterpiece, The Far Side, contained a strip that generated outrage upon publication. This comic, Tethercat, featured two dogs smacking a cat which was tied by the tail to a tetherball pole. Musing on the strip’s controversy, Larson gave voice to the idea that would become the Tethercat Principle: that audiences will assume that whatever the last thing a character was seen doing, they will continue to do indefinitely, until shown otherwise. For Farside readers, the tethercat remained forever trapped and battered.
Using the tethercat principle, Dawn is off somewhere crying over Tommy in perpetuity, and so we as the audience are—wait, wait, wait, Mary and Ian are having an off screen affair while our new plot is about some madwoman raving over groceries? I have never been more excited in my life.
RMMD: “You should follow my example and make a list of people that you have wronged and then make restitution to them in an episodic fashion.”
“Earl! That would never work!”
MW I always wondered how the characters in this strip managed their perfectly-timed synchronized laughs, and now we know: hours of practice with Mary. Don’t worry about your busy schedule, she’ll come to you and we can do it in the car.
Pluggers So….that cat is shitting himself, right? Im pretty sure thats what we’re looking at here.
Calling this “the late Pluggers era” is going to look pretty naïve to the Pluggerologists of 2300, when Pluggers is the only form of media that remains legal.
Anyway, it’s my birthday today, and this absolutely bonkers Mary Worth strip feels like a gift to me personally.
There’s an engagement prompt which is “describe your favorite movie in as boring a way as possible.” Today’s Mary Worth narration box is like that, except it really is that boring.
Wrecks Moregone:
Moustache is so stupid that he makes Rene look like a genius, which made me ask myself, is he an undercover agent for law enforcement trying to get prisoners to confess to planned or committed criminal activities?
Then I realised that was far too intelligent story arc for this comic.
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Wary Morth:
What the hell?!? What happened to Mary’s compulsory 2 week victory lap? Are we moving straight on to her illicit affair with Pompous Axx and the two of them laughing at Toby? Please let this story arc involve an affair between Mary and Pompous Axx and a lot of laughing at Toby.
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Flylock Socks:
Cassie will do literally anything to get the red jackal to notice her, won’t she? She might as well just confess her love at this point and get it over with.
MW: The only reason I can think of to have Ian in panel 1 is because the sourpuss in panel 2 bears an incredible resemblance to the ‘School Management’ lady from several storylines ago. I’m guessing she’s going to turn out to be her twin sister or cousin or something.
DT: ‘A possible terror attack would normally be a job for the feds, but if you’ve seen who’s running things over there right now, the MCU is actually the more sober option!’
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Shrinkflation is out of control
MW: Me, contemplating the sad state of my morning muesli now that the Ferrero company has cornered most of the world’s hazelnut market in order to produce Nutella:
MW: It looks like Nelly Feneley is either going to be Mary next target (by being scolded and lectured into reclaiming her joie de vivre) or her new nemesis (by daring to challenge Mary’s rule as the opinionated old biddy of Charterstone). Either way, she’s poised to become the most likeable character in the strip, at least for a time.
RMMD: No, actually ethical boundaries are quite a common thing for criminals, especially fictional ones. Witness the gentleman thief who will not take a life in the course of his heists, the hacker who targets corrupt corporations, the tragic monster who cuts a swath of bloody bodies but is gentle and respectful to the woman he’s attracted to. The only place Rene’s perspective doesn’t make sense is Rex Morgan, where people are either pure good or pure evil and behave accordingly.
MW: I’m getting vibes of a previous arc with a crotchety old woman named Hannah… When was that?
Oh lordy mercy. Hanna Dingdong. 2014. Thank you, AI.
I don’t get you, Belluso. You have no empathy for strangers, but you do for close members of your family? Maybe it’s the several blows to the head I take each day in our ritualistic prison beatings, but it makes no sense!
I swear on a stack of Mary Worths I thought at first Nelly was using Cat Milk — is it milk for a cat, or milk from a cat? — and then my brain switched on and I realized that among all the other indignities of aging, she’s just lactose intolerant. We’ve never had a Mary Worth plot driven by flatulence, but maybe there’s a first time? Fingers crossed…
MW: Are Mary and Ian enjoying themselves? Or has Mary also become infected with the weird toxoplasmosis variant Ian caught from Sunny, and now both must helplessly “HA HA” as they speed off to PET STORE to buy parrots, more parrots, all the parrots!!!
BROKE: Young people cannot buy homes because of fat cats (politicians and billionares)!
WOKE: Young people cannot buy homes because of fat cats (old Plugger NIMBYs)!
Rex Morgan, M.D.
I don’t really have a handle on how big Glenwood is supposed to be—a population around 30,000, maybe? I don’t remember seeing any large buildings of the type you get in even moderately-sized cities, but then I don’t dedicate much memory to the architecture of Rex Morgan, M.D. The point is, it doesn’t seem nearly large enough to need its own eponymous(?) penal facility, yet here we are at “Glenwood Prison”. My best guess is that after the runaway success of Truck Tyler’s hit single “Glenwood Motel”, everywhere in the general vicinity of the town has rebranded in a misguided attempt to rake in that sweet, sweet tourist money.
C’shaft: “…By our standards, anyway.”
DT: I would think anyone who could turn a seemingly ordinary laptop into an IED would have every military and paramilitary organization in the world beating a path to their door, not hacking into Fake Amazon to reroute computer purchases.
HotC: Okay, I’m calling no way. Antonio would not know his daughter’s shoe size off the top of his head, in no small part because a kid’s shoe size changes so fast (especially in early adolescence) that bothering to remember it is a fruitless exercise even for a primary caregiver.
Luann: Give it two weeks, she’ll get bored and decide her new purpose in life is upcycling old t-shirts into shopping bags or something.
MT: That…would explain a lot, actually.
Phantom: Who knew the Python could wax poetic?
SH: “All creatures are sentient and can communicate across species, even the ones that they kill and eat for food” is a situation Safe Havens has never bothered to explore beyond a punchline, and it doesn’t look like that’s going to change anytime soon.
What do Mary and Ian laugh about? I guess the fact that Toby trusts both of them and thinks she is valued by them. They both find it hilarious!
CS: By Asimov’s Three Laws, another week of Pepper the robor pizza server!? Can’t we get back to Ed dreaming he’s in “The Revenant”?
MW: FOR GOSH SAKES, MARY, HANDS AT 10 AND 2! PAY ATTENTION TO THE ROAD! Seriously, why is Ian in Mary’s car, where the heck are they going, and why are they chortling like Cheech and Chong inside the “fiberweed” van from “Up in Smoke”?
Pluggers: Midway through their 10K run around the park is no place for Pluggers to realize their Miralax is kicking in.
Rex Morgan, M.D.: According to experienced hands, there are really only three rules to prison life: 1) Business, mind your own f***ing, 2) See rule 1, and 3) Maintain your sideburns at all costs. It’s good to see this level of verisimilitude in a daily comic strip, kudos Rex Morgan, M.D.!
Pluggers: FALSE. Pluggers never rocked or rolled. They’re Glenn Campbell fans.
@Vulpes: The largest prison complex in my state is just outside a town of roughly 17,000, so I can see it. Why it’s called “Glenwood Prison” other than “X State Penitentiary” or whatever is unusual, unless we assume Glenwood is like Springfield and exists in its own peculiar geographic bubble.
Mary Worth:
“Nelly Fenely” clearly isn’t her real name, but rather what she goes by as part of her Milli Vanilli tribute act.
MW – Well, Nelly’s name anagrams to “Fennel, Yell Ye” – So, maybe she’s a retired Gordon Ramsey-esque Italian chef?
Let’s face it, Aldo Kelrast was a once in a lifetime event. Lightning cannot strike twice at Charterstone.
Plugging — Wouldn’t a Plugger from Ottawa KS be too busy workshopping new town names to worry about his expanding waistline and general squishiness?
@TheDiva:
On Safe Havens, and ignoring the implications of all animals being sentient, including the ones that are eaten EN MASSE : well, it’s a mite better than the way its sibling comic, Kevin & Kell, handles it, which is to PLAY IT FOR LAUGHS most of the time (and have enough of “oh no, one of the good guys might get eaten!” moments that are played for tension and drama for it to remain jarring).
@J.J. O’Malley:
MW: No no, hands not at 10 and 2 anymore! Your arms would break if the airbag deployed. It’s now 5 and 7. Try to keep up.
Pluggers: Is that orange stranger doing the robot, or having a stroke? I mean, he’s a Plugger; the answer is obvious, but rhetorical questions are valuable in their own way.
Mary Worth: Just look at those backgrounds! I can’t wait to see how Ian and Mary’s Journey to Atlantis (in a Buick) turns out!
MW — I’m pretty sure we’re meant to take the exposition of “As Mary and Ian Cameron talk in her car” literally–as in, they’re both saying “ha, ha.” Otherwise, Moy would have written “Mary and Ian laugh in her car” or even “Mary and Ian share a laugh in her car.” But since the next line isn’t, “as they drive over a cliff and crash in a fireball” it doesn’t really matter. . . .
Mary and Ian have clearly been, as the kids say, “toking it up”, right? I mean, that’s Ian Cameron. Laughing. Probably needing to get away from the free roaming parrots in his home. And Mary wouldn’t want her home reeking of marijuana cigarettes if someone drops by for a grey muffin. Except maybe Tommy. He’s cool and hooked her up.
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Rene Belluso would normally be getting shanked for snitching, but this is Rex Morgan, M.D. and that would be an exciting story.
Mary’s car has an exhaust leak directly into the interior.
It is trivially easy to fry an egg or three (they’re not that expensive and toast some bread.
Mary and Ian laugh and laugh. Mary jokes about suckering Dr. Jeff out of yet another expensive meal with no recompense and Ian can’t stop guffawing about another round of martital relations on a drunken Toby. Good times!
I really hope this is not the start of the redemption arc for Rene! We have already lost an interesting scumbag when Murphy became a good, bland person, we cannot lose the only interesting piece of “Rex Morgan MD”!
As Mary and Ian Cameron talk in her car . . . .
“I’m supposed to be Dr. Jeff, aren’t I? Have our creators forgotten which of us is which?”
“Ha ha! The laughter will drive away the existential despair!”
Mary Worth: Mystery Angry-Face Lady, instead of bitching about the quality of the food you buy, perhaps you should shop at Ralphs, Safeway, or Food 4 Less, rather than “The Stale Bland Year-Past-Freshness-Date Groceries and Rectal Suppository Emporium.”
MW: As Ian and Mary watch Steve Rader through the windshield waddling around with a full load to the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd on the car radio and roar with laughter, Nelly Feneley watches the same scene through her breakfast window over breakfast and feels a sense of sinister nostalgia.
When you were young, Nelly, you put unhomogenised milk with cream on top on your cereal.
FC: Dolly goes to bed with stories of Genesis filling her head. The next morning she hands Jeffy a pipe wrench.
“Here. You’re supposed to kill your brother.”
RMMD: A frustrated Rene gets lost in the explanatory weeds with Florida haircut man before he can even start his Mirakle Method pitch.
MW: “Ha ha! But there is more!! Then Toby tried to make a sculpture using her toes!”
“Stop it Ian, these Dumb Blonde Toby stories are splitting my side!”
SHOE –
Perfessor Fishhawk seems to be bragging about the size of his dick, even though as a bird, he doesn’t have one. Maybe I should say ‘pecker’?
MW: Nelly Fenely unhappily remembers her mother’s warning, “If you make that face, Nelly, it might get stuck that way.”
Nelly Feneley used to do all her grocery shopping at Freda’s, but that was before she saw Tommy dragging his talleywhacker through the deli salads during his coffee breaks.
Barney Google And Snuffy Smith: Well, Jughaid, that really depends on whether Mr. America is an army captain or a navy captain. If it’s army, he does have three tough ranks to get past: major, then light and bird colonel.
On the other h., if he’s a Navy captain, he’s practically a rear admiral already!
@lynn: I don’t recall Hannah Dingdon being miserable or crotchety
She was a kind woman, who accidentally nicked Mary’s car in the parking lot, so Mary had her shipped off to a retirement home solely because she had bad eyesight. (instead of just suggesting she get better glasses)
@65 Nehemiah Scudder, the Mostly Venerable: You’re BACK! Is it really you?
@Nehemiah Scudder, the Mostly Venerable:
Well, Steve Rogers is canonically US Army infantry, so you’d think he’d go up THAT track of rank, but I was under the impression that Captain America was a captain in the way that a guy driving a boat or a plane is a captain; he’s just the highest authority aboard below God, but only in the sense that he’s just trying to steer us to the right destination.
….Wait, Does that mean Captain America can officiate weddings!?
Doonesbury: (It’s non-political, really!)
I’m looking forward to Thud’s extra special Christmas album this year!
@The Rambling Otter: Yes, I think you’re right. There was another crotchety woman, maybe two years later. I remember what she looked like but not the plot. For some odd reason they all seem to run together after a while.
@The Rambling Otter: Wasn’t Hannah the one who ran into Ian’s car?
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: Cat Milk is the energy drink Joe Feline is enjoying in today’s Pluggers.
This only makes the “milk for a cat v. milk from a cat” dilemma exponentially weirder.
@Baja Gaijin: Hi, barbarian! It’s me, thanks. I’ve been off wrangling frogs…
Today’s pluggers, looks less like he’s out of shape and more like the beginning of a Furry’s shrinking art.
Mw- they’re laughing because Mary sent Wilbur to Nelly’s place. That way he has a new flame, and Nelly will appreciate her old life more after spending any time with Wilbur
RMMD-“You never side against the family or else I’ll have to take my nieces on a fishing trip.”
MW-“I hate the quality of shelf stocking nowadays.”
MW-And what sort of loss has this woman experienced that can only be fixed by giving her a parent or one of Mary’s muffins.
@lynn: You’re right, Ian was raging a fuss over her.
But I think she later also dinged Mary’s car, which prompted Mary to decide to “take action”
REX MORGAN M.D.: Can someone please have that conversation with Terry Beatty?
@Hibbleton: #59: Then of course, when confronted for his misdeed, he’ll blame Not Me or Ida Know.
@lynn: Maybe she resembles Helen Moss?
I’m sorry, Aldomania was 20 years ago? 20?!?
OT, but next to my comments scroll this morning is an ad with six panels, five featuring attractive young ladies wearing evening gowns and high heels, and sixth showing a socket wrench set. The whole ad has the caption “Alibaba industrial tools.” Am I to assume the ladies are all out celebrating their jobs as auto mechanics?
MARYWORTH: Ok, I’m sorry, but this already gets my vote as the Best Storyline Ever! I don’t care if the rest of the storyline devolves into a bitter old woman angrily slathering mayonnaise on a nude Wilbur. The sheer What-the-Fuckery of us beginning, apropos of nothing, with Ian and Mary laughing in a car together with no explanation or set-up, and then immediately cutting away to something else entirely made seriously guffaw out loud for a full five minutes and it’s been a while since Mary Worth was able to get me to do that! So based purely on today’s strip alone, I declare the is arc The GOAT!
Pluggers: From the look on his face he has cyclosporiasis.
The primary sign of cyclosporiasis is frequent, watery, and sometimes explosive diarrhea.
Mary Worth: It’s no surprise to learn that Mary has bugged all the Charterstone condos, fitting them with listening devices that secretly broadcast through her car radio. Ian found out, but instead of blackmailing her into giving him the best summer squash from her vegetable garden project, he insisted on being allowed to listen in on his pretty younger wife’s phone calls — which turned out to be so boring that, while she isn’t having an affair, he’s considering divorcing her anyway. But now he and Mary are just jeering at the idiots they live with — including, right now, the grumpy older lady with the rhyming name who can’t even bring herself to enjoy breakfast. “Ha-ha, she even crunches her cereal angrily!” says Ian. Of course, they don’t ever turn the knob to Wilbur’s frequency, because they’re generally frightened of hearing about whatever freakish situation he’s probably gotten himself into now.
MW: I don’t know why Dame Judi Dench chose Charterstone as her West Coast pied-à-terre, but I assume the cure for whatever ails her will be a companion animal of some kind. Let’s hold out hope for some kind of venomous reptile.
RMMD: Earl doesn’t know the half of it. Rene only became a criminal because Terry Beatty got bored. Teaching a little girl how to draw better horsies isn’t a crime, regardless of where the money comes from.
Marvin: What is the first rule of baby fight club?
@23 Lauralot: Happy Natal Day!
@70 lynn: Are you thinking of the psychic lady who was giving out advice? Advice that everybody liked better than Mary’s? So of course Mary had her banished to Florida.
Baby Blues: What is a team wedgie? I don’t think I want that in my Google search history.
Oatmaxxxing made me laugh out load!
Mary Worth – @I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: I also read that as cat milk.
It was jarring to go from yesterday’s praise session to a sudden jump to Mary and Ian talking in Mary’s car. Mary probably said something about Wilbur’s endearing quirks and couldn’t keep a straight face.
Speaking of Wilbur, Cereal Nelly looks like she could be Wilbur’s long lost sister. They have the same nose. I like June Brigman’s artwork, but she seems to have a limited sketchbook of noses. At least it isn’t a potato nose.
Rex Morgan – If the twins had kidnapped Sarah, it would be like The Ransom of Red Chief, only boring.
Pluggers – This is so sad. He remembers how he could jump right up on the kitchen counter, but not any more. He’s reduced to batting at the water in the toilet until his wife comes after him with the spray bottle of water.
9CL – What type of musician is he? A pretentious, emotionally stunted thrall with no chin.
@Bob Tice: June Morgan should be in prison for that hideous spit curl over her forehead.
@Lauralot: Happy birthday!
LUANN: Yes, having a life purpose is indeed motivating and concentrates the mind nicely. But look, a squirrel!
MW: finally, a character I can relate to. I too had Cheerios this morning, only mine were tasty with SKIM milk. Change milk, ungrateful dourpuss, and life will look better. Then get a cat.
MW- “So Wilbur takes his basket of tomatoes, turns around, and trips over the garden hose! Now he’s staggering around, trying to clean his glasses, and steps on the rake! It pops up, and hits him right between the eyes! And the fucked up thing was, Dawn was the one who left it there!” Ha Ha Ha!…”Speaking of Dawn, Have ye talked to the Lass lately, Mary? How’s she been doin’?”
MW: “Groceries ain’t what they used to be” Nelly mutters, while drinking oat milk, which has been on grocery shelves for one third of her life. “I want the milk my great grandma grew up on and her sister died from!”
In an actually clever trick, Crankshaft is just keening my appetite for humor, so when autumn rolls around and Ed somehow sets off a forest fire while raking leaves in a downpour I’ll think it’s funny.
Wizard of Id was thisclose to a “Give me all your lupins” punchline.
Lockhorns: Leroy will use the new grill twice before the leaves turn and it will spend all winter uncovered and rusting. Unfortunately, calling this “antiquing” doesn’t work.
FC: “Oh, Dolly, that’s barely the start of it. Let’s just say your mom and I know what levirate marriage is, and you’re never marrying an only child, just in case the worst happens.”
H&L: “Mom, can I show Trixie how to fly kites?”
“Just for that we’re having another child! Get it through your head that you’ll never be the the baby again.”
MW – Nip it in the bud? Looks like Mary and Ian have been nipping at some bud already.
9CL: What in the immortal fuck is he talking about? “Scurvy language of musicians?” Is he thinking of those downtown jazz players, with their “French” cigarettes, goatees, and berets? Or has Juilliard gone downhill, turning out greasy trombonists who lasciviously discuss their “spit valves” and “slide oil” in mixed company?
Pluggers – Pluggers used to rock & roll, a hot dog makes them lose control. Of their bowels.
RMMD – In prison, you meet all kinds of people. Not surprisingly, many of them are incapable of logical discourse, either as a result of their traumas or because it’s one of the disabilities that got them involved in criminal activity in the first place. Rene has wisely learned that in this particular situation, a vague and dismissive generality like “It’s a family thing” is preferable to, “Dude, I literally just told you that it’s not a matter of conscience but a matter of expediency!”
Don Abundio, translated:
“Electric Light Orchestra…”
“Dusty Springfield… Kenny Rogers…”
“WHISTLE OF WOLF!”
“Thirty Mile Zone…”
@Peanut Gallery:
#99. Lo Ku. Nice!
@The Rambling Otter: My husband at that time was wearing an Ian-like white beard so I remember the panel in which she ran into Ian’s car. Pretty sure I have that saved somewhere.
@92 I speak Jive: Would be more pathetic if Big Catman had no wife? Because he doesn’t.
@Nehemiah Scudder, the Mostly Venerable: Those frogs must be well and truly wrangled by now. Good to see you here again!
@Baja Gaijin: I don’t think so. I actually posted screen caps on my Facebook page because she looked somewhat like me at the time – a lumpy angry woman with a brown bob, usually wearing a shapeless t-shirt. Aha. I found it. August 15, 2013. Josh posted it here at that time.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: It’s the cereal Britons serve to unwanted houseguests.
Aggie. Her name was Aggie. But still not the wizened, bitter old crone I was thinking of. Wait – was it Mary herself?
I hesitate to mention it here, but maybe some of us long time mudgeons have paid too much attention to Mary Worth? Are we the MW version of Luann Trufans?
@The Rambling Otter: My absolute all-time favorite MW panel is one where Mary, squinting as she peels a potato at eye level, muses, “Some call her dowdy…quiet…difficult”. And I felt that sums me up pretty well too.
(January 19, 2015 for those of you who have subscriptions and can read MW archives.)
@lynn: The bitter old woman at breakfast immediately reminded me of Elinor, the malingering old lady who didn’t want her adult daughter to date and complained constantly about everything. Mary Worth goes to the “bitter old lady” well pretty often, come to think of it. Remember Helen Clark?
Pluggers have serious bowel issues without ever eating a salad.
MW:
“Mary, I sure am glad that you and I just heeded ny former faculty colleague Tim Leary’s admonition to ‘Turn on, tune in, drop out’ !”
MW: What’s this comic got against Cheerios??
9CL: TL;DR
H&L: Picnicking in the Dakotas!
JP: Who thinks April’s gonna show up and start another riot in this restaurant?
@Baja Gaijin: I stand corrected. That is pathetic for cat man. I guess he has to spray himself in the face with that spray bottle of water.
@lynn: My all-time favorite Mary Worth panel is the close up of an enraged Helen Moss threatening to report Toby to school management. I cut it out of the newspaper and want to make a refrigerator magnet out of it, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
I don’t follow Luann, but from what I’ve seen here about the Trufans, I don’t think anyone here feels the same way about Mary Worth.
MW: have the Splak and Kelk brands succumbed to the general enshittification of the world? Is that why Mary doesn’t make her salmon squares anymore?
Mary Worth: The juxtaposition of these panels makes it look like Ian and Mary are laughing their asses off at Nelly for not having a good breakfast. “Hahaha, dumb bitch! Should’ve made waffles!”
Rex Morgan: Why is Earl Hickey in prison and friends with Rene? Is Beatty attempting to turn his comic into a My Name Is Earl revival series?
Pluggers: Even by Pluggers standards, this one is pitiful. It’s literally either a Plugger trying to fatshame his fellow Pluggers like an asshole or, even more pathetically, a fat Plugger shaming himself to try and seem ironic and self-aware.
MW: You do not want to be a kid on Nelly Feneley’s lawn today.
@Vulpes: Or Glenwood is in a depressed part f the state so the state pen was located there because the land is cheap and there are plenty of out of work people willing to get a job with the prison.
@Rita Lake: It makes sense, considering there’s a pretty solid chance that Karen Moy herself is a bitter old lady. Write what you know, I guess.
@lynn: What? No, of course not, don’t talk crazy. *quietly shoves my Worth merch and Wilbur/Aldo erotic fanfic behind my desk*
@I speak Jive: It’d also be a rehash of an earlier plot because RMMD already did “Ransom of Red Chief but boring” when Rene kidnapped (incredibly generous use of the word) Truck and Mud.
@2+2=7: Part of what makes it so funny is how this beginning has NO connection to what Mary was just doing. Yesterday she was at the Bum Boat with Dr. Jeff for their typical date. Then BOOM, she’s speeding off with another man laughing like a nut. Makes it look like she dumped Jeff off-panel and eloped with Ian.
@Ukranazi Stepan: It would also be a waste of time, because they’ll quickly figure out that a Rex Morgan M.D. villain will “confess” to anyone within a thirty-foot radius.
@TheDiva: It shows how far adrift we are … Widescreen main scam is hacking into huge game software companies with ransomware (a real thing) – but somehow he is getting all caught up with these low level scams.
@Austria: I was ten years old when Aldo-Mania was happening and am thirty now, just in case you don’t feel old enough.
@Dave Hill: I’m imagining Nelly hearing a knock at the door, answering it and seeing Wilbur naked and grinning with a handful of flowers, causing her to immediately suffer a fatal heart attack.
@TheDiva: I ended up down another wiki research walk trying to determine where Glenwood is supposed to be based on your comment. Couldn’t find anything, but ended up learning some more about Rex Morgan’s history as a comic and was genuinely stunned to realize how much better and more edgy, daring and even educational it used to be. I was aware of how the series had changed, but not the sheer extent. It’s hard to believe that Beatty’s farcical and interminable rant comic about scammers and roots country used to be basically the newspaper comic equivalent of The Pitt, with incredibly accurate and well-written medical drama that never shied away from tackling hard issues or pushing boundaries (I could never picture a modern newspaper strip going after the sort of subjects old Rex Morgan used to talk about, like AIDs or sexual harassment). It used to be distributed in medical schools because of how realistic it was about doctor life! Really crazy and kinda sad to see how far it’s fallen.
DT: Now that it is murder and a local crime, DT will spring into action and hoping to empty his .45 into Widescreen. Why hasn’t Widescreen quietly waddled away? He doesn’t seem the sentimental type so he can probably find another rooming house somewhere or frankly can’t he afford a condo or apartment to crash and rent fake businesses to do his internet scamming stuff?
GT: I guess Gil is trying out a new thing – no summer training camp. First game is this Saturday! Here are the mimeographed plays.
MW: Is there a game of Two or Three Panel Mary? Like the game Three Panel Nancy? (The game involves taking classic Bushmiller Nancy strips, copying them and then cutting them apart. Participants pull out 3 panels unseen and then have to create a coherent story. Winner of each round is decided by voting of the other participants)
Or is this an example of the writers having just seen High and Low by Kurosawa (remade as Highest and Lowest by Spike Lee). Mary and Ian are the High and this new character is the Low. She sees how happy and well off Mary and Ian are and decides it was time to seize some of the happiness for herself. She tries to kidnap Jeff or Toby but ends up taking Wilbur and Dawn by accident. Neither Mary nor Ian want to pay the ransom. Hilarity ensues.
RMMD: This new character, Prison Snitch, knowing that anything is better than nothing reports all of this to the warden. The twins get busted for the scams and the big box store under a new get tough policy refuses to plea bargain. This lands the twins in Jail for 10 years a piece and mandatory participation in the Mirakle Method. Ultimately that gets them off with time served after the Mirakle Method was found to be cruel and unusual punishment.
FC – Then Dolly says, “At school we learned it was Adam and Steve.” Because her dad’s face turns the most amazing shade of red when she trolls him like that.
MW: Oooh! Add me to the list of folks shipping Wilbur and Nelly. Uh, shipping — do kids still say that? We can call them “Willy.” Uh, combining names like that — do kids still do that? I’m asking for a friend who is way older and less cool than me. Not like I’m a Plugger or anything. Honest!
MW: In Nelly’s defense, breakfast was better in the old day. You could get Quisp in stores and Count Chocula was available year round and not just in the fall. I blame the government!
And I’m not a dad-gummed Plugger! Stop saying I am, ya dad-gummed whippersnappers!
MW: The thought just occurred to me, can we be sure this strip wasn’t published out of order? With all the zombie strips out there, it wouldn’t surprise me.
GT: That ‘Let’s Run It Back’ make me think the rest of the week is going to be a ‘clip show’ of the past three months of strip, only somehow drawn even worse than they were the first time.
@J.J. O’Malley: Be honest, Pepper the robot is much preferable to the Batton Thomas interview we will almost certainly return to once this plot is over.
@TheDiva: Nelly is probably gonna be a thing where her introduction will make her seem like an incredibly normal person, then she’ll make contact with Mary and whatever inane bit of drama comes with it and turn into a total nutcase. That’s what happens with many new characters in Mary Worth these days, particularly the very useful case study of Keith Hillend. His intro and first few strips made him seem like an actual human being, but near-immediately after Mary pestered him for the first time and his shithead long-lost daughter came to start the plot, he devolved into a some kind of bizarre enforcer of the Charterstone Way, fighting valiantly to crush the leftist dissent in his family.
@Lauralot: TV Tropes likes to call that one “Offscreen Inertia”. The funniest example they cite of it is Breaking Bad fans’ observations about the character Huell’s final appearance in the show, a scene in which two DEA agents question him at a safehouse and tell him to hang tight there until they get back. Said agents end up dying shortly after and Huell is never mentioned or seen again in Breaking Bad, so fans began joking that he was still in that safehouse, just sitting around for months or even years, waiting for someone to come get him. The jokes continued all the way into the spinoff Better Call Saul, only ending when the final season of THAT show revealed Huell’s fate; he just got up and left once it became clear nobody was coming, like any person would in real life in that situation.
RMMD: The hair on that prison guy is jaw-dropping but is still better than June’s hair. Tragic.
MT: Yesterday, Mark made a few fairly-reasonable comments about cave salamanders. Today he is back to his usual weekday lightning-addled-brain self. Tragic.
LUANN: The DeGroot parents are amazed and cheered that their daughter is showing a few tiny signs of possible impending barely-improved maturity. Tragic.
@Guy Nerdlinger: I’d like to see what’s in your cookies to generate that particular combination!
MW: Folks, this is what happens when you give your innocent baby a name like “Nelly Feneley.” The child might manage to hold her act together for a few decades in spite of the mocking rhymes, half-smothered guffaws, and smirks. But sooner or later, she cracks and the bitterness spills out.
MW: Excellent brand synergy in this crossover with the infomercial cinematic universe. Tired of the quality of groceries going down? Subscribe today to MaryFRESH, the #1 hot textured glop delivery service!
I kind of wish Rene didn’t have a mustache and the other guy didn’t have any eyebrows, that way they would have a full head of hair together in a very satisfying way.
RMMD: I can only assume that the elaborately coiffed and mustachio’d jail buddy is some sort of roots Americana musician gone wrong.
MW: GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
Crank: Apparently, Batty hasn’t quite wrung all the comedy out of this scenario yet, probably because he’s yet to wring any comedy out of it. He’s now resorted to his cleverest writing trick – having characters tell us the thing we just read was funny.
EC: Speaking of storylines I thought were over… But I suppose no Edge City story can end until Len finally accepts the cat needs to stay indoors and Abby immediately starts worrying that he looks unhappy being cooped up.
(I will be so mad if I’ve actually called this.)
JP: “One must have a heart of stone to read the Parkers suddenly worrying about money without laughing.” – Oscar Wilde
MW: At first I was excited that Moy had finally remembered she could create new characters for Mary to meddle instead of More Sodding Wilbur and the Wilbur-Adjacent.Then I remembered that the last time she did that it was Keith Bellend, so I’ll wait and see. The fact Nelly is being introduced as intentionally kind of awful is probably a good sign, since it makes it slightly less likely she’ll be awful without Moy realising!
RMMD: “Whoever heard of a criminal who cares about anything except doing crimes? If I had nieces and they wanted to kidnap someone, I’d be ‘Sure, why not? It’s a crime!’ Worrying about whether they’d screw it up and what might happen to them if they did isn’t a crime, so why do it?” Unsurprisingly, Beatty’s first hesitant steps at not writing Rene as a complete Saturday morning cartoon villain just casts sharper relief on how he normally writes those who break the law.
SH: It’s funny because clams (and all other sea creatures) are intelligent beings trying to broker a treaty with humans, but humans still eat clams and other sea creatures and the moral ramifications of this will never be acknowledged or addressed! Dammit, Holbrook, this is exactly why I stopped reading your other strip!
Mary: “Oh, yeah, people usually lose some of their sense of taste with age.”
Nelly: “Huh. Damn. Guess that explains that.”
*cue the boating fun with Dr. Jeff*
MW- I’m excited. Grumpy old lady stories are the best Mary Worth stories.
Pluggers: The plugger depicted today has an expression on his face saying, “I just noticed something. I’m fat! How did that happen overnight?”
@Peanut Gallery: 107- And stuff the mattress with the rest.
@Anonymous: Even on Nelly Feneley’s vest, they don’t look delicious.
RMMD- Speaking of kidnapping, I remember a story plot in RM from about 20 years ago. They had a British nanny, named Heather, and she was taken hostage by some international baddies. There was an older Britsh guy, kind of a Sean Connery type that rescued her by placing a gas bomb in the kidnappers mailbox.(Take notes,twins) Does anyone remember that guy’s name?
@Anonymous: Marvin: What is the first rule of baby fight club?
Ba ba ba.
@Vulpes: They had to build Glenwood Prison just so Truck could write “Glenwood Prison Blues.”
@Activist:
#94. MW I ill-advisedly told new Nelly to switch to skim milk, forgetting some here are vegans and others lactose intolerant. My bad. I now say keep using oat milk if it’s fresh, and add fresh fruit to bowl of Cheerios.
Pluggers: I see that Trump renamed the province of Ontario to Kansas.
FC-Just imagine the porno you could make with the story of Adam and Eve.
MW-Mary and Ian are laughing about the crippled Irishman.
MW – The “talk” before the first panel was “Did you hear the one about the drunk deer? They get intoxicated by eating fermented fruit!”
@Poteet:
Nelly Feneley puts oats in her belly
Nelly Feneley her butt’s really smelly
Nelly Feneley cuts cheese in a deli
Nelly Feneley reveres Botticelli
Nelly Feneley hates Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nelly Feneley please pass the jelly
@lynn:
I tried looking that up and got Hannity and Sean finishing their duet.
Was it another date?
I would love to see potato peeling action.
(I’m not subscribed, I go to Comics Kingdom and Buy A Print and type in the date)
Mary’s Worst: Is Cheerios™ still a registered trademark if you spell it Cheerio?
@Human-eared Dragon: It might have been the day before. I posted it to my page on that date.
@Jym Dyer: RMMD: I can only assume that the elaborately coiffed and mustachio’d jail buddy is some sort of roots Americana musician gone wrong.
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Rene/Jimmy convinced him that he won the lottery and he should go back and make amends with everyone he wronged in life.
MT: You think you’re old? I’m old enough to remember when more information about licorice could be found on the Internet. Nowadays I just get AI slop telling me that it grows on the shores of Lake America and that information about its active compound, glycyrrhizin, is at a National Institutes of Health website which is a dead link due to the page being too DEI or something.
@Ettorre: Dirk Twacy Hollistic Defective: “704 Hauser?!? Thats Archie Bunker’s place!!! “
MW: Mary: “And then the man said, ‘lady, I don’t think I can take 67 more of those!” In unison: “Ha! Ha!”
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: MW – Of course Nelly isn’t going to get much out of a box of Cheerio. Next time, buy the box with more than one in it, Nelly.
This explains the mistake Nelly made when she purchased Raisin Bra, thinking it would serve to cover her shriveled nipples.
@Jym Dyer: I remember this one cartoon, one episode had aliens taking all of Earth’s black licorice, because it’s one of the most powerful forms of dark matter in the universe.
And even that sounds more plausible than the AI slop you read xD
Mary’s Worst: “Damn it! I bought this box of cereal fair and square and I want my plastic Cheerio Kid™ pencil topper in red! How the hell do they expect me to collect them all if they never give me a red one??!?? YOU OWE ME GENERAL MILLS, AND I’M GONNA MAKE YOU PAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
And so begins “OLD LADY vs OAT COMPANY” the arc that was scheduled to be released to coincide with the release of the movie “COYOTE VS ACME”
RMMD: I just realized. Rene’s mullet sporting prison buddy is Les from Luann years later. He must’ve gotten tired of washing dishes at the Fuze and decided to try one of his mom, Anne Eiffel’s scams, but it ended badly.
Dirk Twacy Hollistic Defective: “704 Hauser?!? Thats Archie Bunker’s place!!! I should have known he’d be Widescreen!”
Oh shit, have I been reading joshreads for 20 years?
Late Thread Cuisine: Happy Birthday, Lauralot!
@Poteet: MW: Folks, this is what happens when you give your innocent baby a name like “Nelly Feneley.”
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At least she didn’t end up in Mark Trail like her sister, Kelly Welly.
@The Modesto Kid: I thought the same for a moment, but I checked and I’ve only been reading this site since 2009. Turns out I remember Aldomania from its many subsequent mentions, such as this collection of anniversary highlights.
Is Kelly Fenelly Quincy Magoo in drag? “WALDO! ALL MY ALPHABITS™ are all Os again!!!! Take a Letter, at once!!! This will not stand!!!!!!, Get me another Stag™ beer!”
@The Modesto Kid: You and me both…
@lynn:
It was the day before, thank you.
Ooh, a Sunday comic!
@Chance: but this being Mary Worth, I feel like there’s a strong possibility that their ha ha-ing will nip her hating in the bud. It could go either way!
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Where have you gone, Don Knotts? A lonely Mary Worth turns her meddling eyes to you, Woo woo woo!
Belluso: “I’m the one who knocks. Gently! At the doors of various authority services! Cherish your friends and loved ones, kids!”
“If Nelly Feneley has a stupid-looking dog that dresses like her and she brain-talks with, I MIGHT overlook her contempt for oats! Neigh!” – Every horse.
@ectojazzmage: Re RMMD – I honestly don’t remember that one. It must have been so boring that it made no impression whatsoever on me.
@erdmann: I’d go with “Nelbur.”
@Anonymous: I don’t remember the guy’s name, but wasn’t Heather the one who married the rich British man who owned the aerospace company? The one who developed dementia, but Rex happened to see him in a lucid moment so certified to the company’s board that the man was entirely capable of managing it. I don’t know if he was the same guy who rescued her.
However, I think it’s important to remind everyone occasionally as to what Rex’s values and ethics are.
@Baja Gaijin: I’d try a forkful of that cake, but I hope they brought a chisel to get through that icing so they can cut the slices….
MW: I am imagining Mary and Chinbeard laughing in a voice similar to early audio voice reproduction on a 1980s computer.
A dull tinny and slow “ha-ha-ha. ha-ha-ha”
#177 was me.
I left my I-Pad at home during a two-day trip and it lost my screen name.
@Garrison Skunk (yesterday)
A few weeks ago, I did look for fizz tablets at the store to replicate the fizzy soda feel for regular water. I couldn’t find any (if that’s what you meant by water enhancers, I can’t exactly remember)
I just drank regular water for a while when I was going through soda withdrawal, maybe a few diet Gatorades.
Rex Morgan: So it appears that Rene’s buddy is none other than Earl Hickey, erstwhile ne’er do well and protagonist of the teevee show “My Name Is Earl”. That particular show ended on a cliffhanger, and I’m saddened to see that Earl has landed himself back in prison, though hopefully still trying to do good in the world, even if it means listening to an incompetent blowhard asshole like Rene Belluso.
It’s an interesting crossover after all these (checks notes) 17 years.
@lynn: Nelly Feneley also remembers her mother’s warnings.
“Don’t marry that Ronald Feneley! You’ll have the most ridiculous name in all of California!”
“But mother, I don’t care, I love him.”
@Baja Gaijin: That cake was so dense, it took literally 10 seconds to load the page.
@176 The Quiet Man: Judge for yourself, here’s the icing recipe:
@Peanut Gallery: oh, this made me laugh.
@182 The Rambling Otter: Give the cake a break: it’s around 60 years old.
@Baja Gaijin: My apologies Mr. Cake ^^
@186 The Rambling Otter: “My apologies Mr. Cake ^^” Are those your little otter ears?
@Baja Gaijin: I think they’re supposed to be closed eyes, in a sort of smile.
Like ^u^
@188 The Rambling Otter: Ohhhh. I like the otter ears better, even though otter ears aren’t pointy. Or are they?
@The Rambling Otter:
It fudged up…
@Baja Gaijin:
C( ^^ ) /\
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I made one ear anyway :3
(I tried editing it but there’s a glitch where it just loads forever and ends up getting deleted)
And no otter ears aren’t pointy :3 they’re cookie shaped
@The Rambling Otter: managed to salvage it the deleted message though :3
@191 The Rambling Otter: Huh. Cookie-shaped ears. Cute.
@Baja Gaijin: Royal Icing dries hard, but not break-your-teeth hard. However, it’s pretty thick on that cake.
When I’ve made it, I used meringue powder. It also used water instead of lemon juice. I’ve used the icing only to decorate cookies.
@I speak Jive: 175-lt was. The guy’s name was Milton..I think the last name was Avery. I remembered it about 2 minutes after I posted that.
@I speak Jive: Hard enough to cement big gingerbread houses together in my experience. It would crack and shatter (it’s dry!) when taking bits apart, not slice cleanly, so I think the photo cheated with fondant for the main icing layer, maybe it’s royal icing piping and decorations.
Holy Creeping Jesus, 200 posts on a Monday? Have the stars come round right?
Marmaduke: Gosh, that’s one big dog. Better let him take your pillow, Mister Hitler, or he’ll tear you to pieces with his giant fangs.
MW: Add liquid to the one Cheerio and it instantly expands to fill a bowl with the same brown glop we’re used to seeing these people eat. Honestly, it could be the same product Mary uses to make a casserole, the basis for that hamburger-gravy-over-white-rice-with-roasted-glazed-carrots-on-the-side thing that is Zak’s go-to, the amorphous offering at the Charterstone pool parties, or even the stuff that fills the litter boxes of Charterstone. I don’t think a product that can do so much for so many deserves such a scowling dismissal from this Nelly character. Whoever she is.
@Anonymous: Wasn’t our pal Jordan (not the river) also Heather’s and Milton’s security detail in the early days?
MW: Mary must have installed a laugh track feature in her car. Neither she nor Ian Cameron has ever said anything even remotely amusing enough to provoke such outright laughter—unless they’ve been secretly switching Nelly Fenely’s food in a prank to see how long it takes the woman to realize she’s eating sawdust with dishwater poured on it.
If she’s just recovering from food-borne cyclospora/listeria/salmonella/e. coli, Nelly is perfectly justified in her anger.
MW: Nelly Fenelly is just mad because Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Trix eliminated synthetic food dyes over the summer.
@The Rambling Otter: (if that’s what you meant by water enhancers,
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I meant liquid water enhancers like Mio™ brand, admittedly they don’t have the fizz but they can give the water a variety of flavors which I thought might ease your success. Maybe someone makes Alka seltzer style tablets without the medicine.
@UncleJeff: MW: Nelly Fenelly is just mad because Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Trix eliminated synthetic food dyes over the summer.
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“Synthetic Food Dyes are for Kids!”
@Austria:
I’m sorry, Aldomania was 20 years ago? 20?!?
“I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats we’re going back to see it again and again!”
Its not Aldo, but an incredible simulation!
@UncleJeff: MW: Nelly Fenelly is just mad because Froot Loops, Lucky Charms and Trix eliminated synthetic food dyes over the summer.
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Hopefully not the way Smurf berry Crunch™ made kids eliminate synthetic food dyes in the 80s, or was that Strawberry Shortcake™ Cereal?My Mom never got us anything stronger than Rice Chex™,so I just heard about it second-hand.
@Baja Gaijin: @182 The Rambling Otter: Give the cake a break: it’s around 60 years old.
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A Plugger Cake??!!??
@GarrisonSkunk: Just send one detective. We all know what happens when two people try to get through the door there!
@Austria: I’m sorry, Aldomania was 20 years ago? 20?!?
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Who could forget the musical’s ending? Aldo singing “She loves me,yeah, yeah, yeah” echoing over and over as the multi media screens recreate his decent over the curve, and the lights fade to dark.
@richardf8: True, true the one bit of slapstick Lear allowed.
@Lauralot:
Hoppy Bathday!
@GarrisonSkunk:
“Always after me synthetic food dyes.”
@Baja Gaijin: Thank you, and also, how did they get such perfect raised lettering?
Also, thank you to I Speak Jive and Urkanazi Stepan!
Pluggers will read today’s caption to the tune of the Patty Duke Show theme song.