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Blondie, 9/21/25
Comics Time is a damn complicated thing. Dagwood and Blondie are both relatively young parents of teenagers, which caused some of you to push back on my contention last week that “Blondie in the year 2025 is your go-to for the pettiest boomer gripes about everyday suburban life imaginable,” given that, going by age alone, the Bumsteads are, like the Lockhorns, Millennials. The thing is, though, that their every word and deed proves that they are not Millennials, but rather exude powerful boomer energy and just happen to be drawn as if they’re 40. If you need more evidence of that, take today’s strip, in which, based on the way Dagwood is holding his phone, I assume he has its speaker set at maximum volume and he’s forcing all these other people at the airport to listen to the conversation he’s having with his boss about yet another nephew who’s stealing his whole bit.
Crock, 9/21/25
Imagine a crazed terrorist bomber running straight for you and yelling “It’s kibosh time!” This may be the first time I’ve ever laughed at something in Crock that I’m reasonably sure is supposed to be funny. It’s not the punchline, of course, but baby steps I guess.
Dennis the Menace, 9/21/25
“Working from home? That sure would be a hassle if your kid was notorious menace Dennis Mitchell. You’d probably prefer not to do it.” –The Dennis the Menace creative team a full five and a half years after the COVID lockdowns led to an unprecedented explosion in remote work, apparently
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RMMD:
“Darlin’, the tradesperson who sews pointers like the kind you see on my weddin’ suit here has a musical name!”
“Really, dear? — what is it?”
” ‘Arrow‘smith!”
Blondie-I see people talk like that on their phones all the time.
Slylock Fox-Jokes on you. Slick Smitty wore gloves.
RMMD-Mazle tov!
MW-Later that night another first for Olive.
FC-And the fourth, Broken Condom.
Phantom:
“Thank goodness I don’t have to use the restroom right now! — having to remove this leotard might waste precious seconds!”
I like how Dagwood says “Cora knew someone?” as if Dithers keeps her locked up at home.
DtM:
That looks more like a “Where’s Waldo” skyline than it does the skyline of Wichita, KS, where Dennis lives.
I know the jury’s still out on Blondie and Dagwood, but Carlos is definitely a Boomer. (See what I did there?)
DtM:
BLATTT!
“Dennis! Quit playing that muffed arpeggio from the Jonny Quest theme song!”
MW: Olive has Belle Batsfrey eyes in panel 6. They’re especially ridiculous considering her ecstatic “I want to do all of that” is to Mary’s “travel and meet people,” as if that’s something rare and exotic.
Time to dredge up that theory that Brigman is using these little touches to express her contempt for Moy’s writing.
Crock: Previously published or not, having a terrorist named Carlos in today’s climate is a bold move. Wear your uniform proudly Crock writer’s. At least we know who you are when the Animalapocolis hits.
DtM: Love the sour look on the guy trying to convince Henry to work from home.
“God, what’ll it take to get rid of this schmo!?” He thinks.
MW: to travel… explore new heights… be exposed to different ideas and people… “I want to do ALL of that!” cries the delusional teen as she jumps over the side of the balloon basket, experiencing this (very briefly) as she plummets to her death.
Even darker: “you WILL, Olive” as Mary pushes her over
Well, at least this time Blondie recognized that comparing the lazy nepo baby to Dagwood should actually be the joke.
LUANN: especially now, but even back in the stone age whe. I went to college, work and school were not mutually exclusive. Got some of my coolest jobs thru work-study programs and occasionally since graduating have taken adult ed classes. Work makes classes more meaningful, and learned of is lifelong.
So glad Lu likes tutoring and WeenieWorkd so much she wants to do them for next 45 years.
CURTIS: One book all summer? Quite an indictment of his school district, but that it’s more than I read.
BoT: man, glass buildings are pure evil.
FG: If you too are relatively new to this strip to read the backstory. Our current writer/artist who keeps it my ving so beautifully, so fast is not near as he strip’s creator.
it is once again Sunday. Time for JUNGLE JIM!
FG: edited- if you too are relatively new to this strip, read the backstory. Our current writer/artist who keeps things moving so beautifully, so fast, is generations removed from the creator.
CROCK: Carlos is inept in many ways. Here he’s terrorizing in a desert environment, and he didn’t even invest in transition lenses. Details matter!
RMMD: I’m seriously disappointed that Mud didn’t pronounce them, “Pard and Missus.”
MW: Olive is well on her way to mastering the art of mind-numbing, hackneyed drivel.
@Activist:
On Luann : I agree, treating attending school and having a job as mutually exclusive things like this (and as the barrier between child and adult) is
kindergarten*HIGH SCHOOL thinking.*No, seriously, this strip would work better as a FAMILY CIRCUS, right? Like, Jeffy is in panel one, and Bil in panel two?If Dagwood is the office manager, why is he always writing the reports himself?
Preregistering a Sunday Mary Worth Quotevestigation hypothesis: Benjamin Franklin didn’t say that.
DT: Some foreshadowing: the gel is spent so no zap gun versus DT’s automatic shoot out likely, and D.S.E = Diet Smith Enterprises? Electronics? Not a deal with Diet Smith Industries?
Phantom: Despite the suspension of disbelief, it is a beautfully drawn strip. The fire exstinguisher triggers are on the co-pilot side under the engine starter panel.
JP: Is this a new turn for the strip – focusing on how a idle young woman trying to find herself helps a young girl coping with the sudden disappearance of her parents?
MW: OK, we get it, Olive is special and will do special things. Eat special foods, see special places and meet special people. Is this a pilot for a spinoff series?
FRAZZ: Another juxtaposition — a defeatist feels big by cutting down a hundred-year-old tree, a believer feels big by planting a sapling.
JP: Ned’s lived in Europe, built a business (tho it crashed), helped free friends being held for Ransome, wrote and sold a script. And now she has to baby sit? Reality bites, but bite it back.
PHANTOM: I was wrong. Pilot may have been a Nazi but at least he didn’t murder his friends.
RMMD: so nice of Mindy to dye her hair to match the groom’s boutonniere.
@matt w: Yup. I should’ve also preregistered that this is a widely enough known misquotation that it’s on Quote Investigator. Partial match to Xunzi, honed into its current form by a bunch of anonymous quotemeisters, many of whom pulled off the rare trick of describing something as a “Chinese adage” that really was a Chinese adage.
FC: HTT Grandma finally requested an investigation from Child Protective Services, and now Thel is giving them the evidence they need about her day-drinking.
Carlos: It’s kibosh time!
Other students: Carlos….!
DTM: … doesn’t Dennis go to school? Wouldn’t work-from-home be fine, especially since the summer vacation is over? Come on Henry, just admit the truth – you won’t work from home because it would wreck your opportunity to have an affair with the secretary.
@Activist: When I was a kid, we had to read one book/do a book report over the summer.
I remember one student read Black Beauty, which was around 400 pages.
Everyone was ooohing and aaahing.
I had Treasure Island but didn’t finish it, and some of the other students were calling me lazy and stupid, including the students who chose to read “Mr. Men” books.
I love the irony here.
Rex Morgan Mashup: They forgot a panel.
@treetown:
MW: OK, we get it, Olive is special and will do special things. Eat special foods, see special places and meet special people. Is this a pilot for a spinoff series?
It’s Olive’s World (You Just Live In It)
@treetown: “Olive the other (tummy)-brained dear”
@27 Baja Gaijin:
Yeah. Cake. Frankly, in my experience, wedding cake is not the best cake.
MW: Wild-eyed, Mary blathers nonsensically while Olive stares maniacally. The balloonist chuckles and says to himself; “they all do that until they learn not to breathe the fumes from the burner.”
About yesterday, despite what I said. Out of respect towards Ike (who I apologize for annoying last night) I’m going to tone my rambling down.
Not “completely” but I’ll try to at least stay on a relevant topic.
Blondie: I refuse to believe that Dithers hasn’t already set up all of his nephews in functionally redundant VP positions where they don’t have to do anything other than travel and golf while they net somewhere in the middle six figures. Hell, I’m not entirely convinced Dagwood isn’t his nephew.
Crock: On behalf of all nearsighted people, I hereby call a moratorium on all “can’t see a thing without my glasses” jokes. My astigmatism is so bad I wouldn’t be able to see my laptop screen without contacts, but I could still find a large tower poking up out of an otherwise featureless desert. (And no, Velma Dinkley, the growling voice and size thirteen feet with fur and claws do not belong to your pal Shaggy. I thought you were supposed to be the smart one.)
DtM – Henry needs a consult with Rex “I’m probably contagious, so I’m just going to hide in the garage from family life; don’t thank me, I’m a giver” Morgan.
DENNIS THE MENACE: Um, guys? That’s just the bosses passive-aggressive way of firing the department.
DENNIS THE MENACE (2): But you’re right though, Josh. How long have they’ve been sitting on this comic? You can tell it’s a relic from the “COVID era”, because Henry stupidly assumes Dennis will be home all day instead of having his WFH schedule coordinate with Dennis’s schooling.
BLONDIE: My experience and observation is that Millennials (and younger) are far more likely to keep their phones on speaker constantly. Boomers still remember a time when phone conversations were meant to be private.
MW: When I saw this comic, I actually said out loud, “Throw that little brat out of the basket already.” My husband asked me why I said that and I had to recount the bare bones story: Mary Worth visited the “special” teenage girl who she has a borderline inappropriate relationship with and took her back home to ride a hot air balloon.
His response was to shake his head and say, “Oh my God.”
@7 Bob Tice: I see what you did there!
@11 CanuckDownSouth: I think I understand…in this Mary Worth Mashup.
@TheDiva: That shows how poor a businessman Dithers would be.
I mean, Scrooge McDuck never gave Donald nor he would even consider eventually giving Huey, Dewey and Louie positions in the company just for being related. As he (being a good businessman) hires people who actually have genuine skill.
Sad to say a cartoon duck is superior than Dithers the more “realistic” boss.
(If one considers literally pummeling your employees realistic)
Both Henry Mitchell and Dagwood Bumstead wear bowties, a traditional symbol of emasculation.
I’m not entirely sure what this means in light of Blondie’s huge bust and Alice’s smoldering suburban sex appeal, but it does make me tingle pleasantly.
@13 Activist: on Luann: Luann’s lucky: Weenie World can’t replace her table-wiping job with AI.
@30 Sequitur: The promise of cake is the only way June could get Rex to attend this wedding.
@35 2+2=7: I thought Dennis was 5 years old. No school for him!
Dustin: “Besides, the creep is looking at me like he assumes I find his smug, mediocre middle-aged man vibe attractive, so I figure he deserves to be publicly embarrassed.”
MT: I always get the unsettling feeling that Jules Rivera defines “unethical hunting” as “any time a human being kills a wild animal for any purpose, ever” when the reality is much more complex. Hunting is an essential part of subsistence living in remote places like Alaska, and regulated hunting can help control overpopulation of prey animals like deer and elk whose natural predators have been taken out of commission. I appreciate her commitment to environmental issues; I just wish she’d approach them with a little more nuance than a fourth grader who’s just learned about elephant poaching.
MW: Oh, shut UP, Mary. You’re the sort of person who thinks dining at the Times Square Olive Garden is an adventure. You think you’re being multicultural when you greet Carlos Allora with “Hola” instead of “Hello.” Your soul has never ventured beyond the code-controlled gates of Charterstone, and there’s every evidence that Olive will grow up to be as provincially self-centered and narrow-minded as you are. If a peregrine falcon missed diving at a sparrow, tore a hole in your balloon envelope and sent you plummeting into the Santa Ana mountains, at least you would do some good in the world by nourishing the scavengers who came upon your corpses.
Pluggers are weirdly creepy around strangers.
RMMD: We know Lou’s not getting paid for letting this wedding take over his establishment; do you think any of the musicians are being compensated for the reception gig or are they being paid in cake and access to the Chik-fil-a catering trays?
@Bob Tice:
… the skyline of Wichita, KS, where Dennis lives.
Wichita? Looks more like Frostbite Falls.
Seriously, the early sixties artwork combined with the modern concept of working remotely is too much of a mindfuck for Henry. I don’t blame him for taking a pass.
Marvin – Is that a butt crack emanating from the front of his pants? Having two anuses (anii?) would explain a lot.
@TheDiva: (On Mary Worth) Amen to that!
@The Rambling Otter: Since when does being a good businessman have anything to do with wealth in this day and age? It’s all about stock buybacks and bribing politicians to cut regulations.
DtM – For some reason, the cupboard and counter make this look like Hammerin’ Henry has moved his desk into the break room. That doesn’t make sense. If it were Ed Kudlick, though . . .
MW: I was wondering what the hell kind of conversation this was, until I suddenly realized that Moy had written the dialog as new lyrics for “The Impossible Dream”.
REX MORGAN M.D.: I love that Truck knows that people care so little about his stupid-ass wedding, that he he has to bribe them with a
roots country“Ameripolitan” concert (catnip, in the Rexverse) in order to get them to stick around past the ceremony (I mean the artist is so disinterested that he cuts to a random bouquet in the middle of the strip strip, despite drawing an extremely truncated version of their nuptials.)REX MORGAN M.D. (2): Weddings like these are such romantic occasions, what with no loving vows being exchanged (gee how odd that the abridged version of the ceremony prevented Terry Beatty from having to demonstrate how and why these people are enamored with each other. Funny how the timing worked out on that, huh?) and no one clapping or cheering on the newly-committed couple. (Rex does shows how ” emotionally moving” he finds this wedding by making catty gossip about Mud). I guess it wasn’t a joke and Rex (like every other guest, apparently, including, I suspect, the bride and groom) only came to this thing because of the promise of cake and rockabilly nonsense.
See, ya’ll talk all that shit about Mary Worth, but this is the comic you go to when you want to see strictly-enforced, random heteronormative pair-bonding at it’s most awkward and cringe-worthy
Blondie-After Dithers other attempts to have Dagwood killed failed he’s hoping that having the plane blow up midair will work.
RMMD: Look at that face. June is disgusted that Mud Murphy calls himself an ordained minister.
“You’re telling me that he’s been sanctified through Apostolic Succession? I think not!!”
@TheDiva: Mary herself is a literal cancer amongst the people she’s “influenced” over the years. Her relationship with Dr. Jeff is all take and no give while stringing him along. Toby Cameron is losing brain cells on her box wine and quaaludes diet so that she can be properly childlike to her ephebophile of a husband who likely dumped his last girlfriend because people stopped mistaking them for father and daughter. Saul and Eve are only together because of their dogs since they have nothing else in common. Dawn has an Electra Complex that she denies by repeatedly getting into terrible relationships. Wilbur thinks that it’s everyone else’s fault that he’s a terrible person. And Olive has no chance of being anything close to functional thanks to Mary constantly telling her how special she is.
@Needless Exposition: Borderline? Moy crossed the border weeks ago and it’s now a mere speck on the horizon behind her.
@Baja GaijinLuann: But they can just get rid of the tables altogether to encourage more customer turnover. Hell, I’d do that so I wouldn’t have to deal with a nimrod like Luann.
@TheDiva: Psssh, Chick-fil-a… We all know Wanda stayed up all last night cooking grits, bacon, biscuits n’ gravy and scrambled eggs for the reception while Truck slept off the booze from his one-man bachelor party. Hell, she probably baked the cake too, if she didn’t just pick up a massive sheet cake at the local Piggly Wiggly (it said ‘Condolences For Your Loss’ on it but it was half-off and it’s not like Truck has any money to pay full price for a correct one!).
@Liam:
I do it as well as my phone is linked to my hearing aids which is the only thing I love about wearing them.
@TheDiva: When I brought up Scrooge, I wasn’t referring to him being rich, but solely his business sense.
Dennis – Extra thought bubble not shown: Frustrated Alice giving Henry the stink-eye because she can no longer bang the mailman.
DtM: Today’s lesson: How not to convert a briefcase to a laptop when you reuse old art.
Don Abundio, translated:
“Pola looks sad”
“What’s the matter? Are you experiencing existential angst over your empty and meaningless life of captivity?”
“No…”
“The Pirates are in the cellar!”
RMMD: Does being a minister in the Dr. Mirakle cult even apply here?
@Peanut Gallery: The towheaded, freckle faced mailman who often asks Dennis, “How you doing, son?” and patting his head while smirking at Henry.
@Hibbleton: DtM: Love the sour look on the guy trying to convince Henry to work from home
______________________________
“What do we do again?” “I thought YOU knew!”
DTM: Honestly, Henry looks like he’s in someone’s kitchen rather than an office.
Might as well be the Tribeca Grill…
Better Dennis scenario:
While at work, Henry has no memories of Dennis, his home or even his wife, as he slaves to a computer all day deleting “scary numbers”
@Peanut Gallery: The Mailman has a busy work schedule. Banging Thel next door, and banging Irma the next door down.
An office manager who not only didn’t have a hand in finding someone to cover for him for a week, but waited until after that week was over to ask if his boss was successful in doing just that? I’m pretty sure in the Blondie universe Dithers’ company is responsible for most of Reddit traffic from AITH to Malicious Compliance to No Stupid Questions to Legal Advice to pretty much everything else.
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It’s impressive that Henry has his own office but a tiny little desk. His son may be a menace, but nowhere near the level of his boss.
@Sequitur: “You know how to whistle, don’t you? No? Well, ask Lauren Bacall!”
“No longer will my people suffer under the foreign tyrant! Domestic tyrants only!”
@F L.B.: Honestly, I’d pay some serious money (like two bucks) for a jackal named Carlos to appear in Slylock.
One of these animals is plotting the assassination of Princess Pussycat! Can Slylock stop him or her in time?
LUANN: Er…Greg and Karen Evans? The point of a dropped plot is that you don’t have to keep reminding the audience of it. Like, clearly Luann does not want to “just start working”, since that’s what she was going to do in the previous arc (in order to move out and “become independent”, remember?), before it was hamfistedly retconned into a pointless “summer job” (she doesn’t need money anymore, I guess.) I also wonder if Luann is ever going to realize that, much like 85% of actual college students, she can work and attend classes at the same time, but that’s for “sluts” like Tiffany, so I guess she won’t.
LUANN (2): The second panel is particularly dumb because who wants to the hell would even want to quit work just to go back to the college grid (“NOT ME!” shouts Josh having painful flashbacks to his abortive graduate studies.)
@Tabby Lavalamp: The ultimate joke of Dennis the Menace, would be that his boss looks exactly like a grown-up Dennis.
Meaning that his boss has been getting it on with Alice for years.
@Voshkod: Maybe Weber should do that.
People can pay to have their
fursonasoriginal characters appear in a Slylock puzzle.RMMD: I’m surprised the budget sheet cake doesn’t say, “Happy birthday, Wanda June!”
H & L: You’d think after giving his wife flowers, Hi wouldn’t have to sleep on the couch (though he does seem quite content there).
Zits: For some reason, Connie hasn’t aged a day in 16 years.
MW: June shuffled into the kitchen, her tousled hair and puffy eyes mute testimony to a long, sleepless night. She made her way to the kitchen stool and poured herself a cup of coffee, her hand shaking slightly as she held the carafe.
“You don’t look so good today, June,” Karen remarked. “You doin’ okay?”
“I’m worried, Karen. I mean, aren’t you?” She took a sip of the steaming brew and grimaced. “Say, make me a Bloody Mary, would you? This is not a day for caffeine.”
“Well, okay–if you’re not planning to work today. You shouldn’t drink and draw, you know. That last panel for the Sunday strip was a little…off. Mary’s face is flat, Olive’s eyes are almost maniacal….” Karen mixed the drink as she continued, “What’s going on, June? You seem so down. That’s why I wrote in the balloon festival. I thought you’d enjoy using some of the other colors in your paint box–you remember you told me you were tired of the purple. I thought all those balloons would cheer you up.” She handed June the glass.
June removed the celery stick and drank deeply. “It’s not about the colors, Karen. I don’t have any idea why they’re in the balloon, why Mary is hanging around with a 14-year-old who is such an ‘old soul’ but who acts like a kindergartner. I’ve lost control of all of it. I mean, what’s the POINT of this? Who ARE these people?”
“Why, they’re just…PEOPLE, June. OUR people. All the same characters you’ve been illustrating, plus a few new ones I added in, just so you could draw different SHIRTS!”
“Karen, it’s not about SHIRTS. Mary and Olive have been yapping at each other about how special Olive is and what an old soul she is and how she reminds Mary of herself and all this interior thought-balloon stuff…I mean, there’s no PLOT.” June finished off her drink and shoved the glass across the counter towards Karen, nodding for a refill.
Karen’s expression fell. “I know,” she admitted tiredly. “I don’t know what to do with them. I’ve discovered I don’t even LIKE Olive.”
“Well, our readers can’t STAND her.” June was blunt. “I got six letters this week suggesting you have Olive fall out of the gondola.”
“We can’t do THAT!” Karen objected. “Gosh, do they really hate her that much?”
June picked up a piece of paper from the counter and read. “‘Dear Ms. Brigman, Could you and Ms. Moy PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD put an end to this story? You’ve been teasing us with deadly air conditioners and vicious dogs and still you can’t manage to get rid of that odious Olive, so what must you do but EXTEND this nonsense by having Mary bring her back to CHARTERSTONE? Take care of business! Look, you’ve got them in a balloon. They’re high up in the air. WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?'”
Karen picked up a paper from near to where she was standing, and retorted, “Well, I’m getting it from all sides, then,” reading: “Dear Ms. Moy, I want to remind you that our contract calls for appearances by 16 of my clients before the end of September. You’ve provided for only four. What’s more, The Doves o’ Love were inserted without any reference to the story, which is a clear violation of Clause 4. We have agreements with the four-leggers for feature spots within the next nine days, and unless you honor the specific appearances WITH the appropriate animal dialog, you will be in breach of our contract. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Signed, Sid.”
“Well, there you go! Even SID doesn’t like what’s going on–and he’s been really understanding, even after ANIMAL HOSPITAL killed off his Pomeranian client. We can’t let him down NOW. He’ll never trust us again!”
Karen wailed, “But there AREN’T any animals that high up in the air!! I don’t know how to put his clients into this story, and I’m running out of time!” She had mixed the drink for June but swallowed half of it, putting the glass down, hard. “Okay, what if there’s a snake in the gondola that they didn’t know about, and it bites Olive?”
“That’s okay for the readers, but doesn’t do anything for your problem with Sid. He doesn’t represent reptiles, does he?”
“What, then?” Karen looked wildly about the kitchen, as if the knives in the knife block, or the sharp forks in the drawer, or the ice pick might provide inspiration. June took note of this and brightened.
“You need a bird strike. Gas leak, balloon descends to bird level, balloon gets hit by a flock of gulls. Sid has gulls in his client list that he hasn’t used lately. Then they crash land in the wilderness and they have to send out dogs to find them.”
“We just did Max and Greta….” Karen said, doubtfully.
“Okay, MAX and GRETA?? With the stupid bandanna and the bow tie??” June snorted. “You need a REAL dog for this one. Or better still, a handsome rancher on a HORSE with his trusty dog at his side. I’m getting better at drawing horses, you know. At least, better than those stupid Toby Cameron horsie sculptures.”
“Okay, if you think that would be better….I’ll get on the phone with Sid.”
“All right, good, and I’ll start sketching up the rescue. Only let’s be clear: OLIVE DOESN’T SURVIVE. Capiche?”
Dustin: Undoubtedly based on a true story.
@astroboy: MW- She’s Olive and we’re not. She’s Mary Worth and we all wish we were. Right? Let us lowly minions eat cake. With Rex Morgan.
Blondie: How many lazy nephews does Dithers have? At this rate, he’ll have so many that he could just replace his whole workforce with them.
Crock: Is it just me, or has the art style of Crock ever given any of you “racist caricature” vibes? Like, it FEELS racist to me, but I’m not sure its actually racist. Its weird.
SFx: Weber! No more word balloons! It’s just too creepy.
DtM: When did this comic start ripping off Calvin and Hobbes?
@Needless Exposition: I don’t know if I quite agree with this assessment, or at least, Mary’s responsibility in it (even the claim that she’s a “cancer” is a bit much. Given her willingness to praise and promote herself, I’d say Mary’s more like a recurring case of “the Clap” at best. Rimshot.)
But still, as we saw in their 1st appearance, Toby was as malleable (and as bright) as the clay she molded even when she was a new tenant (and Ian was even more condescending and patronizing then, he’s actually gotten better since then…or “better” considering how you stand on how interesting his character is now).
Saul’s obsession with dogs was part of his backstory and Mary didn’t actually get him and Eve together (don’t let the fact that she spent a month basking in the credit for that fool you.) That was all them.
Mary and Dr Jeff do “deserve” each other more than you think (he is the same “caring father” that relentless pressured her daughter to hook up with a detective that had a rather unethical fascination with one of the victims under his care simply because he knew her father and he came from “good stock…unlike the “trashy whores” Dr. Jeff thinks his son dates). If that attitude doesn’t prove that he’s more “in sync” with Mary’s temperament then you originally assumed, then nothing will!
Dawn insecurity issues predates Mary Worth (a “Mary Worth Classic” panel shows that Dawn’s mother said her then-rotund-and-nerdy daughter had Wilbur’s “ugly genes”, which I’m sure didn’t contribute to her standing by a man who criticized those very aspects of her).
Wilbur’s “origin story” portrayed him as a loser from the very start (with an ever-helpful Ian to emasculate him at every turn so Wilbur would know who the Alpha Male of the “Doughy Asshole brigade” is around these parts!)
Even St. Olive the Divine would probably be less weird if she didn’t have parents who take her to see Aldo-esque looking crackheads for surgery just so they can have more time “doing what normal for kids our age, tee hee!”
The point is all these people were awful (and surrounded by people as awful as them) way before Mary stepped in to bask in unearned unwarranted glory for interfering with their lives. It’s all just part of the rich crapsaccharine tapestry the makes up the richness of the Mary Universe (Oh my god, Moy. Render that as a Sunday Quote, stat!)
@79 2+2=7: Don’t edit yourself, 7, please tell us what you REALLY think of Mary Worth.
@TheDiva: This is a gross exagerration as well. Mary is, too, adventurous. First of all, for your information, Mary Worth went to a Long Island Whole Foods, and not an Times Square Olive Garden as you slanderously suggested. Surely a sign of someone willing to explore all of what New York has to offer!
And Mary has done non Charterstone and//or New York excursions! Remember when she went on a cruise where she sat on the deck all day long and even had time to meddling in the life of a couple having far more exciting and interesting storylines. And there was the time she traveled all to Vietnam to drag he man away from a dream job he loved so he wouldn’t have to risk being in “third world country” just to help people medically who desperately needed it. Is that the actions of someone unwilling and incapable of expanding her horizons and venturing out into the unknown? Clearly you have an apology to compose to Our Heroine
(Also being hopelessly stuck in a rut is a Rex Morgan M.D. thing, so there would be copyright infringement to consider in any case.)