Things I learned from Inception: A dream within a dream is very unstable. No wonder Lonnie falls to pieces. Also, only after we wake up do we realize how strange things were in the dream, like Mary practicing therapy on a therapist, or furniture in a room rearranging itself, or a lamp post transforming into a redwood tree. It's all so obvious to me now. Mary has entered Mike's dream to plant an idea. The idea that Mike should ask Jenna out for a second date. If Lonnie shows up and tells him, "I am disappointed..." that would be awesome. But disappointed in what??Today's Full Strip
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Okay. Dr Mike's dad is presented as a gray-haired, pipe-smoking man wearing a cardigan. Whether that's Dr Mike's dream or reality, what we're being presented with is a man fully represented as being from a 1950's sit-com like "Father Knows Best" or "Leave it to Beaver".
Those men did NOT leave their children. They were "good, responsible fathers". IF Lonnie did desert his family, then obviously THEY were so completely creepy and such losers that even a paragon of fatherhood and husbandry was forced to leave to preserve his sanity.
If that's true, then Dr Mike and his mother deserved what they got.
The real Lonnie is Fred and he shows up every single time.
But Mike, desperately seeking a gray-haired, pipe-smoking man wearing a cardigan, looks right past the bald, Camel-smoking guy in the undershirt.
If Lonnie is Beaver Cleaver's dad, doesn't that make Dr. Mike somewhere between 50 and 60? Isn't that a little old for Jenna? Maybe Mary should keep this one for herself.
His dad looks like the dad from the Dennis the Menace comic! I wonder if Dr. Mike also had a neighbor named Mr. Wilson?
Anonymous@12.45p - time and age have no relevance in a Mary Worth story. It's sort of like soap operas where a baby is introduced as a baby, but three years later returns to the show as a teenager.
Who knows how old any of these idiot characters are. The original Mary Worth - "Apple Mary" - should have been dead and buried a half century ago.
Roommate, schmoommate. @duckdg: The real Lonnie is Fred. The real Lonnie is Fred. The real Lonnie is Fred. The real Lonnie is Fred. The real Lonnie is Fred.
Fred/Lonnie doesn't show up because he can't show his son what a loser he is.
It appears Mike has been waiting for Lonnie (Fred?) to show up for almost 24 hours now. The full moon was up when he started and now it's turning to night again. If Lonnie doesn't show, I hope at least Jenna wanders by in her bathrobe with her wine bottle in a paper bag and sits down on the park bench to share it with him. What a great date that would be! And something to tell the grandkids about someday!
Haha! Very clever Inception theory. Not much makes sense in the Maryverse, but this really does!
@ Anon -- I was sort of thinking along the same line, but wondered why the grandfatherly-looking father (Lonnie) is walking with the kid, who we assume is Dr. Mike at about age 8 or 9. So how old is Lonnie by now???? It's probably taken him 24 hrs. just to get out of bed & get dressed!
I have some news to share. I posted this website to my Facebook account and a FB friend from college said his ex's grandfather was the creator of Mary Worth!! I must pump him for more information....
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