When a car comes speeding out of nowhere, it generally has one of two purposes in mind: run somebody over, or it's the Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes team with balloons and a giant check. I'm going with the former on this one. Fortunately, Lonnie has a son who will grow up to be a great psychotherapist who can help him heal the scars of losing someone he loves. Mike's really good at that.I haven't lost sight of the fact that this is still the Bonnie Johnson story. We are now enjoying a story (Richie dies), within a story (Mike's reconciliation with Dad), within a story (Jenna waiting by the phone), within a story (Bonnie collects things). If you're just starting to get into Mary Worth, this is a great time to start.
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Like the speeding car, this story is speeding out of control. I want to get back to Maisies and do come shopping!
@chester: LOL. Fasten your seatbelt, Chester. The excitement may be too much to handle.
The awful, crawling predictability of this is that while the details may be hidden from us, the simpering, saturated, moral smug, in black and white, is laid out so very, very clearly.
And dumbly.
p.s. word check: "offies"... that's what the car is doing!
I didn't realise we were still in the Bonnie Johnson story. I thought we had moved on and the stupid accountant/ineffective shrink story was new.
And why does "cousin" look like Kurt???
@phoebes: Everyone looks like Kurt. Regardless of how Kurt may look on any given day.
@Chester: haha, me too!!!
I hope so much that by the time Lonnie's story is told, Jenna has moved on and found another man. Maybe even gotten engaged, and already ordered the wedding invitations. Then when Dr. Mikey calls for that second date she can say, "sorry, loser, I found somebody better". HA!
Housekeeping issue, Wanders.
When I would post, I used to be able to check a box and all future posts would be sent to my email address. Why is there no box?
I'm posting under "Name/URL".
When this resolves, Jenna will have turned to the pill bottle and ended it all, rather than face the prospect of never having a second date with her One True Like.
Then Dr. Mike will see her sad little corpse being rolled into the morgue and shed the world's most dramatic single tear. Foiled again by fate.
Jenna--who's Jenna? This strip needs a continuity manager.
However, it's worth noting that Lonnie, in his grief over losing his best friend/cousin, hasn't had time to get new eyeglasses for about 50 years.
You know, after the whole story within a story within a story theory, I FINALLY get it! Also I saw ''Inception'' this weekend, so now I'm understanding a lot of things that I didn't understand before.
I am seriously excited to see what happens with this one.
"Closer than brothers?" Hmmmm. I sense a little Doris Day in the background..
Here's a question for you longtimers. Since we are now, as Wanders says, in a story within a story within a story within a story, what usually happens when these storylines wind up (if they ever wind up)? Do they continue in this fashion like a run-on sentence, or does Moy ever eventually head back and finalize any of the storylines? (Ha ha ha, right?) Maybe Jenna is still in Mary's kitchen eating bananas and staring at her cell phone.
Punky, they usually end up with Mary spouting some trite platitude and then the phone will ring with a new character. Or she'll be drinking coffee with Toby and be reminded of something...such as how she needs to return a blouse at Maisies.
See, I disagree with all of you. As I wrote above, I think this is a separate story from Bonnie Johnson. I felt that was resolved and Moy went on using the new characters from that really interesting storyline.
Of course, I could be wrong...
...or perhaps the story will be nicely tied back together by the driver of the speeding DeSoto being none other than....Bonnie, Bonnie Johnson.
Dr. Mike will be able to avenge his dad's cousin/man-crush by sucking the hope for love out of Bonnie's financial advisor, thus sending Bonnie hurtling back into the financial abyss, never to afford a car (or death machine as it were) again.
I think it ties everything together rather nicely.
Then again, the car could just go speeding past, leaving Lonnie/Mike's dad only momentarily delayed from returning to destroying his liver.
Let's see...who could be in the car?? Is it...B?BJ? May the circle be unbroken.
@phoebes: The box is still there for me, so I'm not sure why you're having the problem, but that is something Google controls. Or maybe Jenna Thomas TOOK your box. I hear she took all of Bonnie Johnson's.
Thanks for the note, Wanders. Maybe the box on my computer was sent back to Marcy's...
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