I've learned three things today that I didn't know yesterday:1) Gina is attractive.
2) She has loved before, but doesn't think she will find love again.
3) Middle aged men in mom pants hit on waitresses all the time.
What kind of person takes a job that requires her to be hit on by middle aged men in mom pants? Unless it is just for the laughs. Dear readers, if you have been a waitress, can you please share your story? Were you hit on frequently by middle aged men in mom pants? And why didn't you think you would ever find love again?
Today's Full Strip
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Gina's raking in the cash! Who knows how many customers she's stringing along with the "dear departed mother" story.
BTW, are there NO other servers at Diner? For all the time Mary's spent there with Jill and LiZa, it's a wonder she hadn't met Gina sooner.
I have a feeling that Gina's mopey thought bubble about never finding love again means this isn't going to be an interesting story about a con artist. Looks like we're in for another round of the Worthian Heteronormative Imperative.
Gina: (sigh) "I can't beat them away with a stick. When will they start wearing he-men clothing??"
Although I hope for better, I'm afraid we're in for another dreary my-man-done-me-wrong story.
Karen with a K@8.48a is correct, unfortunately. I was looking forward to a good con man/grifter story, I really was.
So, who do you think Mary will find to enure Gina finds love? Dr Drew?
By the way, where are the honeymooners?
Great--we get a new rehash of the 'love is not for me' plot coupled with the "will Dr. Drew ever find anyone plot for the next few months.
It would be much more interesting if Mary took the slip of paper with the phone number and gave it to Dr. Drew. Maybe they could get together and read Gentleman's Exercise quarterly together. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
And speaking of diversity, for kicks I did a google image search for Moy and Giella yesterday. After seeing Giella (surprising standing not with Warren G Harding, but with Moy) the diversity of the plot lines make much more sense. I'm surprised though Moy doesn't introduce some more color (and I don't just mean blue hair) into the strip. Last month was the first I've seen, and I've been reading since I was 10.
Well, Wanders, since you asked - here's my waitress story. I was in college and worked at my cousin's bar and grill over the summer. Since the owners and I looked alike, the men at the bar left me alone - and focused on their lunch-time boilermakers instead. (They wore flannel shirts with their mom jeans.)
Mary Worth would not have set foot in that place! Now, Jeff may have considered it, especially after Mary's fifth wedding proposal rejection.
Gina is so attractive even the plant behind her is about to grope her.
I had a random thought of an "I love Lucy" version of Mary Worth where real life guest stars would appear to help out, of course they'd have to be dead ones or the ones that play Branson now...
Guest Star: "Is there a problem ladies?"
Mary & Gina: "TONY CURTIS!!!????!
or
Guest Stars: Is there a problem ladies?"
Mary & Gina:" THE OAK RIDGE BOYS!?!?!?!?!?"
I don't think that's going to happen though.
When things didn't work out with Dr. Mike Roberts, Jenna Thomas changed her name to Gina and started waitressing. She still loves the white scrunchy!
First of all, thought bubbles again? Come on, Liza used up an entire year's worth of those.
Secondly, how old could Gina possibly be that she's spouting the old line of never finding love again.
Thirdly, Moy and Giella, you can do better than that. Seriously!
Could Mr. Mom Jeans write his phone number any bigger? He must think Gina is too poor to afford eye glasses.
@Steve W- That sounds like a great idea! They can even add some much needed diversity to the strip, by encountering The Harlem Globetrotters, Pink Lady & Jeff, or even Tony Orlando & Dawn!
Mary Worth Rule #1 - Mary never gets scammed. She is all knowing, the height of intelligence.
Getting scammed is for cry babies like Toby.
As for middle age men in mom jeans, the more you spurn them and act rude to them, the bigger the subsequent tips.
Two more things I've learned:
1. Men in Santa Royale go weak in the knees for 80's style ponytails.
2. "Mary Worth" makes a great Ipecac.
Dave, I googled Moy and Giella and one of the first images that came up was a very disturbing drawing of Mary in a Wonder Woman outfit. Yikes!
Gina and Drew sittin' in a tree
While he's reading Men's Quarterly...
--Beagle Vet
I was a waitress back when I was young and cute, and I can tell you that I was constantly hit on by all sorts of old guys. The guy who is hitting on Gina isn't too bad, comparatively. How sad is that?
@Anonymous/Beagle Vet: I had the misfortune of seeing that too...
@Steven W./@Maude: that formula was also used with "success" (?!) on Scooby Doo---also with the Harlem Globetrotters, the Three Stooges, Mama Cass, etc.
Upon further reflection and taking Mary's troubled expression (in both panels!) into consideration (and because I simply have "nothing better" to do right now)......
I think Mary should suggest that Gina quit her waitress job in that train compartment, move in with her to get away from the leering customers, and concentrate on her disrupted studies at Local U. Then--and this is where it gets good--she could meet the younger doctor Corey while the older doctor Corey proposes yet again to Mary, eventually culminating in double nuptuals and wedded bliss for all.
And they all lived happily ever after.
THE END!
Drew can't find love. Mary refuses Jeff's proposal. Gina can't find love. Apparently love is not for anyone in the Worthiverse. And as for Uncle Joe, who can blame him for mailing it in when he has so little to work with.
@Anon. 7:13 pm: You left out Middle-Aged Man in Mom Pants; he can't find love, either (but it hasn't stopped him from trying).
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