Friday, May 3, 2013

Mary Worth 1,587

See Tom. See Tom wash carrots. Wash, Tom, Wash. See carrots. Wait. Wha...? What happened to the carrots? And what happened to that sink? Can we start over?

Today's Full Strip

20 comments:

NonnyMus said...

Listen, if chicken soup can be white, then carrots can turn white and plate shaped without warning, right??

On the other hand, that chest-high faucet is just silly. And Tom's not even wearing an apron!!

heydave said...

This plot hurts my head.

Thorpnotized said...

I do like carrots! Oh, I do, I do, I do!

[Tom is washing his dog dish in panel two... the one he uses himself while eating at home.]

QuakerJohn said...

Beth's teaching methods remind of being a little kid helping my Dad: he'd give me a scrap of wood, a hammer and few nails and set me aside to pound them into the board. Later, I'd proudly tell Mom how I had "helped" Dad finish off the attic. Like me as a 6 year old, Tom's never going to learn anything if Beth has him doing busywork like rinsing carrots while she does the heavy lifting of preparing the chops.

KitKat said...

So many exclamation points! So exciting! And fun!

Did Beth pull the pork chops and carrots out of her shoulder bag? Bleah. What about dessert - is there room for Jello in that purse?

Dialogue I'd rather have had:

Beth: "I'll prepare the pork chops!"

Tom: "Pork chops?! Beth, I'm Jewish!"

fauxprof said...

@Thorpnotized is right. All I could see was a white dog dish. No carrots. Actually, the carrots have nothing to do with whatever is being prepared. If he ever does get around to rinsing them, they'll be laid aside and never heard from again.

(Keep repeating "carrots", and it becomes one of those nonsense words.)

Nance said...

Today's strip is such a Trainwreck and in so many ways.

I'm with @heydave and @QuakerJohn.

And, just for the record, allow me to channel Elinor for just a moment when I say that I hate pork chops.

Thorpnotized said...

Upon further examination of today's strip, I have an alternate explanation for the second panel. Tom is rinsing the bottom of the plastic tray the carrots were packed in. After all, Beth did not tell him to remove them from the package. Just another way for him to prove to her just how inept he is in the kitchen.

Chin Napkin Groupie said...

And Seinfeld was supposed to be about nothing.

Anonymous said...

Who would have thought that Elinor would turn out to be the most atractive character in this "story"?

Dave in Parma said...

This story is the only thing worse than plain dull: so dull that there's nothing sarcastic to add.

Barbara L. Hanson said...

Who in the world washes carrots, anyway? You're going to peel them. Next up, a nice scrub for the potatoes that we are going to mash.

Sandi Ego said...

That must be Tom's Portable Vegetable Washing Sink he had overnighted from Williams-Sonoma. I hope Beth isn't touching her face after handling the pork.
@ Chin Napkin Groupie, lol

Sandi Ego said...

Oh man, the new wv that just appeared is "Tamerio blood", hopefully not on the list of ingredients!

Nance said...

@Chin Napkin Groupie--

BEST COMMENT OF THE DAY

Anonymous said...

Is a pork chop more difficult to cook than a hot dog?

Peggy Olson said...

Are they really talking about dinner, or does today's dialogue reek of innuendo? Carrots, quick and easy.

The double entendre makes the strip more interesting - and more disturbing at the same time!

Anonymous said...

Is Tom's hand just about the same length as his forearm in Panel 2? Is that his thumb on the dog dish or is that the only carrot he managed to save when he accidently turned on the garbage disposal in the sink? And, most distressingly, is that Chin Napkin doing double duty as a dishrag?

meg said...

Anonymous- some of us would be glad to see Chin Napkin do an honest panel's work.

Delilah said...

In panel 1, are Beth & Tom talking to a LiveCam mounted in the ceiling?