Now, don't go backing out, Mary. You promised little Olive you'd stay in touch with her. Just because there is PHYSICAL DISTANCE between you, doesn't mean you can't find some way to communicate. Maybe if you get two tin cans and a really, really long string...
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I think that's Ed's leg crossed over Toby's. You can't see him because Mary's holding the picture in the way. Nice to see that Olive used a large-format camera to get that 8x10 photo.
Not only did Olive print the photo, she made the frame out of tongue depressors she swiped from Mountview the day she had the cystectomy.
Toby seems to be thoroughly bored and sick to death of Mary's prattling about Olive (I second that): "Hmm...yes. She sounds like a fascinating child. And dangerously deranged."
"One day", says Mary. "One day that brat will need advice on her love or work life, and then we'll see who's more adorable."
So there we have it... Mary, after yammering on about the intensely close connection she and Olive had, suddenly dismisses her like a used kleenex. But then, she DOES have that pattern, doesn't she? Ala Jeff, Ken Kensington, etc.
Too bad Moy didn't dismiss this whole plot a whole lot sooner...
From The Department Of Redundancy Department:
Toby and Mary already played this scene once before. Mary recapped her rescue of Olive, and bragged about saving her life.
KM is caught in an endless loop, and we're all losing it.
Meddle and dump... classic pattern. The flower faeries will take their revenge.
Physical distance? One of my students faithfully Skypes her grandmother every few days. In India. Uh, Mary, there's this thing called 21st century technology...
Oh, poor Toby. Do I detect some sibling rivalry going on here? Don't worry, honey; Mary loves you both just the same. And now you have Mary all to yourself because your physical distance is so small!
To Moy, skyping is probably as magical and far fetched as ESP. In fact, Olive probably knew about Dr. Kapuht because she'd checked him out on Angie's list.
A little random talk about flower fairies, a dramatic pretense of falling in the pool, with a secret loudspeaker planted in Mary's room, and the girl has her convinced that everything she says is truth.
She now holds more power over Mary than Dr. Jeff ever did.
SCORE! I called it! Pool party with Toby and margaritas! YESSS! Dissecting the whole Mary-Olive dynamic. YESSS! (And let's face it, folks, this plot has been pretty dynamic!)
Plus, I'm not surprised Mary is already prepping to dump Olive forever. Mary is a well-known commitment-o-phobe.
Pass the chips and dip, please!
Ha, I just knew that the neglectful Ed.and Evy would lose Olive at the airport. Will Olive's tummy brain direct her to the correct gate, or will she end up on a FedEx cargo plane bound for Newark?
SATURDAY
Wanders, could you please add "Proud Mary" to the Charterstone jukebox?
Thank you. xxoo
I'll make you proud, Mary! I'm going to take over the world! And then I'll make you my prime minister! I don't care how many corpses have to pile up for me to do it, either!
If thus isn't the most disturbing, most horribly conceived and realized plotline in comic strip history, I don't know what us. When I saw the flower fairies I did not think it could get any worse. Karen Moy has proven me wrong!
Olive is disturbing and not the least bit likable, and Mary is feeding it. Her parents should have told Mary to MHOFB and started the meds immediately. Dr. Kapuht had a full cabinet, he would have been perfect for the job!
How did Dr. Kapuht lose the patient anyway? Wasn't there an anesthesiologist that would have been responsible for that, or some nurses looking over his shoulder?
Food Team was where Dawn Weston spotted her former heartthrob with his new lady love. Let's hope a horrified Mary spies Dr. Jeff canoodling in the produce aisle with a Jezebel, perhaps someone like Nola Wolvenson. THAT would be a fine plot!
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