Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Mary Worth 2487

One of the most touching aspects of this beautiful story is that Zak doesn't even know how broke and in debt Iris is, and yet he still says nice things to her, and may one day even tell her his last name. He is constantly lifting her self esteem, which he found wadded up in the dust under a table at Jerry's after years of being stepped on by Wilbur Weston.

Here's something else I found wadded up under a table at Jerry's:

Zak's Playbook: 1) Find a female with horrible self esteem. 2) Make her feel young by inviting her to do young people things. 3) Have friends make fun of her. 4) Compliment her. Say nice things. Tell her she's beautiful. 5) Hug her in the car.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Her self esteem must be way down in the basement. If I were going to go and do anything with a new friend, and he or she allowed their friends to openly mock me, I'd never have been willing to get into the car. He's creepy and a lousy friend. Of course, Iris has a history of choosing friends who don't especially care about her feelings.

fauxprof said...

Why, oh why, did KM imagine we wanted to go straight into another Iris Beedie storyline? With or without Tommy, anything Beedie is obnoxious enough to make us miss Olive and the TeeHee Taylors!

KitKat said...

@fauxprof at 8:31 AM, we know it's bad when Olive and the TeeHee Taylors are a more agreeable option. I desperately miss Ken Kensington.

Wanders has summed up this whole icky "plot" perfectly. I dread #6, #7, etc. KM foisted the Dawn-Harlan mess on us last year, and now this one. If she thinks these are examples of healthy relationships, she has several loose screws.

Nance said...

Sigh. Why are the women such Dumb Unempowered Suckers in this strip?

Toby: "I can stay home and play with Art since my elder man keeps me in supplies."
Evy Taylor: "Tee hee. Ed is all I need for...Everything! And we let our kid raise herself."
Dawn Weston: "School is great for meeting men."
Mary Worth: "I help all the women land the men they need to be happy."
Terry Bryson: "I had a terrific and challenging career, but my life was meaningless until I had a man."

...and all of you can take it from here.

LouiseF said...

Thank you, Nance! Guessing none of the women in MW will be turning up at the Million Women March in DC later this month...

Anonymous said...

Scroll down on the blog to the Iris in the "winner of the 2016 Aldo Kelrast Memorial Worthy Award" panel. This is the real Iris. If she still looked like this I doubt that college boy would be pursuing her.

Anonymous said...

Okay, I've been predicting for weeks that Dawn is going to catch Iris and Zak kissing. We've got to be getting close, right?

Gina said...

@Anonymous at 10:12: Yeah, I don't think it was very nice of Moy & Brigman not to show us Iris's Dorian Gray plotline that obviously preceded this one.

KitKat said...

@Nance at 9:18AM, you hit the target. We can add Beth Kinley and Jill Black to the list. The only "successful career woman" I recall was Nola Wolvenson, but her drive and ambition were products of her emasculating vengefulness (KM's take, of course!), and she got her comeuppance.

However, the men in this strip are nothing to write home about, either!

Yahoonski said...

Rick Nelson lives!

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Anonymous said...

The next strip will contain two panels. In panel 1, Iris and Zak will kiss, albeit most chastely. In panel 2, Iris's floating head will appear above a wistful Wilbur, who has no idea his cougar has moved on.

Laura Canon said...

This reminds me of a story about Clark Gable when he served in the Army in WWII. He and the other soldiers in his outfit would go to USO dances and he would always dance with the worst looking girls. Someone asked him why and he said "they're so much more grateful."

Shmoopie said...

I have a son who is in his mid-twenties as well. Frankly, the mere thought of hanging out (and perhaps even making out!) with a young man of his age group gives me the heebie jeebies. I guess I'm not cougar material.

Anonymous said...

Wanders, your mind is in the gutter. How do you know Zak didn't have a salami in his pocket?

I'm guessing the big reveal is that he works at Jerrys Sandwich Shop. He stole the salami and Wilbur will find out about the Zak and Iris relationship when he has his nightly Skype session with Jerry.

Jerry -"Wilbur, I really need you back. The shop is just ekeing by and I suspect the kid I hired to replace Tommy is stealing from me. Im missing a big salami. He says he is an advanced business studies student but he is dumb as a stump and is always saying HaHa. Seems to have a thing for the older ladies too.

It will be like a Seinfeld episode where all the story arcs come together at the end. Wilbur, heartbroken, Iris, heartbroken. Jerry, heartbroken. Zak, off to the cooler to meet some of Tommys old friends.