Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Mary Worth 3492

Between the onion ring and the Post-it Note, how's a girl to resist?

33 comments:

tkraft said...

Is that note from Tommy, or a last-minute appeal from the incumbent to the White Suburban Female voting block? Hey, hey Karen and June, let's keep politics out of the MW world. We Worthians and come here to escape from reality. No intrusions, please! Real life is crazy enough. (Happy Election Day to all MW & Me friends!)

KitKat said...

Sorry, Post-It Note Correspondent, Freda’s policy is no returns and no rainchecks. Have a nice day!

Anonymous said...

"Baby come back, listen, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you..."

Anonymous said...

Just a thought... Tommy should take a cue from Wilbur and Estelle and pull a "Say Anything" boombox serenade. Yea, that's it Tommy! Write to Dear Wendy!

Anonymous said...

Wow, Tommy... you actually sprung for one whole, entire rose? Must be Freda's doesn't sell half roses.

HelenClark

Chester the Dog said...

Break out the boombox, Tommy!

Chester the Dog said...

Work station? Like she ever works!

Regina Wolfe-Parks said...

Is there something in the water in Chaterstone that makes the males whiny and needy? (Wilbur, Chinbeard and now Tommy.) If I got a note like that from a guy, it would be tossed in the trash. Tommy needs to turn in his man card.

Anonymous said...


This is so cheesy, he should have also left her a pack of Kraft singles.

You're just making it worse, Tombo.

-- Scottie McW.

Tim said...

Tommy is interested in a woman named Brandi. Obviously he hasn't put his addictions behind him.

KitKat said...

I first thought that today’s strip was an inadvertent rerun from last week. So Tommy has been skulking in the apron room, waiting for Brandy to take a break from not working? KM has been hitting the snooze button hard.

Anonymous said...

It is about time that Tommy told Brandy to take a flying leap. Who in the world would want a wife who NEVER believed anything you told her? All she does is gripe and call him a liar over and over again.

Garnet said...

What on Earth do these two see in each other? She's not very bright and obviously doesn't trust him, and he proposed to her with an onion ring.

Chester the Dog said...

OMG you two, just get over it. Tommy, there is more than one female in Santa Royale under the age of 50!

Even Libby is looking like a good match for Tommy.

LouiseF said...

Great question, Regina! I have to think that in between the storylines these guys must show SOME appealing qualities to their girl friends/wives. I picture Tommy helpfully vacuuming the living room, for instance. Wilbur maybe repairing a faucet for Estelle (he seems like he could be hiding some plumbing skills). And Ian? Well, he could be finally donating that godawful astroturf jacket to a thrift store, thereby making Toby's day. A girl can dream anyway...

KitKat said...

Thursday
More leftovers/recycling by June: today’s first panel is pretty much identical to last Friday,, showing the front of Freda’s. June’s as bored as the rest of us.

I guess it hasn’t occurred to Tommy to ask Brandy how she happened to see him and Known Druggie Vin. No “Babe, were you spying on/following/stalking me?!”?

Anonymous said...


Yeah, we get it, KM. Can we move this along, please?

This pace is more glacial than the counting of ballots.

-- Scottie McW.

Tim said...

It's beyond clear Brandi will never be able to trust Tommy. Since his last experience with drugs was prescription medication she can't even trust him in a drug store. It's time to move on.

Tim said...

Oh and Tommy needs to be a man and tell Brandi he told her the but she accuses him of lying. This doesn't work so goodbye.
Or alternatively given the lack of trust can we mess around until we both find something better?

Tim said...

By the way Brandi has her reasons for not trusting an addiction so it doesn't work from her perspective either.

Regina Wolfe-Parks said...

Geez Louise (apologies to LouiseF!) how many ways can Brandi tell Tommy to get lost and how many times is Tommy going to stand there whining for her to take him back. How about growing a pair Tommy. If my husband acted even remotely like this, sniveling and groveling, I'd leave him. Also, if I acted like an unbelieving shrieking shrew like Brandi, I'd hope my husband would leave me as well.

Also, why hasn't Freda told the Battling Bickersons that they['re at work and to take their problems someplace other than the job. I did less than this at work (I called one of my coworkers a crybaby because he reported me for telling him to stop hitting reply all) and my boss yelled at me for that. Can you imagine what would happen if I was causing all the commotion at work that these two clowns are causing.

Anonymous said...

I thought the same thing, Scottie McW. I suspect we'll see Tommy stop badgering Babe right around the same time Trump concedes.

HelenClark

fauxprof said...

FRIDAY.

Of course Mary would appreciate help toting a small brown grocery bag containing a loaf of Italian bread and some wilted kale. Actually, it’s a decoy bag she keeps to lure unsuspecting prey into her muffitorium. Poor Tommy. He is about to be pulled into the insidious muffin cult, and will spill all his secrets while becoming dependent on Mary’s Kelk-and-raisin goodies. He’ll succumb quickly, having an addictive personality. Will Mary get him back with Brandy? We can but hope, because if they get married, they’ll disappear.

KitKat said...

“Insidious muffin cult” - very good, fauxprof!

Today’s strip pushed me into the Wayback Machine - “Leave It to Beaver” came to mind. I couldn’t decide initially if Tommy is the Beaver or Eddie Haskell, but I decided that Tommy is way too much of a dim bulb to be as sly and conniving as EH.

Anonymous said...


"It's the least a loser like me can do!"

"Well, you're certainly showing some positive signs of self-awareness, Tommy. You work in a supermarket and you hold a paper sack full of groceries like that? You certainly are a loser."

-- Scottie McW.

P.S. "Muffitorium"!!!! Ha haaaaa, that is outstanding, fauxprof

Shmoopie said...

OMG - muffitorium should become a label! I haven't laughed so hard in days. Thanks for the giggle!

Regina Wolfe-Parks said...

I think Wanders should add the song "Loser" by Beck to the Jukebox. The words fit Tommy to a tee: "I'm a lsoer baby/so why don't you kill me."

lmjb1964 said...

@Regina Wolfe-Parks, you had a co-worker report you for telling him to not reply all? You should have gotten a commendation. It drives me crazy when people reply all when it's completely inappropriate.

I think "Insidious Muffin Cult" would be a good name for a band.

KitKat said...

SATURDAY
A startling development: banana bread defeats muffins! An earthquake strikes Charterstone! The critical question: is this Mary’s recipe, or Gram’s? I’m guessing it’s Mary’s. Mary would never concede that another’s baked item is superior to hers.

Today, tomorrow, and all of next week (at least): Mary counsels Tommy while serving dry banana bread on teensy weensy plates.

Sandi Ego said...

Finally catching up. Thanks for much needed laughs. The Hello haiku from the other day was awesome.
Tommy better snap to it or he will tread into stalker territory. I had a boyfriend in college who didn't take a breakup well. Among other things he harassed my mom, working the night shift at a hospital, telling her to make me go back to him. Post script, he became a lawyer.

Anonymous said...


Banana bread? Mary must be furious that Toby's banana bread was such a hit at the big condo board meeting, and she's not going to take this lying down. She's gonna shove her banana bread down every throat in Charterstone until they all agree that hers is better.

Mary don't need no stinkin' secret ingredient!

-- Scottie McW.

Garnet said...

What twenty-five year old ex-felon goes and whines to a random old lady about his problems? I guess he doesn't have any friends (other than Vin...). At least he's a self-aware loser.

MissScarlet said...

It's not often we get to see Mary council a guy (does Wilbur count?). I wonder if she will offer any different kind of advice than she would for a woman. Hang tough? Buckle up? Be a man? Actually, I'm betting on the generic 'if you lover her let her go'. I hope Mary's secret banana bread ingredient isn't brandy.