Last year, Mary Worth celebrated Earth Day by chatting on her lithium-powered cellular telephone to a mysterious stranger about a tree she claimed to have planted. But this year she's actually doing something for Earth Day: Touching roses. Something she does on a daily basis already. Oh, and she is also lecturing us. Something she also does on a daily basis. But that's Mary. To her, every day is Earth Day.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Earth Day 2: The Return of the Pod People
Last year, Mary Worth celebrated Earth Day by chatting on her lithium-powered cellular telephone to a mysterious stranger about a tree she claimed to have planted. But this year she's actually doing something for Earth Day: Touching roses. Something she does on a daily basis already. Oh, and she is also lecturing us. Something she also does on a daily basis. But that's Mary. To her, every day is Earth Day.
Is Mary just a tad over-dressed for grubbing around in her garden? Or is she merely harvesting the roses that the Charterstone gardeners have done all the work to grow?
ReplyDeleteSo!
ReplyDeleteMary is just idly snipping flowers while others so needlessly suffer?
What an uncaring b!%(#! Other people are alive beside you, Mary!
So selfish.
Just look at her.
Look at her and seethe...seethe...seethe with anger at ... that smug!
I really enjoyed viewing the green and manicured Charterstone garden this morning. In the real world, such a garden would require insecticides, fertilizers, and more imported water than most California gardens can afford.
ReplyDeleteAnd while I was gazing at Mary's beautiful earth, I noticed, in panel one: Is that a hedge fence that the gate is attached to?
Yeah, Mary's version of environmentalism is sadly misguided. Having that much lawn in Southern California is basically an act of environmental terrorism. I'd have thought Mary more of a Victory Garden type gal!
ReplyDeleteMary is joining me today in celebrating the wonderful resources the earth provides us: petroleum, coal, precious metals, fissile materials, and gemstones.
ReplyDelete--wheelhead
Ted is about to ditch Adrian and make a run for it, and Mary pauses to take an Earth Day moment?
ReplyDeleteThere is a cruelness in that blatant disregard that just can't be measured! Not for Adrian... BUT FOR US!
yep...what wheelhead said. :)
ReplyDeleteAdrian is doing her part for Earth Day by driving aimlessly around town, blackening the Santa Ryoale air with harmful emissions.
ReplyDeleteTuffenuff, Perhaps Mary's jaunt is the opposite of disregard; perhaps it's symbolic of her COMPASSION for Adrian, who, because she was "green" in the ways of love, was "led up the garden path" by Ted. : )
ReplyDeleteLook closely at Mary's face in panel two. She appears to be in pain. Perhaps she's purposefully piercing her thumb with a thorn. Out of compassion.
Well that was an abrupt change of pace. Then I thought maybe it wasn't, it was a lightning fast forward of the plot, and Mary is burying Ted in the rose garden.
ReplyDeleteWell that would be more interesting, anyway.
Mary is celebrating Earth Day by cutting off the tops of the flowers ala Morticia Addams. lol.
ReplyDelete4/23: What is it with Adrians car? She is doing everyting she possible can to hide from us the fact that her car does not have a steering wheel.
ReplyDeleteAnd ten weeks is a little different that 10 years, Ted.
That's right, Ted, don't deny the lie, just play down its importance.
ReplyDelete"So what if I don't have a sister. Is THAT what you're so upset about?"
Listen, Queenie, I just scammed 50 large from you and you're interested in how long I worked at a magazine? HooHa! Can I pick 'em or what? Home free, that's what I am!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou people are killing me! My mistake was to begin eating my sandwich prior to reading the comments since yesterday.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading Caroline's input about Mary's true reason for being in the rose garden, I almost choked to death!
Sheesh!
Keep up the good work.
Well now we know why Ted was qualified to work at Nations' Geography. He believes he can discern between a mountain and a molehill. Good for you Ted, good for you.
ReplyDeleteAnd in MaryWorthLand I thought ten weeks lasted for ten years anyway, so maybe Ted does have a point there.
It worries me when I'm starting to see the cad's point of view. Maybe a bit of face touching will restore me to my senses. Come on Queenie let those fingers do the talking.
4/24 And there you have it, the hidden truth exposed. We finally know what we've suspected all along.
ReplyDeleteThe car DOES have a steering wheel.
4-24-09 Ted, Adrian, The Blue Car
ReplyDeleteNow at first it looked like a "talk to the hand" thing that Ted was showing Adrian. On second look, I do believe that he PUSHED her.
What should Adrian do upon being pushed? When it's 'hands on' like that, will it be 'gloves off' for her.
Will Adrian end up like Rhianna?
Tuffenuf:
ReplyDeleteFar be it from me to promote violence against women, but in this case I almost hope so. I will salve my conscience tonight with the thought that it's only cartoon violence against an imaginary female character in an agonizingly vapid comic strip that no one outside of 58 very strange people read, since only 13 newspapers carry it anymore.
Hopefully I'll only have to say that once or twice to myself before I feel better, because I'm not sure I can remember all of it.
--wheelhead
I continue to lobby my local newspaper to drop Mary Worth; however, until I am ultimately successful, and successful I shall be, my inner masochist will continue to drive me to read Moy's drivel. BTW, I think 58 readers is a gross exaggeration.
ReplyDeleteBut Ted, you answered my "Woman desperately seeking man" ad online.
ReplyDeleteYou call me Queenie. You touch my face. You made a large financial commitment to Peace Village. How could it possibly have all gone wrong????
SLAP me Ted !! Please, please SLAP me ! I'll even PAY you to SLAP me!!!!
ReplyDeleteNewspaper participation is NOT an accurate measure of audience. We cancelled our newspaper months ago but I never miss a day of Mary online. She's a classic!
ReplyDeleteEvery once in awhile, I email a Mary Worth to my mother for a laugh, (her newspaper doesn't carry it). My mom knew Mary back in the days. Beyond that, I'm teaching the next generation, my adolescent boys, to appreciate it. The oldest was initially fascinated by Mary's ability to grow younger with time, but the Aldo story-line hooked them all. With Mary, they can cut their sarcastic humor teeth.
Mary Worth provides an age-old drama. In a 30 second read, it will both entertain and annoy while offering us a unique opportunity to be respectfully insolent about people and events that are completely inconsequential to our real lives. Mary Worth is a treasure. Long Live Mary!
I hope Ted doesn't hurt Adrian further, for that will mean she'll have to go that dreaded women's shelter and Mary will be forced to go to the "bad" part of Santa Royale to rescue her.
ReplyDeleteThat's not Mary, that's a Worthbot -- strategically placed in the garden to lure unsuspecting bums in, where they are subsequently captured and their organs are harvested to keep the real Mary Worth alive and meddling for glorious decades to come...
ReplyDeleteduckduckgoose: That's Ted's car. You still can't prove that Adrian's car has a steering wheel. And you can't prove Ted didn't work at Nations Geography Magazine.
ReplyDeleteWanders,
ReplyDeleteI can't prove that there ARE two electric aqua blue cars in this story-line. For all I know, Adrian drove her car over to Ted's place on Monday, just in time for him to throw his wooden briefcase in the trunk and attempt to drive away.
I've never denied Ted's employment at Nation's Geography. After-all, Jeff himself confirmed that. I do, however, suspect (just as Adrian now suspects) that there is NO only SISTER (the one in D.C.)
The real question today is: What did Adrian think in today's panel that would be so confrontational as to cause Ted to violently POP HER THOUGHT BALLOON?!?
April 25
ReplyDeleteOh my! The plot is positively galloping along. A fortnight's worth of pushing, shoving and attempted face-touching has been callously cast aside to bring us to this point.
I am longing to read Wander's summary of this week's events and find some comfort in his reassuring mouseovers.
I will confess however that I did notice that Adrian was not slow in clutching her purse for comfort. See, she does pay attention to some of Mary's life lessons.
Why do I have this horrible feeling that Adrian will post Ted's bail and testify on his behalf at trial?
ReplyDeleteOh, my aching intellect. One more touch of the face before Ted, I mean Ed, is taken away in cuffs as Adrian says "Please, just talk to your Queenie Ted or Ed. We can work this out. I'm sure it's just a big misunderstanding. Afterall, nobody's perfect. I promise I'll wait for you. And if you give me Vicki's telephone number, I'll call her. You've been so good to her, I'm sure she'll want to get here as soon as possible to support you. And don't worry about that donation to Peace Village. I'll make it for you."
ReplyDeleteA Santa Royal version of Starsky and Hutch have suddenly appeared with an impressive list of charges; the only one capable of upsetting Adrian will be BIGAMY.
ReplyDeleteWow, this plot is being tied up far too quickly. Starskeet and Hudge suddenly materialized out of nowhere from Saturday's panels to Sunday's. Are they time cops from the future who've been pursuing Ted throughout history?
ReplyDeleteApplying the practice of self-face-touch during this traumatic moment, Adrian has avoided a potentially embarrassing scene involving more weeping and perhaps cop pushing.
ReplyDeleteShe's snapped out of a VERY brief moment of denial, capable of condemning her fiancé's character before he's even left the strip.
Independent face touching, it works!
Adrian has lacked all common sense up to now, and we have scorned and ridiculed her. Yet, not a single one of US could defy gravity the way her hair does in that final frame!! There must be a lesson for us in that somehow, I just don't know what it is.
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