That's right! Because this is a rehearsal dinner for those who can handle their liquor. What right does she have to show up if she can't manage a little booze? What kind of wedding would it be if the wedding party showed up without a hangover? Now someone get me another gin.Today's Full Strip
Oh I see! this was really a rehearsal for the reception. Now, since Jill has gone awry, she will not be allowed to attended the reception.(or at least not without a prompter)
ReplyDeleteBack to back pronouncements from the Self-Righteous Orange Judgment Twins. Oh, I hate the thought of going back to the land of bland after all that drama. Jill, we hardly knew ye....
ReplyDeleteAdrian: "I'm fine. I'm more concerned about our guests."
ReplyDeleteAnd what guests would those be, Adrian ...all these strangers who are totally oblivious to you? No one except your dad, Scott, Mary or Jill has even LOOKED at you this entire evening, let alone talked to you. So give Jill some credit.
No, no, no, Punky@9.34a. We are now about to endure another three weeks of Mary "getting to know" Jill and her "problem". This will include Mary finding out that Jill...
ReplyDelete1. Came from a "broken" home where the father ran off with his secretary.
2. Jill herself married a man who then ran off with HIS secretary.
3. Jill becomes a secretary herself in hopes of snagging another man, but all her bosses are women, so she works her way up to "hospital administrator" in bitter compensation for a lousy love life.
Oh, this story has such possibilities though Moy will present them in the dullest way imaginable.
Punky...love "Self-Righteous Orange Judgment Twins" I smell graphic novel.
ReplyDeleteHere's another crackpot theory: the "Rehearsal Dinner" was just Adrian, Scott, Jeff, Mary and Jill. The other people in the restaurant were just customers who didn't make a fuss much because El Dafto Adrian arranged an open bar because she doesn't even really know what that means. Some of the guests thought the goings on were part of an elaborate floor show and some even joined in for the dancing part.
How much fun would it be to go out to eat and see a scene like this go down?
That's what I get for being busy for a few days: I come back and my brain reels at the splendor that has unfolded! In stereophonic orange, no less!
ReplyDeleteAnd... and... Mary is doing an Official Pearl Clutching!
ReplyDeleteCallooh! Callay!
Well, finally! After, what, weeks of complete absence of thought balloons from Mary, she has now gone into full-meddle mode. We can only hope Jill is enjoying another bottle of fine wine when Mary pops by to give her the third degree. Is this gonna be great, or what?
ReplyDeletemary will just find out that jill was born from a one night stand. that all she knows was her father was a vigilante that liked to drink.
ReplyDelete@phoebes in santa fe - thank you so much, you've cheered me immeasurably! And probably this is where we should all take a moment to salute Karen Moy and Joe Giella for giving us a truly exciting payoff to Jill's reign of terror. Jill had me at HA HA HA HA and held me in thrall until her immortal exit line of *@^%$#!
ReplyDeletePS: FItting verification word of BEAKE, as in Jill's business that Mary is about to stick hers into.
What a shame we had to hear Jeff tell us that Jill cursed at them them the entire time they got her into a cab, and not witness that awesome scene for ourselves! Of course, this being "Mary Worth," Jill probably said something like, "Unhand me, ye varlat! Darn you to heck!"
ReplyDeleteOh, I pity that poor cab driver with Jill on board!!! I hope the "Orange Judgment Twins" (who, in that first panel look like FRAT boys from one of Prof. Cameron's lit. classes!) thought to give the guy a hefty tip!!!
ReplyDeleteHey, can I drive Jill's mercedes home to my house? Like she'll ever miss it!?
ReplyDelete"She cursed at us the whole time! I was wounded in a shootout with some really bad guys once, but at least they never said any bad words to me!"
ReplyDeleteWhy did Scott and Jeff come back from evicting Jill looking so short and meek? I'd like to find out...
I pity poor, hungover Jill, when she opens the door tomorrow morning, only to find a smiling Mary Worth, holding a still warm batch of salmon squares.
ReplyDeleteBet the ranch on the following....Jill will be portrayed as a victim, amends will be made, and all will be forgiven.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous @12:16 PM: I agree with your predicted degree of blandness. However, can Mary accomplish this before "tomorrow's" wedding? Now that would be a worthy challenge.
ReplyDeleteOMG! I didn't even mean to make a pun. It's just too darn easy!
Shmoopie: When we take into account that the Worthiverse falls within the space / time continum, it becomes apparent that, for those in Mary's world, time moves much more slowly than we are accustomed to in our world. Mary will be moving at lightning speed while all else around her appears motionless. Indeed, she has the time to redeem Jill before the wedding. Unfortunately, from our perspective, what to Mary will be mere hours will for us be months.
ReplyDeletei may have missed it, but I think our newspaper edited out the top two panels of Sunday's strip--you know the cab and cursing panels.
ReplyDeleteOf all the things in this strip that could have been edited out over the years (Aldo, BBJ?, the professor in shorts, etc.), they pick that?
I like tough-girl Adrian today. NOTHING will stop her from marrying Scott, NOTHING. As if it wasn't her fault that Jaundiced Jill was there in the first place.
ReplyDeleteIt appears Mary decided to change clothes during all the commotion. She went from blue suit with black shirt to a blue dress.
ReplyDeleteAdrian is more concerend about her guests? Oh, you mean the people you have been ignoring all night long?
ReplyDeleteNothing will stop Adrian from marrying Scott...oh yeah, what about the three wives and 14 kids he's got stashed across the country or those pending charges for securities fraud or his credit score of 128 or the hideous face hidden behind his wax mask? Not such a catch after all, eh Adrian?
ReplyDeleteI think last week (the "dramatic gloriousness of Jill" period) coincided with Karen Moy's annual paid vacation and an intern took over. Bad news, folks: Moy is back, rested and tanned, and ready to be as dull as ever.
ReplyDeleteI actually wish this portion of the story had been stretched out a bit, so we could enjoy a "Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!" strip on 12/25 of Jill sleeping off her drunken rampage in the back of the taxi cab.
ReplyDelete@Robert: or better still, *being violently ill* in the back of a taxi. Cab drivers SO love that!!!
ReplyDeleteDave, our paper cuts off the first 2 panels of Mary Worth, too. I would have completely missed the whole salmon square thing if I hadn't seen it in the Comic Curmudgeon. Now, that would have been a tragedy!
ReplyDeleteIt's hip to be square, Mary!
ReplyDeleteI love Imogene's theory. Has it been discussed here before - any idea if the creators read this blog?
ReplyDeleteminister: "Do you, Adrian, take Scott to be your lawful wedded husband?"
ReplyDeleteAdrian: I do ...absolutely
Mary, from the front pew: I DO TOO... to be sure!