There's something else?? You mean something that is different from Jenna and Mike and Liza and Lynn and Jill and Adrian... all of whom were darn certain love was not for them because of something that happened in their past? There's something else? Coooool.
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ReplyDelete--"Bobby was also taken out by a hit. I know carry some of his blood in this vial around my neck."
--Bobby grew up and is now also in the Witless Protection Program as the Professor.
--Bobby was the hitman. Death by flying skateboard is no way to go.
That should read "..now carry", not "know carry."
ReplyDeleteThe excitement of posting first got to me!
First a dead mom, then not enough money for tuition, then Bobby and Witness Protection, and now there's something *else*? Do Moy and Giella even know what their own story is about, or are they just winging the whole thing?
ReplyDeleteAs Gina feasts on the tiny orange-clad human, she finally fesses up that she's a practicing cannibal.
ReplyDelete"And there's something else...with all the coffee I've been drinking, I REALLY need to hit the ladies' room NOW."
ReplyDeleteThe 'something else' is probably news that she's been fired from her stellar Diner career, due to lack of interest in her customers.
ReplyDeleteCould that something else be your mother's death? That thing about your dad? Nah, you've obviously gotten over that fluffy stuff easily. It's that missing a 14 year old by that really hurts.
ReplyDeleteBut seriously, now you're going to annoy/bore yet another part of my psyche, ain't ya?
I tell ya, Mary is one tough broad for listening to this endless drivel.
I agree with heydave. How does Mary endure all this endless prattle, without snapping; ''Get to the POINT, already!'' I wonder if 14 year old girls all over the country will now use Mary Worth as ''proof'' that their undying love for their latest crush will last for all eternity?
ReplyDeleteNot to be too harsh but any 14 year old girl who is reading Mary Worth is probably doomed to a loveless life.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Gina is only attracted to 14 year old boys. That would be SOMETHING else.
ReplyDeleteI would just love to know what Mary's verbal "?" sounded like?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, maybe she just said "Question mark" ???
ReplyDeleteGina: And there's something else.
Mary: Question mark!
@Maude -- they've got "Twilight" for that.
ReplyDelete@James -- LOL. Literally. :-)
Shmoopie, you beat me to it! I can't wait to see tomorrow's strip, in which Gina, having captured her lunch, shakes her head like a T. Rex with a raptor in its mouth, and her ponytail bounces and FINALLY loses its straight edge.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's the explanation for the carnivorous plants, too...it's Jurassic Park: Charterstone.
Poor little miniature human in the orange shirt.
--Beagle Vet
@James, I laughed out loud, too -- which was not such a good thing, since I'm in the 'quiet room' of the health sciences library.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Victor Borge used to make sounds for various sorts of punctuation?
Wow, that's really showing my age ... as if weren't bad enough that about half of my fellow students were born the year I graduated from college.
Mary, here is the Victor Borge routine adding sounds to puncuation including the question mark....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7L02tCNi0I Now we know what Mary actually said.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7L02tCNi0I
ReplyDeleteThis is Victor Borge's puncuation routine including the question mark. Now we know what Mary actually said.
No man seems to be quite right for Gina. Even Giella hates her.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, her story involves a gruesome mob-related killing! In New York! And what does he give her? A ridiculously large skateboard, days and weeks in a diner, or in some park. Every other character affected by violence gets at least one action scene. We shouldn't expect anything as dramatic as Scott Hewlett's warehouse scene (although that would have been nice) because his was a first-hand experience. But Gina's story is very similar to Dr. Mike Roberts' story. His father's brush with murder kept him from love too, only his story got several gritty New York action scenes.
Gina's story also involves the long illness and death of a dear mother. Giella could have illustrated (at the very least) a dramatic moment from her hospital bedside.
Poor Gina. Maybe she really is unlucky.
I spent far too much time on that.
ReplyDeleteGina can't find peace in her present life because the "something else" in her past life is that she and Bobby traded places. They exchanged clothes under the tree and figured their parents would be forced to reunite them. Gina's parents were to distraught to notice, and Bobby has a very loose parental relationship. They have been cross-dressing all these years and "Gina" is tired of dating other guys. Of course he's unlucky in love!
ReplyDeleteBrick --
ReplyDeleteNow that made me laff...
hmmmm...could that "something else" be Bobby's baby? Remember that favorite tree and all those "i love you's"? Remember how it looked like Gina was getting a little...um...horizontal with Bobby? And all those protests (too much) that theirs was an "INNOCENT" love? Guess we'll see...
ReplyDeleteNo, nothing in Moy's repertoire beyond chaste love. Although I could see Gena having a hysterical pregnancy given all those thoughts of love that she sends out and presumably receives.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Victor Borge! I love the way Dean Martin smokes through the first half of the act.
ReplyDeleteWell, there it is, the dramatic moment from a dying mother's bedside. Although this scene is a bit more narcissistic than I had imagined, it's nice to be out of the diner.
ReplyDeleteIf only Gina's mob-related victim would have apologized to her before taking his last breath. A gruesome crime scene is guaranteed to jazz things up.
Maybe Gina has kidnapped a 14-year-old boy and is forcing him to look and act like Bobby.
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