I know exactly how Mary Worth feels.When I was a kid, I believed that Charles Schulz was was following me around, documenting my life. Frequently, I would open the funny pages to read Peanuts, and something would happen to Charlie Brown that had actually happened to me the previous day. I was terrible at baseball, but loved the game. I had a huge crush on a little red haired girl, but I couldn't speak to her. I never got Valentine's Day cards, and I was invited to parties only by mistake.
But as I grew older, I started to realize that it only felt that way. That actually, I wasn't Charlie Brown and that getting over my feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem was part of growing up. Charles Schulz couldn't possibly be following me around.
But then...
After Mrs. Wanders -- whose first name is Michelle -- and I got engaged, I took an internship in Washington D.C., and she remained in school in Cincinnati. We didn't have enough money to do much traveling back and forth, and in those days, you paid by the minute for long distance calls. So we wrote letters (I still have a box full of those letters).
I missed Michelle terribly. So imagine my surprise when I opened up the comics in the Washington Post and saw this!
Charles Schulz freaked me out again!Countdown to Christmas with the Peanuts Gang at GoComics.com
Today's Full Strip
o wanders! you just brought tears to my eyes.
ReplyDeleteThe joke's on us, guys. Moy's been reading this blog.
ReplyDeleteMary Worth is becoming self-aware. This is bad, really bad.
ReplyDeleteNext week Mary breaks through the borders of her boxed-in little world and invades some of the other near-by strips, wreaking havoc with meddling the likes of which these comics have never experienced. Watch out Family Circus! Run Rex Morgan!
ReplyDeleteYes, Mary, a poorly written comic strip.
ReplyDeleteWanders,loved you story. Thanks for sharing. Identifying with characters in literature (including comic strips)helps us know ourselves.
ReplyDeleteI almost choked on my Cheerios when I read today's strip! I agree - Moy must be reading this blog.
ReplyDeletestrange very strange is all i can say
ReplyDeleteWanders, thanks so much for sharing that with us! (BTW, to all, I recommend the biography "Schulz and Peanuts" by David Michaelis.)
ReplyDeleteI love the comment by jmernl@10:47 AM about Mary breaking into other strips. I hope she takes on Ed Crankshaft. That would be like matter and antimatter colliding!
Be afraid, be very afraid.
ReplyDeleteWhat if we're ALL living in a comic strip, and Mary Worth is actually the reality?
ReplyDeleteWill tomorrow be a recap, or will there be new action?
ReplyDeleteShowdown at the No-Name Diner. Mary will hit the kidnaper with her purse.
He'll say (in no particular order): What th'! Why,you ole biddy you! I oughtta!
Just then, his estranged daughter Alison will finally show up to take his order.
After Mary's little speech a few days ago I thought she would leave her memory behind at the hospital.
ReplyDeleteWhy is Mary digging in her purse? She doesn't have a wallet anymore!
ReplyDeleteMs. Moy, if you are reading this blog, may I suggest another Dr. Drew story? I just can't get enough of that houndstooth jacket and slicked-back hair!
Also I would like to see some scenes from Dr. Adrian and Detective Wright's honeymoon. Wherever they are.
Thank you,
Beagle Vet
If she wanders into another strip, could it please be "Pearls Before Swine"?
ReplyDeletePlease?
It would probably cost Mary her pearls, but it would be so much fun for us. Moy, are you listening?
while Mary wastes time looking for her lint-overed breath mints, Thuggy and Emily are probably about to finish up their meals and leave Diner! Hurry up, Mary, fer cryin' out loud!
ReplyDeleteOOH! OOH! I want a t-shirt with this panel on it!!
ReplyDeleteAn orange purse with a pink suit? I cringe to think what color her shoes are.
ReplyDeleteOr we just ask Stephan Pastis Birdie.....
ReplyDeletehttp://jasonp107.com/pearls-before-swine-trashes-mary-worth
(still a favorite)
That's great!
ReplyDeleteHe needs to do it again. Maybe Rat could find Emily at the diner. I'm sure he'd know just what to do.
That's is no an orange purse. That's a leather saddle bag, an award that Mary got for help in establishing the Pony express.
ReplyDeleteIn Sunday's strip, I'm visualizing the margin notes that Moy left for Giella. "In the 'C'mon' panel, be sure to make Thuggy look extra McThuggy. You know, in a HULK WANT DONUT! kind of way. And be sure to change Alison's hair color (from the orange it was on Oct. 30) to your trademark blue-black. Just to confound those annoying Mary Worth and Me people!"
ReplyDeleteWhy is Dr. Adrian waitressing at Diner?
ReplyDelete@kathyo - I thought the same thing!! Dr. Adrian Cory-Hewlett must have finally gotten the boot from Mountview Hospital. Thank goodness Diner was hiring after Hina ran off and all!
ReplyDeleteAnd doesn't she look chipper to see the Incredible Hulk Thuggy and his frightenend little "friend"!? Nothing odd to see here, I'm sure he's a big tipper...
I would presume that everyone who works at Diner, plus everyone who is actually dining there now, has seen the Emily poster. Please, Lord, let one of them figure it out and rescue her before Smug Mary arrives and takes all the credit.
ReplyDeleteWondering how Thuggy will manage to eat Special from Menu at Diner while savagely clutching Emily's arm. And, of course, nobody will notice anyway.
ReplyDelete@birdie and all other commenters:
ReplyDeleteMary does cast pearls before swine.
TMcT looks like the lovechild of Van Johnson and Archie Andrews on steroids.
ReplyDeleteAgain, it's going to end up like that Garfield strip where she is alone, slowly starving to death in an abandoned apartment. It's gonna be awesome.
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