I know we're all waiting on pins and needles to see whether we'll be spending our summer romping around Italy with Wilbur and his brokenhearted daughter, or watching Mary Worth answer mail. But I think there's a third option: We could just skip through time and pick up with "After Wilbur returns from Italy, Mary tells him all about what it was like answering all that mail."
Wilbur has visions of tiny Italian hand sandwiches dancing through his head, as Mary ponders where she left her Royal typewriter....
ReplyDeletehow does that muffin suddenly transform to a cup of coffee? must be 1 magic muffin!!
ReplyDeleteLenny, I saw it as a perfect example of Wilbur needing a break, too - from incessant sandwich- and muffin-gobbling! He seems to have eaten the entire muffin, in the short time between panel 1 and panel 2.
ReplyDeleteWilbur is playing fast and loose with Mary. Yesterday he asked her about taking over "Ask Wendy" for a few weeks; today "I'm taking a leave of absence for the whole summer." No wonder Mary is perplexed!
ReplyDeleteThe late Ann Landers used to advise advice seekers to "Wake up and smell the coffee!" Maybe Mary will tell them, "Wake up and smell the Metamucil!"
BTW, fellow Worthiverse friends, I am starting jury duty tomorrow and likely will not have time to comment on MW&Me for awhile. Of course I will immediately read MW every morning, and I will be on the alert for meddlesome, white-haired, pearl-wearing old ladies in the jury pool.
Has anyone here ever seen a question/response from Ask Wendy? Is the column on relationships? Gardening? Home repairs? Sandwiches? What exactly?
ReplyDeleteNotice the back of the sofa disappears when seen through the window!
ReplyDelete@Dave in Parma: Is Wilbur really dreaming of tiny Italian hand sandwiches? Is this reflective of recent horrific cannibal zombie headlines?
ReplyDeleteMary is already in "Ask Wendy" Mode. She's incisively seen that Wilbur needs this trip as much as his daughter; that Wilbur's best days as an advice columnist are far behind him; and that if he stays comfortably entrenched in the neverending Trough that is Charterstone Condos, he will eat himself into Comfort Food Oblivion.
ReplyDeleteWilbur is mutating into a different life-form. His claw-like appendage in the first panel completely absorbed the muffin in a matter of seconds.
ReplyDeletewhat is wrong with Mary? Wilbur makes a leading statement about Dawn needing a break and Mary doesn't even ask what is wrong with her??? An opportunity to meddle is being delivered to Mary on a silver platter and she drops it completely.
ReplyDelete@Nance, Dave in Parma may be posting on an iPad. The darn thing has a tendency to change what you wrote to what it thinks you mean. The other day It kept changing "Giella" to "Bella" and I don't even like the "Twilight" series.
ReplyDeleteWay to go, passive-agressive Mary! Why don't you just go ahead and say that Wilbur has packed on the pounds recently and needs to get out of his leatherette desk chair and get some fresh air and exercise?
ReplyDeleteI wish someone would take me overseas everytime I get depressed. Although it may not be worth it if it means living and travelling with Wilbur.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Mary will meddle Wilbur into not going to Italy and we can move on to another storyline.
ReplyDeleteWow, this story is really picking up steam.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to read the exciting dialog once the Westons reach Italy.
ReplyDelete"La vita e brutale."
"Dov'e il mio pannino?"
Oops ... panino
ReplyDeleteUh oh, Wilbur has been so sedentary that his hand has finally started to metamorphosize into a mug. Soon, his other hand will transform into a lunch box, and he will grow a chin napkin.
ReplyDeleteIs Cup Fist the new Chin Napkin?
ReplyDelete(I haven't commented for a while because it's getting increasingly harder to prove I'm not a robot...how to I type a picture of a wall fixture?? Should I ask Wendy?)
P.S. I finally went back to read the past comments. (Sadly it's finals month and I don't get much internet time.) Thanks everyone for the welcome :) Life is pretty brutal in Italy, actually, but I admit I haven't seen anything quite as... striking... as the average MW assortment of furniture, so I guess we still have it better than Santa Royale.
ReplyDelete@Meg, @fauxprof: I did actually mean 'hand-sandwiches" (as in 'hand-sized', not as in 'human hand' or as in 'tongue'). Wilbur always seems to have a sammich in his hands, and i can see him in Italy with a plate stacked high, shoveling them in like White castle sliders..
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 9:08 a.m. -- "Ask Wendy" is an advice column akin to Dear Abby. One time there was even a ridiculous storyline wherein a woman tried to sue Wilbur for bad advice he gave. She claimed in her lawsuit that he "ruined" her life. He got all depressed and doubted himself and then everything, of course, was neatly resolved.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope Mary doesn't get him sued again!
I still don't understand why Dawn needs a break so badly. For the entire summer. In Europe!
ReplyDeleteHowever, I have been enjoying everyones contributions immensely! Wilbur is such good food for comments (pun fully intended!)
Life is brutal.
ReplyDeleteHope your exams are going well, Eev!
ReplyDeleteI believe that Italians in general are pretty stylish and well-dressed. Will Wilbur's comb-over be allowed to enter the country?
I'm also seeing a handsome Italian on a Vespa romancing Dawn...
--Beagle Vet
I just hope that empty villa has DVD player, for Dawn's sake.
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