Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Mary Worth 1,423

I know there's a joke in here somewhere, but I just can't seem to come up with it.

In the meantime, here's a commercial about two friends enjoying coffee together. This commercial reminds me of Jim and Dawn because the man only has one arm. And clearly they're just friends.

Today's Full Strip

19 comments:

  1. fauxprofOctober 2, 2012 at 7:46 AM

    Thanks for the blast from the past, Wanders! I never noticed back in the sixties how sinister that announcer sounded, let alone the evil look in the woman's eyes. What's IN that coffee?

    And, to quote KitKat from yesterday, what's in that pie? I swear, Dawn is bulking up before our eyes. Is Ghost Pie something out of a Stephen King story,or a Twilight Zone episode?

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  2. heydaveOctober 2, 2012 at 8:13 AM

    And here I thought this "story" could not possibly get more... more.

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  3. PunkyOctober 2, 2012 at 8:27 AM

    If Dawn and Jim are new friends, and Mary thinks they can both benefit, does that make them... friends with benefits?

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  4. NanceOctober 2, 2012 at 8:32 AM

    Panel Two today was my favourite. I like to think it was a Thinly Veiled MW Zinger: "He may be an opportunity for you to give. It's good to venture out and try new things."

    Translation: "It's about time you got off your selfish butt to do something for someone else for a change."

    RE: The Sanka commercial. DRINK IT. DRINK IT ALL DAY AND INTO THE NIGHT. YOU CAN'T TASTE THE CAFFEINE, BUT IT'S THERE. D R I N K I T A L L U P !

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  5. KitKatOctober 2, 2012 at 9:31 AM

    Wanders, thanks for the Sanka spot! I tried to visualize Don and Megan Draper giving each other come-hither looks over their cups, but I doubt the Drapers would opt for instant. Maybe we'll see Dawn and Jim giving come-hither looks over their cups of...Tang. (Is that stuff still on the market?)

    So, Mary has reduced Jim to "an opportunity" for Dawn. Talk about setting the bar low - sheesh.

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  6. AnonymousOctober 2, 2012 at 9:46 AM

    I consider all of you on this blog my friends (out of pity though).

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  7. birdieOctober 2, 2012 at 10:16 AM

    It wouldn't bother me to see Mary constantly drooling advice, if it weren't for the fact that the advice is uniformly bad.

    Any rational woman with experience in the world would know that Dawn needs to become comfortable with herself before starting a new dating relationship. It's clear that this relationship is heading that way, so Mary should be cautioning Dawn to slow down.

    But in the Worthiverse, no woman is complete without a man, even if all she uses him for is the opportunity to turn down marriage proposals. (Where is Doctor Jeff, anyway?)

    This business of "helping Jim" is beyond bizarre. He obviously is a hundred times more stable than Dawn is.

    Does Moy ever interact with real people?

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  8. Obviously Not MoyOctober 2, 2012 at 10:44 AM

    Moy should take her own advice and try something new. How about a ghost writer and new editor?

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  9. Toots McGeeOctober 2, 2012 at 10:51 AM

    Gee thanks, anonymous! You're so kind. Do you want to come over to my house and play with my Matchbox cars?

    Right on birdie. Mary's advice is bad and she clearly doesn't even listen AND her concept of friendship is flawed. Being someone's friend "to help him" is condescending and narcissistic. But Mary's fine with that either because Karen Moy is clueless and just spouts out words that she doesn't understand OR Mary really is a deeply flawed character who resents all of her "friends" because "she bakes all the pies, and she fixes everybody's problems and she provides stellar companionship, but when do they come to help Mary? When?" except that we never see that side so wooden caricature it is then.

    I guess Mr./Mrs. Anonymous pities us because we keep coming back expecting something different.

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  10. Toots McGeeOctober 2, 2012 at 10:57 AM

    Just a random thought: Doesn't the Totts Island Ferry sound like a ride at LegoLand?

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  11. AnonymousOctober 2, 2012 at 11:05 AM

    Ewwww..................................the sound of the spoon digging in to the jar.

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  12. megOctober 2, 2012 at 11:12 AM

    Dawn, hurry! Mary's hair is on fire! Pour the coffee on it right away!

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  14. Dave in ParmaOctober 2, 2012 at 11:28 AM

    ....and it's helping @ Anonymous. Thank you for being a friend.

    Is it just me, or does it seem like Mary is trying to mentor young Dawn in the fine art of Meddling. I;'m not sure if that makes Dawn a Meddler-in-training, a medley,, or Mary the Mentee and Dawn the Mento, but you get the idea.

    (wv: 'hatsbut', defined as 'butting in while wearing a hat')

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  15. NanceOctober 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM

    I'd thank Anonymous, but he/she is probably away from his/her keyboard, out at a skydiving lesson, taking a Thai cooking class, or building a media cabinet in his/her basement.

    I feel richer just knowing/being pitied by him/her!

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  16. AnonymousOctober 2, 2012 at 1:42 PM

    @Nance - Actually I was out flying a kite with my dad. BTW I pity myself too. I think I'll watch GOT for a while on my couch.

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  17. Sandi EgoOctober 2, 2012 at 3:25 PM

    That commercial looks like a sick coffee drinking game. Where are the quarters?

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  18. AnonymousOctober 2, 2012 at 4:19 PM

    I can't help imagining that's Dawn's right hand holding the coffee cup.

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  19. WandersOctober 2, 2012 at 4:36 PM

    I thought it was her left hand. You may be right

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