I can identify with John Dill's desire to glorify Mary Worth. She is my muse as well.
And I'm just going to say this once: If it weren't for fifth grade colorist Eunice Chestnut's obsession with pink, that would be one awesome cake. Well played, Joe Giella. Well played!
Pink Chin Napkin is back! Although it's facing a challenge to its chinny turf by Hand Towel in that first frame.
ReplyDeleteThat's o.k. It's o.k. Chin Napkin can brush that stuff off...
...flattered to be ... glorified? SRSLY? that's the best word you could come up with, Moy? Absolutely zip screams the theme of natural in this whole escapade. Lady, have you no shame? Or is your view of nature something you spot out of your penthouse window overlooking Central Park?
ReplyDeletePoor Chin Napkin. When it accepted the supporting role of Draped Sheet of Fondant, it thought that this would be its crowning comeback--despite the heavy pink character makeup. Little did it know that it would be upstaged by a tawdry, tarted up sugar sculpture of Mother Mary ButterNatureWorth.
ReplyDeleteShow business can be heartbreaking.
I think John Dill's been dipping into the frosting a bit too much; he looks about 30 lbs. heavier, and a lot more like P.T. Barnum.
ReplyDelete"I'm flattered to be glorified in sugar!"
ReplyDeleteThere's your Worthy Award for Line of the Year right there, folks.
(There is a category for Line of the Year, right? If not, please can we have one? That line has GOT to win something!)
SO MUCH PINK.
ReplyDeleteI...I...I...it's just a LOT of pink.
"...Mother Mary, come to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be."
ReplyDeleteFor a recent widower, John Dill sure is bouncing back quickly. What are the prizes in this contest anyway?
I can't wait to see the other entries. This one looks like just another pink wedding cake for a spinster who never got married.
ReplyDeleteAnd, if the Dillworth team has been working for what seems like months, wouldn't Mary have seen that stupid cake topping before now?
@phoebes in santa fe,
ReplyDeleteJohn's been 'practicing' on the figurine in private!
All those months out there in the Dawn Weston wilderness, I kept thinking, "hey, wait - this strip is supposed to be about Mary Worth; when are we going to get back to her?"
ReplyDeleteNow I desperately want to know what's up with Dawn and Jim, just because I can't take another moment of cakestalking...
My new goal for 2013 is to get myself into a situation where I can say "I'm flattered to be glorified in sugar!" and not have it be a non sequitur.
ReplyDeleteWhere is Wilbur? How can you do a food story without Wilbur?
ReplyDeleteMaybe Giella should have given the colorist a head's up that the fondant waterfall thing was intended to be blue. Or it could be that management at Charterstone has decided that everyone's pink drapes have to be replaced with taupe and our colorist had to find some way to use up all her pink crayons.
ReplyDeletethe third straight different kitchen they been making the cake . is that why there was so much carrying practice?
ReplyDeleteGlorified In Sugar; The Mary Worth Story.
ReplyDeleteSurely this will be a Lifetime Movie?
I guess this is where we exclaim, "Holy Mother of Mary!"
ReplyDeleteAlso, Mary has quite the man-hands today.
@HR Human,
ReplyDeleteGet someone to make one of these, program it with your face, bust or full figure and Bob's your uncle!
It's a pretty cake, to be sure, but not for a big old cake decorating contest. Don't they usually sculpt big old scenes and stories that fit the theme?
ReplyDeleteKeeping in mind the fate of the Dora the Explorer cake, I predict that l'il Mary will topple off the top as the "Old People Transferring Cake" portion of the competition proceeds.
ReplyDeleteSorry, I mean li'l Mary (like li'l Lulu, but with extra smugness).
ReplyDelete@meg - I'm with you. Can we please get on with the DillWorth cake splattering on the floor.
ReplyDeleteOh, it'll spatter alright. And Sugar-Mary may just put someone's eye out!
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree with Meg, that li'l Mary will somehow plummet from the top of the cake, shattering her elderly dessert-topping bones, possibly while John Dill is flinging unwanted woo while they're transferring their magnum opus.
ReplyDelete(And since this contest is meant to celebrate Nature in All Her Glory, isn't it inappropriate for Team Dillworth to feature an icing that glaringly displays artificial color Red #3?)
Nonnymus, I want one of those machines!
ReplyDelete@ NonnyMus. Big fan of "Bob's your uncle". I try to work it into every day conversation whenever I can.
ReplyDelete"Mary's my muse" may well overtake BYU.gdondo
I just posted a comment. My comment ended with "gdondo". Where the heck did that come from?
ReplyDelete@birdie, click the link again and follow the topic on the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories website. Assembly instructions are posted at some point.
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to point out that pink Chin Napkin is the central focus in not one, not two, but THREE panels of Sunday's strip. It was looking grim for a little while, but Chin Napkin has emerged triumphant! Plus, Hand Towel is nowhere to be seen.
Show business can also be exhilarating!
SUNDAY
ReplyDeleteThe cake topper looks like Sputnik and Linus' security blanket.
If the judges don't look at at the back of the cake (which looks more like a Tribute To Niagara Falls At Night in the heavily shaded panel), it has a better chance.
Mary the Muse's face in panel three looks more like Archie the Andrews.
ReplyDeleteSunday: Why the suspense? They're already holding the cake plate by its edges, of as if their creation is feather-light.
ReplyDeleteI'm more concerned that Mary's car will be towed for being illegally parked in a handicap space just a few feet from the front entrance of the convention center.
But... but... but.... everything is riding on John Dill's success in this cake contest. If he were to fail -- worse yet, if Mary was to fail him -- his life would be over.
ReplyDeleteOVER I tell you!!!!!
So OVER after this anticipated dual rejection - by Mary and the cake-decorating world - John Dill might end up inhaling too much of this carcinogenic cake frosting and then plummeting off the same cliff where Aldo Kelrast met his Maker.
ReplyDeleteThis site has taken over my brain. (Not that that's a bad thing. I saw a big pink-frosted cake at a bakery, with roses all over the top, today and thought instantly, "It's Pinkcake!" But alas, there was no Sugar Mary on top. Pinkcake 2.0?
ReplyDeleteBoy, Mother Mary Nature sure has Father Nature Man Hands. If I were John Dill, I'd be rather concerned.
ReplyDeleteAaaand cue the earthquake! Please?
ReplyDeleteShouldn't Mary really be glorified in saccharin(e)?
--Beagle Vet
I think Mother Nature Butterworth just tripped another contestant.
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