Saturday, October 20, 2018

Mary Worth 2993

"There are two types of people we don't let take pets. And the two of you are both types."

33 comments:

meg said...

As I recall, when Mary was forced to reluctantly return Chester the Dog to his owner, Toby asked if Mary would get another dog to replace him. Mary’s response (paraphrased): I’m not interested in any dog that isn’t Chester.

KitKat said...

Wanders, you read my mind. Reputable animal shelters don’t freely hand over animals to anyone who walks in. The welfare of the animal is the primary concern. The minute Mary dragged Saul through the door, alarms should have gone off. However, we all know this is the Worthiverse, a.k.a. Moy World. Some bizarre critter with scarily mournful eyes will gaze up at Saul, he will be reduced to mush, and Mary will risk dislocating her arm as she pats herself on her back.

Trilkhai said...

@meg — Ah, but that was before she was replaced by a robot marketed as the "new-and-improved" Mary 2.0. (Fool friends & family; keep pesky neighbors in line! Conscience, realistic emotions and eyeballs not included.)

Tim said...

KM is trolling readers of Mary Worth, right? That has to be what's going on here. Nobody could be as insensitive and clueless as Mary. KM is deliberately trying to make readers hate her. Perhaps a coup is underway. Mary is being moved out as queen of Worthverse. But who will replace her?

Anonymous said...


This story line just keeps getting more and more unrealistic. In real life, there's no way Saul goes along with this.

This is worse than any Wilbur story line. Arrrrgh, make it stop already.

-- Scottie McW.

Nance said...

Hey, that's not Sue from Medical Practice, is it? Is this where she ended up?

Anyway...

Today's Boldface Haiku is titled

"And Because You're Our 100th Visitors In Our Adopt-A-Thon Promotion, If You Adopt A Pet, You Get A Lifetime Supply Of Pet Food, Free Veterinary Care, And A Set Of Tires For Your Vehicle".

Tour. Meet home!
Bah! Not!
Love occupants!
Yourself!

Chin Napkin Groupie said...

From "The Karen Moy Guide to Compassion". "If you feel moralally and intellectually superior to thse beneath you, it is your obligation to impose your will upon them regardless of their degree if resistance."

mr_darcy said...

It would be just Mary's style to have already picked out Saul's new pet for him. She came the day before with a bow-tie collar and asked the staff to put it on a chihuahua.

meg said...

Trilkhai: What . A. Coincidence. The. Old. Meg. Has. Also. Been. Replaced. She. Was. Formerly. A. Silly. Person. Now. She. Is. Silly. Megabot. 2018.

Yahoonski said...

Where is Shovey McShovington when you need him?

r u ok? said...

Looks like Saul is about to leave with 2 dogs, 3 cats, a rabbit and a guinea pig if Mary gets her way as she thinks, "Saul will bond with at least one them and then I can move on."

Regina Wolfe-Parks said...

Wow everyone echoed my thoughts exactly. At first I thought it was Mary telling everyone she was doing a tour of the shelter. (It would be just like Mary to take over.)

Also, who says something like “would love to meet your facility’s occupants”? A normal person would say “we’re looking for a pet”. If this woman has any brains, she would show these two the door as they are both unsuitable to be pet owners just by looking at them. But like everyone else, I believe Myster Wynter will spot a dog and like the Grinch his heart will grow and Mary will say to herself “Mission accomplished.”

I am really hating Mary and KM really hard right now.

KitKat said...

Terrific comments, everyone!

Maybe Mary will next drag Saul to the Generic Prison and brightly exclaim, “Mr. Wynter and I would love to meet your facility’s occupants!”

Anonymous said...


@KitKat

Ha haaaa! As they tour Generic Prison, Mary is startled to see a familiar face. "Tommy, what are you doing in here?"

-- S. McW.

Anonymous said...


. . . And Tommy replies, "Five to ten."

-- S. McW.

MissScarlet said...

Wasn't Mary supposed to be bringing a donation? She looks empty handed to me.

Robb C. Sewell said...

When our 15-year-old cat Mulder passed in 2009, my brother tried to pull a Mary on me. He was up from Georgia and pushed that we adopt a new cat right away. We told him we wanted to mourn in our own time. There was a stray cat hanging around mom and dad's house and he was planning to bring that cat to me. Mom caught wind of what he was planning and put a stop to it.

Sandi Ego said...
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meg said...

Perhaps Saul will choose the coatimundi who is staring at him so beseechingly.

Regina Wolfe-Parks said...

Sunday: In the quote section, Andy Rooney must have been talking about Mary.

I am hating Mary more and more with each passing day of this strip. Today she tells Myster Wynter that that it's just a quick stop "to cheer up a cat or dog", as if she's in a nursing home "cheering up" some poor person that has been left to die, not unlike these animals.

Mary: "We'll get you a new dog and we'll give the cats and dogs a quick pet on the way out." KM, that's not how it works. A shelter is not there for your character's twisted whims. It's a place that a poor animal will find a forever home. Also, KM I bet you've never had a pet, so you don't understand the nuances of being a pet owner. As I've previously said, I've lost my cat Michael and I can't bring myself right now to replace him. KM, maybe you should speak to pet owners that have lost a pet and see how they feel. You don't replace a pet like you replace a toothbrush. Maybe you should read Patrick McConnell's strip "Mutts" when he does "shelter stories" and you'll understand about shelters and pets.

That being said, Mary is an awful, awful person.

Regina Wolfe-Parks said...

I hope Myster Wynter gets a pit bull and it rips off Mary's face. That would be poetic justice for her horrible, clueless behavior.

Nance said...

@Sandi Ego--Bravo! Your comment today is Perfection.

Anonymous said...

@Nance and Sandi Ego - as was the same comment made by Tim a few days ago.

Anonymous said...

I've actually lost whatever sympathy I felt for Saul. As far as I can tell, Mary is not holding a gun on him so why can't he just walk out and wait for her in the car? Although I suppose she would just go ahead and pick out a dog for him and dump it on his lap.

KitKat said...

Sunday
“Unplanned detours,” Mary? You’ve adding lying to your arsenal of meddling tactics.

@Anonymous at 10:17 a.m. makes a fine point - for all his harrumphing, Saul’s letting Mary drag him around instead of refusing to acquiesce to Mary’s browbeating. For Pete’s sake, Saul, ask the shelter staff to call a cab or a ride-hailing service for you. Better yet, have them call the police.

Nance said...

@Anonymous 10:15--I must have missed that! Thanks for the heads-up. Kudos to Tim for such a witty and savvy remark, then.

Sandi Ego said...

Yeah, sorry if I repeated a remark. It's hard for me to keep up.
Very recently I had to euthanize our 15 year old dog (he died in my 16 yr old son's arms) and my beloved 13 yr old horse (way too young, horses live to 30yrs generally). We nearly lost another dog, but he has rallied. It has been devastating.
We have 2 dogs now so I wouldn't adopt another right now. I can't even begin to think of getting a new horse. I still can't talk about my loss without crying. Being dragged to a horse rescue or sale barn to be forcibly paired with another horse would infuriate me. #TeamSaul

Tim said...

@nance and others. Thanks for the recognition.

KitKat said...

MONDAY
Garbo, hmm? A desperate ploy by KM to pander to the above-85 demographic.

Saul has something in common with that poor dog - he's been abused by Mary for weeks, beginning with salmon snacks in a box and escalating to browbeating in Pet Cemetery, stalking, and kidnapping.

LouiseF said...

KitKat, I suspect the "above-85" demographic may be one of the few still reading this tedious story... This plot started out so promisingly, with a pool party and a new character. Now we're in the 10th inning and saddled with death and insensitivity. If this storyline continues until Thanksgiving, Mary may be dragging Saul to the President's annual Turkey Pardoning...

meg said...

Maybe Saul should get an emotional support turkey?

LouiseF said...

meg, wondering if you saw this.https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/flying-with-animals/ It started as an article in USA today, and it was so odd, I had to run it through snopes.com (the fact-checking web site), but apparently, turkeys CAN be emotional support animals. KM could definitely liven up this plot by providing a hedgehog, sugar glider, or ferret that Saul could share his troubles with. Even an emotional support turkey is more believeable than the pap that's turning up in this strip.

Yahoonski said...

The inevitability of each painful step in this trudge is galling. You could have predicted a weiner dog, could you not? Still time for surprise, perhaps Mary getting nipped by the dog and Saul exclaiming "I'll take THAT one!"