Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Mary Worth 3029

I'm so happy that we get a story where Mary Worth teaches Toby how to spice up her marriage. Karen Moy's special Christmas gift to all of us. Thank you.

29 comments:

Regina Wolfe-Parks said...

Welcome back, old familiar...I mean Wanders. Please tell me if anyone has ever called their significant other "the old familiar". Where is Karen Moy getting this weird and crazy dialogue???

I am so hoping that's Dawn and she is preparing to show Chinbeard the latest yoga moves she learned from Harlan in 'beautiful Italy"

MDMaryTed said...

Naturally Toby and Ian will end up together. But I bet a plate of Mary's muffins that Ian's "straying" will all be considered Toby's fault.

mr_darcy said...

Isn't a "familiar" a witch's animal helper? Are Toby and Ian secretly witches? Does that chin beard allude to goat sacrifice? Is that young lady Rosemary, pregnant with her first child? Ohhh, the suspense!

Anonymous said...

WOW! I can hardly believe this! On Monday I commented that, certainly, it would be too much to hope for to see Prof. Chinbeard flirting with the new Adjunct Professor. Well, looky here! The only thing I got wrong was her hair color.

Nance said...

Today's Boldface Haiku is titled

"As Toby And Mary Discuss New Names For Mary's Muffins...".

Solid refreshment!
Oh, please!
"The Old Familiar"...
!

fauxprof said...

Is that Dawn, or do all college students look alike to June? It makes little sense that Dawn’s first appearance in months would be to greet Ian with great enthusiasm. At any rate, Ian’s pleasantly bemused expression bodes ill for “The Old Familiar”. (Unless, of course, that’s just the brand of scotch that’s replaced Famous Grouse in the Cameron’s liquor cabinet.)

r u ok? said...

@Nance - awesome haiku! I would like to buy a dozen of Mary's Solid Refreshment(TM) muffins with extra Splak.

TimP said...

Is Toby about to snort that muffin?

I'm not saying prohibition is the optimal response to regulating psychoactive drugs... but Mary Muffins are clearly so addictive and destructive that the only reasonable response is a complete ban including the confiscation and incineration of the boxes and boxes of muffins Mary had Mr. Allora stash in the Charterstone pool house.

We give Ted Miller a lot of grief and, to be sure, he has to own responsibility for his actions. That said, was it the man or was it the muffins?

KitKat said...

It's great to hear from you at such a busy time for you and your family, Wanders! I hope Zak of Zakis and Iris don't crash the wedding, although that would cause quite a stir. If they do, we will expect a full report from you.

"The Old Familiar"? Seriously? Keep bingeing on those muffins and Ian will call you "The Plus-sized Old Familiar," Toby. And what happened to your career in the arts? You need a life of your own away from Mary and muffins.

I see Ian has his diploma from the Official Offshore University and Aluminum Siding Company prominently displayed on his wall - impressive! And I also wondered if that is Dawn, sporting a bargain Italian haircut, or if it's a new chick and we're about to be "treated" to another KM inappropriate relationship.

Anonymous said...


Welcome back, Father of the Bride.

Whoa, here we go! I did not see this coming, although some of you did.

This promises to go on until at least Memorial Day. The initial flirting, the hesitation, the halting next step, the behavioral changes, the guilt, the deepening connection, the exposure, the hurt, the recriminations, the grudging reconciliation, the muffin therapy.

Maybe until July 4.

-- Scottie McW.

LouiseF said...

All too funny, everyone! Feels like Christmas has come early to us denizens of the Worthiverse.

Tim said...

Toby is going to start packing on the adipose tissue if she keeps chowing down on those bland cupcakes disguised as bland muffins.
Stop it girl.
I imagine Toby talks Valley Girl and snorts when she laughs.

Woolworth said...

Mary and Jeff refer to The Bumboat as their "old familiar" once. The only reason I remember this is that that weird phrase appears in a short, animated film of Mary Worth strips that Wanders or a member of Wanders's family made a a few years ago. I think that was the same short film where Emily Dickinson makes a cameo appearance, which was a little disturbing. The film itself was hysterical.

Sandi Ego said...

I remember a few dashing professors from my old familiar college days. Sorry, Ian, you would not have made the grade. Time for a Frederick's of Hollywood shopping trip for Toby to buy a sexy Mrs. Santa outfit.

Tim said...

Has Karen Moy forever and always portrayed Toby as an idiot or is she just using Toby to force her way into a new story line?

Gina said...

@Tim -- yes and yes.

@Nance -- bravo!

KitKat said...

Hilarious comments today, everyone!

How far back do Toby and Chinbeard go, anyway? Was she one of his students? Was there a previous Mrs. Cameron who conveniently shuffled off this mortal coil? Or maybe the First Mrs. Cameron came to her senses and dumped him?

doug said...

Regina--Karen Moy is an alien that has been studying human activity for the years via radio telescope. She's done remarkably well, but there's a degree that she will never fully grasp earthling human interaction. That's my theory.

Regina Wolfe-Parks said...

I had to look up the term "the old familiar" in Google. The closest I got was a poem "The Old Familiar Faces" by Charles Lamb. I think if my husband called me this, he'd spend the rest of his life in the spare bedroom with my cat. (Who's not named Libby and has both his eyes and no ring around one.)

Anyway, it's been bugging me the way Toby's holding that muffin. Is she sniffing it? Getting ready to smoosh it all over Mary's floor? Examining it for something crawling on it? What gives? I have never held a muffin (or anything) like that.

hia5 said...

Assuming that the woman who just entered Prof. Cameron's office is a student, it is apparent that the guid professor hasn't learned the first rule of office hours: whenever you meet with a student, the office door must be wide open!

Garnet said...

Is that Dawn in the last panel? If so, she sure is friendly with her male professors.

meg said...

“Dr. Cameron, thanks for agreeing to be my faculty advisor. I’ve been attending SRJC for 22 years now, and I think I have nearly enough credits to graduate. Does traveling in Beautiful Italy give me extra credits, or am I going to have to take DaVinci 2?”

Michael Beaumier said...

Wanders, thanks for taking the time, as always.

So many of you warned this was coming—but I just couldn’t get my mind around the thought of anyone finding Ian anything less than repulsive, and that includes Toby. Maybe especially Toby. After all, she knows where the little box is where Ian keeps the rest of that beard.

Equinox18 said...

Merriam;Webster says:
familiar (noun)
3. "a spirit often embodied in an animal and held to attend and serve or guard a person. 'the loathsome toad, the witches' familiar'— Harvey Graham. "

"Loathsome toad" sure fits Ian. and Toby.

Nance said...

@Gina
@r u ok?

Thanks! :-)

Regina Wolfe-Parks said...

Thursday: Looks like someone is angling for an A. Dawn's doppelganger is as giddy about Shakespeare as Dawn was about Da Vinci.

fauxprof said...

I guess that’s not Dawn, although it looks exactly like her. The problem here is the colorist. There are only three acceptable hair colors. Iris, Toby and Tommy all have Crayola yellow-orange, so you can’t have Toby and her rival with the same color, it would be too confusing. Mary has an exclusive on white, so that leaves dark brown, a la Dawn Weston.

Anonymous said...


THURSDAY

"Why thank you, Miss . . . um . . . Miss. But professional ethics and my personal code of conduct compel me to inform you that I find this blatant sucking up to be highly inappropriate. . . . Ha ha, just kidding, of course! Say, you're a cute little thing. Care to discuss this further over drinks?"

-- S. McW.

Chester the Dog said...

She also seems to be about 45-50, not that there s anything wrong with that. How long has she been attending generic classes, just like Dawn?