{"id":3637,"date":"2010-01-08T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2010-01-09T13:16:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T19:16:32","slug":"a-eureka-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=3637","title":{"rendered":"A “Eureka!” moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haz it.<\/p>\n

I think that strips like Mary Worth<\/em> and Rex Morgan, M.D. <\/em>suffer more than anyone can imagine when their titular (*snort*) characters go MIA.\u00a0 At the moment, Rex isn’t doing much besides sniffing milk and listening to the line of bull-doody Cousin Brook is feeding him — but it’s Rex!<\/em> With his concerned looks, quizzical looks, sideways glances, everything Rexly!<\/p>\n

On the other hand, it’s a death march at Wilbur’s condo, with Wilbur any moment going to trade in his daughter Dawn for his new BFF, his possibly bastard son Kurt. All while sitting on a sofa. Looking at old photos.\u00a0 Imagine the excitement if Mary were on that couch, shooting daggers at Kurt!<\/p>\n

Ah, but that’s not the case.\u00a0 Instead, excitement between Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum, and Tweedle Dumber must be generated through rumor, speculation and new dialog.<\/p>\n

\"not-mw-243\"<\/p>\n

Even a pinch of Mary goes a long way in spicing up things!<\/p>\n

Well, okay — I’ll admit that Droopy Dawg<\/span> Dawn sitting on the sofa is pretty amusing, in a sad, nobody-puts-Dawnie-in-the-corner-except-her-own-freaking’-father way:<\/p>\n

\"new-mw1\"<\/p>\n

Mary, if you know what’s good for you, Charterstone and Santa Royale, YOU’D<\/strong><\/em> be at Wilbur’s door in a heartbeat!<\/p>\n

[The Next Day’s Panel]<\/p>\n

What?!? <\/em><\/strong>Mary’s still<\/em> not here?\u00a0 Oh, lordy, lordy…<\/p>\n

\"new-mw2\"<\/p>\n

CC’s Master Softheart commented that nothing livens up a stagnant superhero comment like live artillery (The Phantom being a current case-in-point).\u00a0 Hmmm…it is works for superheroes…<\/p>\n

\"new-mw-3\"<\/p>\n

Oh, Dawn. What you failed to realize is that anyone with an XX chromosome will never win in the Charterstone universe.\u00a0 Mary is the queen bee, one way or another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haz it. I think that strips like Mary Worth and Rex Morgan, M.D. suffer more than anyone can imagine when their titular (*snort*) characters go MIA.\u00a0 At the moment, Rex isn’t doing much besides sniffing milk and listening to the line of bull-doody Cousin Brook is feeding him — but it’s Rex! With his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maryworth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}