History ComicStrip / MaryWorth

The strip is subject to frequent parody from other newspaper comic strips, was frequently parodied by Carol Burnett on her variety show, and it is ripe SnarkBait. ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon'' has brought attention back to it.

** A recent storyline has Dawn's usage of Twitter reaching levels of obsession akin to drug addiction. However, it all comes to nothing, as Dawn ends up beating her addiction by declaring that she will go ludite for one day a week.
*** The storyline was contrasted with Jeff becoming obsessed with his Ipad and Mary Worth vehomently denying being anti-technology (going so far as to reminding Jeff that she has a computer) when he accused her of being an old fuddy duddy for not being Ipad crazy.

* AscendedMeme: From TheComicsCurmudgeon. The author opened a Cafe Press store and created merchandise prominently featuring some of Aldo's greatest moments.

MaryWorth is a soap-opera style comic strip by Allen Saunders.

The strip is subject to frequent parody from other newspaper comic strips, was frequently parodied by Carol Burnett on her variety show, and it is ripe SnarkBait. TheComicsCurmudgeon has brought attention back to it.

!!Tropes used by the comic strip:

* AGodAmI: In January of 2012, Mary rescues a girl from a kidnapper (with the help of a friendly waitress) by delaying the pair with promises of dessert. A few days later she calls the girl's rescue "a miracle". Yes, Mary Worth referred to her own actions as miraculous.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Adrian and later her father.

* NosyNeighbor: Good Lord, Mary.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: In a recent storyline, it featured a Doctor named Dr. Kaphut who was addicted to heroin. He looked remarkably like Aldo Kelrast and even had the same mustache in his first appearance (Though it was removed in subsequent appearances likely for this reason) if Dr. Kaphut was Aldo who had faked his own death and went to drugs to fill the void that was Mary, and Mary finding out and having to convince him to move on, wouldn't that have been a much better storyline?

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: In a recent storyline, it featured a Doctor named Dr. Kaphut who was addicted to heroin. He looked remarkably like Aldo Kelrast and even had the same mustache in his first appearance (Though it was removed in subsequent appearances likely for this reason) if Dr. Kaphut was Aldo who had faked his own death and went to drugs to fill the void that was Mary, and Mary finding out and having to tell him to move on, wouldn't that have been a much better storyline?

* AscendedMeme: From TheComicsCurmudgeon. The author recently opened a Cafe Press store and created merchandise prominently featuring some of Aldo's greatest moments.

The strip is subject to frequent parody from other newspaper comic strips, and it is ripe SnarkBait. TheComicsCurmudgeon has brought attention back to it.

* {{Heteronormative Crusader}}: Got a character who's not paired up with someone of the ''opposite'' sex? That just won't do, and Mary will take care of it.
** Although Mary's never actually done anything to show herself as homophobic: it's just that gay people don't exist in the strip. Then again, neither do people with brown eyes.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Wilbur and Dawn survive the "Italian ship disaster" of 2012.
** A disaster that they were a part of, because of Game of Thrones. Following her break-up with her boyfriend, Dawn started obsessively watching the first season DVD set and fixated on Ned Stark's death as proof that the world was a horrible place with nothing good ever happens.

* CompleteMonster: Nola, who among other things ruined a man's life by framing him for embezzlement so she could steal his job and ruined a marriage by seducing a married man just because she could and who sees nothing wrong with ruining lives to get ahead in life.

* CoolOldLady: She's ''supposed'' to be, but YourMileageMayVary.

* SingleIssuePsychology: Pretty much ''every meddle''. In one 2010 story, a man is having trouble with relationships because he's estranged from his father. Eventually he finds that his father wouldn't open up to him because ''the father himself'' lost a friend as a child. Yeah, ''nested'' SingleIssuePsychology.

* AGodAmI: Mary rescues a girl from a kidnapper with the help of a friendly waitress by delaying the pair with promises of dessert. A few days later she calls the girl's rescue "a miracle". Yes, Mary Worth referred to her own actions as miraculous.

There's also an old English legend about a ghost called "Bloody Mary Worth" who will slash at your face if you repeat the phrase "Bloody Mary" thirteen times in front of a mirror. This old legend has nothing to do with the comic strip, though Saunders hadn't heard of the legend when he named his character, and the comic strip Mary Worth would prefer to serve you salmon squares instead.