For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 14, 2024

Love that sweet kitty sleeping on the shelf. Might be interesting if she met up with Edgar.

Judging from the lady who, aside from being female, looks nothing like Elly’s coworker Moira Kinney and the cat we have never seen in the bookstore, it appears Elly has wandered in a different bookstore. Did she get on a sugar high from all the doughnuts and forget where she works?

For those doing comparisons Moira Kinney has giant lips and a hair style that always covers her ears. This shorter haired, ear exposed, large earring wearing, small-lipped woman who changes appearance in every single panel is not only not Moira Kinney, but actually be three different women. I am going to guess this is the famous Triplets Bookstore.

Is Elly breaking the fourth wall? She’s looking right at us!!

Sounds great, Elly! Hey everyone… Christmas at the Patterson‘s house from now on!

Usually, that glow disappears when you get a call to pickup your child.

The joke here is that Elly hates taking care of her children and she really misses Farley.

Our library thought about a cat, but worried if little kids would get scratched or people would slip on hairballs and call in lawyers

Cue Andy Williams. “It’s the most wonderful time of the year,,,,”

True

Which accounts for all those Geminis – I think it’s oddly ironic that Labor Day (US) comes before back to school / impregnation day.

Since this is 1995, imagine the reaction of Elly and the Pattersons to the verdict of the O.J. Simpson trial.

Isn’t it strange how mothers used to stay home while dads worked and there was no daycare or pre-K? Did things improve when mothers went to work and needed to pay for that second car and gas and insurance and daycare and leave their toddlers with strangers?

The Pattersons live in Taxada.

A single income, even a dentist’s, is insufficient to meet the needs of Ontaxio.

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It seems ironic that Elly is on Elizabeth to start pulling her own weight, as evidenced by saying that Elizabeth’s school supplies are lost or exhausted, she will pay for the replacement out of her own pocket. Yet Elly was babying Michael when he left for college, as in “oh my dear, have you got every single thing” as well as being sentimental when Michael attended Gordon’s wedding, figuring if Gordon is now a married man it goes without saying one day Michael will leave Elly to live with his bride. It is as if it is time for Elizabeth to grow up, but Michael will always be her baby.

You do love dumping responsibility for your kids off on others, don’t you, Cru-Elly?

The worst part of Christmas is the shopping malls

Ah the truth comes out, what a surprise! ;-)

(Cue Andy Williams) They’re the most wonderful times of the year!

OK guys I just bust a gut watching “The Kiffness – Eating the Cats ft. Donald Trump (Debate Remix”_ – YouTube. Proceeds go to Clark County SPCA, it will help the stray animals in Springfield. Already close to 1.5 million views.

Elly sure did feel that way that Christmas when she went to the farm. Admittedly, it was not that “enjoyable” for Elly or the rest of the Pattersons being cooped up in a farmhouse where the pipes have frozen for the winter. Elly sure did not have a smug, superior look when Dan Cruikshank told her that the toilet would not work until spring and that they all defecated into a five gallon drum! Nor was her demeanor smug when they left and John said next Christmas he invited the Cruikshanks to spend it with them.

Elly, cherish those moments of peace before the storm. The come few and far between.