Some of my favorite sentences from the Mary Worth Wikipedia entry:
Many stories now begin with new people she meets in her volunteer work at the local hospital or at poolside parties at Charterstone, where she is known for her tuna casserole.
In Summer 2006, Moy’s handling of the strip during a plotline in which Mary was stalked by Aldo Kelrast (an anagram of “stalker”), a Captain Kangaroo lookalike who may have killed his late wife, drew media attention.[
A subsequent plot development was the arrival of Ella Byrd, another elderly dispenser of advice who aroused feelings of jealousy and inadequacy in Mary but also, as a psychic, alerted her to Dr. Jeff’s danger in Vietnam, where he was volunteering medical care and was seriously ill himself. Mary flew there, brought him back, and is now her old self again, with an aphorism for every occasion.
An episode of The Simpsons, “Bart Sells His Soul”, features Comic Book Guy displaying “a very rare Mary Worth in which she advises a friend to commit suicide.”
In the Futurama episode “The Why of Fry,” Fry remarks, “There are guys in the background of Mary Worth comics that are more important than me.”
This article is about the comic strip. For the evil spirit that is sometimes known by this name, see Bloody Mary (folklore).