Second guessing Liz's motives is second nature to this woman. The Lives Behind The Lines has Elly be saddened and confused that Lizzie is Daddy's Little Girl and also just a little miffed that she turns to him to undercut perfectly reasonable punishments. Objective reality paints a picture of a woman who sees her child as a rival to be held down because pretty people want to ruin her.
Rank hypocrisy and imposing the double standard that she only objects to when it inconveniences her is also second nature to her. All those times she doesn't trust situations have the situation of Liz having a vagina.😤
This is why Mike can be bought super-expensive kicks while Liz and April have too many clothes.....
Finally, Elly might talk about how she wants her freedom but she cannot be alone and she will not live in a world where she is the one defining her purpose:
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If I were John I'd just throw up my hands and give it up at this point, except that if I were John I would have done that years ago.
"She's going to keep the name and the interior the same..." wasn't the shop called Lilliput's when Elly bought it? And the only thing I can remember Elly doing that was different was adding a Very Expensive Toy cabinet that didn't result in any sales and in fact just lead to losses. Is Moira's purchase of the store conditional on her not changing anything?
Elly went from "the store is running me" and "I think it's time to retire" to "they don't need me" pretty darned fast, didn't she? Her narcissism took a real beat-down when Moira dropped the "you're essential, you made this a landmark" lines and switched to "here's a check, get out" didn't it? Elly wants the bookstore to cease to exist if she leaves. Probably why we never hear about the library after she's fired- she doesn't want to admit it is still there, functioning as it did before she arrived.
It's why Liz will never go back up North if she can at all avoid it. She'd as soon not admit that the town gets along just fine without her around. It's also why Elly doesn't actually want self-sufficient children. She's a shallow narcissist who doesn't want to admit that she's going to be replaced someday.
We're probably lucky that the strip ended when it did; considering the Michael-Martha meetup that happened in the letters, with the mean-spirited mention of Martha being "plump" and divorced, I can imagine being treated to Liz innocently bumping into a divorced, alcoholic, long-since-kicked-off-the-force and now working as a security guard for a toxic waste dump Paul. Those who fail to receive the fairy dust of the Pattersons don't end well.
And the only thing I can remember Elly doing that was different was adding a Very Expensive Toy cabinet that didn't result in any sales and in fact just lead to losses.
The Lilliput's also had a coffee shop, which Elly removed when she took over. There were several comic strips where Elly disdained the idea of having a coffee shop in a bookstore.
A normal person would see a coffee counter as a welcoming and homey touch. Dumbass Elly thinks in terms of slobby people making a mess she has to clean up.
Liz is going to wander around wishing that she hadn't given up her independence, but she isn't going to do anything about it like moving back North and trying to get Paul back or go out to hunt up a job or look for an apartment or anything. She's just going to thought-bubble her regrets before crawling back into bed.
Behave like a child, get treated like a child. This is not rocket science, Liz.
She was raised by a dolt who's sure that her mother can't wait to disown her. Said mother thinks people are shitting her when they tell her that because she didn't raise a panicky, down on herself loony.
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This is why Mike can be bought super-expensive kicks while Liz and April have too many clothes.....
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If I were John I'd just throw up my hands and give it up at this point, except that if I were John I would have done that years ago.
"She's going to keep the name and the interior the same..." wasn't the shop called Lilliput's when Elly bought it? And the only thing I can remember Elly doing that was different was adding a Very Expensive Toy cabinet that didn't result in any sales and in fact just lead to losses. Is Moira's purchase of the store conditional on her not changing anything?
Elly went from "the store is running me" and "I think it's time to retire" to "they don't need me" pretty darned fast, didn't she? Her narcissism took a real beat-down when Moira dropped the "you're essential, you made this a landmark" lines and switched to "here's a check, get out" didn't it? Elly wants the bookstore to cease to exist if she leaves. Probably why we never hear about the library after she's fired- she doesn't want to admit it is still there, functioning as it did before she arrived.
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It's why Liz will never go back up North if she can at all avoid it. She'd as soon not admit that the town gets along just fine without her around. It's also why Elly doesn't actually want self-sufficient children. She's a shallow narcissist who doesn't want to admit that she's going to be replaced someday.
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We're probably lucky that the strip ended when it did; considering the Michael-Martha meetup that happened in the letters, with the mean-spirited mention of Martha being "plump" and divorced, I can imagine being treated to Liz innocently bumping into a divorced, alcoholic, long-since-kicked-off-the-force and now working as a security guard for a toxic waste dump Paul. Those who fail to receive the fairy dust of the Pattersons don't end well.
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In real life, the people John and Elly trained their kids to hate too don't get hit with the Fist O'Ham. I guess why the following lyric:
Whoever said life was fair/they better not come our way
is in the theme song to the TV show.
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And the only thing I can remember Elly doing that was different was adding a Very Expensive Toy cabinet that didn't result in any sales and in fact just lead to losses.
The Lilliput's also had a coffee shop, which Elly removed when she took over. There were several comic strips where Elly disdained the idea of having a coffee shop in a bookstore.
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A normal person would see a coffee counter as a welcoming and homey touch. Dumbass Elly thinks in terms of slobby people making a mess she has to clean up.
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It was a little odd that Elly, a notorious coffee drinker, would frown on having easy access to coffee at work.
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Easy access to coffee defeats the purpose of drinking it.
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Liz is going to wander around wishing that she hadn't given up her independence, but she isn't going to do anything about it like moving back North and trying to get Paul back or go out to hunt up a job or look for an apartment or anything. She's just going to thought-bubble her regrets before crawling back into bed.
Behave like a child, get treated like a child. This is not rocket science, Liz.
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It is to her. This is the end result of John and Elly being too stupid to explain that a verbal contract is worth the paper it's written on.
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"you're getting a ride with a boy? in a car?"
no, dumbass, he's picking me up in his private jet.
and don't go "uh", you're not Butthead.
Second strip: "everything around me was mine!"
that's because THAT was your home, not your parents' home!
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