Genuinely curious as to what percentage of normal people can ID characters from "Pickles"

Blondie, 6/22/23

Let's put aside, for the moment, the fact we're dealing with three famous (?) comics couples here. What are the circumstances under which you'd have any three couples together like this to talk to Blondie and Tootsie about vow-renewal catering? Like, do they just have office hours specifically for potential vow renewers to drop by and chat? Or are they all doing this together, a mass vow-renewal process? Are they friends? Or -- and now, finally, we must return to the fact that we've got three beloved (???) comics couples on our hands -- is this for copyright reasons, somehow, and what they're actually "renewing" is the rights of their intellectual property holders to the concept of their coupledom?

Mary Worth, 6/22/23