@mary <3

Just a random guy, huh. Lol

Hands down BEST mutant drama ever!! :D :D BTW I thought random guy in your pic was Lee Jong Suk :P I really envy your random skill. I tried to do it during my school days only to have broken a few pens in the process!!

Instead of a mutant drama, could it just be a clone of Surplus Princess? If so, I love that your favorite is the same as your hated. This is a familiar dynamic which explains many of my past relationships.

Hi mary, I like your humorous style, especially when it comes to that Random Guy!

Lol, I don't think there's any Jeanie who doesn't know Mary and her intense love for Random guy #1.
Just like you, my whole life is a makjang drama I kid you not. The only thing I haven't experienced is a birth secret because I look exactly like my parents. If it's happened in a drama, more likely than not I have experienced it.

Hi Mary! Haha I'm not sure if "random guy" is an inside joke or you really don't know his name Lololol but yeh, he's a cutie.
Sidenote I love that you'll watch any drama that gives you a chance to ship someone or something. So....best hit, hyungjae and his phone?

"In episode seven, we find out that Famous Chef is the second lead"
Dyinggg. I sense no bitterness at all.

Strangely in my mind, I feel like mary and Random Guy have been dating for a while now. Lol. I can't think of one without thinking of the other one.

Ahhh Surplus Princess could have been awesome. I hated that episode cut so much.

Never realized until now that in addition to Love It or List It and Brother vs. Brother, HGTV has many show titles which may translate well into K-drama:

Island Life (set in Jeju but without the Warm and Cozy)
Kitchen Cousins (chefs with fauxcest plotline)
We Bought the Farm (I guess we already got Modern Farmers)

Kind of want to see a K-drama adaptation of Vanilla Ice Goes Amish

I loved your first job story, wouldn't mind watching a drama with that plot at all! And, why not, I think the male lead of that rom-com could be that random guy you have as avatar, whoever he is :P

'Get to know mary'... my brain immediately thinks: 'Song Jae Rim'.
It's like a combo order. They come together.

what is the favorite drama? i see Surplus Princess is most hated haha

Also it sucks to admit it but wrath is probably mine too, I'm an irritable bear most of the time but I'm trying to work on it. K-dramas are most def my happy place :D

I have to admit that I have been waiting for this one with all the bated breath and impatience of that overly devoted instagram follower who, after you haven't posted in a week, responds on your return post with crying-with-joy emojis, capital letters and poor spelling due to emotional touch typing.

Hello mary! Laughed a lot at your answers, I love your humor in the comments thread here at DB! And the running joke that if ever Random guy was mentioned, everyone'll be waiting for you to comment..lol

For some reason as I'm reading your answers I'm thinking you might be from Ph - but that may just be me and over-assuming. lol. Anyway, nice to know more about you!

Hi @mary, pleasure meeting you.

So who's the first lead?

I was wondering when yours will be posted and yay we share the same major!! The Walking Dead was my fave too for the first two seasons?

I was one of those who asked 'who's mary?" and the response was that I should just follow her. Lol.

Now I'm in the 'everybody loves mary' group. Am I a stalker? Fufufu~

Nice to meet you Mary! I have seen you in the comments section but forgive my ignorance as I wasn't aware you were a staff member! I'm not sure I've read one of your articles.

I just watched Thumping Spike with Song Jae Rim and found him cute in it!

Nice to know you Mary :-)
And I'm the ONLY one who didn't get the Mary - Random Guy reference -____- off to do some research. o_o

Hi, @mary! Giggling at the random guy. I miss your comments and the days when you were just mary, beanie, and could comment on anything and everything.

Thanks, mary-- great responses (as always). You never fail to delight and entertain. I do kind of miss the days when you managed to turn every other post into an ode to SJR, but I'm also really happy that you're officially part of the DB staff now.

I was surprised that you chose wrath as your deadliest sin-- there's so often an undercurrent of sweet support and kindness in your comments, I hadn't pegged you as the ragey type. But that's good-- I think SJR likes feisty women... However, that trait must make moderating comments a bit more challenging.

In my head, you're a cross between Answer Me 1997's Sung Shi-won (the most fervent fangirl ever), Healer's Ajumma (a badass coding-ninja), and Kim Seul-gi (a charming and hilarious entertainer most of us would either like to be or to have as a BFF).

I hope your back gets better soon and that someday, you find your very own Mong-ryong (with an apple butt, of course). Thanks for cracking me up countless times and for all that you do that makes DB even better.

Immediately practices pen-spinning for about 10 minutes before finishing Mary's Staff Spotlight

I remember complaining in advance that I hoped mary joining the DB staff wouldn't mean less of mary in the comment threads ... but it did mean that ? because she got so darn busy. Our win was our loss. We love you, mary!

@mary - i'm still wondering if the moniker "Mrs SJR" ever answered your (careful to not sound threatening) reply of, "Ummm, can I ask what SJR stands for?"
: D

So great to know some more details about you, mary! ..... Oh my gosh, the "shortsightedness of blanket ban on plastic bags." Yes! A fellow Beanie understands! Heh.

Love your humorous contributions in the comments sections ..... and all your answers here ("Random guy", riiiiiiight!).

Thank you for sharing with us, for your work on the DB Team, and for letting us know the awesomness of your guy, Song Jae-rim.

Effortless wit every single time, that's our mary <3

LMAO at random guy!!!

Awesome as expected.

Hi mary!
Such fun reading your answers.
The "random guy" is lucky you want to spend an hour with him.
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... and Brother vs. Brother (Team Jonathan!)
NUH-UH. Team Drew TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH!!! ?

Nice seein' ya again, dahling. Now don't be a stranger, ne? Apple Butts RULE!

I know surplus princess is one drama but I can't figure out what the other one is! Does anyone know?

I'll never be Able to get over thispatch! WHY MARY WHY? WHY YOU GOTTA BE SO WITTY IN EVERY REPLY?

I'm also a mary beanie but i'd gladly give you all the mary-related usernames in the world just because you're the best! Thanks, @mary!

Pleased to meet you, mary!

My Dad is a retired chem engineer, and my kid sister is a biochemist by training. Our maternal uncle was a chemistry professor. Alas, I have no talent for chemistry or mathematics -- but became a pretty okay kitchen chemist. ;-)

My hubby is a techie nerd whose idea of a good time was reading core dumps -- until we watched TIMESLIP DR. JIN together on Hulu. Don't throw stuff at me! If it weren't for that doggone gummi brain fetus, I wouldn't be here fangirling on DramaBeans! Our next show together was THE KING'S DAUGHTER, SU BAEK HYANG -- all 108 episodes of it. I've since seduced him into a mild but persistent fling with Kdrama, having hornswoggled him into watching SIGNAL, REBEL, and currently, LOOKOUT. He's even found a few shows on his own. We just finished MY ONLY LOVE SONG. Boong Boong FTW!!

Back in the day, we were devotees of HERCULES, XENA, BUFFY, ANGEL, and FIREFLY and a bunch of shows on SyFy and USA -- once we finally broke down and got cable in our terrestrial-TV-impaired neck of the woods. Whereas he continues to watch a lot of current American superhero and sci-fi shows, I've lit out for greener pastures in Kdramaland nearly exclusively.

I always get a kick out of seeing you pop up like a meerkat at the mention of Random Guy. ;-)

Thanks for all the behind-the-scenes stuff you do to make DramaBeans.com the cyber home-away-from-home it is for so many Kdrama fans. The new & improved iteration is the bee's knees. ;-)

Hi Mary!!! Thank you for being so approachable! I appreciate that you've answered so many of our questions with the DB update! And HGTV was my previous guilty pleasure before kdramas ruled. Team Jonathan all the way! I would much rather have a handy man than a sweet talker any day.

This meet the staff member for @mary is just as awesome as the comments! Nice to meet you!

Hi mary. You're wit shines through, as always. Thank you for all the behind the scenes work that you do here in DB. Half of the year i'm in your time zone; so all good. The other half, you make me break into laughter when my neighbourhood is still asleep. Thank you for the joy you bring to this community. I hope you meet 'random guy' as i, too, did dream that.

Hi mary. Your wit shines through, as always. Thank you for all the behind the scenes work that you do here in DB. Half of the year i'm in your time zone; so all good. The other half, you make me break into laughter when my neighbourhood is still asleep. Thank you for the joy you bring to this community. I hope you meet 'random guy' as i, too, did dream that.

From Chemical engineering to web development and in process you learned about "dedication"... wow! Now I can understand where the spunky dry humor and dedication to Random Guy from #1 came from.. ^^

Nice to know more about you , mary.
You are one of my most favorite admins on dramabeans.
@mary

(((Thalia)))
I spent a part of my childhood watching her, too.
Don't be too sad about Surpluss Princess, Mary. In real life, the main couple ended up dating. If your Random Guy got the girl but she dated the other guy in real life, that would be more heart breaking. So, take it as blessing in disguise. He has Kim Soeun though... and is unbelievably happy with her. Forget SP. Mary, fighting!

Omo! You majored in chemical engineering and do web development! Awesome! I majored in electrical engineering and now work as a database administrator. Though just started out recently, so still learning. Haha, I would like to be the girl friends in dramas too. Witty as always, mary! <3

Hello, mary! It's nice to know someone who has the same work as you! :)

Omo! Thalia?!

My two worlds, novelas and k-dramas, have collided!
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Oh my dongseng, I've been waiting to read this! Trying not to LOL in office about your mutant baby drama. Poor apple butt

Loved your "Hitler Meltdown" parody video for Surplus Princess. Truly the gold standard in making an angry rant about a Kdrama ending side-splittingly hilarious.