I
watch between a half and a quarter of an hour each morning as I frantically
pull a brush through my hair and spoon in half a bowl of Raisin Nut Bran (oh!
I love that stuff!) Other than that, I absorb a great deal in the afternoons,
from my kid sib's shows. And every once in a while I just zone out in front
of it and let it drift by with no real regard for what's on. But mostly, no,
not really.
And
none of it's normal, either. I watch old sitcoms, and kid's shows, and that
about does it. News? Never. And I don't watch The Simpsons because
my brother loves that show and I never side with him if I can help it.
- Designing Women
- The Nanny
- Rugrats
- Designing Women:
- Four women,
two of them sisters, representative of the varied marital status of single
women, run a design studio, talk about their lives in front of their ex-convict
delivery man, and live the simple existences of middle-aged women on the
meat market. No, really, it's better than it sounds. Charlene has never
been married, is a "simple country girl", and has a tendency to pick the
oddest topics. MaryJo put her husband through medical school and was then
dumped by him; she very much lives around her children, especially in the
earliest shows. Suzanne has been married three--or is it four?--times...I
really can't remember...anyway, she was a many-time beauty pageant winner
and is incredibly vain. Julia (my personal favorite) is a widow and a militant...my
friend Allison would adore her (I must remember to tell her to try to watch
the show). Don't, whatever you do, watch a show with anybody else
in it...the later ones are WIERD.
- The Nanny
- I haven't seen
many episodes of this, but whenever it shows up on the satellite guide I
drop whatever I'm doing to watch. Fran was working retail when her boyfriend
dumped her...and fired her. She got a job as nanny to three kids: a little
monster, a hyperactive, and a girl without personality. She's lower class,
highly nasal/Brooklyn, and a wild dresser, among the conservative upper
crust of Manhattan. She does many things wrong and many things unexpectedly
right as she brings the children to happiness and flirts with their single,
British father.
- Rugrats
- Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Especially the earliest ones...a clever look at what partial information can do, what kind of prejudices affect us from our earliest moments, and how often childish wisdom is the best, after all. Whether dealing with bully Angelica, trying to let the light out of the refrigerator to end a blackout, or imagining themselves as pirates (often all three go together), Tommy's bravery, Chuckie's loyalty, and Phil and Lill's staunch amiability save the day and provides the kind of laughs that make life worthwhile. I especially recommend "The Clan of the Duck", a cute political commentary and sweet story, with plenty of side gags.
- Lifetime
What about Rugrats?
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