| TEN UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT TV SHOWS, FILMS, AND LIFE | |||||||||||
| 1) Why did Screech on Saved By The Bell have friends? I know that if Screech had gone to a real high school, his nickname would have been "Spaz" or "Dick" and he would have been ignored by most and beaten up by the cheerleaders. 2) Does Gunther from Friends realize he's gay? Everyone else seems to. He doesn't love Rachel, he wants to be Rachel. 3) Why is John Ashcroft so afraid of breasts on a statue? And why did it cost $8,000 to cover them up? Or should I say 'one of them'. Maybe the ideal woman to him is unibreasted? 4) Why didn't Tony just go for Angela's mom on Who's The Boss? She may have been older, but she was a LOT more fun as a person...and Tony wouldn't have had to wait for seven years. 5) What the hell is the deal with Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy? Everyone knows that a frog and a pig can't mate! 6) Why doesn't Cathy (the comic strip character) get over herself already? That woman needs a shrink...NOW! Who wants to wake up to the world's most neurotic inanimate object? AAK! 7) Why are people always getting raped on the Lifetime Network? Sure, awareness is good, but there is such a thing as overkill. It's like, "Next on Lifetime: rape, rape, the Golden Girls, rape, rape, spousal abuse, rape, Designing Women, rape." There is such a thing as handling hard issues in a sensitive manner! 8) Speaking of Lifetime, why do they keep showing the same 5 flashback episodes of The Golden Girls over and over again? There were about 150 other episodes, you know! 9) Speaking of the Golden Girls, when Sophia had relatives over from Sicily, why didn't they ever speak to each other in Italian? Maybe NBC didn't want to spring for subtitles. 10) How did John Hughes go from making such excellent films such as "Sixteen Candles" and "The Breakfast Club" to wasting valuable celluloid on insipid crap such as "Baby's Day Out"? John Hughes arguably made some of the best teen movies ever (that is, if you were a suburban teenager in the 80's). "The Breakfast Club" alone was powerful enough to keep me from feeling like a total loser in high school. "Baby's Day Out?" Come on! What has he done since then? At least he probably doesn't need to work anymore. |
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| ***DANGER...TANGENT ALERT*** | |||||||||||
| Okay. Let's backtrack a little bit. It has been my opinion for the past ten years or so that the definitive moment of the 1980's can be relived by renting The Breakfast Club and watching Molly Ringwald dance on a school library table to Carla DeVito's We Are Not Alone. Yes...everything about the Gimme Decade, from Reaganomics to Glasnost, from the yuppie subculture to Just Say No, from Heavy Metal to New Wave, was wrapped up in a pair of bobby sox and activated in 1984 by Molly Ringwald's skip dance. Just had to share. That is what must give John Hughes the right to make Baby's Day Out...I think. |
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