Anybody (like/hate) Riding the Bus With My Sister?

Cafe Society
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This TV move, IMO, had more spoiled, loud-mouthed, nasty characters (with the exception of the bus drivers) than any I’ve seen. Maybe am just getting cranky in my old age, but these brats deserved good spankings. Even Rosie’s character, with all the screeching and shouting, was certainluy not typical of mentally challenged people I have met.

I fail to see what the movie was trying to say, but then I gave up in disgust after any hour of having my eardrums assaulted. Maybe it had a message later on, I hope so.

Klondike

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But I’ve never even met your sister, let alone ridden on the bus with her.

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HeHeHe, very funny! But it’s your loss. :slight_smile:

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I gave it a pass. The only movie I’d ever watch with Rosie in it would be one of her being torn to pieces by wild ferrets. :smiley:

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Heck, I remember a made-for-TV movie which was kinda sci-fi-ish in that it postulated a pre-natal test for homosexuality and a pregnant woman’s seemening interminable soul-searching of whether or not to abort (Twilight of the Golds). When O’Donnell showed up, I knew which decision the woman would eventually make, because I found it ridiculously improbable that O’Donnell would even agree to appear in a movie that had a gay-unfriendly conclusion. With all tension (such as it was) evaporated, I switched the channel to something else.

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Didn’t see it… but the Howard Stern Show had me in stitches playing clips from that and from Gary the Retard and Wendy the Retard.

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Yes folks, developmentally disabled people are fat and obnoxious, wear orange every damn day, and talk like Gilbert Gottfried.

The Hallmark Hall of Fame is rank glurge in the best of times, but watching this was like watching paint dry…on your new rug.

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Hallmark Hall of Fame always seems to feature movies about retarded/mentally ill/disabled people conquering all and showing the normally-abled people What Life Is All About.

I tune in when I’ve got low blood sugar.

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I literally cringed every time I saw the preview on CBS. My thoughts were quite politically incorrect.

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Yeah, Opie and Anthony had a field day with that as well. They switched between quotes from the movie and quotes from PeeWee Herman…sounded pretty damn similar.

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OMG that was the best part of my morning. I’m sure the people sitting next to me in traffic thought I was crazy laughing by myself in my car.

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I thought it was hilarious. All the characters were so comic-strip broad (Mean Bus Riders, Over-Achieving New York Woman, Soft-Hearted Drivers), that Rosie’s character came off like Hamlet by comparison.

And yes, the only thing missing was the touching finale, where she’s torn apart by ferrets . . .

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I never have low blood sugar (Type 2 diabetic), but I kinda liked the Johnson & Johnson thing with Bill Macy, Door to Door. Like a Hallmark with less glurge and more heart. Bill played a salesman with cerebral palsy in 1950s Portland. His mother was the always bewitching Helen Mirren.

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Helen Mirren (b. 1945) played the mother of Bill Macy (b. 1950)? In flashback, I hope?

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Not exactly. The story began in the '50s and stretched on into the '80s. Macy was “de-aged” with phony looking dark hair, then “aged” gradually; Mirren was “aged” at the beginning, and eventually passed.

Here’s a small pic of the two together.

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I didn’t watch more than an agonizing minute of it, but Howard Stern and “Don & Mike” have been playing clips non-stop.

D&M have pointed out the similarities between Rosie and Bobcat Goldthwait. They’ve interspersed Rosie talking to tapes of John Wayne. They’re playing gags where she has a conversation with callers. It’s non-stop. The entire time I listened to the show yesterday it was all Rosie tapes.

After he filled us in on “Shark Attack Spring Break” and “Locusts”, I was hoping tdn would give us a recap of the worst disaster of them all.