Well, I’d sure like to thank everybody so far for being so supportive. I was positive I was gonna get yelled at. “You LIED to us!” etc. I didn’t exactly lie, just every time the subject came up (“who ARE you, anyway?”), I was deliberately evasive and allowed people to draw their own conclusions.
The thing with the chicken was, I watched Julia Child do it and it looked perfectly simple, you know? I did eventually manage it but golly, what a struggle. And the people I served it to would have been just as happy with plain fried chicken, so I had to wonder “what’s the point?” and I’ve never tried it since.
And I am a HUGE “Dinosaurs” fan. I managed to get all but the last couple of episodes on tape, and we all have them memorized. Catchphrases resound in our household–“again! again!”, “I made a big poop!”, “I’m vibrating!”, and of course, “Not the mama! Not the mama!”
I think the episode where Charlene gets a tail (read: breasts) was one of the 10 best sitcom episodes I have ever seen in my life, and I’m including all of Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, MASH, Cheers, Mary Tyler Moore, and Bob Newhart (both shows) in that. It had a heart, it made a point, and it was hilarious.
Also, I personally identify with Earl Sinclair, the big mope, much more than with Frannie, who is so together. If I were a husband, I’d want somebody like Frannie on my team, hence the nick Notthemama. The Better Half here at this end is definitely a Frannie, although with testicles.
