Stupid nostalgia is making me think of a bit from 45 year old television program. I’m trying to identify an episode featuring a pompous marriage therapist trying to counsel a couple. He’s big on “emotional openness” which is illustrates with two empty waste-paper baskets, held horizontally. If the open ends are facing each other, they symbolize that both members of the couple are open to each other, but of course, one or the other or both could have the open end facing away from other other. “Rotate! Rotate!” he implores the couple. The actor playing the therapist was probably some famous face from 1950, making a little extra money on the show.
Thanks for checking that. The Paramount+ video was loaded with so many ads that I just skimmed the bar at the bottom & didn’t see a scene as described.
Bert Parks plays “Dr. Mabrey” a sex therapist in the episode 03x23, called “Another Time, Another Place/Doctor Who/Gopher’s Engagement” (each storyline in an episode has a separate title)
"I have brought along a rather crude little demonstration of your problems.
Simple sexual miscommunication, man, woman.
As you observe, they’re not open to each other."
The couple argue while he blathers:
“Now, young man, your psychic reactor should be open to her too, you know.”
"Well, sometimes as you see, there’s open here and sometimes closed there.
Antithetically, it might be closed there or open here. Sometimes one end is open this way.
“Rotate your whole-being antennas. Dis-involve your self from preconceptions. Rotate. Rotate.”