one could expect that if, after three days of pure burning rage and mean reds and muck, they started crying at the most tired cliche in television history, well they could expect that maybe they’ve turned the corner. this is a new low in sappiness even for me.
yes, that episode of dawson’s creek where the potter sisters are down and out and pondering mortgaging their brand-new-hasn’t-even-opened bed and breakfast so what are they gonna do? made me cry. yes, the televisionary goodness of an episode where one fam is down on their luck and oh my, the big bad newspaper critic is coming and is sure going to give us a bad review and the b-and-b will fail and we’re gonna be out on our asses. it made me cry.
and i’m sure you’re surprised to learn that all doesn’t end poorly for the near destitute potter sister. no, turns out that all their friends came to stay at the b-and-b and even the the furnace stopped working and the bathroom flooded, the warmth of all the capeside crue warmed the crusty on the outside gooey on the inside new york times reviewer into giving them a fabulous review.
yeah. that made me cry. i am so ashamed.
update: the crying over the down and out potter sisters episode was no match, no match i tell you for the torrents of tears that rushed down my cheeks over the principal green gets fired episode. yes, this is the cliche where the black principal does the right thing, but the uptight whitey parents don’t like it, so they say he has to back down or go, and the students all rally around the principal, but he still has to go and then they all clap for him as he leaves. not television at it’s most original, but definitely me at my schmoopiest.
i think i’ve totally blown my tuffgirl rep tonight.
I hope you aren’t watching any Shop at Home channels. In your current state, a product may inspire an epiphany that yes, your life has been incomplete without the resin scupture of an angel that is a bear in a clown suit. Certainly the dead bear in a clown suit would move you to tears and the fact that he was reincarnated as an angel makes you cry tears of joy but it’s the kitten he’s holding in his hands that makes the mysteries of life seem so simple to comprehend.
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please, please tell me that you aren’t comparing my tears over the delightful mr. pacey witter to bad bad art on QVC.
Bad art!? I’ll have you know that Doreen in Skokie, IL has the entire set of the “Bearley Angelz” collection, and SHE feels that each one is a masterpiece she can pass on to her children. In fact the angel that is a bear in a frog suit (with it’s inscription of “old frogs don’t die, they just CROAK”) has become THE premiere piece, and she got her is the “limited edition”, available only from SHIT (Shop at Home Interactive Television.)