If a sociologist or psychologist looked at my last two months of TiVo recording he or she would more than likely assume that I was trying to kill people and then remodel a nice space in my home wherein to store the bodies. The only things I’ve been scooping from the ether have been crime shows about killers and decorator shows about people you want to kill. Seriously, some of those butthairs who Flip That House are on my little list.
So I decided I would take the plunge and start watching 7th Heaven to even out my TiVo Karma. I’d never seen it before and have heard all about how it’s a nice family show with good values and puppies and babies and family dinners around a big table. I often feel disconnected from my large family–what with living 450 miles away–and fake TV families are an okayish substitute. The Hallmark Channel has started showing episodes of 7th Heaven from the beginning of the series today, and so I’ve dived in. I curled up with a glass of juice and my heating pad (and my 8000 cats) to enjoy a new show this afternoon, when what should appear?!?
THAT SUPER-ANNOYING WHALE BIOLOGIST CHICK FROM STAR TREK IV [THE ONE WITH THE WHALES] !!!!!!!
There are not words for how much she gets on my nerves in that movie. She’s the reason I’ve only seen it a billion times instead of the customary jillion, and she’s largely the reason I wish computer-generated actor replacements would be more commonplace. I’d actually rather see Jar-Jar in that role.
(“Meesa tinkin yousa be takin my goobermammalfish!!!”)
Not only is SAWBC in 7th Heaven, she’s also the mother. So we viewers are supposed to think of her as a wise, comforting source of nuturing and hot meals. All I can see in my mind’s eye is her eating pizza with Shatner and talking about being from Iowa but working in outer space.
I guess it’s back to killers and decorators…
Watch it long enough and she won’t be the one who annoys you anymore. I ultimately stopped watching because the the “Lucy” character. So. Very. Annoying!
Oh, and it reference to your last post…don’t even get me started on how a family of seven (ultimately 9) lives in a rather large home in California on a minister’s salary!
don’t even get me started on how a family of seven (ultimately 9) lives in a rather large home in California on a minister’s salary!
See the previous post
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Kat, I don’t think you’re missing much. BabySis™ was 7th Heaven nuts in it’s heyday but I never saw what the appeal was.
Oh, this was my SIL’s favorite show and it makes me want to retch. It also struck me a little odd that the father is a minister and he almost never uttered the name Jesus. Actually, since it’s a Hollywood created family, I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised.
It is a little amazing that they managed to get a whole show full of so many actors who can’t, you know, ACT.
Maybe you could catch some reruns of The Waltons? I have liked all the actors in it ever since, just because they were so nice on that show.
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They did say in the pilot episode that the big house was donated to the church by “an old lady”–so that base is covered. What they didn’t say was whether or not the old lady donated enough money for the minister’s family to cover the gas and electric bills a big house like that would suck up.
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I’ve got the Waltons on Season pass, but I refuse to watch them after a certain point. Pretty much after Grandpa dies the show turns into a soap opera. So I tend to watch them through about 1978, then I have to beg off for awhile until the syndicate comes back around to the beginning.
I also watch LHOTP, but sort of the same way. I only really retain fondness for the middle episodes (Mary is blind, Laura is older and flirting with Almonzo) but kind of stop watching those after they get too silly. I usually take a break after the “Nellie has twins” story, which aired about a month ago.
[...] Kat from Just Another Pretty Farce is fed up with reality realty shows so is changing channels. On the other hand, Dr. Housing Bubble goes into some details about flipping a home in Culver City, California. Me, I’m going to just sit back and watch How Clean is Your House because where I am untalented as a handy(wo)man, I can clean. And it makes me feel great that even when my house is at its dirtiest, it’s immaculate compared to some of the homes on that show! [...]
Kat, I’m with you on The Waltons. Since I never could make myself watch LHOTP,* I’ll have to take your word for it.
*I watched the very first episode when it first aired, and halfway through said “that family is way too rich; this clearly has nothing at all to do with the books I love so much” and switched off. Years later I read somewhere that Michael Landon had insisted that he wasn’t going to play the father of a poor family; I don’t know why.
they didn’t say was whether or not the old lady donated enough money for the minister’s family to cover the gas and electric bills a big house like that would suck up.
Well if the house was built “green” enough, the electric and/or gas bills wouldn’t be too much and could probably be covered a few times over by what they were saving on a mortgage and property tax. Just sayin’
If the little old lady was green, Kat may be watching reruns of My Favorite Martian by mistake.
Well if the house was built “green” enough,
Because tons of people built ‘green’ colonials about 50 years ago.
No, I’m guessing that money is not really a serious issue in this show’s fantasy.