From 038ad89c997848caf49e566763c00ef642223cf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neale Pickett Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:54:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] love boat --- content/blog/2023-01-30-love-boat/index.md | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 88 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/2023-01-30-love-boat/index.md diff --git a/content/blog/2023-01-30-love-boat/index.md b/content/blog/2023-01-30-love-boat/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3a067d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2023-01-30-love-boat/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +--- +title: The Love Boat s2e11 +date: 2023-01-30 +--- + +Season 2, Episode 11 + +This was the worst one yet. + + +## Mona of the Movies + +Mona Maxwell (1940's Awooga-Babe Rhonda Fleming) +is met by a bumbling fan (frequent Johnny Carson guest Orson Bean). +For some reason, +she agrees to have dinner with him. +Then she cancels because she already agreed to have dinner with the captain, +which makes him mad. +She dances with him after dinner, +and they hit it off, +but she can't go to his cabin, +which makes him mad. + +I can't keep up with this plot, +but toward the end, +I heard some of the coolest jazz fusion I've ever heard on a TV show. +Sounds almost like Spyro Gyra. + + +## Heads Or Tails + +Two dudes won't stop harassing Julie, +who puts up with it good-naturedly. +I'd really like to see how the writers handle the men staff getting harassed. +Maybe one episode I'll get to see it. + +Anyway, she agrees to have dinner with one of them and go dancing with the other, +demonstrating to the television audience how to talk to women. + +They keep up with the harassment, +and Julie tries to teach them how to stop. + +One of them convinces Julie he's hurt, +and she walks him to his room, +where he upgrades to full physical assault, +grabbing her and throwing her to the bed. + +Gopher tells her "it was a harmless little joke", +and tries to convince her to give them yet another chance. +There's a scene where Julie actually stops putting up with everybody's crap, +and I was really rooting for her. +But next scene she's back to being a pawn, sigh. + +At the end of the episode, +she takes them both out to dinner on land. +What the heck? + + +## The Little People + +Oh boy. +Based on what I've heard about how Tattoo was written in Fantasy Island, +I'm expecting a lot of cringe from this. + +Noodles MacIntosh (UHF) +and Lumpy (Star Wars Holiday Special) +show up with their son. +Every time anyone (including himself) says "little" or "small", +Noodles comments on it. Eugh. +The son immediately meets +Rhoda "Serial Killer Jr" Penmark (The Bad Seed), +who he recognizes from the elevator. +They're immediately smitten with each other. + +Aaand that's the comic shtick, folks. +Noodles pointing out every time anybody says "short" or "little" or "small". + +Rhoda finally sees mom and dad, +and appears to have some pretty serious prejudices. +The son can't handle it, +and breaks it off with her. +Then she runs into mom and dad in the bar, +and they inadvertently help her understand why being a jerk was off-putting. +Then everybody realizes who everybody else is. + +They decide to get married, +and she says it's okay if their children are small, +concluding the 16-minute story arc.