Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
World o' Crap riffs on a bit from an article about the Bush family dynamics down in (Joan) Crawford, Texas.
Here's some info on the program from an A.P. article:
Twins Jenna and Barbara Bush have no doubt about the secret to their father's success: their mother.
True enough. Because without Laura, it's likely that George would be passed out in a gutter somewhere. Or dead.
[Dr. Hibbert: If you want him to live through the night, I suggest you roll him onto his stomach.
Marge: Thank you, I will, Dr. Hibbert.
Dr. Hibbert: Remember, I said "if." ]
But let's read some more of the girls' tribute to their mother.
Their mother is "bizarrely clean," Jenna said. "And organized," Barbara added.
And animatronic!
For years their mother ordered their father to take off his shoes in the house, to the point that their father himself now points out if a towel lies on the floor.
"He always jokes that he would take off his shoes to walk on the carpet because he didn't want to mess up, like, the vacuum lines on the carpet," Barbara said.
No, Laura doesn't sound like she's wound too tight and is ready to snap at any moment. And the dynamics in that family sound perfectly healthy and wholesome. Yes, indeedy.
The best Laura-riff I've seen was on the Daily Show (naturally), when Stewart referred to her as "waiting for her Manchurian Candidate trigger-word."
She has dead eyes. They scare me. But, so would having Babs as a mother-in-law, so hey. It may just be shell-shock.
Posted by: Michael at August 31, 2004 12:40 PMI've always thought there was some "Mother's little helper" action going on. Lord knows I would need it.
Posted by: Tripp at August 31, 2004 04:33 PMOK, that picture? Have her face and hand frozen that way? Because I don't think she's saying "Don't f*ck with me ... " I think she's saying, "This is how I get his drunken a** up in the mornings. So to speak."
Posted by: Carl at September 1, 2004 11:10 AM