The other question is 'why must Elly suffer because Mike had one bad day at a laundromat?'
The answer is that everyone whom he's ever met views picking up after yourself as a defeat and doing housework as enslavement.....and no one believes it quite like the tub of manure shaving sheets and ironing underwear and the simpering imbecile handmaiden convinced that having self-respect is a bad thing that undermines and humiliates HER DADDY.
What tells me that something like the Housening was inevitable is that Elly is surprised that screaming about how put upon she felt and how awful it is to fold socks makes him balk at it.
I think the real question is why an apartment that is clearly just another room in the landlord's house does not have a washer/dryer in it already. Where does the landlord do her laundry?
He cannot realize what the author cannot realize. Lynn has gotten into the habit of doing "college kid brings home dirty laundry" jokes to the point where she can do nothing else, no matter what the situation is.
And just how often she takes her storylines from tropes and sitcoms instead of real life. Her best stories are from real life, but by the time she got to 1995, she seemed to be done with that.
I get the feeling the creative bubble was her sitting in front of a television watching sitcoms and thinking, "I could put that story into my comic strip."
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The answer is that everyone whom he's ever met views picking up after yourself as a defeat and doing housework as enslavement.....and no one believes it quite like the tub of manure shaving sheets and ironing underwear and the simpering imbecile handmaiden convinced that having self-respect is a bad thing that undermines and humiliates HER DADDY.
What tells me that something like the Housening was inevitable is that Elly is surprised that screaming about how put upon she felt and how awful it is to fold socks makes him balk at it.
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I think the real question is why an apartment that is clearly just another room in the landlord's house does not have a washer/dryer in it already. Where does the landlord do her laundry?
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He cannot realize what the author cannot realize. Lynn has gotten into the habit of doing "college kid brings home dirty laundry" jokes to the point where she can do nothing else, no matter what the situation is.
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The whole damn thing is her revealing how little she knows of the world.
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And just how often she takes her storylines from tropes and sitcoms instead of real life. Her best stories are from real life, but by the time she got to 1995, she seemed to be done with that.
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She was isolating herself in the "creative bubble" she likes to talk about. The one that kept her from feeding her creativity through real life.
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Her clear inability to cope with distractions
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"I can use 'stand' in two different ways! I am a genius!"
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Some genius. She can only hold one idea in her head at a time.
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I get the feeling the creative bubble was her sitting in front of a television watching sitcoms and thinking, "I could put that story into my comic strip."
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That is.... Depressingly plausible.
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Maybe the CB in CBC is "creative bubble".
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Another question is why would Liz have any concept of "student luggage"?
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True that. Her only experience is with Mike and there is no reason for Elizabeth to assume that his behavior is normal student luggage behavior.
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