Friday, 13 December 2024
The one where Mike is blindsided by the predictable again.
Synopsis: Mike is blindsided by Rhetta not simply agreeing to be treated as if she has no choice to accept his changing the deal.
Summary: Love means never having to say I'm stupid.
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Personally, I wonder what it is that makes the big dummy get so worked up in the first place. He's young, his dad can call in markers and get him dental surgery, he's reasonably good looking so this should not be a big deal but there he is, churning out shitty poems about her allegedly throwing his alleged love in the trash.
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The heart of Mike's problem is that he is extraordinarily lazy and always looking for the easy way out. He does not have the will to tell Rhetta that he wants to chase after Jodi and/or Kit. Rhetta has to give him the excuse.
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Right. Mike does not like to be told what to do and often reacts in irrational ways in response.
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Mike should have simply wailed to Martha that she really wanted everyone to laugh cruelly at him FOREVER!!
He would then be exposed to the character building words "How long have you been smoking crack cocaine?"
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Also, Mike thanks all the wrong people when he boasts about the career John paid for. Instead of pub bore raving about a career writing essay questions, John should complain about how he's invisible.
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I really don't get what Rhetta is saying here. She wants to be engaged for several years? She wants Michael to drop out of school to get married? How long did she think Michael was going to be in school? Does she mean she wants to have sex before marriage, and Michael isn't into that? What the hell?
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Also sadly, all he reacts to is opposition to his ideas. People who really love him say yes to whatever stupid thing the jabbering ass feels is right.
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"You could have asked me to wait."
"Oh Michael this is HILARIOUS!"
"You quit your job? Oh Michael THANK YOU, now we get to keep you longer!"
"Michael needs to work on his writing! He can't be a househusband!"
For the men who want to marry a handmaiden who exists to serve and "support," Dee is an absolute dream. For men who want to marry a woman with a brain, thoughts and goals of her own, and actual opinions she's a zombie nightmare.
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I like that Elly says "London, ONTARIO" to a fellow Canadian, telegraphing the fact that the vast majority of her readers are Americans who would assume it was in England otherwise. I just wish she had said "Michael may be moving to London, the town in Ontario not the one in England, because there's a town in Canada called London."
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Here on the East Coast, it's most of them.
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Carlsbad, Calif. is named after the German name of a city in the Czech Republic
Dublin, Calif. is of course named after the Capital of Ireland
Ettersburg, Calif. is named after a town in Germany
Menlo Park, Calif is named after an Irish town, Menlo, in county Galway
Asti, Imola, Lodi, Venice Beach, Verona, and Palermo, Calif. are named after towns in Italy
New Idria, Calif is named after a town in Slovenia (spelled Idrija)
New Almaden and Valencia, Calif. are named after cities in Spain
Arboga, Calif. is named after a town in Sweden
Interlaken, Calif is named after a town in Switzerland
Sebastopol, Calif is named after a city in Ukraine (spelled Sevastopol)
Brentwood, Keswick, Ryde and Westminster, Calif are named after British cities
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Yep. I've been to Sebastopol, CA- my godparents live there.
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