The one with the horrid poem that reminds us that Mike defines loving him as allowing him to drift through life in a fog where he doesn't have to do anything to justify his existence.
People only seem to love this idiot if they let him drift through life without thinking. He's never going to be anything other than the four year old brat howling that nobody loves him because he has to pick up his own crap. Why did he blow off trumpet lessons? There isn't a pill that makes him instantly good. Why does he not make better friends? That would be too much like work. Why does he think people are supposed to freeze in place? He has to breathe in AND out and that's exhausting.
Reason: he's the same knuckle-dragging simpleton Curtis "Surgically Attached Hat" Wilkins is and doesn't realize that when Daddy whines about his job, he's boasting about what a tough SOB he is.
Also, the odd thing is that we'd get the same face-full of Uh? from LookatmeORELSE Lad when he let his thing with Martha wither on the vine because he stupidly thought he got stiffed at Christmas and the same shit Liz will say when she gets called on ignoring Assthony were we to ask him why he thought other people would be cool with something that would enrage him.
Mike's poetry doesn't flow at all, unless there's a wrap-up to the thought yet to be typed out. "That words alone should so offend"...what? Is it strange to Michael that "words alone" should have the power to offend? Is he expressing surprise that he's capable of being offended by words? "So cheaply" indicates that Michael either didn't listen to Rhetta, or decided that her explanation was not acceptable considering the hurt it caused him. He won't admit that no explanation that doesn't end with with "I love you Michael and will love you forever let me serve you" would have been "acceptable." So she cast his "love" aside "cheaply"-something only he is allowed to do.
And "cast not aside my love so cheaply" or WHAT? And what does it even mean to cast an emotion aside "cheaply?" You were just reaching for rhyming words, weren't you, Lynn Michael?
Is it strange to Michael that "words alone" should have the power to offend? Is he expressing surprise that he's capable of being offended by words?
The answer to both questions is yes. Despite being enraged when told to go away, he can't admit that people do things to make him do things.
"So cheaply" indicates that Michael either didn't listen to Rhetta, or decided that her explanation was not acceptable considering the hurt it caused him.
The injury is called being thought of as just another person.....which is Mike-speak for forgettable nobody.
He won't admit that no explanation that doesn't end with with "I love you Michael and will love you forever let me serve you" would have been "acceptable."
Because it would make him the problem. This is the muttonhead who spends most of his brain power inventing reasons why it's Liz's fault that he's a greedy little shit who howls about being a nobody cast aside like trash because he has to share.
And "cast not aside my love so cheaply" or WHAT? And what does it even mean to cast an emotion aside "cheaply?" You were just reaching for rhyming words, weren't you, Lynn Michael?
It does have the look of Lynn using her rhyming dictionary for that one.
Since Casey Kasem was still alive back then, he would have wondered why there was some loser with his name when he heard the following Long Distance Dedication from both Rhetta AND Martha to him on AT40: "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor.
Seriously......he should be roaming the corridors of Portrait dressed as someone called Almost Zombie.
We have to remember something he doesn't: what his going loopy because the guys would laugh taught her about writing letters. He'll never realize it but being a great big jerk about a made-up catastrophe gave her the wrong idea about letters.
The obligation to write a return letter seems to have been of the utmost importance to Mike to the point where he was willing to destroy a relationship because of it. He's like a boy gone to war during WWII.
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Reason: he's the same knuckle-dragging simpleton Curtis "Surgically Attached Hat" Wilkins is and doesn't realize that when Daddy whines about his job, he's boasting about what a tough SOB he is.
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Also, the odd thing is that we'd get the same face-full of Uh? from LookatmeORELSE Lad when he let his thing with Martha wither on the vine because he stupidly thought he got stiffed at Christmas and the same shit Liz will say when she gets called on ignoring Assthony were we to ask him why he thought other people would be cool with something that would enrage him.
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Mike's poetry doesn't flow at all, unless there's a wrap-up to the thought yet to be typed out. "That words alone should so offend"...what? Is it strange to Michael that "words alone" should have the power to offend? Is he expressing surprise that he's capable of being offended by words? "So cheaply" indicates that Michael either didn't listen to Rhetta, or decided that her explanation was not acceptable considering the hurt it caused him. He won't admit that no explanation that doesn't end with with "I love you Michael and will love you forever let me serve you" would have been "acceptable." So she cast his "love" aside "cheaply"-something only he is allowed to do.
And "cast not aside my love so cheaply" or WHAT? And what does it even mean to cast an emotion aside "cheaply?" You were just reaching for rhyming words, weren't you, Lynn Michael?
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Is it strange to Michael that "words alone" should have the power to offend? Is he expressing surprise that he's capable of being offended by words?
The answer to both questions is yes. Despite being enraged when told to go away, he can't admit that people do things to make him do things.
"So cheaply" indicates that Michael either didn't listen to Rhetta, or decided that her explanation was not acceptable considering the hurt it caused him.
The injury is called being thought of as just another person.....which is Mike-speak for forgettable nobody.
He won't admit that no explanation that doesn't end with with "I love you Michael and will love you forever let me serve you" would have been "acceptable."
Because it would make him the problem. This is the muttonhead who spends most of his brain power inventing reasons why it's Liz's fault that he's a greedy little shit who howls about being a nobody cast aside like trash because he has to share.
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And "cast not aside my love so cheaply" or WHAT? And what does it even mean to cast an emotion aside "cheaply?" You were just reaching for rhyming words, weren't you, Lynn Michael?
It does have the look of Lynn using her rhyming dictionary for that one.
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these days, Rhetta would be justified in sharing Michael's glurge on Tiktok, #goodriddancetobadtrash.
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Since Casey Kasem was still alive back then, he would have wondered why there was some loser with his name when he heard the following Long Distance Dedication from both Rhetta AND Martha to him on AT40: "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor.
Seriously......he should be roaming the corridors of Portrait dressed as someone called Almost Zombie.
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If Mike ever let anyone see that poetry, aside from Elly, he would thoroughly mocked for it. We have to do the best we can to make up for it.
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This is the stuff Martha thought was good? Bist meshuggah, Marty?
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Well, it was pretty obvious at the time that Martha was playing to Mike's monster ego. I am not sure it was real praise.
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We have to remember something he doesn't: what his going loopy because the guys would laugh taught her about writing letters. He'll never realize it but being a great big jerk about a made-up catastrophe gave her the wrong idea about letters.
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The obligation to write a return letter seems to have been of the utmost importance to Mike to the point where he was willing to destroy a relationship because of it. He's like a boy gone to war during WWII.
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since when do brothers and sisters lie on the same bed and talk about this sort of stuff?
and Elly has zero respect for Michael's privacy. of course.
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Only in bad television shows does any of this happen. Lynn's muse is Greg Brady.
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Did that happen on the Brady Bunch? I thought the girls stuck with the girls and the boys stuck with the boys on that show.
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