Boogie Chillen
May 1-3, 2001

There is a crisis in Emergency, what with all that laughing gas, respiratory distress and fainting (is anyone checking for broken bones?). Why are most of the nurses just standing around talking?

I thought there were security cameras at WW. Does anyone actually WATCH them? At minimum, they should have motion sensors on all doors and windows.

J.R. told Adam "I don't want to hear it!" Did you ever DARE to say that to a parent at the same age? *I* sure as hell didn't! I STILL wouldn't dare (but I've come close to it :-) Haley's belly is leading the way, yet Mateo's never felt the baby kick until now? What a perceptive guy (or relaxed baby).

At LAST we find out what the giant 3/4 golfball in the living room was about -- it was a golfball WASHER. Why people would have that in the living room is a puzzle, but you should see what *I* have in my living room :-)

Now we have the boy staring into the window of the hunting lodge while Anna and Edmund go over the trunk of keepsakes. Again, no dogs or other security measures notice. Where's a cow in a trenchcoat when you need one? Oh, there's the beefed-up security now (okay, so it IS a dog -- but wouldn't a cow in a trenchcoat be more interesting, if less threatening?). Isn't staring down a vicious dog a huge no-no, considered to be a threat or challenge to domination?

Anna gets upset because she remembers the tune she played on the recorder. Uh, we ALL remember THAT tune -- it's drummed into us a children, although I admit it's a refreshing change on the rare occasion that the ice cream truck plays it instead of Turkey in the Straw (aka the booby song) or POP Goes the Weasel. And what's up with THAT song? Why would a monkey (wearing socks, no less) be chasing a weasel? Aren't weasels like ferrets, i.e., vicious killers? The monkey wouldn't stand a chance! And did the weasel explode? Why, too many beans?

You just found a wind instrument that's been stuffed away in a trunk for years. Would you just pick it up and play it without even wiping it off or checking to see if there are spiders inside it?

This entire "Dream Boat" concoction is ridiculous! How can they just take a yacht out to film a TV show with almost NO preparation, NO customers, NO idea what the weather might be like, NO insurance for something like that and NO contract, not to mention NO permission from the owner of the yacht? We had the Love Boat in the 70s -- couldn't they come up with a more original name?

Robin "more like 'Delusional Dinghy'" Coutellier