Word: grouches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That laudable message has brought the show enthusiastic praise from mental- health experts and TV critics alike. It takes a real grouch to offer a dissent. But even nongrouches may squirm at the sugarcoating this subject has received. Except for a few taunting schoolmates, Corky is drenched in love and support. Life Goes On may have the highest hug-a-minute ratio of any show in TV history. His parents (Bill Smitrovich and Patti LuPone) are unfailingly wise and patient. Only his blunt younger sister (Kellie Martin) worries occasionally about being embarrassed by her brother in school...
...their friends, both human and Muppet. "It's a simple message we're dealing with," said Lisa Simon, one of the show's producers. "You become a family by forming bonds. That's what love is." However, there is a touch of dissonance. In his trash can, Oscar the Grouch grumbled that the whole affair was disgusting. But that's just because he's fallen out with his girlfriend Grundgetta...
...most part, Prascak maintains Cocteau's scene structure and characters. His major switch is to replace a talking horse with a small Oscar the Grouch figure, the same Muppet that starred in The Dream Play. This horse-turned-Muppet opens the play with cryptic messages that provide Orpheus with poetic inspiration. It is helpful to keep in mind that this--like much of what else is odd in the production--is weird thanks to Cocteau, not Prascak...
...Clash," the third track, resorts to some of the most disgusting synthesizer misanthropy on the album. It attempts to assert that this, and not Jones's band, is the "real" Clash: "We ain't gonna be treated like trash...We are the Clash!" Oscar the Grouch couldn't have said it better...
...wisecracking maid on The Jeffersons, plays Mary Jenkins, a housewife who spends her days sitting on the front stoop of her inner-city apartment house, gabbing about the things real people talk about, like when the garbage will be picked up and why the landlord is such a grouch. Gibbs' hangdog cynicism is funny, and the writers have a good ear for dialogue. In one scene Mary's 14-year-old daughter tries to sweet-talk Mom into letting her and a friend go to the movies. Mary figures out the ruse and turns them down. "Told you it wouldn...