Word: mutt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Priscilla Fairburn is an emotionally needy Radcliffe alumna, a self-described writer whose role seems limited to one line about needing psychiatric assistance. She lives with fellow Radcliffe alum Margaret Gaminsky, a psychology researcher who work with chimpanzees. When they decide to renovate their apartment, the two women hire Mutt Vespucci (Chris Wilder), a crude, unpretentious handy-person, bike messenger and bouncer who delves into a tortuous love-hate relationship with Margaret...
...plot has the simplicity of a daytime drama: Margaret is overly repressed and unable to express her attraction to Mutt. Mutt expresses his desire for Margaret crudely in the beginning but refines his feelings as he gains maturity. Hank hires "Pris." Hank gives Pony his big break. Pris falls in love with Hank. Pony falls in love with Hank. Pris and Hank marry. Pris, who cannot deal with her own superfluity, feels that Hank is too whole as a person. Pony descends into cocaine and alcohol abuse. Pony grows to accept with Hank's inaccessibility, but never grows to accept...
...fiendish canine, one might find the artwork too primitive, and the dog to be just too darn cruel. however, one soon realizes that the artworks is more stylistic than crude-the strip works partly because of its uniquely flat look. In addition, one starts to actually like the megalomaniacal mutt, Dogbert, and his some time sick sense of humor...
While the Senate is full of selfless older women, happy to substitute the life of the office for a life, it also has a huge contingent of postfeminist younger women, who think being asked to walk the dog and clean up after the mutt is the price one pays for invaluable experience. Says an aide to a Democratic Senator on the Judiciary Committee: "You know what the code is, and if you want to be involved, you know what you have to tolerate. It's happened to me, and I never call anyone on it. You have to show...
...hard to see the show's attraction. The cast is drop-dead cute, and the low-impact story lines bounce from the trivial to the traumatic with breezy assurance. One week Brenda's big problem is a stray mutt she has brought home that keeps the family awake with its barking. The next week she has to pay her first visit to a gynecologist when she thinks she is pregnant. Call it "After School Special Lite...