Random Recall Tuesday Trivia
Nah, it's just Random Tuesday Thoughts, sponsored by the lovely and Canadian Keely over at The Un Mom!
Wanna join me? Too late. The door's closed. You might as well have a seat..
I was surfing the blogosphere and wandered over to Zipbag of Bones where Cat was regaling us with a story about a tween boy who ended up walking into the ladies room by mistake. You really should head over there to read it since she tells it so much better, but it reminds me of an incident that happened when I was a teenager myself. My dad had chaperoned a group of our friends on a baseball game outing back in the days when the Marlins were a brand new team and seats in the "Fishbowl" (nose-bleed section) cost about five bucks. The game was pretty boring (Remember! New team does not equal good team...yet.) so my father and I walked around the outer area where the food stands and restrooms were all situated. Now, the restrooms at Pro Player Stadium have those U-turn entrances so there are no doors involved.
It was getting close to the Seventh Inning Stretch and a fan, obviously full of piss and vinegar, (okay, piss and beer) was booking it for the men's room. I, who had just discovered the powers of snark and how to use it, called out, "That's the Ladies's room!" as he dashed by and into the entrance. He pulled the ultimate Fred Flintstone impression as he tried to brake in his sneakers and ran smack into the wall of the men's room. I thought my dad was going to have a fit with my little joke, especially since he had witnessed it firsthand. Instead, he doubled over in laughter. Two memorable things happened that day:
1. I learned that my dad actually had a wicked sense of humor. (At least, it was wicked compared to what I thought it was.)
2. Both he and I reacted the same way. We fled the scene.
Really Long Random Tangent ahead:
They should have named it Private MAL-Practice. I have been a Grey's Anatomy fan for a while now. When Addison came to Seattle Grace and uttered those famous words about being Derrick's wife, I thought, okay, this storyline is overplayed, but maybe it will be good anyway. And it was. Good.
However, seeing the potential in the star power that is Kate Walsh, they decided the Derrick-Meredith-Addison triangle had seen its last go around (when clearly it had a couple more loops before people cried "Foul!") and sent Addison to L.A. to spin her own storylines. So, I watched, thinking, Bonus! A Grey's spin off! By the same writer!
I watched as the plot-lines took a course into dangerous terrain, the frankly unbelievable, one episode in particular that chronicled a day in the office. (Please pardon any omissions or changes in context as I'm going based on my memory and actual interest.)
In the morning of a typical office day, a couple comes in and finds out their baby has a rare genetic disorder, a medical death sentence, which has been passed down by one of them. They both tested and it's determined neither one has the trait AND(Bum bum bum!) neither one is the child's biological parent. (Yeah, because blood tests come back that quickly in real life. At a doctor's office. While you wait. I don't think they take Aetna, do you?) Back to the snory, I meant story. One of the doctors, Taye Diggs, I think, ran through the records of all the babies born in the same hospital on the same day, because he was able to push all of his appointments aside for the day and still get paid, and discovered another couple that had also given birth to a baby girl. They brought them in (because this other couple just snaps to attention when a doctor calls, even if the guy is not THEIR doctor, on a week day, during working hours...exactly what I would do.)
So, they run a blood test on the other couple and their baby (because they allow it, even though they're not being told why. But a doctor asked! Therefore it's okay!) and it turns out that they are the biological parents to the baby with the death sentence while their own now former daughter is perfectly fine and the husband of one of the couples switched the babies at birth since he knew there would be a problem with his own kid and he wanted one without a glitch, and they've all been caring for each other's babies since. Now, they found this out all in one day. How do I know this? Because none of the characters changed clothes. And we all know that in the prime time drama world, a character changes clothes quicker than they change lovers. (Unless you're watching Desperate Housewives. The theory could be challenged on that show.)
So, to wrap up this one (only one?) episode, the couples switch babies again by the end of the day, completely giving up the daughter they've known and loved for about a year, and the baby switching daddy is arrested. Because the police also respond to a doctor's call immediately and don't bother to open an investigation and obtain a warrant for an arrest. Because in TV Land, they're allowed to make their own rules. Because the only way I wouldn't have bought the story line was if one of the involved babies was a boy.
This show has gotten more and more ridiculous every time I've suffered through it. They brought on prime-time aged soap hunk Grant Show as Addison's brother last week and then tried to convince the audience that he and Addison are closer than bubbles in a bath, never mind the fact that she's never mentioned him before.. Oh, and by the way, let's give him an inoperable brain tumor which actually turns out to be worms. WORMS BREEDING IN HIS HEAD!!! Excuse me while I jump the snark.
So, ABC has been pushing a crossover event for weeks, most likely hoping for a defibrillator to jump start Private Practice's viewership, and promised the event would happen last week. So I stayed on, wanting to see the old Derrick/Addison chemistry which made the Grey's triangle so juicy.
Nothing happened. Those marketing bastards. They're going to get two weeks of my time just so I can get through this stupid plot of worms breeding in Addison's brother's head, so I can find out if he lives and joins either show as a regular or dies and tries his luck with the 90210 gang since he seems to like prime time soap hopping.
Although, if he dies, Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner may appear for cameos at his funeral.
Private Practice, you're on my short list of shows to be dumped. Frankly, you're not worth the co-pay.
Damn. That rant completely took over my Random Tuesday! I oughta sue..



