“I really like the way my rose is now,” Brenda told Cheryl.
“I call that a Molly Dodd moment.”
“Huh?!” her friend gasped.
“I grew up,” Brenda explained, “watching shows like ‘My Mother the Car,’ ‘Mr. Ed,’ and ‘Seinfeld.’
“Molly, for me, is the epitome of normal. In the typical episode, Molly reads her mail, says hello to a neighbor, blows her nose. You know, plain stuff.”
“I can understand that,” Cheryl opined. At the same time though, each of us often needs Gunther Toody and Ed Norton in his life too. Contrast and balance are the answer to everything.”
Moocho thank you to Rochelle Wisoff~Fields for being our Fearless Leader in Friday Fictioneers, a weekly attempt at a hundred~page story based upon a photo prompt. This week’s prompt was supplied by Marie Gail Stratford.
Oh, so very true, life wouldn’t be half as fun without contrast and balance!
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Thanks. Molly’s life is much more ordinary, and easier to handle, but a little colorful every once in a while is important too.
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“Mr. Ed” and “My Mother the Car,” both sitcoms of the 1960s almost have nothing to do with much later “Seinfeld” so that was a little jarring. I grew up watching the first two but not the third since was already grown.
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I’m sorry about the anachronism. What they have in common, though, is the complete lack of a restriction to everyday predictable circumstances. I should have thought the chronology through though.
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Sorry. It was the first thing I noticed. I was a child in the 1960s, so I actually remember those old shows.
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I was little in the ’60’s but I’ve always been smitten with the era so I can’t help thinking of those shows.
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Dear :Larry,
Oo! Oo! How well do I remember Gunther and his partner Frances Muldoon. Loved Mr. Ed and Wi-i-ilber. Never watched Seinfeld. Thanks for the memories.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle. Someone reminded me that I messed up a bit by mixing Seinfeld with the earlier shows but they have in common an extreme weirdness.
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Dang! I only watched Seinfeld…
However, I do agree, life needs a mix of stuff to not become hum-ho
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Yes that’s quite true. Never having watched “The Days And Nights of Molly Dodd” much of it, I remember enough about it to know that it was completely lacking in eccentricity. Molly’s was such a plain and droll life. You might remember “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Newhart” where, in each show, only his character was sane in a world filled with lunatics. Picture a show filled with Bob Newharts. That’s Molly’s life.
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Then yes, I can picture it because I did indeed watch Bob Newhart!
Thanks, Rochelle!
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Contrast and balance. I actually believe you’ve described my husband and me 🙂
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Congratulations . That sounds as if it’s a good way to keep things going well.
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Nearly 49 years, Larry 🙂
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That’s good to hear. My parents were married for 56 years.
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!!!
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Everything in moderation – including moderation! Here’s to the occasional adventure and flamboyance!
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An apt and useful lesson for everyone to imbibe.
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Thanks
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Every comedian needs his straight man. My wife and I are polar opposites in many ways. I don’t think I could live with someone like me. 🙂
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That’s the way mankind is put together. There’s a line from Dostoyevsky that refers to the fact that no one ever recognizes his own stink. What doesn’t bother me in my own conduct, opinions, etc. gets me plum crazy in others’.
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Well, my farts do smell like lilacs, but that’s a different story. 🙂
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Have not watched any of the shows… but I do agree on the balance.
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