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Feb. 24th, 2011 07:37 amSent back: Popotan, disk 1
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Brought up some issue about Malcolm in the Middle with Mom that's been nagging away at me shortly after she came home. Even though I never watched the last episode, from what I gather on both Wikipedia and TV Tropes & Idioms, ( spoilers ).
(If it weren't for the Rule of Funny, everything in the above cut would constitute a rather blatant Wallbanger. Some might say that it does anyway.)
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So anyway, I showed her the examples on the pages for Family Unfriendly Aesop and What an Idiot (the latter of which I wrote). Her response is basically that it's a TV show and it's meant to be funny. Exactly what I predicted she would say, but I had to get it off my chest somehow. I tried to stop her from saying that it wouldn't be funny if anyone was nice to one another, but no, she just had to say it. Don't remember what triggered the following, but she then went into this rant about how she has to hear about all this the minute she comes home from work (actually, it was while we were both seated at the dining room table, and she asked me if anything was new), and how I constantly need something to gripe about because I'm bored from a lack of structure in my life, and that at least half of what I look up is something negative to read about, and the she has to hear about it. She goes into her room to do something, and I pull up a past entry where Chelle explained in a comment that repetitive and obsessive behavior is a trait of autism, and that it will never go away.
(Mom later explained that she had a bad day at work, and didn't eat lunch because she had lost her appetite.)
So, we were about to go for another walk at Cathedral Pines, and things started to calm down between the two of us as we were about to get in the car. While we were there, I brought it up again, and this time, Mom was more reasonable about it. While there is the fact that comedy is by definition anti-logical, there actually is some logic to the whole issue in question. Even though the humor in the show is that Lois and Hal took it to the extreme, it is true that raising children is about building character and bringing out their full potential as members of society. In fact, our own family isn't that much different: While I was able to settle for a Bachelor's degree, and Marie probably isn't gonna go much further, Brian is supposed to aim for a Master's degree, and is due to go to some school in Washington where it rains and snows constantly once he graduates from Cornell. Like Malcolm in his own family, Brian is the smartest of us three kids, and there's really no reason for him to waste so much potential. (Then again, I'm not sure if that was his own choice or Mom and Dad's choice for him.)
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Brought up some issue about Malcolm in the Middle with Mom that's been nagging away at me shortly after she came home. Even though I never watched the last episode, from what I gather on both Wikipedia and TV Tropes & Idioms, ( spoilers ).
(If it weren't for the Rule of Funny, everything in the above cut would constitute a rather blatant Wallbanger. Some might say that it does anyway.)
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So anyway, I showed her the examples on the pages for Family Unfriendly Aesop and What an Idiot (the latter of which I wrote). Her response is basically that it's a TV show and it's meant to be funny. Exactly what I predicted she would say, but I had to get it off my chest somehow. I tried to stop her from saying that it wouldn't be funny if anyone was nice to one another, but no, she just had to say it. Don't remember what triggered the following, but she then went into this rant about how she has to hear about all this the minute she comes home from work (actually, it was while we were both seated at the dining room table, and she asked me if anything was new), and how I constantly need something to gripe about because I'm bored from a lack of structure in my life, and that at least half of what I look up is something negative to read about, and the she has to hear about it. She goes into her room to do something, and I pull up a past entry where Chelle explained in a comment that repetitive and obsessive behavior is a trait of autism, and that it will never go away.
(Mom later explained that she had a bad day at work, and didn't eat lunch because she had lost her appetite.)
So, we were about to go for another walk at Cathedral Pines, and things started to calm down between the two of us as we were about to get in the car. While we were there, I brought it up again, and this time, Mom was more reasonable about it. While there is the fact that comedy is by definition anti-logical, there actually is some logic to the whole issue in question. Even though the humor in the show is that Lois and Hal took it to the extreme, it is true that raising children is about building character and bringing out their full potential as members of society. In fact, our own family isn't that much different: While I was able to settle for a Bachelor's degree, and Marie probably isn't gonna go much further, Brian is supposed to aim for a Master's degree, and is due to go to some school in Washington where it rains and snows constantly once he graduates from Cornell. Like Malcolm in his own family, Brian is the smartest of us three kids, and there's really no reason for him to waste so much potential. (Then again, I'm not sure if that was his own choice or Mom and Dad's choice for him.)