Disappointment: A history
Posted by Dan
August 15th, 2007 at 02:40pm
In News
When I was a kid, I got really excited about getting a My Pet Monster.
My Pet Monster was this big purple creature that you could buy at your local toy store. He had protruding snaggleteeth, demonic-looking eyes, horns and purple fur. The clincher, though, was that he came with his own shackles that you could put on yourself. And, since the shackles were pre-broken and could be easily torn apart, you could make a big show out of breaking free of your constraints with your My Pet Monster and wreaking havoc on the neighborhood, presumably sullying old ladies’ flower beds and dousing rope-skipping girls with a garden hose. The commercials made all of these activities seem like the logical extension of owning a My Pet Monster.
When I finally attained said creature, though, few of these shennanigans actually came to be. There’s something less satisfying about playing in your family’s basement, breaking free of these pretend shackles with no one around to fear you.
This was one of my early experiences with disappointment — to be followed in later years by my abysmal job hunting experience in Boston, my trip to Fairbanks, Alaska, and my inability to fly (despite wishing for it as I blew out my birthday candles until the age of seven or eight).
On that note, this trailer for the Parker Posey/Lauren Ambrose sitcom The Return of Jezebel James shouldn’t be too devastating. I mean, our attitude all along has been “cautiously optimistic,” right?
Maybe it can get better? That cartwheel thing was kind of funny… ish…
my thoughts:
1) that’s gypsy! mags, some back up please.
2) who is jezebel james then?
3) no children’s book editor is so important that they are met with crazed questions coming off the elevator.
4) i kind of liked the cartwheel joke.
5) i’m not sure if parker posey is the right actress for that role? because i think she’s better than that? or i’ve never seen her as a resposible character?
i’m hoping it’s a bad trailer and the show will be better.
Aww, baby’s first bondage experience.
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I think part of the problem is the laugh track. It makes the humor feel that much more forced. I can’t imagine Amy S-P agreeing to something like that, so it makes me wonder how much Fox has taken things out of her hands.