My dad told me never to give it away
Posted by Cristin
June 9th, 2008 at 05:12pm
In Giveaways Great Feats of Strength TV on DVD
and I haven’t listened yet, so why start now?
I have good news, kids: you don’t have to devote this summer to the 30 Rock DVDs that your little brother gave you for your birthday (but thanks, patrick!). While there are very few reasons to own a TV between the months of April and October (So You Think You Can Dance comes to mind… as does the recent airing of Finding Nemo in HD that captivated my mother and I for hours this weekend), TBS is giving you (okay, me) a new reason to live– My Boys is back this weekend!
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I love this show. In fact, I love it enough (and love myself enough) to link to this post I wrote about it in December 2006 even though it contains references to and commentary by a former gentleman caller of mine, because I can’t express my love for it any better than I already have (that’s where the self-love comes in. Only, you know, not in the hairy palms/ blindness comes in). The end of last season was a Nancy Drew-esque cliff hanger after our gal PJ had bought a pair of his-n-hers plane tickets to Italy, thinking that by the time she got to use them she’d have an obvious his to go with hers. And instead of winding up having to take her mom and enjoying Finding Nemo as the in-flight movie, as it would have gone down in real life, the week before the trip turned into a veritable man-fest for PJ and we were left not knowing who got on the plane with her. Or what the hell Rosebud means.
Season 2 starts June 12 at 9:30– and here’s your warmup, sports fans:
Email tifaux at gmail.com before the season premiere with the subject line “Home Run” to win a My Boys tshirt and the DVD set of season one of The Bill Engvall Show (My Boys’ lead-in show). If you’re feeling creative and/ or have recently been kicked out of your fantasy baseball league for inappropriate message board posts, you can thrill us with the sports metaphor that you most enjoy using in every day life, as we tend to favor those among us who can pepper casual conversation with idioms like “switch hitter” and “riding the pine.”
Would you like me to tell you what Rosebud means? It’s filthier than you’d think for a movie that came out in 1940. Although those Munchkins were up to some weird shit a year earlier.
In the movie Citizen Kane, Rosebud is a sled that Charles Kane loved as a child. Whether or not the word had any significance to William Randolph Hearst—a real person, not a character in the movie Citizen Kane—doesn’t change the fact that in the movie it was a sled. According to the screenwriter, he named it after his own childhood bicycle. If it’s the other thing, then the whole movie is reduced to an elaborate practical joke that only a few people would get. Why would anyone work so hard on a movie like that?