The Joys of Motherhood...

by zeroday 11 Replies latest jw friends

  • GentlyFeral
    GentlyFeral

    narkissos, the RU486 "commercial" comes from MAD-TV, one of the most "out-there" comedy sketch shows on American commercial (free) television. Submerged cultural references: Susan Smith, possibly Andrea Yates, and all the paranoid-myopic Puritan assumptions that underlie the "abstinence education" movement.

    gently feral

  • Narkissos
    Narkissos

    Thank you very much GF.

    There is, indeed, a very particular "watcher's angle and distance" for the humour to be perceived, and when you don't get "there" you don't get it. In the general context of the show I would very probably have reacted otherwise...

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