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A Bottle Of Wine & Rasin Bran? 12:19 p.m. 2006-06-02 One of my favorite new T.V. shows is Old Christine. It's funny, and I can most of the time relate with the show--of course, I don't have the close ties with the ex-husband has protrayed on the show--far from it. Anyways, my feathers were a little miffed from the last episode I saw. In this episode, Christine's character is given a school project for her son. It's on a foreign country, and she is assigned to do a display for Portugal. Her display consists of a bottle of wine, and a cereal box of raisin bran. Okay, I can understand the wine, but the raisin bran? Anyways, as you can imagine, her display pales in comparison to the other snooty mother's displays. Feeling defeated with yet again, she befriends another woman in the hallway. This woman just happens to be Portuguese. This woman is sympathetic with her plight of not "fitting in" with the "mother in-crowd circle" and invites her over to her place for coffee. Christine's character finally thinks she has found a friend at her son's school, but soon realizes, that the woman she has befriended (her name is Marcella), is actually the housekeeper of one of the snooty mothers. Later on in the show, we find Marcella making out with the snooty woman's perfect husband in Marcella's room, which looks more like a closet. Of course on the wall, there is a poster of Portugal in the background. Okay, I laughed throughout this episode, but still, can we get a little more stereotypical? I mean, come on! What is it with the bottle of wine and rasin bran, and the Portuguese woman who is the housekeeper?! And what is it with the quotes on the show, like: "I was given Portugal as an assignment. Could they have given me a suckier country?!" Sigh... Poor Portugal; that little country off of Spain... Why are we so misunderstood?! Time to rent Mystic Pizza again! |