It's the Dallas Bobby Ewing in the Shower Syndrome, Melania!
“Donald? … Donald?! … Oh my god, Donald!!!"
“What, Melania?”
“What
are you doing in the shower?!!”
“Washing my enormous girth, what else?”
“But
you’re supposed to be at the White House, not the shower at Trump Tower!”
“What are you talking about?”
“If you’re here at Trump Tower, who’s polarizing the
country? Who’s tweeting about fake news?
Who’s destroying democracy as we know it?”
“Melania, who do you think I am? President of the United States?”
“Of course you are! And I’m First Lady, no matter what
Ivana says.”
“Melania, Crooked Hillary creamed me in the election
last year. I finished fourth, behind Jill Stein and Gary Johnson."
“That can't be! You've been President for a year!"
“I think I get it now.”
“Get what?”
“The what?"
“In the 80’s on a TV show called Dallas actor Patrick Duffy playing a character named Bobby Ewing wanted to leave the show. So Ewing was killed off at the end of the season."
"So?"
“Next year Duffy wanted to come back. In that season's first
episode Bobby Ewing reappeared fully alive and fully unclothed in the shower in front
of the actress playing his wife, and Dallas wrote off the entire prior season as a
year-long dream by the wife!”
“That's a terrible cheat on the audience.”
“You're not kidding. And it's happening all over again, right down to the naked man in the shower. Although this time the naked man is Trump!"
“I’ve had a
year-long dream?”
“Yes. Not that I was dead, but that I was President of the United States!”
“You‘re not?”
“Of course not! Once I stopped Putin from meddling in the election, I had no chance.”
"You didn’t put
through a huge tax cut for the rich?”
“Why would I do something that sleazy to the
American people?”
“You haven’t called Kim Jong Un ‘Rocket Man?’”
“That would be hugely irresponsible. It could touch off nuclear conflagration!”
“You haven’t bragged about how you can grab women’s
pussies whenever you want?”
“Well … maybe that one.”
“I dreamt all that?”
“Of course you did. Nobody could act that way as President
and not be impeached.”
“Really?”
“Do you think the
Republican Party could possibly be such a bunch of spineless wimps as to allow
anyone behaving like that to remain President!”
“Yet it all seemed so real … so real.”
“None of that ever happened, Melania.”
“Donald, if it was
all a dream, what have you actually been doing this past year?”
“Going bankrupt. As usual.”
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If you're too young to know about The Bobby Ewing in the Shower Situation on Dallas, here's a good review of one of the greatest, if not the greatest, storytelling fails in the history of television.
2 comments:
I guess the producers of Dallas never watched daytime soaps. There was a character in one of the shows my mother watched who was in a coma for about 8 years (while he guest starred in sit-coms and episodes of Barnaby Jones). Once the lame actor could find no more bit parts they resurrected him in the soap. It's amazing how fast can be up and running after not using their muscles for eight years. This guy was more physically fit than Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner.
That only proves that there's hope for you too, Perry. Snap out of that coma and join Farmers Only dot.com.
We are Farmers! Dum de dum de dum dum dum!
How's that? Pretty good?
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