The other night I watched the last 15 minutes of My Fair Brady and … it was the season finale … and …
yes. I cried.
I need help.
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admitting it is the first step…i’m sure there are support groups out there….
somewhere
I truly think I need to call on a higher power because I am now at the point where I am DYING for Season 2. Like: I literally cannot wait.
maybe you just need some vitamins and some exercise…
Niacin deficiency. Definitely.
You’re so glib, Cullen.
So, how did it end? Did True Love conquer all? Did they have porkchops and applesauce?
sheila did you see tom cruise fired his whackjob-sister-publicist???
Oh, Siobhan, you can’t post info like that without a link! Now I have to exercise my Google. Dammit! ;)
Oh, Cullen. The news is so yesterday. See the comments here.
Sheila,
With this coming so soon after the news about Tom getting a proper publicist, I don’t blame you for being an emotional wreck. A person can only take so much.
Thanks Em, but I did exercise my right to Google.
Siobhan … hahahahaha Yes, I have heard.
And I am really bummed … because another publicist might rein in the couch-jumper … and I just don’t know what I’ll do if I can’t make fun of chimp-boy’s antics.
Lisa –
Yes! True love conquered all! There was a weepy proposal! I cried!!
So what happened? I haven’t had time to watch it all season – I caught like one episode (and the lead-up to it on “Surreal Life”, which ws hilarious).
Deets?
(Thinks: True love must have conquered all, or at least shacked back up, or there’d be no second season. Unless there’s a cliffhanger…)
Help! I’m being seduced!
Thanks for the quick service, Red!
Hey sheil, remember when that McDonald’s commercial about the working farmer’s who make it all happen (you know, the eggs, milk and meat stuff)- that used to make me cry. I also cried at that Garfield special where Odie got put in the dog pound and was going to be put to sleep and they had this close up of both of their paws being pulled away from each other. Gripping and emotional.
jean – hahahahahaha garfield ….
okay, while we’re admitting to silly stuff that makes us cry?
that diamond commercial. No, not the ones that are all “if you loved me you’d buy me a diamond” or “no woman is complete unless she has a diamond on BOTH her right and her left hand” but the one with the couple walking hand in hand in the park, and they come on an older couple, and they briefly drop hands to walk around the older couple, and then when they rejoin hands, they look back, and you just KNOW they are thinking, wow, that could be us in forty years.
and it makes me cry Every. Dang. Time. I see it.
(Mainly because I’m blubbering through my tears, “Why can’t that be meeeeeeeee!” but also just because it’s a commercial that touches me, as cynical as I claim to be)
Peter Brady’s getting married. I couldn’t be happier for our little boy.
While I have not been as attached to My Fair Brady, people at work make fun of me because I have to be home on Wednesday night to watch Adrienne’s alma mater, America’s Next Top Model…
AHHHHHH!!!! Thats so funny! I havent had cable until this past week, so I was desperately trying to catch up. I cried so hard….so hard that it freaked the dog out. But he then came over and licked all my tears. Too cute.
OMG! I actually watched MFB, too. I didn’t cry, but it definitely made me want to find that someone to propose to.
Jon F –
I hope you don’t make your wife-to-be dress like THAT for the proposal though. That outfit was atrocious. Shows his kind of cheese-ball taste. Hard to make HER look ridiculous, she’s so beautiful – but that dress and the bow and the gloves succeeded!
Ok, can you please put me out of my misery and tell me what happened? The likelihood of this ever making it to these shores is nil. We haven’t even gotten the Surreal Life yet!
Carrie –
Certainly.
After much back and forth, a lot of drama, with her pushing him to propose, and him resisting – he was afraid she was too dependent on him … he’s 47, she’s 22, yadda yadda – he wanted her to move out, get her own apartment – She basically said: “If I get my own apartment, it’s over. I can’t go backwards.”
So in the season finale – he takes her out to a romantic dinner.
She is wearing a ridiculous dress and long black gloves. She is tense. She senses he is going to break up with her.
Eventually, he takes her for a long drive and then puts a blindfold on her at the destination. He leaves her blindfolded on some random patio – and she is saying to herself (or … to all of us who are watching) “Please don’t let the surprise be an apartment …”
She is afraid he’s booting her out of his house.
Then he takes off the blindfold and it is, indeed, her “own place” that he has found her. He takes her on a mini-tour through the joint – she has started to cry – she keeps saying “no” – and “i won’t take this …”
He leads her into a living room (no furniture – but there are a gazillion candles lit) – and he makes a VERY moving speech about how he wants her to be autonomous – and he doesn’t want her to feel she has to fit into his mold – He owned up to the fact that he had been trying to control her. He was on the edge of tears the whole time. He says, “So … you can move into this apartment … and be the woman you were always meant to be … set it up how you want it set up … be your own person ….”
Dreadfully long pause.
She is crying. He is near tears.
Then he says, after the pause:
“Or … you can come back home … and be with me …”
She shakes her head. She’s a mess, dude. Tears are streaming down her face. She says, “I can’t come back now …” and she puts her hands over her eyes, and just SOBS.
While her face is hidden, he reaches into his suit pocket and takes out a little jewelry box. He opens it. The ring inside glitters.
He removes Adrienne’s hands from her eyes – she sees the ring and just EXPLODES. Tears – laughter – “Oh, no, you are NOT!” she shouts …
Finally he goes down on his knees and proposes. She, weeping and laughing, accepts.
It was just AWESOME television.
Oh, oh, oh! ::fans self:: Glad I didn’t see that, I would’ve been BLUBBERING, sap that I am.
Speaking of can’t-miss-TV, anyone else addicted to R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet”? Anyone? No? Just me, then.
Aw man – I saw the start of them on the Surreal Life when I was home visiting – I would love to have seen MFB. Thanks for that glimpse.
Red – my future wife to be will be able to wear anything she wants. He is kind of a cheeseball, though.
After he proposed and she kissed him, I thought, Man. I want to be kissed like that.
You’re such a romantic, Jon F! I love it!! I’m kind of too cynical – although it WAS a touching moment – because she had tears streaming down her face as she kissed him. she was SO happy. it was pretty cool.