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Avocado Tumble

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Sitcoms have never been my favorite form of entertainment.  A few exceptions over the years, but for the most part they seem silly and overblown to me.  Truly, what person on the planet would actually do this:

Then every now and then…

I was meeting a friend at Whole Foods for lunch (they have a great salad bar and hot bar along with tables and chairs, so it’s a great place for two folks with food restrictions to have a fun meal together).  My friend texted me that she was running about five minutes late so I decided to hang out in the produce section near the front door while I waited. 

And then it happened.  A woman took a corner a little too tightly with her cart and rammed into the lovingly stacked display of avocados. They didn’t all come tumbling down (like they would have on tv) but it was still a waterfall of green as them fell.  She was mortified and sank to her knees, trying to corral the wayward fruits.  Three Whole Foods employees appeared out of nowhere and they had the avocados re-stacked in less than a minute.  It was very impressive.  The photo above is after everything was back in order. 

Although I never video tape anything, I did have a small wish that I could have gotten the fall and the re-assembly on film. 

Maybe I should give sit-coms more leeway!

If we were casting for sitcom roles today, who would you like to be cast as?

23 thoughts on “Avocado Tumble”

  2. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    As a kid I loved sitcoms. I watched old reruns in the sixties: My Little Margie, Father Knows Best, I Love Lucy, and there were others. There was nothing better than getting to stay home from school with Dad, laying on the couch with the mumps, measles, or chicken pox, and watch the old sitcoms all morning preceded by Captain Kangaroo. (In the afternoon the highlight was Art Linkletter’s House Party). These shows did not need any credulity. I must have seen the I Love Lucy cut above many times as a child. Ethel and Lucy’s hijinx were hilariously funny to me.

    Now, I have not watched a new sitcom on one of the legacy TV channels since The Office or Parks and Rec. I find the new onesjust empty. I have watched Loot on Apple (with Maya Rudolph) and enjoyed that. Ted Lasso was a pleasure as well. But no casting for me at this time. Over all time, I would have wanted to be cast as Mary Richards living independently in Minneapolis. The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the Carol Burnett Show both influenced me and my desire to be independent so profoundly.

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  3. I’m not exactly certain what qualifies, and what does not, as a sit-com. Obviously those shows with a thin, contrived story line upon which preposterous incidents and predictable jokes qualify, but do series like Mash or Northern Exposure fall into that category? I think not.
    I can’t easily project myself into any television show, sit-com or otherwise. Maybe I could be the guy behind the fence in the home improvement show that offers advice but that you never see.

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  4. Warming up the van to get the dog from the boarding kennel. This morning it was -34. Friday it is supposed to get up to +35. I think we shall all get whiplash at the sudden change. The wind has shifted to be from the south. Husband is on his way to Bismarck for work. Northern Exposure sure resonates today, but so does the story of the tragic Scott expedition to the South Pole.

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    1. I don’t remember exactly but it’s inaccurate to compare the numbers on the scale by using phrases like “twice as hot” because the scales are not linear. It becomes meaningless to do multiply the the numbers. For example, 1 degree is “twice as cold” as 2 degrees. Or 1 degree is “three times colder” than 3 degrees.

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  6. Morning-

    It was only -6 at our house. You win Renee.
    I’m not sure I ever liked sit-coms. Especially anything with a laugh track.
    I always liked the variety shows: Carol Burrnet, The Hudson Brothers, Flip Wilson.

    I’ll have to think about who I wanted to be…

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  7. This is a fantasy day, which means you can answer this any way you want. I loved a series that came out when I was in the sixth grade called The Champions. Two guys and a gal are in a plane wreck in the Himalayas somewhere and they get found by some mystical folks and in their healing them they get some mystical powers. I always wanted to be one of them.

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  10. Gilligan. He was such a nice, well-meaning guy, while also being a total doofus. (Is that the correct spelling of ‘doofus’?) I wouldn’t want to be any of the women on that show, but I loved Gilligan. I think I could probably live up to that part.

    If I have to be a woman – in the new era I think it might be mandatory – then I’d choose RuthAnn in Northern Exposure. Maybe Bill is right and Northern Exposure isn’t even really a sitcom. It sure is funny though. I love RuthAnn’s pragmatic approach to everything, and her wry humor.

    I had a long, but fun day today. Three hours of knitting class and two hours of playing music!

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  12. I wouldn’t mind e a character in Ghosts, probably the American version. I haven’t seen enough of the British version to pick a character there. Maybe I could be Flower.

    Or, if I were in The Office, maybe I’d be Phyllis.

    Sitcoms without laugh tracks are wonderful.

    When you’re talking aout the real classic sitcoms…I think it would be dreat to be Laura Petrie.

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