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Sunday, November 26, 2006

Keister Egg

Although I was initially disappointed that KTLA had pre-empted last Tuesday’s “Veronica Mars” in lieu of some sports garbage, Super Bri wisely pointed out to me that the episode would instead be airing on Saturday. I turned in just in time to see the opening credits. The best part of the episode, by far, was its guest star: Patty Hearst, who played an heir to a retail fortune and the granddaughter of the robber baron founder of Hearst College, the fictional school Veronica now attends. Thus, Patty Hearst is playing a thinly veiled version of herself.

In the show’s long-standing tradition of naming its characters with good reason, Hearst’s character is called Selma Hearst Rose. The “Rose” comes from her husband, Bud Rose. As in “rosebud,” as in “Citizen Kane.” It’s the first name that really gets me, however. I wondered why the writers would have picked such an uncommon name for the character, when I realized that the only association I have with “Selma” is the more mannish of Marge’s two twin sisters on “The Simpsons.” Then I made the mental leap. Patty Hearst. Selma Hearst.

Oh, and the episode also involved sodomy-for-humiliation, a suicidal tanorexic named "Patrice,two uppity personal assistants and the best implementation of “Here Comes Peter Cottontail” I have ever heard. All this from a show that has already given us an Asian frat boy named Charleston Chew. We truly have so many reasons to be happy.

3 comments:

  1. And don't forget...
    Still more Big Lebowski references:
    -the guy in the wheelchair ends up being the bad guy
    -the butler named "Brandt"

    And I thought "keister egg" was... spectacular.

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  2. Oh, and this Rory Finch thing is still bugging the hell out of me. Why "Rory Finch"? All I can find is that "Rory Finch" was a character on Days of Our Lives and I know the show has referenced soap operas before... and the chick who played Rory Finch has been in a movie with Charisma Carpenter and a couple of shows that C.C. has been on, but never at the same time.
    I'm probably reading way too much into it... but it's still bugging the hell out of me.
    Use your powers of pop culture knowledge to pin it down, yo.

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  3. also, the "Big Lebowlski" event advertisement/poster at the bowling alley.

    God, I only get the easy ones.

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