This is what they show:
This delights me for several reasons. First: everything about it. I don’t know why anyone would have thought to make such a movie, but I’m eternally grateful that they did. Secondly, I can’t help but imagine Mortimer — who doubtlessly is aware of the blogs that mock her as the characters on Gossip Gir are of the online piddlings that drive the plot of the show — idly checking up on what the blogosphere has to say about her today. She’d see this, but not being the kind of person who gets jokes, and just sit in a state of total bewilderment. “Why do they say I’m dogs? Who are these dogs? Why do they say I’m dogs?!”
Amazing.
The clip, by the way, comes from something called The Dogway Melody, which we should doubtlessly all watch in its entirety at some point in our lives.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS EVER.
ReplyDeleteI am SO late to the game on this, but--hand to God--I watched another of the movies from this series (yes, there was a series of these) with my grandparents the other day. My grandma (whose a little... slow these days) absolutely loved it.
ReplyDeleteThere's something magical in the Lafond family sitting around the TV set, on the edge of their seats as they wait to find out how yet another canine caper will be resolved.
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