Matt the Great

The Most Awesome Thing I Saw on TV This Week was the montage in 1988's A Very Brady Christmas wherein Alice is charged with rounding up all the arriving Brady children at LAX while Florence Henderson and the father have to set up beds for everybody! Alice be-bops around the airport picking up all the full grown kids (Jan's marriage is falling apart!), and she gets herself into all kinds of crazy mishaps. For example, she's pushing one of the Brady boy's luggage cart and steps onto the moving sidewalk--but in the wrong direction!! Meanwhile, back at the house, the lovely lady and her man named Brady are busy trying to figure out where all these people are gonna sleep! They have to set up all kinds of complicated cots, roll out sleeping bags that are just stuffed with leaves, fold out those pesky twin bed fold-aways that have a tendency to snap shut on you, AND pull a queen mattress up the Brady staircase!! You can only guess how funny this all is.

As the montage finishes, each Brady walks through the door(1) (after ringing the doorbell and being invited in. Huh?), and it all ends with Alice carrying all the bags, and boy, is that funny!

I hesitantly chose this as the MATISoTVTW over some of the South Park Christmas specials that have been on. Y'all. You *have* to watch these things. These things make me so mad because I know I will never be as smart or keen as Trey Parker/Matt Stone. Tonight I saw the "Critters' Christmas" one which was expectantly unbelievable . Try really hard to see this one. You'll die when they rhyme "a portion" with "abortion." Comedy Central is airing a lil mini marathon X-mas Eve of South Park X-mas Specials.

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(1) -- I was kind of humbled when I watched the reunion-moment and realized that our families will not ever look as they do in the memory we have of them from when we were kids. The grown-ups get old, the kids do stupid things (like grow moustaches in the big Brady boy's case), and the world just isn't going to look like the '80s again. A friend recently pointed out that algos is the Latin for "pain, grief, distress," as in "nostalgia."