Isn't she his child the rest of the time as well?

Keenan Wynn:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Also, the boots look like they've had a lot of use. Maybe it's just the suede.

Used boots/shoes—always problematic.  Hope you gave them a good spraying with Dr. Scholl's.

"Remains" of the lobster?  What the hell is that besides a totally foreign concept?

I brought up the Mitchums, too, but before I read any comments at all.  That'll learn me.

Thanks for explaining the joke.  Now I feel stupid but happy because I like to laugh.

Yes on Goldie Hawn and yes that Blythe Danner is exquisite.

They did "rap" together.  With the sound off, it was less painful.

You turn off the sound until Carlton shows up.  That's what I did.  It's not unusual.

Robert Mitchum did a movie with two of his sons—or more, just a vague memory—and the boys looked so much like him that it was spooky.  Except one was blond.

More like this childhood crush, it sounds like.

Liked for allusion.

I grew up in a Calvinist, Barry Goldwater household, and my mother liked Liberace and never pretended he was anything but gay.  She had no illusions about Rock Hudson, either.
I suppose it makes a better story to act like homosexuality was created in the 1970s, but folks, it just isn't so.  Not talking about isn't the…

"And in the next one, we'll drive Mini-Coopers.  It can't miss."

Needs salt.

Argentina and Brazil are Third World countries?  Try again.

I admit I looked it up, too, since I only knew the one def of tare.  However, I was very impressed, even though I also agree that chaff would have been more appropriate.
It's so rare, though, that a student actually listened to an English teacher's suggestion about avoiding cliches, improving the vocab, and making the…

You seem to forget a little chain called Howard Johnson's.

Reins, dammit, not reigns.