I really wanted this to be a portrait of the disintegration of the marriage between Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara's characters in Waiting for Guffman.

She's so good at it. I love the one about the slave woman who escapes from the Washingtons and Jen gets the hiccups and the actors hiccup along with her as she's speaking. Then she just gets super emotional at the end. So cute.

The humor is corny and the "voice" can get a little grating, but I really like Fanny Bryce's "Baby Snooks" show. You can find clips on youtube. She's a clever little brat. There's one where she manipulates Daddy into taking her to The Wizard of Oz premiere which made me want to see The Wizard of Oz as a kid in 1939.

Araby is the first one I ever read as part of a Brit Lit anthology in high school, before I even knew who James Joyce was. I loved it because it summed up perfectly the way disappointment feels as a child (and as an adult). I think The Sisters is my favorite now. 

Is there also room for Dylan Moran quotes from Black Books?

@Dikachu Elizabeth Hartman was such a great actress. TCM used to play A Patch of Blue fairly often and I had to watch the whole thing and bawl. P.S. early 1960s Sidney Poitier was smokin'.

I created a profile just so I could thank you for the reference. I read that book when I was 14 and that story still terrifies me. I think I read it on a car trip through Nebraska, which is terrifying in other ways.