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  • Re: for thinking some shows shouldn?t be live action

    From marika@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 04:01:45
    marika <marika5000@gmail.com> wrote:
    Cooking loud rotisserie on reality programs leads to divorce

    The Loud Rotisserie family

    ?That night, Pat spoke more openly than she ever had, in spiky,
    dark-humored spirals of revelation, telling her sister-in-law about Bill?s cheating, his affairs with ?big-bosomed, fat-assed blond businesswomen,? describing her anxieties about her worth as a woman, her fears of the
    future. ?I?m too old for women?s lib but too young for that,? she joked
    about staying in a sexless marriage. She talked about her children. Lance
    was ?keen,? she said, mournfully, but he ?might have been keener if he thought his daddy really loved him, really cared about him.? She listed her strengths and her weaknesses: ?I?m not very intelligent! I?m perhaps a bit perceptive.?
    In response, her sister-in-law gave her old-school advice on how to save
    her marriage: Pat, she explained, had to learn to appreciate the stability her situation offered her. She needed to make Bill feel like a man. Alan
    felt uncomfortable behind the camera; he found himself hoping that the
    light would be too dim for the footage to be usable. ?Also, there was the grinding of the rotisserie,? he said. ?They kept going until finally we didn?t want to do it anymore.?

    Excerpt From
    Cue the Sun!
    Emily Nussbaum




    But their casseroles were more serene

    ?An American Family debuted on January 11, 1973. Ten million viewers
    watched it, every Thursday night at 9 p.m. The Loud kids were among them, curled in their mom?s bed, eating Pat?s broccoli casseroles. After a year
    of denial, they understood they were in for it.
    Before the show aired, Pat had screened a few episodes. She expressed no
    objections, although she did tell James Day and Craig Gilbert that she
    hated the credit sequence, with that cracked ?FAMILY.? Still, she wrote gracious letters to the staff and to Gilbert, thanking them for the thoughtfulness of their portrayal. Then someone slipped her the WNET press packet?and her perspective changed, overnight.?

    Excerpt From
    Cue the Sun!
    Emily Nussbaum



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