Started off another sunny but chilly morning with the second Looney Tunes Easter special. Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-citement switches things up a little by giving us three shorts made just for TV, rather than bits and pieces of theatrical cartoons. The first is my favorite, as Daffy and Sylvester chase a golden egg. In the second, Daffy tries to keep Speedy Gonzoles from taking chocolate bunnies from the factory he's guarding to the kids of his village. Daffy's solo in the third, as he tries various means of getting north besides flying.
I did some stuff on the computer for a while, then baked Blue Raspberry Snow Cone cookies and dusted the apartment while watching Pretty In Pink. Andie (Molly Ringwald) is a self-proclaimed misfit who wears clunky mis-matched outfits and hangs around with other "outsiders" to distance herself from the fact that she lives in an old house with a single father (Harry Dean Stanton) who is out of work. She works in a record store run by an eccentric woman with nifty taste in clothes (Annie Potts), and her best friend is the equally poor and extremely geeky Duckie (Jon Cryer). She's delighted when sweet rich guy Blaine (Andrew McCarthy) shows interest in her. Their romance doesn't go over well with Duckie or with Blaine's buddy Steff (John Spader) who once made a pass at Andie. Andie has to decide how she can keep seeing Blaine, keep her friendship with Duckie, and be true to herself.
Most people think that Andie picked the wrong guy at the end, and I agree...sort of. Actually, I thought Andie was too smart for both Blaine (who was a spineless wimp) and Duckie (whose behavior bordered on stalking at several points). I think she would have been better off ditching Blaine and telling Duckie that she wanted to be friends and nothing else. Even if the dress she made at the end wasn't couture material, it did prove that she had no problems being her...which is more than could be said for either guy.
While this wasn't bad, I still prefer John Hughes' other take on more-or-less the same story, Some Kind of Wonderful. This one is for fans of romantic comedy, teen comedy, Hughes' other films, 80s comedies, or the cast.
Ran two vintage Strawberry Shortcake specials while eating a quick leftovers lunch and getting ready for work. The World of Strawberry Shortcake was the first special made for the famous fruit-loving character. It's Strawberry's birthday, but the Peculiar Purple Pieman wants to spoil her party by stealing all the berries in Strawberry Land. The Pieman's back to wrecking havoc in Strawberry Shortcake In Big Apple City. He and Strawberry are competing in a bake-off that's being televised from Big Apple City. The Pieman does everything he can to keep Strawberry from winning, but she has some new friends who help her get around his sabotage.
We were steady at work for most of the evening. It did pick up during rush hour, to the point where we had very long lines. When rush hour ended, we went right back to being steady. I was in and out with no problems.
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