Greasers and Angels

Began my morning with breakfast and Super Mario World. By 1991, Mario and Luigi had dropped the live-action wrap-around segments and been added to Captain N-The Game Master in segments that now reflected the most recently-released game. I went with the first episode, "Fire Sale." Fed up with being cold in her Ice Land kingdom, Kootie Pie (aka Wendy, the only female Koopaling) steals Mama Fireplant in an attempt to warm her palace. When his friends are frozen, Yoshi must overcome his fear of water to rescue them and Mama Fireplant.

Switched to Cry-Baby after that. I go further into this 50's spoof with Johnny Depp as a greaser who falls for "square" good girl Amy Locane at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.

Cult Flops - Cry Baby

Had lunch and got organized while watching Tattletales. Came in time for the hilarious question where each lady has to say whether or not their men would describe a certain part of the female anatomy with their hands. Helen and Gene didn't get anything else right...but Helen knew darn well how her husband was around women, especially busty ones. 

Meanwhile, Hugh Lambert and Nancy Sinatra were the big winners...in more than one way. Lambert apparently was just as gentlemanly and charming in real-life as he was in his Tattletales appearances, and Nancy adored him. She was devastated when he died in 1985 and to this day has never remarried. 

Headed out to work as Tattletales ended. In good news, the haze is finally starting to dissipate, and it doesn't smell smoky anymore. (In fact, one good thing about the smoke is it's keeping the area cool. It's barely been in the 70's here the past few days.) They're still working on the parking lot, but they've now moved to the back where the Christmas tree lot is during late November and December and are no longer blocking the Nicholson Road entrance. 

In frustrating news, work was still a pain in the rear. There were at least four people who put away part or all of their order because they were shocked at how expensive things were or only had so much money. If you read the prices, you know how much things cost. Thankfully, by 7 PM, it slowed down enough for me to leave with no relief.

Watched Match Game Syndicated during dinner. Patty Duke stays on, this time in the sixth seat. She's joined by Joe Santos, Donna Pescow, and Bill Daily. Gene has a long chat with a young man about where he hits the "wall" as a long distance runner (i.e, where he runs out of energy and stops) and explains the concept to Brett. Patty is more worried about figuring out "Smash ___" on the Head-to-Head.

Finished the night at the Roku Channel with Charlie's Angels. They're "Angels In the Stretch" when a long-time horse track better is killed while inspecting one of the horses. Sabrina pushes herself as an exerciser for the horses and comes to suspect that a handsome Irish exerciser knows more than he's telling. Kelly's more interested in the horse's elegant and wealthy owner (David Hedrison), while Bosley and Kris pass themselves off as rich ranch owners from Arizona who want to buy a certain horse.