Walking On the Sun

Started off the morning with breakfast and The Busy World of Richard Scarry. In "Mr. Raccoon's Different Day, he's is tired of his coffee shop customers asking for the same old orders. He wants to make some changes...but Mr. Frumble wrecking havoc on the place when told to watch it may not be what he had in mind. "Mario, the Venetian Gondolier" is tired of his huge melon boat always getting into everyone's way. He wishes he had a little wedding gondola, until a big pig family need a lift to a wedding. Hilda hopes to be "The Best Babysitter Ever" to Pig Will and Pig Won't. Pig Won't refuses to do anything, until he sees all the fun he's missing.

Hurried off to work soon as the cartoon ended. This time, I knew I was spending the day bagging. The head bagger doesn't work Wednesdays, and the regular daytime bagger took today off. Fine by me. I'd still rather be sweeping around tons of people and pushing carts in 94 degree heat than explaining why those people were blocking customers and getting in everyone's way. Everyone's in a tizzy preparing for the Acme's grand (sort-of) re-opening on Friday. They're cleaning and dusting and panting and organizing shelves and taking inventory. Long as I did what I was supposed to do and did it on time, no one bothered me. They even had pizza in the back room for all those workers that they were willing to share.

At least it never rained. We were hot, sunny, and humid the entire day. Not even much of a breeze this time. I must have gone through at least five bottles of water.

After I got home, I went straight into dinner and Match Game '74. Charles is ready for the Bicentennial early in his red, white, and blue star shirt that got a lot of ribbing from Gene, while Brett teases Joyce Bulifant about her pinafore dress. Joyce and Richard get their own digs in later on who the Tidy Bowl Man is by teasing the people next to them and above them.

Match Game '79 started off with Gene admiring Don Galloway's hand-knitted white sweater. Bill gets a lot of teasing about his scraggly new beard, until he starts winning and everyone wonders if the beard has done something for him after all. It ends with Bill and Gene doing a nice little soft-shoe dance. Lee Merriweather does her best with "__ Counselor" during the Head-to-Head on the next episode.

Finished the night on YouTube with Summer School, which is currently free there. Freddie Shoop (Mark Harmon) is a phys ed teacher who is looking forward to spending his summer in Hawaii with his girlfriend, at least until obnoxious Vice Principal Phil Gills (Robin Thomas) corners him into teaching remedial English for the summer or lose his tenure. He has no idea what to do with a motley group of students that includes pregnant Rhonda (Shawnee Smith), jock Kevin (Patrick Labyoreaux), flighty Pam (Courtney Thorne-Smith), uber nerd Alan (Richard Horowitz), sassy Denise (Kelly Jo Minter), and Dave (Gary Riley) and Chainsaw (Dean Cameron), the world's biggest fans of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 

He at first takes them on field trips, then does favors for them to get them to study. While they try to pay attention, he pursues the smart American History teacher in the next class over, Robin Bishop (Kirstie Alley), but she's already dating Gillis. The kids still give him a hard time, until he reminds them everything he's sacrificed already to make them study and quits. The kids finally band together to show Freddie what they've already learned and prove that they can pass that English exam as well as anyone.

Pretty typical late 80's summer tale. Cameron and Riley steal the show as the massive horror nuts. The other kids are a lot more generic and Alley doesn't have much to do besides be the designated love interest, but Harmon is so likable, you almost don't mind. If you love other slobs-vs-snobs teen comedies of this era, you'll want to give this one a look as well.