First of all, here's my review for the Golden Films special Princess Castle, which I watched last night, at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Got a quick start this morning with breakfast and the Silly Symphony short "The Goddess of Spring" at Disney Plus. This is a retelling of the Persephone and Hades myth that was intended as a practice run for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Some of the animation is gorgeous and the operatic music is stunning, but the story can get too cutesy, and Persephone moves like she's made of rubber.
I thought I was meeting Jessa later...and whether I was or wasn't, the weather was still bad. The rain had stopped by quarter after 10, but it remained cloudy, cool, and windy. I called Uber. The one going there came in 9 minutes. The one going home arrived in 6. No trouble getting there either way. I arrived just in time.
Started out sweeping and pushing carts. The head bagger was in the register the entire day. Moved to doing the carts after the afternoon bagger arrived and took over the sweeping and the trash. No trouble whatsoever. When the carts started vanishing, the afternoon bagger would come out and help.
Unfortunately, Jessa canceled. She said we could meet on Monday. I still needed a few things anyway. Grabbed a card and gift card for Rose's birthday on Monday, more Spenddrift soda on sale, and the new PB&J Reeces Cup to try.
Changed when I got home, then watched Here Comes Peter Cottontail. I went further into the first Rankin-Bass Easter special at my musical review blog in April 2019.
Finished the night at YouTube for today's Match Game marathon. Comedienne Marcia Wallace was playing Bob Newhart's super-efficient secretary Carol on The Bob Newhart Show when she first appeared on Match Game early in 1974. She appeared relatively often during 1974 and 1975, then disappeared until 1977 (thanks to trouble with Goodson and Todman). She appeared more frequently during the syndicated run, when she was often seated next to her Bob Newhart co-star Bill Daily.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that Marcia and Brett became best friends, given they shared the same salty sense of humor. Marcia could occasionally get a little too salty. Her answer to a question on where a guy lost a few inches on a 1977 PM episode was censored. There was also the time that year when she accidentally got marker on her bare shoulders, which Richard and Gene used to play tic tac toe. She had more luck back in 1975 when, after a year, she finally got her first right answer and a standing ovation.
Marcia probably did some of her best work during the syndicated run. She was one of the three comediennes who replaced Brett when she was in St. Louis during that week that just ran on Buzzr a few days ago and even finally got to sit in Brett's character actress seat. She was also present for the insane answers to the Audience Match question "Denise __" and had to listen to a woman give a long, rambling, and rather gross description of the worms she kept in the refrigerator to feed her daughter's frogs.
You can learn a lot from Bob Newhart's favorite secretary and Bart Simpson's favorite teacher in this wild marathon!
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