Hurried off to work soon as the cartoon ended. Boy, do I wish I hadn't. Work was pure hell. I'd no sooner try to sweep then I'd have to put cold items someone didn't want away or help a customer outside or retrieve an electric cart for them or clean a spill. It's the first Tuesday of the month and Senior Discount Day, and it was nothing short of a pain in the rear end. I couldn't get out of there fast enough after I changed into regular clothes in the bathroom.
After how bad work went, I needed a nice, relaxing lunch at Common Grounds Coffee House. Had an iced lemon muffin and a slice of pepper-asparagus-cheddar quiche for lunch. Washed it down with a nice, cold chai latte. They were busy, but not outrageously so for 1:30. I got to spend a quiet meal in silence, looking over my phone.
Had a lot more fun with the kids. They were in the midst of arts and crafts when I arrived. Their head teacher had them coloring lines across outlines of hands to make them look three-dimensional. I loved how colorful the kids got with their artworks! Some went for rainbow effects. Others chose contrasting colors. One boy just alternated red and green lines. All of it looked terrific and achieved the dimensional effect their teacher asked for.
We had our snacks next, then went into free play time. I spent the whole hour and a half drawing with the girls. They asked me how to spell names of fruit and drew orchards and flowers. I drew scenes from Remember WENN first, starting with Maple teaching the ladies how to bump and grind from "Follies of WENN." (I wasn't going to explain burlesque to the kids, though, so I told them Maple was teaching the ladies to dance for a variety show.) The other side was Scott, Victor, Betty, and Maple in "From the Pen of Gertrude Reece." I also did Eagle Victor trying to get an upset Bear Scott to read the codes while Betty comforted him in Hilary and the Beasts and Maple in her tower while Prince Victor prepared to rescue her in Maplepunzel.
I considered stopping for National Night Out on West Clinton after I got out of school, but they were just starting to inflate the bounce houses. I'd had a long day and didn't really feel like waiting for everything to get started. I just ended up going home.
Put on Remember WENN when I got in. Betty's longing to put on a far richer and more elaborate story than her usual 15-minute soap operas in "And If I Die Before I Sleep." Victor finally puts on her enormous blending of Shakespeare's Italian-set plays to break a record held by a Philly station for the longest continuous performance on the radio. The reporter (John Ratzenberger) and nurse (Naomi Brumpton) are supposed to keep them from sleeping too long...but as Victor, Mr. Eldridge, Gertie, Scott, and a sick Maple discover, they're really drugging the cast to keep them from completing the play.
(And for all the problems with the 4th season, this episode makes up for a lot. This is my single favorite episode of the entire series. Some of the shenanigans they get up to here are downright incredible, including Betty's incoherent lines.)
Hilary's fed up with her agent Brian Wilburforce (Heath Lamberts) not landing her good parts on the stage. After she fires him, she becomes her own agent in order to snag one of the title roles of the Antony and Cleopatra put on by big Broadway producer Rex Noble (Daniel Benzali). "Hilary's Agent" is nothing but a pain to Betty and the others, until Gertie and Eugenia finally get Hilary to admit something like the truth...at least, as much as she ever will. After all, as Eugenia points out, Hilary does make a lovely couple.
Worked on Hilary and the Beasts while the show was on. Hilary calls C.J to wish him a happy Halloween and see how The Rivals is coming without her. It's...coming. Pavla's not a bad actress, but she has all the warmth of a cobra. The FBI is still circling around her, too. They were promised evidence against her...evidence that has not surfaced. She maintains that Jeff and the others are in Europe, but hasn't produced him or any of them yet.
Hilary goes on the balcony to process everything C.J told her...and sees a winged silhouette illuminated by the golden harvest moon. Eagle is giving Maple their promised Halloween evening flight. She watches him make loops and lazy circles in the sky before Maple moves around front to nibble and stroke him and Hilary decides to give them privacy.
Switched to Wild On the Beach during dinner. I went further into this B-movie Beach Party imitation from 20th Century Fox at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Finished the night with Charlie's Angels. Former jewel thief Freddie the Fox (Dan O'Herilhey) is accused of stealing a priceless gem. Far from it. He wants to return it to a museum, with the help of the Angels, and prove he's a "Diamond In the Rough." They pose as his shallow wife, his masseuse, and his secretary to steal the jewel back from its current owner (Rene Enriquez). Trouble is, not only does he have his own entourage and heavily guarded home, Kris ends up falling for his son.
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