"Eddie Bernard" <spambox@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > I also think there is also an issue with comic convenience which I
> > would keep separate; some continuity has to be trashed. When Dewey
> > sells all the house contents at the garage sale to get back at Reese
> > for selling his piggy bank, things like the TV, sofa, stereo and
> > microwave mysteriously find their way back by the start of the next
> > episode. When Lois sells gives all of Malcolm, Dewey and Reese's
> > possesions to charity, magically they have them back by the next
> > episode. If you add up the punishments, the kids seem to spend around
> > fifteen months a year grounded. Clearly on some elements of the show
> > they retain the magic reset button that gives them a clean slate every
> > week.
>
> Well, yes. That type of thing is to be expected really from a sitcom.
Sure
> it's stupid, but it's often vital for the humor. It sometimes is
annoying
> when they defy the laws of physics or nature, but hey it's only TV.
That's
> why we love it.
One thing that was said by Boomer and various reviewers of MITM is that it
is "exaggerated". When watching, do we really believe that things happen
in
the hypothetical Wilkerson house to the degree that they do? Probably
not.
They don't burden themselves with operating on a real time continuum -
they
just take you in each week and show you how off the charts they can make
the
characters. IOW, looking at it over time it seems impossible to sustain
-
but in each episode where something gets broken, the kids get grounded,
they
go into debt, they yell at each other, etc., they take the individual part
and run with it.
> > ... Reese breaks his leg on the minibike, magically heals the next
> > week... Reese and Malcolm in plaster, body casts and neck braces after
> > their karting confrontation again magically heal by the next week... A
> > magic reset button would be so cool in real life!
>
> It sure would !
Another thing I remember hearing when MITM first started was that it was
the
:live action version of the Simpsons". That is, it's a cartoon performed
on
a set with real actors. Take the animation constraint out and that's what
you have with MITM - a live action cartoon where anything is possible.
Just like Wile E. Coyote can blow himself up with TNT time after time and
bounce back like nothing happened...
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