Dear Crabby,
How many boxes of tissues will it take to get through this final episode of The Baby Borrowers?
-Couch Ass Groove
Dear Couch,
A lot, but if you tell anyone I admitted to that, I will cut you!
-Crabby
Well kids, we've come to the end of this season of The Baby Borrowers, except, of course, for the "town hall meeting" set for next week. Just like Bush administration, but with less lying! What a ride it has been. We've seen the teens with icky babies, urinating toddlers, evil pre-teens, douchey teens, and now they face the worst enemy of all, social security-sucking elderly! Take it while you can, folks, while the rest of us save for our futures with credit card debt! Wee!
Day 16, and the teens are preparing for their final experiment: The Elderly. Dun-dun-dunnn!
Watch out, kids, Soylent Green is people!
You know, this was actually a pretty emotional episode of Baby Borrowers and I wasn't sure how I was going to make fun of such sentimental retirees. I may have found my groove by focusing on resentment. YAY! Let's see how the teens handle it (please let there be someone on oxygen, please let there be someone on oxygen!). Also in this episode? The teens reflect on their time here and we get to see who is still dating (***SPOILER ALERT*** Everyone's currently available and some of the guys may have Ethan Hawked the nannies! I have no proof, but rumor is good enough).
We open with Jordan asking Sasha what she is going to look like in 67 years. She says, "Still cute," but I can assure you those boobs will be at her knees, which is so not cute. And here come the elderly, not quite as fast as the toddlers, but luckily no one is on a leash! One guy is riding a bike, a couple are using walkers, and one IS ON OXYGEN! This is awesome! Hope none of the teens smoke, because these few days will be hell (or explosive).
I can take Asshat with one hand tied behind my back!
Can someone help me up now?
Gene, age 77, says he thinks living life as a couple in fast forward is a great idea. Secretly he's thinking "SUCKERS." He is being "looked after" by Kelly and Asshat, but let me assure you Gene is a combo of Jack Palance and Jimmy Stewart, and can bench both of those kids. The looking after will be done by Gene. He's also a war veteran, so perhaps he can help Asshat understand that the "War of Northern Aggression" as it's known in all the southern history books (aka "The Civil War") is OVER and he might consider joining us in 2008.
Asshat's grandfather and not-so-distant cousins.
Asshat says when Gene showed up with sweat pants and looking all fit, he was going to be an "energetic old man," which sort of doesn't work, does it? It's sort of surprising the way these teens are all like "these old people." Come on, 70 is the new 30, right? Brats!
Gene asks them how long they've been together and tells them they are a good looking couple. He should have seen them the other night when she was PMSing into Hell and he looked like he'd been on a bender for about a week. Not so pretty then, Gene. It's also awkward for them since they are sort of separated and clearly don't want to discuss with Grandpa Gene. He might kick their asses! At the gym! Where he plans to be early the next morning!
Les, an 89 year old widower is staying with hard core Cory and Alicea. He joined the experiment because he thought it would be interesting and fun. In an awkward introduction, Alicea is wearing a "Free Hugs" t-shirt which is sooo friendly, except she's leaning way away from Les. Nice body language, Alicea. He's not a baby! Unless...Maybe Hugs is a person wrongly imprisoned, and "Free Hugs" is like "Free Mandela." You kids and your heroes these days. Awkward silence. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Man, these kids need to take an interpersonal communications class.
Morgan is watching over 86 year old Hedy who suffered a stroke 3 years ago. She has trouble using her hands and she's in a wheel chair. Man, that would stink not to be able to use your hands. How will she smack Morgan? She tells Morgan she's had three husbands. Morgan says she's had one boyfriend, and "that was enough." Honey, he wasn't grown up to be "enough."
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Comments (7)
Okay, I'm kind of sorry I didn't at least tune in for this episode. I whined last week about "how much fun can old people be??" but truly, this was probably the most valuable thing they could have done. I have tremendous respect for the older generation, and hearing about marriages that lasted for most of their lives is so touching. I hope the teens got a lot of out of their time with these folks.
In closing - Crabby, you rock. I've become a fan. :-)
1 of 7 | Posted by mandymax | Posted on August 4, 2008 5:49 AM
I enjoyed this episode much more than I thought I would, but I wasn't a crying wussie about it and you can't prove that I was!
I felt super bad when Kelly was talking about her Dad having ALS. That has got to suck, but then she ruined any sympathy I felt for her by saying something to the effect that she was happy to have Gene around because he was a man she could look up to and believe in unlike her FATHER. Won’t that have been pleasant for him to hear during the neighborhood watching party? What a self-absorbed little cretin she is and I don't care if she did try to make nice with the appreciation talk to her parents at the end.
I wasn't surprised to learn that all the kids had broken up - afterall, I've been a teen myself, BUT I was a little upset about Sasha and Jordan. They really seemed to have a strong relationship and good communication skills. Plus I was psyched for them both going into highly paid careers.
2 of 7 | Posted by Splotchie | Posted on August 4, 2008 9:17 AM
My comments would pretty much match those of Splotchie.
Plus, on a positive note, a lot of kids got very educated about reality (and children). My girl and I think it woud be great if something like this could be incorporated into high school.
3 of 7 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on August 4, 2008 11:54 AM
Kelly's Dad has already passed away. The show was taped in the summer of '07 according to Richard McKerrow, the creator of the show.
4 of 7 | Posted by bentley1101 | Posted on August 4, 2008 6:08 PM
OK, so I was reading in another forum how people think this show was akin to child abuse. I think that's over-exaggerating a bit. Tonight's "town meeting" should be interesting.
5 of 7 | Posted by wintersux | Posted on August 6, 2008 10:35 AM
"Morgan, if your vocabulary didn't involve the words "F*$# Sallie Mae," mortgage, taxes, FICO, "because I said so, that's why," and "what do you mean I've been laid off?" you haven't experienced a whole lifetime, so shut it."
Best. Line. Ever!
6 of 7 | Posted by MorbidCuriosity | Posted on August 6, 2008 12:15 PM
Yeah, I figured out during the Town Hall meeting that Kelly's Dad had passed away before the show aired so at least he didn't have to hear his darling girl talk about him that way which is good. I'm not too sure I bought her explanation for her behavior though. I'm not saying his disease wouldn't have effected her, but it seems a bit pat and Austin didn't really seem to be completely on board with the explanation either. I think the truth is that she's just normally a selfish bitch and his illness made her uberbitch.
Otherwise I didn't get much from the TH episode. The dr. in the audience was pretty much full of shit but otherwise nothing particularly interesting was learned.
Oh and Crabby, quick ?. "and some of the guys may have Ethan Hawked the nannies! I have no proof, but rumor is good enough)." Is this really a rumor or just a funny you made up? If real rumor, deets pleeeaassse.
7 of 7 | Posted by Splotchie | Posted on August 7, 2008 2:07 PM