Rob Petrie: Laura, there is no reason for your behavior!
Laura Petrie: There is every reason for my behavior - I'm angry!
Rob Petrie: Angry, yes, because I wouldn't behave like a puppet! Because I felt a responsibility to my employer!
Laura Petrie: For heaven's sake, Rob, that's not why I'm angry. I realize you have to do what you think is right. I wouldn't respect you if you let yourself get pushed around by anyone, including me.
Rob Petrie: Well, what are you angry with me for?
Laura Petrie: I'm not angry with you. I'm angry with me for being angry with you.
Rob Petrie: Well, is there anything I can do to patch up this little quarrel you're having among yourself so I can get out of the doghouse?
Laura Petrie: Did you ever think of trying a kiss?
(Rob leans over to kiss her on the neck)
Laura Petrie: Not on the neck.
(Rob kisses her lightly on the cheek)
Laura Petrie: That's better.
(Rob kisses her lightly on the lips)
Laura Petrie: Almost.
(smiles)
Laura Petrie: (they embrace and kiss deeply) Oh, yes.
(they resume their kiss)
(The Dick Van Dyke Show)
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That reminds me of a really good joke. The one about the unknown comedian who is discovered by Bob Hope.
Here's the first five parts of the erotic arc that set some boys up, rendering them vulnerable to prowling predatory cougars:
Annette Funicello
Angie Dickinson
Laura Petrie
Tina Turner
Jeannie
Oh Jeanie! Good thinking dude. Need a Jeanie post.
Remember? She had those see-thru-y pants that caused you to think - If I just watch long enough and close enough, I'll get to see EVERYthing.
Well, not to come off as gay (yet again), but Barbara Eden's best feature was probably her eyes.
You are so right, Blake - her eyes had it. Is that gay? I'd say it reflects a far more informed sense of beauty than does my regression to when I was a 16 year-old horn dog. Once again, sir, I salute you.
There is a recurring cougar theme here that I've noted.
Nice that you guys noticed Jeannie's eyes!
Do we need another spray of perfume on this blog? Just trying to be helpful! :)
The interesting thing about cinematic beauty is that it's timeless. So when you first saw Barbara Eden your attraction bordered on the illegal, and then later, became more of a cougar thing, then you were about the same age....
And finally you end up a dirty old man. You've gotten older and she's still right around 30.
Tragic, I tell you. I swear, when I fell in love with Rita Hayworth, she was 28 and I was 14. Can I help it if she's still 28???
I actually wrote briefly about Barbara Eden when I was praising her (former) husband Michael Ansara.
I still can't look at that picture without getting choked up.
Michael Ansara was great when he played an Indian or a Klingon which was pretty much the same role back in the sixties.
I loved him in Broken Arrow. Why don't they make shows like that instead of mama boys shows with men dating their dates mothers and crap like that.
Man, if only I could keep up with you guys, I could probably learn a few things... like that Cochise was married to Jeannie. So I did some independent research to learn that he was also married to Patty Duke's mother. This blew my mind which led me to having to sit down, catch my breath, and think think think about what it all could mean.
Meanwhile you guys have already moved on to the next topic - Darcy's lineage and her serial marriages to Byron Borg and some Lithuanian guy from Brooklyn and I'm still trying to catch my breath.
I think I'll just give up and go back to working on a sure thing -- getting Althouse to pity marry me.
Oh! You so need to have Troop be the Best Man!
Brilliant as always, Blake.
Of course, I would be settling. Not that Althouse wouldn't make a great wife and lover. She would. But we all want what we can't have. Isn't that the truism? And for me that goddess among goddesses will always be the one, the only, the heartbreakingly unattainable--the already-happily married Ruth Anne.
Reach for the stars, man.
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