Pound Pup Legacy

That's right.

I expect to link a movie starring Chevy Chase and Ted Knight, with Bill Murray , (who was trying to kill a dancing gopher with plastic explosives), to The Adoption Industry?

Naturally.

It's what I do.

<sheepish grin>

After all, wasn't this a teen-spoof movie... and wasn't one of the "big baby-drama-mama-moments" when the Irish chick thought she was pregnant with the caddy-boy?

Ahhhh... to be young, and full of questions, and not prepared for life's little surprises.

Movies, especially in America, tend to have a PROFOUND effect on our simple-minds, don't they? Or, could that be the perverse flushing and flooding of information and  advertising our brains are washed each day with pictures and statements and stories that tell us what we want to hear, think and say? 

Take the Classic Cinderella Story, for example.

The poor little orphan girl, who wasn't.  [She still had her daddy, after all.]  We enter a life-story not knowing anything about this Other Woman in dear-daddy's life.  She has two daughter's of her own, and seems to take good care of them.  But... what happened to her husband?  What is her history?  Who's house is that, anyway?  And where is dear-daddy when all of Cinderella's misfortune is taking place, anyway?

All this, and the story hasn't even begun!

Oh my!

So why mention the mice in her bedroom, or the sneaking out to the forbidden party, and coming back with missing pieces of clothing.

The story ends happily.  Cinderella got married!  YAY!!!!  We saw her go-off with the guy she met at the party!  Hooray!!!  [Did she get to keep her dog?]

Then what?  We get to see the list of credits and the marketing for more merchandise.  Oh, we also get to live happily ever after knowing damn well there will be a sequel coming because anything THAT popular must be worth repeating over and over again.  [Who knows, one day it could make some people very rich and famous.]