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Many of my favorite jokes in TV and movies are the ones aimed at a very small segment of the audience or maybe not at the audience at all and meant just for the writers. (It's a big part of why Rocky and Bullwinkle is still funny decades later.)
First, a confession. Remember a while back when somebody asked about guilty pleasures? Well, one that I have to sheepishly admit to is that my wife and I are addicted to those silly Hallmark movies. Yeah, they're corny. Yeah, there's dozens of them but there are only four plots. Yeah, they're littered with repeating tropes and populated by the same actors shuffled like a deck of cards. But they're fun.
Maybe half the fun is seeing what differences the writers manage to create while telling the same story for the fiftieth time.
Caught one the other night that had all the usual elements. "The girl" leads an unfulfilling life in the big city wondering if she'll ever find true love. She travels to a small, rural town where life is slower paced, everybody knows everybody and everybody's friendly and cheerful. In this idyllic setting she meets "the guy" and they fall in love.
In the second to last scene she sees something that makes her think "the guy" was just playing her and didn't really have feeling for her. She runs off in tears. When he finds out she ran away he chases after her. But he's too late. He gets to the quaint little small town train station just in time to see the train she's on roll out toward the big city.
And the name of the village on the sign on this quaint small town train station: WILLOUGHBY
First, a confession. Remember a while back when somebody asked about guilty pleasures? Well, one that I have to sheepishly admit to is that my wife and I are addicted to those silly Hallmark movies. Yeah, they're corny. Yeah, there's dozens of them but there are only four plots. Yeah, they're littered with repeating tropes and populated by the same actors shuffled like a deck of cards. But they're fun.
Maybe half the fun is seeing what differences the writers manage to create while telling the same story for the fiftieth time.
Caught one the other night that had all the usual elements. "The girl" leads an unfulfilling life in the big city wondering if she'll ever find true love. She travels to a small, rural town where life is slower paced, everybody knows everybody and everybody's friendly and cheerful. In this idyllic setting she meets "the guy" and they fall in love.
In the second to last scene she sees something that makes her think "the guy" was just playing her and didn't really have feeling for her. She runs off in tears. When he finds out she ran away he chases after her. But he's too late. He gets to the quaint little small town train station just in time to see the train she's on roll out toward the big city.
And the name of the village on the sign on this quaint small town train station: WILLOUGHBY