Look, I know it’s been a tough week nationally. I know that you suddenly find rich people and their greedy outlandish behavior abhorrent, and that you want to find the CEO of Lehman Brothers and string him up outside of your local church and watch him perish in agony.
At a time like this, I think we need to turn to the immortal words of Wynona Ryder (pre-arrest) as Lelaina Pierce from the 1994 classic, Reality Bites. In this clasic scene, Janeane Garofalo’s Vickie Miner shares with Lalaina her concern that she is HIV positive.
Vickie: You don't understand, every day, all day, it's all that I think about, okay? Every time I sneeze, it's like I'm four sneezes away from the hospice. And it's like it's not even happening to me, it's like I'm watching it on some crappy show like Melrose Place or some shit right, and I'm the new character, I'm the HIV AIDS character and I live in the building and I teach everybody that "It's okay to be near me, it's okay to talk to me." And then I die. And there's everybody at my funeral wearing halter tops or chokers or some shit like that.
Lelaina: Vickie stop, okay? Just stop. You're freaking out. And you know what? You're gonna have to deal with the results, whatever they are, we're gonna have to deal with them just like we've dealt with everything else.
Vickie: This isn't like everything else.
Lelaina: I know that, alright? But it's gonna be okay, you know? I know it's gonna be okay. Melrose Place is a really good show.
So in that spirit, I assure you that there is a reason why the word "guilty" is part of the phrase "guilty pleasure", furthermore teen soaps are exactly where we need to see rich people cavorting in excess. It’s having them do it in real life that causes all of our problems.
It’s gonna be okay! Gossip Girl is a really good show!
Dan and Jenny Want to be Artists
Poor Rufus, he’s knocking himself out to put his kids through private school so they can get into college and become the vapid, rich dolts that he never had the chance to be and what does he get for his efforts? Two kids who would rather be artists and are using his failed rock and roll career against him as leverage. The truly sad thing is that Rufus spent this entire episode chasing Jenny around, while Dan wound up in jail about to be raped by the two gayest looking dudes the shows casting agents could find.
Look Rufus, Jenny is talented – you need to be concentrating on Dan, because, well … he isn’t.
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