Episode #1233

[Mysterious Benefactor]

 

Fill in the blank: "Bramwell - "I'm sorry - but I'm afraid we're not interested in buying any ________ today."

[MagnusTrask]

vegemite
Brutus Collins collectors' plates
pinatas filled with borsht
whoopee cushions
time-share cemetary plots
Placenta Helper

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Brutus Collins collectors' plates

 

time-share cemetary plots

 

[Uncle Roger]

Of your idiotic notions about me, Catherine and the lottery vase

[Mysterious Benefactor]

   Good one!! 

 

[Uncle Roger]

Paranoid much, Morgan?

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(  Morgan could easily be the poster boy for paranoia!!  )

[Uncle Roger]

It does make you wonder what kind of parents Flora and Justin actually were. Melanie is relatively normal when she's not possessed by Amanda but the three sons are something else entirely. Quentin served time in prison for manslaughter and Gabriel and Morgan are equally (but differently neurotic). Of course, a true Collins would have blamed any and all misbehavior on the curse. 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

It does make you wonder what kind of parents Flora and Justin actually were.

(Parenting rarely comes across well on DS. One might think, given their own upbringings, when Collins children grow up and have their own children, they would want to bring them up differently from the ways in which they were brought up - but apparently not.    But then, the show would be awfully dull if they did, so there's that.  )

Of course, a true Collins would have blamed any and all misbehavior on the curse. 

(Exactly!!  )

[Uncle Roger]

Maybe Vicki should consider herself lucky that she didn't grow up with her parents.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

(  You might be on to something there!!  )

[Uncle Roger]

I wonder if  Vicki would ever have felt that way.

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(  I suppose it all depends who it was that she found out were her parents. If, say, Jason McGuire turned out to be her father, I strongly suspect she'd have been more than happy not to have had him in her life!!  )

[Uncle Roger]

I only heard about this second hand but apparently there was a skit done at a Dracula festival in the late 1990's which put forth the idea that Vicki's mother was indeed Elizabeth and that her father was Count Dracula. Can't you just picture Joan Bennett arching her famous eyebrows to new heights at that idea? And, unlike the skits done at the festivals, this was meant to  be taken seriously.

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(  Okaaaay!!  )