Even after the cheesy little VHS cam has been packed away, Brenda Harpy continues on about what a jerk MyDadJohnDarling was. Oh, but he was a doting father…no, never mind.
Behold…the Living Planet!
Ego the Living Planet is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe. The character first appeared in Thor #132 (Sept. 1966) and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.
Oh, you didn’t know that? I sure as hell didn’t! But the ol’ Harpy throws in a reference to an obscure (to most folks) Marvel supervillain and Blondie isn’t even fazed. I guess the gals do love the comic books just as much as the guys do!
Oh Harpy Day
A quick Google search turns up the following: “Brenda Harpy – “a reporter with a heart of gold…cold and hard.” these days Brenda’s given up the news game to go into “promotion and consulting,” positions which I guess don’t require a whole lotta tact.
Daycarelessness
I so love how Jessica’s gone from zero to sixty on her “documentary” project…Shrimp Sauce can only stand there looking pathetic, cradling their infant son. “So are we going to get daycare…?” As if they could even afford daycare. What’s even more professional than enlisting an unpaid college intern as your production assistant? Why, schlepping along your months-old baby as your “sound man.” WAAAAAA!!
So What If It Never Happens?
So seemingly out of the blue, documentarianne Jessica informs her husband that she’s getting back to work on her long-delayed project about her dad you-know-who…as she packs up her camera and heads out the door. Darin asks her a perfectly legitimate, if clumsily phrased, question: do you really want to do this? And it turns out that she does not, since it requires her to revisit a difficult time in her life (which, having been a baby at the time, she couldn’t possibly remember).
Son of Stuck Funky 