Airdate:
12/23/76
Esther’s
position as the sole church organist is in jeopardy; it seems Rev. Fordwick
wants Zelda Maynard to alternate playing services with her. No one wants to
break the news, and no wonder – when Esther does finally find out, she hits the
ceiling. Only the reasonable, pallative words of her son convince her that
sharing is a Christian virtue.
Also – Olivia is
having another midlife crisis (she
thinks it’s menopause, but it’s not). With odd mood swings and feelings of
insignificance, she lets her hair down, literally, and gets Corabeth to give
her a perm. You guessed it: it’s a mess, making her look like a cross between
Medusa and Shirley Temple. Everyone laughs, but Verdie Foster lends her a
turban, and John suggests they go off together for the night – in a motel room!
Featherweight
episode is yet another installment of Olivia’s unsatisfied housewife
chronicles. This time she resorts to a tried-and-true TV trope: the bad hair
job – and let the laughs begin. Other plot is another recurrent theme here:
Grandma’s stubbornness, only this time, she actually threatens to become a
Methodist!
Most politically
incorrect scene: Olivia, with the mucked-up coif, asks African-Amercan Verdie
Foster how “you people” straighten your hair.
Grandma’s last
episode of the season.
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