we're gonna need a bigger boat

"Don't tell me, let me guess! You watched "Jaws" last night?"

 

I did! It was on TV for it's 50th Anniversary, so I tuned in for the last half. I just love the interplay between Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, and Roy Scheider. Real sailor talk going on right there, with men just being men around other men! Fabulous!

 

"So your post title is paying homage to the line uttered when they first encounter the shark in the open sea?"

 

Kinda sorta. I actually heard those very words just a few minutes ago.

 

"Do tell."

 

I've been catching up on this season's "Poker Face". I just finished s2e6, "Sloppy Joseph", set in an elementary prep school. Think future "Heathers" and "Mean Girls" in the making for the lead character, 'Stephanie'. 'Charlie Cale' lands a job as a lunch lady there.

 

"Excuse me? How did she manage to do that? She would have had to get a background check and get special training to be around kids. How did she navigate that red tape with her history of being a wanderer?"

 

She was there temporarily, based on the condition that her background check pan out.

 

"Yeah, yeah, artistic license and all that."

 

Anyway, this episode had a talent show in it, one that 'Stephanie' wanted desperately to win, as the prize was 40 gold stars. She was an absolute fool for those stars, it was like an addiction. She knew, though, that 'Elijah' was most likely to win, as his magic trick far bested anything else. 

 

"Ah, I get it now. You love magic!"

 

I do, and this little boy was very talented. He had taught Joseph the Gerbil - love the alliteration! - to "stay in the boat", an area in his collapsible purple-cloth ball. The "boat" was right over as escape door that the boy would open before striking the ball with a giant mallet. Can you guess what 'Stephanie' did?

 

"Oh, no! She sabotaged the trick, didn't she? She got that poor little creature killed, didn't she? What an evil little girl..."

 

Yep, she did all that, but it was 'Elijah' that got blamed for making sloppy joes out of Joseph. That boy was so chagrined!!! He had loved that particular little animal. He kept saying "Stay in the boat! Stay in the boat!", even after he got home and his dad was trying to calm him down. 'Charlie' came by the dad's house and overheard that phrase, but it didn't make sense to her until she was given the task of feeding the remaining hamsters. The class kept them in a cage decorated as Noah's Ark. Click!!! Her brain put the puzzle pieces together. That's when she spoke the line to the teacher, as they came up with a plan to trap 'Stephanie' into confessing to the crime.

 

"Good for them! That sounds like a pretty good episode. I'll have to maybe watch it sometime."

 

(smile!) Yeah, you do that! Hahahaha! I need to get ready for Saturday night with Sandy and her girls! We're going to Oak 36 this time and there's supposed to be live music. I wonder if they have a dance floor?