Sunday, March 24, 2013

Addicted to Booker

Over the past month or so I've shifted away from my personal saga and into more news and information.  After being off work for more than three months with no income, I'm working like crazy during pretty much every waking hour and have barely had time to unearth Richard Grieco movies from the 90s under the pretense of reviewing them and that sort of thing.

But I'm apparently not entirely cured.  No, I don't mean of the illness that kept me off work all that time.

The other day I was working in the living room and my daughter turned toward me from the television and said, "Mom!" as if she'd just found out that I'd stolen her babysitting money or discovered porn under my mattress.

I said, "What?" quite innocently, but I knew what had scandalized her:  she'd found a Booker disc in the DVD player. 

Worse, I responded like she'd actually caught me at something.  I had an excuse for watching Booker!  It was more or less true, but still...why was I explaining myself? I'm 46 years old!  I can watch a DVD of an old television show if I want to!  Hell, I can watch Sexual Predator again if I want to.  If, you know, she's not home.

Sorry, got distracted for a minute there.
My 100% legitimate reason for rewatching Booker (besides that whole "Richard Grieco was really hot in the 80s" thing) is that I was looking for the episode in which he  tries to disabuse his colleagues of the tough-guy rumors and wraps up with "and I like cats."

So help me out.  If you know which episode that was and can fill me in, I won't have to rewatch the whole series...which means that my daughter won't feel like she needs to find me a 12 step program

2 comments:

  1. I wish I could help you I haven't seen 'em all yet! I want the DVD series but the thing is I heard the disks from the US doesn't have all of the original music (like the Billy Idol theme) but the Australian version does. The thing is the Australian release is like 60 bucks on eBay so eek. ( I'm worse off than you. I might actually buy it).

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  2. That's true-they've replaced the theme song with a very annoying and repetitive intro and there's a whole episode missing because it was apparently music-dependent. Be careful with Australian releases, though--they have (or at least had at one time) a different format for DVDs and they may not play on your DVD player.

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