Courtney's Too Much Time too Think About TV and Stuff

Today we start with the youth not knowing who or what Punky Brewster is like, no comprehension whatsoever. It is technically too old for 26 year olds in 2015 but it ran in syndication for their entire childhood so it would probably still just be part of their consciousness even if they hadn’t really watched it. So they would have thought it an odd reference rather than just complete dead non understanding stares that we got. For context Sutton Foster was describing the pig tails she had as a young teenager as being like Punky Brewster's, the quick cover was to say she looked like a funky rooster and that was accepted. Oh you’re just high, it’s okay. Cool. Great writing. Then we discover that Sutton Foster doesn’t know how to play video games and again we, as 26 year olds are shake, family. There is some sexy teaching which to me is just awkward because all (some?) of Young Hot Guy’s friends are there. Sutton Foster realises that she doesn’t really like being 26 that much becaus...

Just when we all thought I was never ever going to do this again I thought why not. Watching this shit is probably better than rechecking the news and Facebook and hoping for something new to be there. Today’s episode is Broke and Pantyless. I feel like any pretence of feminism that this show had has just just been quite firmly thrown out the window. Also is that how we spell ‘pantyless’? Or would it be ‘pantiless’? A question for the ages.  In this episode Sutton Foster must hide her daughter’s existence from everyone. The daughter who is somewhere else at college, I think needs money because her father, some boring stupid pointless man who is only there to make it harder for Sutton Foster to pretend to be 26 hasn’t paid his half of the daughter’s school fees.  I don’t know if it’s meant to indicate his youth or hipsterness or what but we learn that #YoungHotGuy is in a band and he plays the Washboard and that’s hot.  Sutton Foster has to hide the existence of her daught...