One Day a Time

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There's another one of those shows where when you're watching it you wonder why the hell you're doing so. Valerie Bertinelli (Barbara) being in it was the only solid reason for doing so.

That is until McKenzie Phillips (the ugly sister Julie)explained to us that during those years she was having a consensual sexual relationship with her freaking father!

Are you kidding me? Bad enough the dude shot her up with heroin, but he was doing her to boot? How do you recover from that?

There was also info on Mick Jagger getting her when she was just a kid, but Mick got everyone didn't he? I remember reading about one of his divorces - Jerry Hall - I think and she said that Mick was a fine enough fellow, but that she couldn't trust him around anything that was breathing. She finally had enough when he did one of her best friends while she was asleep in another part of the house. Satisfaction indeed.

Yet One Day at a Time was a groundbreaking sitcom because it was one of the first shows to incorporate divorce into the mainstream entertainment. Well, look at us now. Every single sitcom on television has some sort of dysfunction as the focal point.

Everyone is either divorced or gay, or divorced and gay, and the men are usually portrayed as absolute buffoons with beautiful wives who put up with them because at heart they are good guys.

I was going to say that it hardly mirrored real life, but one look at my wife and I together tells you that sometimes the good-looking chick falls for the flawed buffoon.

Seriously though does every situation comedy have to be about stereotypical men trying hard not to be caught by an all-knowing wife?

I guess it's the game we play, right?

Better then sleeping with your freaking daughter.

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