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Six Feet Under episode
Any Six Feet Under fans here? This is a TV series on a cable station. I
don't get that station, so I've never seen it, but a friend of mine just got a DVD with the entire first season - 12 episodes - so we've been watching them 3 at a time. For those who don't know the show, it's about a family who owns a mortuary. Every episode starts out with a person who dies, who is then featured, along with the family, friends, etc, in the episode. One of them starts with a woman taking a bath. She's having a conversation with her cat, who jumps up on a vanity table next to the tub, and then knocks something electrical into the tub, electrocuting her. (They never show the gory details - in this one, you just see her feet shaking.) Anyway, I braced myself for a sad moment where the cat starts crying for his dead human, but instead, when the camera cuts back to the cat, he's sitting there washing himself. This show is full of these kinds of dark little jokes. Joyce |
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I've also only seen the DVDs of the first season and loved them all! I wish
they were more up-to-date with the DVDs. I understand the 3rd season already ended (?) but they haven't released the DVDs for the 2nd season yet. At first I really disliked the David character (can't stand self-hating people, whether gay or straight), but he's grown on me. At least he seems to be trying. -- Victor M. Martinez http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv |
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them starts with a woman taking a bath. She's having a conversation with
her cat, who jumps up on a vanity table next to the tub, and then knocks something electrical into the tub, electrocuting her. (They never show the gory details - in this one, you just see her feet shaking.) Anyway, I braced myself for a sad moment where the cat starts crying for his dead human, but instead, when the camera cuts back to the cat, he's sitting there washing himself. Yes, I remember that episode. I thought it was funny, too. I love the subtle, but oh so black, humour in that show. Why is it funny that the cat was licking itself? Really, I'm not being difficult. Thanks The humor, at least for me, comes from the cat being totally unaffected by the momentous event that he has just caused. |
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"Fat Freddy" wrote in message ... them starts with a woman taking a bath. She's having a conversation with her cat, who jumps up on a vanity table next to the tub, and then knocks something electrical into the tub, electrocuting her. (They never show the gory details - in this one, you just see her feet shaking.) Anyway, I braced myself for a sad moment where the cat starts crying for his dead human, but instead, when the camera cuts back to the cat, he's sitting there washing himself. Yes, I remember that episode. I thought it was funny, too. I love the subtle, but oh so black, humour in that show. Why is it funny that the cat was licking itself? Really, I'm not being difficult. Thanks The humor, at least for me, comes from the cat being totally unaffected by the momentous event that he has just caused. But that makes cats look so unconnected to their human friends. I thought maybe the cat taking a bath of his own was the joke. Thanks for responding. : -) |
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*That's* the joke - that cats couldn't care less about their humans,
that they're aloof, uninvolved, etc. If I died sitting in my favorite spot on the sofa, I doubt that my cats would notice until my lap got cold or their food bowls got empty. |
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Not so quick wrote:
I don't like the joke, then. But you reminded me of a video I saw of a lion once. He was being approached by some people. I guess he was in some sort of large park. He looked at them very intently and apparently when he realized who and what they were, not only did he quit looking, but they couldn't even get his attention. He was like, "You aren't dangerous, not food, not relevant. You might as well be a rock." It was interesting. : -) I guess I should see the episode before I decide if I like the joke or not. Don't feel so bad, I'm the same. I mean, I can laugh at a joke like that to a point, but I don't think cats are nearly as insensitive as they have a reputation for being. I mean, even their playing with something before they kill it, I heard they bat it around to get a sense of how strong it is, whether it will bite them, etc - maybe a justification, but I did read that in a cat book. I think a lot of things that to us seem like indifference or cruelty is just part of the culture of cat, and doesn't make them truly unfeeling. They just have different mores and rules than we humans do. I think sometimes people tend to judge animals without remembering they are entirely different species of beings! Not that cats *can't* be incredibly indifferent when they want to be, but I think they're often misunderstood, even amongst those that love them.... Ann -- http://www.angelfire.com/ca/bewtifulfreak |
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"bewtifulfreak" wrote in message ... Not so quick wrote: I don't like the joke, then. But you reminded me of a video I saw of a lion once. He was being approached by some people. I guess he was in some sort of large park. He looked at them very intently and apparently when he realized who and what they were, not only did he quit looking, but they couldn't even get his attention. He was like, "You aren't dangerous, not food, not relevant. You might as well be a rock." It was interesting. : -) I guess I should see the episode before I decide if I like the joke or not. Don't feel so bad, I'm the same. I mean, I can laugh at a joke like that to a point, but I don't think cats are nearly as insensitive as they have a reputation for being. I mean, even their playing with something before they kill it, I heard they bat it around to get a sense of how strong it is, whether it will bite them, etc - maybe a justification, but I did read that in a cat book. I think a lot of things that to us seem like indifference or cruelty is just part of the culture of cat, and doesn't make them truly unfeeling. They just have different mores and rules than we humans do. I think sometimes people tend to judge animals without remembering they are entirely different species of beings! Not that cats *can't* be incredibly indifferent when they want to be, but I think they're often misunderstood, even amongst those that love them.... Ann -- http://www.angelfire.com/ca/bewtifulfreak Cats bat everything around, including each other, their own tails, their mothers, and animals far bigger than them that they already know can overpower them. Any body can say what's going on in an animals mind without much chance of rebuttal but this sounds incorrect to me. : -) |
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Not so quick wrote:
"bewtifulfreak" wrote in message I mean, even their playing with something before they kill it, I heard they bat it around to get a sense of how strong it is, whether it will bite them, etc - maybe a justification, but I did read that in a cat book. Cats bat everything around, including each other, their own tails, their mothers, and animals far bigger than them that they already know can overpower them. Any body can say what's going on in an animals mind without much chance of rebuttal but this sounds incorrect to me. : -) Well, I think all that other batting around comes from that initial batting around instinct - just as they 'hunt' and attack furry mouse toys as if they were real - but then, as you said, it's hard to know (although batting animals larger than them is not the same kind of batting around I'm talking about). I guess I tend to assume that if it's in a book full of cat facts, there's probably some research behind it, but as you said, who's to say.... Ann -- http://www.angelfire.com/ca/bewtifulfreak |
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