Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Very Special Episodes

Remember very special episodes from the 1980s?

Here's some very special episode's that never made it off the cutting room floor:

"A Very Special Who's The Boss"- Thinking he is at the park, Tony goes into Jonathans room to clean it. When he opens the door, he discovers Jonathan "experimenting" with Vinny, the next door neighbor.

"A Very Special Blossom"- After years of throwing herself at him, Six finally gets Joey in the sack. They have a wonderful time, but a few weeks later, Six misses her period. She now has a gut-wrenching decision whether or not to keep what will undoubtably be an attractive but very stupid child.

"A Very Special Growing Pains" - Feeling like a social outcast, the ungainly 16-year-old Ben meets some nice kids at the park. After hanging out with them a few times, Jason and Maggie grow concerned when they discover a pamphlet in Ben's room advocating Neo-Nazi propaganda. Ben is about to shave his head, but they stop him just in time to explain the ideas of tolerance
and understanding.

"A Very Special Silver Spoons" - Ricky's drifting through his prep school years lost and emotionally empty. After all, his mother's death/disappearance was never really dealt with. Meanwhile, his spastic father has regressed even further into emotional immaturity. A train in the living room is no longer the wonder it once was. Ricky can afford anything, and he does thanks to Alphonso's connections from the old neighborhood. Ricky drifts into a drug addled stupor as he ponders his priviliged,
pointless existence.

"A Very Special Family Ties" - Reagan is in office and soon the books are open on several political crimes from the sixties. It seems Mike and Elise spent their early twenties leaving bombs in Fortune 500 companies' lobbies, so as to bring attention to war crimes in Vietnam. A politically motivated Department of Justice is out for blood and not even Alex's morally bankrupt history as a young conservative can stop the Stalinist show trials that are to come.

"A Very Special Small Wonder" - It turns out that there is in fact no robot girl. Everyone realizes that the technology was ahead of its time and she didn't even have any seams where her parts would move . Thanks to modern diagnosis, the little girl's robotic actions and repetitive dress were identified as what they truly were, autism.