January 5, 2005

  • Wish-Fulfillment of the Day

    Here's an article on the proliferation of sitcoms featuring hot wives married to fat, buffoonish husbands (According to Jim, The King of Queens, Grounded for Life).
    It's clear that these shows allow male viewers to live vicariously the dream of
    drinking beer and watching TV all day while being happily married to
    Courtney Thorne-Smith. The less-obvious flip side is that they allow female viewers
    to indulge in a persecution fantasy: "Look at all the crap that I have to put up
    with, and check out my fat, useless husband. And I still look great!"

    I don't watch any of those shows, but maybe I should start. Those husbands must know something that I don't!

Comments (5)

  • This sort of behavior is funny when portrayed by Homer Simpson, but somehow it becomes downright disgusting when an actual human engages in it.

  • Please stop denigrating my fantasy. Thank you!

  • "Children, tell me when your father stops scratching himself." -- Marge Simpson

  • interesting... so is this convicting you to give up drinking beer and watching tv? =P j/k

  • Can the gut, beer drinking and the all day TV watching start before or after i hook up with Jessica Alba?

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