Welcome back to the Pop Culture Club.
Im going to begin this post with a game.
What do these three things have in common?1.
Eating a sandwich with a slice of bologna and a slice of yellow cardboard.2.
Putting on sun-tan lotion, getting a beach chair, and going out to sit in your garage.3.
Everything wasHouse-y, right down to the two attractive residents fighting an inevitable attraction.
It seemed like an oversight that Dr.
Mental (Chris Vance) had full use of all four limbs and no drug addiction.
But here was my biggest problem: Dr.
Mental is a terrible psychiatrist.
Lets note three:
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(Incidentally, what is more heartlessthan for a hospital to hold a party with a band outdoors?
)When Dr. Hayden-Jones-Mermelstein-Jacobs discovers what Dr. Life is loud and messy!
Life doesnt have wheels, theyve gottalearn to join the party!
He invites patients to the staff meeting, because, This wholesecret society thing isnt the way to go.
What do you think we should do for the patient with anxiety disorder in room 452B?
I would prescribe Paxil and combine it with intensive behavioral therapy.
I would go with Klonopin, and pair it with a talk-therapy approach.
Mental makes himself out to be the only martyr who wants tohelp the naked schizophrenic artist.
Score one for psychiatry!
They cant even committo that sneering, doubtful moniker!
So which is it?
Is he a dangerous menace or aninspiration for shrinks everywhere?
Yes, having Dr. Mentalride a bike everywhere says volumes about what a loosey-goosey freebird he is.
Thats not such agreat trait in a doctor who must respond to emergencies.
Jeez, Dr.Quinn Medicine Woman could get to a patient faster on a horse.
Will the movies effects look even betteronce youve seen the cheap stop-motion of Sid and Marty Krofft?
Or willwe realize that the shows charm was in its cheapness, and making a CGIversion is just silly?
Ive embedded theLand of the Lostpilot belowfor your Hulu-ing pleasure, and well meet back here next week todiscuss.
Enjoy reliving your childhoods!
So back toMental: Did anyone here enjoy it?
Or did it make you wait for it, here comes the pun crazy?
How many shows can you listthat feature an unorthodox genius scientist?
And are there any shrinksout there who would like to weigh in on Dr. Mentals techniques?
