Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for March 01, 2015
Transcript:
Rose: Are you ready for a bedtime story? Let's find out what pirate Lloyd and his misfit crew have been doing... "The sea was calm..." Jimbo: Rose? Rose? Our cable company is running a special. Rose: Excuse me a moment, Pasquale. They're offering us a premium package at a discount...for a limited time. Jimbo: We'll never watch all of those channels! We don't spend that much time in front of the TV! Rose: Sure! We read...we play board games...we have hobbies... We have actual conversations! Of course we can always cancel it...operators are standing by all night! Jimbo: We won't let it interfere with our home life! Pasquale: Hello?
BillWa over 9 years ago
I thought you were better than that Jimbo. You disappointed me.
Argythree over 9 years ago
This has nothing to do with age. First, ‘together time’ between parents and kids, whether with conversations, games or reading out loud, results in a mentally healthier kid who does better at school and later at jobs and at parenting kids himself. Secondly, a kid whose parents read to him also does better in school than a kid whose parents park him in front of a TV.-And that was the point of this ‘toon. Rose kept telling Jimbo that, as a family, they spent more time talking together, playing games and reading than watching TV. Which is why it was wistfully funny that they walked out of Pasquale’s room talking about whether they would accept the cable offer, and forgot all about reading to Pasquale…
AliCom over 9 years ago
‘Bed-time-story’ time is quality Mom and Son time for Pasquale. He should demand that they either let him watch tv with them or one of them read him the story.
yeahbutt over 9 years ago
Whoa! never thought it would go this way. Kid takes a back seat.
Shame!
Sheila Hardie over 9 years ago
What the heck is this?
sameyers2 over 9 years ago
Quality time spent between parent and child is never wasted. And reading time… Oh how I miss reading time!
abbybookcase over 9 years ago
yeah. you’re never too old to be read to. one of the best things you can do in a relationship with a lover is sit and read aloud from a favorite book.