Appetite for instruction
AANR reports on a fall TV debut [link safe for work, rest of site perhaps less so]:
[O]ne ABC show features a character billed as a “semi-nudist.” The show, The Middle, is produced by Warner Brothers and stars Everybody Loves Raymond star Patricia Heaton. The plot centers around a Midwestern family whose parents try to manage life with three children — a teenage son (the semi-nudist), a teenage daughter and a seven-year-old son. No word yet if the show will portray an accurate view of nudism, but it’s progress that a nudist will be featured in a mainstream, prime time show.
Of course, the real disappointment here is that Heaton will be keeping her clothes on.
But I suspect the really scary aspect of that kid is not so much that he tends to go around in the (semi)buff, but the fact that he’s named Axl — and if this writeup is to be believed, there’s a reason for it. And if such things encroach further on the FCC’s threshold of apoplexy, so much the better.
fillyjonk »
4 June 2009 · 12:26 pm
They also have a kid named Brick, according to that write-up.
Um, I hope the same joke used to explain Axl’s name doesn’t extend to him.
McGehee »
4 June 2009 · 4:48 pm
What, you don’t think Jethro Tull is a good choice for a whoopee-making soundtrack?
Or maybe it was the Commodores? Nah, Heaton’s easy on the eyes, but “built like an Amazon”?