Small Wonder: S1E7: The Older Woman

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Hey Everyone, Angela Bowen here, the host of She's A Small Wonder: A Small Wonder Podcast. Today, I covered S2E7: The Older Woman, which aired on October 25, 1986. In this episode Jamie falls for Harriet's 16-year-old cousin. I actually liked this one better than the last episode. Jamie lusting for an older woman who happens to be Harriet's older cousin, must be from Brandon's side because 16 year old Mary lacks the pale white skin and flaming red hair that Harriet has. Jamie just reeks of desperation and comes off looking like a stalker when he tells Mary we can't fight it, it's fate for us to be together. He even goes so far to offer to brush her teeth for her, along with calling her, writing her and walking her to school. Just STOP Jamie, damn! Mary eventually has to sick her boyfriend on him to get Jamie to back off. Surprisingly Vicki isn't really front and center with Jamie in this episode and is pushed off to the side plot with Ted constantly making repairs and adjustments to her after he tries and fails to use her as a generator to power the whole house when a storm knocks out the electricity. Speaking of Ted who gets himself into hot water with Joan who overhears him give Jamie advice (the wrong advice) he let's it slip that he settled for Joan when he really wanted to bang her college roommate the whole time he was dating her. The Fuck? Ergo? Ted sleeps on the couch for one night, she finally forgives Ted, Joan is back to riding that "D". Join me next month when I cover a lackluster shit episode S2E8: Who's The Boss?, which aired on November 1, 1986. In this episode Jamie has a dream that he's the boss of his parents. Yeah, basically this whole episode is a stupid dream sequence more appropriate to an 8 year old than a 12 year old. Have a great August everyone! To EMAIL The Podcast Go To: [e-mail]