MARY HARTMAN......MARY HARTMAN......Yet Another "39-er" bites the metal surround on her formica-clad Life Counter....


Yet another harvest-gold and avocado-green '39-er' has kicked the plastic-linered, step-to-open trash bucket......Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman's Louise Lasser....whose over 300 episodes of the hilarious, satirical comedy brought many of my friends to their TV sets, nightly....Often, viewing the show was, like reefer-puffing and cheap Portuguese wine imbibing, a communal event..After the Show, artsy, rebellious friends were stimulated to 'make Art', have orgies and food fests, as well....risking 'drowing in the soup' , electrocution during a 'rubber duck' hunt, or being empaled on a fake 'x-mas tree in a box'........as they feign suffocation while seeing how long they can hold their head down on a b'day cake, covered with 2 inches of 7-minute icing........Then, Saturday Night Live took over for this Nonesense Romp....and survives, still......SNL will, likely, do a parody of MH-MH, soon....perhaps this Saturday!


Ever tried to explain an historical occasion to Mary Hartman? Well, it wasn't easy, for sure, even for Mrs. Wiggins, with assistance from Mr. Tudball, tripping on after-market Cylert......For example......Easter...... "Let's get this straight, Angel Dhust......It's Easter......So, we steal the mama bunny's unhatched sugar eggs, hoarding as many as we can.....then hide them from one another, in the spirit of Christian generosity....again, hoarding as many as possible in our hands, pockets and woven straw baskets.....to celebrate the betrayal, torture and killing of Mary's illegitimate bastard son by an imaginary God, played by Woody Allen, without glasses, wearing a white choir robe and long, white wig......Have I got this right? Then, we pick out our favorite colors and flavors of these, leaving the licorice and asparagus-flavored ones for 'the others'.......keeping the less-desirable ones, to fuse together into a clump of sucrose pastel gunk to toss to the yard birds, hungry for the sunflower seeds that we forgot to give them....last Easter."..... 

Mary Hartman: "Yes...I think I've 'got it'!  And, thanks for pooping those eggs into my basket!...I was going for the hammer and nails."  

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