Dean Stockwell, left: “Dad, what’s up with that huge book on your desk?”
Ralph Richardson, center: “It doesn’t matter. What’s important is that I give this bottle of hooch to your brother.”
Jason Robards, right: “Thanks, Dad! You’re pretty swell, even if your existence torments me.”
Dean: “But Dad, Jason is an alcoholic. The last thing you should be giving him is high-octane lubrication.”
Ralph: “Don’t sass me, young man. This is a Eugene O’Neill play. There’s always at least one alcoholic, there are always family members who are enablers for the alcoholic, and there’s always a morphine addict who enables herself. Speaking of, where’s your mother?”
Dean: “I have no idea. She’s probably up on the roof again and trying to fly. But you’re avoiding the issue. Don’t give the hooch to Jason.”
Jason: “You need to stand down, little brother. I’m the first born and I get the first crack at everything. That’s how we do it in the South. If you didn’t come out of the vagina first, you get second billing for the rest of your life.”
Katharine Hepburn, coming down the stairs: “Is somebody talking about my cooter?”
Dean: “Well, I guess she didn’t get flight clearance.”
Ralph: “Damn it, she’s gonna make a fuss about the hooch. Jason, shove this bottle in the big book. It’s hollow inside.”
Jason: “I already know that, Dad. How do you think I became an alcoholic? I was just trying to look up the word ‘dysfunctional’ in what I thought was a dictionary and out popped a bottle of bourbon. I took it as a sign from Jesus and started swigging.”
Katharine, clattering closer to the room: “So now it’s cooter and Jesus? I can’t wait to join in this conversation.”
Dean: “Thank God I will eventually star in a series called ‘Quantum Leap’ so I can come back and erase everything that is happening right now.”
Previously published. No changes made, other than a last-second decision to add the surnames of the actors in this scene just to make this more surreal than it already is…
Categories: Past Imperfect
Bonnywood Manor 
Eugene O’Neill would probably have loved this version!
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And I would love to be Eugene O’Neill. Karmic Circle, perhaps? 😉
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Look at that picture- booze, cigarettes and the suggestion of sex. The unholy trinity. And a reference to Quantum Leap. Every post a winning one.
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It’s all about the obscure references. Life is much more fun when you highlight the tiny details and not the big picture…
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… And as for the book, I think it’s the first volume on Understanding Women. 🥴😂
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I’m not even going to touch this one. I’ll let the crime-scene analysts capture your fingerprints, not mine… 😉
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The guy on the right looks like Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon in a Eugene O’Neill play? I like that idea. He would make a terrific Stanley Kowalski. 😉
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I do see the Nixon likeness, but I’m biting my tongue about who created Stanley… 😉
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Watching a Nixon-lead O’Neill play would be terrifying.
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It looks like the tome that got whacked at Joffrey’s wedding on GOT.
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Confession: I’ve never seen Game of Thrones. Does that make me unworthy? Please be kind in your assessment… 😉
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Based on how the series ended, I would say it’s okay to have missed it.
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You won’t find me on the roof trying to fly.
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Not even if Trump gets defeated?… 😉
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I’ll be jumping for joy.
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A conversation about cooter with Katherine Hepburn is not for the faint hearted..
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To be fair, Katharine was never faint about anything. In my imaginary world, she would have approved of this post…
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OOh, I love the picture of Dean Stockwell, one of my favorites from the 50s.
And anytime Kate talks about her cooter, well, just brilliant.
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Dean Stockwell was and is a terrific actor. (To be fair, the “Quantum Leap” phase did not show off his best side.)
And Kate? Well, she was a marvel. And I’m sure she would have chattered away about cooter if the censors would have allowed…
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Quantum Leap was a great show!
Sorry… I get easily distracted… morphine, ya know. What were we talking about?
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It WAS a great show, despite the super hokey special effects when Dean would travel in time. We have all the seasons on DVD, and methinks it might be time to visit them again…
No need to apologize for your distractions. There are times when I forget what I’m doing and
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Once again my fountain o’ spoutin’ has run dry. Clever dude, very clever. I will say though that the idea of Katherine Hepburn stoned out of her mind boggles my own mind.
(no criticism implied mind you, as I said VERY CLEVER!) ☺
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I faithfully acknowledge your “very clever”. You know you can say whatever you want her and I’ll be right as rain. As for Katharine and her stoning, well, things happen. I’m not one to judge, says I, with tongue firmly in cheek…
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Jason Robards looks so young… are you sure that’s him? Wasn’t he always an old crotchedy man playing grumpy but lovable newspaper editors?
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Yep, that’s Jason. Perhaps you’re confusing his persona with mine. It wouldn’t be the first time such has happened… 😉
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