Wednesday, August 8, 2007
The countess confronts Vicky about her ability to predict the future. She incites a house-wide witch hunt, opening Vicky to grave danger. Vicky doesn’t help her case by hiding a family history dating into the 2oth century (oh, you just know this will turn up later) and hanging around with the “devil cat.”
Harsh witch hater Abagail gets a start when her brother Joshua turns from a cat back to his human form. To top off her night, she and the Countess search Vicky’s clothes, finding a bracelet with a devil charm. They send for Reverend Trask, the most enthusiastic witch hunter in television history.
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A diet of fruit and berries does sound healthy, but it has a dark side, as anyone who has ever stood upwind of this bird will tell you. Some nice chunky birdseed would do him a world of good, but I’m afraid that we’re dealing with a purist. Advice: move quickly, re-think breathing.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Jerimiah and Josette cannot be found, and their horses are missing. Jilted groom Barnabas clings to the impossible hope that they are not together. He lurches through the woods searching for Josette, but instead encounters an apparation created by Angelique. The phantom claims to be Jerimiah. He tells Barnabas that he and Josette are together. Naturally.
Because that wasn’t weird enough, a voice tells Barnabas to go to the main road. There he finds Josettes’s mud spattered wedding veil.
To Angelique’s chagrin, Barnabas declares that no matter what Josette has done, he will love her forever.
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The habits of this bird are sadly predictable. Worried that his nest won’t hold, he builds two. Too nervous to sing, it makes alarmed little calls throughout the night. The mating season is especially hard on this species, amplifying its abundant neuroses. Advice: A kind word here or there couldn’t hurt.
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Josette is told that she must marry Barnabas immediately. The countess warns her that unless she complies, she will lose Barnabas.
As Barnabas and Josette prepare for the wedding, Angelique cooks up another spell. After it is cast, Josette mysteriously disappears, leaving Barnabas alone at the alter.
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The Ne’er Shut Up is the most enthusiastic singer of any species. He sings morning, noon and night, stopping only occasionally for a snack or brief nap. If you have one nesting in your yard, your life will be filled with song. Your entire natural life.
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The Countess relates to Monsieur Dupree that Joshua is a cat. She further concludes that there is a witch in the house, and voices her suspicions about Vicky. Nathan Forbes overhears and tries to warn Vicky, but she foolishly ignores him.
The Countess pumps Vicky for information, but has an unfortunate on-camera coughing fit. The coversation concludes with a hoarse accustion that Vicky is involved with the occult.
The countess reviews her Tarot cards and decides that Josette and Barnabas must marry the next day.
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You don’t have to be a Pixar fan to love Ratatouille, a charming comedy from writer/director Brad Bird. Of course the animation is excellent, but the voice actors bring to life the story of a Parisian rat who dreams of becoming a great chef.
Along the way, our hero confronts the opposition of his family and the human aversion to rats in the kitchen. It all unfolds delightfully with comedy arising from character as much as situation.
A particular stand-out is Peter O’Toole as food critic Anton Ego, perhaps the most fearsome critic in cinema history. Take the kids to Ratatouille, and, if you don’t have kids, take yourself.
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Jerimiah decides to take a long trip away from Collinwood. This disturbs Angelique, who responds by mumbling something witchy into the fire. The spell prompts Josette to convince Barnabas to talk to Jerimiah and convince him to stay.
Josette loses her desire to be near Jerimiah as Angelique’s spell inexplicably weakens. Faced with such odds, Angelique turns Joshua into a cat so Jerimiah will have to stay behind to mind the family business.
No one can find Joshua and they are befuddled by the cat. The episode ends with a close up of a well fed tabby.
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Sure that twenty pound bag of birdseed is enough? I only ask because if you live in one of the 46 states that the Greedy Grebe nests, it won’t be. This drab, well camouflaged bird is the picture of gluttony, emptying your feeder as fast as you can fill it. Attempts to find it and give it a good talking to will fail. This bad ass is unrepentant.
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