Television Without Pity » Mondo Extras » Recaps & Extras » Season 2000 Episode 11

Setting: Hollywood, California. Chez stee. Stee and pamie sit on the couch, an audio tape recorder in front of them. The following is a recap, peppered with their comments. Note: they were both totally sober during the whole show.

First of all, the opening sequence for The Wonderful World of Disney might be the scariest thing ever.

Stee: Stee: Okay, it's starting. Uh, I'm scared, frankly.

Pamie: Man. It's a new Wonderful World of Disney intro. We didn't have this last week.

Stee: Look, if there was a Tinkerbell flying through my house, I wouldn't, like, smile and follow it. I'd call 9-1-1.

Pamie: What if Moesha showed up?

Stee: I'd run screaming.

Secondly, we are going on the assumption that pretty much everyone already knows the story of The Miracle Worker. If not, time to read a book.

Pamie: What's funny is that in all the posters for The Miracle Worker, they're hugging, and the only person making eye contact is Hallie Kate Eisenberg. She's staring right at you.

Stee: I wonder how they're going to work a plug for Disneyland into a period piece. "Aye. I imagine a place in Florida in the future..."

Pamie: "That's your friend Mickey, Helen. M-I-C-K-E-Y."

Stee: "S-P-A-C-E M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N." Wow, it's a great way to start a Disney family movie by showing slaves...

We open to slaves picking cotton in a field, just like every heart-warming Disney epic begins. Slaves. Horses. Piano music. Birds whistling. Slaves. Perfect loaves of bread in a basket. The white man rides the white horse. The black men ride the black horses.

Pamie: Are they going to break out into song?

Stee: Oh man, it's David Strathairn as Cap'n Keller.