Yes, another snow tire. And you won't believe what it leads to:
SQUIGGY
Are you going to wrap that present for your mother? (INDICATING TIRE)
LENNY
Nah... we'll just roll it into her mobile home.
THEY SET DOWN THEIR GLASSES AND LENNY PUTS THE TIRE WITH THE OTHERS.
Remember, Jeff Franklin was not a newbie like Nicholas DeMarco (who wrote "The Dance Studio"). How could he not know Lenny's backstory? Had this made it onto the air, it would've meant the following:
- Lenny knows the whereabouts of the mother who abandoned him when he was five.
- She lives in a mobile home park somewhere in the vicinity. (He doesn't say that they'll drive it to her home and then roll it in.)
- Lenny is on good enough terms with his mother to give her this gift.
- Squiggy knows all this.
My guess it was cut for time and/or McKean objected.
The rest of the scene is pretty much as is, although I would've liked to have heard Squiggy say, "Ha, ha, ha. So funny I forgot to fall off my dinosaur." On the other hand, the "stupid" handshake at the end was added.
I'm gonna guess that someone had to have had a 'wait' moment, since the boys apparently rewrote their dialogue on occasion.
ReplyDeleteIt's reasonable enough to imagine that reconciliation could've happened but god, I'd want a full episode about it.
Yeah, not a throwaway as a punchline to a running gag! I can't even imagine what actress would've worked as Lenny's mother. Except, well, this is crazy, but what about Ginger Rogers? She could sing and do drama and she'd be the right physical type, although maybe a little old to play the mother of a character in his 20s.
DeleteOh Gosh, someone blonde with sharp features and blue eyes would have suited easily. Ginger Rogers would've worked for sure!
DeleteYeah, she was a blue-eyed blonde, and tall. There actually is a resemblance if you look at her in her younger days. And the way she aged does fit my image of his mother. Oh well, what might've been.
DeleteOof, yep, indeed!
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