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"The family that honeymoons together...."



Back in the ancient days, the before times, there was a very corny television show called Bonanza, about a rancher and his sons.

 There was also a magazine called MAD that did parodies of such shows. Their parody of Bonanza was especially inspired, and has stuck in my mind from that day to this.

It begins with the father and his sons in a big bathtub. One of the sons says, "The family that bathes together, stays together." Variations of that quote recur in the story, getting increasingly corney.

At the end of what passes for a plot, the paterfamilias is getting married and going on a honeymoon. The sons invite themselves along. This causes the final bit of dialog between two of them:

"The family that honeymoons together eats prunes together."
"That doesn't even make sense."
"They can't all be gems."

I can't believe I've been blogging for as long as I have and have never mentioned that episode. It haunts me....
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  1. Dennis D'AsaroJanuary 24, 2022 at 10:57 PM

    Nice someone else remembers the episode; sometimes people think I am nuts....

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