Embarrasing Television Moments With Your Kid....

[Lord Jim]

Okay, the show Psych (Starring James Roday and Dule Hill) is a show That at Stately LJ Manor we all enjoy watching...

(If you're not familiar with the show, it's a very well written and smartly cast program about a guy who legitimately has Sherlock Holmes-like powers of observation, but who tries to use that to claim he has "psychic" powers and makes a living that way)

One of the really witty things about this show is the way the main character will make quick, whispered, dead-pan delivered lines (much like Groucho Marx used to do in his films) that if you're paying attention you catch...and if you're not, you don't...

Well, I signed for up for a service with Comcast that now lets us watch (among other series) all the Psych episodes that have been made, so Tati and I have been catching up on some of the episodes that were made before we started watching the show...(We recently watched an hysterically funny episode where Tim Curry plays a take off on Simon Cowell)

It was bad enough, when we were watching the pilot for the show (which had the actress Anne Dudek rather than Maggie Lawson playing Carlton Lassiter's partner) that Tati proudly announced, "That's not Jules...that's Cut Throat Bitch..."

(We also watch House together.... )

But I digress...

So in this episode we're watching, Gus has to team up with Lassiter, and Sean teams up with Juliette, to solve the crime...After they've been working together on it for a while, Jules explains to Sean that she she's going to have to go back to the police headquarters to go through the evidence...and Sean tells her he doesn't want to do that because it doesn't sound like "fun"...

And Jules says, "who said work was supposed to be fun, Sean?" Then Sean replies, completely deadpan, "Well, Ron Jeremy for one, but we don't have to discuss that now"....

And I completely lost it...I just doubled over laughing...

And then, Tati asked the logical question, "What's so funny? Who's Ron Jeremy?"...

I thought about it for a moment, and then decided I would not take that unplanned opportunity to talk about a 70's porno actor with my 13 year old daughter...So I said:

"Ron Jeremy was an actor, and acting is a fun job"...

[Gob]

Here you go Jim...

Show her this

[Lord Jim]

Yeah...

No doubt about it, even 35 years later, in 2012...

Being Ron Jeremy is still fun...

[Scooter]

Ok, I get it that when straight men are watching porn, they are not usually paying attention to the guy. But how do you tune out THAT enough not to get distracted from the business at hand?

[Gob]

In hand Scoot, in hand!

[Scooter]

You know, I knew as soon as I posted that...

[Gob]

LOL!!

[The Hen]

I would have told her his was a famous pornography star. If she is anything like my girl she would have displayed her disgust at the thought of it.

[Lord Jim]

I understand what you're saying Hen, but I really didn't feel like getting into a discussion about..."pornography"....

I think we can save that for another time....

[Daisy]

Please tell me you have your Internet connection locked down and all your searches set to safe Jim!

[Lord Jim]

Tati really doesn't spend a lot of time on line....thankfully she's not the kind of kid who's constantly hooked in to the internet....

Though she has started to get into the texting thing with her girl friends....

Our rule on that is basically the same as our rule on her having friends over to do homework or going over to another kid's house to do it. (She has one friend in particular who she's been alternating with on this since the new school year started last week.)

The rule is this; it's okay so long as she keeps her grades up. If the grades start to go down, bye bye phone, and no more doing homework with friends until they turn around.

It's worked pretty well....

She's consistently about 80% A's and 20% B's...(She pretty much has been since the start)

But she completely forgot an assignment towards the end of last year so she got an F on it and she lost the phone for a week....

That hasn't happened since....

Though I did take the phone away from her for a week this summer for a different reason....She was over at a friend's house, and I called her to arrange a time to pick her up. (We had misplaced their house phone number.)

I called and called for over an hour she didn't answer. Being the overly protective kind of guy I am, I started to get worried. I drove over and knocked on the door.( Everything was fine, she and a couple of her friends were just watching a movie, and the girl's mother was home.)

I asked her why she didn't answer her phone. She said, "because I knew it was you, and we were watching a movie"

To which I replied:

"Oh, that is so the wrong answer....give me the phone and you're coming home now."

That's the last time that happened....