Freaks

Imagine this:

You are cuddled up on the couch, with your laptop and your blankie. You've just finished watching a Masterpiece Theatre edition of "Jane Eyre", and are surfing around.

You find an old movie you've seen before and plop down to revisit it.

A 1937 classic, "Freaks" is about a bunch of circus performers, one of them central to the theme - a midget named 'Tiny Hans" who is targeted by a gold digging acrobat named Cleopatra who is beautiful and normal sized. The circus freaks band together to pay back Cleopatra for the harm and hurt she's caused Hans by making her the ugliest thing - she loses half her body, almost all her hair, and has to use her arms to 'walk' around. Nice, eh.

So I'm at the part where Hans the midget is marrying Cleopatra (remember, it's in black and white), and they are sitting around the table with all the circus side show performers - the bendable man, the bearded lady, the fat lady, the midget lady (Hans' ex girlfriend), the fire eater, the swordswallower, and numerous weird looking people who look like pin heads.

This is the part where Dave walks in and says, "WHAT THE F*CK?!"

He looked at me like he'd walked in the wrong door and wanted to slowly back away and try to re-enter, hoping for a different sight to greet him. Totally stunned and very confused.

I giggled. And I did hand him the remote. Eventually.