So, I went over Couple's place for dinner and "Pushing Daisies." I was about five minutes late -- all things considered, it's a wonder it was only five minutes. (First, the road between me and the freeway was blocked when I left work; second, there was a tanker truck filling up the gas station when I stopped for gas; third, when I stopped at the grocery store to pick up dessert, the stupid parking ticket machine did not read my validation and I had to back up and go to the guy in the little booth, wasting further valuable time.)
Anyway, I missed the first five minutes of the show. Wife and Law Student filled me in, but I'd had the good sense to DVR it, so I thought I'd check the recording when I got home.
And when I watched it, I took note of the names in the credits. I said things like, "Hey! That was Swoosie Kurtz!" And I noticed Jim Dale's name in the credits. And I thought, "Who did he play?" And I watched the first five minutes, and I didn't see him in that bit. And I watched about a half hour of the show again -- mostly to catch some of the lines I'd missed ('cause we had been talking when we'd watched it), but also because I was still trying to spot Jim Dale in that thing. I mean, he's a 70ish white guy, and I didn't see any 70ish white guys in there at all. But he was undeniably in the opening credits.
It wasn't until about, oh, two-thirds of the way through the episode, when I started asking myself, "What has he done lately, anyhow?" -- that I realized his part on the show. Man, I'm slow.
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