Life's Work

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Life's Work is a situation comedy that aired from 1996 to 1997 on the American Broadcasting Company channel that starred Lisa Ann Walter as Lisa Ann Minardi Hunter, the assistant district attorney. Lisa had a husband named Kevin Hunter (played by Michael O'Keefe), who was a basketball coach, and two lovely kids[1]. The opening theme song of the show was considered to be a simple guitar instrumental solo and the laugh track was used in all episodes in the sitcom.

[edit] Boss

One of the most crucial episodes in the series was titled Boss. This episode was originally aired on December 3, 1996. During this episode, Lisa's mother Connie was recruited to help take care of the children. She was frugal as well as conservative in her spending ways as well as her view on life. In her time as the family matriarch, she decided to impose her beliefs on her daughter's family[2].

Connie bought food at a discount food store to the objection of the other family members - who were used to buying name brand products. She also managed to turn the heat down to 60 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius) on a cold winter day, blocked out MTV from her daughter's television, replaced her daughter's G-strings with white cotton classic briefs. Insult was eventually added to injury put the grandchildren on a strict sleeping schedule. Trying to make a comeback from being forced to wear classic briefs when it took 4 of her G-strings to "make a decent rag," Lisa referred to her new underwear as big kid pants, suggesting that she was handed a pair of underwear that only children should wear.

The "big kid pants" part of the joke is the fact that white cotton full cut panties somewhat resemble the Pull-Ups Training Pants of that era and that their then-current slogan was I'm a big kid now. Eventually, a mother-daughter screaming match occurs and it has surprising results for both Connie and Lisa Ann.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Episode summary (Boss). TV.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-16.
  2. ^ Cast and crew information. The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2008-05-16.