What Martin Hafer said. I think. I dunno, I caught this at the end. I never really get this show but it's very pretty to look at with the comfy chair in his office, the Paseo Verde (why Paseo? Why Verde?) and the arches inside his office, the clown lamp shade (I want that! Who's got it? Dibs, I tell ya!) and so on. You watch for the clown suits that Mannix wears and for the pretty Peggy.
This one had pretty witch with the misplaced silicone cheekbones. Why witch? Because she figuratively tried to steal the (literally but fictitious) witch's husband Darrin Stephens. (Trust me: you had to be there!)
So I'm feeling like Margot here: we have pretty/pretty and then Mannix is sucking face with Kovack (the pretty witch husband wanna-be stealing witch, got that?) and her lilac sweaters and makeup. And there's like Theramin music playing while they do the tonsil Conga. (Yeah: not sax for sex, Theramin from The Day The Earth Stood Still, the first!)
As I was sayin', I caught this from the end. And Peggy asks if Mannix fell for Miss Not-1-Hair-Outta-Place with the cheekbones. Before he answers, during Joe's dramatic pause, the cam suddenly cuts to Peggy. Oh Em Gee!!! Did y'all see that? (Of course you did!) She totally freaks out, subtly. So first you think she's got the hots for Mannix, but it was forbidden back then, to even entertain those piano keyboard naughty thoughts. (Think Elton John here, folks!)
And even though this is 2021, and you're hip and forward and progressive and not giving a 2nd thought to these matters, suddenly you're trapped in the 70s zone and you're one of them. "Peggy, how could you?!" No, you're not disapproving of such thoughts, you're feeling sorry for Peggy: it can't happen (wait... this wasn't filmed in 1872, was it? Weren't they cool with this stuff back then? Well maybe not on TV, dunno: it was before my time!)
So then you're freaking out, just like Peggy is cos you forgot they don't exist and you're watching a show, you're now Peggy's BFF and she's just realized the man she loves is cheating on her, except not really because it can never be and there's never been such "tension" to begin with. But Peggy is so sad, and you're sad along with her, so you reach for the tissues box but it's empty and you wonder if 7/11 is open at this hour so you can restock.. when all of a sudden, you remember!
Peggy does not love Mannix, folks! She's just worried about her paycheck! Silly me! Cos if Mannix marries the other pretty lady, then that's it for Peggy? She'll take her job? Or she'll come at the most worstest of times with a picnic basket and Peggy can never again take orders, food orders that is, for her Joe Mannix. Gone are those sexy separate fish and chips meals, her behind her desk, him in his office, closed door, while Peggy daydreams of doing the bare Conga with Juicy Joe, Manly Mannix. And then the intercom rings "In my office now!" and she opens the door and...
But that's a whole other review, so we'll let you figure out if she wakes up or it happened for real. In the interim, I decided that Peggy was worried about her paycheck? Why? Because I once saw that episode where she gets kidnapped and somehow the bro and her were so well matched, in my universe they got married, and that former bad guy waits for his Peggy to come home and make dinner and he don't want none of that Jungle Joe Mannix stealing his love.
8/10 because Kovack is always brightening a show and for Peggy's expression at the end. Ok and for the lamp, too. The striped one, the clown lamp. I gotta have it. Anyone know where it ended up? Call me. And what did you expect, a normal review? At least I entertain those with a sense of humor and I freak out the pearl clutchers. And that's why there's 2 buttons besides my here words: use one to let off the steam, now!
This one had pretty witch with the misplaced silicone cheekbones. Why witch? Because she figuratively tried to steal the (literally but fictitious) witch's husband Darrin Stephens. (Trust me: you had to be there!)
So I'm feeling like Margot here: we have pretty/pretty and then Mannix is sucking face with Kovack (the pretty witch husband wanna-be stealing witch, got that?) and her lilac sweaters and makeup. And there's like Theramin music playing while they do the tonsil Conga. (Yeah: not sax for sex, Theramin from The Day The Earth Stood Still, the first!)
As I was sayin', I caught this from the end. And Peggy asks if Mannix fell for Miss Not-1-Hair-Outta-Place with the cheekbones. Before he answers, during Joe's dramatic pause, the cam suddenly cuts to Peggy. Oh Em Gee!!! Did y'all see that? (Of course you did!) She totally freaks out, subtly. So first you think she's got the hots for Mannix, but it was forbidden back then, to even entertain those piano keyboard naughty thoughts. (Think Elton John here, folks!)
And even though this is 2021, and you're hip and forward and progressive and not giving a 2nd thought to these matters, suddenly you're trapped in the 70s zone and you're one of them. "Peggy, how could you?!" No, you're not disapproving of such thoughts, you're feeling sorry for Peggy: it can't happen (wait... this wasn't filmed in 1872, was it? Weren't they cool with this stuff back then? Well maybe not on TV, dunno: it was before my time!)
So then you're freaking out, just like Peggy is cos you forgot they don't exist and you're watching a show, you're now Peggy's BFF and she's just realized the man she loves is cheating on her, except not really because it can never be and there's never been such "tension" to begin with. But Peggy is so sad, and you're sad along with her, so you reach for the tissues box but it's empty and you wonder if 7/11 is open at this hour so you can restock.. when all of a sudden, you remember!
Peggy does not love Mannix, folks! She's just worried about her paycheck! Silly me! Cos if Mannix marries the other pretty lady, then that's it for Peggy? She'll take her job? Or she'll come at the most worstest of times with a picnic basket and Peggy can never again take orders, food orders that is, for her Joe Mannix. Gone are those sexy separate fish and chips meals, her behind her desk, him in his office, closed door, while Peggy daydreams of doing the bare Conga with Juicy Joe, Manly Mannix. And then the intercom rings "In my office now!" and she opens the door and...
But that's a whole other review, so we'll let you figure out if she wakes up or it happened for real. In the interim, I decided that Peggy was worried about her paycheck? Why? Because I once saw that episode where she gets kidnapped and somehow the bro and her were so well matched, in my universe they got married, and that former bad guy waits for his Peggy to come home and make dinner and he don't want none of that Jungle Joe Mannix stealing his love.
8/10 because Kovack is always brightening a show and for Peggy's expression at the end. Ok and for the lamp, too. The striped one, the clown lamp. I gotta have it. Anyone know where it ended up? Call me. And what did you expect, a normal review? At least I entertain those with a sense of humor and I freak out the pearl clutchers. And that's why there's 2 buttons besides my here words: use one to let off the steam, now!