I just love this episode. Some of the most quotable lines in the series, and was cute to see Dixie get to work with her own daughters.
2 Reviews
One of my favourite DW episodes
philhayes8025 August 2018
Like aunties, like niece.
mark.waltz16 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Those are Dixie Carter's real life daughters playing Clayton Sugarbaker's daughters who come for a visit in this episode. One is exactly like Suzanne, vain and self-consumed (and not very bright) while the other is like Julia, opinionated and possibly too intelligent for her own good. It's a two joke plotline, funny as you realize what the women have in common with their nieces but not really developed especially since these characters never come back. The two Carter girls do a good job imitating Dixie and Delta and perhaps if they had returned for a guest appearance it might have been a better plot device in retrospective.
The other plot involves an old friend of Julia's hiring her for a job but she doesn't realize that it's for a nudist colony. The jokes create themselves here and they are funny but it's very plot device oriented rather than story, so both of the arcs they flat when the series ends. I do like the similarity in the closing styles of the nieces and their ants whom they resemble personality-wise and a few of the lines you can swear you heard coming out of Julia or Suzanne's mouth before.
There's no mention of Clayton outside of the fact that he really isn't a part of the girl's life, assumedly because of his time in a mental institution. All we learn about the ex-wife is that she's basically kept the girls from seeing her father's side of the family. Basically it's a Suzanne and Julia episode only where the remainder of the cast are basically reactors to everything else although they do get some funny lines involving the nudist colony.
The other plot involves an old friend of Julia's hiring her for a job but she doesn't realize that it's for a nudist colony. The jokes create themselves here and they are funny but it's very plot device oriented rather than story, so both of the arcs they flat when the series ends. I do like the similarity in the closing styles of the nieces and their ants whom they resemble personality-wise and a few of the lines you can swear you heard coming out of Julia or Suzanne's mouth before.
There's no mention of Clayton outside of the fact that he really isn't a part of the girl's life, assumedly because of his time in a mental institution. All we learn about the ex-wife is that she's basically kept the girls from seeing her father's side of the family. Basically it's a Suzanne and Julia episode only where the remainder of the cast are basically reactors to everything else although they do get some funny lines involving the nudist colony.
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