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“Just stop it, already.”
That reminds me of a “Eunice” sketch, on the “Carol Burnett Show”. Eunice, at the end of her rope, has finally gone to see a questionable psychiatrist, who tells her that when her family is driving her crazy, she should just keep saying, “I’m OK. You’re OK.” (This was a feel-good mantra from the book of the same title, which was first published in 1969.) Despite Eunice’s examples of her family’s—especially her mother’s—repeated viciousness against her, the shrink keeps telling her to just say the mantra.
Suddenly, the door bursts open, and Mama storms in. She viciously puts Eunice down for pissing money away on “this quack”, and orders her to get moving. After dumping on Eunice some more, Mama storms out, and Eunice stands up to leave. At the door, she turns to the doctor, and forcing a smile but with tears in her eyes, says, “I’m OK. You’re OK.” She knows it won’t work, and so do we.
I’ve always thought that Eunice was the sort of person who should be kidnapped for her own good.
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