Spoiled story
In a meta-layered spoof of daytime soap operas, Janet, a housewife who is obsessed with the soap opera There's Always Tomorrow and watches the program religiously, is annoyed that her doctor husband, Leon, is more obsessed with experimenting on a rabbit than spending time with her. When her TV loses picture at a crucial moment in the show, Janet calls in a cable man named Abel, to have cable installed. Inspired by There's Always Tomorrow's no- nonsense main character, Fuschia Monroe, Janet begins a steamy affair with Abel while Leon is distracted with his work. When Leon catches the two of them in the act, he soon wonders if he could try his experiment on human subjects. Directed by: Andy Wolk. Story by: Connie Johnson.
11 total · 7 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| extramarital affair | major | Janet was sex starved and sick of being ignored by her doctor husband, so she started a steamy affair with the cable guy, Abel, that went on for roughly two weeks. |
| feeling neglected in a relationship | major | The housewife Janet turned to the cable guy to fulfill her carnal needs because her husband was consumed with his groundbreaking medical research. |
| head transplant | major | The story culminated with the aggrieved doctor getting his own back on his two-timing spouse by switching her head's place with that of her lover on their bodies. |
| husband and wife | major | Leon was too preoccupied with his groundbreaking medical research to fulfill his husbandly duties to Janet. |
| inattentive male partner | major | Leon was too preoccupied with his groundbreaking medical research to fulfill his husbandly duties to Janet. |
| medical occupation | major | Leon was a big shot surgeon and scientist who was, in his basement, developing a new anesthetic that could keep the brain sedated and alive long enough to be entirely transplanted. |
| promiscuity | major | Janet began a steamy affair with the cable guy when her husband was too busy with his research to pay her any attention. The star of There's Always Tomorrow's Fuscia Monroe was described as going after whatever and whomever she fancied. |
| female bonding | minor | Janet and her neighbor Louise bonded over folding laundry and while discussing soap opera. |
| golf | minor | In his sketch, the Crypt Keeper donned an argyle sweater vest and cracked some golf puns. |
| living corpse | minor | The story is presented by the Crypt Keeper, a cackling, wisecracking cadaver. |