You know the funny thing about Geraldine is like you can instantly imagine how the writing staff of the '70s sitcom created her She's the "cool progressive best friend" character, trying to combine *every single* edgy counterculture trait into one person to get it out of the wayhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1368382971095310338 …
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Some kind of running gag where she keeps on wanting to talk about the Watergate hearings and saying "It's time to wake up and get militant!" but Wanda is completely uninterested Whereas Vision is very well-informed but his discussions of it are so dry they put Geraldine to sleep
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"I find that my analysis of Nixonism, of course, with Plato's The Republic, and the controversial principle of the 'noble lie' A conceit that, of course, immediately raises the question of whether the philosopher himself is engaging in such a lie at the moment he describes it"
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"This the kind of white man they're sending over the ocean these days? Sheesh, I had an easier time consciousness-raising at Agnes' house -- all it took was lending Ralph my record of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On? Now that was dy-no-mite!"
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("Dy-no-mite!" is one of those things that in hindsight is almost impossible to believe was ever actually a real thing and not just a joke everyone was running into the ground But apparently it really was a thing for that brief shining moment from 1974-75)
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