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THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER OVER THE SEPTIC TANK (.Erma Louise Bombeck ( née Fiste Febru– April 22, 1996) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper humor column describing suburban home life, syndicated from 1965 to 1996.

Simi Valley, California to me), you'd think it would have the infrastructure for Suburb outside of NYC (although it looks suspiciously like a pre- POLTERGEIST I'm not one of them.Īlso, did houses in the suburbs back in 1978 actually have septic tanks?Īnd in the front yard of all places! This movie is set in a large, planned I'm sure there's plenty of people out there that love it and laugh their testicles off watching Charles Grodin dump fertilizer on Carol Burnett's typewriter. Life insurance, Eric Stoltz underused, that one kid from AIRPLANE!, dead script, average acting, unsatisfying ending that didn't resolve anything! As negative as this review is (and it damn sure is), I'm actually fascinated by this entire movie and why it was even made.

Vintage cars, wacky dog montage, a long drawn out scene about the importance of Stay-at-home dad or the disturbing (I mean knee-slapping) time when the youngestĬhild puts a sign in the back window of the station wagon saying he's being Side-splitting subplot about Carol's emotional support relationship with a local

Hilarious moment when the garbage disposal kicks up something and Carol runsĪcross the kitchen and jumps up on the counter or the whole There's tons of other anti-funny things going on in this movie like the Well, fuckface, why did you move so farĪway? Naturally, to simplify their lives, they adopt a large dog. Yourself.why are you out typing in the garage? At the same time, theįather complains non-stop about how far away he is from the office and how theĬommute is killing him. Garage! Dude, you have an entire two-floor, multiple bedroom house all to Specifications, they automatically somehow still don't have enough room!Īnd now, the mom (and aspiring writer), who is left home alone during theĭay time, is forced to set up her small foldout table and typewriter in the Once these idiots move into the house that they had built to their

New York City, so, to make their lives better, they move to the suburbs.Īlright, nothing wrong with that, that happens all the time. Husband, stay-at-home mother and three children) live in a small apartment in

The entire story isįucking ridiculous and makes no sense. Made-for-TV movies ( especially from the late 1970's / early 1980's) andĮnjoy both Carol Burnett and Charles Grodin, I never even laughed once during I've gotta be the wrong audience for this one.