I want a love like Herman & Lily's
August 4, 2017 Down The Pathway, My Little House in the Barrio, East Los, Califas.
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I thought about it...
I want a love like Herman and Lily's.
Some may want real life and dead Bonnie and Clyde but they were criminals that did not die in a blaze of glory. Honestly it living fast and dying young. Not for me because I be no Bonnie to drag down.
Another real life romanticized couple Sid and Nancy were codependent junkies so it's not beautiful whatsoever to idolize their doomed union. They weren't healthy and I doubt happy if they were that lost on a heroin daze.
I like Basket Case and Sporto from "Breakfast Club" but they were at their wit's end. They were both in a bad place. Yes they took comfort in each other but I'd like something more developed.
Mary Ann and the Professor from "Gilligan's Island" are cool, but I'd have to be stranded on an island. They bonded with respect but I don't remember him ever putting the moves on her and she accepting his invitation to hook up and see where it goes. So not exactly them.
There is Hawkeye and Hot Lips from M*A*S*H but they stayed stuck with sexual tension during stressful times. Yeah they made out but they didn't end up together so as witty as their convos--or squabbling--was their level of intimacy but he was a manchild drunkard and she was an uptight priss.
Both had brilliant minds with a resilience, but they never took each other serious. Their thing was aggravating each other like extended foreplay; but she was with Frank and overall they just couldn't take the next step with each other; but did make it a point to land a good one on each other but no sweet nothings and cuddling. Just colliding only to pull apart. It was steamy but they stayed at that tease they resigned themselves with. Not even all the way in an embrace. It was anti-climatic though memorable.
Mork and Mindy were cool but too kookie sometimes and well Robin Williams died from severe chronic depression. He was also out of this world and was going to grow older younger so it would have been tough on them towards her end and him a child. The love would be there but it's kinda a cruel fate if you think about it.
Tony and Angela from "Who's The Boss" were cute, totally a blended family dynamic that was so respectful it wasn't sexist. He played Mr. Mom taking care both her child and his. He was warm and caring. He even got a little jealous when he would pull out the fridge and see her name with her ex-husband's joined as a couple still in her home that became his.
They had a sweet courtship and were awkward cute going through it. Their sexual tension though was based in their anxiety of moving on after getting hurt by the end of their former relationships. When they did finally take that step forward it was a case of just being a matter of time. Maybe a bit of them.
Jake Ryan and Samantha Baker from "Sixteen Candles" were begging to be each other's learning lesson. The fact he pawned off his inconsiderate and self-centered, party girlfriend on Farmer Ted and they ended up hooking up while she was blitzed; and confused her in the morning so he can hook up with the little girl that worshiped him, was pretty douchie. If he was capable of that, what is he capable of doing to her when he disagrees strongly enough? It wasn't a positive pairing regardless of her getting her Sweet Sixteen birthday wish coming true. It was shortsighted.
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There's Wesley and Buttercup from "The Princess Bride" that were cute but they needed to have better communication skills. He left to do his thing because he felt too poor for her. She was b*tchy bossing him around. Then she gets mixed up with the evil prince that tries to kill her and it's like, "GIRL WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?!"
Yes they had great chemistry and he came back for her after pleading for his life describing her to the previous Dread Pirate Roberts. Well he had to go through Hell and back for her and in the end the good guy cool dude gets to kiss his girl, but it would have been less trouble if he was less cryptic with her in the beginning and told her straight out he's in to her and ask her straight up if she would love him being a poor farm hand.
If she was less about ordering him around to test his loyal obedience, then maybe he would have felt he would love him as he was. He knew she wanted to be the lady of the house but he felt he had to risk life and limb to make his fortune to return loaded so he could provide for her in the manner he loves her.
Yes he was friggen loyal! She was his hope and comfort in memory that had him holding on, but she didn't wait for him because she thought he was dead. Why didn't he ask her to go with her so they'd be together?
It was chance that saved their love, and again he had to go through a clusterfudge to get to her; surviving extreme pain that temporarily paralyzed him. It was way too much to go through just to get their happy ending where he gets to relax a bit from being her White Knight dressed in sexy black; while she MAYBE learns to chill with the tude and gets over being a damsel in distress.
Seriously after what he went through for her, she better dang straight appreciate him and be the dream girl fantasy that kept him going under severe stress. If not, he could do better. Just being honest.
Then there's the pairing in "I.Q." where the pretty nerd niece of Albert Einstein feeling the spark between her and the Grease Monkey Mechanic that felt it too, and they dug each other though she was engaged to a pompous a**hole that was snooty and sangron.
He didn't feel smart enough for her and Albert Einstein along with other brilliant minds put him up to pretending he's someone he's not in order to impress the girl. Yeah they end up together after pulling off a stunt that lead to the US Government thinking he developed a bomb, or something like that I forget; but they had to figure that one out.
They did have a soul mate moment when she mentions an aquatic experience in Hawaii where I'm blanking if it's known as "The Waterfall of a Million Kisses", and they harmonize saying its name. He was as dreamy as she was. That's where they should have started with describing to each other their interests and where they'd like to travel.
Thing is looking back on their story, she did think she was out of his league. It didn't help when he made sexual innuendos when he was playing the sex card since bad boy greaser he kinda had going for him with his Vintage Heritage Model Harley Davidson motorcycle he gave Albert Einstein a ride on, and he shouted out "WAHOO!!!" so that was cool.
It's cute but he had to pretend he was better educated than what he was and distinguished with his own brilliant mind. He was smart just not book smart, and I think she held that against him though 'The Spark' was there.
Recently I seen "Blended" with Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler playing two single parents that went out on a blind date that bombed. They kept running in to each other and end up in Africa on a family vacation where they had to pretend they were a couple.
They do meet in the middle but he wasn't ready to move on since he didn't divorce, he was widowed. He gets his sign to go for it and they almost didn't make it, but he showed more paternal instinct with her children than their own father; and it was that instinct that brought them together when he and his kids show up at her child's baseball game to coach him through hitting his first home run. They had to snap at each other before getting to the point of understanding. It was a great film that I can appreciate.
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This brings me to the previous couple to Adam and Drew that is from an underrated independent film "Spooner" that I had fallen for their happy movie 'ending'. It has another Herman that is painfully awkward while Rose is getting second thoughts about her monumental move to go be a school teacher abroad.
Their courtship was put on hold while she was doing her thing, as he adjusted well to finally moving out of his parents' home and switching jobs to one he's a natural for; and he's much happier for it in his new grown up big boy's apartment with an awesome sound system.
The way the story ends is one of 'The Future's Open Wide'. There's no kiss at the end, just the intention of seeing each other soon. They decided to calmly get to know each other as friends first. Funnie part, he had to stalk her and then redeem himself. It's funny and cute but awkward which I totally am. But I want to develop it further...
But speaking of 'The Future's Open Wide', there's Randy and Julia from "Valley Girl" that were a retelling of Romeo & Juliet that are another two not to glorify. Well, Julia allows her friends to boss her around and peer pressure her to dump the punk rocker that doesn't fit in to their Valley mold and to go back with her horndog, "cool" boyfriend that pressures her drunk friend to have sex at the same party she was at.
Randy goes out of his way to win her back which takes him with his best pal to crash her High School Prom where she was elected Queen with her a**hole boyfriend as King, that planed taking her virginity that night. Randy kicks his hiney instead and he's the one now riding in the limo to the hotel the jerk rented a room at; and on his dime it's suggested he and Julia get to do it for her first time.
If she grew a spine in the beginning and listened to her heart rather than her b*tchy, shallow friends she would have been discovering life beyond the bubble of the Valley with shopping malls and credit cards sooner. She had to get rescued otherwise it's possible her boyfriend would have pressured her to do something she wasn't ready for if he has to hound her, probably getting her drunk. She's too damsel in distress for me.
So bringing it back to Herman and Lily, it was just how loving they were towards each other. Yes there are Morticia and Gomez but they were rich and had a servant while Lily was a homemaker that wasn't pampered.
No, Lily was always busy taking care of her family while Morticia had Lurch and the most I've seen her lift a finger was clipping roses off their thorny stems. Lily had a caldron going on the stove. Her home was warm while Morticia's was luxurious but not really something I can relate to.
Herman was sweet and goofy. Childlike but not childish. He had life in his laugh. He also did some drag racing in Dragula. He was a loving father to his son and father figure to his niece. Herman is the good guy cool dude dad that embodies a lot of qualities I'm looking for in my next partner. Overall he's the one half of a couple I look up to and if I can imagine the perfect man for me, he is a Frankenstein Frankie.
As I take this moment to ponder famous parings, Herman is the one male character in my life that makes me want to wake up early in the morning with him to make him his coffee and breakfast, and pack him his lunch. Then before he goes to work he would kiss me in a way that makes me glad to be married to him.
In a way I feel loved and appreciated. In a way I feel he looks forward to returning home and we can see each other again and enjoy our life together as a team that also are family.
I hope I get to have another chance to get romance right. Before I know it my youngest will venture out into the world to start his own life independent from me as his mother. He may meet someone that proved so special, he proposes to them and soon after comes the pitter-patter of little feet.
I want my grandchildren to have an Abuelito in my future mate. I want us to dress up as Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus, the only 'Mrs.' worth being. I want my babies' babies to come over and celebrate Christmas in a whimsical world that is 'Grandma and Grandpa's House'.
Perhaps it really is a matter of time before we meet and talk, go for a stroll and feel like we have what it takes to make romance work for us. Perhaps so well our love shines so bright, others would look to us for inspiration. Hopefully our own children would and live happily ever after as I hope we would as "Gina and...?"
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