I'll start with my thoughts on one of those points and then get to the meat of the episode.
Death smells. I remember one year an animal died up under the bathroom and the odor definitely wasn't pleasant. That's something up under the house, I can't imagine a body (especially something as large as a human) stinking up a place for very long before somebody notices a corpse around.
This episode centers on two couples. One couple (the Verbers) is quite dysfunctional and sadly children are involved. They're all the time getting into arguments, I'd say it was equal footing in terms of both of them smacking each other around.
The other couple are the Cranes. Mr. Crane runs the grocery store. Mr. Crane is a nice man but he also knows when to mind his own business. He realizes what he needs to do/not do when it concerns getting involved with anybody's business. He even cautions his wife about his attitude and loses his temper because Mrs. Crane is the opposite of Mr. Crane. She's all the time nosing about the Verbers business. I like how the episode plays out in some ways because you truly want to write Mrs. Crane off as just being a 'Gladys Kravitz' sort of character. She's got a nose problem and that's all there is to it. Nope, there's a lot more than that.
So much attention is being drawn that a cop comes around to investigate the whereabouts of Mr. Verber. Mr. Verber ends up being dead, killed by his wife. Mrs. Verber comes down the stairs and she confesses she was afraid of the cop. The cop wasn't going around telling who he was. He claimed to be a building inspector in order to search the premises. Mrs. Verber complains about her husband but then she pulls out a wild card over what Mr. Verber was about to do. He was about to leave her and go off with Mrs. Crane (!) The two ladies get into a cat fight as the camera pans over Mr. Crane looking like he's in a complete daze over the reveal that just happened.
This is an interesting episode but I question that twist ending. Would you really leave a steady and reliable husband to go off with somebody that's a womanizer and smacks his wife around? Really? I realize people might have their own tales to tell so perhaps I'm just being naive saying the above comment. Either way, it's still an excellent episode.
Death smells. I remember one year an animal died up under the bathroom and the odor definitely wasn't pleasant. That's something up under the house, I can't imagine a body (especially something as large as a human) stinking up a place for very long before somebody notices a corpse around.
This episode centers on two couples. One couple (the Verbers) is quite dysfunctional and sadly children are involved. They're all the time getting into arguments, I'd say it was equal footing in terms of both of them smacking each other around.
The other couple are the Cranes. Mr. Crane runs the grocery store. Mr. Crane is a nice man but he also knows when to mind his own business. He realizes what he needs to do/not do when it concerns getting involved with anybody's business. He even cautions his wife about his attitude and loses his temper because Mrs. Crane is the opposite of Mr. Crane. She's all the time nosing about the Verbers business. I like how the episode plays out in some ways because you truly want to write Mrs. Crane off as just being a 'Gladys Kravitz' sort of character. She's got a nose problem and that's all there is to it. Nope, there's a lot more than that.
So much attention is being drawn that a cop comes around to investigate the whereabouts of Mr. Verber. Mr. Verber ends up being dead, killed by his wife. Mrs. Verber comes down the stairs and she confesses she was afraid of the cop. The cop wasn't going around telling who he was. He claimed to be a building inspector in order to search the premises. Mrs. Verber complains about her husband but then she pulls out a wild card over what Mr. Verber was about to do. He was about to leave her and go off with Mrs. Crane (!) The two ladies get into a cat fight as the camera pans over Mr. Crane looking like he's in a complete daze over the reveal that just happened.
This is an interesting episode but I question that twist ending. Would you really leave a steady and reliable husband to go off with somebody that's a womanizer and smacks his wife around? Really? I realize people might have their own tales to tell so perhaps I'm just being naive saying the above comment. Either way, it's still an excellent episode.