Exactly what was the matter with Muriel that she figured it would endanger her children for there to be three bathrooms instead of four? There's four of them in that house, there are four people in my home and there have always been two bathrooms for four people and NEITHER bathroom is to anybody's bedroom.
shareYou have to remember that Muriel is a couple of french fries short of a Happy Meal to begin with. To say she is an airhead is something of an understatement.
shareWhile this is true, they had lived in that 2 bathroom apartment for how many years, 15 was it? And never once during that time did she say it was endangering.
shareI dont think Muriel was daffy. She seemed pretty intelligent to me
shareIt's an exaggeration. She doesn't really think it's unhealthy to share a bathroom. She's being a mom. Any time she wants something for the kids she says it's for her children's health, safety, whatever. Plus they've been trapped in that dinky little apartment with one itty bathroom forever. You'd be missing a few cards out of the deck on the subject of living space yourself.
Let's just say that God doesn't believe in me.
Isn't it interesting how what passes as 40's humor is completely over the heads of today's viewers? LOL!
shareI run into this all the time. People do not get a lot of things and draw completely the wrong conclusions. Well, I guess it's up to us oldies to explain it!
(The day I was asked "What's an LP?" was the day I became officially old.)
Thanks for telling us about the OLDEN DAYS, Mr. Freekowtski!
Four bathrooms in the late '40's? Really?
It wasn't until the 70's-80's that having more than a couple bathrooms was felt neccessary. Up until the 30's most homes had outhouses. Evidently making $15,000 in 1948 was like being a millionaire. and really, making that money by coming up with a new slogan every several months?
I can see having a bathroom with double sinks for the parents and another bath for the kids would be more than enough, in those days.
I couldn't figure out why they never even considered just moving to a larger apartment. That place was tiny for four people. I know the post-war housing market was tight, especially in New York, but with patience and good contacts (and some discreet bribery, probably) you'd think they could have gotten a bigger place. Blandings made a good salary, so the problem can't have been just money.
shareNow that would have made an entertaining movie! Too many people on this board over-analyze the details in this film and seem to miss the essential human comedy that hasn't changed in the last 65 years! Thank God they don't write screenplays.
shareWhat? You don't think Mr Blandings Rents A Larger Apartment would make an entertaining film?
I didn't mean that the entire movie should revolve around getting an bigger apartment. I only meant that it would have been a logical line for someone (like Melvyn Douglas, for example) to have thrown in.
that fireplace in the apt. was a real danger. massive fire hazard.
sake happens
I grew up in a family of four in the 1950s and 1960s, in houses that had one bathroom. It never seemed like a problem, but now that I'm used to at least two bathrooms I could never go back!
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