Does Alice Know Deep Inside That Ralph is 100% Right About Her Mother?

A halfway-decent mother would have understood that the tickets to the play were a golden opportunity for her daughter to have a wonderful night out for once, and she would have announced, "Have a good time!" and returned home. The fact that not only didn't this occur to her, but she proceeded to inform Alice what a crummy play it was and then ruined the ending for her, showed just how low she was--not only did she stick it to Ralph yet again, but she hurt her own daughter, too, just to do so. Poor Alice, who could always stand up to Ralph, wouldn't stand up to her mother and defend him properly even after every nasty comment she made about him
was exactly what Ralph predicted she would say.

At least she cried when she heard the record Ralph made and ran back home to him again. It must have been a nightmare to be back in her mother's house and listening to the old crone complain all day long.



I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

Hewwo.

Oh Alice knows...whether she uses a Ouija Board or her corns tell her, she knows.

Seriously though; my take on it was Alice just hated the term, "Blabbermouth".

So when Ralph exploded, using the term not once but four times, Alice had enough.

But I agree with you regarding Alice's lucidity: For someone who is so level-headed, why does "Blabbermouth" bother her so much? Considering Mrs. Gibson's high level of obnoxiousness, there's probably far worse terms that Ralph could use to describe her.

I completely agree with you 100%. Ralph was usually in the wrong about most everything in the marriage, for example, his insane jealousy, his repeated get-rich quick schemes that never pan out, and his short-fused temper. In this episode, A Matter of Record, though, his mother-in-law was bitter, cruel, and rude to Ralph. It seems like no matter what Ralph would do it would never be enough to placate Alice's mother. Alice should have asked her mother to stop all the insults, at least in front of him. It's no wonder he didn't want to visit Alice's mother in the episode where he wrenches his back at the bowling tournament.

But she certainly had taste in pajamas!

Where exactly is Alice's mother wrong about Ralph, he had her beloved daughter living in a dump, he treated her miserably, heaven forbid if he could be bothered to remember his wife's birthday. When Alice's mother first got married she had a more modern stove to cook on. Seriously if Alice was your daughter would you be happy with Ralph, the way he was always screaming at Alice. To think she gave up a good job in the bakery for this.