Minisode Monday: Muddling Through

One of the most hilarious complaints of entertainment moguls is that the Internet makes it possible for anyone — no matter how talentless — to clutter up our lives with bad art.

And maybe they’re right.  If only we could go back to that Pristine Time of Yore, when benevolent gatekeepers stood guard over our attention to make sure we only saw quality entertainment programming.  Programming like the 1994 hit Muddling Through.

“Pistol-packin’ Connie Drego had just been paroled from prison, where she had served three years for shooting her cheating husband, Sonny, in the butt, in this raucous comedy. She had returned home to go back to work at Drego’s Oasis, the family’s truck-stop diner/motel in rural Michigan.” – The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows

Ha ha! You’re laughing already, aren’t you? And perhaps you’re wondering what makes this show Minisode Monday-worthy.

Two words: Jennifer Aniston.  Before she was a waitress at Central Perk, Jennifer Aniston was a waitress at Drego’s Oasis: the daughter of an ex-con, and the young wife of the ignorant cop who had put her mother away. It’s worth watching to see just how good Aniston is — that even in this mess of a show, she managed to convey that something that made her a star.