A news piece on the radio this morning got me to thinking – while their vocabulary may have been made a bit more understandable (as in “Look Who’s Talking” :- ), Nicky and Alex potty training at age one may *not* have been a mistake, as I thought.

It seems there’s a growing number of people who say potty training can at least start that early – or earlier! It’s a shock in Ameircan culture, but many in other countries do train that early. Admittedly, this was 1993, but this was California, too, where all sort of stuff is done. (Especially because the report remarked that some spoke of how it was better ecogolically.)

All it would take is one guest on the show discussing it, and Jesse’s impatient enough at times he might just try it. Becky’s shock is apparent in “Room For One More,” after all; perhaps she reacted the same way on “Wake Up, San Francisco" inthe time between episodes, when they had that guest.

Now, I still think my theory holds about them timing Nicky and Alex’s development to coincide with Blake and Dylan’s. However, they at least had some foundation to build on when they decided to mention that. Although, it would have been nice to hear that that’s why. At least with their Bouton Hall application, it's obvious that Jesse lied about their age in the same sentence in which he lied about them being proficient on the bassoon.

As noted elsewhere, though, writers using information not generally known by the viewing public was a problem. (Again with the ecology/environment, every 6YO in California in 1993 would have heard lots of talk about saving gas and such already and made a comment about taking a subway, and nobody int heir right minds can fault Michelle on that one. She didn't even insist on it like some would do; she just repeated Ralph Nader's theme :-)