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dav4463 · 09-12-2008, 04:55 AM

Does anybody else think Mr.Haskell was a sorry boss? He showed no loyalty to Marcia who did nothing wrong and then he picked Jan over her. Marcia is the only reason Jan even came to work for him and then the butthead took Jan over Marcia, who was a loyal employee who did her job well. Mr.Haskell was sorry!

magellan333 · 09-12-2008, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by dav4463

Does anybody else think Mr.Haskell was a sorry boss? He showed no loyalty to Marcia who did nothing wrong and then he picked Jan over her. Marcia is the only reason Jan even came to work for him and then the butthead took Jan over Marcia, who was a loyal employee who did her job well. Mr.Haskell was sorry!

Mr. Haskell was not sorry, he was a businessman. Jan was clearly a better employee and he had to think of his business, retirement, family, etc., hence he chose Jan.

Tweety · 09-12-2008, 10:11 PM

Jan was shown, in that episode, to be a harder worker than Marcia. Marcia clearly knew "the business" better than Jan did, from having been there longer. At one point in the episode, Jan completed one task, and then asked Marcia "OK, what do I do next?".

If Mr. Haskell was looking for one person to run the place while he took off afternoons to play golf, he should have kept the more experienced employee, as long as she was a good worker too, as Marcia indeed was. If he's looking for a hard worker who's not afraid to get her hands dirty, then he should go with Jan, especially if he decides he doesn't want the afternoons off and just wants someone to help him around the store.

But hey, you can't go wrong with either of those two being there

Smartboy · 09-12-2008, 10:11 PM

On August 31st, I started a thread titled "Still Untarnished". This was my second failed attempt to start a game that had to do with the fact that the Bradys spent five years living three to a bedroom and six to a bath. One possible theory is that Sherwood Schwartz took episode eighteen very seriously and did not want anything to happen to weaken the lesson taught in this episode. Throughout the series, there were countless incidents in which the smallness of the house was an issue, but that moving was never mentioned again. Now that we are on the topic of the ice cream parlor episode, we come to yet another case in which a bigger house would not have solved the problem but might have cut down on some of the symptoms. After getting fired, Peter was in the bathroom telling Bobby all about how Marcia abused her power by doing what she did. While Peter was preaching, Marcia started pounding on the door and shouting "are you going to be in there all night"? If they had moved to the bigger house back in episode eighteen, the girls would have had their own bathroom and thus, there would have been one less cause for tension. Like I said, it would not have solved the problem, but it would have releaved one of the symptoms!

09-12-2008, 04:55 AM	#1
dav4463 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: May 18, 2003 Location: texas Posts: 252	The Ice Cream store episode Does anybody else think Mr.Haskell was a sorry boss? He showed no loyalty to Marcia who did nothing wrong and then he picked Jan over her. Marcia is the only reason Jan even came to work for him and then the butthead took Jan over Marcia, who was a loyal employee who did her job well. Mr.Haskell was sorry!

09-12-2008, 10:11 PM	#3
Tweety Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Jan 18, 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 6,804	Jan was shown, in that episode, to be a harder worker than Marcia. Marcia clearly knew "the business" better than Jan did, from having been there longer. At one point in the episode, Jan completed one task, and then asked Marcia "OK, what do I do next?". If Mr. Haskell was looking for one person to run the place while he took off afternoons to play golf, he should have kept the more experienced employee, as long as she was a good worker too, as Marcia indeed was. If he's looking for a hard worker who's not afraid to get her hands dirty, then he should go with Jan, especially if he decides he doesn't want the afternoons off and just wants someone to help him around the store. But hey, you can't go wrong with either of those two being there
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09-12-2008, 10:11 PM	#4
Smartboy Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 06, 2007 Location: South Orange, NJ Posts: 4,231	On August 31st, I started a thread titled "Still Untarnished". This was my second failed attempt to start a game that had to do with the fact that the Bradys spent five years living three to a bedroom and six to a bath. One possible theory is that Sherwood Schwartz took episode eighteen very seriously and did not want anything to happen to weaken the lesson taught in this episode. Throughout the series, there were countless incidents in which the smallness of the house was an issue, but that moving was never mentioned again. Now that we are on the topic of the ice cream parlor episode, we come to yet another case in which a bigger house would not have solved the problem but might have cut down on some of the symptoms. After getting fired, Peter was in the bathroom telling Bobby all about how Marcia abused her power by doing what she did. While Peter was preaching, Marcia started pounding on the door and shouting "are you going to be in there all night"? If they had moved to the bigger house back in episode eighteen, the girls would have had their own bathroom and thus, there would have been one less cause for tension. Like I said, it would not have solved the problem, but it would have releaved one of the symptoms!