The Book Archives Other Sections Books Features Film Misc. When things are perfect, life is a pungent blend of sweet and sour. It's the end of a romantic comedy , that's what. And so it can be argued that the rich contrast between the painful and the transcendently positive is what makes life's distinguishing events truly intense, memorable and vivid. It is the perfect blend of ethereal wine and the rank liquid of the world's many gutters.
Many episodes are gleefully, savagely violent.
Quite a few make some sort of reference to sex, or sexual dysfunction. There are odes to the love affair between Saturn and the Chrysler Building.