Click (S3E11)

What we have here is a case of mixed messages.  There is a strong suggestion of "normalcy" in the household.  Everyone is happy and everyone is thanking Alice for all the wonderful things she does for them.  I'm so incredibly sad about that because once again Alice is getting screwed!  I mean they beat her down and beat her down again and beat her down one more time and then they do one small "nice" thing and everything is back to "even" when it clearly shouldn't!!!!  So the result is that Alice unconsciously gets beaten down even more and she doesn't even know it!  The poor, poor, poor soul!  I weep for you, Alice.

Incident #31: This incident is particularly difficult to describe because it's Alice shooting herself in the foot with the help of Peter.  We find Alice working on a recipe that she's trying to remember.  She's writing the ingredients down on the chalkboard.  This is her first mistake.  Next Peter runs in and wants to show her what a 'Red Dog' play is.  Before Alice can stop him, Peter has erased the recipe that she's worked so hard to remember.  That little fucker then turns around and says "Was it something important, Alice?"  Now that really pisses me off!  BUT, a person to my left has indicated to me that it's QUITE possible that Peter did this simply because "he is acting like a normal self-involved adolescent" and this is one thing that they do -- stuff like erasing blackboards.  But I contend that Peter simply has no honest consideration for Alice and doesn't give a fuck WHAT is written on a blackboard!  If he needs it, he'll just go up and erase it with NO consideration at all!  But the thing is that Alice SHOULD know better than to make ANYTHING accessible to the children because they WILL fuck it up.  Despite knowing this, she makes accessible to the children the "recipe that has been handed down from generation to generation" and therefore gets EXACTLY what she deserves.  What a pitiful old hag!  The really really sad part is that she is CLUELESS.  She actually believes that this is all Peter's fault.  I want to go bite something.  And wow -- we see a bit later that Alice is back on the chalkboard trying to remember the recipe again.  She has half the board filled (which I'd like to say is pretty good!).  Now how much can I help her and defend her when she clearly will not help herself?  I mean, she STILL doesn't get it despite being burned maybe a day or two earlier!  Alice you need to get out of there!!!!