Incident #24: The children are getting out of hand this morning. We see Carol "taking care" of the kids by trying to help them figure everything out but it's just getting more and more insane. Finally, it takes Alice with her big huge lungs to whistle very loudly and yell "Hold It!" which is sort of like what the Alpha Dog does to his/her pack. This is very clearly the 2nd Mother role. She then continues in this role as she helps Carol scoot the kids out the door for school.
Incident #25: Alice is with the kids in the backyard with their newly-built dunk tank. She's full on in her 2nd Mother role, taking care of Cindy when she gets dunked by running up the ladder, towel over left shoulder, and saying "hang on honey, here comes the coast guard". Here's a clear picture of Alice not realizing what kind of situation she's in. If she weren't so blind, she'd see right away that it isn't the responsibility of the "maid" or the "housekeeper" to play 2nd Mother to these brats. She should be in the kitchen cooking! Doh, what am I saying! Have I fallen for this, too? So here's the question: where should Alice be right at this moment? Should she be playing 2nd Mother with the kids out in the backyard with the dunk-tank, or should she be cooking dinner? I have it! I think she's playing 2nd Mother AND cooking dinner at the same time. Probably everything at the moment just needs to cook, so she can get away and take care of the kids, too. Where the hell is Carol and/or Mike? Mike may not be home yet, but that leaves Carol probably just wandering the house looking for mistakes that Alice made so she can jump all over her (off camera, of course).
Incident #26: When Mike & Carol need to quickly take care of something, they dump BOTH of their bags of groceries onto Alice, who is already carrying a bag. So now we see her carrying three bags and having a pretty rough time at it. She doesn't yell out "hey, what the fuck are you dumping all this crap on me for?" Instead, she pleads to the children with a "may day -- anybody". The kids just run away because they don't give a crap about Alice. Never mind that all that food she's carrying and is about to spill and it's all to stuff their fat ugly faces! We just see Peter standing there looking at her with this "look at me I'm a dummy" expression on his face:
Incident #27: Somehow Alice finds the opportunity to clean up after those filthy nasty kids who are now off doing something else while leaving this mess for "someone" to clean up. Guess who? Anyhow, the music indicates that Alice might be getting herself into some trouble. Yes, indeed. She ends up dunking herself. The really strange thing is the choice of music while she's dunking. It's the horse-race song!
Allright -- so WHY is this music used? Well, this is yet another motif that seems to be appearing quite often. Alice as a "Workhorse". The music is used because they're using the dunk tank as some kind of horse stall. One theory is that the song 'First Call' is played to summon the horses to the starting gates. When Alice gets dunked, she's figuratively being placed in her stall. The other theory is that when she falls into the tank, that's like getting out of the starting gate. I'd never make this connection unless the music smacked me in the face with it!!! I just think it's really really sad that everyone involved in this show behind the scenes (writers, etc.) would so blatantly use this music to show us viewers that Alice is a workhorse.
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