Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry...
The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic...
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.