The "tornado comes to Wisteria Lane" episode of Desperate Housewives tonight was too funny for those of us who live in places where we actually have tornadoes... I know it's too much to hope that the writers of the show would do any research but Twister with Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton is pretty darned good... I mean, I've not seen any flying cows but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
They wrote a hurricane, not a tornado. A Tornado Watch means "go ahead and do whatever you're doing, but keep the radio on," not "A tornado will be here at 2:00 p.m, so rearrange your DayTimer." And a tornado is not heralded by gradually increasing winds... it is usually very calm. And usually hot and sticky and irritable. And often a funny color of green.
Pathetic. I mean, it's a big country, but c'mon... "I don't have any idea what the midwest is like so I'll just make it up out of whole cloth... no one will notice!"
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Someone Make the Writers of Desperate Housewives watch Twister!
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