Grandma: Abe, isn't Homer cute?
Abe: Probably. I'm trying to watch the Super Bowl. If people don't
support this thing, it might not make it.
Cosell: [on TV] Joe Willy Namath, swaggering off the field, his
sideburns an apogee of sculpted sartorium -- the foppish
follicles pioneered by Ambrose Burnside, Appomattox 1865.
["Sunshine of Your Love" starts playing]
Grandma: [voice over] His wild, untamed facial hair revealed a new world
of rebellion -- of change. A world where doors were open for
women like me. [music stops]
But Abe was stuck in his button-down plastic-fantastic Madison
Avenue scene.
Abe: Look at them sideburns! He looks like a girl. Now, Johnny
Unitas -- there's a haircut you could set your watch to.
-- Madison Avenue indeed, "Mother Simpson"
