November 1, 2009: Sunday Showdown!

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• Loretta never misses an opportunity to cruelly bludgeon Leroy's dreams with the blunt club of reality. Loretta's mocking of Leroy's gambling habit is especially mean spirited since she knows that his frequent trips to the race track and his constant long shot betting are all desperate attempts at trying to dig the household out of Loretta's ever growing mountain of crushing shopping debts. Even when he's trying to help Loretta's situation, he gets Loretta's wrath. It's an unwinnable situation. Loretta goes up 1-0.
• Leroy finds himself in some sort of bizarre, exaggerated, slapstick comedy routine involving his sleep number mattress. I really can't see the need for such hysterics on the part of Leroy. From here it just looks like his bed is a little too soft. In any case, it makes absolutely no sense for him to be calling out to Loretta for help; she would be the last person in the world to give him aide. It's more than likely that she's the one who sabotaged the mattress in the first place. An odd, mostly underwhelming, push.
• A putrid, rotting, hollow pumpkin that's been left out too long; how eerily symbolic of the Lockhorn's marriage. Aside from his usual laziness, perhaps that was another reason why Leroy had yet to throw the old jack-o-lantern away? In addition, in the crude, ugly world of the Lockhorns, the more decomposed and lumpy the jack-o-lantern gets the more it seems to oddly become closer to resembling the Lockhorns. It's a push.
• It looks like another edition of "Leroy grossly overreacting to a modern day pet peeve"! Today, Leroy directs his special brand of overwhelming spite at the common nuisance of poor drive through intercom systems. While a less hate-filled man would perhaps talk slower and louder or complain about the service to the manager, Leroy prefers to take the obnoxious bullhorn approach. I sure hope Leroy enjoys people spitting in his hamburgers. Yet another push.
• We now see just how serious Loretta takes her general fun policing duties. She is so bent on penalizing any sort of joy or happiness coming out of Leroy that she actually shows up to the party in a referee uniform complete with a whistle. I can only sit back and wonder in awe at how miserable she is going to make this evening for Leroy. I can see that whistle going off every time Leroy is caught ogling or drunkenly dancing with a giant bimbo. Maybe she even brought some official yellow flags to throw out for "illegal contact" or "holding" penalties! Poor Leroy (and those poor guests) have no idea what they're in for. Loretta gets the point and completes the 2-0 shut out.

Official Count:

Leroy - 94
Loretta - 120
Push - 91