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Victoria Grayson’s Gold-digging Mother!

20121201-124923.jpgVictoria Grayson’s Gold-digging Mother! I remember Adrienne Barbeau from the Loveboat, Fantasy Island, Murder She Wrote, and Cannonball Run. Here, she shows up on the Thanksgiving episode of Revenge, trying to land her latest conquest as a husband while revealed to be quite the horrible mother, blaming her murder of a former husband on Victoria. Is this leopard coat simply a coat, or a symbol of the cougar: a sexual predator who will stop at nothing to get what she wants?

Howard’s dirty pillows

20121201-131150.jpgHoward packs up his Star Trek action figures, light sabres, and dirty pillows to move out of his Mother’s house and in with his Smurfette wife, Bernadette. I think it is safe to say that the use of leopard print in Howard Wolowitz’s bedroom as part of his boudoir is a signifier of his (lack of) sexual prowess and general hound dog characterization. Spoiler alert: they ain’t moving anywhere.