Each "Duck" episode ends with the family at the dinner table, saying grace and passing the biscuits, while the camera pulls outside to show the house secure in the darkness, just as episodes of "The Waltons" used to end.
Worried that they barely had enough animals to meet domestic demand, reindeer producers there have refused a request from a German company for 100,000 beasts destined for the dinner table, saying there were not enough reindeer in Finland, the national broadcaster YLE reported on Sunday.
"The beating of Rabbi Moskowitz was talked about at each and every dinner table," said one Jewish resident.
"You should see it at the dinner table," said Devin, a senior at a Connecticut prep school.
Talking about adaptation was for many years like farting at the dinner table, says an academic who has worked on adaptation over the past decade.
"All of the sudden there are six people around the dinner table," says Gamper of the constant motion in their household.
"It's on the beach, in the stores, at the dinner table," said Tamara Weiss, the owner of Midnight Farm, a sprawling, eclectic boutique in Vineyard Haven.
There is no leveler quite like a dinner table, said Mr. Hitz, a longtime bicoastal whose dinners at his California digs, an aerie perched high above Sunset Boulevard, tend to be populated by Hollywood types from across the demographic spectrum.
At the dinner table, say Grace, before beginning to eat, in order to thank Our Lord for this feast that you are about to eat, & to also thank Him for Coming into the world to be Our Saviour.
There are times when, if I close my eyes, I can almost imagine that it is Dame Maggie Smith herself sitting at our dinner table and saying, "I don' wanna eat it!
Without that, he added, they risk being perceived as too serious or self-important, in the vein of an oft-quoted New Yorker cartoon from 1928 in which a daughter tells her mother at the dinner table, "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it".
