Sweet fool: little do you know that an office is the setting for a job more unpleasant than anything you could ever imagine, and we get to see it in The Complainers (Tuesday, 9pm, Channel 5).
The very funny fantasy film, Miracle in Milan (1951), gives us Totò (Francesco Golisano) and Edvigie (the adorable Brunella Bovo), two improbably sweet holy fools; De Sica's films often looked into the depths that abide in simplicity.
In Gossart's own "Holy Family" hanging nearby, a bare-headed, wispy-haired Joseph might be a sweet village fool.
Evil Emperor Nurbison sees an opportunity to rule Edwinland when the peasants don't get their sweets, and he fools them into thinking there is a curse on their land.
Gooseberries are commonly used in fools and sweet jellies, but they are delicious in other preparations, too.
And when Chase and Status try to deviate from the blueprint, drafting in their regular collaborator Plan B to add a sweet soul vocal to Fool Yourself, the results are so actively horrible it's hard to know where to look while you're listening.
Treating them as she would dangerous creatures helped her decide her course of action and not to be fooled by sweet, manipulative ploys.
Staib doesn't keep strictly to the time period -- macadamia nuts and ricotta were not to be found in Thomas Jefferson's larder -- but the spirit is all here in recipes like: Johnny Appleseed's pie, Indian pudding, charlotte russe, spritz cookies, plum fool and sweet potato biscuits.
Jason Segel is Jeff, a large, sweet-natured, melancholy fool, and Ed Helms is his older brother Pat, an insecure jerk whose marital problems set a farcical plot in motion.
