Loud-out-loud hilarious, THE PJs was just as often as damning as any documentary or breaking news story- to wit; the episode ROBBIN' HUD. In said episode, our hero, Thurgood Stubbs, rallies the denizens of the Lawrence Hilton Jacobs the Third housing projects when it comes to his attention that the water filters provided by The City aren't filtering the water (the always trembling Miss Avery turns up at the "Super's" apartment door with green slime of some unknown sort atop her head). Thurgood organizes a "riot," but the assault on City Hall only gets the posse gassed. As he's being dragged semi-conscious from the building, Thurgood spies through an open vault door a veritable treasure trove of hoarded two-ply toilet paper rolls. He vows that the residents of the Lawrence etc, etc, will know, at long last, the joys of wiping with cushiony softness... and so he plans a robbery of City Hall. The impetus for our hero's misguided action(s) was, lest we forget, the City's failure to provide its Citizens with safe drinking water. Sound in any way familiar...? No sooner had the lead in Flint, Michigan's drinking water been uncovered (by a CITIZEN, let's remember) than lead was said to have been discovered in Detroit's drinking water- and, most recently, somewhere in Ohio the selfsame scenario is playing out. (On the local front, the service station where I used to work was shut down when it was revealed that the groundwater had been contaminated. A drugstore now sits where once squatted the service station. And, while I'm on the subject of suspect water: a SECOND dead whale has washed ashore here; along with a 15-foot shark, that makes THREE marine creatures that have died mysteriously here in the Atlantic Ocean...) Years ago, I saw during its initial theatrical run the movie A CIVIL ACTION (about the poisoning of a water table by the chemicals used by a tannery in Massachusettes); it's about time We as Citizens of this colossal Toxic Dump of a Nation rose up and raised some Hell- before it's too late.
