CougarTown Writers Should "SCRUB" Their Mouths With Soap!

CougarTown Writers Should "SCRUB" Their Mouths With Soap!

Last night's premiere of "CougarTown" with Courtney Cox had me holding my head with disbelief. Here we go again, I thought to myself — another dopey show making older divorced women back in the dating game look like idiots.

As a divorced woman with a 21-year-old daughter who dates younger and older men, I was actually embarrassed for all the other women in the same boat whose families and grown kids watched last night and now think this is how we act. For the most part, women who would likely be categorized as cougars, by the nature of their age and looks, act like ladies...at the very least in front of their own children. Re-inventing a life after divorce is hard enough without now having the whole country think that older women who are back in the dating game are prowling and lewd. Women deserve better. If you agree, please comment on my blog below.

As line after ridiculous line came out out Cournety Cox's mouth last night ( I think even she must have been struggling to deliver some of them), I thought to myself, this had to be written by men. No female writer would have allowed the humor to be so tasteless, rude, and inappropriate.

I was right. Creator Bill Lawrence chose to enlist fellow "Scrubs" writer Kevin Biegel to write lines that made my botox-less forehead scrunch at full throttle.

Men and women have different senses of humor, ya know. Hiring a few funny divorced women to write would have been the way to go. Divorced women will tell ya there's a huge amount of humor involved in getting back in the dating game, but most of us would never use the kind of language and phrases depicted in this sitcom.

In fact, the writing killed what could have been a great show.

I love Courtney and she can be very funny, but she was parroting dumb and offensive lines all the while immersed in some very real scenarios. Courtney's character "Jules",  a more or less 40-year-old divorced mother with a great 17-year-old son, is re-inventing her life after divorce. We get it.

But only a complete idiot of a divorced mother in ANY TOWN would spew sex-laced lines of ANY kind (of which their were plenty that made me cringe) to her 17-year-old son.  Like announcing to her son as he’s leaving the house that maybe she'll have over her best gal pal and try and 'hit it", insinuating a lesbian tryst might be her answer. Additional talk of boobs, penises, sluts and her 'coochie-cooch,' made me cringe as did this phrase Courtney's character used when spotting a hot young stud at a HS football game: "I want to lick him"...???

What this show needs is to fix the writing, lose some of the slapstick, and go with more innuendo, and then MAYBE it can work, because though manic in the speed at which the world of a divorced gal is rolled out, some of the scenarios were very real.

Courtneys' character Jules owns her own real estate company, and pays alimony to a husband she supported from the beginning who never quite made it — Rare but Realistic

Jules opens with a scene examining her physical flaws in mirror (even if she's unrealistically flawless) — Realistic

Jules was married young and never got to sow her oats, and is awkwardly trying to figure out how to in her 40's — Realistic

Jules is a great looking gal you wouldn't figure to be home Friday night after Friday night with a glass of wine alone and lonely — Realistic

Jules reluctantly agrees to test the new social waters at a nightclub filed with much younger guys and feels really old — Realistic

Jules finds sex with a much younger guy intriguing, as his natural sexual energy is boundless — Realistic

Jules is ready for a return engagement with the young stud, and the minute Jules’s fabulous son Travis leaves the house, she quick grabs the wine and lingerie for the elusive sex window — Realistic

What I thought was ridiculous and unnecessary in prime-time network TV was the scene where Jules' son and ex-husband return home on unexpectedly on 'his' night and walk in on her giving a blow job, and she still lays there and make a silly face. Unnecessarily low imagery on network TV and quite frankly disgustingly cavalier in how it was portrayed and addressed. I found this offensive.

I also hated the scenes where she flashes a young kid riding by on a bike, shoves a neighbor to the ground, calls her younger co-worker a slut.

We live in a society that already devalues women as they age. What I was hoping for with "CougarTown" was a prime-time TV show that somehow reflected the 'value' of an older experienced women with all the wisdom, class, and humor that most have acquired along the way. 

If they want to make us laugh, they had better hire some divorced female writers in a hurry, because we're already contemplating filing the papers on this show.