Life's Work — Season 1, Episode 10: Gobbledegook
Comedy • 30 min • 1 season, 18 episodes • ★ 7.5/10
Episode synopsis
Lisa's is planning to have a hassel-free thanksgiving, but she gets more than she bargained for when she avoids a holiday with her realatives. For starters, Kevin has to miss out on the festivities for a basketball recruiting trip. But he can't complain -- since it's in Maui! Lisa invites DeeDee to throw thanksgiving for thier coworkers at her house -- and Lisa winds up doing all the work. Then Connie arrives unannounced, hurling accusations that Lisa and Lyndon are having an affair, and that Kevin has left her. So Connie finally confides that she started a divorce fund for Lisa ""for when it all blows up in"" her face. Mr. Nash has his own worries when his teenage daughter comes to visit -- and ignore him. And Tess and Matt have problems when they try to perform a Thanksgiving play.
About Life's Work
Life's Work is an American situation comedy series that aired from September 1996 to June 1997 on the ABC channel; the show stars Lisa Ann Walter as Lisa Ann Minardi Hunter, an assistant district attorney in Baltimore. Lisa Ann always wanted to practice law since she was young because she always argued with her parents. She also had a basketball coach husband named Kevin Hunter who served as the patriarch of the family. Together, they raised a 7-year-old daughter Tess and a toddler son named Griffin. During the entire run of the series, a simple electric guitar instrumental solo was used as the show's opening theme. Laugh tracks were used in all episodes in the sitcom as it was filmed "live before a studio audience." During the 1990s, it was common to give stand-up comedians their own sitcom on TV; even if their first one had flopped. Lisa Ann Walter was a stand-up comedian who played a mouthy feminist who could stand up to her mother in addition to her superiors at work. While Lisa Ann's character had plenty of zingers to her, there was still a sense of "been-there-done-that" with her character. In one of the episodes, Lisa Ann claimed to have a sexual affair with then-current American President Bill Clinton.