This chick is seriously twisted. Yet the whole show is tremendously honest. Anne is an orphan sent off to a farm for a trial period in the hope of being adopted. The brother and sister couple who owns the farm are looking for a male orphan to help on the farm. Basically, they're looking for labor. Instead they are sent this headstrong little drama queen. The show is about Anne fitting into the family and the town on Prince Edward Island Canada.
My favorite scene is the mouse in the pantry that got into the flour, or sugar, at the time something not so easily replaced as trashing it and buying more at the grocery. Anne discovers the mouse and removes it but keeps it a secret. Later at a gathering with everyone around the table chatting and sipping tea and ready to eat a cake made from the infected ingredient Anne is going visibly nuts keeping her secret to herself until right as a guest is about to take the first bite she explodes in hysterical noisy emotional confession. The buildup is cinematographic brilliance and it's hilarious. I looked for that scene but couldn't find it. Apparently this is a chick flick and women like the romantic scenes a lot better. The whole show is loaded with such excellent comical scenes. I fold up laughing when she cracks her slate over Gilbert's head. He is the love interest throughout as the characters grow.
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Should we refer to you as Chipe with an "e"
No! That's Chip with a shoulder.
My bride and I went to Prince Edward Island this summer for our 40th anniversary. A bit of trivia, PEI is Canada's smallest province. Anne of Green Gables is a book loved by many women, reading it as a young girl. Many identify w/ her. Anne is a YUUGE industry on PEI. There are tours, plays, stores w/ just Anne memorabilia. It's so weird because Anne is a fictional character.
I hear they lose Japanese tourists all the time in English Lake Country out on the moors (the Bronte sisters are very popular in Japan).
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