When Old Ladies Attack

The Amanda Show (1999) Season 1, Episode 11
The Amanda Show
When Old Ladies Attack

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Amanda presents a grave exposé on a menace nobody is prepared for: gangs of elderly women ambushing strangers with purses and umbrellas.
Documentary Parody Elderly Bathroom Loneliness
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Quotes

You may remember me as Cousin Oliver from the Brady Bunch.
I was so frightened, and my hands still smell of tuna.
Men don't really, you know, enjoy me.

Synopsis

Introducing herself as a former Brady Bunch child star, Amanda hosts a mock true-crime special about roving bands of old ladies. Grainy security footage shows a man being swarmed in a public restroom and a woman knocked flat on the sidewalk after a solo trip to the movies, and each attack is replayed in slow motion while Amanda's narration heaps scorn on the victims. The bandaged victims then recount their ordeals, the man parroting her narration almost word for word and the woman over-sharing about how lonely she is. Amanda closes by reading out an absurdly long hotline number, only for the old ladies to storm the studio and send her running.

Notes

The woman attacked here returns as a victim in the series' later "When School Mascots Attack" installment (season 2, episode 10), where she is the bride whose wedding is disrupted.

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