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In the fictional town of Fernwood, Ohio, suburban housewife Mary Hartman seeks the kind of domestic perfection promised by Reader’s Digest and TV commercials. Instead she finds herself suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: mass murders, low-flying airplanes and waxy yellow buildup on her kitchen floor.
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00:00Shout Factory TV, changing the channel.
00:05How do you like the floor?
00:09See that glow?
00:12What glow?
00:13Do you mean the waxy yellow buildup?
00:15What do you mean?
00:17That can't be a waxy yellow buildup.
00:20Read the can.
00:21Mary, you're looking at a waxy yellow buildup.
00:24No, I'm not.
00:24I am looking at a label that says,
00:27that can't be.
00:31Mary, I'm your sister.
00:32And I'm telling you, it's not a waxy buildup there.
00:35It's a waxy buildup there.
00:40You know, these people, I mean,
00:42they turn out about a million cans a week.
00:45I mean, who am I supposed to listen to? You?
00:47Waxy yellow buildup.
00:51It is a little yellow, isn't it?
00:53It certainly is.
00:56Anyway, that's not what's really bothering you, is it?
01:02I don't know.
01:02Kathy, I wonder what all the sirens are.
01:05You think someone got murdered on the next block.
01:08It's Tom.
01:10Come on, Mary.
01:11How are things between you and Tom?
01:12They're fine.
01:14Four sirens.
01:15Would you never mind the sirens?
01:17Tell me, what about your marriage?
01:18I don't mind the sirens.
01:40I don't mind the sirens.
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