a forkful into her mouth.
"That's right, in my house we're not allowed to talk about his..." Brian looked pointedly to his brother, frowning.
"Jealous." Victoria gave him a snooty look.
"We all know that you're a grower." Jillian gave him a sympathetic smile.
"Yes, we do all know this and..." Brian held his head high. "Every single one of Darcy Gray's two million twitter followers know this as well. I know because I heard from an awful lot of them."
"That's right." Jillian curled her lip. "Hashtag brianisagrower trended for a few days on twit—"
"Two weeks." Closing his eyes, he sighed. "Two. Whole. Weeks."
"Sorry baby."
"Let's see we’ve discussed meringue and now details ... maybe we should talk about something else."
"Good idea," Jim replied. "Have you guys seen any good movies lately?"
"We just saw The Guilt Trip." Brian shrugged. "It's was okay."
"I think that's on our Netflix queue," Jim replied.
Brian's eyes widened. "Jim, hey get this. You know that actress Amanda Joseph?"
"Who?" Jim asked, confused.
"You know." Victoria chimed in. "Emily from that show with those four girls and the good looking guys. They would always hang out at the coffee shop."
"Don’t you mean Elaine? The show's called Seinfeld ."
"No, babe. I wouldn't exactly call George, Jerry and Kramer good looking." Victoria scoffed.
"The show was called Twentysomething ," Brian explained.
"Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah." A look of enlightenment spread over Jim's face. "I see it on all the time."
"This one..." Motioning to Jillian with a head nod and a scowl, Brian said, "...thinks Amanda Jo looks like Barbra Streisand."
"What?" Jim made a face. "She's crazy."
"She looks just like a younger Babs, I swear." Jillian waved her fork around and nodded, convincingly.
Victoria smiled. "You know, you're onto something there. She does sorta give off that Streisand vibe."
Brian shrugged. "Well maybe, just maybe the hair is a little similar and the shape of her face is sorta like a poor man's version of her, but like a really, really poor man. Like dead broke, poor."
"Barbra was kinda pretty when she was younger," Victoria admitted.
"Yeah, but Amanda is drop dead gorgeous," Brian said. "There's no comparison."
Jillian scoffed. "She's okay, but come on."
"Jim back me up here."
Jim narrowed his eyes. "Wait, is she the one whose nipples are always showing in like every single scene of that show."
"That's her." Brian smiled widely. "I don't know if it was cold in that studio or if she was braless or maybe it was both..." Putting his hand to his chin, Brian pondered that a moment.
"I think it was both." Jim replied a bit dreamily, apparently lost in space as well.
"Whatever it was, she stole every scene."
"She really did."
The two guys shared one of those creepy knowing guy looks and the women rolled their eyes.
"You two are sick." Victoria cringed.
"We're sick?" Jim replied. "We're just appreciating a fine actress. She won some Emmys didn't she?"
"I don't know, but she should have won every year." Flashing Jim a smile, Brian put his fist up for a bump and his brother complied.
"You guys are kinda disgusting." Jillian frowned.
Victoria shook her head. "You know, there is really a complete double standard when it comes to hard nipples. You can show them all you want. Just once I'd like to see a giant erection tenting some guy's pants on a network TV show. I mean, you never once saw one of the guys on that show running around with a boner. I would have totally watched Twentysomething then."
"Yeah, that doesn't make any sense." Jillian nodded.
"Are you guys serious?" Brian's jaw fell open. "You think guys should walk around on TV and even in public with full on erections under their pants just proudly displaying them for all the world to see?"
Jillian and Victoria shared a look then replied in unison, "Yes."
"A nipple is like a thing of beauty, so cute and perfect." Jim began then put on a sickened expression. "But a penis is like a gnarled
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