To put a finishing touch on this year's Revenge Month, our 661st episode has some fun with Colin Higgins' feminist comedy where a mediocre man gets major comeuppance for treating the women in his office so badly. If only Nine To Five was as funny as its reputation says it is. The tonal problems are partly because this started out as a serious look at how hard women have it in the workplace. Flawed or not, we DID enjoy the flick. It helps that Higgins knows how to tell a good story and his 3 stars make a great team. Jane Fonda was at her peak of stardom in this period (although she gave herself the worst role of the 3 main characters), while Lily Tomlin is the ultra-competent heart of the group. It's Dolly Parton's charm and effervescence that steal the movie though. So don't poison your boss' coffee, even if he IS a sexist, lying, egotistical, hypocritical bigot. Just dial up Have You Ever Seen's back-and-forth about Nine To Five.

Well, Actually: at the 15:40 mark, the line "Roz imagines" should have been "Vi imagines".

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