The Help

What do the Pals, a drowning man and John Lennon circa 1965 all have in common? It's that they're all yelling out for help, of course! But this week, the Pals are outshining Lennon and that dumb non-swimmer by using some definite articles, the best kind of grammatical articles there are!!! It's not just any kind of help that we need, but specifically The Help, Tate Taylor's 2011 dramedy about the mistreatment of Black women in servitude to the overbearing, racist white families of the American South during the 1960s. Heavy stuff, but nothing that can't be solved by a well-timed pie gag (zing!). Now personally, if you'd asked us what our favourite flavour of pie is, there'd be no end to the list: Pal-pple, rhu-Pal-b, ma-Pal syrup with brown Pal-nut butter topping. But to each his own, we sup-poo-se.