Manny And Rabby Shack Up...

by Tah and Shay

October 6, 1999

Well, Shay, and I have been thinking of how Manny and Rabby may be interacting at the Bauer house behind the scenes. You know they say you never really know anyone until you live with them. So, in that spirit we offer these scenarios. Some of these we’d even like to see!! A big thanks to Tracee for her great input too!! Put aside your disbelief and just imagine…

• Danny and Rick discussing their women problems over a late night snack of milk and cookies. 

• The Bauer’s and The Santos’s sitting down to watch "must see T.V." together. 

• Michelle cringing when Rick offers to show Danny how to make and barbecue Bauer burgers. 

• Danny can diffuse a bomb. The real test is, can he fix the garbage disposal? 

• No more Michelle greeting Danny wearing nothing but his "favorite present" wrapped in a towel. 

• Danny permanently looses all feeling in his right arm from Michelle sleeping on it. 

• Danny and Michelle can’t rollover in their "pretty darn good" bed anymore. Bad for comfort, good for intimacy! 

• Danny will finally have to trash his grey boxers and t-shirt. He wouldn’t want to get Abby excited.

   

• No more Michelle screaming "take me mafia man" in moments of passion.

   

• Now with Manny in residence, Rick and Abby have to be careful where they leave their handcuffs and Abby’s leather bras.

   

• Peace reigns supreme at the Bauer house until Danny gives Rick the "Santos Salute" one too many times and Rick attacks him. Shouts of "you hit like a weenie girl", and " go ahead and try to kick my mobster a**" are heard throughout the neighborhood.

   

• Manny and Rabby play pictionary. Danny soon grosses everyone out with his drawings of "Anatomy Of A Murder".

   

• When Michelle is asked to make a casserole for the church potluck, Danny offers his families secret recipe for "Hearts and Liver Fricassee".

   

• Danny and Michelle decide to have a frolic in the Bauer garden. Disaster ensues when Aunt Meta’s Garden Society Guild walks through the rose garden. Many of the women exclaim: "What beautiful statues of Venus and David you have. I don’t think we’ve ever quite seen David in that state before, or that big either!!"

   

• Early one Saturday morning, hearing loud shouts coming from the family room, Abby and Michelle run to investigate. There they find Danny and Rick fighting over the remote control, and the cartoons, "Scooby Doo" and "Josie And The Pussycats".

   

• Danny finds Jesse’s old paintings of Michelle and in an attempt to put the past in the past, he gives them back so that Jesse can finish coloring them with his crayons!

   

• Danny joins Abby’s knitting circle for the poor, and becomes a crocheting phenomenon!

   

• Rick and Danny have a cockfight in the kitchen every morning over who gets to drink out of the milk carton.

   

• After he spots an ant trail in the kitchen, Danny offers to call the exterminator for Abby. Abby takes one look at him and runs to her room screaming. Maybe she got the wrong idea?!

   

• After looking through the Pampered Chef catalog and seeing the deluxe ice pick/knife combo at Abby’s cooking demo, Ben decides it wasn’t such a good idea for he and Carmen to "make nice" with Manny and Rabby!

   

• After watching "Emmeril Live", Danny learns the proper way to use a knife!

   

• Manny and Rabby make it a "Blockbuster" night. Not wanting to rub Danny’s past in his face Rick only rents "The Godfather I & II". Danny returns the favor and rents "The Goodfellas" just to show Rick there are no hard feelings.

   

• Danny puts a bolt on the bathroom door after a few too many incidents of Meta "accidentally" wandering into the room after his shower.

   

• While working under the kitchen sink to fix a leaky faucet pipe, Danny is surprised when his backside is "goosed". Thinking it’s Michelle, he comes out from under the sink with a big smile on his face. His smile soon vanishes when he see’s that it’s Aunt Meta with a wicked grin on her face.

   

• Danny is forced to sleep on the floor (again), when he refuses to kiss "Mr. Pookie" Michelle’s Teddy Bear, goodnight.

   

• Michelle comes home early from Springfield U one day to find Danny sitting on the sofa crying. "Oh, my gosh Danny", she cries. "What’s happened? Are you alright?" Through his tears Danny points to the T.V. where The Learning Channels "Reunion" show is just ending. Michelle rolls her eyes, walks away, and mutters under her breath "I liked him much better as a mob prince".

   

• Danny throws a fit when Rick eats the last bowl of Cocoa Puffs. He really blows a gasket though when Rick takes the Star Wars stickers out of the specially marked box and uses them to decorate his lunch bag for work.

   

• Danny schedules all of his job interviews before noon just so he can secretly rush home to watch "All My Children" with Aunt Meta. They love that hunky Dr. David and Erica Kane.

   

• On the upside, next time Danny gets hit in the head, he has a doctor nearby.

   

• Not wishing to cause a scene, Michelle tries to think of a tactful way to tell Rick that his nocturnal habits are keeping the entire house awake (use your imagination).

   

• Danny teaches Rick how to cheat at poker, in return for tips on how to sew stitches. (You never know when sewing up, gaping, open wounds will come in handy.)

   

• During Friday family game night, Danny cries foul when for the umpteenth time, Rick chooses "Operation" over "Cops and Robbers".

   

• Abby thinking "If Danny leaves the toilet seat up one more time, I’ll put a contract out on him myself!"

   

• With a few well placed threats, Danny becomes a hero in the Bauer house by ending all those annoying phone sales calls during dinnertime.

   

• Michelle is shocked to find Aunt Meta shacked up in her room with one of her fellow widowed "Bridge" partners.

   

• One thing we’ll never hear Danny say to Rick: "Hey Man! I love you, I really do!!"

   

• One thing we’ll never hear Rick say to Danny: "My house is yours! My wife is yours! My life is yours!

We know there are lots more out there. Use your creative mojo and add to the list, O.K.? This is meant to be fun, so please join us!!!!

Tah and Shay- Hoping Manny get their own home soon, and Danny being broke "is just a dream"!!