In her review of Riding the Bus With My Sister, the NYT's Virginia Heffernan challenges us, however briefly, to jettison our preconceptions and generally be better people:

This isn't going to be easy. If you're going to even think about watching "Riding the Bus With My Sister," which appears Sunday on CBS, you're going to have to know what it's about. And once you find out, instantly, you're going to form a heartless first impression. But if you read on, you'll have to suspend that first impression...

Breathe. Just breathe, and do NOT yelp "Rosie tard movie" while bounding around the room.

Ready? "Riding the Bus With My Sister" is about a developmentally disabled woman played by Rosie O'Donnell. That's right: As Beth, Ms. O'Donnell dresses in wacky childish clothes and talks in a volume-inappropriate way and wears mismatched shoes and rides a hilarious bus around and around with her motley bus family. She annoys and enlightens the people she meets. And at times she shouts, in a voice you can probably imagine, "I am a person!"

Whew! For a second there we thought we were going to crack, but since we took the proper preventative measures and submerged our testicles in a tub of ice water, we have absolutely no desire to laugh at the funniest passage of text we've ever had the privelege of reading. Who knew classy restraint could be so easy?

• A Misfit Sister, and Life Lessons She Inadvertently Imparts [NYT]
• Rosie’s Flickr: Being Formerly Rosie [Defamer]

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