"What is Horny?"

I have nothing much to say today, so here's another TV scene, this time from "Soap", or more specifically the seventh episode of the second season (the episodes didn't have titles). This is the ultimate Susan Harris scene, the distilled essence of everything she did on "Soap" and "The Golden Girls": four women, sitting around a kitchen table, talking about sex at a time when women (particularly women over 40) just didn't do that on TV.

The scene is also a reminder that, as good as the whole "Soap" cast was (except maybe Jennifer Salt as Eunice, though maybe it was just that the character as written was kind of a dud), Katherine Helmond as Jessica has to be one of the all-time great TV characterizations. My favorite touch -- which wasn't scripted, or at least isn't mentioned in the "Soap" script I've seen -- is the way she lowers her voice to a whisper every time she has to say the word "sex."