so are we all just sleeping on the fact the demeter has the hots for mungojerrie or
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Oh, I don’t know...
It must just be...
...something about the way she and Bombalurina...
... discuss their secret criminal celebrity crushes. Whether they be in London in 1998, in Amsterdamn in 2007, on Broadway in 2016, or even...
... in Moscow 2005, or...
... delightfully, Paris 1990. In fact we even have it endorsed by the longest-running and most valid Bombalurina ever:
Marlene Danielle. See also this video clip, which I didn’t gif because it cuts away just at that moment to a broad shot. The video is low quality anyway, but the audio is all you need.
You could, of course, say Demeter just admires him - it’s technically a valid reading of the text, but it’s reading against the grain, when lyrics, choreography, and acting invite us to read both crushes in the same terms.
(And nobody, of course, would dispute how hard Bombalurina would jump Griddlebone given half a chance.)