oldster

Here’s a quick example of how young people still get Alanis while critical oldsters fail to learn any new tricks.

They’ve been given minor individual characteristics — a hat, a vest, tattoos, glasses, jewelry, a beauty mark, freckles, wrinkled outlines for the oldsters — to keep things dramatically clear.

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 83, on TV recently defended the oldsters — “Age is relative” — and Biden in particular: “He’s a kid to me.”

One Texas newspaper described Social Security as “a huge sales tax on everybody on behalf of the oldsters.”

The ostensible comedic bits in which the oldsters duck each other soon give way to musty monologues on marriage — material that even the seasoned cast is unable to freshen up.