Week 1 – 3 Pancakes

 Poor, poor Bob and Eliza – have they ever been happy? It seems there’s nothing one can do to please the other. Just what is keeping this couple together? Or, conversely, what is the spark that will finally drive them apart?29.03.15_13-46

Eliza is dreaming of art, wealth and glamour, while Bob is dreaming of pancakes, video games and bathrobes. He will never understand why Eliza is painting whole night to make her dreams true.29.03.15_13-58

While Eliza is thinking about a divorce she notices her growing belly. Perhaps a child will get Bob out of his lethargy? But when she is telling him the great news he just hikes his shoulders. 29.03.15_14-04

Eliza is so desperate she has to puke.

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 During pregnancy Bob does what he always does – cooking,29.03.15_14-08

… watching TV…29.03.15_14-10

…. drinking to much alcohol …

29.03.15_14-30… and playing video games all night.

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The only thing Eliza still loves about Bob is his cooking skills. When she invites guests once a month, this is more useful than Bobs video game skills. 29.03.15_14-21

But cooking leads to eating and Bob is getting fatter every day. 29.03.15_14-26 29.03.15_14-27  29.03.15_14-35

At the end of her pregancy Eliza is still desperate. She is no longer able to bear this husband, but she is not able to leave him, because she wants a father for her unborn child. 29.03.15_14-39

Some weeks later Pia Pancakes is finally born. 29.03.15_14-40-3

And Bob even leaves his sofa to welcome his daughter. 29.03.15_14-52

Pia lives in her crib all day long, because after birth both her parents suffer from depression. 29.03.15_15-13

When Pia gets older, she tries to care for her desperate mother.

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But the only one who really cares about Pias feelings ist her big friend Hippo.

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Pia follows the path of her mother and escapes into fantasyland by painting. 29.03.15_15-29

Eliza is so proud of her daughters painting skills she dedicates a portrait to her. 29.03.15_15-32

But painting doesn’t change the frosty atmosphere in the Pancakes household. Every night they are sitting at the dinner table in silence and lost in depression.

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