Simple Simon

Only once does she talk of their offscreen life together: In the fourth episode, she tells her mother, “Every time I think my marriage has become simple, Simon and I find some new stone to turn over, a new foible that one of us needs the other to tease out and inspect,” she says.

The Mission Inn is surrounded by restaurants but if it’s a Saturday, locals flock to Simple Simon’s Bakery & Bistro at 3639 Main St., which offers a near-perfect choice of breakfast foods six days a week, from eggs with bacon, ham or homemade chicken apple sausage to homemade granola, French toast or omelets.

Harriet’s father is Simple Simon and her best friend is Gretel, a changeling she discovers in a well.

But even where the roofs have been painted over with drabber colors, there is a look to the exteriors—vaguely colonial, with cupolas that once hoisted metal weather vanes bearing the image of Simple Simon and the Pieman—that is the tipoff.

"������ we are going to need to be early in the season, with the ability to run the ball and then play-action off of it. Make it a Simple Simon game for the quarterbacks and watch them function."