Sven and Gerta are well into middle-age. Gerta has suffered for the increasing lack of attention from Sven; she decides she will start a work-out regimen in an attempt to reacquire a physique sexually appetizing to Sven.
The next morning, while Sven is in the kitchen drinking coffee and preparing breakfast, Gerta starts her work-out in bed, naked, while watching an instructor on TV. After some stretching exercizes, the instructor starts into some leg lifts; Gerta is having a hard time of it. As hard as she tries, she can't get her legs to budge off of the bed.
Gerta grabs the sides of the matress and gets her legs to raise slightly. Grasping the sides of the matress with all her might, she grits her teeth and throws all of herself into getting her legs as high off the bed as she can. her legs fly into the air, over her head, causing her feet to become lodged in the slats of the headboard.
Just then, Sven comes into the bedroom to collect his eyeglasses he'd left on the dressertop. As he crosses the room to the dressertop he glances over to see his wife's form still in bed. He bellows,
"Jesus, Gerta! Would you put your teeth in and comb your hair? You look like hell."