Barbara and Harry Cooper — a.k.a Cutie and PopPop — are full of charming advice, romantic gestures, fascinating memories and modern-day adventures. It's no wonder their website has become a viral hit
Barbara "Cutie" Cooper, 93, speaks drolly to the camera, her words slurred from several strokes.
"Dear Abby has had her day, it's my turn now. Any problems … contact me … please call, don't write".
"Oh my goodness," chimes in Harry, her squeaky-voiced husband of 72 years. "She'll either send them to the poor house or up to the White House!"
From behind the camera come snickers and snorts from Kim and Chinta Cooper, half-sisters who barely knew each other before a crisis with their grandparents brought them together. When that happened, two years ago now, they decided Cutie and "PopPop" were so special they couldn't keep them to themselves.
So they bought a video camera, started a website and launched the "OGs" on the world.
The-OGs.com — short for Original Grandparents — has its own theme song (lyrics: "Oh wow, oh gee, it's the OGs!") and a handful of regular video features. In "PopPop's Adventure Corner," viewers look on as he discovers modern marvels like the iPod (He calls it his "music box.") In "Ask Grandma Anything," they get style advice from Cutie, a bold fashionista who was recently kicked out of the dining room at the couple's retirement home for wearing leggings that were, Kim admits, "too sexy".
Thousands of fans from around the world have tuned in to watch the couple opine on such topics such as time travel ("it's possible"), lesbians ("just do your thing") and Michael Jackson ("He was a very unhappy young man who didn't know if he was fish or fowl").
They've been like this practically since they met, in the 1930s on the tennis courts at Poinsettia Park in Los Angeles.
