I was going to make fun of CBS's Early Show for acting like the fact that it's been "exactly 15 years" since Lorena Bobbitt cut off her abusive ex husband's thingy was a sufficient reason to air an exclusive interview with her this morning even though she doesn't even have a book out, but then I realized that was hypocritical. I watched it. I wanted to know what happened to her. Turns out, she's pretty normal. She has a boyfriend!:
OMG she's getting her hairdressing license next month? Pretty smart, since we live in a world where The Lorena Bobbitt Salon would probably get good business.
Before she played supervillianous Georgina Sparks on Gossip Girl, child actor Michelle Trachtenberg starred in a short-lived CBS sitcom by the creators of Perfect Strangers and Mork And Mindy called Meego. For some reason, I remembered the show the other day, and like every other TV show you thought was completely forgotten, its opening credits are on YouTube. The show starred Bronson Pinchot as an alien named Meego who lived with a normal family (those Perfect Strangers and Mork And Mindy creators really had a formula going.) It lasted six episodes:
He was cute in a Michael J. Fox non-threatening way. He wore a vest. He made Maxwell House coffee for his stunned parents, and it turned out it was because he was in looove. I had the biggest schoolgirl crush on this commercial, cheesy jingle and all:
Everyone is obsessed with ALF, right? My friend Greg Johnson put this video of ALF bloopers on his blog today and I couldn't stop myself from watching. Wow, is it just me or was ALF kind of a dick? I always thought Jerry Stahl was sort of exaggerating the misery of the ALF set in Permanent Midnight, or that it had more to do with his heroin addiction, but I've watched a lot, and I mean a LOT of TV show bloopers, and I've never seen sitcom actors seem like they were having less fun than Max Wright and Anne Schedeen trying to work with Paul Fusco as ALF. As ALF himself yells at one point, this is Sitcom Hell. Also, ALF was on Matlock!
There's another entry in what will surely be the long annals of pretty ladies on popular TV shows today who played punks on TV shows a long time ago, but we can add Chyler Leigh of Grey's Anatomy to the list that includes Jan from The Office. So turns out that Chyler, who happens to have denied a sex tape on the basis of a "sprawling tattoo" today, played a punk on the short-lived That '70s Show spinoff That' '80's Show. Which appears to have been exactly like a regular awkward sitcom, but with a lot of mauve and beige.
Our House was an intensely wholesome family drama that aired on NBC from 1986-'88 and starred Wilford Brimley as Gus, a curmudgeonly WWII vet who takes in his widowed daughter and her three kids and teaches them Valuable Lessons every week. Whenever I remember Our House, which is about once a year in the middle of the night, I remember Wilford Brimley being grumpy, Shannen Doherty being pre-Brenda likeable, and, for some reason, the family's basset hound. This 1986 promo for the show put equal weight on the dog's character.
Yeah, that's right: the first Always maxi-pads with wings commercial. This was posted on YouTube yesterday and when it came over the wires at Videogum HQ, everyone gathered excitedly around the wires to watch. Or maybe I saw it and couldn't resist nostalgia-clicking, and was delighted to discover a survey of '80s fashion and basically the perfect example of a Patrick Bateman era Lady commercial. I love the lengths they go to to explain what wings are, like we're retarded, and even if you're a boy reading this you have to admit that "with wings" and "dri-weave" are ubiquitous comedy cliches.
Before she gained fame on How I Met Your Mother, Buffy, and American Pie, Alyson Hannigan was a sweetly over-concerned teen with apparent allergies who was terrified that her dad might be getting an ulcer. I actually remember this commercial because it made me feel bad that I was so busy writing notes (remember notes?) to boys in class that my father's stomach health or "thing about doctors" would never have entered my consciousness. This commercial is old in both the actual and internet sense, but it's going around, and it's really cute.
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