We watch mediocre sitcoms so you don’t have to
Well, LOST was a repeat, so Dorothy wisely laced our Rooibos with an bracing shot of Tullamore Dew and we watched the new sitcom STACKED on Fox, which an article previously posted indicated would contain a Jane Austen reference. (spoiler, obviously)
The show was eh, the reference was mildly amusing. The setup: Gavin was jealous because his estranged wife was rubbing it in that she was dating a neurologist, so he begged Skyler (Pamela Anderson’s character) to pretend she was his girlfriend.
Gavin: Don’t overdo it. More Elinor Dashwood than Marianne Dashwood.
Skyler: . . . . .
Gavin: Sense and Sensibility?
Skyler: . . . . .
Gavin: Don’t whore it up.
*rim shot*
ETA: Another article about the program at canada.com.
ETA II: Dana Stevens of Slate has an article about Ms. Anderson and the program.
For a Fox sitcom starring Pamela Anderson, Stacked is surprisingly mild-mannered; it’s no Frasier, granted, but it has something of that show’s gentle, character-based humor and bookish wit. (Last night’s repartee included shout-outs to Jane Austen and Carl Jung.)
For Fox that counts as “bookish,” we suppose. *rolls eyes* Points to Dana Stevens for the Judi Dench joke, however.
April 13th, 2005 at 11:46 pm
Truly, Mags, your loving self-sacrifice for us knows no bounds. I believe only an appearance by Miss Austen herself would have induced me to watch that overly-hyped show.
April 14th, 2005 at 11:52 pm
If it wasn’t for these articles showing up on my Google Alert for Jane Austen, I wouldn’t have known about it! I don’t see myself going out of my way to watch it again, unless more Jane jokes are promised, but it’s not completely dreadful and could be quite successful, I think.