Don’t know why this popped into my head, but man, it was a great show. For those of you who forget, it was a summer replacement sketch comedy series on ABC in 1994, that had as its gimmick a predominately female cast. I’m just remembering some of the bits, and chuckling to myself:
The brutal Fabio and Rush Limbaugh parodies;
The women’s book club that, every week, discussed The Bridges of Madison County;
And my favorite, the throwaway Forrest Gump bits -
Forrest Gump, sitting on a bus bench, with a box of chocolates: “My momma told me, life is like a box of chock-o-lates. You never know what you’re gonna get.
No, wait, this box of chock-o-lates has one of them maps in it. This one here is vanilla cream. Ayup.
Hmm. Life isn’t like this box of chock-o-lates.”
I actually caught a few episodes of it here in South Africa a few years back. Our government national broadcaster (SABC) has a knack for buying shows even though they’re cancelled and only have a few episodes in the bag as they’re usually dirt cheap.
Anyway I remember that a pre-3rd Rock From The Sun Simbi Khali (who played Nina on 3rd Rock) was one of the players in the show.