The Cafeteria lady in Earshot that was going to rat poison the school got a job…in a McDonalds happy meal ad. How wrong is that?? Do they know her acting credits. Do they know Earshot was postponed due to mass murder attempt. Just seems a bit on the side of odd.
Her name is Wendy Worthington, and she’s one busy character actress (Check out her entry in the IMDB; she was also the neighbor that Jerry Seinfeld didn’t want to casually kiss anymore). You can’t stigmatize someone based on one role, or Ned Beatty would never want to work again.
Things like the OP make Ed O’Neill cry 
That said, yes it’s a little disorienting to see character actors in totally different roles. The ones I know love the chance to stretch their wings, however, and sometimes think they have it better than stars, who end up endlessly scrutinized and ridiculed when they try a change of scene.
I’m guessing they don’t know and don’t care. She appeared in a single episode of a low-rated niche genre show five years ago, and you really think anyone but you (okay, and me) would notice? It’s kinda goofy trivia for fans of the show like ourselves, but 99% of the people who see that commercial aren’t going to make that connection. Hell, it’s for happy meals: a significant portion of the target audience wasn’t even born when Earshot was aired.
Incidentally, is anyone else still bothered by the idea that Jonathan was going to commit suicide in a clock tower with a scoped rifle? Cheap audience manipulation, or was Jonathan covering his ass after Buffy showed up to slap him around?
Holy crap, you mean that wasn’t actually Chris Farley?
Yeah it’s cheap manipulation. But Kurt Cobain used a rifle, and presumably Jonathan didn’t buy it special for the occasion; it just hsappened to be lying around the house. And if he’d killed himself in the vampire tunnels instead of the bell tower, who would’ve noticed?
I don’t know that Miller was complaining so much about the use of a rifle, but of a scoped rifle. If you’re basically just going to be offing yourself, you don’t need a scope to be able to find your head. That scene always bugged me for exactly that reason, though I wound up dismissing it more as “I’m mechanically putting the rifle together in the way I was taught” and it included putting the scope on, rather than the idea that he was trying to cover his ass.
I forgot Earshot was postponed- the bigger story was the postponement of the graduation episode.
I figured it was just his dad’s hunting rifle, or something like that. A pistol would have made less sense, really.