# I simply deplore Brittany Murphy **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 27, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168 "2003-07-27T00:32:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tasha\_Yar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@Tasha\_Yar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tasha_Yar)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/41 "2003-07-27T22:58:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by singular1 \* > \*\*Her voice on _King of the Hill_ drives both me and Mr. singular insane. It’s the worst part of an otherwise excellent show. And I can’t stand her “ain’t I cute and kooky and wacky” laugh-fingernails on the blackboard! She really worked this particular annoying gimmick in **Bongwater**. \*\* KotH is such a wretchedly awful show I couldn’t think of a worst part of it. I think it’s just a combination of worst parts. Anyway, I don’t really have a problem with Brittney but I will agree that she pulls the wierdest faces. She looks a bit like Gollum with those bugged eyes of hers. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/42 "2003-07-28T00:02:51Z")
KotH is one of the most hilarious shows on TV. Please don’t hurt me Mrs. Yar. Or else I’ll sic that tar beast on you. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/43 "2003-07-28T01:21:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Avalonian \* > \*\*And now she’s in a new movie, some heartwarming-feelgood piece of tripe about a spoiled rich kid becoming a nanny for a little girl. \*\* That’s why she’s called an _actress_. They do that sometimes you know. (ex. being a whore in one movie, then a good girl in another) ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/44 "2003-07-28T07:16:03Z")
There’s something about her I really like. Very cute and fetching. And it seems kinda silly to dislike someone because they portrayed a slimy character well. ---
**Author:** ![Tarantula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@Tarantula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantula)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/45 "2003-07-28T10:03:48Z")
I wouldn’t touch her with _your_ cock… ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/46 "2003-07-28T10:09:03Z")
I’d hit it. ---
**Author:** ![Creative\_Munster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Creative\_Munster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creative_Munster)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/47 "2003-07-28T10:18:45Z")
I really don’t give a shit about her either way. But I just wanted to say that I think King of the Hill is a great show, although it took me a few episodes to come around to that viewpoint. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/48 "2003-07-28T21:44:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LolaCocaCola \* > \*\*She rides my last nerve. > > \*\* Really! Where? I don’t see her! I’d let her ride my first nerve. * * * _“Lets get them meek bastards **NOW!** ”_ ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/49 "2003-07-28T22:07:50Z")
I’d forgotten she was in “I’ll Never Tell”. She plays a convincing pyscho. She has a very trashy look about her these days, but I think she has the potential to be a halfway decent actress. I loved “Just Married”, it was actually QUITE funny. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/50 "2003-07-28T23:24:07Z")
She was great in “Girl, Interrupted.” She seems really manic and definately nuts in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/51 "2003-07-28T23:34:30Z")
She was good in _Clueless_. I haven’t seen any of her other stuff, except KotH, and Luanne is pretty cool in my book. However, in the preview I saw for _Uptown Girls_, she looked like a puked up Cameron Diaz. And based on that, she has definitely lost too much weight (unless she was going for that “I drop so much acid I forget to eat” look). ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/52 "2003-07-29T00:52:31Z")
I probably first saw her in a film, I think the name was _speed_. It had brandon Lee in. That is where I ‘fell in love’ with here crazy sexually overcharged attitude. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/53 "2003-07-29T00:55:28Z")
Are some people saying that they don’t like Murphy because she _played_ a skanky ho in a movie. And now they are calling Murphy, the actress, skanky? People, people, people. . . On the left we have a fictional character apparently played to the hilt by a good actress. One the right we have a real person who played a part in a movie. Over here to the left is a movie and over there to the right is reality. Movie. . . . reality. Not the same. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/54 "2003-07-29T08:10:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\*I probably first saw her in a film, I think the name was _speed_. It had brandon Lee in. That is where I ‘fell in love’ with here crazy sexually overcharged attitude. \*\* She was never in anything with Brandon Lee. Maybe you’re thinking of [this](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116361) or [this](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116147)? Or maybe “The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down”. ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/55 "2003-07-29T13:36:33Z")
I don’t know what all the hoopla is about her. She is not a good actress. She doesn’t deserve the media attention she gets. She just lost a part to Renee Zellweger to play Janis Joplin. She was a sore loser. When asked if Renee would do a better job she just said I hope the part does Janis justice, I would have played the part perfectly. Come on can you imagine either one of them playing Janis? She just chopped all her hair off and it looks like crap. She is trying to look the part of a succesful actress but she will never acheive it. So she dated Ashton Kutcher. Big deal! He is nothing to write home about either. What Demi sees in him is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/56 "2003-07-29T14:20:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*Are some people saying that they don’t like Murphy because she _played_ a skanky ho in a movie. And now they are calling Murphy, the actress, skanky? > > People, people, people. . .\*\* Yup. Much in the same way I hate Larry Linville because he is and will always be a paranoid Army major who is an incompetant doctor and who cheats on his frigid wife. How dare he call himself an actor? He should be ashamed! (May he RIP.) One of my favorite actresses is Angelica Huston precisely because she is not afraid to take non-glamorous roles. She could easily play the sensuous seductress and keep the world lusting after her, but she just as often takes the role of an unattractive villain. In today’s Hollywood that takes courage! In addition, and I’m not trying to pass judgement here, I think that saying you hate an actress because she once played a skank or lost some weight is petty and childish. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/57 "2003-07-29T15:25:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\*She was never in anything with Brandon Lee. Maybe you’re thinking of [this](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116361) or [this](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116147)? > > Or maybe “The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down”. \*\* Yes. ‘Drive’ I was getting Mark Dacascos mixed up with Brandon Lee. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/58 "2003-07-29T18:40:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by neutron star \* > \*\*Luanne is the worst part of KOTH? Haven’t you forgotten a character named Peggy Hill? > > Luanne’s accent used to be annoying to me back when the show first started. That was the same year I moved from Pennsylvania to Louisiana. I found that some peoples’ accents down here _really_ grated on my nerves to the point where I’d actively try to avoid them. Now they just sound normal. And you know what? So does Luanne. \*\* Yow! I lived in Louisiana and Mississippi for 10 years, (also originating in PA), and I just have to say I’m glad I never made it to Lafayette if that what normal sounds like there! And I don’t dislike her for any skank or non-skank role. I dislike her for her persona in nearly every movie I’ve seen her in, as well as Saturday Night Live and quite a few irritating interviews. The girl has grated on me her entire career. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168/59 "2003-07-29T18:45:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by neutron star \* > \*\*Luanne is the worst part of KOTH? Haven’t you forgotten a character named Peggy Hill? > > Luanne’s accent used to be annoying to me back when the show first started. That was the same year I moved from Pennsylvania to Louisiana. I found that some peoples’ accents down here _really_ grated on my nerves to the point where I’d actively try to avoid them. Now they just sound normal. And you know what? So does Luanne. \*\* Yow! I lived in Louisiana and Mississippi for 10 years, (also originating in PA), and I just have to say I’m glad I never made it to Lafayette if that what normal sounds like there! And I don’t dislike her for any skank or non-skank role. I dislike her for her persona in nearly every movie I’ve seen her in, as well as Saturday Night Live and quite a few irritating interviews. The girl has grated on me her entire career. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-simply-deplore-brittany-murphy/191168.md?page=2)