For “normalcy,” read “creepiness.”
Even if she did represent “normalcy,” that’s the last thing the show needs.
I always found Lydia in Breaking Bad to be pretty annoying.
Connor on Angel.
Holographic lounge singer Vic Fontaine on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Tori on Saved by the Bell. She was a terrible fit with the rest of that cast.
:eek: They added immensely to the shows IMO! They were hilarious! Jerry Stiller is the best part of ‘King of Queens’, he seems to be living in some old B movie from the 50s (but Doug’s parents are ciphers. Perfectly ordinary, no indication how they produced that fat buffoon.)
The parents I wonder about are the WASP-y moms and dads, dripping with money, tastefully dressed, passive-aggressively butting into their children’s lives. All the mothers have long bangs and turned-under bobs (hairstyles). The fathers have big white teeth and are drunks. I’ve seen them on a lot of shows, though I can only think of two right now - the long-ago ‘Days and Nights of Molly Dodd’ and Debra’s parents on ‘Everybody Loves Raymond.’ Their appearance in their childrens lives brings on tension and anxiety. George Costanza has a screeching harpy of a mother, but a WASP mother’s critique of her daughter’s shoes brings on the same kind of trembling anger and resentment. I wouldn’t know why, it seems well off people in Connecticut are as bad as dirt-poor ignorant goombahs from the slums. As parents.
Yes, I see that, but she crossed the line and made me all stabby.
This probably happens a lot when a major star gets replaced late in a series’s run. Like how Josh Myers’s Randy Peterson replaced Topher Grace’s Eric Forman in the last season of That '70s Show. Even with an ensemble cast, I can kind of see how it was necessary to provide a substitute for a missing character, as you need to preserve the show’s dynamic. Certain character types need certain other character types to serve as foils. But Eric was so central an established a character that there was literally no chance that the audience would warm to Josh. Simply ending the show would have been a better idea.
I didn’t like Cheers after Kirstie Alley joined the cast