# Shortlived sitcom about a socially challenged single professional woman **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortlived-sitcom-about-a-socially-challenged-single-professional-woman/452482 "2008-06-10T19:43:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortlived-sitcom-about-a-socially-challenged-single-professional-woman/452482/1 "2008-06-10T19:43:55Z")
I’m trying to remember what this show was. The main character is played by an actress who appeared in a couple of _Frasier_ episodes, and has one of those loud, brassy, and slightly Fran Drescher-ish voices–in fact very much like the one who plays Grace on _Will and Grace_, but I don’t think that’s her. The woman works at some sort of office job, and is fairly successful at it, but evid ently lives with her parents (IIRC). Either her brother or father, or both, are dentists. She looked reasonably attractive physically, but a major premise of the show was that she couldn’t get a date to save her life, much less sustain a relationship. One scene I remember: She goes out clothes shopping with her mother, and in the end leaves wearing a dress that another customer left in the dressing room. As she leaves, she invites the poor woman, bereft of her dress, to help herself to her crumpled bluejeans, that she left behind on the floor of the dressing room. The point is apparently that having a nice dress on is cause for the first time she’s felt good about herself since the 1900s, or something like that. What was this show, and who was the actress? I kind of liked the show and was sorry it didn’t make it. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortlived-sitcom-about-a-socially-challenged-single-professional-woman/452482/2 "2008-06-10T19:46:48Z")
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus] in fact very much like the one who plays Grace on _Will and Grace_, but I don’t think that’s her. [/quote] Do you mean like the one who plays [_Karen_](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005259/) on _Will and Grace_? -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortlived-sitcom-about-a-socially-challenged-single-professional-woman/452482/3 "2008-06-11T00:00:39Z")
Was it [Harriet Sansom Harris,](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364748/) who played Frasier’s evil agent, Bebe Glazer? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortlived-sitcom-about-a-socially-challenged-single-professional-woman/452482/4 "2008-06-11T02:57:27Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Do you mean like the one who plays [_Karen_](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005259/) on _Will and Grace_? -FrL- [/QUOTE] Sorry, I’m not that familiar with Will and Grace, but I do mean the main female star. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortlived-sitcom-about-a-socially-challenged-single-professional-woman/452482/5 "2008-06-11T05:59:17Z")
[Tea Leoni](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000495/) appeared in one **Seinfeld** , and had a couple of shows you might be thinking of: \*\*The Naked Truth \*\*1995-8 and **Flying Blind** 1992-3 - more likely the former. The one from **Will and Grace** you are thinking of is [Debra Messing](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005226/), who was in two **Seinfeld** episodes. The only sitcom in her history that might fill the bill is **Ned and Stacey** - she was Stacey. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortlived-sitcom-about-a-socially-challenged-single-professional-woman/452482/6 "2008-06-11T11:58:25Z")
I don’t know what show it could be, I’m just posting to say not to give up hope. A while ago I posted trying to find a specific episode of a radio show . I did not know the name of the episode, which show it was from, or who acted in it, or any character names. Dopers got it in short order. Somone will know your show. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortlived-sitcom-about-a-socially-challenged-single-professional-woman/452482/7 "2008-06-11T13:29:26Z")
[QUOTE=Askance] [Tea Leoni](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000495/) appeared in one **Seinfeld** , and had a couple of shows you might be thinking of: \*\*The Naked Truth \*\*1995-8 and **Flying Blind** 1992-3 - more likely the former. [/QUOTE] It wasn’t Flying Blind - she had an ongoing relationship with the lead male character in that one. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortlived-sitcom-about-a-socially-challenged-single-professional-woman/452482/8 "2008-06-11T13:41:59Z")
[QUOTE=Askance] …appeared in one **Seinfeld** … …who was in two **Seinfeld** episodes… [/QUOTE] The OP thinks she was in _Frasier_, not _Seinfeld_. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortlived-sitcom-about-a-socially-challenged-single-professional-woman/452482/9 "2008-06-12T04:07:32Z")
Ah, right. Well I still think it was **Tea Leoni** , she was in one ep of **Frasier** , and **The Naked Truth** fits the bill reasonably well.