# Stacked with Pam Anderson **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067 "2005-04-13T02:46:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067/21 "2005-04-13T21:37:03Z")
So no [small], huh? Well, don’t I feel stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067/22 "2005-04-14T00:52:25Z")
Well,I made it to the second commercial break and it turns out it’s amusing at times and, not surprisingly, Pam Anderson has the least interesting character. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067/23 "2005-04-14T00:55:20Z")
And I found the ex-wife more attractive, for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067/24 "2005-04-14T03:37:23Z")
I (somewhat) inadvertantly caught the last three minutes of the show while waiting for the World Poker Tour to come on. The second thing I noticed (after Pamela Anderson’s funbags) was that, even though the “comedy” takes place in a bookstore, every character practically shouted each of their lines. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067/25 "2005-04-14T04:25:37Z")
I think the show needed another runthrough or two for the actors to get comfortable with their lines. I think Christopher Lloyd was the best, especially towards the end of the show, then Pam, then the Ex, then the skinny guy, then the chubby guy. I really think Pam was the most comfortable with her lines of the lot. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067/26 "2005-04-14T13:55:56Z")
I’ve not seen the show, nor do I intend to. But, the promo was pretty funny. (The secretary is complaining about how all the men in the office have gone ga-ga over Pamela’s character, she doesn’t see why, she’s not all that hot, etc. Pam undulates into the room, followed by a bevy of guys, and the secretary says: “Oh, crap, even _I_ want a piece of that!”) ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067/27 "2005-04-14T14:05:11Z")
Well, my husband’s daughters were over for dinner last night and they wanted to watch it so we did manage to sit through the whole thing. Christopher Lloyd is the only good thing about that cast. The whole thing was about as annoying and un-funny as it could have been with an overly intrusive laugh track. This is exactly why I never watch commercial TV anymore. What absolute mindless dreck. I hope I don’t have to watch it every week. Wednesday is when the girls usually come for a visit. Maybe it’ll get cancelled soon. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067/28 "2005-04-14T14:56:55Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > If you’re into watching a heavily tattooed man play with his penis, I suppose it is pretty hot. > > Paris’s video must have been pretty bad in comparison, is all I have to say. > > [small]Admittedly, I _am_ into watching heavily tattooed, hung men play with their penises. But that’s just me . . . [/small] Heh, yeah, I’m pretty into that as well. 😃 You couldn’t see anything in Paris’s video, and she couldn’t have been more disinterested in what was going on. Pam was _participating_, baby, oh yeah. haha. Also, the show was stupid. I probably won’t watch again. Too bad, I still love Pam. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067/29 "2005-04-14T15:17:31Z")
It pains me to say it, but I had higher hopes. Oh, Marissa Jaret Winokur! You’re so cool and talented. I hope you have some better things in the hopper. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067/30 "2005-04-14T16:18:42Z")
When I first saw the preview with them in the bookstore with “one little twist” or whatever, I thought for sure they were gonna have a monkey as the twist. I was a little disappointed that it was Pam. ---
**Author:** ![Lips\_Obsession](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@Lips\_Obsession](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lips_Obsession)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067/31 "2005-04-14T17:38:25Z")
I thought it was pretty good… I’ll give it another go next week… ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067/32 "2005-04-14T20:50:14Z")
I’ve seen better, I’ve seen worse. I don’t think it will last (of course that was my impression when I first saw Friends, so what do I know) Don’t think I’ll bother Tivoing it again. It certainly doesn’t make up for Lost being a rerun. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067/33 "2005-04-15T03:09:52Z")
The one good thing about it is that some of the jokes were actually about books. Even though it’s set in a bookstore I didn’t expect that. I did expect lines like Pam saying that she would be safe there because there wouldn’t be any hot guys. She’s not bad at playing herself, but none of the rest of the cast have a clue. They’re like characters in a musical clock, marching in to time cues, twirling around, and then marching out again. It’ll need a few more shows just to allow us to get past the incoherency to the badness. But Pilots are often gruesome these days. Look at the mess that the various Seinfeld folk made of their pilots. Nobody ever watched them twice. And then there’s Jake in Progress. I caught last week’s two shows and liked them. They were nasty workplace comedies, with dialog ten times better than anything on Stacked. So I decide to watch this week’s two shows and find out that they’re the pilot and second episode. Instead of workplace we get relationships and clichés piled on clichés. If I had seen them first I never would have stuck around for the better shows. Does this mean I’m saying that better shows of Stacked may be coming? Yeah, because I don’t see how they could be any worse. Just out of curiosity, how many other TV shows were set in bookstores? I know that Ellen DeGeneres worked in a bookstore. And George And Leo, with Bob Newhart and Judd Hirsh, also was set in a bookstore. 84 Charing Cross Road was a TV series followed by a movie based on a book of letters from a reader to a bookstore owner. That’s about it for settings. Bookstores show up regularly as plot elements for a show and then disappear. I’d like to see more book stuff and weird customers than the regulars. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stacked-with-pam-anderson/299067.md?page=1)