# What's the first thing you think of when I say the name "Morgan Fairchild"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 31, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054 "2014-08-31T16:19:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/1 "2014-08-31T16:19:53Z")
If I say the name “Morgan Fairchild”, what’s the first thing that pops into your head? Morgan Fairchild is currently in Kansas City starring in a play at a local dinner theater. A week or so ago I was driving home for lunch and listening to a call-in show on the local NPR station, and she was on as a guest. I thought the host missed a great opportunity for a joke by not introducing his guest as “Morgan Fairchild…” “…whom I’ve slept with.” When I was telling this to my wife that evening, she didn’t get the joke - the reference went completely over her head. I figured most people (or at least those in the 40ish-50ish age range) would get it, but maybe I’m wrong and it’s not as well-known as I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/2 "2014-08-31T16:21:42Z")
Morgan Freeman. You didn’t say it had to make any sense! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/3 "2014-08-31T16:26:59Z")
My wife! Whom I’ve slept with. [checks spoiler] Yep ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/4 "2014-08-31T16:27:14Z")
Nothing, really. I vaguely remember her as being some actress in the 80s, but I couldn’t tell you for sure what she’s been in. (Looking it up, it’s probably _Dallas_ I know her from. ETA: Actually, probably not. It looks like she was only on there for one episode, and it would have been when I was about 3.) Otherwise, not really sure. I’m almost-40, so maybe I’m a hair too young to associate her with anything specific. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/5 "2014-08-31T16:28:23Z")
\*Knots Landing–\*and a long-buried feeling of disgust. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/6 "2014-08-31T16:36:43Z")
“Hummmmmmmm.” _Two and a Half Men_ joke. You had to be there. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/7 "2014-08-31T16:37:12Z")
First Morgan Freeman, just because I hear ‘Morgan’. But then I think of Chandler’s mom. Well, really I think of Chandler’s dad, but then I realize that was Kathleen Turner and that Morgan [del]Freeman[/del]Fairchild played his mom. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/8 "2014-08-31T16:40:06Z")
Strangely enough, a Drew Friedman story, probably in Raw, in which she shows up at some loser’s party with a couple of her supermodel friends. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/9 "2014-08-31T16:40:11Z")
Dumb soap opera blonde. (Perhaps she’s not at all dumb, but that was the first thing I thought of.) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/10 "2014-08-31T16:42:21Z")
[John Lovitz’s “pathological liar” character.](https://screen.yahoo.com/jon-lovitz-snl-skits/jon-lovitz-tommy-flanagan-oliver-000000619.html) I remember the joke a lot better than I remember the actress herself. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/11 "2014-08-31T16:47:00Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Strangely enough, a Drew Friedman story, probably in Raw, in which she shows up at some loser’s party with a couple of her supermodel friends. Ha! I actually found [the story](http://golemuniverse.blogspot.com/2008/09/marnin-and-morgan.html). ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/12 "2014-08-31T16:50:20Z")
I think of the actress, whom I thought was very attractive. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/13 "2014-08-31T16:54:33Z")
Morgan Fairchild ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/14 "2014-08-31T16:54:59Z")
Perfect nose. Well, I thought so back in the eighties. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/15 "2014-08-31T16:55:41Z")
(1) A true highlight of my misspent youth. (2) “… My wife! … Whom I’ve slept with!” (Jon Lovitz as Tommy Flanagan). (3) The one woman featured as the one woman in the one-and-only issue of the nudie magazine _One Woman_. (4) Chandler Byng’s mother. (5) And she was on night time soaps. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/16 "2014-08-31T17:08:45Z")
I’m old enough I actually watched _[Flamingo Road](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo_Road_(TV_series))_. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/17 "2014-08-31T17:12:25Z")
Old Navy. ---
**Author:** ![toast\_pakora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@toast\_pakora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toast_pakora)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/18 "2014-08-31T17:17:14Z")
Still alive? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/19 "2014-08-31T17:19:59Z")
Big-hair blonde. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/20 "2014-08-31T17:34:37Z")
Shoulder pad on suits. Really big shoulder pads. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054.md?page=2)