# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/61 "2014-08-31T22:41:08Z")
One of those 1980s soap operas. I can’t remember which one. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/62 "2014-08-31T23:04:28Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > [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. Yep, me too. “My lovely wife…Moorgan Fairchild…” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/63 "2014-08-31T23:05:29Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > Star Trek, TOS. Yes, she was an alien. Cite? You may have her confused with Morgan Brittany, AKA: Suzanne Cupito, who also wasn’t in TOS, but broke my little heart in Twilight Zone and, especially, Outer Limits. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/64 "2014-08-31T23:16:25Z")
People who still look good year after year ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/65 "2014-08-31T23:19:22Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Not every style of comedy is for everyone, but Jon Lovitz is a character comedian, not a joke teller. One of the basic cable channels (CMT?) plays \*A League of Their Own \*a lot. I’ve been known to tune in right when I know the supremely sarcastic baseball scout that Lovitz played will be onscreen: > [@](#): > > Ernie Capadino: I’m Ernie Capadino. I’m a baseball scout. I saw you playing today. Not bad, not bad. You ever heard of Walter Harvey, makes Harvey bars - you know, the candy? > Dottie Hinson: Yeah. We feed them to the cows when they’re constipated. > Ernie Capadino: That’s the guy. He’s starting a girls’ baseball league, so he can make a buck while the boys are overseas. Wanna play? > Dottie Hinson: Huh? > Ernie Capadino: Nice retort. Tryouts are in Chicago. It’s a real league, professional. > Kit Keller: Professional - baseball? > Ernie Capadino: Mmm-hmm. They’ll pay you 75 dollars a week. > Kit Keller: We only make 30 at the dairy. > Ernie Capadino: Well then, this would be more, wouldn’t it? Classic. eta: I guess the first thing I thought of at the sight of the name “Morgan Fairchild” was the Old Navy commercials. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/66 "2014-08-31T23:48:05Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > The FIRST thing I think about is the Jon Lovitz character. > > However, I am surprised no one has mentioned what I always think of _secondly_ upon hearing her name: **She played the movie version of Dottie in _Pee-wee’s Big Adventure_!!!** Opposite James Brolin as Pee-Wee! Hysterical! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/67 "2014-09-01T00:04:28Z")
A transcript of my thoughts… _Blonde, pretty, “perfect”._ then \*80’s Actress Dallas? No, not Dallas? How the hell do you know, you never watched an episode of Dallas in your life? Look it up? No, don’t care that much. Plastic surgery This pho is disappointing.\* ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/68 "2014-09-01T00:21:10Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Opposite James Brolin as Pee-Wee! Hysterical! That’s P.W. Herman to you! ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/69 "2014-09-01T00:27:06Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > You know, when I was listening to the radio interview, they were talking about her involvement in supporting AIDS research, which goes back to the days when the disease first became widely known, and she was talking about how research into infectious diseases is sort of a hobby of hers… and it was just really surprising how knowledgeable she was on the subject! I watched an interview with her probably 20 years ago in which she discussed this very thing. IIRC, she had an unfulfilled desire to go to medical school. And it was the third thing I thought of when I saw the thread title. The first was the Jon Lovitz routine & the second was how incredibly hot she was & still is. Looking at her Wikipedia page, she has been working consistently in TV & movies so my fourth thought “I haven’t seen her in years” just means that I haven’t been looking in the right places. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/70 "2014-09-01T00:33:59Z")
Did some great nude scenes in a movie I can’t remember the title of right now. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/71 "2014-09-01T00:36:24Z")
Always thought she was a classy looking beauty. Very pleasing facial features, IMHO. Back in the 80s she was one of my faves. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/72 "2014-09-01T00:38:01Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > OK, so I guess the Jon Lovitz Pathological Liar bit with “My wife… Morgan Fairchild… whom I’ve slept with” isn’t as widely known as I thought it was. I knew it. Jon Lovitz was the first thing that popped in my head. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/73 "2014-09-01T00:42:25Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I, too, think of “My wife!Yeah, that’s the ticket” and felt a little sorry for her that so many people remember her as a butt of a joke. But then I read this thread and see that almost an equal number of people think of an almost 80 year old black man and I don’t feel so sad anymore. > [@Biggirl](#): > > It wasn’t a one liner, it was a character who lied. A lot. Morgan Fairchild was just his most remembered lie. The more famous line of this character, in my opinion, isn’t the Morgan Fairchild lline. It’s the one I mention in my post-- “Yeah, that’s the ticket!” > > Also, it wasn’t a joke at Morgan Fairchild’s expense. In fact it’s flattering, when you think about it. She wasn’t the butt of the joke at all. In fact, she did find it rather flattering. She even appeared as a guest on SNL and participated in the “Patholigical Liar” sketch in that episode. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/74 "2014-09-01T01:08:51Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > If I say the name “Morgan Fairchild”, what’s the first thing that pops into your head? Morgan le Fay; just because of the name. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/75 "2014-09-01T01:25:54Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Always thought she was a classy looking beauty. Very pleasing facial features, IMHO. Back in the 80s she was one of my faves. In a very weird way, she had the “hot older woman” thing going on before she was old enough to be categorized with older women. It’s hard for me to describe. In her 80s heyday, she was only in her 30s but she comes across as a woman in her 40s . . . who looks really hot _for a woman in her 40s_. [She’s 35 years old in _Pee-wee’s Big Adventure_](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CQvLsAP8L3M/Torg36AXt9I/AAAAAAAAIk8/BCQi9ihs_dk/s1600/PeeweesBigAdven_184Pyxurz.jpg), but I swear I watch her in that movie and think to myself “Damn, that 47 year old woman looks great! She looks like she’s only in her mid-30s! That is so hot!” Of course she really was in her mid-30s, so she _should_ have looked like she was in her mid-30s, but I give her _extra_ credit for looking like she’s in her mid-30s because she _seems like_ she’s in her mid-40s. Does this make any sense to anyone besides me? Mary Steenburgen always had the same kind of thing going on: “hot older woman” when she was actually a young woman. Of course, both women very handily eased into being hot older women once they actually became older women- they had had years of practice. ---
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> [@etv78](#): > > I’m familiar with the SNL character. Forgot he claimed he slept with her. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Same here. Unless I hear “Morgan Fairchild, whom I slept with” in Tommy FlaNAYgan’s voice, I wouldn’t associate it with the character. Second thing I thought of was [Celebrity Poker](http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/10976-multimedia-celebrity-poker-windows-3-x-screenshot-say-hello.gif). ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/77 "2014-09-01T02:05:04Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > In a very weird way, she had the “hot older woman” thing going on before she was old enough to be categorized with older women. It’s hard for me to describe. In her 80s heyday, she was only in her 30s but she comes across as a woman in her 40s . . . who looks really hot _for a woman in her 40s_. > > Does this make any sense to anyone besides me? Yes, oddly enough. I agree with both your examples, and nominate Helen Mirren for inclusion into the club. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/78 "2014-09-01T02:20:37Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > She wasn’t the butt of the joke at all. In fact, she did find it rather flattering. She even appeared as a guest on SNL and participated in the “Patholigical Liar” sketch in that episode. Yes, she wasn’t the butt of the joke. I’d like to point out, however, that just because she appeared on SNL and participated in the skit doesn’t prove anything either way. Many people went on SNL and made fun of themselves. My favorite example of this is Derek Jeter in the skit Yankee wives where he (dressed as a woman) utters the line “Derek Jeter looks like The Rock had sex with a Muppet.” ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/79 "2014-09-01T03:23:44Z")
Bien: She was a cougar before she was a cougar? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054/80 "2014-09-01T03:42:33Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Yes, she wasn’t the butt of the joke. I’d like to point out, however, that just because she appeared on SNL and participated in the skit doesn’t prove anything either way. Many people went on SNL and made fun of themselves. My favorite example of this is Derek Jeter in the skit Yankee wives where he (dressed as a woman) utters the line “Derek Jeter looks like The Rock had sex with a Muppet.” OK, in the interest of honesty (isn’t that ironic?), I have to confess I got it wrong. Fairchild didn’t appear with Lovitz at all. I got her crossed in my mind with Jerry Hall, ex-lover of Mick Jagger. Hall was guest hosting SNL in 1985, when, according to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurring_Saturday_Night_Live_characters_and_sketches_introduced_1985%E2%80%931986#Tommy_Flanagan.2C_the_Pathological_Liar): > [@](#): > > One of his biggest lies, however, would work to his great advantage. During the cold opening when Jerry Hall hosted, Flanagan claimed to be an old friend of her then-boyfriend Mick Jagger; when Jagger entered moments later, he shocked her by revealing that the two were longtime friends, and had actually spent the previous weekend together, while she had no idea of his whereabouts, on a fishing trip. As he and Hall got up to leave, Jagger told Flanagan, “I owe you for this one”, before opening the show. So, what can I say? I’m wiped out from the wild sex Morgan Fairchild and I had this weekend. Yeaaaah. That’s the ticket! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-of-when-i-say-the-name-morgan-fairchild/697054.md?page=5)