# Who's your "Mary Ann?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2002, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-mary-ann/109905 "2002-05-20T04:22:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-mary-ann/109905/41 "2002-05-23T16:24:55Z")
How come 90% of the examples in this thread have been from female duos? What about Starsky and Hutch? Simon and Simon? Tenspeed and Brownshoe? What about _them_ apples? Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-mary-ann/109905/42 "2002-05-23T17:27:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > \*\*Art Vandelay, Architect wrote, re: _Queer as Folk_: > The version they show in Great Britain is different than the one they show in the U.S.? > > Do they use different actors and different scripts, or do they just edit certain things out of one version or the other? \*\* Yes, Showtime filmed a seperate American version of the series. Same characters, but an entirely new cast. The setting was changed from Manchester to Pittsburgh (although they filmed it in Toronto, which doesn’t look a whole lot like Pittsburgh.) I think the first season of the American series simply reused the scripts (slightly edited, changing references of British locales, people, and slang words to U.S. equivalents.) Showtime touted the show as having “no limits to what it would show.” It wasn’t true. They kept some of the gratuitous sex scenes, but cut out the more salacious bits. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-mary-ann/109905/43 "2002-05-23T17:33:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > \*\*How come 90% of the examples in this thread have been from female duos? > > What about Starsky and Hutch? > > Simon and Simon? > > Tenspeed and Brownshoe? > > What about _them_ apples? Huh? \*\* Fair enough. While I myself do not ‘partake’ (ahem) I can tell you that Mrs. CaptMurdock digs Jeff Goldblum (see above) bigtime. She also has a jones for [Oliver Platt](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Platt,+Oliver). Come to think of it, in that photo he looks a lot like me. Hmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-mary-ann/109905/44 "2002-05-23T20:45:48Z")
Oliver Platt, mmmmm. He stole _The Three Musketeers_ away from Messrs. Sutherland & Sheen, you know. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-mary-ann/109905/45 "2002-05-23T22:34:28Z")
Not sure if this counts, but Gabrielle over Xena ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-mary-ann/109905/46 "2002-05-23T23:07:31Z")
Emma Peel over John Steed. [sub]Whaddayamean, “that doesn’t count”?[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-mary-ann/109905.md?page=2)