# WKRP question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [January 31, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260 "2012-01-31T02:43:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kansas_Beekeeper)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/21 "2012-02-01T16:16:57Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Here’s Jan Smithers (foreground) and Kelly Greer (background) in the [same frame](http://i.imgur.com/DUAna.png) at the event. > > Sorry about the lousy quality but you get the idea. OK, that convinces me Stella is not Smithers. I’d not noticed that. (Maybe it was cut out of the syndicated version I have a copy of?) I did try to watch to see if Stella had the slight scar on her left cheek that Smithers has, but the copy I’m watching is lousy quality also, and I couldn’t tell. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/22 "2012-02-01T16:43:45Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > The thing about Jennifer is that she was played as permanently unavailable, with the Herb character lusting after her and perpetually getting shot down. After a time, the message of “you’re not good enough for her, you have no chance, you can keep on trying forever and you’ll get nowhere” sinks in. > > Meantime, Bailey’s charms grow on you. Wasn’t Herb married? ISTR that he was. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/23 "2012-02-01T16:54:28Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > Wasn’t Herb married? ISTR that he was. yes ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/24 "2012-02-01T16:55:22Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Here’s Jan Smithers (foreground) and Kelly Greer (background) in the [same frame](http://i.imgur.com/DUAna.png) at the event. > > Sorry about the lousy quality but you get the idea. Damn good detective work. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/25 "2012-02-01T16:58:28Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > Wasn’t Herb married? ISTR that he was. He was. He was the stereotype of the horndog salesman. He was after Jennifer all the time but she was of course unobtainable. ISTR later in the show the actual possibility of cheating on his wife came up but he couldn’t go through with it. Its been a while since I have seen it though. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/26 "2012-02-01T17:02:45Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > Wasn’t Herb married? ISTR that he was. Yes…his wife, Lucille, was played by Edie McClurg, and appeared in three episodes (they also had a couple of kids, IIRC). This obviously didn’t stop Herb from hitting on Jennifer, or generally acting like a playboy. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/27 "2012-02-01T20:23:42Z")
I could never get past Jennifer’s hair, it is clearly a wig. Is Loni Anderson balding? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/28 "2012-02-01T20:26:12Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I could never get past Jennifer’s hair, it is clearly a wig. Is Loni Anderson balding? Well, it was clearly not her natural hair color, anyway. I remember seeing her in an appearance on _The Tonight Show_, during her days on _WKRP_, and Johnny Carson had a picture of her from the early 1970s, as a brunette (which she acknowledged was her natural hair color). With dark hair, she looked very Mediterranean. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/29 "2012-02-01T21:30:45Z")
I think she said she had a breast reduction, early in her career, too. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/30 "2012-02-01T21:35:13Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Yes…his wife, Lucille, was played by Edie McClurg, and appeared in three episodes (they also had a couple of kids, IIRC). This obviously didn’t stop Herb from hitting on Jennifer, or generally acting like a playboy. Has anyone seen Lucille and Bailey in the same frame? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/31 "2012-02-01T21:37:13Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I could never get past Jennifer’s hair, it is clearly a wig. Is Loni Anderson balding? She has very natural-looking hair, still that color and very nearly that style, in person. I have not posted my photos from Dragon\*Con yet, and I don’t know even if among them I have any sufficiently close-up to be able to tell, but she walked past me at a distance of about 10 feet when she and Howard came into the room, and it sure didn’t look like a wig to me. ---
**Author:** ![Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kansas_Beekeeper)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/32 "2012-02-01T22:31:38Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > Mary Ann or Ginger? Bailey or Jennifer? These are timeless questions. > > /Mary Ann & Bailey. No. Bailey & Mary Ann. In that order. > //Jennifer who? Damn we used to spend a lot of time talking about the Mary Ann/Ginger conundrum when I worked at a Boy Scout camp years ago during the summers. I think there’s two kinds of hetro guys in the world, those who go for Mary Ann and Bailey and those who go for Ginger and Jennifer. I’m a Mary Ann/Bailey kind of guy. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/33 "2012-02-02T01:09:34Z")
> [@Kansas\_Beekeeper](#): > > Damn we used to spend a lot of time talking about the Mary Ann/Ginger conundrum when I worked at a Boy Scout camp years ago during the summers. > > I think there’s two kinds of hetro guys in the world, those who go for Mary Ann and Bailey and those who go for Ginger and Jennifer. > > I’m a Mary Ann/Bailey kind of guy. Guess I’m different. I’m a Ginger/Bailey guy. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/34 "2012-02-02T01:35:35Z")
> [@Kansas\_Beekeeper](#): > > I’m a Mary Ann/Bailey kind of guy. > [@Loach](#): > > I’m a Ginger/Bailey guy. Well, as the old saying goes, I wouldn’t kick either out of bed for eating crackers. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/35 "2012-02-02T01:41:24Z")
What’s the Betty/Veronica consensus? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/36 "2012-02-02T01:45:34Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > What’s the Betty/Veronica consensus? [Cheryl Blossom](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c4/Cherylblsm.png/120px-Cherylblsm.png) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/37 "2012-02-02T02:07:45Z")
I guess I’m weird. I’m a Mary Ann / Jennifer guy. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/38 "2012-02-02T02:11:58Z")
Love WKRP. Mary Ann, Bailey, Annie (on Community) and Betty of the Archies. Are those the 4 or are their more? ---
**Author:** ![Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kansas_Beekeeper)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/39 "2012-02-02T02:17:54Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Guess I’m different. I’m a Ginger/Bailey guy. > [@davidm](#): > > I guess I’m weird. I’m a Mary Ann / Jennifer guy. If you mean at the same time, OK. Otherwise you are not within my polemic. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260/40 "2012-02-02T02:20:53Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I guess I’m weird. I’m a Mary Ann / Jennifer guy. Me too. And I’m definitely weird. But I think a lot of people can’t see past Jennifer’s looks. There wasn’t anything past Ginger’s looks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wkrp-question/611260.md?page=3)