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...writer Michael J. Nelson), and two robots, Tom Servo (Kevin Murphy) and Crow (Trace Beaulieu) -- sit in front of a movie screen and, as First Spaceship to Venus or Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster or I Accuse My Parents unspools, they crack wise. That's about it, plus a sketch or two and some edgy banter with the mad scientists, Dr. Clayton Forrester (Beaulieu again) and TV's Frank (Frank Conniff), who supposedly have stranded Mike and the 'bots on the Satellite of Love deep in space and who send these cheesy movies as experiments to monitor Mike's mind...
...length, which accentuates not so much the stocking as the ample amount of thigh above it, did not spring spontaneously from Lauren's sketch pad. Its 19th century antecedent is the gartered stocking. In those times, for reasons that probably escape today's young generations, that fashion was considered disturbingly sexy (but then, so was the bustle). Nowadays, what % women seem to want is unhampered, ungartered, unmitigated eroticism a la Lolita. Underwear is already worn on the outside -- stuff that looks as if it comes from the lingerie department (and often does), and thigh-highs only complement the picture...
...recognize a tv breakthrough? Network publicists usually try hard to sound the alert -- a cop show with nudity! an Asian-American sitcom! She TV too arrived on ABC last month with a high-concept selling point: TV's first sketch-comedy show focusing on, and creatively dominated by, women. Actually, from a commercial standpoint the female angle has probably hurt more than it has helped. Critics were generally cool to a show that wore its feminist agenda on its sleeve, and a lot of potential male viewers were probably scared off as well. Ratings have been mediocre, and prospects...
Women have long been second-class citizens in TV sketch comedy, never more so than today. On Saturday Night Live, the female cast members are so overshadowed that most of the women's roles seem to be played by men in drag. The only memorable character created by a woman in the past five years is Julia Sweeney's Pat -- and the joke is that no one knows Pat's sex. The show has all but abandoned nuanced relationship comedy in favor of TV parodies and broad, running characters that are like antic vaudeville acts. Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner...
...ones. Nick Bakay has nailed the sensitive-macho posturing of NYPD Blue's David Caruso, and the show has lampooned everything from Forrest Gump to a dippy model turned TV host named Bagitta. But She TV's horizons are broader. That became clear its first week, in an inspired sketch called "What Do Women Want?" Ostensibly a parody of a game show, it turned into a sly satire of the gulf between the sexes; a lone male contestant is trapped in a world where the rules are fuzzy and he's the only one who isn't clued in. (Emcee...