Ellen: Ellen Unplugged

Ellen: Ellen Unplugged
ABC
February 5, 1997
Sitcom
DVD
B-

On the previous episode, it was a couple weeks till Ellen's birthday.  Here her present is a stay at rock & roll fantasy camp, with her four best friends along.  The script by Alex Herschlag is a little awkward but it does have some more audience-teases, with Spence naming lesbian singers that Ellen could be like.  And the musical performances are nice of course.

Derek McGrath was Tony Petardi on Who's the Boss? and is Stanley Peck here.  DeGeneres's brother Vance this time plays a Guitarist at the Audition, while Drummer at the Audition Paul Crowder previously was a Trendy Man.  David Crosby, Sheryl Crow, Queen Latifah, Aaron Neville (who was in a recent title sequence), and Bonnie Raitt all appear as themselves.