Ellen: The Shower Scene

Ellen: The Shower Scene
ABC
September 27, 1995
Sitcom
DVD
B

Dava Savel's first of eight Ellen stories is a funny if sometimes implausible one.  (As Ellen and Spence acknowledge in their exchange about whether a scheme is something Lucy Ricardo would do.)  Paige has to throw a shower for her "perfect" sister Heather (Connie Britton, well-cast, in her first of three appearances that season), who's recently had twins.  She brings over Heather's birth videocassette, which Ellen accidentally tapes over with a thirtysomething episode.  Note that poor Adam is hardly in this episode, just a line or two, with not only Paige and Spence given lots to do, but Joe and Audrey featured more than Adam.

Nurse Judy Kain was Janet's friend Joan Ferguson on Three's Company and had a nameless role on Roseanne in '90.  Noelle Hannibal is once again an uncredited Customer.