Ellen: These Successful Friends of Mine

Ellen: These Successful Friends of Mine
ABC
September 20, 1995
Sitcom
DVD
B-

Tom Leopold's first of three Ellen stories (this one obviously playing on the series' original title) takes awhile to get going, but the scene of Ellen in the oddity museum somewhere on the road to Barstow is priceless.  (One of my best friends and I adopted "Fifty million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the earth.  In 1973, I opened this museum" as a catchphrase.)  Watching now, I wanted more of that quirky kind of humor and less of Paige and Spence bickering in order to establish their sexual tension.

Rick Hall, who had an unknown role on Roseanne in 1990, makes his first of two appearances as Contractor #1 (the other not till '97), while Mousy Man David Wells was a Protester on Roseanne.