Ellen: Two Mammograms and a Wedding

Ellen: Two Mammograms and a Wedding
ABC
April 3, 1996
Sitcom
DVD
B

Dava Savel wrote this story where Ellen is feeling neglected by engaged Paige and nervous about her first mammogram.  In the waiting room, she clicks with Chloe Korban (the marvelous Janeane Garofalo).  But when they try to meet for coffee, it's very awkward.  There's a subtext here (OK, partly fueled by my little crush on Garofalo, but I don't think I'm just projecting) that Ellen and Chloe are on a first date, including how Audrey, Spence, and Joe react.  If Ellen had come out already, I can't help wondering if they would've had Garofalo back as a potential girlfriend.  As it is, we'd never see the character again.

At least we get this wonderfully in-joky exchange--
Ellen: I own a store.  We sell books and coffee.
Chloe: Oo, that's very hip.  Very "Friends."
Ellen: We were here first.

Nurse Mina Kolb was Terri's mother on Three's Company.  This is the 1400th show from ABC I've reviewed.  I'm not sure if we'll hit 1500.

Janeane Garofalo: Beverly Hills 90210

Janeane Garofalo: Beverly Hills 90210
Comedy Central
1992
Stand-Up Comedy
VHS
B-

This is as good a place as any to say that I'm going through a videocassette that is mostly stand-up comedy.  In the case of London Underground, I treated each group of acts as a group, because the routines were live and in front of one audience in an evening.  I can't do that for Comedy Central shows like Short Attention Theater or Stand-Up Stand-Up, where clips from various years were packaged and only connected by a theme.  Anyway, Janeane is pretty good on the subject of 90210, ending with a Welcome Back, Kotter joke, but Greg Proops is better and at greater length.