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The Critic/A Little Deb Will Do You
From The TV IV
| A Little Deb Will Do You | |
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| Season 1, Episode 5 | |
| Airdate | February 23, 1994 |
| Production Number | 105 |
| Written by | Nell Scovell |
| Directed by | L.H. MacMullan |
| ← 1x04 Miserable |
1x06 → Eyes on the Prize |
| The Critic — Season One | |
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A Little Deb Will Do You is the fifth episode of the first season of The Critic.
Starring: Jon Lovitz ([[The Critic/Jay Sherman|Jay Sherman}}), Nancy Cartwright (Margot Sherman), Christine Cavanaugh (Marty Sherman), Gerrit Graham (Franklin Sherman), Doris Grau (Doris), Judith Ivey (Eleanor Sherman), Nick Jameson (Vlada Veramirovich), Maurice La Marche (Jeremy Hawke), Charles Napier (Duke Phillips), Kath Soucie (Various)
Special Guest Voice: Tress MacNeille ()
Contents |
Plot Overview
Margo agrees to go the Debutante's Ball after Eleanor forces her to, and Jay agrees to be her date. Jay also has his hands full with the Humphrey the Hippo show on a competing channel, which is stealing his ratings.
Notes
Arc Advancement
Happenings
Characters
Referbacks
Trivia
The Show
- Opening Phone Call: "Jay, it's Doris. I'm at the morgue. Could you come down and tell them I'm not dead? They don't believe me."
- Opening Movie Parody: A parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey, a monkey hits an obelisk shaped thing with a bone until it gives him a can of Pepsi.
- Closing Theatre Shot: "Get away, zitface!"
- Movie Parodies: The Tea Cosy
Behind the Scenes
- Airing: This episode was crucial in the eyes of ABC, specifically told the producers that their future depended largely on how well the episode did. Although the producers felt positively about the quality of the episode, it ran directly against the Women's Figure Skating final during the 1994 Winter Olympics. After the drama involving Tonya Harding plotting to injure Nancy Kerrigan, the final wound up being one of the most watched television broadcasts of all time. More than 46 million people watched the final, with very few opting for The Critic.
Allusions and References
- Alf:
- Audrey Hepburn:
- Frits Zernike:
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg:
- Bob Fosse:
- J. Edgar Hoover:
- Mommy Dearest:
- Boys in the Hood:
- Claus von Bülow:
- Pillsbury Doughboy:
- Howard's End:
- Berlin Alexanderplatz:
- Skip Martin:
- James Coco:
- Driving Miss Daisy:
