The Critic/Every Doris Has Her Day

Every Doris Has Her Day
Season 1, Episode 7
Airdate	June 1, 1994
Written by	Steve Tompkins
Directed by	Alan Smart
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The Critic — Season One

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Every Doris Has Her Day is the seventh episode of the first season of The Critic.

Starring: Jon Lovitz (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)

Plot Overview

Desperate for a date after winning tickets to a play, Jay asks out his make-up lady, Doris, which leads to a relationship that is doomed when it's revealed that Doris may be Jay's birth mother.

Trivia

The Show

• Opening Phone Call: "Hi, Jay, I'm the winner of the Jay Sherman look-alike Contest! Well, one of my heads is."
• Opening Movie Parody: A man and woman are dancing in a black-and-white film but are interrupted when they're both eaten by a color Tyrannosaurus Rex.
• Closing Theatre Shot: "But I have nowhere to go..."

Behind the Scenes

• Testing: The producers of the series convinced ABC to show this episode to test audiences in an attempt to keep them from cancelling the series, certain that they've fixed all the things that audiences didn't like. The episode did test better, but infinitesimally so.

• Original Song: The producers originally intended to use an unnamed Cat Stevens song during the montage of Jay's date with Doris, but they weren't able to clear the song. Additionally, Jon Lovitz kept changing the lyrics to be about how Al Jean and Mike Reiss are gay.