Her Cups Runneth Over

[Deja Q]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Rakolta

(She) is an (upper class) American homemaker and activist who led an ultimately unsuccessful boycott against the FOX-TV sitcom Married... with Children.

(SNIP)

Rakolta began a letter-writing campaign to advertisers, demanding they boycott the show.

After advertisers began dropping their support for the show and while Rakolta made several appearances on television talk shows, FOX executives refused to air the episode titled "I'll See You In Court - 0308".<4> This episode would become known as the "Lost Episode" and was aired on FX on June 18, 2002, with some parts cut for time reasons. The episode was packaged with the rest of the third season in the January 2005 DVD release (and in the first volume of the Married...With Children Most Outrageous episode DVD set) with the parts cut from syndication put back in.

During the boycott, ratings for Married... with Children rose due to interest in the show caused by Rakolta's crusade to have the show cancelled. The increased number of viewers kept the show on the air until 1997. According to sources on the set, the producers sent Rakolta a fruit basket every Christmas as a way of saying "Thank you."

Rakolta has been referenced twice on the show: "Rock and Roll Girl - 0414,"<5> when a newscaster mentioned the city Bloomfield Hills, and "No Pot To Pease In - 0909,"<6> when a television show was made about the Bundy family and then was canceled because (according to Marcy) "some woman in Michigan didn't like it."

[Adsos Letter]

1. She is...easy on the eyes... n/t

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. Talk about a desperate housewife

Some people have way too much time on their hands.

Oh, and BTW Terry, even though remotes now have 50 buttons, it's not that hard to find the on-off button or the channel changer.