Thursday, March 08, 2007
'Merican Idol
As I was watching "American Idol" tonight I realized that Melinda Doolittle seemed very familiar to me. At first I thought she may have co-starred on "227." If you don't remember "227," it was the unfunniest black sitcom of the 1980's not named "Amen." And it helped launch Jackee's career. So take what you will from that. But anyway, I wasn't sure about the "227" connection, so I looked Ms. Doolittle up on Wikipedia to see what she was involved in before "Idol." Sure enough my hunch proved accurate. Melinda Doolittle previously starred in a series of animated shorts with a fellow magpie name Jeckle in the 1950's:
I knew I'd seen that no-neck hunchback before!
I knew I'd seen that no-neck hunchback before!
