Fat Actress

So I watched “Fat Actress” last night, only because I was in bed already and Tara was flip­ping chan­nels and there really wasn’t any­thing else on. I had very low hopes, mainly because I don’t like fat jokes and Kristie Alley annoys me, and part of me deep deep down inside sees this whole “fat” thing as a way for her to get back into the pub­lic eye.

So I’m watch­ing the show — as I said, with min­i­mal expec­ta­tions. I laughed my ass off. I pretty much enjoyed it for two rea­sons. The lesser rea­son was Rachael Har­ris. She’s a good look­ing chick (blame the glasses) who should be in more things. The major rea­son though was Mayim Bia­lik. Yeah, Blos­som. Yeah, she’s older now (and not to rip on her or any­thing, but she hasn’t aged that well con­sid­er­ing she’s not 30 yet — dude, Blossom’s push­ing 30. How old do you feel now?) and not as “cute” as she was back in her NBC sit­com days, but she ends up hav­ing sex with one of the other char­ac­ters on the show, and to hear her cry out “Say my name! Say my name! Now say my other name!” as the guy cries out “Blos­som! Blos­som!” Just high qual­ity stu­pid humor.

Of course, the end of the pro­gram where we flip back to Bialik’s house where she cries out “but I“m Blos­som, dammit!” and puts on the flower hat and dances to the record­ing of the Blos­som TV show had me laugh­ing again. It’s stuff like that which works once — I don’t know if she’s going to appear again, but the whole com­bi­na­tion of hav­ing not seen her in like 10 years to the imme­date turn in “char­ac­ter” was funny.

I’ll watch the show again. It’ll surely let me down, but it didn’t suck as much as I thought it would.