{"id":9081,"date":"2009-02-24T08:20:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T13:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9081"},"modified":"2010-07-22T06:37:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:37:45","slug":"square-pegs-jami-gertz-as-muffy-tepperman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9081","title":{"rendered":"<i>Square Pegs<\/i>:  Jami Gertz as Muffy Tepperman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had forgotten how funny she is in this.  She&#8217;s funny in every line, every gesture.  It is over-the-top old-movie-star Gloria Swanson behavior, all gesture and eyeball action, and it&#8217;s hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, in the pilot (you know, starring Ben Marley), The Waitresses show up to play for the freshman dance.  Because, you know, that&#8217;s how things happen at Weemawee High.  Muffy Tepperman, as  head of the social club, introduces The Waitresses with much ridiculous self-important fanfare.  She says that The Waitresses will be &#8220;bigger than the Eagles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They start to play &#8220;I Know What Boys Like&#8221; &#8230; and please &#8230; first of all, just look at Jami Gertz in the background.  It&#8217;s hilarious.  And then watch how she dances.  Muffy, please!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sp58.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/sp58.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sp59.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/sp59.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sp60.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/sp60.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sp62.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/sp62.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sp63.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/sp63.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had forgotten how funny she is in this. She&#8217;s funny in every line, every gesture. It is over-the-top old-movie-star Gloria Swanson behavior, all gesture and eyeball action, and it&#8217;s hilarious. For instance, in the pilot (you know, starring Ben &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9081\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[1863],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24505,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081\/revisions\/24505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}