"Murphy Brown" Funnies Girl (TV Episode 1989) Poster

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(1989)

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The Unsinkable Mouthy Brown.
mark.waltz25 March 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Like "Woman of the Year's" Tess Harding, Murphy has a comic strip written about her, and takes a good ribbing from the staff, mainly because she was overheard in a gimmicky show finale calling one of their guests a hunk. This gives her the image of a voracious man chaser, scaring off her newest nebbish male secretary (Josh Pais, downright hysterical), thinking that she's ogling him every time he bends down to pick up a pencil or a file. She gets to meet the cartoonist in real life as does the staff, and pretty soon, other members of the FYI staff are being spoofed as well. "Come on Miles, wake up and smell the Alpo!", Jim tells Miles, drawn as a dog. Frank's drawing is a bit more embarrassing for him. They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery is, but parody here turns out to be anything but, resulting in a showdown where Murphy bellys up to the battle, taking on the humiliation with a nice bit of revenge. Very funny for the most part, but I thought the ending could have been a bit more biting.
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