Elf Men

I like to think that Jenna Elfman’s ancestors were an intermixing of Elf and Humans. And that her last name is the lasting result of that. You know just how like someone who’s named Sarah Baker, her family used to be bakers. Or that Jack Johnson was the son of John. Which when you think of it, is a family with out a lot of a originality in naming.

Reading Metro this morning, there’s an interview with Elfman about her new sitcom that’s coming out. She talks about how she had a hand in the creation elements of the show, including and I quote, “I also particularly wanted to increase the aesthetic value of the sitcom, to kick up the style of of the furniture and wardrobe a notch. I want viewers to love the characters and to find the show nice to look at, very pleasing to the eye.” I cannot think of a sitcom that I have watched in the last 25 years of my life(I don’t think I can remember sitcoms very well when I was younger than that) that I was displeased with the FURNITURE or the WARDROBE. I suppose it’s appropriate that this sort of comment would be made during Fashion Week here in NYC.

In any event, I can promise you, Dear Reader, that I will in all probability watch the first show just to see how much she really amped the normal props/costumes element. Personally, I would think you’d want to invest most heavily in writing and casting. But this could be one of those situations where they say, “We could get a $20 million star, two $10 millions, or 20 $1 millions”. But in this case it will be four twenty five thousand dollar ‘stars’ and ten million on furniture and nine point nine mill on wardrobe. And monkeys for writers.