I've been watching "Voyager" for the first time. Now I've seen her playing a Q. I always thought it was interesting that Dr Selar was on the Enterprise-D for its whole mission (AFAIK), but we only SAW her once, in "the Schizoid Man", working on the away mission to Dr Ira Graves. ("You don't remember anything? 'To know him is to love him is to know him?????' ") Officially, there were 3 doctors on duty on the ship, and we never seem to have met the third. (Pulaski did not serve at the same time as Crusher.) We saw Dr. Hill mentioned in "Remember Me", and Dr. Hacopian mentioned in "Genesis", but neither was ever seen.
But she was mentioned in dialogue from time to time. That's a reliable method for television- you don't have to pay an actor, just mention the character from time to time, and we know they're still around. We had the same thing in "I Love Lucy" with Mrs. Trumbull. We saw her quite a bit for a few seasons once Little Ricky was born. She first appeared to complain about the noise and that the lease specified 'no children', and by the end of the episode morphed into his babysitter. She appeared in different capacities here and there after that- like when the Hollywood talent scout showed up, and she was one of the people who wandered into the apartment trying to audition, dressed like a Spanish señorita. Whenever the Mertzes left the building to travel with the Ricardos, we heard a line of dialogue that Mrs. Trumbull was watching the building. On the cross-country drive, she was the one who packed their picnic basket. On the European trip, Fred spoke to her on the phone once, but we only saw his side of the conversations. And when they all moved to Connecticut in the last season, she had agreed to collect the rent, and her nephew had moved in to act as the building's super. But they didn't have to pay the actress.
For that matter, Carol Ann Susi never appeared on camera on "The Big Bang Theory," but we heard her yell a lot (We saw her arm once, but that was it.) When the actress passed away, the show bought some time by having her leave town and speak to Howard on the phone, while they figured out what they wanted to do with the character.
*checks* If you ever saw the episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" where we met Robert Barrone's ex-wife Joanne (aka "Cinnamon"), Suzie Plakson played her, too. She had a bunch of other roles, also.
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I always liked Plakson.
Funny. She was a Klingon, Keh-lar (or however it's spelled); a Vulcan, Selar; and a Q (Q-lar?).
I haven't watched HIMYM. Maybe I should.
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I've been watching "Voyager" for the first time. Now I've seen her playing a Q. I always thought it was interesting that Dr Selar was on the Enterprise-D for its whole mission (AFAIK), but we only SAW her once, in "the Schizoid Man", working on the away mission to Dr Ira Graves. ("You don't remember anything? 'To know him is to love him is to know him?????' ") Officially, there were 3 doctors on duty on the ship, and we never seem to have met the third. (Pulaski did not serve at the same time as Crusher.) We saw Dr. Hill mentioned in "Remember Me", and Dr. Hacopian mentioned in "Genesis", but neither was ever seen.
But she was mentioned in dialogue from time to time. That's a reliable method for television- you don't have to pay an actor, just mention the character from time to time, and we know they're still around. We had the same thing in "I Love Lucy" with Mrs. Trumbull. We saw her quite a bit for a few seasons once Little Ricky was born. She first appeared to complain about the noise and that the lease specified 'no children', and by the end of the episode morphed into his babysitter. She appeared in different capacities here and there after that- like when the Hollywood talent scout showed up, and she was one of the people who wandered into the apartment trying to audition, dressed like a Spanish señorita. Whenever the Mertzes left the building to travel with the Ricardos, we heard a line of dialogue that Mrs. Trumbull was watching the building. On the cross-country drive, she was the one who packed their picnic basket. On the European trip, Fred spoke to her on the phone once, but we only saw his side of the conversations. And when they all moved to Connecticut in the last season, she had agreed to collect the rent, and her nephew had moved in to act as the building's super. But they didn't have to pay the actress.
For that matter, Carol Ann Susi never appeared on camera on "The Big Bang Theory," but we heard her yell a lot (We saw her arm once, but that was it.) When the actress passed away, the show bought some time by having her leave town and speak to Howard on the phone, while they figured out what they wanted to do with the character.
*checks* If you ever saw the episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" where we met Robert Barrone's ex-wife Joanne (aka "Cinnamon"), Suzie Plakson played her, too. She had a bunch of other roles, also.
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