Ellen Morgan is a neurotic bookstore owner who deals with life through comedy and extensive rambling.Ellen Morgan is a neurotic bookstore owner who deals with life through comedy and extensive rambling.Ellen Morgan is a neurotic bookstore owner who deals with life through comedy and extensive rambling.
- Won 3 Primetime Emmys
- 14 wins & 33 nominations total
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- TriviaWhile Portia de Rossi DeGeneres was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) in 2010, Oprah told Portia that when Oprah played the therapist on Seaon 4 Episode 22, "The Puppy Episode" (the "coming out" episode), Oprah got more hate mail about that minor appearance than she had gotten during her entire previous career as a talk-show host and an actress.
- GoofsAs of Season 3, Ellen's apartment is no longer upstairs: the characters go into the first floor apartment opposite Mrs. Koeger's. An establishing shot regularly shows that Ellen's apartment building is not exactly at ground level, since there are stairs leading to its entrance, from the sidewalk. However, its first floor isn't high up enough to be at the same level with the top floor of the opposite building which is seen on level from Ellen's balcony. Also, a couple of bushes clearly obstruct the view from the downstairs apartment's windows but Ellen has unobstructed view ahead, proving once and for all that Ellen's apartment is clearly the one upstairs--even throughout season 3. Furthermore, the top floor window is lit at night in the establishing shots, proving that it is Ellen's. Finally, the "balcony" seen in said frames appears to not be a balcony at all once seen from the outside view: there isn't nearly enough floor space. The balustrade appears to be smack against the window, with only a slim space to host potted plants, but evidently not large enough to accommodate Ellen's patio furniture.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1995)
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Pretty Good
This was a pretty good show. Kind of like an updated I Love Lucy. It wasn't one of the best, but I can say that it's four year run, and was funny in a Just Shoot Me kind of way. The show started mediocre in it's first season. The second season was probably it's best, and the third was almost as good. The last season wasn't very good only because they sacrificed humor for the sake of sending their message, but I think ABC should've let Ellen on for another season to see if it shaped back up into a funny show, although, if it had stayed on and continued to not be funny, it may have lost a lot of it's supporters. It's amazing what this show was able what this show was able to do, and Will & Grace, which is one of the best shows on the air now, would obviously never even exist if it wasn't for it.
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