There’s good news and bad news. Good news first: Julie Benz, whose departure from “Dexter” saddened fans of the Showtime series, has gotten a gig playing a stripper. The bad news: it’s on “Desperate Housewives.”
[Benz] has been cast in the recurring role of Debbie, a stripper with a heart of gold and a Masters degree in education. When Susan offers her the chance to transition into a more legitimate career, Deb jumps at it. Benz is booked for at least three episodes, the first of which is scheduled to air in February. [Ausiello]
I know this doesn’t need to be said, but “Desperate Housewives” is terrible at everything. Here are some handy tips for adding a stripper to your show. DO: show the stripper at work. DO NOT: give her a master’s degree. Not unless that master’s is in lap dances. (You can get one at Arizona State.)
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Why on earth does Hollywood cling so stubbornly to the notion that I (or any other potential audience member) have the slightest interest in a stripper’s personality or any other aspect of her life aside from her job?
AHHHH SPOILER ALERT WARNINGS PLEASE!
Desperate Housewives is still on?
I’ve mutilated my share of strippers but I have yet to find one with a golden heart. Better keep trying.
Strippers are good. Julie Benz is very good. Julie Benz playing a stripper = great idea.
However, Julie Benz playing a stripper on Desperate Housewives is pointless. Unless you’re eager for 45 minutes of listening to emasculating harpies and getting blueballed by strategically placed coasters and elbows obscuring Julie’s goodies.
In summation, wake me when Julie Benz joins the cast of Diary of a Call Girl or Californication.
Hopefully this will lead to a crossover where Dexter murders everyone on Wisteria Lane.
It really makes me sad to think of all the gold I’ve missed out on by just throwing strippers’ bodies off bridges without cutting the hearts out first.
Zack-Mind if I borrow that line some time?
I see nothing but disappointment in my future… Why spoil Julie Benz’s epic breasts on Desperate House wives???
I don’t know anyone who was ‘saddened’ by her departure. It would only have been better if Dexter had *SPOILER*
killed her himself.
Geez, you guys are assholes. It must be a miracle you ever get laid– I don’t know how women could ever stand people who talk about women the way you do.
Why make her a stripper at all? Why not all tune in to watch an interesting woman with a master’s degree? That’s what I’d like to see. Of course, a stripper with a masters degree is interesting, too, but not unheard of.
You must all be really insecure to want to set women’s rights back so much. Women are people too, you know. So are strippers, so are women with master’s degrees. Complex people, you shouldn’t joke about murdering. She is more than her body. She has a mind.
I hope the next generation is smarter than the idiots on this website.
I know, all of these comments are lost on everyone here. Can’t wait for your witty retorts. Why even try with you? I wonder. Think, just for a moment, that you have something to offer the world more than a pair of googly eyes every time you think a pair of breasts is going to show up.
@a.b.
who let you out of the kitchen?
She was mindboggingly awful in that Boondocks Saints sequel (although also mindboggingly hot)