[beaversmom]

Michael Medved did a vague reference on Friday's show about Melissa Gilbert portraying a character that was having an affair while her husband was in Iraq--with a dog. I couldn't believe what he was saying so I had to look it up.

[martin_fierro]

Melissa Gilbert just guest-starred on the FX cable network’s grotesque show "Nip/Tuck." Are you ready for this? As a woman needing to have a nipple replaced....because her dog bit it off....during sex.

Oh, great.

Now she'll be forever typecast.

[sageb1]

If my grandmother were still alive, this would kill her. She lived for "Little House." I watched the first Nip/Tuck and was appalled. Never watched it again.

[BigFinn]

The only thing worth watching on TV is "Antique Roadshow".

[TomGuy]

Gilbert had a short-lived 1/2 hour comedy [Stand by Your Man] a decade or so ago. In it, she was the wife of a guy in prison. It didn't play but a few weeks, it was so bad.

It is not unusual for 'childhood' stars to 'push the envelope' to get away from the stereotyping of their childhood character. Melissa Joan Hart of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and Alyssa Milano of Who's the Boss did explicit photog/video in their later teen-early twenties. It is their way of saying, "I'm not that little kid any more."

They do these extremes to break the casting curse many childhood stars think exists -- that they get permanently welded into the childhood character. Danny Bonaduce was Danny Partridge for decades. Gary Coleman can't shake the Diff'rent Strokes type casting.

[beaversmom]

Up next on “Nip/Tuck” is Rosie O’Donnell, and it wouldn’t be worth the guest starring role without Rosie’s character having sex with Dr. Christian Troy, the show’s stud muffin. TV Guide has already spurred O’Donnell to recount the filming of the “absolutely hilarious” sex scene, how the actor playing Dr. Troy was naked except for a sock and she decided to go topless, and how her lesbian partner loved watching every minute.

Anyone want to comment on this?

[tlb]

The last couple of years I watch very little series television. There isn't a single regular network program that holds my interest.

At the same time though F/X network the last several seasons has been offering almost the only interesting new shows on the air. Nip/Tuck, The Shield, and Rescue Me all push the boundaries of basis cable, and are totally upfront that this is what they do. They aren't right for everybody and give fair warning they are mature programming with foul language, nudity etc at the beginning of each episode (MLV etc) may as well be a Roman numeral geometry problem it uses so many warning letters. They are also broadcast late night past the bedtime of youngsters.

With several hundred channels now there is room for mature subjects programming to be offered to forewarned audiences.

Do you actually want All Barney the Dinosaur all the time?

[Dudoight]

I am absolutely mind-blown! I didn't know that this kind of crap was on regular TV shows. I can't imagine where this is going to take us just 20 years out.

[EmilyGeiger]

How repulsive.

[cgk]

Just, wow-ping.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Sorry, but once I found out she worked for the Shadows, I never trusted Laura Ingells.

Poor Captain Sheridan had to kill himself because of that.

[PISANO]

50 years ago "homosexuality" occupied the same level of TABOO that [I thought] "beastiality" and "pedophilia" do today.

Seems I am wrong about bestiality for when it hits mainstream in TV Land it is only a decade or so from normality.

Senator Moynihan's, "Defining Deviancy Down" is inching ever closer to it's nadir!

[mombonn]

Words fail me.

[GOP Poet]

Just read this on a celebrity blog www.justjared.com:

TvTattle [http://www.tvtattle.com/] reports: Brad Pitt [GOP Poet's bold emphasis] is one of the exec producers of “4 oz.,” the transsexual sportswriter drama that Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy is working on. “He gets me more money,” Murphy says of Pitt. “He’ll be very involved in everything.” Murphy adds that he named his show after a penis because it fascinates him “that something that weighs so little can cause so much damage and joy at the same time.” “that something that weighs so little can cause so much damage and joy at the same time.”

[cricket]

The Libs never exhaust themselves in their relentless pursuit of the debased - their goal to share and invite and taint; as many as possible and done for an additional carrot. . .to insult the sensitivities of as many 'value packed citizens' as possible...while they attempt to recreate a 'culture' in their disgusting image.

[Uncle Meat]

As a woman needing to have a nipple replaced....because her dog bit it off....during sex.

The poodle bites,the poodle chews it.[for all you Frank Zappa fans out there]

[napscoordinator]

I wonder why they are doing articles from last season. I did see Melissa Gilbert in Nip Tuck. It was strange but that show is pretty strange anyway. I always wonder how the writers think of such crazy stuff for the show. Come to find out, all the stories on the show actually happened before. I was shocked, but with 300 million people in America nothing surprises me anymore.

[peggybac]

From my experience, the only instances where actors refused a role, or even an audition, was the role of a pedophile. Also, years ago, a few guys refused to audition for a military role because they didn’t want to portray a soldier (this was during the Clinton years). Other than that, almost anything goes. It’s only a role and the edgier the better (not my opinion). Melissa was one of the lucky child actresses to break the “she’s only known as....” syndrome, although, she will always be remembered as Laura Ingalls. She’s done a lot of work throughout the years and it is unfortunate, IMO, she had to stoop to such a role. With so much reality television these days and the roles for older women diminishing, many females have to take what they can get. I know of established actors and actresses now doing soap operas - something you wouldn’t have seen a few years ago. Also, with the writer’s strike looming, actors want to act.

I’m curious what her husband, Bruce Boxleitner, had to say about all this. He’s a good Republican, yet, I see Melissa is supporting Rudy.