For those unfamiliar with odd little gem Wonderfalls, Dhavernas starred as Jaye Tyler, an overeducated 24-year-old who has eschewed the more traditional career and life path that her family wanted for her in order to work at a local Gift Emporium catering to tourists. She also has decided to live in a trailer instead of with her family. Frankly, I never blamed her. While an affectionate clan, they are all a little bit on the crazy side. Her father (William Sadler) was a doctor who wanted her to do more with her life, yet thanked her when she inadvertently ran him over -- after all, it did help him discover a hidden blood clot. Her mother (Diana Scarwid) was just a touch obsessed with her three children, and sasw no problem in going through their belongings or befriending their friends. She was also significantly more popular with Jaye's high school pals than Jaye, so that was a bit of a sore spot. Sharon (Katie Finneran) was Jaye's successful lawyer sister, who seemed robotic and overly ambitious -- until Jaye discovered that she was keeping her lesbian love life hidden from everyone. And then there was Aaron (played by Lee Pace, also of the late, great, quirky show Pushing Daisies) who studied religion and was more than a little bit skeptical at first about his sister's claim that she could hear voices.

It's no wonder Jaye prefered the comfort of local watering hole The Barrel. It's where her best friend Mahandra (Tracie Thoms) worked, where Eric (Tyron Leitso) -- her love-interest of sorts -- had set up shop and it just had a cool décor. Eric was hiding out as a bartender because when he was on his honeymoon, he found his newlywed bride in flagrante delicto with a bellman.

All of this was just the framework -- the real stories come when various objects from the store and other places (like a therapist's office) started talking to Jaye -- everything from a half-melted wax lion to a cow creamer. My personal favorite was the little brass monkey. The show took something I always found terrifying and gave it a personality. Why the animals picked this disgruntled, abrasive, bossy and brutally honest person to do their bidding, I'm not sure. Perhaps because they found it funny to make her go against her character type, or they knew that there was a decent person under that gruff exterior. Either way, the mostly misanthropic lead reluctantly listened to the voices in her head and ended up helping illegal housekeepers and a homeless girl who Single White Female'd her.

The show was from the minds of Todd Holland, who later directed a bunch of Malcolm in the Middle episodes (an offbeat Fox series that actually survived), and Bryan Fuller, who has worked on a lot of high-profile seires (including early episodes of Heroes), but has had trouble finding an audience for his wonderfully odd creations like Daisies and Dead Like Me.

I encourage people out there to watch the DVDs of Wonderfalls' 13 delightfully bizarre episodes, since only four of them ever saw the light of day on Fox. And while you are at it, pick up Pushing Daisies, too. Fuller's created vibrantly colored, magically delicious little worlds that are just far enough off the beaten path, and you can't help but be enchanted by them. And while I'm personally thrilled to see the talented Dhavernas getting a lead role on a major television program, there's nothing all that new or different about the soapy doctors-in-the-jungle drama of Off the Map. Still, fingers crossed that people will fall for her optimistic character and want to see some of her earlier work. It could create a whole new generation of Wonderfalls fans, and little would please me more.

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