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Ah, regifting. Taking the unwanted presents you receive from well-meaning but misguided people and giving them to someone else who might appreciate them. One person's trash is another's treasure... or so they say. We'd love to do the same thing for our favorite TV shows. We've got a list of characters who should be boxed, wrapped, tied with a bow and shipped off to other shows. It would make so many series so much more enjoyable. Everyone wins. Mostly.
1. Sadie (Grey's Anatomy)
It's not that we hate Melissa George, OK, maybe some of us do [Editor's Note: I do! Oh, god almighty, I do!!! -- Mindy], but her character has not been a welcome addition to the show. Instead, let's send her quasi-bisexual butt over on to Private Practice. Addison's single again, so's Charlotte -- there could be some romance, and since we already can barely tolerate that show, if she stinks up the joint, who cares?
2. Tracy (Heroes)
Ali Larter as a mastermind who can freeze people? Right. We already had two of her and that was plenty. Instead, let's send her and her wooden character traits on over to Prison Break where she'll fit right in. Plus, with her handy dandy freezing powers, she can finally take down this whole Scylla thing in no time. While she's at it, maybe she can take Mohinder with her too, and he can fix Michael up right good, or accidentally kill him. Either way.
3. Vanessa (Gossip Girl)
Since Vanessa is dragging this otherwise addictive teen soap way, way down, it's time for a change of scenery. By sending her to the West Coast to hang out with the kids at West Beverly on 90210, we'd really be doing everyone a favor. She can teach Naomi how to be a manipulative bitch, and we can pretend that entire show doesn't exist. Everyone's a winner.
4. Gregory Parker (Flashpoint)
Oh, Enrico Colantoni is so much better than this slightly cheesy bomb squad series. We want to love the show, but we just don't. But since we love him, we'd hope for him to get sent off to Life on Mars, where he could go back to some real old-fashioned sleuthing (and he's good with all things Mars related). He'd be happy and so would we.
5. Thirteen/Hadley (House)
Making out with Foreman doesn't make us like her any better. In fact, it might make things worse since we can barely stand him lately. So since she's already dying a slow painful death because of her Huntington's and us watching that isn't going to be pretty, we'd like to move her over to ER. She can check into the Chicago hospital as a patient, and then stay there as that series says its final goodbyes. Then we don't have to see either of them anymore. Yay!
6. Tommy Walker (Brothers & Sisters)
Tommy's attitude is clearly stuck back in the past, and his antiquated macho attitudes generally remind us of some of the less liberal gents on Mad Men. He'd be a perfect fit. And we could really enjoy our guilty pleasure Brothers & Sisters without his attitude bringing us down.
7. Kate (Lost)
We've made it pretty clear that we kinda hate Kate on Lost, but she'd really be perfect over on Grey's Anatomy. She could be off the island, she'd certainly love the plethora of men at her choosing and her lack of interest in actually doing anything would fit well with Izzie's 'tude, and her depressing attitude would endear her to Meredith. She'd be a fantastic new roomie.
8. Emmett Milbarge (Chuck)
We are loving Tony Hale (Buster!) on Chuck, but his efficiency expert would be amazing to see on The Office. Maybe we could regift him and then hope they return him? Him and Dwight together? The mere idea just sends us into a fit of giggles.
9. Betty's Braces (Ugly Betty)
We're sick of Betty's braces. We know, she's ugly and dorky. But she's had them for like 10 years. It's time to rip those suckers off and slap 'em on Sookie Stackhouse on True Blood. The silver would protect Ms. Sookie from any unwanted vamp encounters and the orthodontics would certainly keep us from staring at the gap between Sookie's teeth all the time.
10. Jordan Wethersby (Eli Stone)
Eli Stone is not long for this world, so we've got to strike on this regift while the iron is hot. Give its sometime singing lawyer a nice severance package and then send him to sunny SoCal to help out the Walker clan (lord knows they need it) and he can indulge his love of fine wine. Plus, we'd love to see Victor Garber and Ron Rifkin together again. Seriously. This one needs to happen.
Thoughts? Which characters would you like to regift? Let us know.
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Angel, I'd love to see Emmett Milbarge on The Office. Great call! And yes, for the love of all things TV -- it's time for Larter to leave Heroes.
I want to see the whole cast of Pushing Daisies characters sent off to sweeten the pie of several shows. Ned could go to 30 Rock and bring Liz Lemon's love life back from the dead. Maybe he could also use his powers to bring back shows that never should have been canned.
Chuck could go to The Office, and provide a little romantic competition for Pam. Aunts Lily and Viv could go to either Lost (maybe as Ben's aunts) or to How I Met Your Mother as anyone's aunts. Emerson could go to Smallville to figure out if the show is coming back next year or not.
And Olive? I'd watch her anywhere. Anywhere. But they'd have to let KC sing from time to time.
I totally agree, Sloane and Jack need a reunion like now.
Just don't send Melissa George to join them in a full-blown reunion. Blech.
Please keep Vanessa Abrams right where she is! I am pretty sure that the creators are onboard and hate her like we do. That way we can have complex "villains" like Chuck and Blair, and then when something actual often and unforgivable needs to happen to progress the plot? Have Vanessa do it.
Plus, honestly the Nate/Vanessa?Little J triangle is my favorite relationship story on the show? Bluck is so tedious, haaate Aaron, and Lily/Rufus should stay in the 90s (or Rufus should just stay in the kitchen in Brooklyn). N/V/J are all perfectionists who are each about two seconds from cracking under the pressure, and hopefully they can set each other off into a threeway of meltdowns.
Send Charlotte (from Private Practice) to House. With the rumoured position-shifting over there (don't want to post spoilers), it'd be nice to have someone who isn't so... milquetoast.
I would love love love it if EC was gifted over to Life on Mars!! And I don't watch Brothers & Sisters (don't judge) but think a Jack/Sloane reunion definitely needs to happen.
I would enjoy seeing Chloe leave Smallville and go just about anywhere. She deserves so much better than the bad scripts of Smallville.
I'd like to see the Winchester boys copied and pasted into every episode of EVERYTHING. They could even make Heros tolerable again.
Angel, I love to regift Betty's Wardrobe(Ulgy Betty). I can't stand to look at her anymore so I mostly only read TWOP's recaps to keep up. I get that she's dorky and has no fashion sense but realistically after a few years at Mode her fashion sense should have improved somewhat. She may never dress like Willy but those outfits are truly hideous. They can still protray her with minimal fashion sense but up notch from scaring small children with her get ups
You choose Sadie but not Lexie from Grey's? Who are you kidding? Sadie's only temporary, she'll be gone soon enough, and then we're stuck with Lexie. Ugh. I'd rather have Lexie go to House where House would eat her for breakfast. THAT would be Must See TV!
What about TWOP 10 characters we're glad came on board? For example, Jeremy Sisto's Lupo was a great addition to L&O last season. All the OTHERS fab people who made Lost much better...
Seriously, Betty's braces! I don't understand why a retainer wouldn't be just as 'dorky' or 'ugly' as the braces.
Hey look it's misogyny hour on TWoP!
Totally agree about Kate. Every time I see her onscreen on LOST I feel like vomiting. Except, you know,when Juliet's taking her ego down a few notches. She and her entitled, wounded attitude would be perfect on a ridiculous show like Grey's. Maybe we could also move Mahone from Prison Break to another show, one that would do justice to him and the actor who plays him.
I'd like to re-gift the whole Petrelli den of iniquity (heroes) to Supernatural. The vague hints of incest wouldn't draw a second glance there and if the Winchesters were to confuse any of them for demons... well, I think they might be right about Angela. And maybe then we can have some new heroes who don't annoy the crap out of me.
I would love for the whole cast of Pushing Daisies to go with Bryan Fuller to Heroes. Ned could "accidentally" kill off the current cast, and then the PD crew could just pick up where they left off.
I'd like to regift Corinne from Survivor and send her over to Dexter. I'm sure her admission she knowingly sold Vioxx after it was known to be dangerous would "qualify" her for The Code.
OMG HELL YEA on sending VG to Brothers and Sisters. PLEASE!
I agree about Sadie, God she sucks so bad. But so does Grey's Anatomy, so I think she fits right in.
I'd like to keep Tracy on Heroes, thank you very much. She's quite awesome. However, Mohinder can go.
I agree about Sadie, God she sucks so bad. But so does Grey's Anatomy, so I think she fits right in.
I'd like to keep Tracy on Heroes, thank you very much. She's quite awesome. However, Mohinder can go.
Why not send Denny from Grey's Anatomy over to Ghost Whisperer and Melinda can send him packing "into the light."
As for Sadie and Izzie, I think they'd need to go to Supernatural so the Winchesters could deal with them.
How nice would it be to send Sam Beckett into the writers in the past to prevent them from creating these horrible characters? And the ABC executives who cancelled Pushing Daisies? Put right what once went wrong, and all that...
Since the beginning of the season I've wanted to see Uncle Saul visit his old friend JOrdan in San Francisco (and maybe stick around long enough to do a duet). But sicne ABC missed that opportunity, bringing VG over to B&S would be the thing to make me start watching the show.
Ever since Uncle Saul declared his love for all things Brokeback, I've been hoping against hope that SOMEhow the two Spy Daddies shall reunite...
They can glare at Sally Field together. It would totally rock!
Send almost the entire cast of
Grey's to the cancellation department and maybe Meredith for character acting classes - then create a spinoff (not another soap!) with McDreamy & McSteamy, McGeorge, McChristine and McBailey. And
I totally agree with everything EXCEPT Thirteen/Hadley. She's an infinitely more interesting character than that old guy whose name I can never remember. Keep Kutner and Hadley but not old guy. He's completely useless and not even any fun to look at.
I'm glad you specified Taub--I was thinking that you were talking about House!
Seriously, I don't think Taub is much older than Foreman (or House).
I totally agree... I know they want to make her look dorky, but the clashing prints and crazy colors is just too much! There are better ways to give her the geeky look!
You're both right, Chika and Dee. I mean, Betty is a smart girl and probably would catch on to the fact that everyone else was dressed differently. They could just have her wear out-of-style, frumpy clothes. They make her look bad enough, they don't need to pile it on.
As for the braces, sometimes people have to wear them for YEARS. Of course, her teeth appear to be perfectly straight...
There's really no need to make Betty dress the way she does. Believe it or not, UB costume department, it's perfectly possible to have a character dress in a way that shows that they don't have much fashion sense without sticking them in those garish get-ups. And it is way past the time to remove those braces, yeah - I know people sometimes have to wear them for years, but when her teeth look obviously straight, enough is enough. It's getting ridiculous.
But then, that's part of my big frustration with the show in general lately - GOD FORBID we not maintain the status quo. *rolls eyes*
Seriously, whats with the Melissa George hate? Maybe its my eternal soft-spot for Angel Brooks, but I don't get it?
Send KBell as Veronica Mars over to Supernatural. Imagine the snark between Veronica and Dean. I get giddy just thinking about it.
Plus, I'm kind of starting to hate Ruby. I think it's Genevieve Cortese and the writing, because I loved Katie Cassidy as Ruby.
I agree with Kate from Lost, I really hate the character. Also about Betty's braces, they have to go
Can we get rid of Ruby from Supernatural? I don't care where she goes, I just want her lame character, and the actress playing her, off my show so I can start loving it again.
I couldn't agree more about Vanessa from Gossip Girl. She is constantly being thrown into the Upper East Side mix and the writers are constantly shoving her down our throats, when there's really no rhyme or reason to her being there. She's a waste of space.
Actually, I have a better idea for what to do with Kate.
Send Ned over to revive our man Jeremy Bentham in the coffin, and make sure she's the only one in proximity when the minute is up. Presto, two problems solved!
Send Izzie from Grey's Anatomy to Dexter as a serial killer. She's killed that serial all on her own.
Send Izzie from Grey's Anatomy to Dexter as a serial killer. She's killed that serial all on her own.
Okay, I understand wanting to be rid of Tracy (among others) on Heroes. I bask in the Melissa George hatred. EC could easily add more spice and heart to Life on Mars (I can't bring myself to like Flashpoint either. I'd be perfectly happy sending Emmett off to the Office and never seeing him again--gifted actor but the character is annoying--he's actually making me miss Harry Tang.
While I love the idea of a Spaydaddy/Sloane reunion, I'm clinging desperately to the hope that ABC will come to their senses on two of the quality shows they're threatening to drop (Eli Stone and Pushing Dasies).
While we're looking for reunions, how about dropping Summer Glau into Dollhouse as a fractured Doll--the cautionary tale for ED's heroine (it'd give her something comprehensible to do and give us some nice insane River flashbacks).
I must be the only person in the known universe who likes both Remy Hadley and Allison Cameron (or I did before they showed AWFUL taste in men and we were subjected to eye-gougingly awful zero-chemistry pairings).
Entire cast of the Dirty Sexy Money needs to go on Dexter so that there can be a Six Feet Under mini-reunion and some cast members ::cough:::Elder::cough:: can be murdered.
I like Dr. Hadley. I think she's an interesting, dynamic addition to House. Much more interesting and exciting than Dr. Cameron, that's for sure. If I were regifting a doc on house, I'd go with Taub. He's boring, annoying, and bland. I'd even regift Foreman at this point. His incessant negativity (which isn't endearing like House's) really brings the show down.
I like Dr. Hadley. I think she's an interesting, dynamic addition to House. Much more interesting and exciting than Dr. Cameron, that's for sure. If I were regifting a doc on house, I'd go with Taub. He's boring, annoying, and bland. I'd even regift Foreman at this point. His incessant negativity (which isn't endearing like House's) really brings the show down.
I am also in the liking Hadley camp. Cameron should be sent to Dexter's Miami. She'll either grow a backbone or Deb will kill her cause she's too damn annoying. Either way, it would be enjoyable to watch.
Amen... Corrine to Dexter.
That is a brilliant idea. But how to get the entire cast of heroes in the same room? Although we should probably ship off HRG before the carnage starts. Maybe to Supernatural? He could be scary and awesome there.
I agree with sending Buster/Emmitt to The Office. I think he's annoying and completely unnecessary and he's ruining the Buy More segments.
Oh, and Josie from Reaper needs to go on Supernatural, because she's tragically underused on her show. And because Valarie Rae Miller is awesome and she and Jensen had pretty good chemistry on Dark Angel.
We could put Cameron the terminator on One Tree Hill and just see what happens.
How about Dwight Schrute hosting Celebrity Apprentice? The winner becomes a temp at Dunder-Mifflin.
Ew definitely send Sadie away, but not to Private Practice, that happens to be a better show than Grey's is now... send her to Torchwood (a great show) where she can be killed by a bisexual alien. :D
I agree with everything on this list. Especially FickleKate.
Yes!!! I hate Sadie and Lexie!!! They kind of killed Greys for me. I loved the first and second season... But its been going downhill.
Tracy isn't that great a character, but Ali's a good actress. Have her killed by Barbara (her clone).
i think SPN should get JDM back, and in exchange anyone in the world can have Ruby (affectionately called Rubitch) i like the idea of her on hero's though.
and sad props to Petrelli brother love, it wouldn't be frowned upon but SamnDean would probably kill them...and then cry. can we pawn our mantears off to another show?