CAROLWHINE SITTING PRETTY

CAROLINE IN THE CITY
1995-1999 NBC

CAROLWHINE SITTING PRETTY
MAD #345, May 1996
w: Josh Gordon (Arnie Kogen)
a: Paul Coker, Jr.

Drawn in the style of the main character Caroline Duffy (Lea Thompson) a syndicated cartoonist loosely based on Cathy Guisewite.

This begins as a parody of The McLaughlin Group, a political talk show. The moderator, John McLaughlin, is discussing the show with panelists Morton Kondrake, Eleanor Clift, Jack Germond, and Fred Barnes. They mention that the show is popular because it's in between Seinfeld and E/R.

The show had the usual stock sitcom characters such as Richie (Malcolm Gets), the assistant with the unrequited crush and Annie (Amy Peitz), the sexually free neighbor who drops in when she feels like it.

Another stock sitcom character is the on-and-off boyfriend Del (Eric Lutes), who is also the supervisor of the Caroline greeting card line.