Dolores - On the episode "The Junior Mint" of the popular sitcom SEINFELD/NBC/1990-98 comedian Jerry Seinfeld can't recall the name of a girl he once dated (which rhymes with a female body part). At the show's conclusion Jerry rules out all the possibilities (Aretha, Bovary, Celeste, Gipple & Mulva) and then finally cries "Dolores!" (played by Susan Walters). Many thought the show's premise was clever including one Jerold MacKenzie, 54, a manager at the Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee. Unfortunately, when he discussed the show's storyline the next day with female colleague, Patricia Best (he showed her a photocopied dictionary definition of the anatomical part in question when she didn't get the punch line) she complained to her supervisors. A few days later Mackenzie was fired. He sued and in October of 1997, the Milwaukee courts awarded him $1.5 million after the jury decided the joke did not qualify as sexual harassment. The Miller Brewing Company appealed the verdict. 

Freddie Peterson - An aphorism for "sex" on the sitcom GOLDEN GIRLS/NBC/1985-92. When substitute teacher Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur) had sex with Blanche Devereaux's visiting uncle Lucas (Leslie Nielsen), she remarked "It was so great, we named it Freddie Peterson." Dorothy married Lucas on the final episode of the series. Another veiled reference to "sex" occurred on the episode "The Society Party" 11-27-76) on the sitcom LAVERNE & SHIRLEY/ABC/1976-83 when Laverne De Fazio (Penny Marshall) implied that her roommate Shirley Feeney (Cindy Williams) "Vo-dee-oh-do-dohed." After Shirley insisted she did not "Vo-dee-oh-do-doh" Laverne partially conceded and said "Yeah, but you Vo-de-Ohed!" 

Girls, The - Chicago magazine writer Hannah Miller (Jamie Lee Curtis) from the sitcom ANYTHING BUT LOVE/ABC/1989-92 was especially proud of her breasts. She nicknamed them "The Girls." On the July 18, 1997 segment of the daytime talk show OPRAH called "Letters to Oprah" Oprah Winfrey read fan reactions to her comments about her desire to have her breasts lifted. She summarized their concerns with "Some encourage a lift...others say to leave 'The Girls' alone." On the sitcom MAD ABOUT YOU/NBC/1992+ Jamie Buchman (Helen Hunt) who was obsessed with making people like her, went over board to impress a boy in high school and was known as "The Stemple sister who showed a boy her boobs to be liked." Louis De Palma (Danny DeVito), the lecherous taxi dispatcher on the sitcom TAXI/ABC/NBC/1978-83 referred to Elaine Nardo's breasts as "Headlights." On the sitcom WHO'S THE BOSS/ABC/1984-92 Mona Robinson (Katherine Helmond), was called "all boobs and no brains" by her mother when she was younger. Mona's daughter Angela Bower (Judith Light), a successful ad executive, was just the opposite "all brains and no boobs." On June 19, 1997 Jay Leno of THE TONIGHT SHOW commented on Glamour magazine's revelation that many more women than it was thought actually named their breasts. He followed by complaining "Oh great! It's hard enough remembering one name, now when we wake up in the morning we have to remember three. On the sitcom DHARMA & GREG/ABC/1997+ Jenna Elfman as Dharma Finkelstein revealed that her husband Greg Montgomery (Thomas Gibson) nicknamed her breasts Eric and Lyle "because they're a couple of killers." TRIVIA NOTE: On the sitcom SEINFELD/NBC/1990-98 the term "My Boys" was the nickname for George Costanza's sperm as in "My boys can swim"; and the nickname for the genitals of both standup comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his next-door neighbor Kramer (Michael Richards). See also - "The Nip"

My Boys  See - "The Girls" 

Splinky - The childhood nickname of Ira Buchman (John Pankow) mentioned on the sitcom MAD ABOUT YOU/NBC/1992-99. When Ira and his cousin Paul (Paul Reiser) were little kids they once tried on some female clothing. As Ira tried on the bottom of a woman's bikini, his private parts (referred to as a "Splinky" by the youths) fell out for confines of the swim suit. Now that both Paul and Ira are adults, Ira prefers that Paul not tell the "Splinky" story to people outside the family, especially not to Ira's new female companions.   

In the year 2000, the traditional ‘kiss of death’ will be replaced by the hummer of doom.”
	--Conan O’Brien (Year 2000 skit)

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