Snake Lady, The  See - "The Potato Man"

Soapy - Nickname of Clarence Weaver (Stephen Woolton) on the sitcom THIS IS ALICE/SYN/1958. On the adventure FALL GUY/ABC/1981-86, a bailbondswoman known as "Big Jack" was also called "Soapie" because her life was like a soap opera. On the northwestern adventure THE ALASKANS/ABC/1959-60, John Dehner played an unethical, wheeler dealer named "Soapey Smith" who operated in the Klondike and Yukon regions of 1898. 

Soda Pop - Family nickname of one of the three Curtis brothers on the teen drama THE OUTSIDERS/FOX/1990. Set in 1966, the story focused on the Curtis brothers as they struggled to keep the family together after the death of both parents. "Soda Pop" (Rodney Harvey) was a high school drop out facing the problems involved with coming of age. His younger brother and aspiring writer was nicknamed Pony Boy (Jay R. Ferguson). 

Solid Gold Dancers, The  - A  talented group of male and female dancers who appeared weekly on the syndicated musical countdown program SOLID GOLD/SYN/1980-88. "The Solid Gold Dancers" bounced and strutted their athletic bodies to the tunes of the top ten records of the week.    

Sorcerer  - On the hi-tech suspense series THE NET/USA/1998-99, Brooke Langton starred as Angela Bennett, a female who is sought by a group of computer terrorists known as The Praetorians. Her only secure contact is the "Sorcerer" (voice of Tim Curry) a faceless man with an English accent who was accessible through the Internet. "That guy's got to be the weirdest guy on the planet" is just one description of this invisible benefactor. Later in the series, the Sorcerer was revealed to be a genius computer hacker described as a "teenager with a bad bleach job." Sorcerer, a.k.a. "Jacob Kresh" (Eric Szmanda) fought the Praetorians because they killed his father.

Soup Nazi, The  See - COOKS & COOKBOOKS 

Space Cadets, The  See - POLICE - SCI-FI 

Space Patrol  See - POLICE - SCI-FI

Space Rangers  See - POLICE - SCI-FI 

Spanky - Nickname of George Robert Phillips McFarland, known to the rest of the world as Spanky, the cherub-faced leader of a group of all-American kids featured in Hal Roach's OUR GANG two-reeler comedies in the 1930s. Spanky joined the Gang in 1932 at the age of 3. When he retired at the age of 16, he had completed some 95 adventures with his costars Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Darla Hood and Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas. Spanky got his nickname when his mother scolded him for getting too close to some cameras. Her advice to her little son? "Spanky, spanky, mustn't touch!" In later years Spanky left the Hollywood scene and labored as a hamburger flipper, soda bottler and appliance sales manager. His cute baby face became popular again when the Our Gang films were repackaged for TV as THE LITTLE RASCALS in the 1950s. In recent years, he made a cameo appearance at the bar "where everybody knows your name" on TVs CHEERS. George "Spanky" McFarland died of a heart attack on June 30, 1993 in Fort Worth. 

Sparkles - The college nickname of Sandra Clark (Jackee Harry), a beautiful man-chasing May West-like bombshell who lived in an apartment in Washington, DC on the sitcom 227/NBC/1985-90. The self-absorbed Sandra loved the three M's (Men, Money and Me). 

Spearchucker Jones - The nickname of Oliver Harmon “Spearchucker” Jones (played by Timoth Brown), an African-American football star turned doctor who was stationed at Mobile Army Surgical Hospital 4077th Division during the Korean War on the military sitcom M*A*S*H/CBS/1972-83. Spearchucker (whose character also appeared in the 1970 film M*A*S*H that inspired the series) hangs out with white surgeons Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John. His character was written out of the show after the first season when the writers discovered that there were no black surgeons during the Korean Conflict.          

Spider-Man - Secret identity of Peter Parker (Nicholas Hammond), a young college science major and part-time photographer for the Daily Bugle newspaper on the fantasy series THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN/CBS/1978-79. Bitten by a radioactive spider, Peter Parker received the powers of super strength (in proportion to a spiders) and the ability to climb walls effortlessly. Using his scientific know-how, Peter devised a web shooting device which he strapped on his wrist. It shot a light-weight webby strand with steel-like sturdiness which he used to dangle from buildings and to subdue the bad guys. Spiderman who wore a red, black and blue costume, confounded the police and his boss, newspaper editor J. Jonah Jameson (Robert F. Simon) both who wanted to discover the true identity of this wall climbing web-head. The Spider Man debuted in the Marvel Comics No.15 issue of Amazing Fantasy (August 1962). Originally, Peter Parker devoted his life to fighting crime after his Uncle Ben was killed by a burglar. The animated cartoon series SPIDER-MAN/ABC/1967-70, SPIDER-WOMAN/ABC/1979-80 (Spidey's female counterpart); SPIDER-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS/NBC/1981-82/1984-86; THE INCREDIBLE HULK AND THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN/NBC/1982-83; THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN AND THE INCREDIBLE HULK/NBC/1983-84; and SPIDER-MAN/FOX/1995  and SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED/FOX/1999 continued his adventures. TRIVIA NOTE:  As of the year 2000 the Marvel Comics Peter Parker character is running the "WEB" site edition of the Daily Bugle Newspaper. He "is" their Webmaster.      

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. 

Spooky Mulder - On the fantasy drama THE X-FILES/FOX/1993-2002, David Duchovny appeared as Fox "Spooky" Mulder, a zealous, conspiracy obsessed FBI agent (trained in psychology at Oxford) who was assigned to investigate cases (a.k.a. "The X-Files") that bordered on the paranormal. His coworkers at the Quantico FBI Training Academy dubbed him "Spooky" because of his beliefs in unexplained phenomena (UFO's, etc.). Mulder refers to himself as "The FBI's Most Unwanted." 

Spooky Old Alice - On the comedy variety program THE GEORGE GOBEL SHOW/NBC/CBS/1954-60, the small, crew-cut comedian George Gobel referred to his wife on the series as "Spooky Old Alice." Lonesome George (as he was called) was very non-aggressive and often had domestic confrontations with his much taller wife. Alice was the real-life name of George's wife, but on the TV show she was played by Jeff Donnell (1954-58) and later by Phyllis Avery (1958-59). The Alice sketches were dropped when the show moved to the CBS network. See also - "Lonesome George"

Spud - Pejorative nickname of Bud Bundy (David Faustino), given to him by his dimwitted but beautiful blond sister Kelly (Christina Applegate) on the dysfunctional family comedy MARRIED...WITH CHILDREN/FOX/1987-97. Kelly also referred to her brother Bud as "Toad Boy." See also - "Grand Rapper B" and "The Dumbest Girl in America"

Spy Girl - Espionage character featured on episode No. 120 "The Spy Who Loved Me" on the sitcom MAD ABOUT YOU/NBC/1992-99. Back in 1968 future filmmaker Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser), was gaga over Spy Girl (Barbara Feldon), a beautiful TV espionage character dressed in go-go boots. Years later, Paul's wife Jamie (Helen Hunt) got to work with Spy Girl to promote her book Spy Girl written by Diane Caldwell (Spy Girl's actual name). When Paul discovered that he would have dinner with his childhood fantasy, he whipped out a well-preserved official Spy Girl membership card and pondered whether or not Spy Girl would sign it. During dinner Paul's brother Ira (John Pankow) who failed to mail Paul's fan letter to Spy Girl when they were kid's, suavely passed by their dinner table at the Russian Tea Room and finagled his way into a meal and a trip back to Spy Girl's hotel room for a night of romance. Later realizing he was used, Ira concluded "It's cool!" Imagine, now both he and Adam West (another of Spy Girl's conquests) shared the bliss of such an encounter. 

Squidhead - Dave Thomas, comedy veteran of SCTV NETWORK 90/NBC/1981-83 and THE DAVE THOMAS COMEDY SHOW/CBS/1990 was called "Squidhead" by his childhood schoolmates because he happened to have a head (7 3/4 XL) disproportionate to his body. As he said on the 6/18/90 segment of THE ARSENIO HALL SHOW his body was just a convenient vehicle for taking his head from place to place. 

Squints - What FBI agents call brainy researchers (science geeks) on the crime drama BONES/FOX/2005+ The key "squint" in the series is Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel), a headstrong forensic anthropologist who collaborates with the FBI during criminal investigations. Brennan's nickname is "Bones" (which she hates) because she is an expert with skeletal remains.

Booth:	He's got no sense of discretion, that kid. Typical squint.
Temperance:	I don't know what that means.
Booth:	When cops get stuck we bring in people like you, ya know? Squints. You know, squint at things.
Temperance:	Oh you mean people with very high IQs and basic reasoning skills?

Star Killer - The nickname of star pilot Captain John Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) on the sci-fi adventure BABYLON 5/SYN/1994-98. During the initial rumblings of the Earth Minbari War, Sheridan sent out a distress signal to lure a Minbari warship close enough to detonate a payload of nuclear weapons. The ruse was successful and the ship called "The Black Star" ("Dral-a-fee" in Minbari) was destroyed and thus was born Sheridan's nickname of Star Killer. He was also called Swamp Rat by his military friends. 

Stay in Tent  See - "Swim Like a Fish" 

Starbuck - Nickname of FBI agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) on the fantasy drama THE X-FILES/FOX/1993-2002. Her father gave Dana this name because he was a fan of Starbuck, the able lieutenant in Herman Melville's classic 1851 novel Moby Dick. Dana called her father "Ahab," after the tyrannical captain who sought the White Whale in the same novel. The sci-fi series BATTLESTAR GALACTICA/ABC/1978-80 featured a starship fighter named Lt. Starbuck (Dirk Benedict). See also - DOGS: "Queequeg" 

Steverino - Steve Allen was often called "Steverino" by comedian, Louis Nye when he performed in the "Man-in-the-Street" sketches on THE TONIGHT SHOW/NBC/1954-57. Using a number of talented comedians including Don Knotts, Tom Poston, Bill Dana, Pat Harrington, Dayton Allen (of "Why Not!" fame) and Gabriel Dell of the Bowery Boys, Steve conducted mock "Man on the Street" interviews. Louis Nye would play the bubbly, "Man about Town" Gordon Hathaway who always greeted Steve Allen with "Hi, Ho Steverino!" For a time in the 1950s, the Baskin and Robbins Ice Cream Company dedicated a new flavor called "Steverino." 

Stingray - The code name for a mysterious man (Nick Mancuso) on the adventure STINGRAY/NBC/1986-87 who drove a black 1965 Corvette Stingray and helped people out of life threatening situations. The only thing he asked of anyone he helped was a promise that they would help him (only once) in the future. When time came to pay up they had to do anything he asked...no questions asked. His method of operation was reminiscent of Mario Puzo's Godfather, but with nicer overtones. When asked about his M. O. he said " Okay, I'll tell you this much. The world runs on money. Everybody walks around with this invisible number in their heads. You hit the figure close enough, the penny drops, you own the man. In Hong Kong you can buy a murder for five bucks. In New York City a sloppy job runs you five hundred. A neat, clean, professional hit, upwards of ten grand. On skid row they'll kill you for your shoes. I take money out of the equation. My hands don't sweat, because I'm never at the pay window. When it came to planning he said: "I got a plan A and a Plan B. Plan B is making Plan A work!" 

Stinky - A bratty little kid dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit (played by pudgy comedian Joe Besser), who terrorized the tenants at Sidney Fields Hollywood Boarding House on the sitcom THE ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW/SYN/1951-53. When Lou Costello tried to discipline the boy, Stinky threatened him with the silly declaration "Ewwww! I'll harm You!" Stinky was also the school nickname of lawyer Crosby Caufield (Peter Krause) on the legal drama THE GREAT DEFENDER/FOX/1995. It seems he had bit of a problem with foot fungus. 

Stinkerbelle - Childhood nickname that Teddy Reed (Sela Ward) still used to described her younger sister Frankie (Julianne Phillips), the youngest of four sisters on the drama SISTERS/NBC/1991-96. 

The Straw Hut Circuit - Industry trade name given to 1950s TV series with a jungle format (JUNGLE JIM, RAMAR OF THE JUNGLE, SHEENA, QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE, THE ADVENTURES OF JUNGLE BOY, and THE AFRICAN PATROL.

Street Hawk  See - MOTORCYCLES 

Stringbean - The nickname of comedy writer, Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) on the sitcom THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW/CBS/1961-66. It was given to him by Happy Spangler (J. C. Flippen), the man responsible for teaching Rob how to write comedy material. Another character called Stringbean was David "Stringbean" Akeman one of the regular performers on the country-and-western program HEE HAW/CBS/SYN/1969-92. And Stringbean was the childhood nickname of actress Connie Ray who starred on the sitcom THE TORKELSONS/NBC/1991-93. Born in White Cross, North Carolina, her favorite childhood memory was spring on her dairy farm, when she could lie in the middle of a field and see the impression of her body on the grass. See also -"Bones" and "Rapid Robert"

Sugar Babe - The syrupy pet name of Kate McCoy (Kathleen Nolan) given to her by husband Luke McCoy (Richard Crenna) on the rural sitcom THE REAL MCCOYS/ABC/CBS/1957-63. Newly relocated from a West Virginian farm to a small ranch in the San Fernando Valley, these two newlyweds could always be found "a kissing and a hugging" in front of their crotchety Grandpa McCoy (Walter Brennan). In the series pilot, her nickname was "Honey Babe." In the more liberated 1980s, Steve Rhodes (David Garrison), the next door neighbor on the sitcom MARRIED WITH...CHILDREN/ FOX/1987-97 called his wife Marcy (Amanda Bearse) "Sugar Tush."  See also - "Angel Cups"

 

Sugar Lips - The nickname of actress Judith Light from the sitcom WHO'S THE BOSS/ABC/1984-92. As of 2002, Judith Light joined the NBC series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in a recurring role as the unit's tough new chief, Elizabeth Donnelly, whose first case involves a suspected pedophile. Before her eight year stint on ABC's Who's the Boss, Judith portrayed Karen Wolek on "One Life to Live," for 5 years winning 2 Emmys, 2 Soapy Awards, and the Soap Opera Hall of Fame Award. Judith has also starred in numerous TV movies and theatrical productions including Men Don't Tell (1993) with Peter Strauss, which dealt with the subject of husband abuse; an ABC-TV movie The Ryan White Story (1989) portraying the mother of Ryan White, a teenager with AIDS. and as of late in a  successful run of the Pulitzer Prize winning play "Wit" in New York, Boston, Washington, DC and San Francisco, among other cities.  Judith lives in Los Angeles with her husband, actor Robert Desiderio, whom she met while appearing on One Life to Live.    

Sugar Tush  See  - "Sugar Babe"             

 Sugarfoot - Name given to young, naive lawyer Tom Brewster (Will Hutchins) who left the East in search of adventure on the 1860s western series SUGARFOOT/ABC/1957-61. A "Sugarfoot" was a cowboy so inept that he was listed one class lower than a tender foot.           

Summer - Family nickname of Roberta "Summer" Quinn (Nicole Eggert), a beautiful rookie lifeguard working at Malibu Beach for Los Angeles County on the adventure BAYWATCH/NBC/1989-90/SYN/1991-2001. 

Super Dave - Zany daredevil character created and played by SMOTHERS BROTHERS veteran Bob Einstein. Super Dave was a stuntman and klutz who went to elaborate effort to accidentally maul himself in stunts gone hysterically haywire on SUPER DAVE/SHO/1987-92 and SUPER DAVE'S VEGAS SPECTACULAR/USA/1995. Super Dave was assisted by Fuji Hakayito (Art Irizawa), a technical advisor who strapped Dave into all sorts of stunts that were soon to go awry. 

Super Stud - The CB handle of Dwayne F. Schneider (Pat Harrington, Jr.), the macho, mustachioed building superintendent who thought he was god's gift to women on the sitcom ONE DAY AT A TIME/CBS/1975-84. He lived in Indianapolis, Indiana in basement apartment No.1. 

Superman  See - ALIENS 

Swamp, The  See - HOMES & MANSIONS 

Swamp Fox - Nickname of General Francis Marion (1730-95) the Revolutionary War guerrilla fighter who battled the forces of the British Empire in America's South. Organizing a group of freedom fighters in 1780, he harassed the British occupational troops in South Carolina (his birthplace). SWAMP FOX was a multi-part filmed series on ABC's THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY (10/23/59-1/22/60) starring Leslie Nielsen as the elusive Swamp Fox. According to the program's rousing ballad "Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail on his hat, nobody knows where the Swamp Fox at...."

Swamp Rat  See - "Star Killer" 

Swamp Thing - Actress  Faith Ford, who costarred on the sitcom MURPHY BROWN/CBS/1988-96 was nicknamed "Swamp Thing" by her cast members because she always told childhood stories about hunting the swamps and bayous with her father. Faith left her home of Pineville, Louisiana to try modeling in New York City. Her acting credits included the NBC soap opera ANOTHER WORLD; ABC's THIRTYSOMETHING; and finally CBS's MURPHY BROWN. (Saturday Evening Post May/June 1991 p. 121.) 

Sweathogs, The - A rowdy group of seemingly un-teachable high school students on the education comedy WELCOME BACK, KOTTER/ABC/1975-79. The Sweathogs attended James Buchanan High School located in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. Their homeroom (No. 11) teacher, Mr. Gabe Kotter (Gabriel Kaplan), himself a former Sweathog made good, was the only one of the school's teachers who could relate to the frustrations of these socially disadvantaged youth who thought that going to school was a form of punishment. Mr. Kotter once said of the Sweathogs "Boy, what an honor in my class. All four Marx brothers. Wacko, Stupo, Jerko and Dummo." The four original Sweathogs were Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo De Huevos Epstein (Robert Hegyes), a Puerto-Rican Jew who lapsed into impersonations of the Marx Brothers on occasion and brought attention to himself with his forged notes from his mother ("Roses are red, violets are blue, I've been home two days with the Asian flu"); Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs), a tall, hip black student who suavely introduced himself by saying "Hi, there"; Arnold Horshack (Ron Palillo), the group's looney-toon whose catchphrase was "Ooh, ooh," (perhaps in tribute to Joe E. Ross); and Vinnie Barbarino (John Travolta), a slender, Italian Catholic who thought he was God's gift to women and who spoke such catchphrases as "I'm so confused," and "Who, what, where?" Later in the series new students joined the ranks of the Sweat-hogs. They were Angie Globagoski (Melonie Haller), the first female Sweat-hog; and Beau De Labarre (Stephen Shortridge), a smooth talking southern exchange student who could talk his way out of any difficulty. The group delighted in driving Mr. Michael Woodman (John Sylvester White) the school vice-principal (later principal) crazy with tricks like running his pants up the flag-pole and setting off the school's alarm system. Toward the end of the series, Vinnie Barbarino, got a part-time job as a hospital orderly. The concept of the Sweathogs was inspired by the real life experiences of comedian Gabe Kaplan when he lived in New York City. It was there he learned such classic put-down lines as "Up your nose with a rubber hose," which were often used on the program.      

Swedish Bikini Team, The  See - ADVERTISING MASCOTS

Sweet Baby  - The computer password code used by Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley), a tavern worker and aspiring corporate executive on the sitcom CHEERS/NBC/1982-93.

Sweet Cheeks - The nickname of archeologist Sydney Fox (Tia Carrere) mentioned on the episode "Buddha Bowl (September 20, 1999) on the adventure series RELIC HUNTER/SYN/1999-2002. The origins of Sydney's nickname came about one day when she was going to the bathroom in the wilderness while on an expedition. As she dropped her drawers a swarm of wasps (about 20) got into her pants and when she pulled them back on they began to sting her. To soothe the pain her fellow travelers (among them Stewie Harper, now a mercenary) smeared an available supply of marmalade onto her butt. Thus her moniker "Sweet Cheeks."

Sweet Knees - See  "Sizzle Lips"

Swim Like a Fish - Childhood nickname of Barbara Weston (Kristy McNichol) on the sitcom EMPTY NEST/NBC/1988-95. Barbara got her nickname while attending Camp Weemawalk with her sister Carol (Dinah Manoff) whose camp name was "Stay in Tent." 

Swoosie Kurtz - Actress Swoosie Kurtz who played Alex Reed-Halsey on the family drama SISTERS/NBC/1991-96 was named after a B-17D bomber aircraft soon after she was born on September 6, 1944 in Omaha Nebraska. Her parents wanted to name her Margo but an Associated Press release "The Second Swoose Has Landed" changed their plans. At the time, her Air Force Colonel father was flying bombing missions in a plane called the Swoose; (half-swan, half-goose).