Peg, It Will Come Back To You

On an old episode of Jordan Jesse Go, Jordan says that he's attracted to the redheaded woman in the Progressive ads.  He must have an extraordinary ability to apply real-world standards to people on TV, because on TV, this bitch looks like Ronald McDonald.

If you try really hard, you can imagine her being borderline-doable, but not the type of doable where you'd admit what you'd done.  Jordan, you surprise me.

I did a little more research, and it turns out that "Flo" is not her real name, she's actually a stand-up comedian/actress named Stephanie Courtney, and she's actually pretty good-looking, you can barely tell its the same person. 

That clown make-up cleans-off nice.

That's one good thing about having such an over-the-top costume when playing an obnoxious character:  once she takes off the disguise, she's no longer recognizable as that worthless person.

Meanwhile, there are these Clairol commercials where Angela Kinsey, the woman who plays Angela from The Office, is selling some sort of woman's product.  She's acting and dressing much more normal, and objectively speaking, you can tell she's an attractive person, but all I can see is the hideous shrew she plays so well on The Office.

Ta-Da! Sorry, still revolting.

This is the classic Ned Beatty phenomenon, where you get your foot in the door by giving an indelible performance, then spend the rest of your career trying to make people forget it.  Congratulations Ned, you're famous...for squealing like a pig while getting raped by a hick.

 Is this selling-out, or is it the opposite?  Did he suffer for his art or pay for his sins?