Designing Women is a sitcom which ran on NBC from 1986 to 1993. It centered on a group of women who run an interior design firm in Georgia. It later launched a 1995 spinoff Women of the House focusing on co-founder Suzanne Sugarbaker entering Congress.
Muppet Mentions[]
- The fifth season episode "The Emperor's New Nose" (1990) has Bernice, recurring friend of the group, get plastic surgery, resulting in an upturned and rather porcine nose. Her friends can't bring themselves to tell her, but a boy in a store says "Hey, Mommy, that lady looks like Miss Piggy!" As Bernice finally realizes how she looks, she says her doctor told her she'd look like a TV star: "I should have specified. Not Miss Piggy."
- A seventh season episode, focusing on series regular Anthony's jealousy about his wife, is titled "It's Not So Easy Being Green" (1993).
Connections[]
- Jason Bernard played Wilson Brickett in "The Candidate" (1988)
- Pat Crawford Brown played Constance Pine in "The Fur Flies" (1990)
- Adam Carl played a clerk in "Manhunt" (1989) and Adam in two episodes each of the show and Women of the House (1995)
- Bill Cobbs played Henry in "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" (1989)
- M. C. Gainey played T. Tommy Reed in "Great Expectations" (1988) and "Last Tango in Atlanta" (1989) and Junior in "Nightmare from Hee Haw"
- Sherman Hemsley played Mr. Toussant in "Wedding Redux" (1993)
- Judith Ivey played BJ Poteet (1992-1993)
- Michael Jeter played Calvin Klein in the two-part "Old Spouses Never Die" (1987)
- Susan Norfleet played Robin in "Wedding Redux" (1993)
- Dolly Parton played herself in the two-part "The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century" (1990)
- Doc Severinsen played trumpet on the theme song
- Patrick Warburton played Craig in "Too Dumb to Date" and the two-part "Gone with a Whim" (both 1993)