When Cher's hair stylist ceases work, Cher is persuaded to go to Ka-feen, who gives her a disastrous shabob style. They are all are aghast at the result and her boyfriend drops her. Unfortun... Read allWhen Cher's hair stylist ceases work, Cher is persuaded to go to Ka-feen, who gives her a disastrous shabob style. They are all are aghast at the result and her boyfriend drops her. Unfortunately, there is nothing she can do about it.When Cher's hair stylist ceases work, Cher is persuaded to go to Ka-feen, who gives her a disastrous shabob style. They are all are aghast at the result and her boyfriend drops her. Unfortunately, there is nothing she can do about it.
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- Murray
- (as Donald Adeosun Faison)
- Josh
- (credit only)
- Mel Horowitz
- (credit only)
- Taki
- (as Moon Zappa)
- Sean Holiday
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBreckin Meyer, who played Travis in the movie, guest stars here as Harrison, a teen with a secret crush on Cher (Rachel Blanchard). Meyer and Blanchard later played a couple in the 2000 movie, Road Trip.
- Quotes
Cher Horowitz: [voiceover, as she sits in class nestling with boyfriend] Speaking of comfort and well-being, look at my new boyfriend. He is beyond Baldwin, I mean, we're pushing the Keanu envelope here. On top of the babe factor, Devon's dad runs a record company, so my friends and I are seeing all the new groups.
Miss Geist: Dionne, what does Red Menace mean to you?
Dionne "Dee" Davenport: Oh, well, usually around Christmas time, all the designers make everything in red when remarkably few people look acceptable in it.
Miss Geist: I'm talking about the Red Menace of the 1950s.
Dionne "Dee" Davenport: Miss Geist, that was way before my time.
- ConnectionsReferences Full House (1987)
Cher, pampered little Daddy's girl, who has everything (looks like a train pulling into the station as she slides her designer wardrobe across), loses some of her appeal because of a disastrous shabob (combination shag + bob) haircut, hilariously executed by Ka- Feen (comedian Bronson Pinchet, at least SOMEbody who gives his A- game for the show, the rest sure doesn't) which leaves her looking a bit like that child vampire girlie from INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, for shame, the poor thing looks like she's from the previous century, I mean, the previous previous century. So, her new boyfriend, another rich kid, drops her, leaving her stranded socially. Well, that was as far as I could watch.
{Very disorientating on my download is that the synchronization is completely off, making it ludicrous to watch and increasingly difficult to enjoy as it gets worse and worse, but that has no influence on this review}
The main problem with this show is that Rachel Blanchard doesn't do cute with the "whatever" panache that Alicia Silverstone did so effortlessly. There is no denying that Rachel is pretty enough. But, compared to Alicia, she appears to be an empty shell. I'm quite sure she could have done, at the very least, a considerable lot better. But she seems to be simply delivering the lines damn near deadpan. Much of the magic is therefore gone. Yes, she looks great, but that extra spark was needed! The rest of the original CLUELESS movie lot, Stacey Dash, you especially, everybody just shows they were one-hit wonders. The older cast seem especially useless, Twink Caplan what a bore! Well, gee, they're fat cats with no incentive to prove themselves in a little TV show, they reckon...
The problem definitely doesn't lie primarily with the script. The problem lies with the lackluster no-zing attitude of the cast. They're not at it to win it. They're just coasting along. Oh, I'd say they're good, well, most, but far from great, and they need to be great to live up to the original's status. They all fall far short. Pathetically and scandalously so.
I maintain that the show is one of the highest- ranked on my list of Unavailable-on-DVD, but it's largely for its potential. I remember good moments when I watched back in the day, but when you really focus on it, when you are aware of the cracks, this one is a wasted opportunity to continue the good times of the original masterpiece!
Addendum, a couple days later. The haircutting scene is so good, however, (and I had such a time deciphering what exactly it is that Ka-Feen says), I am upping my score from 5 to 6.
- RavenGlamDVDCollector
- Jun 4, 2017