Lisa Catera

[denise...@bain.com]

Please, please, somebody tell me the writers have not lost their FREAKING
minds!

I hope they received a BIG sponsorship from Cadillac for the ridiculous
name of the new doc. When Phillip said, in the opening scene, that they
were waiting for "Dr. Catera," I said to my husband, "hey, she's the Caddy
that zigs!" But then to ACTUALLY take Cadillac's silly little tag line
(You can lease a Catera....who IS Lisa Catera?") and make it a permanent
part of the show seems a BIT overblown!

Anybody else groan and slap their foreheads when they noticed this?

Denise

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[Nancy Dooley]

On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:14:24 -0600, denise...@bain.com wrote:

>Please, please, somebody tell me the writers have not lost their FREAKING
>minds!
>
>I hope they received a BIG sponsorship from Cadillac for the ridiculous
>name of the new doc. When Phillip said, in the opening scene, that they
>were waiting for "Dr. Catera," I said to my husband, "hey, she's the Caddy
>that zigs!" But then to ACTUALLY take Cadillac's silly little tag line
>(You can lease a Catera....who IS Lisa Catera?") and make it a permanent
>part of the show seems a BIT overblown!
>
>Anybody else groan and slap their foreheads when they noticed this?

Nope.

I like it.

Next, the character named: Bud Wiser.

N.

[R. Ellis]

On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Mark Johnson wrote:

> > I hope they received a BIG sponsorship from Cadillac for the ridiculous
> > name of the new doc.
>

> It was well placed when she introduced
> herself by first and last name right before a commercial break that contained
> a Cadillac 'Lease a Catera' spot.

Then it appears that they did get that sponsorship. A joke and a sponsor,
all in one name. Mystery solved.

Rhiannon

[Chris]

And then, of course, we could have characters named:

Frank Lee Speaking
and
Shirley U. Jest

haha

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Chris
Dogs...@msn.com

Nancy Dooley <nancy-...@uiowa.edu> wrote in article
<3458c206...@news.uiowa.edu>...

> On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:14:24 -0600, denise...@bain.com wrote:
>
> >Please, please, somebody tell me the writers have not lost their
FREAKING
> >minds!
> >

> >I hope they received a BIG sponsorship from Cadillac for the ridiculous

[Mark Johnson]

denise...@bain.com wrote:
>
> Please, please, somebody tell me the writers have not lost their FREAKING
> minds!
>
> I hope they received a BIG sponsorship from Cadillac for the ridiculous
> name of the new doc. When Phillip said, in the opening scene, that they
> were waiting for "Dr. Catera," I said to my husband, "hey, she's the Caddy
> that zigs!" But then to ACTUALLY take Cadillac's silly little tag line
> (You can lease a Catera....who IS Lisa Catera?") and make it a permanent
> part of the show seems a BIT overblown!
>
> Anybody else groan and slap their foreheads when they noticed this?

Yep...it's one of those things that's a 'funny once' joke that's likely to
get old before the season's out. It was well placed when she introduced

herself by first and last name right before a commercial break that contained
a Cadillac 'Lease a Catera' spot.

I've written it off as just another scriptwriter's in-joke.
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[John Stone]

Nancy Dooley wrote:

>
> On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:14:24 -0600, denise...@bain.com wrote:
>
> >Please, please, somebody tell me the writers have not lost their FREAKING
> >minds!
> >
> >I hope they received a BIG sponsorship from Cadillac for the ridiculous
> >name of the new doc. When Phillip said, in the opening scene, that they
> >were waiting for "Dr. Catera," I said to my husband, "hey, she's the Caddy
> >that zigs!" But then to ACTUALLY take Cadillac's silly little tag line
> >(You can lease a Catera....who IS Lisa Catera?") and make it a permanent
> >part of the show seems a BIT overblown!
> >
> >Anybody else groan and slap their foreheads when they noticed this?
>

> Nope.
>
> I like it.
>
> Next, the character named: Bud Wiser.
>
> N.

I thought it was funny. Don't take it too seriously.

John S.

[MonkeyBoy]

I heard GM was so tickled, they gave the Stacy Edwards (the actress playing
Lisa Catera) a free 3 yr lease on a Catera. Also heard that John Tinker,
the Exec Producer actually got the name from the Catera ad (Announcer: "so
lease a catera" Little Bird:"Who is Lisa Catera?")

Art imitating Art?

BelleSoCal wrote in message
<19971101180...@ladder01.news.aol.com>...

>"R. Ellis" <dogs...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>>>>Then it appears that they did get that sponsorship. A joke and a
sponsor,
> all in one name. Mystery solved.>>>
>

>Nope. Cadillac didn't have anything to do with it, nor did they approve of
it.
> But they're tickled by the usage so not only will they *not* try any legal
> maneuvering vis-a-vis copyright infringement allegations, they're also
going
> to advertise heavily on CH now.
>

[MonkeyBoy]

[Nancy Dooley]

>>
>
>
>God, I hope this doesn't lead to a flood of characters named Merlot or
>Mercedes or Bill Blass...

Well, Mercedes was probably a woman's name l-o-n-g before the car
appeared. Remember Mercedes McCambridge?

N.

[Brenda and Larry Clough]

I remember in Dumas's THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, that the hero's
girlfriend was named Mercedes. In fact, the cars were named after
either Daimler or Benz's daughter (can't remember which). But at this
late date, the word only brings to mind cars...

Brenda
--
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