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October 20, 2008 | Jessica Rae | Comments 7

Jaime Pressly from My Name Is Earl: Dressed as a Mermaid

Jaime Pressly

Jaime Pressly

I’m sure that actors who need work have done more embarrassing things than appear on lame shows like Charmed (maybe they dressed in a giant flamingo suit to hand out coupons), but there’s still something laughable about Jamie Pressly in her role as Mylie the mermaid. Before finding primetime success as Joy Turner on the NBC show My Name Is Earl, she had several small parts on TV (Becker, Jack & Jill) and in movies (Can’t Hardly Wait, Joe Dirt).

I especially love when Mylie (a name they would never use now with Miley Cyrus everywhere) gets splashed by water and then fall down as her mermaid tail appears. Then she flaps her tail, because oh- she’s in peril! Breathing doesn’t seem to be an issue or anything, she just has to flail because that’s what a mermaid would do. And like any good faux-fairytale mermaid (btw, this episode is a ripoff), she is instantly covered with sparkly glitter that looks like it came from a dollar store. Why am I even watching Charmed? Oh, I don’t know. Mind your own business! If I want to watch stupid things, you have to let me.

Jaime Pressly as Mylie the Mermaid : "Yeek!"

Jaime Pressly as Mylie the Mermaid :

I have never, ever, been able to convince myself that Rose McGowan joined Charmed because she liked it. I think she just needed money, or wanted a steady job. This show went downhill every year it aired. I’m sure there were some good points (the manor decor is really pretty!) but mostl, it’s just fantastically lame. On the nicer side, McGowan’s character of Paige Matthews was fun.

For anyone who has become interested (I have some major questions about your mental process), the Charmed episode with Jaime Pressly that I’m talking about is A Witches Tale: Part 1. It originally aired in 2002 as the season opener for Charmed Season Five. Another highlight (I use that word loosely) was Alyssa Milano talking in her strange (and mercilessly annoying) baby talk while flopping around in the water with bare breasts scarcely painted with green scales. I kind of can’t believe that they let this air at 8 p.m. for kids. Hi, porn!

Interestingly, Jamie Pressly’s mermaid breast covering left a lot less exposed than Alyssa Milano’s. You tell me what that’s about. (It has nothing to do with breast size, they would have made what would fit and accommodate.)

Jaime Pressly as Mylie the Mermaid (Glitter is essential for all mermaids)

Jaime Pressly as Mylie the Mermaid (Glitter is essential for all mermaids)

Now that I think about it, often this show felt like a practice in self-love for Alyssa Milano, who ended up ‘magically’ (oh, pun) being the star of every scenario in episodes. While other shows let guest stars have their time, Charmed always found a way for the guest stars to often look like ‘Phoebe’ and other assorted tricks.

Did Shannon Dougherty really get fired/leave Charmed for being a bitch, or was she sick of the favoritism? You can now see Dougherty in The CW’s 90210. The cast claims to like her. So either she’s become nice, was always nice, or she’s threatened to beat up anyone who tells on her. We may never know the truth!

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  1. Amanda | Oct 20, 2008 | Reply

    Hey! You take that back! Charmed is not lame and I don’t have mental process issues! You and I? Not friends anymore!!! ;)

    Nah, Charmed is cheap fun that takes me back to my youth, like re-reading Babysitters’ Club books or something. I know it has no artistic merit but I love it anyway.

  2. Jessica Rae | Oct 20, 2008 | Reply

    Or re-reading Sweet Valley Twins books! Not that I do that anymore, but beeefore. Despite being named Jessica, I always felt more like Elizabeth in the books.

    I once saw an article where someone very seriously outlined why Charmed was a better show than Buffy. Gross.

  3. Eugene | Oct 21, 2008 | Reply

    Now everyone is talking about the American economy and eclections, nice to read something different. Eugene

  4. Jessica Rae | Oct 21, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks, Eugene. I figure political blogs have that covered. SofaChip.com just wants to entertain you and if you end up thinking, that’s your own fault :P

  5. DC | Oct 23, 2008 | Reply

    Ah Alyssa Milano… What a dream…

    Both Alyssa and Jaime Presley were in the Poison Ivy series, which could be the worst movies that I can admit that I own.

  6. Lexie C. | Oct 23, 2008 | Reply

    I remember really enjoying the first two seasons of Charmed, when Prue was on the cast and before it became the Piper Soap Opera Show and/or Phoebe battling the Evil Side of herself lovefest (no really how often must we be reminded that she could ‘turn dark’?). After Prue left I stuck around for the eyecandy that was Cole, left when he left, came back very briefly for a couple cool guest stars, cried over Cole’s one episode cameo and then never watched it again.

    Oh Charmed you were great! then you wrecked your premise (I really wanted to know if one of the remaining Halliwells died if a ‘new’ half sister would pop up and take over just like when a Slayer died in Buffy! I bet’cha that’s where they got the idea from.)

  7. Jessica Rae | Oct 23, 2008 | Reply

    I saw the movie Poison Ivy with Drew Barrymore! I’m not sure if that’s what you mean, lol. Still fun, though.

    Charmed became less serious every year, I guess. It was kind of like a cute silly thing to put on in the background, for me.

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