Seinfeld
"The Good Samaritan"

Melinda, playing a rather reckless driver, was one of Jerry's first girlfriends on the show. Of course, he dumped her for a blonde and she (quite naturally), told him what's what. That's sort of a formula for Seinfeld, isn't it? Oh, well. Melinda was nice in her limited part, and her 'If you tell anybody, I'll rip your head off' speech was fun to watch. (Usually George gets blasted by the ladies, so it was a nice change of pace to see Jerry as the target.) A gripe - the recent TV Guide magazine celebrating Seinfeld's going off the air had a photo shoot of a bunch of Jerry's on-screen girlfriends. Was Melinda among them? No, dammit. (OTOH, they didn't even have a pic of his fiancee, Janeane Garofalo, so who knows what they were on...)

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