THE SUPER 8

TV is huge.  It's giant.  It's the nipple at which we all nurse.  We love it for all its sublime and stupid glory.  Hell, without a TV, would most of us even bother coming home?  Probably not.  But luckily we do.  So here they are, the Show Girls that keep bringing us back.  Not the usual suspects, not the biggest stars, but eight ladies with the right combination of beauty, brains, and (definitely) senses of humor, to keep us from straying too far from the electronic hearth.

SHE SLAYS US

We're all suckers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Alyson Hannigan.

Let the cyber dweebs and 45-year-old suits slobber over Sarah Michelle Gellar.  The more, shall we say, enlightened among us are just waiting for Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Alyson Hannigan to reveal the mega-watt hottie you can see seething right below the surface.

Let's go ahead and say it.  The show just doesn't do her justice.   On it she plays Willow Rosenberg, Buffy's best friend, the Mary Ann to Gellar's Ginger.  The character is a real dishrag, written that way, obviously, to make Buffy seem all the more luminescent.  Willow is the kind of girl other women wish they could pull aside and say, "Honey, a little more lipstick, and maybe a better haircut will change your life..."

But what of the real Alyson?  She's a child actor who grew up in our nation's beltway, and started pitching McDonalds and Oreos at an age when most kids were being left with the babysitter.  Her break came when she was cast as Dan Akroyd's misunderstood daughter in My Stepmother is an Alien.  She might have been relegated to television's guest-star never-never land (Roseanne, Touched by an Angel), but no!  The network swooped down and cast her in a series bound for perpetual syndication, thereby ensuring her eternal life.  Just like a vampire.

What does Alyson do when she's not surrounded by bloodsuckers?  She's a kick-boxing fiend who likes Dr. Seuss and animals, or so she says.  We think she's really plotting world domination.  We will submit.   Stay tuned.

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