On February 3, 2007, Barrymore hosted Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) for the fifth time, making her the second female host ( after Candice Bergen ) in the show's history to do so.

Due to the show's strong themes of female empowerment, the most powerful members of the team are often female ( Buffy and Willow ), while the men play passive roles such as that of father-figure ( Giles ) and supportive best friend ( Xander ).

It was the first time a TV show's producers chose to kill off a major male character ( though it was done twice previously with female leads-in 1956 on Make Room For Daddy, and again in 1963 with The Real McCoys ).

The female winner of the show's first season, Milly Ruperto, has already participated in a soap opera, playing a boxing trainer, alongside Venezuelan superstar Gaby Spanic.

The show's producers responded by making Susan a nurse and by hiring a female writer.

Mr. Squiggle was helped by a human female assistant in all of the show's incarnations ; they included Miss Gina ( Gina Curtis ), Miss Pat ( Pat Lovell ), Miss Jane ( Jane Fennell ), and later series featured Roxanne ( Roxanne Kimmorley ) and Rebecca ( Rebecca Hetherington, Hetherington's daughter ).

* Gurren Lagann: The show's lead female character Yoko uses an electromagnetic superconducting plasma rifle.

Shortly after the death of Benaderet, June Lockhart was brought in to play a female doctor who had set up her practice at the Shady Rest hotel, and thus became the show's surrogate mother figure.

( which eventually went to Celeste Holm ), but the show's librettist Oscar Hammerstein cast her as the female lead, Laurey.

Wishbone may not play the lead role if the character is difficult to relate to ( he plays Sancho Panza in Don Quixote ) or is female ( in the show's " Joan of Arc " episode, he plays Louis de Conte ).

Other stand-in hosts have included Gabby Logan, Mark Pougatch, Mark Chapman, Celina Hinchcliffe, the show's first female presenter and Jake Humphrey became the youngest presenter of the show and now is the F1 Main Presenter but features heavily on football coverage.

At the end of each round, members of the entirely female audience each voted for their favourite man using a remote control device and the least popular male would be eliminated from the competition by being pushed into the swimming pool that formed part of the show's set by one of the show's beautiful hostesses.

Frank Rich of The New York Times wrote " The only thing that Jerry's Girls has in common with a bona fide Jerry Herman musical is that it occupies the St. James, the theater where Dolly once promised she'd never go away again ... Whatever the point of the all-female cast, one must still wonder why the show's particular female stars were chosen.

Vance is also the first ( and so far only ) SNL cast member to have a learning disability ( according to the SNL 30th Anniversary edition of Trivial Pursuit, Vance had dyslexia, which made it hard for her to memorize lines and read from cue cards, though it wasn't made apparent in some cases ) the only black, female cast member who is now dead ( Vance died of breast cancer in 1994 ), and was the show's first lesbian cast member ( nearly 27 years later, SNL would hire another lesbian cast member -- Kate McKinnon, who, unlike Danitra Vance and much like Terry Sweeney, is openly gay ).

When Cold Case premiered, the show's similarities to Cold Squad ( including but not limited to a tough female cop with dirty blonde hair leading a team investigating cold cases ) led Cold Squad creators Julia Keatley and Matt MacLeod to retain an intellectual property attorney to look into the situation ( CTV also aired Cold Case as well ).

They are the first duo to host the programme and Thomas is the show's first permanent female presenter.

In fact, the show's creators made Sara Sidle while thinking of a future love interest for Grissom, but during the show's first three seasons, Grissom flirted with all the female characters, and when Sara asked him out to dinner, he rejected her, claiming that he did not know what to do about what is going on between them.

Do-Wah has a light crush on Angela, the show's only female human.

However, the female star of the show is outraged when the show's cancellation is announced, and, having discovered Wesker's previous crimes with Scarface, reunites her hated boss with the murderous dummy.

Bowerman trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and was a regular in the first two series of BBC medical drama Casualty playing Sandra Mute, the show's first female paramedic.

At this stage Raye was intending to work only as the show's producer, and she still needed to find a female lead ; Chater suggested June Salter ( who agreed to a guest appearance in the pilot ) and they also approached Judi Farr and several other actresses, but all were tied up with other work and could not commit to the lead role.

The system receives a special code in the broadcast signal which indicates the show's score according to a simple numerical rating system for violence, sex, and language.

In the third season, issues such as equal pay for women, pre-marital sex and homosexuality are woven into the show's comedic plots.

In early March 1977, ABC screened the first two episodes of Soap for the executives of its 195 affiliate stations, many of whom were instantly appalled by the show's emphasis on sex and infidelity.

The show's frank portrayal of " senior " sexuality and explicit sex scenes generated controversy, although it won a rare endorsement by the AARP.

Playing the part of Bev Houghton, Abigail quickly emerged as the show's most famous sex symbol.

However, it became such a catchphrase of the show that Bob Eubanks continued to use the word throughout the show's many runs, even in the 1980s and 1990s episodes and beyond, when he could easily have said " make love " or " have sex " without censorship.

In their first season review, John J. O ' Connor said Dream On wasn't " different from ordinary network fare ... except for, as might be expected, the more freewheeling language and treatments of sex "; by the season's third episode, the show's protagonist is " already becoming just another nice bachelor father, not all that different from the one John Forsythe played on television several decades ago.

" In order to keep the show's plot in line, Jennifer agrees to go on a date with a boy from high school, but she has sex with him, a concept entirely unknown to him and everyone else in the town.

Similarly, the sex of the baby Jamie in Malcolm in the Middle was purposely kept ambiguous when first introduced at the end of the show's fourth season leading to speculation that it would remain unknown.

The show's final moments recall the very first episode, with Tommy speaking to the new Academy class, but this time with a little more clarity and a warning not to drown your sorrows with sex, violence, and alcohol.

* A sequence ( the show's longest ) with the word sex flashing on and off in pulsating colors while Conway and Bonnie Boland leer at each other.

As the show's most famous sex symbol many people assume that Abigail was the first woman to appear topless on Australian television ; however, that credit belongs to fellow cast member Vivienne Garrett in the same series.

Slant Magazine writer Ed Gonzalez noted that " the show's extreme shooting style makes it especially hard to stare at what is — no more no less — a totem to the pop singer's narcissism ", criticizing the fact of Spears and Federline's " views on sex, life and love suggest someone [...] they're the only person on the face of the earth ".

MacFarlane believed the show's three year hiatus was beneficial because animated shows do not normally have hiatuses, and towards the end of their seasons "... you see a lot more sex jokes and ( bodily function ) jokes and signs of a fatigued staff that their brains are just fried ".

The show's phone number was 1-888-SAD GOAT, and the goat was the symbol for the show.

For only the first season, the guest stars were credited by having their names appear on the screen while the show's symbol, a circle with four hearts in the corners ( resembling a porthole ), wrapped around them.

The > symbol is part of the show's title.

The red scarf has become a worldwide symbol of Gang shows, and to distinguish one show from another, an insignia in gold thread ( UK: the initials GS in Ralph Reader's handwriting shot through with the show's name-AUS: usually a design related to the masks of comedy and tragedy and incorporating the show's name ) is embroided into the point of the scarf.

After the show's successful first season, consultants were brought in to make suggestions for the show, including changing Janine to a more maternal character, giving every character a particular " job " ( Peter is the funny one, Egon is the smart one, and Winston, the only black character, was to be the driver ), and to add kids into the show.

One of the show's running gags involved Abbott perpetually nagging Costello to get a job to pay their rent, while Abbott barely lifted a finger in that direction.

The two approved and offered Mirkin a freelance job writing one of the final nine episodes of show's first season, pending their commissioning by NBC.

Though his main job was to be the show's comedian, he has had a number of other roles on The Muppet Show.

" He said it was the job of a show's producer to control the moral content of a television program and the parents ' duty to monitor what their children watch.

Bob Edwards, previously a co-host of All Things Considered, hosted Morning Edition beginning with its first episode, a job he initially took on a temporary basis when a shake-up in production and on-air staff occurred ten days before the show's premiere.

DeWitt is best known for her role as Janet Wood during the 1977 – 1984 run of the sitcom Three's Company, a job she obtained after being cast in the show's second pilot.

Mark Burnett confirmed that two people turned down formal offers to appear on the All-Stars edition of Survivor — Elisabeth Filarski Hasselbeck from The Australian Outback, who had recently taken a job as a co-host of The View, and Colleen Haskell of the show's premiere season, who " had moved on with her life " and " just genuinely didn't want to go through that again.

After the show's cancellation, she got a job as a campus adviser to student groups at UCLA and eventually became an associate dean of students.

Jake decides to accept the risky job when he first sets eyes on the show's beautiful, down-to-earth hairdresser, Dylan, who wows him like nobody before after only coming to visit his Fun, Potty Mouthed Grandma Claire ( Suzanne Pleshette ) and presents a romantic challenge like nobody before.

According to Martin, Handey got a job writing for Saturday Night Live after Martin introduced Handey to the show's creator, Lorne Michaels.

Gary took a job at Knots Landing Motors, a Ford-Lincoln-Mercury ( hence, the show's early sponsors ) car dealership owned by Sid.

" Noel, however, did conclude that the show's writers and producers " did a decent job of bringing plot involving Adam to a conclusion ".

The show's casting director, Judy Blye Wilson, tested between fifteen and twenty actors, and could not find the right actor for the job.

To partially appease them, the show's executive producer, Jean Dadario Burke, offered Nader his job back on a recurring basis.

In the show's fifth and final season, Lorne finds himself the new head of Wolfram & Hart's Entertainment Division, at first fitting into the job with relative ease and making various business deals in the film industry.

Interestingly, Gervais said once that in the show's universe, Brent did have many moments when he did his job well and even showed an effective sense of humour-moments that were deliberately NOT included in the documentary, but presumably helped shape viewer perceptions that Brent wasn't just a worthless empty suit and an idiot.

Beginning with the show's fifth season, almost every season of The Real World has included the assignment of a season-long group job or task to the housemates, continued participation in which has been mandatory to remain part of the cast since the Back to New York season.

The show's story revolves around the character Rodney Hamilton ( Rodney Carrington ) who wishes to leave his horrible job in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to become a stand-up comedian.

Much of the show's drama is based around time and budget constraints in completing the job before the target returns, and upon the reaction of the target once they see the completed work.

Actor Jon Hamm, appearing as his character Don Draper from the AMC series Mad Men, and talk show host Larry King, of CNN's Larry King Live, made cameo appearances in the show's cold open, with actor and comedian Ricky Gervais sending Conan a pre-taped message expressing his well wishes on the new series, then going on to express condolences for future job losses.

Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game an 8 out of 10, saying, " It does an incredible job of re-creating the show's fast-paced mech combat by combining slick animation and spot-on controls.

In the show's fifth season, Kate quit her job and teamed up with Allie to start their own catering service.

Following their marriage, Allie and Bob moved into a new apartment in the show's final season — however, Bob took a job which involved regular travel, and Kate moved into the new apartment as well.