Mock LLFD - TV Actresses/Personalities (Round 4)

(From Harmony Central)

1. Elisha Cuthbert (The Loveseat)
2. Hayden Panettiere (Lord Farceface)
3. Autumn Reeser (The Brooklyn Boy)
4. Katrina Bowden (One-Shot)
   
5. Sonya Balmores (The Minority Reporter)
6. Courtney Cox (America's High Five)
7. Keshia Knight Pulliam (Intellectivist)
8. Roselyn Sanchez (The Dirty Mexican)

Initial Reaction: Fuck a Loveseat. For really got damn real.
On Second Thought: Elisha FUCKING Cuthbert. In the fourth fucking round! Damn you, little brother, damn you.
Summary: Well, we're 2-for-2 with unforeseen drafting situations. "The Loveseat Loophole" (hawking the rules to draft a celebrity thought to be ineligible) changed the game, due to a poorly worded dual-eligibility rule. Here are the relevant passages, as previously written (it has since been altered):

1. Also, the former leads of shows in syndication qualify.
   1. The reason for this is that syndication means there were at least 100 episodes, and often establishes a celebrity's stardom.
2. Examples:
   
   1. Jessica Alba no longer qualifies because Dark Angel was cancelled after two seasons.
   2. Jennifer Aniston counts because Friends is widely syndicated.

So Cuthbert, who only appeared on 72 episodes of 24, was eligible because 147 episodes of the show have aired. The debate leads off the comments below. Farceface tried to follow by taking Jessica Alba, but that bricked because Dark Angel only aired for 43 eps. Plus, it's not like Alba's explicitly excluded in the rule or anything. Nothing like that. Thusly, "Farceface's Failure" (trying to piggyback a complex situation unsuccessfully) also enters the LLFD lexicon.

Farceface got sweet retribution with Panettiere, Reeser was my fourth-round target all along and everyone else just made good picks. Great value at the bottom here. TV is clearly thin on top, but solid everywhere else. Even AH5, who I had to shoot down five times on the phone before he thought of someone who wasn't chosen, scored well with Courtney Cox.

Bonus point for Intell, who entered Pulliam into his text message drafts before we started, and sent it to me LITERALLY the second after I had texted him to say he was up. Oh, and Dirty picked a stellar "Ms. Irrelevant." Word to Maxim.

Commentary Highlights

The Loveseat Loophole Debate:

The Loveseat: i'm claimin the rules here (post-convo with the founder), and pickin elisha cuthbert
Lord Farceface: Wait, no!
The Dirty Mexican: damn
TLS: any former lead of show in syndication
LFF: She's off 24 as of '06!
One-shot: is she on TV?
The Brooklyn Boy: dude ... we said she didn't count!
TLS: shes known as the girl from 24
ONS: ah
ONS: another show I've never watched
TLS: 24 is in syndication
TBB: but she did a dumb amount of film before that
LFF: Damn.
TBB: and she wasn't on 100 eps
TLS: and she was a former lead
TLS: read ur rules
LFF: Ok, you're right.
TLS: dont have to be 100 eps, just syndication
LFF: He's got us by the short and curly's on this one.
ONS: yeah I think he's right
LFF: Sneaky bitch ...
ONS: doesn't explain why he waited to the fourth round to bring her out
ONS: good pick anyway
TLS: i AM awesome
TLS: and i do my research
TBB: i fucked up the wording
TBB: fuckity fuck
ONS: ahhh, the lawyer's bane
TLS: legal studies major
TBB: that counts this time, but needs to be clarified in the future
TLS: what can i say
TBB: she was a film actress for 10 years before 24!The
LFF: We'll get you for this.
TBB: got damn
TBB: steal ... just a steal
LFF: Total steal.
ONS: you'll never forgive yourself for this, Brooklyn

The Peanut Gallery, on Farceface's Failure:

The Dirty Mexican: lol - the complications
LFF: Sorry for all the rules Jewery; I thought I could nail you fuckers at your own game.
ONS: hah!
TDM: hah
LFF: Clearly, I have been schooled.
ONS: stick to what you crackers do best
LFF: Running the entire world except for the banking and entertainment industries?
ONS: it's law that banking's run by Jewery
TLS: "Jewery" sounds like the asian equivalent of "Julie"
LFF: Oh, and oil; we don't have that one.
LFF: ... yet.
ONS: ever met Halliburton?
ONS: wait does that count?

The Peanut Gallery, still savoring Minority's blown first-round pick:

LFF: By the way, Minority took Portia De Rossi ...
LFF: Can we talk about that for a little while?
TLS: she was def on my list
LFF: But she's not a minority.
LFF: Unless you count the fact that she's gay.
TLS: but i guess he can try to turn her straight
TLS: it only takes a lil deep dickin
LFF: I guess ...
LFF: But first?
LFF: Even Arrested Development made jokes about her being a "surfboard."
TLS: yeah ... agreed
TBB: nice
LFF: Their own term!
LFF: "Ok, let's cut, we've got a surfboard in frame."

(Check out Round 1, Round 2 or Round 3)