Connecticut city mocked by sitcom pleads with ABC to end insults

[TMC]

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NORWALK, Conn. — Residents of a Connecticut city that has been mocked on an ABC sitcom say the jokes need to stop, citing a Halloween episode featuring a character dressed up as a pregnant “Norwalk prom girl.”

“American Housewife” is set in Westport, and characters have occasionally derided their neighbors in Norwalk, drawing the ire of the city’s real-life residents.

Andy Ross created the website stoptheinsults.com to petition network owner Disney to apologize. He says he doesn’t understand why the show can’t needle a fictitious city instead.

Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling tells the Norwalk Hour that mocking high schoolers is “a form of bullying.”

Westport First Selectman Jim Marpe says residents of his town feel the show is unfair to them as well.

[D-Dey]

Originally Posted by TMC

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Hmm. "The Stepford Wives" was filmed in Westport, along with Darien and Fairfield. Did they blow a gasket over the depiction of their cities as being Stepford?


For the record, I do remember reading a few messages on IMDb message boards about a few girls from the Northridge section of Los Angeles getting upset over being depitcted as a bunch of dumb sluts on "Victorious," but not that many.