Lisa Picotte (Mindy) Interview - Married with Children Podcast - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 11-26-2022, 04:22 AM

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This week the podcast is honored to interview Lisa Picotte, who played Kelly's friend Mindy in 3 episodes of Season 10, starting with last week's episode of Blonde and Blonder! Stephen and Chris talk to Lisa about her appearance on Married with Children along with her over 3 decade long career in Hollywood. Lisa's husband, David Kaufman, is also an actor and they have been married for over 30 years and have acted together many times. Not only that, their children Grace and Henry are also in the business and have also appeared on both TV and film. We talk about all this and much more!

Lisa and David also run their own business in the form of the Young Actor Workspace (http://www.youngactorworkspace.com/) in Los Angeles, which caters to kids from about ages 5-22. So take up your normal seat in the nudie bar, grab your beverage of choice, and listen in!

TMC · 12-17-2022, 11:15 PM

I too find it kind of odd that Bud would immediately find a girl like Mindy to be undesirable. I get that Mindy's character was meant to be really nerdy and had the big, bulky braces, but if you look at photos of Lisa Picotte in real life, she's actually really pretty.

In this photo, she kind of reminds me of Maura Tierney:

Like the podcast hosts said, Lisa was pretty in a "girl next door" kind of way, so her character was actually more realistically attainable than a girl like Kelly.

I guess that I'm weirdly turned on by Mindy in the scene from "Blonde and Blonder", where she pulls out her hair claw clip soon after she arrives at the party with Bud. Not to mention the end scene in the episode, where she surprises Bud by saying "It's hickey time!"

Maybe I saw Mindy as this cute, quirky girl who wasn't like Kelly or the other girls that she hung around or that Bud normally pursued. And that's what really made her character fascinating. Like I just said, she simply wasn't like "other girls" (i.e., the typical, Playboy/Baywatch pinup and bombshell types) if that makes sense.

DJM77 · 12-18-2022, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by TMC

In this photo, she kind of reminds me of Maura Tierney:

I saw the photo before I read your comment and I thought the exact same thing.

12-17-2022, 11:15 PM	#2
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,132	I too find it kind of odd that Bud would immediately find a girl like Mindy to be undesirable. I get that Mindy's character was meant to be really nerdy and had the big, bulky braces, but if you look at photos of Lisa Picotte in real life, she's actually really pretty. In this photo, she kind of reminds me of Maura Tierney: Like the podcast hosts said, Lisa was pretty in a "girl next door" kind of way, so her character was actually more realistically attainable than a girl like Kelly. I guess that I'm weirdly turned on by Mindy in the scene from "Blonde and Blonder", where she pulls out her hair claw clip soon after she arrives at the party with Bud. Not to mention the end scene in the episode, where she surprises Bud by saying "It's hickey time!" Maybe I saw Mindy as this cute, quirky girl who wasn't like Kelly or the other girls that she hung around or that Bud normally pursued. And that's what really made her character fascinating. Like I just said, she simply wasn't like "other girls" (i.e., the typical, Playboy/Baywatch pinup and bombshell types) if that makes sense.