Betty runs into Joyce

 Posted by on April 2, 2012 at 3:15 pm  Season 1, Season 5  42 Responses »
Apr 022012
 

The woman Betty runs into at the oncologist is Joyce Darling. It appears she’s one of those random “people from the past” that are introduced on TV all the time, but she’s not. Betty even mentions Joyce’s husband has the same name as her own, Henry.

Marriage of Figaro: Joyce and Henry are on the left

Joyce and Henry Darling and their son Andy were guests at Sally’s birthday party in Episode 1.03, Marriage of Figaro. They even got the same actress, Adria Tennor. And no, I don’t know how I caught that, but I was able to double-check because Roberta put a guest list in her recap (which is lucky, because I do almost all the recaps, and I doubt I’d have included the guest list).

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