{"id":3373,"date":"2012-08-29T18:13:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zennioptical.com\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2024-12-10T23:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T07:28:22","slug":"memorable-sit-com-eyeglasses-through-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ca.zennioptical.com\/blog\/memorable-sit-com-eyeglasses-through-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorable Sit-Com Eyeglasses Through The Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Urkel (Family Matters, ABC, 1989-1997\/CBS, 1997-1998)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Who can forget the enormous red-framed glasses worn by Jaleel White\u2019s character, Steve Urkel, in Family Matters? <\/em>This is obviously a major \u2018what not to do\u2019 when picking out eyeglasses \u2014 choosing frames that cover half of your face. The scoop is that the glasses apparently belonged to White\u2019s dad, so hopefully Papa White had a large face.<\/p>\n

Urkel\u2019s bad choice of eyewear wasn\u2019t the only accessory competing for bad taste though \u2014 remember those red and yellow suspenders, flood pants and crazily-patterned shirts? Top all this off with the whiniest voice on the planet and you\u2019ve got classic Urkel.<\/p>\n

Jess Day (The New Girl, FOX, 2011-present)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cGeek Chic\u201d is all the rage on The New Girl <\/em>thanks to Zooey Deschanel\u2019s character, Jess Day. The dark, over-sized, nerd glasses are so cute with her long, dark waves and heavy bangs. For those who have to know, the eyewear is Wacks by Oliver Peoples.<\/p>\n

I may just have to randomly break out into song over this eyewear look, just like Jess is known to do at any given moment. Her look is just that cute.<\/p>\n

Jan Brady (The Brady Bunch, ABC, 1969-1974)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jan was no Jess. She did not look cute. It seems like the character of Jan Brady, portrayed by Eve Plumb, was written so loser-like that Jan just couldn\u2019t have attractive glasses.<\/p>\n

It was a self-fulfilling prophecy when Jan resisted getting eyeglasses by dramatically whining: \u201cThey\u2019ll make me look absolutely positively goofy.\u201d Yup. They did.\u00a0 The lens shape was not flattering on her face and the color of the frames was pale like her skin and hair. Jan\u2019s look was bland and blah. No wonder it was all about \u201cMarcia, Marcia, Marcia.\u201d<\/p>\n

George Costanza (Seinfeld, NBC, 1990-1998)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Well, at least Jan was a kid. A grown adult (well sort of), George Costanza, played by Jason Alexander, couldn\u2019t pick out flattering eyewear for himself on Seinfeld<\/em> to save his life.\u00a0 Of course, this is George Constanza who can\u2019t seem to hold a job like most normal adults either.<\/p>\n

In the highly rated episode called \u201cThe Glasses,\u201d George thinks his eyeglasses were stolen at a health club. \u201cWho steals prescription glasses?\u201d became a comical question. In trying to choose new eyewear, George makes such bad choices that Jerry calls him \u201cElton\u201d and \u201cmadam.\u201d Poor George. He\u2019s absolutely useless at everything.<\/p>\n

Dwayne Wayne (A Different World, NBC, 1987-1993)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you\u2019ve ever seen The Cosby Show<\/em> spinoff, A Different World, <\/em>you\u2019re bound to remember Kadeem Hardison\u2019s character, Dwayne Wayne (who could forget that name?) and his trademark, flip up round sunglasses. We love that the flip up circles are metal rimmed just like the rest of the eyewear.<\/p>\n

In June, Miami Heat basketball player, Dwayne Wade, wore very similar sunnies to an NBC press conference presumably because he loved the eyewear too as well as has a similar name to the character\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Lucy Ricardo (I Love Lucy, CBS, 1951-1957)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nIn a hilarious, yet somehow still glamorous, attempt to not look at all similar to her usual self, Lucille Ball\u2019s character, Lucy Ricardo, dons a pair of bejewelled cat eye glasses, fake nose and a head scarf since Ricky is bringing movie star William Holden to meet Lucy and she\u2019s already met Bill Holden.<\/p>\n

Of course, Lucy made a terrible impression which is the reason for her disguise. Jewel-edged eyewear aside, our favorite part of that episode was when Lucy, all star struck at the Brown Derby restaurant, is staring so hard at William Holden that she butters her hand rather than her bread.<\/p>\n

Leonard Hofstadter (The Big Bang Theory, CBS, 2007-present)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At least Lucy presumably had lenses in her glasses, because Experimental Physicist, Leonard Hofstadter, played by Johnny Galecki on The Big Bang Theory <\/em>wears the dark nerdy frames only. Add yellow sneakers and hoodies and that\u2019s Leonard\u2019s PhD look. Yeah, stick to science, not fashion, Leonard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-teaser"],"acf":[],"contentshake_article_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ca.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96074,"href":"https:\/\/ca.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions\/96074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.zennioptical.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}