Older woman working for Gordon Ford.

S5E2 - Arriving at her new job, Midge has some difficulty getting in due to the implausibility of her story. Dorie and Marge hold her up at the door, regarding her with extreme skepticism, but luckily Midge spots Mike Carr inside, standing at the talent board near Francie's desk, and calls out to him incessantly. Reluctantly, Mike acknowledges her and lets her in.

S5E2 - After lunch, the tranquility of the office is disturbed when an angry Gordon exclaims from the floor above. Ralph, Cecil, Adam, Mel, Trudy, Dorie, Marge, Midge and Mike watch from below as Gordon emerges at the balcony and angrily throws the script down in pieces. George and Alvin appear next to him. Gordon walks away, and George does too after shouting a brief word of encouragement. Adam and Mel joke darkly about throwing lit cigarettes at Gordon, but Marge takes it seriously and points out that that would be a fire hazard.

S5E2 - One hour before show, Mel, Adam, Cecil, Trudy, Ralph and Midge stand waiting to see if the current monologue is a go or a no go. Eventually, they see Teddy the cue card guy leaving, indicating that the monologue is not yet locked. Trudy bolts, exclaiming that she knew she ought to have grabbed her typewriter, to which Marge agrees as she walks past.

S5E2 - At the Gordon Ford Show offices, the team waits anxiously for Gordon to do something. Midge, Alvin, Mel, Cecil, Ralph, Dorie and Marge mill about the lobby as Adam is in the audience saying hi to his parents and Mike sits atop the balcony. Eventually, Gordon emerges from his office with George and Trudy runs by exclaiming that he's on the move. Marge remains in the office as others dash to the studio.

S5E4 - Midge gets in to work and finds most of the staff hungover from last night’s party. Marge stops each person at the door and offers them her hangover cure - a disgusting concoction intended to induce nausea.

S5E4 - After chatting with Gordon, Midge returns to the office to answer a phone call from Susie about doing the Expo for Frank and Nicky. In the background, Marge continues handing out her hangover recovery concoction.

S5E4 - Midge consults the writers for help punching up the garbage musical, but they just shrug. Trudy bursts in, anxious to get the monologue typed up. After a moment, they all hear Gordon shouting from above and rush out to see what is happening. Dorie also drops what she is doing to watch. Gordon descends from above, fuming about a guest’s sudden disappearance just twenty minutes before the show. George and Tina trail behind him. He takes his anger out on Marge, then apologizes to her a few moments later. He turns to Mike to sort it out, and lashes out at George when he tries to reassure him. Gordon then gathers all the writers in the writers’ room and tells them to find him a new comic - any new comic.

S5E5 - George, Mike, Trudy, Marge, Adam, Ralph, Cecil, Alvin, Mel, and Midge gather in Gordon's office for some notes on what to do with the monologue, and Gordon argues with George over the Diddy Doo Diapers sponsorship.

MARGE: Gordon doesn't hire people personally.
MIDGE: I know it's unusual, but he came to my strip club, uh, my club, where I perform.
MARGE: Oh, I get it.
MIDGE: No, you don't. I'm a stand-up. A comedian.
MARGE: So, you're here to be on the show?
DORIE: You have to be booked to be on the show.
MARGE: You can't just walk in off the street and ask to be booked on the show.
– S5E2

ADAM: Can we just toss cigarettes at him?
MEL: Lit?
MARGE: That's a fire hazard.
– S5E2

MARGE: Morning. Hair of the dog?
– S5E4

GORDON: Marge?
MARGE: Yes?
GORDON: Was I just an asshole to you?
MARGE: Yes.
GORDON: I'm sorry. Buy yourself some flowers.
– S5E4

MARGE: I don't think he's coming back. He took his coat, his hat and a Gordon Ford Show coffee mug.
– S5E4

ADAM: Who's Ed Gein?
ALVIN: They based Psycho on him.
MARGE: He wore people's skin.
TRUDY: Oh, my goodness.
ADAM: Nice to know he's tuning in.
RALPH: Does that count as two Nielsen views?
MARGE: Did stuff with the bones, too. Made necklaces.
– S5E5

GORDON: I can't help but harken back to our radio days, Georgie, when you got us sponsored by that weed killer that wound up killing not weeds but a dozen senior citizens.
MARGE: Fourteen. I read about it.
– S5E5

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• Annie Golden also appears in the Palladinos’ subsequent series, Étoile.

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