What kind of a name is Christmas Eve???????????

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 3:55pm

I haven't gotten the joke(and I'm sure there is one) behind this name. I mean given the nature of the show, the could have given her a very streotypical last name like Wong or Chin(even though those are Chinese names not Japanese). What's behind the name?

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 3:59pm

Think about it....

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 4:02pm

I don't get it????? Help me before I turn into Jessica Simpson....or with my luck it'll be myself with Jessica Simpson's brain, then I'll really have nothing going for me...........

[meagan9848]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 4:15pm

I never got that either...

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 4:17pm

well, I wouldn't mind going to bed with nick lachey every night...

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 4:27pm

American holiday? so she's trying to be American? I dunno.. I didn't get it either. I just thought her voice was hilarious.

[meagan9848]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 4:39pm

cats, it took me a solid 30 seconds to catch the jessica simpson reference....I thought in some roundabout way you were trying to explain the name christmas eve.

[mesmerized24601]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 6:42pm

i dont get it either, the american holiday thing seems possible but not really funny enough!

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:12pm

i don't recall exactly, does she end up pregnant or giving birth? or was that the actress and not the character?

i thought if she were a literal mother (or maybe even a figurative "earth mother" type), then the names would have references to the Madonna (Christmas) and the first mother (Eve).

Does the character talk about her name at one point, though?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:22pm

the actress was pregnant, and the character never discusses her name.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:25pm

I still don't get it. What's the joke?

[Therese]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 8:58pm

Oh, gosh, I wish I could explain this... The first time I heard that there was a Q character named "Christmas Eve," I thought, "Oh, that's perfect!" To my mind, it's a very subtle "Sesame Street" thing, like the cute little blonde SS Muppet girl being named "Prairie Dawn" (and I swear there are some other minor Sesame characters with similar names - a phrase that's not really a name, but suddenly makes sense as a name). It's how you hear a name and it instantly strikes you as Dickensian, or Seussian, or... That's the best explanation I can give.

Oh, and yes, it was Ann Harada, the actress, who had a baby last fall; his name is Elvis Harada Litman and he was 3 months old last Tuesday! :)

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 2/5/05 at 2:36pm

I agree wtih Therese. C'mon the first tiem you heard it, didn't you giggle? I think people are reading too much into it besides the fact its Sesame Street-esque and a silly pun. That's all.

[CatieElphie1]

Posted: 2/5/05 at 3:29pm

hmmm..I never got this either, come to think of it...i just sorta was like..."okay"...but never thought about it.

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 2/5/05 at 3:39pm

I remember reading an interview with Lopez and Marx where they said they wanted it to sound like a bad English translation.