5 TV characters we miss

SINGAPORE - So it’s not goodbye forever to Barbarella, Leticia Bongnino and Lulu after all.

MediaCorp clarified today that the company will consider letting actress Michelle Chong reprise her former Noose roles “as and when commercial interests arise”.

We guess it’s their way of saying, “tanks, everybirdy, tanks”?

Here’s a list of other characters we want to see back on TV.

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FANG LAO SHI. The English had Hugh Grant in the 1990s, and we had Chen Hanwei. Okay that’s a bit of a hyperbole, but who can forget the actor’s turn as the caring and, more importantly, carelessly handsome, floppy-haired teacher Fang Laoshi in Morning Express? The 1995 local drama serial also starred Fann Wong as his fresh-faced love interest, and Ann Kok as her even fresher-faced sister.

DARIA MORGENDORFFER. There’s something about the MTV character’s caustic wit and deadpan humour that makes our own pathetic lives seem just a little better. Come back, Daria, we’ll even let you stand on our necks.

MISS MO AND YU LOK TIN. We adore TVB’s meandering, 100-episode comedy War Of The Genders for one and only one reason: The insanely hilarious quibbling couple Miss Mo and Yu Lok Tin, played by Carol Cheng and Dayo Wong. We don’t know how much of their bickering was scripted or ad libbed — but they sure have some of the greatest on-screen chemistry we’ve ever seen.

JACK DONAGHY. Yea, Tina Fey is funny and smart. Heck, she’s even hot now. We get it. But the one we truly miss — but not really, thanks to re-runs — is 30 Rock’s ridiculously dapper and inappropriate Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin). If you don’t know who Jack Donaghy is, this exchange should sum things up:

Liz Lemon: Why are you wearing a tux?

Jack Donaghy: It’s after 6:00. What am I, a farmer?

PHUA CHU KANG. Not! Yes he was, for a while, very funny. But after eight seasons, a movie and even a musical, we can safely say we’re not hankering after Gurmit Singh to make a comeback as PCK anytime soon in Singapore, JB and some say Batam.

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