All-American Girl is a 1994 ABC situation comedy starring Margaret Cho and featuring Jodi Long, Clyde Kusatsu, Amy Hill, B.D. Wong, and J.B. Quon as her Korean-American family.
It was the second American sitcom centered on a person of Asian descent (Korean), namely Cho. (Pat Morita's short-lived 1976 sitcom Mr. T and Tina was the first.)
Notable guest stars during the run of the show included Oprah Winfrey, Jack Black, David Cross, Vicki Lawrence...
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All-American Girl is a 1994 ABC situation comedy starring Margaret Cho and featuring Jodi Long, Clyde Kusatsu, Amy Hill, B.D. Wong, and J.B. Quon as her Korean-American family.
It was the second American sitcom centered on a person of Asian descent (Korean), namely Cho. (Pat Morita's short-lived 1976 sitcom Mr. T and Tina was the first.)
Notable guest stars during the run of the show included Oprah Winfrey, Jack Black, David Cross, Vicki Lawrence, Quentin Tarantino, and Garrett Wang.
At the time the show was launched, the premise centered around Cho, as Margaret Kim. The onscreen Margaret was a twenty-something, modern American young woman who lived with her more traditional Korean family. She had a contentious relationship with her mother.
Themes often revolved around Margaret's desire to live a wild lifestyle and her parents' disapproval. Also in the family was a zany (but wise) grandmother (Hill) and Margaret's over-achieving medical student brother Stewart (Wong).
Margaret worked...
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