Though Channel 101 cancelled Sockbaby after just two
episodes (replacing it with Kicked in the Nuts, for pity's
sake!), nobody can deny that she broke new ground in sock puppet
entertainment. She was the first newly knitted sock puppet to get her
own show on cable, and was the first sock puppet ever to star in an
action TV show. The show was heavily promoted, opening the floodgates
of fan expectation, and that was the problem. Nobody could have lived
up to that kind of hype. When the show turned out to be less than the
second coming of television it was axed, even though it did pretty well
in the ratings. I met Sockbaby once at one of Jack Nicholson's parties.
The kid was a heartbreaker, and will probably grow up to be a real
babe, if she doesn't get into the dope and booze like Drew Barrymore
did. Man, it took a lot of rehab and plastic surgery to bring that
chick back from the brink! Anyway, Sockbaby disappeared from Hollywood
shortly after her series was cancelled—rumors have her attending
an Ivy League college—but my show business instinct tells me we
haven't heard the last from her.