All-American Girl (ABC 1994, Margaret Cho, Clyde Kusatsu)

Sitcom. Korean Margaret Kim, living in America, is happy to settle into Western ways and date American boys but her mother longs her to settle down with a nice Korean boy.

Notable guest stars during the run of the show include Oprah Winfrey, Jack Black, David Cross, Ming-Na, Vicki Lawrence, Quentin Tarantino, Tsai Chin, Mariska Hargitay, Billy Burke, Robert Clohessy and Garrett Wang. Diedrich Bader was a one time regular in the last episode of All American Girl, which was a pseudo pilot for a proposed but unrealized version of All American Girl, before achieving fame on The Drew Carey Show. On the DVD commentary for the series, Margaret Cho revealed that most of All American Girl’s set furniture was reused by The Drew Carey Show.

production details
USA | ABC – Touchstone – Heartfelt – Sandollar | 19×30 minutes | 1994-95

Creator: Gary Jacobs
Producer: Bruce Johnson

cast
Margaret Cho as Margaret Kim
Clyde Kusatsu as Benny Kim
BD Wong as Stuart Kim
Judy Gold as Gloria
Jodi Long as Katherine Kim
Amy Hill as Grandma
Maddie Corman as Ruthie
J.B. Quon as Eric Kim
Ashley Johnson