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In one running joke, a serious male news anchor and his ditzy female co-anchor at first roll their eyes at the power.

In the end, the serious male news anchor leaves the show, the woman is advised to put on glasses — “for gravitas” — and she gets a ditzy male co-anchor of her own.

Both heroines are women, but they offer a pretty bizarre dichotomy for girls: Ice queen or ditzy princess.

One Japanese reporter likened her persona to Goldie Hawn on the old Laugh-In: “She was well-liked for being ditzy.”

The scene cuts, and Driver breaks out of ditzy actress mode.

Abdul was beloved for her ditzy demeanor and blatant sentimentalism on American Idol.

It would be nice to think that meeting this ditzy predator is a fitting comeuppance for Edwards.