Legs" Pants - On the situation comedy SUDDENLY SUSAN/NBC/1996-2000,
Todd Stites (David Strickland), the music critic for The Gate
magazine pooled resources with his photographer coworker Luis Rivera
(Nestor Carbonell) to go into business and sell woman’s clothing.
Their product line featured a pair of bright yellow bell bottom
pants called “Lemon Legs.” Their boss at The Gate, however,
called Luis and Todd, the “Yellow Ass Boys” when they tried to model
When the pants didn’t sell, Luis and Todd reluctantly liquidated
their $1,700 stockpile of pants to a wholesaler for only $80.00.
Later that week, a TV news anchor reported a story about a person
at a disco whose pants spontaneously combusted [“All of a sudden my
bun‘s on fire!”]. He was wearing a pair of “Lemon Legs.”
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