August Leffler

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August Leffler is a fictional character who was played by Shay Astar on the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. She was sometimes called "Augie", a nickname which she despised ("Lonely Dick", "Body & Soul & Dick").

August was Tommy's steady girlfriend until she broke up with him in the third-season episode "Moby Dick". This was part of a story arc that involved all the aliens breaking up with their significant others. However, while the other broken relationships (Dick and Mary, Sally and Don, etc.) were ultimately resolved, Tommy and August's was not. In the fourth season, Tommy began dating Alissa Strudwick, who soon took August's place on the show.

In the episode "Just Your Average Dick", August says that she is of Dutch ancestry. Her family emigrated to the United States on a schooner in 1852^[1].

[edit] Portrayal

August was generally portrayed as a very studious high schooler who was especially contemptuous of girls whom she regarded as shallow and unintelligent. In many ways she is considered a younger version of Frasier's Lilith Sternin. She was known for being able to easily manipulate Tommy and was clearly the one in charge of their relationship. For instance, in her first episode "Lonely Dick", she told Tommy, who was unsure when it would be appropriate to be physically intimate with her, that she would "decide that as we go along".

August was often shown to have more highbrow interests than Tommy and her perceived intellectual superiority over him (and the "shallow" girls whom she disliked) seemed to give her a degree of elitism. She was also known for her rather quaint neo-feminist views, such as her belief, stated in "I Brake for Dick", that cosmetics are a way for men to "decorate the women they own and turn them into vacuous playthings". She seemed to also have similarly unusual opinions about other topics (according to Tommy in "I Enjoy Being a Dick", August got out of the Girl Scouts because she thought the cookie selling verged on racketeering).

[edit] Break up with Tommy

August eventually left Tommy due to her annoyance with what she regarded as his immaturity. August appeared in two fourth-season episodes after Tommy began dating Alissa, the first of which was "Citizen Solomon". In the following episode, "Alien Hunter", she appeared as a guest at Dick's birthday party, but didn't have any lines. Her appearance in this episode (as well as Alissa's absence) wasn't explained.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• August Leffler at the Internet Movie Database