The Cleveland Show

As we mentioned earlier, Jane Lynch popped up on The Cleveland Show earlier this week, playing an animated teacher to Roberta Tubbs, Cleveland Brown’s step-daughter.  As Ms. Eick, she’s tough (she gives Roberta her first C-) and lecture-y (she schools (heh, schools) Roberta a bit about tardiness).  Also, her boob drops (“Ignore that”).  In the end, she challenges hot Roberta to succeed in life without relying on her awesome good looks to get away with her mistakes, deficiencies, and poor life choices.  Awesomely, Ms. Eick gives Roberta a fat suit to test drive – yes, a la Tyra.  A la Tyra so much that Roberta dubs her more bountiful self “Tyra” in her search for How the Other Ninety-Nine Point Nine Nine Percent Lives.

Jane Lynch was wonderfully sardonic, sarcastic, and sincere in her grudging admiration for Roberta.  Her voice is scratchy, like her nails/claws on the chalkboard.  The full episode can be watched for the next few weeks here on Hulu.

Everyone oddly is acting like this is the first time that Jane Lynch has done any animated work, but you know as well as we do that she’s done this in varying forms, from videogames (Leisure Suit Larry … which we have not made time to play in between Call of Duty and Zelda, oh darn) to movies (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs) to yep, playing an animated lesbian partner of an equally animated Leisha Hailey (!!!!) (American Dad!): “Holy ****, you’re a woman!”

What can match that? Very few things. Well, she can match and/or top that, this week, maybe. Jane Lynch will go back to cartoon form on this Sunday’s episode of Family Guy‘s spin-off show, The Cleveland Show. She doesn’t appear as a lezzie, we think, but she is apparently a monstrous teacher who looks like she sniffed that chalkboard cleanser a little too hard. Too bad she’s not a PE teacher. The show airs on Sunday at 9:30 on Fox.