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00:00 [Applause]
00:15 May I say that not only do you look great, you smell great too.
00:18 Thank you.
00:19 You smell like a flower.
00:20 That was a better alternative than what I was smelling like before.
00:24 Alright, well nice.
00:25 Put lots of oil on me.
00:26 Did you have a good Halloween?
00:27 I did. I had a great Halloween. It was a lot of fun.
00:29 What did you do for Halloween? What's your tradition? Do you have one?
00:33 Usually I go trick or treating with my godchild and her little sister.
00:37 So that's what I did.
00:38 How old are they?
00:39 In Valley Village. Seven and two.
00:41 Oh, that's cute. What did they go as?
00:43 Well, the smaller one went as Jack Sparrow and then Madison went as Dorothy.
00:50 From the Wizard of Oz.
00:52 And then I put on a pirate mask and I had a Dorothy wig so I was their love child.
00:56 Really?
00:59 Did that confuse the children?
01:01 Well, no. The smaller one, her name's Violet and she's only two.
01:03 I mean, she's like this big.
01:04 And the whole night she's like, "Gaga, look at this. Gaga, look at that."
01:07 Which is my name.
01:08 Your name's Gaga? Really?
01:09 Yeah, Gaga.
01:10 With a scary, awful mask on.
01:12 And at one point I took the mask down because it was getting a little sweaty under there.
01:16 And she turns around and she goes, "Oh my God!" at my own face.
01:23 She was frightened.
01:24 Why?
01:25 Because she's afraid of me. I have no idea.
01:27 Well, you've got to cut her out of the world.
01:28 Oh my God.
01:30 Well, that's no good. You brought some pictures and I'm not sure what they are.
01:34 We had a big party at work and everyone's dressed up.
01:36 Who's this beautiful woman?
01:38 This is someone who works on our show and he came as me.
01:43 And that's my actual dog.
01:45 Oh, really?
01:46 Yeah, that's Tallulah. And so he came as Samantha Who.
01:48 Is he fired now?
01:49 Yeah.
01:50 It's a little hard because he's one of the producers.
01:52 And what's going on here?
01:53 Okay, well this was my thing. I wanted this huge Halloween party.
01:56 So I said, "Let's hire two people to come and scare people."
02:00 And it just turned around on me.
02:02 Oh, they decided to scare you?
02:04 Zoom in a little closer because there's real terror on your face there.
02:09 We were in the middle of shooting a scene and then all of a sudden these two creatures came up and screamed at us.
02:14 And I was like freaking out and then they kept coming on me.
02:18 And I just was like trying to look at how beautiful I looked.
02:21 I literally looked like an 80-year-old woman who's lost her, you know, herself.
02:28 Yeah, all sorts of stuff.
02:30 You've been acting since you were a really little kid.
02:33 Like a fetus, yeah.
02:34 Like how old were you? Were you really like a couple years old or a year old?
02:37 My first job I was five months old.
02:39 Wow.
02:40 But that doesn't really constitute as acting.
02:42 What was that job? Do you remember?
02:43 I was like drooling on myself and going to the bathroom on myself.
02:45 I still do that here.
02:46 Yeah, it happens.
02:47 But my first, yeah, ever since I was a little kid. So a lot of radio commercials and then commercials and then lots of episodics.
02:53 Did you go to like a real school or did you have a tutor on set?
02:56 Well, I went to real schools up until high school and then I went to a private school.
03:00 And it was this really sort of strange private school that we went to school for four hours a day.
03:04 Really?
03:05 Yeah. I went to school with the Corys.
03:07 Feldman and Hame?
03:09 Yeah, the Corys.
03:10 Really?
03:11 Yeah, I did.
03:12 Wow.
03:13 They were in my class.
03:14 And how did they behave?
03:15 He had a fly around his head.
03:16 I think he still does, by the way.
03:17 Yeah, he's a pretty fashionable guy.
03:19 Really?
03:20 Yeah, it was really interesting.
03:21 Did you go to like the prom with the Corys or anything?
03:23 We didn't have a prom. We only had 30 people in our school, so it would have been a really boring night.
03:27 Yeah.
03:28 But we were, you know, it was one of those, you could get away with anything there.
03:30 We would like, if it was like 11.30, we would go and change the clock when the teacher was out of the room.
03:34 And then he'd come back in and we'd be like, "Dude, it's over." And he's like, "Okay."
03:38 Really?
03:39 "Bye, kid. See you tomorrow."
03:41 Wow.
03:42 Yeah.
03:43 And was it like a class of famous kids?
03:45 No, no, no. It was a private school for kids who worked.
03:48 So whatever that meant, if you worked, you know, for your parents or whatever, or walked on the streets, whatever it was.
03:54 Wow.
03:55 Did they have a yearbook with you and the Corys in it?
03:56 Yes.
03:57 Were they voted most likely to do anything?
03:59 They were the Corys at the time, man.
04:01 Well, they were the Corys, yeah.
04:02 They were like in Lost Boys at the time. They were hot stuff.
04:05 Oh, I bet.
04:06 Mila Jovovich went to my school, too.
04:07 She did? Really?
04:08 Yeah, she did.
04:09 Wow, that's something else.
04:10 Nobody went to our school.
04:11 Sorry.
04:12 I mean, including myself, you know?
04:14 I was barely there either, so.
04:16 That's pretty good. Now, the show, you have to be very pleased with it. It's a big hit.
04:20 They picked up more shows than last year.
04:22 Yeah.
04:23 And I am so delighted to see Amnesia make a comeback on American television.
04:29 Really, it tickles me.
04:30 Thank you. I know.
04:31 Because it's been too long.
04:32 I mean, it's such a great, funny subject, you know?
04:35 It is. It's one of the funniest of all brain damage-related illnesses.
04:39 Yeah.
04:40 Tourette's being number one.
04:42 Yes.
04:43 Funniest.
04:44 That was the original premise.
04:45 But that wouldn't have gone over very well with the censors.
04:48 What was the original title? Because there was a different title.
04:50 It was called Sam, I Am.
04:52 Right.
04:53 But we couldn't get the rights to that, obviously, from the estate of the Seuss people.
04:57 What?
04:58 Yeah.
04:59 They own those words?
05:00 Yeah, they own Sam, I Am.
05:01 That's not even the title of the book.
05:02 It's Green Eggs and Ham.
05:03 They own the words Sam says Sam, I Am.
05:04 Really?
05:05 And it's a good thing, because people would always ask me, "Are you playing, like, a mentally challenged mother?"
05:08 From that movie, I Am Sam.
05:09 Oh, yeah.
05:10 They thought I was, like, doing, like...
05:12 Yes, I'm doing the half-hour version of that.
05:14 The sitcom version of...
05:16 The wildly hysterical show.
05:19 Well, they did that with another Sean Penn movie.
05:21 They tried to make a fast-time sitcom, so it would have made perfect sense.
05:24 It would have been really...
05:26 Well, we have a... Again, for those who are not familiar with amnesia, which I hope you all are,
05:31 it's where you get hit on the head with a coconut...
05:33 Yeah.
05:34 ...and then you lose your memory completely.
05:36 Exactly. And you wake up and, "Who am I?"
05:38 And you were kind of an unpleasant person.
05:41 Yes.
05:42 And you don't remember being an unpleasant person.
05:45 Sounds like it's all made up, doesn't it?
05:47 Yeah.
05:48 Yeah. No, no, no. Yeah, I was a bad girl, very bad girl, in my past life.
05:51 Right. And now you're...
05:52 Now I'm trying to right my wrongs.
05:54 I think it would be great if eventually you turned out to be just a real bitch on the show.
05:58 You can kind of see that I'm, like, slowly having, you know, developing a personality, and I can be a little bitchy.
06:04 All right. Well, we have a clip here, and I don't think it needs a lot of setup, but if you want to give it a try...
06:10 I, on the show, have amnesia. And that's it.
06:13 I think we got it.
06:14 That's all you got.
06:15 Christina Applegate and Samantha Hoop. Take a look.
06:17 Listen, I'll get out of here in just a second. I just want to get enough clothes, you know,
06:20 so I don't have to keep coming back and grabbing stuff. And we've had sex before, haven't we?
06:24 Sorry, what?
06:25 Sex.
06:26 Well, yeah, you know, and we were together for three years.
06:31 I know we have. Of course we have. It's just...
06:36 What?
06:37 Can't remember it.
06:38 Oh, well, that's flattering.
06:40 Oh, there you go.
06:41 You're an angel.
06:43 He doesn't remember the sex.
06:45 Yeah, I can see why he'd be upset about that.
06:48 Well, again, congratulations on all the success.
06:51 Thank you.
06:52 Samantha Hoop, it's Monday nights at 9.30 on ABC. Christina Applegate, everybody.
06:56 We'll be right back with Zachary Quinto.
06:59 (audience cheering)