Reception
Despite her small number of appearances, the Mandy character was popular with fans of the series. Mandy is often referred to as "Naked Mandy" within the show's circle of fans as well as in the media, in reference to her so-called "naked cavorting" during the first season of the series. The website Ain't It Cool News contributed to the name, frequently asking the question "Does Naked Mandy return?" in its rundowns of early season episodes. The scene in the premiere where Mandy parachutes out of the bombed plane has been cited as one of the show's most memorable moments.
During a 2009 Comic-Con panel, David Fury commented that Mandy was originally going to be Tony's Season 7 accomplice before the character Cara Bowden was created. Before Season 8, Fury also noted that Mandy, along with Charles Logan and Tony Almeida, could possibly return in Season 8. Howard Gordon said after the series finale aired regarding a possible Mandy return in Season 8, "Mandy always came up a bunch of times, but unfortunately, it felt like a sensational move. We chose not to go down that path."
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)