10 TV character shopping obsessions

Nancy needs her Diet Coke — Weeds

Nancy Botwin might be one of the most tragic characters on TV. Not because of all the terrible things that happened to her, but because she is just so clueless about her own contribution to her trainwreck of a life. But the lady loves a Diet Coke, and that is something I (and I’m sure a lot of us) can relate to.

Nancy Botwin is a total disaster. She flits through her life, causing an insane amount of chaos and upheaval, but she doesn’t raise her head up from her Diet Coke straw long enough to understand why things are falling apart around her. And boy, did they fall apart. But at least she was hydrated.

Nancy walked around all the time with a half-full drink container in her hand, and if she wasn’t swilling iced coffee, she was swigging Diet Coke. It seems like she didn’t really put much else besides caffeine and wine in her body, and this could account for her instability and nuttiness. Y’all know what they say about aspartame.

I bet the folks over there at Coke are wishing Nancy Botwin isn’t the only famous person being associated with their drink right now, but unfortunately for Americans, Diet Coke is a pervasive part of our culture, and we can’t solely blame Nancy for its staying power. Let’s just hope, for Diet Coke’s sake, that Nancy Botwin in Weeds is the most controversial person with which we associate the drink.