What’s a Girl to Do?
Bingo watches and discusses Janet Folger Porter’s Christian sitcom What’s a Girl to Do?, following its fictionalized Janet through faith, media work, family conflict, and romantic storylines.
Series background
*What’s a Girl to Do?* is a Christian comedy series created by Janet Folger Porter from her 2002 relationship book *What’s a Girl to Do While Waiting for Mr. Right?* Porter wrote and produced the 2018 pilot and plays the lead character, Janet. The series follows Janet and her social circle through faith-based advice, writing and media projects, family disagreements, public events, and romantic complications.
Janet Folger Porter
Janet Folger Porter is an American conservative Christian activist, author, broadcaster, and founder of Faith2Action. Her official series biography identifies her as the author of six books and as the former host of daily and syndicated radio programs. In *What’s a Girl to Do?*, she plays a fictionalized version of herself while also serving as writer, producer, and showrunner. The character’s advice program, political and religious work, family relationships, and search for a partner supply much of the series’ continuing plot.
Role on halfwayokay
The series became recurring Dreamy Scenes material beginning with Episode 274. Bingo and chat follow its continuity, production choices, sets, props, music, religious messaging, romantic triangle, and expanding cast. Episodes sometimes move beyond the sitcom itself to Porter’s book, promotional material, Faith2Action media, and phone lines connected with the production.
Appearances
- Episode 298 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 58 minutes, 13 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo finished What’s a Girl to Do? Episode 5, following Janet’s love-triangle fantasy with Michael and Jeff while questioning which man viewers were supposed to root for.
- Episode 297 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 25 minutes, 55 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo continued What’s a Girl to Do, following Michael’s awkward romantic and family entanglements while chat and callers helped make sense of the episode.
- Episode 296 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 23 minutes, 34 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo watched Episode 5 of What’s a Girl to Do, following Janet’s gym encounter, Michael’s family and country-club problems, and Jeff’s questionable advice while dissecting the show’s odd props and production.
- Episode 295 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 50 minutes, 31 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo continued What’s a Girl to Do? Episode 5 through Janet’s fitness session and relationship drama, then prank-called the One-to-One Fitness number visible on a trainer’s shirt as Janet.
- Episode 294 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 45 minutes, 58 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo finished a long What’s a Girl to Do? installment centered on a Christian picnic conversation, then watched Janet Porter’s Faith2Action material and a one-man biblical show.
- Episode 293 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 15 minutes, 59 seconds.
- Synopsis: After chat voted to continue, Bingo watched more of What’s a Girl to Do? Episode 3, following Janet’s relationship conversation and religious monologue while examining the production’s set, props, and unusually short scenes.
- Episode 292 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 30 minutes, 8 seconds.
- Synopsis: Dreamy Scenes resumed What’s a Girl to Do? after Jeff and Mike’s confrontation, detoured through Dutch’s prison call and a Marvin reading, then followed Janet’s continuing relationship drama and repeated calls from Michael.
- Episode 291 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 1 minute, 29 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo proposed continuing What’s a Girl to Do? after Mike and Jeff’s near-fight, but chat voted against Dreamy Scenes and the episode moved directly to Pack Attack.
- Episode 289 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 20 minutes, 53 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo continued the recurring What’s a Girl to Do? viewing and commentary before moving to Pack Attack.
- Episode 288 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 32 minutes, 14 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo continued the recurring What’s a Girl to Do? viewing and commentary before Pack Attack.
- Episode 287 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 58 minutes, 13 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo continued the recurring What’s a Girl to Do? viewing and commentary before Pack Attack.
- Episode 286 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 27 minutes, 29 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo continued What’s a Girl to Do?, following its Christian social circle through party planning, envelope stuffing, songs about joy, and more romantic setup.
- Episode 285 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 17 minutes, 19 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo continued the recurring What’s a Girl to Do? viewing and commentary before Pack Attack.
- Episode 284 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 17 minutes, 23 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo continued What’s a Girl to Do?, following Janet’s awkward Christian social circle, romantic misunderstandings, and a notably brief final scene.
- Episode 283 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 27 minutes, 18 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo presented Dreamy Scenes Style Plus while continuing What’s a Girl to Do? commentary.
- Episode 282 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 1 hour, 43 minutes, 46 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo finished the final available episode of What’s a Girl to Do?, followed its Happy Day dream, anti-abortion sermon, cast discussion, and closing song, then left Janet Porter a prank voicemail that redirected to another prank hotline.
- Episode 281 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 37 minutes, 13 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo jumped ahead to the 58-minute Christmas finale of What’s a Girl to Do?, followed its Christmas-letter rivalry, Janet’s birthday conflict and Happy Day spectacle, then stopped before finishing because he was too drunk and promised to resume later.
- Episode 280 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 51 minutes, 53 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo finished What’s a Girl to Do? Episode 2 at the Hope Gala, watched its unusually long cast-and-crew postshow, and took a call from Grandpa Beans about visiting for Christmas.
- Episode 279 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 25 minutes, 41 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo continued What’s a Girl to Do? Episode 2 through the Hope Gala, Janet’s romantic humiliation, the crowded cast’s conversations, a four-verse national anthem, and the program’s anti-drug presentation.
- Episode 278 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 25 minutes, 44 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo continued What’s a Girl to Do? Episode 2, following Janet’s relationships and Christian media ambitions before exploring the project’s fundraising website and a promotional video about adapting the book into a sitcom.
- Episode 277 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 24 minutes, 56 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo watched the next installment of What’s a Girl to Do?, following Janet’s Christian advice show and escalating family drama through the California Dreams closing sequence.
- Episode 276 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 44 minutes, 13 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo began episode two of What’s a Girl to Do?, following Janet and her friends through a restaurant outing, awkward conversation, and an extended dispute over paying the bill.
- Episode 274 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 1 hour, 46 minutes, 14 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo watched and dissected the full pilot of Janet Porter’s Christian sitcom What’s a Girl to Do?, following a conservative author pressured to write a dating book through an awkward party, new romance, workplace plot, and double date, then called Porter’s Faith2Action voicemail with a hostile review.