Weekly: What about cooking for you? What does that bring you?
Strasser: When I was a very little child, I lived with my grandmother. My grandmother was an old world immigrant; a woman was in the kitchen. That's it. When she wasn't cleaning the rest of the apartment, she was in the kitchen. So, I observed her cooking and enjoyed all those smells. Then, my mother was a working mother and I was a latch key child. One of the things I was really adept at was being able to go out and buy the food and prepare dinner for her. I really enjoyed it. We didn't have a lot of dough. Somehow, I liked the challenge of how could I make dinner for the two of us for under a few [dollars]. Oh, pork chops are on sale, or oh, I'll do this, I'll do that. So I got very creative. I'm an intuitive cook. I cannot follow a recipe. A friend of mine was telling me how to make a risotto and she's a fabulous cook. I said, "Can I just come to your house and be your sous chef some night when you're cooking dinner and I'll learn it just from watching you?" I want to be in the kitchen with you. It's just easier for me to learn by being there, smelling it, seeing it.
Watkins: In a nutshell, Robin is much better at taking direction than she is at reading directions.

Weekly: Do you have a specialty?
Watkins: I'm pretty good at preheating the oven to 400 degrees when Stouffer's says to.

Weekly: Why did you return, both of you?
Watkins: I returned because I wanted to live in New York City again and I saw that Robin was back on the show. I thought the timing was right.
Strasser: I had trouble letting go of the show from the moment I cleaned out my dressing room to leave. I was like, "Doesn't anyone want to shout down the street, 'Come back, it's only a misunderstanding!'?" It was fabulous that Frank Valentini had become the executive producer, so there was no question that I would say yes. It was a chance to live in New York again, but it was the part. I love the part, I guess it shows. If you said what's the secret, it's how much I love the part.
Watkins: Yeah, it's a great part on my behalf also, because if it was your standard run of the mill character, no one wants to sign up for an extended period of time to do that. I think we're both pretty lucky to play the characters that we play.

Weekly: You minored in French. It says so on your resume. Do you speak French?
Watkins: I minored in French, psychology, and theatre, which simply means if you take five courses at a Big Ten school you get a minor. I can't say that I'm fluent, but I can get by. I could get lost in Paris and probably get directed to London.
Strasser: You just bet, Sweetheart.