Sacha Barbican

**Sacha Barbican** is a character in *Magic Funhouse*. She is **Arlo**'s oldest friend and costar. Her character, unlike her costars, has no specified name.

## Description

### Appearance

Sacha has long brown hair and brown eyes. She dresses glamorously with pretty dresses, jewelry, and make up. In costume, she wears a bright yellow dress and a matching yellow wig as well as a chunky pearl necklace.

### Personality

Sacha is keen on becoming a star. She prides herself on her looks and talents and loves to be the center of attention. She's shown to be caring at times and helps her friends when they need her, but can also be quite the drama queen. Sacha is also shown to be quite insecure, especially when it comes to her appearance, but flaunts herself nevertheless.

## History

Sacha wanted to be a singer since she was a child. One day while she was "performing" on the playground, a group of kids began to make fun of her. That's when **Arlo** stepped in for her and fought them off. That night, when a fight broke out between Arlo's parents at dinner, they ran off to share juice and talk. When Arlo went into his coma, Sacha thought he had died and nearly forgot about him until they met again years later.

Sometime in her adolescent life, Sacha's parents passed away. It's mentioned by Sacha that the rest of her family lives in Denver, if they are even alive at all.

In her adult life, she attempted to become a professional singer using a one woman show, but failed miserably. One night after a particularly rough crowd, a group of guys started harassing her after the show. Luckily, like he had years before, Arlo stepped in, only this time he got beat up before scaring the group away. At first Sacha doesn't recognize him, but is glad to see him when he realizes he's her childhood friend. When he gives her a job offer to be his costar, she eagerly accepts. He then promises Sacha that he will always be there for her when she needs him, similar to a promise he made when they were young.

## Relationships

### Arlo Dittman

As mentioned before, Sacha has known Arlo since they were young and is extremely close to him, despite their occasional yelling matches. When he becomes upset, Sacha is often the one who talks to him or tries to calm him down. When Arlo finds out about his parents in season one, he says that Sacha's betrayal was the one that hurt the most.

Arlo is shown to be somewhat protective of Sacha. He defended her on the playground, stepped in when she was being grabbed by a group of guys, and risked his life to find her when she was captured by the hick family. When Sacha is screaming at Dave in her dressing room, Arlo shows up and blows an air horn in his face (something he did when Dave pissed him off), and is shown defending her from Dave during the courtroom flashback. After he's injured in a fight with Dave, Arlo dramatically tells Sacha that "there's something I've always wanted to tell you", suggesting that he may have romantic feelings for her. Despite this, their relationship is mostly seen as platonic.

### Clifford Cork

During season one's early episodes, Sacha is constantly harassed by **Cliff** (one notable occasion is him putting a box of "personalized" sex toys in her dressing room) and often calls him "disgusting" and a "pervert". Despite how much they antagonize each other, and how not-so-subtle Cliffs affection is towards her, the two do seem to be friends later on and throughout season 2. When Cliff wants to leave Magic Funhouse, Sacha is the one who tries to talk him out of it, and when he goes into his fit of rage against Cordula's portrait she is genuinely concerned and tries to calm him down.

### Manjusha

While they don't have a particularly close relationship, Sacha and **Manny** do seem to be friends. Manny sometimes calls Sacha pretty and in one scene Sacha holds Manny up after she passed out. They were the first two to be recruited for the show, and Manny is the one who stopped Sacha from telling Arlo about his parents when she found out they were dead.

### Dave Rolland

Sacha antagonizes Dave almost as soon as she meets him. After an incident in her dressing room, Sacha labels him a pervert and refers to him as such throughout the entire series. While at first it seems like Dave's attraction to her is merely a misunderstanding, in season two it is shown that Dave actually does have feelings for Sacha as he asks the mad hick family to "leave the pretty one alive for me". When she's captured and brainwashed by the family, Arlo's warning that Dave plans on having sex with her disgusts her so much that she comes back to her senses and kills the family.

### Jimmy Rustler

Sacha and Jimmy have little interactions, and if anything seem to be frie-nemies. They bicker and throw insults at each other, but do have their moments. When Sacha catches Jimmy dressing in her clothes and using her makeup, she at first yells at him but then instead does his make up for him and helps him dress up.

## Plot

Throughout season 1 it is obvious that Sacha is struggling with money. She's missing meals, failing to pay rent, and selling her car. Being too proud to ask for help, Sacha pretends (poorly) that she's dong fine. Soon, she's been evicted and living out on the street in a tent, but still dressing up and keeping the charade as if she's living comfortably. It isn't until the near end of the season when she finally breaks and calls Arlo for help, unfortunately at the same time he calls her, thus cancelling out the signals.

After Dave's trial and the loss of *Magic Funhouse*, she takes on a Sugar Daddy in order to live comfortably, and luckily never has to actually do any "favors" for him. When the show starts up again, she dawns her yellow dress once more.

## Trivia

* Sacha's actress, Elise Christian, has worked with Brandon Rogers on a number of other projects. She has been an angsty daughter, a gym class bully, and a clown/ puppeteer named Wendy.
* Elise Christian and Brandon Rogers originally met in college.
* Elise Christian auditioned for the role of Sacha using her character "Barb", a made up persona she usually puts on to entertain friends and family
* The little girl who played young Sacha in "Cancelled" is named Makena Grace Pajar who is mostly known for her roles in other TV shows.