scatterbrained

The company enlisted Donald Duck’s scatterbrained cartoon uncle, Prof. Ludwig Von Drake, in a video on votedisney.com to make its case that Disney’s current board members are up to the job.

I confess it was more than a little jarring to see my beloved scatterbrained Mrs. Oliver turned into Fey’s stylish, fast-talking writer on the make.

So did Lloyd Christmas, scatterbrained limo driver of “Dumb and Dumber.”

She had appeared with him in “Company,” playing the frantic bride Amy, and starred as a scatterbrained waitress on the sitcom “Alice.”

I got scatterbrained and stupid; I fumbled little things like my schedule and my shopping list.