Facts of Life: Classic or Dud?

More importantly, which episode of Facts of Life did you learn a important lesson about life?

i.e. If you wreck a kitchen by spilling paint or if you crash the school van that your life will be enslaved by Edna Garrett?

She's in a very bad LA bar band, from what I'm told. A friend of mine went and saw them and said they were like 4 non blondes "only worse"...

Favourite member of Facts of Life?

Answer: Joe. Cause she tough and hard and carries a wrench.

Skill testing question: What shop did the girls run with the monies left over from the insurance money recieved?

Pleasant theme song written by Alan Thicke and sung by Gloria Loring or code for the freemasons?

The skill testing question?

'Over our heads'

As in 'we are over our heads'

How many television sitcoms did the 'band thang?'.

Facts of Life - Silky Lingerie Family Ties - The Tina Yothers Experience The Partridge Family The Brady Bunch (who I think are brilliant, see rkyo reissue of same).

Of course, that is not the only time that Facts of Life flirted with the underground: When the girls went to see Stray Cats and described it to their slavemaster Garrett as: Oh it's great, they have green mohawks and smash their instruments on stage.

The new wave clothing of Natalie! Classic! She changed her look and lost a bit of weight.

Or the proto-joan jett stylings of 'Jo'.

But seriously, you knew the show was lost when they introduced 'Sam', the australian, when Andy was looking a bit old. And the store suddenly is remade into two bedrooms even though they were depending on that money to survive?

Where is the continuty?

Of course, that is not the only time that Facts of Life flirted with the underground Yeah, despite later attempts at re-tooling (which included Clooney), Facts of Life was part of the wave of "teen" and "pre-teen" shows of the day that attempted at times to "handle" issues. (See: the Punky Brewster pot episode credited with kicking off the "Just Say No" campaign; the Nancy Reagan appearance on "Diff'rent Strokes" to intriduce said campaign and the peadophilia episode on that same show, with WKRP's Gordon Jump photographing Arnold shirtless jumping on a bed). "Facts of Life" had an early episode in which Tootie ran off to NYC and a pimp and one of his girls tried to befriend her and, it's assumed, get her to walk the street. And, not that this is at all "dark" just atypical for a sitcom, the show had a semi-regular character that was a Down's Syndrome comedian.

By the way, Natalie obviously rocked. "Token overweight" girl is the first to find love (with a fellow named "Snake," no less) and lose her virginity -- and not due to poor self-esteem.

Pathetic display of early 80s sitcom knowledge, pt. II: The Nancy McKeon-Michael J. Fox made-for-TV movies were "Poison Ivy" and "High School U.S.A."

Leo DiCap was on _Growing Pains_. The irrascable, spunky little punk kid that endeared himself to the Seavers with his aw-shucks charm and pull-up-the-bootstraps work ethic.

This could be because the actress playing her (I forget her name) was a very conservative Christian. But yes, it was a lot less interesting.

Yes, of course. Thanks David! (and Tadeusz)! Grr, from now on, please, nobody believe a word I say.

http://fourfour.typepad.com/fourfour/2005/11/the_crap_of_lif.html

When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

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I actually enjoyed this. The Facts of Life episode was one that I vividly remembered from my youth and featured John Stewart as Deadhead Carl, a character who opened my mind to the idea that Grateful Dead fans could be nerds and not just heshers. Also, Kevin Hart killed it as Arnold on Different Strokes. He should get an Emmy.

Ok, I was being facetious about the Emmy, but Kevin Hart as Arnold with a beard and Damon Wayans as Willis with Snoop Dog as his sidekick was genius casting, as was John Lithgow as Mr. Drummond.