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  • Recaps,  Season 3

    3-7 “Sweet Sorrow”

    Vikki Otero / September 5, 2015

    In the middle of season two, we met the man that could melt Jo’s steel heart. By the end of that two-part episode, Jo had decided that it was a bad idea to…

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  • Recaps,  Season 2

    2-8 “Teenage Marriage, Part 2”

    Vikki Otero / August 26, 2015

    Previously on The Facts of Life:      When we last saw Jo and Eddie       They was runnin’ off to wed      Blair ‘n’ Edna tried to stop ’em  …

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  • Recaps,  Season 2

    2-7 “Teenage Marriage, Part 1

    Vikki Otero / August 18, 2015

    Season Two brought us Jo, and then it brought us Jo’s first true love: Eddie Brennan. C’mon, isn’t he a heartthrob? Those eyes! That gentle, loving face! That precious overbite! In 1981, this…

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  • Recaps,  Season 6

    6-18 “With a Little Help from My Friends”

    Vikki Otero / August 2, 2015

    Guess what? I took the bar exam! Hooray! I think I probably passed but I’m prepared not to have. I find out in October and I’ll let y’all know. And that’s all I…

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    Rest In Peace, Charlie Polniaczek

    Vikki Otero / July 20, 2015

    I am in the process of getting another recap up, I promise. But I have just learned that Alex Rocco, who played Jo’s father, Charlie Polniaczek, died on Saturday. He was 79; he…

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  • Recaps,  Season 1

    1-2 “Like Mother Like Daughter”

    Vikki Otero / July 3, 2015

    I’ve been working on a post tracking the decor of the girls’ bedroom at Eastland in seasons two through four. It’s fun (and remarkably consistent!), but it does take a while. Realizing that…

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  • Recaps,  Season 4

    4-22 “Take my finals, Please!” (Part 2 of 2)

    Vikki Otero / June 15, 2015

    When we left our intrepid heroines last post, they were in the midst of an all-night cram for finals. They’d made the mistake of “resting our eyes for ten minutes” and had just…

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  • Recaps,  Season 4

    4-22: “Take My Finals, Please!” (Part 1 of 2)

    Vikki Otero / June 11, 2015

    The episode itself is a popular one. It’s one that my sister, a casual Facts fan at most, remembers vividly, and I suspect that if I did an informal poll of which Facts…

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  • Recaps,  Season 4

    4-24: “Graduation: Part 2”

    Vikki Otero / June 1, 2015

    When we last left our heroines, everyone was fighting with everyone on the eve of Blair and Jo’s high school graduation. I mentioned that a giant multi-family fight sounds like an average graduation…

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  • Recaps,  Season 4

    4-23: Graduation: Part 1

    Vikki Otero / May 22, 2015

    If you are reading this, you probably know that I’ve been in law school. I started the blog during the lag time between the end of my summer internship and the beginning of…

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