Recaps
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6-19 “Gone With the Wind, Part 1”
A clip from this episode was posted to Nancy McKeon’s Twitter. It includes the part where Michael Damien (swoon), playing the singer of a club band, flirts with Jo. Nancy’s reaction: “Why oh…
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4-7 “A Woman’s Place”
This is an amazing, terrible, hilarious, painful, totally underappreciated episode of The Facts of Life. Charlotte Rae and Mindy Cohn are on comedy fire, which is something that is hard to convey in the…
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3-4 “A Friend Indeed”
It seems to be an average Saturday morning in the cafeteria, where everyone mocks Jo because she’s been mopping the same spot on the floor for fifteen minutes. She has a job interview…
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4-8 “Daddy’s Girl”
“There’s a Facts of Life episode about that.” That’s a phrase I say a lot, because there always is. This week, the news broke that the president’s fortune was in fact not self-made but rather…
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7-12 “Ballroom Dance”
In case you missed it, Jo Freaking Polniaczek Nancy McKeon is on Season 27(!) of Dancing With the Stars. It premiered last week. She did a quickstep, and she was pretty good. I…
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3-3 “A Baby in the House”
We open in the dining room, where Jo snits about everyone making such a big deal about Blair’s friend visiting. They haven’t seen Alison since she got married, and Tootie is way too…
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5-2 “Brave New World” (part 2 of 2)
When we last spent time with Mrs. Garrett and the girls, Mrs. G had just decided to open up Edna’s Edibles in the Peekskill building that her son bought for her. Jo was…
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5-1 “Brave New World” (part 1 of 2)
As season four wrapped up, Jo and Blair had graduated and were headed off to Langley College down the road, and Miko and Alex had come to Eastland. The future of the girls’…
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3-5 “Front Page”
Folks, this is among my favorite episodes of Facts. It’s one that I remembered but didn’t catch on TV in syndication for a long time. Either I kept missing it or the stations that…
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2-12 “The Secret”
In which we discover for the first time where exactly Jo’s father went when he “left home.” Recently, I got a comment suggesting that we accept Jo’s reformation and stop pigeonholing her as…
