Season 1
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1-4 “I.Q.”
Holy mother of God it’s been a batshit few months. There’s the pandemic, and the election, and my own personal shit. Divorce is no joke, y’all, and the circumstances of mine were pretty…
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1-5 “Overachieving”
When I drew numbers out of the empty yogurt container again this week, I drew 5-1, which I’ve already done, and it’s a delightful little recap, if I do say so myself. But…
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1-7 “Dieting”
I recently realized that I never hated my body. I definitely parroted my mother and sisters (eight and ten years older than me), saying things like “I’m on a diet,” or “I need…
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1-6 “Emily Dickinson”
A classic. Wherein Blair is a big cheating cheater (academic, not relationship) and Mr. Bradley says the h-e-double-hockey-sticks word. Also plenty of gross creepage from white men. Good stuff. The episode begins with…
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1-2 “Like Mother Like Daughter”
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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1-11 “Running”
It turns out that third year of law school is not the picnic everyone promised. That’s at least in part because I made bad choices, but that’s neither here nor there, since the…
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1-13: “Dope” (part 2 of 2)
Previously, on Cousin Geri: A Facts of Life Appreciation Blog… Blair got Sue Ann into “The Group,” a secretive, exclusive group of seniors who really are just a bunch of stoners. Tootie crashed…
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1-13: “Dope” (part 1 of 2)
In which the character played by Helen Hunt smokes a bong. I bet you didn’t know that Helen Hunt was in a Facts of Life episode! Although I did mention it in my very…
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1-1: “Rough Housing”
Ladies, gentlemen, and anyone else, meet the very first episode of The Facts of Life: Rough Housing, in which princess Blair accuses jock Cindy of being a lesbian (but without using the ‘l’…
