Season 3
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3-20 “Kids Can Be Cruel”
This picture is my favorite still in this history of the series. It’s so genius. The set-up is just perfect. Who is responsible for this? It’s a Directed By Asaad Kelada; I wonder…
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3-21 – “Mind Your Own Business”
All writers journal, and the fact that I stopped journaling sometime in high school is probably the reason that my own writing career has stalled for the past 30 years or so. Thankfully,…
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3-19 “New York, New York”
At the beginning of the year, I followed the lead of a friend who engages in an annual ritual to choose three words that will define his year. The first one I chose…
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3-11 “Legacy”
Black Lives Matter. If that phrase makes you salty, leave my blog and don’t come back. The thing is, the ones who leave because they’ve decided that I’m one of them Libs that…
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3-15 “Starstruck”
Raise your hand if, when you’re looking for a Facts of Life episode to watch, you fumble around on your couch-side table and say to yourself, “I know there’s a DVD here somewhere.”…
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3-1 “Growing Pains”
Not to be confused with Alan Thicke’s masterpiece to follow later in the decade, this episode has Natalie getting attention, Tootie getting hammered, and Jo getting criminal. Again. It’s a new school year…
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3-6 “Give and Take”
Every now and then Facts reminds us that Mrs. G is a grown-ass woman and the girls, though wonderful, are young and immature and can be little shits. To begin this episode, we…
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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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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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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…
