Season 4
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4-11 “September Song”
Sorry for the delay in publishing! I’ve been doing a lot of hiking, and I’m just now back in civilization. The Facts girls have also been getting a lot of exercise. They’ve got…
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4-10 “For the Asking”
It’s week two of me drawing numbers to determine my recap, and I upgraded the empty Kleenex box to an empty yogurt container. It’s the one where a big deal is made of…
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4-3 “The Sounds of Silence”
Regular readers of this blog will recognize that I often pick which episodes to recap based on their relationship with what’s going on in my life. I thought of this episode today because…
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4-13: “Magnificent Obsession”
I’m sorry I haven’t posted anything new in so long. Apart from the fact that I started an actual paying part-time job which I’ve struggled to time-manage, I’ve been through some shit lately.…
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4-21 “Help From Home”
I started this blog when I was about to go to law school, and really made it a thing in part because of a need to interrupt the demands of law school with…
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4-2 “The Source”
Sometimes when I recap an episode that I remember being good, it ends up being even better than I remembered. This is one such episode. The year is 1982, and the topic is…
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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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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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4-22 “Take my finals, Please!” (Part 2 of 2)
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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4-22: “Take My Finals, Please!” (Part 1 of 2)
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…
