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5-3 “Gamma Gamma or Bust”
Quick, which Facts period is your favorite: Eastland, Edna’s Edibles, Over Our Heads, or Beverly Ann? I think, even accounting for the fact that Over Our Heads includes all the George Clooney episodes and…
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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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6-20 “Gone with the Wind Part 2”
I know, I know. This post was supposed to be up two days ago. I do my best. Sometimes I fail. Just pretend that I was caught in a hurricane like our intrepid…
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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…
