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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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2-11 “Sex Symbol”
“Men who are with lots of women are considered studs, while women who are with lots of men are considered sluts!” It’s such an old trope, yet we’re still mired in it today.…
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3-10 “Cousin Geri Returns” AKA “Geri’s Romance”
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you already know that I pretty much worship this show for its quiet progressiveness. It is certainly sometimes a product of its time, and I…
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5-4 “What Price Glory”
My husband has gotten used to the phrase, “There’s a Facts of Life episode about that.” Readers of this blog likely know that in its nine seasons in prime time, Facts covered a…
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5-20 “Dream Marriage”
Last week I wrote about the two weddings that took place on Facts, Mrs. Garrett’s almost-wedding, plus a bonus sneak peek into mine. I was remiss in not including Jo‘s almost-wedding, that to Enrique…
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Short Engagements: What do I have in common with Mrs. Garrett and Jo?
According to wedding website The Knot, the average engagement is fourteen months. Tootie was likely engaged for something like that. She got engaged in episode 9-7 and was still engaged, planning her wedding,…
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5-23 “Seems Like Old Times”
Sorry about the delay, dear readers, but I assure you that I’ve been working on something awesome if it comes to fruition. It’s not related to the delay; the delay is only because…
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3-7 “Sweet Sorrow”
In the middle of season two, we met the man that could melt Jo’s steel heart. By the end of that two-part episode, Jo had decided that it was a bad idea to…
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2-8 “Teenage Marriage, Part 2”
Previously on The Facts of Life: When we last saw Jo and Eddie They was runnin’ off to wed Blair ‘n’ Edna tried to stop ’em …
