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5-4 “Just My Bill”
There are so many wonderful things about this episode. It addresses impostor syndrome and self-confidence, without letting anyone off the hook for shitty behavior. It contains a general message to enjoy people for…
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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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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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Good People: The Clark Brandon Interview (part 3)
Greetings, readers, and welcome to part three of my exclusive interview with Clark Brandon, 80s heartthrob and Facts’ own Eddie Brennan for four episodes. In part one, we learned about Clark’s history and initial…
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Good People: The Clark Brandon Interview (part 2)
Last month, I was able to sit down via Skype with Clark Brandon, the actor who played Eddie, Jo’s boyfriend, in four Facts episodes in seasons two, three, and five. My biggest takeaway is…
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Good people: The Clark Brandon interview (Part 1)
One thing I’ve learned over the years is that if you don’t ask, you don’t get. I still suffer from great fear that I will “look stupid” if I ask for something, but…
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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…
