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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…
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The Cats of Life
I love animals. When my then-boyfriend (now husband) and I moved to the mountains last year, we were very excited to introduce a dog into our family soon. But I had the bar…
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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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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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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…
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4-24: “Graduation: Part 2”
When we last left our heroines, everyone was fighting with everyone on the eve of Blair and Jo’s high school graduation. I mentioned that a giant multi-family fight sounds like an average graduation…
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4-23: Graduation: Part 1
If you are reading this, you probably know that I’ve been in law school. I started the blog during the lag time between the end of my summer internship and the beginning of…
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8-22: “This is Only a Test”
Since my complete series DVDs arrived about a month ago, I’ve been savoring the opportunity to watch seasons six through nine, to which I haven’t had reliable access in over a decade. I…