FACTS OF LIFE!!!

CrimsonTide4 · #1 09-03-2000, 11:12 PM

Hey all of you NICK at NITErs!!!

Guess what will be featured in a 4 hour marathon every night starting MONDAY, 9/4/00!!!!! THE FACTS OF LIFE, starts monday at 8:30 EST until 12:30 A.M.
I'm excited, how about you??

Although I would be far more excited if it were Diff'rent Strokes!!!

Eli · #2 09-04-2000, 12:12 AM

lol

i want mr ed back!!

CrimsonTide4 · #3 09-04-2000, 11:26 AM

NO no MR. ED but I would like to see What's Happening and Silver Spoons.

Sexy Mocha · #4 09-04-2000, 07:54 PM

I'm sure excited! The marathon should be starting as I type this...so I'll need to make this short. I would REALLY be excited if it were Good Times though!

CrimsonTide4 · #5 09-04-2000, 09:20 PM

I am watching it now and having a BALL. I just saw that 3's Company will be coming in October.

33girl · #6 09-05-2000, 07:54 AM

Oh dear...I watched this far longer than I should have. What happened to the big anti-drug episode where Blair and Sue Ann join "The Group"?

Gloria Vanderbilt jeans....that's all I have to say.

lifesaver · #7 09-07-2000, 01:12 PM

Love Facts of Life. I thought it was a sit-com. It's nothing like the sitcoms of today I noticed. Friends or Will & Grace are about as many jokes as you con pack into 1/2 hour. Facts of Life was all about the "Big Dramatic Moment" And their was ALWAYS the huge life lesson. Guess that's why they called it "Facts of Life". There were always so many serious moments. Not nearly as lighthearted as todays sitcoms. Anyone else notice this?

mgdzkm433 · #8 09-07-2000, 01:35 PM

Facts about 'Facts of Life':

show first aired in 1979

Molly Ringwald was in the first season

They didn't expect the show to survive it's second season

Ok, you mentioned that Friends was more layed back and more funny than the 'Facts of Life'. Very True, but think about the time period change. During the time that Facts of Life aired, the girls weren't tackling the 'major' issues of a young person's life untill the later years because of how taboo it all was. They made premarital sex such a big deal on the Facts of Life, but on Friends . . . someone is having sex every episode!! As for Will and Grace . . . gay men? I don't remember the facts of life even touching that one and in the early 80's, I don't think they would. Lots has changed, I sort of miss the days of innocence but I also like the fact that people are so much more open minded now days.

lifesaver · #9 09-07-2000, 04:47 PM

mgdzkm433 - true dat, true dat. I never thought about the taboo issues of the day vs. today.

#10 01-19-2004, 08:40 PM

I saw this and had a jr high flashback wheni saw factsof life....... i LOVEd that show...i wanted my parents to send me to boarding school to be like them!

MeLikey · #11 01-19-2004, 09:26 PM

I loved Blair when I was younger!

honeychile · #12 01-19-2004, 09:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MeLikey
I loved Blair when I was younger!

Didn't we all?!

I love WKRP in Cinncinnati, too! Is it on lately?

"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"

Peaches-n-Cream · #13 01-19-2004, 11:32 PM

I really wanted to have Blair's hair.

AGDee · #14 01-20-2004, 12:06 AM

I completely grew up with them. Blair and Jo graduated from high school the same year I did and I bawled my eyes out the episode when they graduated!

Loved that show...

Dee

Dionysus · #15 01-20-2004, 12:11 AM

I never heard a lot of these old school shows. I've must have been really out of the loop as a kid.