"The Facts Of Life" was a truly horrible show

mitchum

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:35 AM
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"The Facts Of Life" was a truly horrible show

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tuvor

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:36 AM
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1. Wasn't George Clooney on that show? And Leonardo DiCaprio?

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:37 AM
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2. Clooney - yes

I don't think DiCaprio was - he was on Growing Pains.

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tuvor

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:43 AM
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6. You are correct.

To make up for my error, I'll note that the very famous Canadian Alan Thicke wrote the theme song.

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mitchum

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:40 AM
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4. Beats me, but for some reason I've been thinking of that show all day...

and I, for the life of me, can't figure out why

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ET Awful

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Tue Dec-13-05 07:52 AM
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14. Because you saw the name "Tookie" so many times your mind flashed to

"Tootie".

:P

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mitchum

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:04 PM
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48. Ya caught me!

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KamaAina

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Tue Dec-13-05 01:01 AM
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12. Guess who else was on it? Molly Ringwald.

Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 01:01 AM by KamaAina

Just in the first season. Then they went from six girls to four; the other casualty, Felice Schachter, was my favorite, and is doubtless now married to a used car dealer in Van Nuys or something like that. :(

edit: spelling of childhood crush. Ye gods!

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Tue Dec-13-05 07:55 AM
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15. Clooney also did a few episodes of Roseanne IIRC

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:35 PM
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50. he was on a lot

for the first couple of seasons, he played booker who was the supervisor at the factory where jackie, roseanne, crystal and anne marie worked. (i'm freakishly obsessed with roseanne, is that weird?)

he and jackie had a thing for a while actually.

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LostinVA

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:10 PM
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36. Leo was on "Growing Pains"

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Rabrrrrrr

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:39 AM
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3. I thought it was a really good show until they left college and got fat

around that time the writing went to hell and it became something that should simply have been left to die.

But the first number of years, while they were still actually in school, I thought the show was pretty well written and funny, and always looked forward to it. It's not one of the greatest by any means, but I liked it. But once they started their candy shop or whatever the fuck it was and Tootie and Blair gained a couple hundred pounds...

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LaraMN

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:41 AM
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5. I hated that Astin kid.

Wiry little bastard. Who the hell did he think he was?

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Tue Dec-13-05 10:59 AM
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29. Son of John Astin (from The Addams Family) and Patty Duke

that's who. :-)

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LaraMN

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Tue Dec-13-05 11:08 AM
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30. I wonder if he's also brother to the hobbit Astin?

Sean Astin

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Rising Phoenix

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Tue Dec-13-05 11:17 AM
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32. he is

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LaraMN

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Tue Dec-13-05 11:21 AM
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33. Ah ha! The best work of any Astin, ever:

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Rising Phoenix

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Tue Dec-13-05 11:23 AM
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34. great movie...have to watch it every time its on...

goonies never say die

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Oeditpus Rex

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:15 PM
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39. I say 'Nay, nay!'

You forget...

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Shell Beau

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:16 PM
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40. Yes!

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Darth_Kitten

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Thu Dec-15-05 06:31 PM
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55. Not really, Sean Astin is Desi Arnaz Jr's kid.....

;)

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dback

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Thu Dec-15-05 05:32 PM
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53. McKenzie Astin--has he ever come out?

I know he played a gay laywer on "The First Years" (all 3-4 episodes of it), but I think he's gay in real life too, just discrete about it.

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tuvor

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:45 AM
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7. Tootie ended up a real hottie.

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:57 AM
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11. Tootie never actually got fat.

She just became well endowed, which can make a woman look big, especially on tv.

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Zomby Woof

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:47 AM
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8. "Hello Larry" was worse

McLean Stevenson overestimated his talent and appeal. Without a script, he was nothing - which is true of more actors than they would care to admit.

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mitchum

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:55 AM
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10. Then I take it you won't be lining up for the movie version?

C'mon, you know those blow-addled ninnies will eventually get around to scraping up the very wood that makes up the bottom of that barrel

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Tue Dec-13-05 08:54 AM
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22. Hey, I'll be first in line if they bring back Kim Richards to be in it

I had a really bad kid-crush on her back in the day. She had this really cute scratchy voice too, like she was smoking Luckies or something.

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Aristus

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Tue Dec-13-05 11:16 AM
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31. Oh MAN! I had it BAD for Kim Richards when I was a kid.

In the Witch Mountain movies, she was my goddess. In "Return From Witch Mountain", with her all dressed up in a dress and nylons, my seven-year-old heart just about melted! I hate the fact that she just sorta disappeared. She deserved a better career.

BTW, she looks incredible in that photo. :thumbsup: B-)

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Enraged_Ape

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:06 PM
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35. And get this: She's Paris Hilton's AUNT!!

Her sister Kathy is married to Rick Hilton!

The last movie I saw Kim Richards in was Tuff Turf, and she looked SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO fine. It depressed me that she didn't seem to do much after that.

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dback

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:19 PM
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41. I LOVED Kim Richards! (And Ike Eisenmann too!)

In my youth, before my hormones got "straightened out," I had crushes on both of them, and adored the two "witch mountain" movies. And I did watch "Hello Larry," just for her. (And that voice! Soaked in whiskey at 14! Demi Moore is a pale imitation.)

Supposedly, a few years ago, someone did a low-budget spoof of "Blair Witch" called "The Blair Witch Mountain Project"--and they managed to get Richards and Eisenmann to reprise their roles! I think it might still be somewhere out there on the web.

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Oeditpus Rex

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:48 AM
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9. Yeah, but Mrs. G was totally hot

:loveya:

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ScreamingMeemie

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Tue Dec-13-05 07:57 AM
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16. I thought you were talking about me...

:cry: I'm an attention whore that way. ;)

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KitchenWitch

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Tue Dec-13-05 07:59 AM
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17. You are a hottie!

I mean that in the most non-sexual female crush sort of way!

:hi:

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ScreamingMeemie

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Tue Dec-13-05 08:04 AM
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18. Hehe!

Thanks! Need for attention satisfied! :hi:

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Oeditpus Rex

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:12 PM
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37. I don't believe I've seen a photo of you

But I'm sure you're quite ravishing in your own right. :hi:

Probably no Edna Garrett, though...

:hide:

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ScreamingMeemie

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Tue Dec-13-05 01:14 PM
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44. I'm in the gallery

:hi:

Hoping I'm no Edna Garrett, although she was a lovely woman.

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Oeditpus Rex

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Tue Dec-13-05 01:25 PM
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45. Hmmm

:dilemma:

A tough call, to be sure.

Actually, I have seen that photo, and found myself quite jealous of the dude on your left.

:loveya:

(I'm sure he's a fine fellow and all, though.)

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ScreamingMeemie

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Tue Dec-13-05 01:30 PM
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47. He's a pretty good guy. And flattery will get you everywhere.

You're my favorite DUer now. ;) Thanks!

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Jamastiene

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Tue Dec-13-05 01:09 AM
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13. I loved it when I was a little kid, but

cannot sit through Blair and her hail flipping, Tootie and her cheese corn sayings, Jo and her strage fixation on monkey wrenches. Something about it is just too corny for me to watch now.

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Deja Q

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Tue Dec-13-05 08:14 AM
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19. Why?

Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 08:18 AM by HypnoToad

Apart from the anti-lesbian episode in season 1 where one girl felt abnormal because she was a tomboy (that wasn't Jo)... no words were used, but the coy dialogue spoke for itself.

Of course, tomboy Jo (season 2+) is almost a flaming hetero...

Tootie was cool. Natalie passable. The snotty little bleach bottle blonde was so artificial, a walking make-up ad too. Snotty and full of herself and the actress (Lisa Welcher?) couldn't act to save her life.

Season 2 also transformed the show from yet-another-shitcom to moral preachy drivel of the week. Kinda what Star Trek The Next Generation would become... :7

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China_cat

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Tue Dec-13-05 08:21 AM
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20. Lisa Whelchel

who is now a Dobson clone and advocates smacking your kids around, putting pepper sauce on their tongues, etc...all in the name of god, of course.

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calico1

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Tue Dec-13-05 08:55 AM
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23. I read that!

Good god. These so called Christians do like their violence, don't they? She wasn't a good actress. The other 3 I liked but she annoyed me.

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China_cat

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Tue Dec-13-05 09:35 AM
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27. Evidently, it was type casting.

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LynneSin

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Tue Dec-13-05 08:28 AM
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21. Nothing like a young George Clooney with an 80's mullet

He was also the sleezy boyfriend/boss of Roseanne's sister in the TV series Roseanne. I think that was only in the first season though...

http://georgetv.clooneynews.com/roseanne.htm

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Deja Q

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Tue Dec-13-05 09:09 AM
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25. If I was next to George Clooney age 25, I'd be smilin' too.

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LostinVA

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:14 PM
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38. He played "Booker" on "Roseanne," too

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terrya

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Tue Dec-13-05 08:56 AM
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24. It was no worse than "Joey"

"Joey" being an unspeakably horrible shitstain on the television landscape.

Actually, "The Facts of Life" was a work of art compared to the putrescence that is "Joey"

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snooper2

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:29 PM
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49. And, no worse than "Friends"

ugh...

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mattomjoe

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Tue Dec-13-05 09:13 AM
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26. Well, what do you expect when you take the good, take the bad?

It takes a lot to get em right

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DanCa

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Tue Dec-13-05 09:39 AM
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28. you gotta take the good take the bad take em both and than you have

the facts of life, the facts of life. Yeah that and different strokes sucked as well.

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dback

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:23 PM
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42. Yes, but it did have talented cast members

The writing occasionally was sophmoric, but Mindy Cohn, Lisa Welchel and Nancy McKeon were great comediennes, whenever they did get a funny line. (Kim Fields, God bless her, was mostly for decoration.) And give it props: it was one of the few sitcoms in the early-to-mid 80's that would stil occasionally tackle a serious subject (attempted rape, eating disorders, etc.) in a time when most shows seemed to be mostly as warm and fuzzy as Bill Cosby's sweaters.

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Montauk6

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:36 PM
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43. But not as bad as "Baby I'm Back"

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Dukkha

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Tue Dec-13-05 01:26 PM
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46. How come Natalie was the only one who got laid

and made "a very special episode" out of it!

I hear the one who played blair became a right wing fundie wacko who dropped out of Hollywood to home school her kids.

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tjdee

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:42 PM
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51. Because Natalie asked the writers why they weren't having sex.

The actress, Mindy Cohn, went to the writers/producers and was like "um, why haven't *any* of these girls had sex? Are they going to be virgins forever?" So I guess the best story they thought of was to be the one you didn't expect to have sex, to have sex. Except that would have been Tootie, who was emotionally about 3 LOL!!

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gollygee

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Thu Dec-15-05 05:38 PM
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54. I saw on some E tv special that they wanted Blair to do that episode

for Blair to lose her virginity but the born-again actress refused and in fact refused to even appear in the episode at all. But the actress who plaid Natalie agreed and there ya go.

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Darth_Kitten

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Thu Dec-15-05 06:33 PM
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56. LOL

:rofl:

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philosophie_en_rose

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:51 PM
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52. True. But interesting.

It's on Comcast On Demand right now and I think I've watched all of the shows that they have (about five). I can't stand the character of Blair (mean is fine; but the actress's cheesy one-note acting is tedious). Otherwise, I think it's a fun (although juvenile) show. Natalie was a great character, with a unique actress. Tootie, Jo, and Mrs Garrat were good too.

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