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I loathe Mary Tyler Moore. The less i see of her, the better. Far too many people still pine for the 1970s.

Just a reminder that the 1990s were thirty years ago, so yes, that's retro...

Someone on a baby name board reports that their husband vetoed the name "Natalie" because of the Facts of Life. The husband must be a time traveler if he think kids in the playground in the 2020s will care about a 40 year old TV show...

Is Carrie wearing shorts under her dress in that above photograph? I still wouldn't mind a Greenbush and Turnbaugh headed spin-off. Much better idea than Laura Nose Job on the Prairie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_Street_(TV_series) The Official Samantha Smith You Tube channel has some videos of Samantha's scenes. Maia Brewton reminds us in the pilot how good she was at playing spunky and defiant girls. Anne Haney is also good, and the show was a retirement gift for Lew Ayres.

Cindy's suffered the brunt of the backlash from Susan's bigoted rants a few years ago. Just as "Charles in Charge" has suffered from Scott Baio.

This applies to Vietnam War television as well - who else remains haunted by CCR's "Fortunate Son"?

it's very telling that the production team wanted to do the "lost her virginity" storyline with the thin, white blonde. I guess Tootie losing it would have raised a lot of racial issues they didn't want to touch with a ten foot pole.

@floridamom @dgpolo The lack of a Christmas episode real boils my potatoes. Especially as they could have easily done one once Beverly and Dawn came on board.

the Lenny Henry Doctor is dressed like Rupert the Bear and he battles Thatchos (a Cyberleader with a Margaret Thatcher wig and handbag)

Lenny Henry played an alternate Seventh Doctor in a Doctor Who parody sketch in the Eighties.

The Darlene/Jackie feud, that has been going on for a few episodes, came to a head. After Darlene called her a loser, Jackie slapped her! Harris, in a rare moment of showing that she cared, said "Don't hit my mother!" and almost charged Jackie (Dan stopped her). And why is Harris's friends name Odessa? Why name your kid after an organization that helped Nazis flee justice after WWII?

the media (and real life) trope where people make excuses for evil and/or violent women and girls. No, women don't just kill in response to abuse, they can kill for any reason and no reason, just like boys and men do. Being marginalized by society shouldn't give you a free pass.

There is no male equivalent - at least not in how society sees and considers it - of the young girl's first period so saying "why aren't there VSE's about the male version" is pointless. And many of these "first period" VSEs are written by women. LMAO at the idea that women can't be sexist. And it's not "internalized", it's just plain old sexism.

Bewitched being the UberExample - Mrs Kravitz: "I was just here for a snoop, uh, a scoop of sugar"

And to be honest, the "but why are there no very special episodes about Teh Boyz First Wet Dweam!" shows an amazing amount of tone-deafness. A young girl's first period is seen as much more meaningful and important by the world - and being frank here, even by many women writers - in a way that a wet dream or the first puberty moustache simply is not.

Also Fred MacMurray was a generation older than Beverly Garland. He should have played her father, not her husband. @Cara

TV/movie tropes about Nicholas II of Russia and his family annoy me endlessly I remember watching the animated "Anastasia" as a child and going "this is enormously historically inaccurate!"

Samantha Reed Smith, despite no formal training, was the best thing about "Lime Street". She deserved a better role than the afterthought in an action-adventure series. This screen-shot.. Judging by Samantha's face, they over-did her makeup.

"lamenting that they didn't have their mother to talk to about it." Wouldn't they have just talked to "Aunt" Becky? It's never really mentioned, but i'm sure that even D.J. - who remembers their mom, Pam - would look to Becky for um, lady issues.

Of course, when CBS poached Dawn Lyn from ABC's planned "Nanny and the Professor", she *was* replaced by a blonde as Prudence Everett 🙂

Being 1969, it might have been better for audience reception and reaction had Dodie been a blue eyed blonde.. and had had long hair from the outset, instead of that "hatchet" hairdo. @Gemma Violet @floridamom

I was watching the election episode of Blackadder the Third and I noticed the joke that when the "Standing at the Back, Dressed Stupidly and Looking Stupid Party" guy is explaining their policies, he DOESN'T qualify that "free corsets for the under-fives" means little girls. Heh Heh Heh.

the pressure to wear lingerie is a reflection of society I think. Lingerie should be strictly for the bedroom, I feel. Panties is lingerie and undies is underwear.

Even though I was only planning on going on a 3-hour tour, I have with me my unlimited wardrobe, and enough make-up and haircare products to last for multiple seasons. BUT, the people who run the tour and own the boat don't have any other clothes on board and are forced to wear the same outfit for years on end.