I have created a rating system for the constroversal episodes. Here's the key:

G: Nothing bad.
PG: Maybe the word Hell mentioned.
PG-13: The use of drugs or depressing moments
R: Suicide, Gore, Violence, or Sex.
NC-17: Everyhting you could think of.

Here it is:

Dope: PG-13
Breaking Point: R
Front Page: PG-13
The First Time: R
With A Little Help From My Friends: PG-13
Fear Strikes Back: R
Dancing As Fast As I Can: PG
Let's Party: PG
Different Drummer: PG
Growing Pains: PG
Off The Edge: PG-13
The Affair: PG
A New Life: PG


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Andrew Carden

I don't understand how "Different Drummer", "The Affair" and "A New Life"
is controversial, especially "A New Life". Women get pregnant all the time!
If that episode is considered controversial, then so is "The Little
Chill", Nancy, from the 1st season, admits that she is pregnant. That's just
my opinion though!

I don't think any episode should be controversal, because each episode teaches a lesson. If it were that bad then it wouldn't have been made in the first place. That's just what I think..

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Hey, for those controversal eps--can someone put a summary of each was about? I haven't seen all of them or don't remember them? And quite honestly, I'm too lazy to go back and forth between this board and the ep guide!

Well here it goes and hope it helps some:

Episode: 08: Dope
Apr 25, 80~ Mrs. Garrett is trying to persuade the headmaster, Steven Bradley, to provide funds for a new stereo for the common room. She ends up buying Tumpy's for $175.
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Episode: 22: Breaking Point
Jan 28, 81~ Blair has some stiff competiton for the class presidential election. The girl she is running against commits suicide.
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Episode: 30: Growing Pains
Oct 28, 81~ Tootie is tired of being treated like a kid, turns to alcohol to prove she isn't.
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Episode: 31: Fear Strikes Back
Nov 04, 81~ Natalie withdraws into herself when she becomes the victim of a rape attempt.
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Episode: 34: Front Page
Nov 25, 81~ Burned by her journalism teacher's scathing critcism, Jo turns out a front page story linking him to a drug bust that gets him fired from Eastland.
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Episode: 46: The Affair
Feb 17, 82~ Natalie forces a painful confrontation with her father when she learns of his extramarital affair.
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Episode: 62: Different Drummer
Nov 10, 82~ Blair's motives are called into question when she develops a friendship with a handsome and ******** admirer.
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Episode: 73: Let's Party
Feb 09, 83~ The hazzards of drinking and driving are driven home to the girls when they go to a pizza party thrown for them by Tootie's brother.
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Episode: 89: I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
Nov 09, 83~ For a birthday surprise, the girls take Mrs. Garrett to a club featuring male exotic dancers, but the one who's in for the real surprise is Blair.
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Episode: 139: A New Life
Oct 26, 85 ~ Needing advice on her love life, Blair asks her mother to visit, only to learn that her mom needs advice even more than she does. Blair fears the worst when she learns her mother is pregnant.
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Episode: 160: Ready or Not
Oct 04, 86 ~Beverly Ann is worried that Tootie and Rudy are
considering becoming lovers.
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Episode: 201: The First Time
Feb 06, 88~ Natalie and Snake plan to mark the anniversary of their first year together with an intimate
encounter
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Episode: 206: On The Edge
Mar 12, 88 ~Sandy and Jo take Melissa, a girl who needs help to the amusement park. When the get back
they found out that Melissa has run away. The next day people tell Jo that some lady is out on the roof, she finds out it is Sandy, the social worker.

uhhhhh different drummer controversial? why is it shown on N@N then?

Did N@N air "The Affair"? What's so
controversial about that episode?

Originally posted by angel676:
Did N@N air "The Affair"? What's so
controversial about that episode?

yes- they did once, and IMO nothing's really "controversial" about it...except that Natalie accuses Blair of being a slut (although the focus was on Nat & her father and not on Blair..)



[This message has been edited by FOL & DS fan 4ever (edited 08-12-2001).]

personally i don't seen anything wrong with showing the controversial episodes, i mean they were made 15-20 years ago when alot of stuff didn't make it to TV because of content. If it is teaching a lesson it should be ok, It is not like they are showing the girl commiting suicide or showing natelie having sex. because i will tell u right now that wouldn't even make it on TV in todays day and age.

The episode "Dieting" is also controversial because it focuses on the subject of eating disorders and eating disorders are controversial.

Aren't you glad that we have Nick Talk or something like that? That way Nick can address such contoversial topics without airing harmful episodes that might offend someone. I saw a commecial awhile back showing a mother and daughter having a Kodak moment discussing "IT". I had to see it a few more times until I figured "IT" was sex. Nick couldn't say the word sex. Anyways, Nick shouldn't even do their Talk commercials because it's controversial. Why? Because most kids can't openly discuss topics with their parents.

in repliance about The New Life... it isnt' JUST about Blair's mother getting pregnant... she also wants to get an abortion becuase she thinks she is too old to have another child... that is why i think NaN sees it as contraversial.. adn Different Drummer has been aired on NaN several occasions and was NEVER considered contraversial... also, Let's Party and Growing Pains if they were rated in your system they would be PG-13 BECUASE alcohol IS a drug... therefore it woudl be PG-13 and they are not technically contraversial.... they have bene shown on NaN before... ALSO, Nick at Nite likes to skip certain episodes that woudl catch a viewers attention for points when Nick at Nite isn't getting as many viewers as they could be. IF they played that episode constantly then when it WOULD come on viewers woudl say (oh i've seen that already) and turn the channel, they do have our best interest at heart, but the waiting is what makes us keep watchign nick at nite.. so they are using a gimic.... I HOPE i helpd you out with a lot o things!!!

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