I turned that off, too many silly girls running around acting crazy, no Mr. D, or Willis or Arnold, just a Pre episode to the Pliot of Facts of Life and I had to press the fast forward button

Mr. D and the kids did appear in that episode.

Even though I did not see the episode yesterday, I have always liked that it.

That wasn't a pre-pilot, that was the PILOT.

If anyone knows, it is Jude. ;)

Mr. D and the kids did appear in that episode.


Briefly, the beginning and the end

That wasn't a pre-pilot, that was the PILOT.


I thought the pilot was "ROUGH HOUSING" in August of 1979 which Mr. Drummond and the Kids also appeared in

No, that was the first episode of the actual series.

If anyone knows, it is Jude. ;)


You darn Tootie, I do! FOL, along with Lucy Show, Bewitched, and The Brady Bunch are my shows that I really know my trivia!! :lol:

Even though I did not see the episode yesterday, I have always liked that it.

That was one of my faves from season one of DS. I like the episode with the exception of making Sue Ann Weaver look like an airhead.

And yes it was the pilot and not the pre-pilot.

And Blair was a total bit**! :lol:

paging Garfieldkool! :lol:

In the DS episode Blair was more described as a rebellious girl. She also smokes even if it's prohibited by headmaster's school rules: she seems more an hi-society "Jo" than Blair. Smoking reference was also kept in the "Rough Housing" FOL episode, but never mentioned in the next episodes, even if the Blair's rebellious spirit was kept during all the season 1. Blair's character was totally modified since from FOL season 2.

Anny

In the DS episode Blair was more described as a rebellious girl. She also smokes even if it's prohibited by headmaster's school rules: she seems more an hi-society "Jo" than Blair. Smoking reference was also kept in the "Rough Housing" FOL episode, but never mentioned in the next episodes, even if the Blair's rebellious spirit was kept during all the season 1. Blair's character was totally modified since from FOL season 2.

Anny
You are correct. I stated on another board how basically we were given two different Blairs. Others believe she "matured." We are talking abt a person who made a complete change in 4 months???? What I mean is the school year ends most likely in late May, early June. School starts in September. We are to believe Blair suddenly had that much of a change? She matured in 4 months? I don't think so.

I think with the Jo character, the writers had to do a change to the Blair character and make her merely be this rich, snobbish girl, not be like she was in season 1 which was rebellious. That was now the Jo character. Blair in season 1 seemed so snobbish as to offend viewers, I am sure. It was hard to like the Blair character in season 1 when she was putting others down on their looks while also dressing in such a sexy fashion for a girl her age. I like Blair #2 better.

You are correct. I stated on another board how basically we were given two different Blairs. Others believe she "matured." We are talking abt a person who made a complete change in 4 months???? What I mean is the school year ends most likely in late May, early June. School starts in September. We are to believe Blair suddenly had that much of a change? She matured in 4 months? I don't think so.

I think with the Jo character, the writers had to do a change to the Blair character and make her merely be this rich, snobbish girl, not be like she was in season 1 which was rebellious. That was now the Jo character. Blair in season 1 seemed so snobbish as to offend viewers, I am sure. It was hard to like the Blair character in season 1 when she was putting others down on their looks while also dressing in such a sexy fashion for a girl her age. I like Blair #2 better.



Maybe I need to watch FOL more because I thought Blair was snobby in all the seasons-lol

Maybe I need to watch FOL more because I thought Blair was snobby in all the seasons-lol


She was, but she mellowed out some towards the end.

Maybe I need to watch FOL more because I thought Blair was snobby in all the seasons-lol
She was snobby throughout. Like Brie said, she mellowed out as she matured in the later seasons, but the way she was in season 1, it was snooty, snobby and she had this attitude that she thought her sh*t didn't stink. Blair still gave that attitude a lot of the times, but it was more bearable in season 2 and beyond. She at least wasn't acting like she was untouchable. She was friends with Tootie and Natalie. She wasn't friendly with them in season 1.

She was snobby throughout. Like Brie said, she mellowed out as she matured in the later seasons, but the way she was in season 1, it was snooty, snobby and she had this attitude that she thought her sh*t didn't stink. Blair still gave that attitude a lot of the times, but it was more bearable in season 2 and beyond. She at least wasn't acting like she was untouchable. She was friends with Tootie and Natalie. She wasn't friendly with them in season 1.


Ok so that's the difference, She wasn't friends with them, I was waiting to hear that-lol

In the season 1, Blair, about 15 year old, thought to be "older" and more mature than her schoolmates. Also Sue-Ann and Nancy are 15, but Blair snobs them due to her high society origins. The other girls, like Natalie and Tootie, are just few more than "babies".

Anyway - in my honest opinion - 15 years old girls (and boys) were described in the 80s like too much "mature", more than what I see today in the new generation's real life. FOL shows little girls as they are always looking for mature men, social life, true life experiences. Today, finding something like this in the real life is really rare.

Anny

I loved that episode-probably because I am a big FOL fan!!

what channell was this on

It aired on NBC in the 1979 and throughout the 80's. It aired on BET in reruns in 2008 until the contract ran out.