mickeymouseclubfan
10-23-2013, 06:18 PM
What are some of your favorite episodes of Growing Pains, and why?
To answer my own question, my favorite episodes include the following:
1. Reason to Live (Original airdate: December 8, 1987) -- A favorite of mine because it features a topic I can completely relate to: Suicide. I dont condone or would EVER encourage this drastic decision in ANY WAY, need I mind you, but if you want to help prevent someone from making such a drastic decision, show your friend this episode (or Cousin/Son/Brother/Parents or other close relative).
2. This Is Your Life (Original airdate: November 17, 1987) -- This episode is a crossover between Growing Pains & Gilligans Island, and also features one of the final on-camera appearances of Alan Hale, Jr., who in this episode played his Gilligan character, Jonas Grumby, in a dream sequence while youngest son Ben has his tonsils removed (which I did in real life when I was very young). His Gilligan character, I should mention, became a cabbie, per the dream sequence in this episode, after getting off the island.
3. Menage-a-Luke (Original airdate: February 8, 1992) -- One of the last original episodes in this series dealt with a very young Leonardo DiCaprio (as Luke Brower, a homeless teenager taken in by the Seaver family in Fall 1991) in a love triangle between himself and youngest Seaver son Ben over a girl.
To answer my own question, my favorite episodes include the following:
1. Reason to Live (Original airdate: December 8, 1987) -- A favorite of mine because it features a topic I can completely relate to: Suicide. I dont condone or would EVER encourage this drastic decision in ANY WAY, need I mind you, but if you want to help prevent someone from making such a drastic decision, show your friend this episode (or Cousin/Son/Brother/Parents or other close relative).
2. This Is Your Life (Original airdate: November 17, 1987) -- This episode is a crossover between Growing Pains & Gilligans Island, and also features one of the final on-camera appearances of Alan Hale, Jr., who in this episode played his Gilligan character, Jonas Grumby, in a dream sequence while youngest son Ben has his tonsils removed (which I did in real life when I was very young). His Gilligan character, I should mention, became a cabbie, per the dream sequence in this episode, after getting off the island.
3. Menage-a-Luke (Original airdate: February 8, 1992) -- One of the last original episodes in this series dealt with a very young Leonardo DiCaprio (as Luke Brower, a homeless teenager taken in by the Seaver family in Fall 1991) in a love triangle between himself and youngest Seaver son Ben over a girl.