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The first time "Whoo" was written for Joey Lawrence.
When Joey got singed to a minor league baseball contract
The first advertised "Very Special Blossom"
Are we really supposed to believe that Blossom can date "Vinnie"? Retro chic aside, this girl is UGLY!
They always sang. Especially Joey. I did not need that torture. Also jumped when Tony got engaged.
This was a stupid show. Everybody knows for a fact that Joey Lawrence is unfunny and annoying without his Aunt Nell.
Somebody got the idea that Joey Lawrence was funny without Nell Carter? Gimme a break (pun intended)! To me he will always be identified as Joey Donovan, constantly at odds with his Aunt Nell.
When vinnie graduated from high school. Thats when the show became pointless to watch. Vinnie was the only thing good about the show.
When Blossom hit puberty and she didn't have a mom to be there....oh wait, wasn't that the first show??!?!?
When the little kid appeared with the very bad English accent. Probably only British people will be affected by this. Why not just let her speak American? Or get a British kid.
She dated hunks on the show... it was ridiculous...and then SHE would break up with THEM-- and they would be all upset! Mind-boggling! It was like a reverse Seinfeld, where George dated super models.
Omigod,omigod,omigod,omigod.......that Six had the most damn annoying voice on TV; Fran Drescher & Clea Lewis can take lessons from that girl.... Pretty to look at, but SHUT UP!!! Not only was her voice painful, when she got excited about something, she would start talking reallyfastlikethisandnotmakeanysenseatallandthenit'somigodomigodomigod......*SMACK*!! Her voice was as annoying as she was cute...But Blossom? Whooooo,get a nose job quick!
When Salt N Pepa just happened to come to Blossoms garage sale and totally agreed to rap and dance with her. And the time C+C music factory picked them from the ticket line to their concert and danced with them ugh.
Remember the episode where Six and Joey were in a rainstorm and they spent the night in the hotel. Six was walking around the room wearing nothing but one of Joey's shirts and he didn't jump all over her. She may have had an annoying voice but what a hot little bod! I know they wanted us to think Joey was stupid but did they want us to think he was gay too?
This show stinks. The widowed parent premise was done to death years before this bomb showed up, and it's saddled with other stupid luggage as well. Names..."BLOSSOM"? Worse yet, "SIX"??? Blossom is homely, as well, and anyone who thinks Six is cute needs to get his eyeglass prescription rechecked. Meg Ryan, she ain't! And numb, irritating Joey Lawrence, "Whoa"! As in stop! The writers of this claptrap can't come up with a believable or entertaining storyline to save their lives. And am I to believe that Blossom can actually keep getting all those attractive young guys and THEY are disappointed when SHE won't have sex with THEM?? Yeah, right!! In reality, this girl could probably only keep those guys if they were interested in the lowest sexual depravity and she submitted to any and all revolting acts because no other girl would do it!! Nope, entirely too much for the viewing audience to take, this stinker is well off being (finally) cancelled.
Blossom was ugly and very annoying, but Six was sexy in the 3rd and last season. They should have had her in more shows with tight jeans on, man what an ASS!
One New Year's Eve, at a slow party, we had on Dick Clark's ROCKIN' NEW YEAR'S EVE. We were all pretty stoked while watchin' some pop-band perform. In my most STOKED of states, I declared about the lead singer: "HE'S HOTTTT!!!" My friend shrieked: "That's JOEY from BLOSSOM, you IDIOT!!!" I've never felt so embarrassed!!!
WHEN JOEY AND SIX DIDN'T DO IT.
EVERY EPISODE they managed to have that LOSER older rehabed brother tell a "Drug Story" of how he was so messed up. Gee, that's not a TOO OBIVOUS anti-drug message, is it? He shoudda looked back on those days with FOND rememberence, longing for his Goold Ol Drug Days. I wish he would have OD' and his heart exploded
OH MY GOD! LOOK AT THAT! IT'S A CAL RIPTON JR. ROOKIE CARD FOR ONLY $450. FOLKS SOMEBODY MUST HAVE BEATEN US OVER THE HEAD, WE'RE LOSING MONEY ON THE DEAL. YOU COULD PROBABLY SELL THIS BABY ON THE NET FOR $50,000 IN UNDER A HOUR. THIS IS INSANE... Got to go, this is the coolest show on T.V. and I don't want to miss any of it. The dude who screams and makes his eyes pop is the coolest dude in television history.
Blossom cleared the shark when Tony got married, quite hastily I might add. This was also the same time Blossom and Vinnie were on again/off again/on again. Snore. And around this time I realized Six's character was never going to evolve. AND Grandpa came on the show at this time too. What a bad season!
When she wanted to be a professional dancer. She has a big nose!!! and ugly too.
I'm getting a little sick hearing about how ridiculous it was that Blossom got all the "cute" guys. I've read comment after comment indicating that she is ugly, a dog, couldn't get anyone unless she would do anything, etc. etc. Who the hell is making these judgments? Last I checked, there were quite a few cute guys who looked for more than standard cheerleader looks. They actually *gasp* liked intelligent girls, and Blossom, with whatever faults the script had (and it had many) was, undoubtedly, intelligent, funny, interesting, and enjoyable to be around. You look at her and you think.. not pretty. You get to know her, and you think she's attractive indeed. "Pretty" isn't about a "killer ass" and girls aren't, believe it or not, body parts. Six is attractive, yes, but she isn't nearly as intelligent or funny or witty as Blossom. How about judging the cast based on their characters and not whether they are or aren't "Barbie doll" pretty? I don't see anyone discussing any of the MALE characters solely in the light of how tight their ass is, or whether they are "homely" or pretty or "cute enough to do." Lay off, huh? Only the dumbest, most shallow ********s (as in, thinking solely with their dicks) determine who they will ask out solely on the basis of appearance. Blossom is attractive, but she isn't "beautiful" -- not unless you know and like her. If you only get to know those who are the cutest, prettiest, hottest girls on the surface, you're likely to find that they won't date YOU.. because they'll be looking for someone as shallow as you, but much nicer looking than you are. It's only those who are insecure about THEIR looks that judge others solely on the basis of looks. Blossom, the show, wasn't great because the scripts weren't what they could have been, the premise had been overdone, and many of the episodes silly - the likelihood of some of the events happening in "real life" was nil - that's why the show was a clunker. NOT because Blossom wasn't pretty enough - that's one of the dumbest things I've heard in a long time. Dumb and shallow.
Hey, was that the chick who played Blossom who wrote that last comment? Miyam Biajalek, or whatever the f**k her name is.
Give me a break! Get a life, fatso.
The point is that this is high school or thereabouts--no high school boy with a brain or a schlong wants an ugly turd like Blossum who won't put out and whines about her life. Yes, I Married a wonderful intelligent woman now that I realize what means more in life. But c'mon this is supposed to be real life high school. It made as much sense as sewer slop like Saved By The Bell. Oh yea, and Melissa Manchester, actress (giggle). As David Lee Roth sang, "Aw, might as well Jump!"
Blossom jumped the shark when Joey didn't leap on Six when she offered herself to him in a car park after she'd had a bit too much to drink - You have to keep the show believable and that just made every bloke watching shout at the TV for that homo to do her!! but he "did the right thing" - give us a break. That sexy little minx Six was the only reason most people watched the show - it certainly wasn't for "bag of hammers" Blossom or "Mr Rehab" Get real.
When Tony left the show. I actually enjoyed the storylines with him and his wife. They confronted prejudice head-on with the fact that he was white and she was black. The show wasn't one of the best but, it jumped when they made the culture of the show to leave. By the way, Blossom was ugly...with a bad personality! No way could she get guys like that complaining all the time with a nose the size of Texas. If she could, any girl could get any guy she wanted. Ask someone who knows first hand, like me.
The whole premise of this show was a great big Shark Jump for the network that picked it up. About that person who said that people just think Blossom is ugly and that's why they hate her... trust me, the personality and talent are non-existent too!!! Why would anyone date her, that is the question that was posed by some. She's ugly, she's annoying, she has no personality, and she won't have sex with these gorgeous/caring guys she's dating. What I want to know, is how this unknown, no-talent, ugly, annoying troll got a show of her own. Who does she know that has enough clout to get her, her own show??? This show premiered with shark teeth firmly embedded in its ass!!!
Blossom is the finest example of bad 90's fashion and television. This show was so bad in so many ways, I never understood why it was on at all. Those opening credits with that ugly broad dancing (galloping) all over the place and trying to be cute is one of the most horrific/hysterical openings ever.
I think Mayim Bialik posted the above message.
The first time she got hit by her date. She was dating James Marsden's character, and he hit her because she wouldn't have sex. This was supposed to be a comedy. That was enough!
Blossom was stupid from the get go but whenever a sitcom does an on-location episode where they can't logically have a laugh track (or a studio audience for that matter,) that's a make-or-break moment; if you no longer know when you're supposed to laugh because you don't have the laugh track to guide you, you can be pretty certain that the sitcom is doo-doo. That was certainly the case for this episode of Blossom. Her friend was cute though.
That chick up above who went on and on about how some guys are actually interested in a girl's intellect had me in a laughing fit that I've just now died down from. Sounds like a delusional, bitter, and unattractive woman to me. The fact that big nosed/unattractive Blossom was getting choice selections is too unbelievable to fathom, and causes this train wreck of a show to lose all validity from day one.
I think this show jumped the shark from the minute it started. You know what I'm talking about. The theme song. The guy sings, "In my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine." What the hell? They just made up a word and shoved it down our throats. Opinionation?!? Give me a break! Who writes these things?
When Blossom and Six were on a school trip somewhere and they decide to take a bubble bath in the jacuzzi and they both get in while wearing their "bathing suits." (No this is not a "typical male" fantasy gripe) I thought that was really stupid!
When Blossom started tackling "adult" issues. She was a teenage kid and should have been a bit more shallow. Lisa Simpson is the only grade school girl who could talk about adult themes and have it make sense, because the writers had the good sense to have other characters make fun of her preachiness from time to time. Hawkeye Pierce for the late 80's, I suppose, with no strong voice to tell her she was full of crap. Not even her dad, who like the rest of the family let her boss him around! My mom woulda smacked me for being a little loud twit like Blossom!
In my opinion, this show was always bad, but one episode that sticks out in my mind....never mind they all sucked.
The second the "Blossom" showed up on the screen. Does the term "barf" mean anything to you. And I don't mean she was ugly (though she was very ugly). The whole show made me sick to my stomach! And who names their kids "Blossom" and "Six". These were obviously some cruel joke by an idiot producer or writer. How stupid can you get!
Blossom was a terrible show for several reasons. For example, it's politics were a dreadful mess of conservative new age christian humanism, it relied on hats as a method of character development, it's dialogue was taken straight from Tiger Beat Magazine .... BUT! this show was NOT awful because of the physical attributes of the actress who played Blossom. Do you really think that your television set was intended to be nothing more than a parade of female caricatures and contortionists designed specifically to gratify your sad male hormones? Is that the only reason you have for planting your ass in front of the TV for half your natural life? To watch implausibly dolled up tarts babble inanities while wearing scraps of clothes? For the love of god grow up! Utter garbage like Baywatch is put on the air year after year based on the assumption that the male members of the audience are atavistic neanderthals who think with the tips of their ******! For christ's sake Blossom was a kid's show, you damned perverts! Next you'll want f**king Big Bird to shake it's ass each episode!
This show was great, but how come Blossom never Blossomed? What's up wit dat??
I loved Blossom when it began but was forced to concede that it Jumped The Shark shortly after Blossom reached the age of puberty; remember that episode where her older brother, suffering a relapse in his drug abuse rehabilitation, convinces Blossom to audition for the Russ Meyer film Vixen Child? You don't remember? After this episode, what was once a charming little show about family values quickly degenerated into a constant parade of sex toys and cleavage shots, culminating in the best-forgotten "Blossom & Tommy Lee" episode. As I remember, in this episode, Joey, having unthinkingly entered Blossom's room without knocking, uttered his signature "whooooaaaa" for a record 6 minutes 35 seconds. Tommy Lee didn't seem to notice.
This show jumped the shark when Blossom hated her step mother. What a little bitch to try to deny her father a piece of ass like that British chick! Especially after her mom picked up and left them! If I were her dad, I would have thrown her out of the house the first time she said something bad about her new step-mother. I'm sure her dad would much rather look at that British chick than that enormous schnoz on the mess that Blossom called a face. And by the way, Joey HAD to be gay to not jump on Six at every chance.
Took a huge jump the minute Melissa Manchester appeared as Blossom's ghost mom. I don't know, maybe this episode was one of those "Very Special" ones. But whatever it was, it sucked and the shark took a giant leap at that point.
After hearing the older brother gripe about his drug addiction for the umpteenth time. Gees, that got so old. Every episode summed up: Blossom: Tony I have a problem. Tony: Well Blossom, this reminds me of when I was on drugs. I was shooting up and drinking shaving lotion with some former teen idols in a North Hollywood parking lot when.....Did anyone know that the chick who played Blossom, Myriam Blaeacahfeaeafgluk, or however you spell that, is actually at UCLA working on a PhD in Neuroscience? I actually read that in a magazine piece about former child stars. Wow! Beauty and brains huh?
BLOSSOM NEVER JUMPED THE SHARK!!!! so it was the worst show ever made--who cares--that's what made it great!! what about blossom in paris?? to this day it is my favorite thing to watch!! so what is blossom was ugly, people these days care too much about looks anyways--she had a great personality...and no this isn't blossom writing it!
Looking at these comments, it's no wonder women have eating disorders. Blossom was one hot babe.
About Blossom being an ugly hag who couldn't possibly get guys... The prom queen in my senior class was far from the most attractive girl in the world. She had a severe face, and a bit of an over-bite, and looked a bit funny over-all... when you first got to know her. But she was so funny and cool that everyone liked her, and she dated more than one of the best looking guys in the school. Of course, Blossom didn't have nearly that good a personality. And those clothes!!! Who dressed that girl?
When the older brother left it was never the same after that, they kept trying different gimmicks. I did like them bringing in Finola Hughes but the rest of the show didn't really work. And that little girl was annoying. And they should have had Ted Wass do more, he is great.
Personally I don't think that Blossom ever "jumped the shark" because even after the show was canceled I still watched it. They played it in the morning right before Silver Spoons. I would watch Blossom on the days in witch I stayed home from school or didn't have school. I think blossom was one of my fav. shows.
Whoa! This show sucked!
The show jumped as soon as the opening credits ran for the first time. You know, the scene where Mayim the Mule hoofs around in a drug-addled stupor to some seriously corny music "In my opinionation..." Yet we were treated to the sight of seeing Six mature in a full-bootied rump shaker. That ample posterior was on full view through much of season 3, thanks to some skintight jeans. You'll be happy to know that Six is currently shaking her moneymaker on the mildly distressing UPN show "The Parkers" as the token down-with-the-sistahs white chick.
It started getting way too serious, less of a comedy and more of a... yuck.
DAY 1 = SHARK FOOD. Poorly written. Horrible dialogue. Writers wished the show was good enough to be called TV bubblegum.
I have a big nose (probably bigger than Blossom's was) and I'm kind of ugly, so if anyone should be sympathetic with Blossom in this debate about whether or not Blossom's looks affected this show, it would be me. However, even I have to side with those saying that Blossom's ugliness affected the show. I remember watching an episode where Blossom was "stuck" going to some stupid dance with a "dork". She whined and bitched the entire episode about how unfortunate she was for having to go out with this loser, and then her older brother tries to console her by saying, "I bet Woody Allen's date to the prom felt the same way you do right now". All this time I'm thinking, damn bitch, try looking in the mirror some time. You're not exactly some prize that this guy's going to be showing off to his friends. This damn show should have never gone into production.
I have such mixed feelings about Blossom. On one hand I was 13 when it premiered, so I thought it was wicked good. Now I watch the reruns and sigh. The whole show was one big jump. Come on, it was so preachy. Single dad, rehab brother, strong smart chick. A very special Blossom. But I do have to say that a) I don't think that Mayim Bialyk is ugly. And besides that, TV has never had enough good role models for preteen girls. It was a good show in that it was completely clean without being overly cutesy or whitewashed (Full House anyone? Ew.) And no, I am not Mayim Bialyk nor am I ugly and bitter. I can't believe people get all pissed on this site. You make me sad.
Blossom was not a bad show because of Mayim Bialik. The reason she is perceived as "ugly" is that most people on television are beautiful; someone who is dead average looking like Bialik is COMPARATIVELY ugly. I'd have had no qualms about dating her. The show REALLY jumped the shark from Day One because it never seemed INTENDED to entertain; it seemed like some kind of Moralistic Teaching Tool (much like Silver Spoons). The series' whole run had maybe about five real jokes in it. Who wrote this thing, Tipper Gore? It was preachier than Designing Women, and at least that show had some good moments early on.
15 minutes into the first show and I threw up. Stereotypical characters, all horrendously ugly, except for the stupid older brother who's most intelligent conversational phrase is "Whoa!"
JOEY LAWRENCE WAS A PUTZ...THE ONLY CHARACTER WHO HAD ANY CLASS WAS THE OLDER BRO. WHO HAD THE DRUG HISTORY...AND SIX WAS THE FINEST, BLOSSOM WAS UGLY
Blossom was a cute kid but turned out to be an ugly girl, she isn't average at all she is UGLY and there is no way she could have gotten all those hot guys she went through.....
When Blossom was in that dream sequence and became Blossom Gump. It was so lame. I didn't mind the one earlier that was a parody of Madonna's Truth or Dare but the Blossom Gump episode was when it definitely jumped!
Blossom jumped the shark when that annoying little kid with the bad british accent came on the show with her annoying mom.
If all of you hated the show so much, why did you watch it so much that you even know the words to the opening credits song? Get out of the closet and stop taking up space on my computer screen. You guys get no sympathy from me. You didn't HAVE to watch it. I don't like M*A*S*H. When I hear the music of M*A*S*H late at night and I see that chopper circling the green hills, I turn the channel. You're welcome to do the same. By the way, I'm sure Blossom looks a whole of a lot better than Six does nowadays. Have you seen her lately? It looks like she's been hanging out with Blossom's older brother Tony, way too much. Snort, Snort.
When Vinnie came on the show, just to provide some sort of bad boy, forbidden love interest for this perfectly nice and well-adjusted girl. No wonder the sex was an issue; what serious high school guy with academic impairment would choose an unpopular girl as a tutor without some hidden agenda? I have seen that ***** David Lascher contaminate all of my favorite shows growing up--is he really that good looking? I'm not gay, I can't tell, but he has locked lips with some of the best out there--every girl on Hey Dude, Melissa Joan Hart, both on Sabrina and on that TV movie where he wore a wire while Melissa had her parents killed. I don't remember where I was when JFK was shot, b/c I wasn't conceived yet, but I remember when Vinnie walked through the door. The show was never the same. Seriously, leading Blossom to run away from home in that cliffhanger--she would have been better without him. Can I just add that one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a sitcom came courtesy of Six. Nick answers the front door, Six is standing there and starts "Ohmygod Mr.Russo, somethingterriblehappenedatschool, Blossomislikesofreakedout..." She says this while walking through the door, going past him up the stairs, all the while still talking. Nick hasn't moved an inch since he opened the door, and once Six is up the stairs and gone, he looks at the same spot where she was standing and says "Hi, Six. Come on in." Hah!
I loved it when Blossom was making a video to promote safe sex. She goes to a liquor store and buys about 200 condoms to use in her project. When the clerk looks at her strangly for buying so many condoms, she calmly explains, "We're making a video." That was the funniest line, but it was all downhill from there...
The show sucked from the beginning. Any show with Joey Lawrence (who always plays Joey) sucks. Look what he did to Gimme A Break *faintly hearing his whiney "Aunt Nell!!!"*
The first was when the show switched timeslots to Saturday nights, up against Nickelodeon's "Clarissa Explains It All," which had pretty much the same demographic. "Blossom" got pounded, lasting maybe two months in that timeslot before moving back to its original slot. I don't think the ratings ever quite recovered. The second was when Joey and Six were alone in the car with Six begging for Joey to give it to her. Instead of doing what any other red-blooded American male would have done in his place (boning her 'til the sun came up), he falls out of the car while trying to get away from her, hits his head on a rock, and knocks himself out, afterwards telling Six that they'll never be more than friends. Dork. Oddly enough, I always thought Mayim Bialik was kinda cute. She's no Jenna von Oy (who had what was easily one of that era's top five great asses), mind you, but cute nonetheless. What astonishes me is how quickly the series went into and back out of syndication after it finished its NBC run, particularly considering that it had actually been a fairly popular show at one point. Is it even still on the air anywhere?
As soon as Joey's CD came out, they tried to market the show around him. What a bonehead to try to promote a show on.
I disagree with those who say Blossom couldn't have gotten those guys. I used to have a big nose and I went out with some good looking guys.
I really used to like this show when I was little, mostly because I was a fat ass and sat around watching TV all day, but looking back on it I see how utterly vapid it really was. I feel sorry for Miyam Bialik. She wasted a good portion of her life, when she could have been doing something far more useful, like going to school (which she later did, and I think became a lawyer). One thing that bothers me about all of the people commenting on Blossom's looks: how is it that you know so much about the show if you hate it so much? You must have watched it at one point if you can quote specific episodes. Also, I'm not personally friends with any guys who are as shallow and sexist as some of you are. Yes, most guys do base their choice in woman upon looks. And yes, most guys do think about sex A LOT, but if you live your life basing your choice in women solely on looks, I guarantee you will never have a happy, long lasting relationship with any woman. That's just my observation. Maybe I just watch too mush TV.
That "small child with the bad accent" posted above was named Kennedy. What the hell was she named after, the President or that annoying MTV V-J? Anyways that little girl downright irked me!
Are you people mad? I understand that this show was pretty lame on many different levels, but of course you couldn't help but watch it everyday @ 6. Does no one remember when they were trying to do the show inside the show? And they picked Six over Blossom to play Blossom in the show? Even if that wasn't so bad, they eventually made the pilot tape of the show, but with monkeys. Now if this doesn't seem a little weird, awkward and like it was filmed during sweeps week, I don't know what is. Need I say more?
I think its disgusting how the majority of these comments consider this shows "jump the shark" is based solely on the fact that Joey didn't do the deed with Six. This show was a mess from day one. I thought the only character who was actually believable was Blossom. True, i'll admit that it was high school, and during high school guys have sex with any girl that will give him attention, but the foundation of this show seemed lean more towards an afternoon special than Sex In the City. If everyone is so disappointed with that one episode, maybe someday you'll think about it again when your child ends up being raped or comes down with a case of the HIV cuz they thought more about the moment and having fun with a "tight ass" than using their brain for a second and waiting. I had my fun when i was a kid, but that screwed things up with my wife cuz i had a disease and now she can't have kids. Damn, maybe i should just pine about the days i was a drug addict and had sex all over the place. Oh yeah, i thought this show really jumped the shark when Joey had his big music video debut. I never watched it after that.
I liked this show as a kid, but it got really bad when that British chick appeared. In a way I don't blame Blossom for not liking her, the woman was so perfect and that daughter of hers made things worse.
Blossom was a show I watched regularly. The opening credits were good, especially when she had the costume changes. For me it jumped the shark during an episode partially set at her school. The class recites the Pledge of Allegiance, without the phrase under God. I've heard it that way in movies done prior to its addition. PC may have been less prevalent then. But this was uncalled for. Other changes hurt the show, particularly the stepmom and new kid. My only problem with Anthony's marriage was that it occurred after he fell off the wagon and did some gambling. His previous girlfriend was good. The racial thing didn't bother me. Considering the recent tragedies, we must strive to remain one nation under God.
I'll agree there were plenty of "And now, a Very Special Blossom" shows to go around (those dealing with sensitive topics such as divorce, dating abuse, alcoholism, etc.), but at least "Blossom" tried to deal with these topics realistically. But for goodness sakes, why does everyone hate little Kennedey? She's as adorable and precocious as any young British girl you've seen. It makes me wonder--some of you wanted to see her killed off, an episode built around Kennedey's funeral, and then back to the laughter. My goodness, you people make me sick!
This show had its moments, but was pretty bad. I didnt think Blossom was that ugly, and she tried hard. The writing pretty much let her down. Im glad alot of people noticed Six. I agree her ass was terrific. It was the best reason to watch by far.
I stopped watching Blossom before the British kid (there was a British kid?) came on and just around the time I think Tony was going to get married. FYI, for those who say Mayim Bialik is ugly, well "Vinny" really wasn't very good looking, either. He looks pretty average. Now brad Pitt is hot, Vinny is -- not. And sad to think men only date women to "show them off". You men have created militant feminism, so thanks very f-ing much for that. Women are ornaments and men are instruments in today's society. Mayim could create the cure for cancer and people would only care how "ugly" she is. And according to you, everyone to sticks up for her is fat, hideous or a loser. Well, what do YOU look like? I say we're all obviously in the same boat = we ALL watched Blossom so what does that make us? Pot? Kettle. Black.
dudes, nobody remembers the pinnacle of shark jumping that was the alf cameo! In one episode, blossom had this weird dream, and who was dispensing advice? Alf. yup. it was like NBC just found the alf puppet laying around and said, hey, might as well use it one more time....now that's good tv.
How special can it be when every other week it's "A Special Blossom". I don't think she's exceptionally homely, but all the rumors about her personality make her seem homely.
Oh dear GOD what a horrible show. Any sitcom whose best character is Joey Lawrence is in BIG trouble. And as for Mayim Bialik--ugh. How in the hell did she get her own show? Guess we can blame that on Bette Middler and that cloying piece of trash called Beaches.
Blossom IS a DOG. I had a friend in Highschool that looked just like her and she was always jelous of me cause she was ugly and i stoled her boyfriend and ended up marrying him later on,.. much later. anyway she reminds me of that LOSER LILY. i hope somehow she reads this cause she hated people telling her she looked like Blossom. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, READ IT AND WEAP BI**H.
I guess I would vote that this show never jumped, I'm not sure why I liked it. It was a guilty pleasure. Blossom wasn't a raving beauty, but she wasn't ugly either, I probably would have dated her in high school. Now her friend Six is another story, she was a little hottie. I keep hoping she will show up on something else. Just a comment for the above poster, I'll bet the reason that guy dumped the girl that looks like Blossom for you, was because she wouldn't put out, but I'll bet you on the other hand knew exactly what he wanted and gave it to him right away. Just an educated guess.
This little snippet tells us all we need to know about the perfect idiot who wrote the comment above: "jealous of me cause she was ugly and i stole her boyfriend." Trailer trash at its finest, folks. As for the rest of you pervs, do you realize you are talking about CHILDREN here? You make me want to puke.
After they came back from Paris it was a different show altogether. Whoa! Joey was hot! I feel like a pedophile watching the earlier episodes. That was the whole point of the show, and also why Mayim got the part--It was supposed to be about a girl who's not the most beautiful girl on earth, but she's socially aware, sorta hip, brainy, etc. But she's got the hot best friend & the hot brother so both boys & girls had something to look at. *shrugs shoulders*
I would sooooooo do Mayim Bialik.... Is it wrong? And to that woman "stoled" the boyfriend of her "friend" Im betting your hubby is doin' the ol' in and out with one of your current "friends" now...but then again with that spelling Im betting you weren't married for your brains.
I used to watch Blossom when I was 13 and thought it was the coolest then...BUT NOT NOW!!! Looking back, that show was terrible because it had bad writing, poorly developed characters and the plots were too unbelievable. Plus it was also unrealistic because of the preachiness factor of Blossom's druggie bro, who was neither funny or entertaining. Joey was also a dud. Six was OK when she wasn't screeching in her typical overhyped mania (which was very, very rare.) Finally, the character BLOSSOM WAS NOT UGLY, it's just the show often cast her in unflattering clothes and bad dialogue. Though she was still pretty annoying and so was Vinnie. To all those stupid airheads above who wrote about Blossom or Mayik being ugly...yeah, she's not the prettiest girl in the world, but she's got a Yale education and is working on her PhD in Neuroscience at UCLA now, so who got the last laugh now?
Joey Lawrence. Whoa? No! It's sad that he was the funniest thing in the show. Everything would be mellow, Blossom basically was a teenager who just could not be happy. And she spent nearly every episodes trying to convince teenagers to wear their grandmother's clothes and stuff. Im glad we never heard from Mayim again after that show ended. However, Six was a fine relief. She was hot. I think my first television crush was on her. That could be part of the reason I disliked Joey too. But geez, could the teenagers be happier at least once in a while?
Well, in the first place, I am 48 years old and have to confess that I used to watch "Blossom" now and then, and I didn't even have any adolescents in the house! So who am I to comment on the quality of a TV show for kids? Still, here I am, expounding upon what I got sick of on this' show: Blossom's best friend, Six, was always portrayed as a short of "black sheep" sort of kid that I felt sorry for. Everyone in the family except Blossom, had some nasty and sarcastic remark to make about her when she was around - usually right in front of her. She wasn't just played as a funny, kind of eccentric kid with some interesting quirks, she was played as someone that it was ok for everyone - including the adults - to make fun of. There were references to her irritating mannerisms (like the drug relapses and drawn out "whoas" of a couple of the other characters made for great character???) and even her hygiene. Once she took her shoes off in the car and of course all passengers started rollling down windows and holding their noses and demanding she replace her shoes! Gimme a break!
What a lame show this was. Pure day one material! I do agree that Joey Lawrence was the talent on this piece of crap. Btw to the last commentator, I hate to tell you this but Mayim isn't exactly out of TV for good. She had a cameo voice appearance on Hey Arnold in 1996 in that 6th grader's episode, and she did the voice of the one Ashley who wore the green dress, and green knee highs on Recess. But thank the lord that didn't last! Let's just say her character was the antisocial Ashley. Anywho, she's still out there unfortunately, but i think she gone for now.
Although this was not the best show I've ever seen, I don't believe that there is any reason to trash it based on the looks of the characters. "Blossom" (Mayim Bialik) is not the most attractive person on earth, but TV shows that portray everyone as being drop dead gorgeous are even more unrealistic than this show that showed a smart, intellectual female dating a relatively nice looking guy. I was a teenager when this show first started, and when I was in high school, many of the "popular" girls were not really "hot." In fact, personality usually determined the "cool" people rather than looks. Only the shallow guys/girls dated solely based on looks. Also, Mayim Bialik is NOT ugly even though she has a large nose. It should not take having plastic surgery in order for other people to like a character on TV. Also, when Mayim was younger, she was kind of cute--just watch the old "MacGyver" episodes with her. But whether or not she is nice looking now, people have no right to make judgments on someone based on her/his looks. So let's keep the criticisms of the shows to the writing, which wasn't all that great on this show, and the character development and stop judging based solely on looks--which should NOT be the most important aspect of a show. I will admit that some of my favorite shows have nice looking people in them, but there is a need to have shows be realistic in looks--we are not all super models. In reality, there are gorgeous people, average looking people, and also people whom we don't consider to be nice looking--why shouldn't TV portray people's looks realistically?
joey was a moron. blossom, while not a conventional beauty, was attractive in her own way. i watched because of the alcoholic older brother and six. ( she was very cute. )
I had no problem with the show or the cast in general(in fact, rehab brother Tony was in one of my favorite films ever), but I have have always had a loathing for bad dream sequence episodes(Dreams, real dreams, never have that kind of continuity). And as dream episodes go, this is one of the worst. Scads of same actor, different character. Loads of out-of-work special guest stars. Bad dancing. Stupid fantasy subplots(does anyone out there have dreams where a lot of things go on that you don't witness? Blossom does). The only saving grace is Michael Stoyanev's rant about having to wear a leather jacket at the beach during summer just to have a personality. And is it just me or any show that goes to the beach just asking for shark trouble?
Oh man the condom one was so harsh. after that they got all political about it, from Six's promiscuity to that brothers alcoholism. when blossom graduated- whoa the show pretty much sucked.
They should've called this show "Six's Ass" which is the only reason guys watched it. That way we could've had the entire show dedicated to those sweet buns. Jean shots, swimsuits, thongs!!!! Thank you Jenna Von Oy for the prime jack material!
This when i knew the show was very feminazi. Some guy hit Blossom as she was trying to resist having sex with him. Then she runs all the way from that hollywood mountain back to her house.
I hate it when Blossom is only 15 or so, but sits around, drinks coffee and discusses serious subjects like she's 45. How stupid. Don't make her more grown up than she is.
After Blossom didn't get into some fancy smancy college and had to go to Junior college instead, and Vinnie had just dumped her and she was moping around the house all day... Okay! I have just read all the comments on Blossom and have been laughing out loud - am in a my university library and everyone is staring at me! But oh boy,guys - you just bring on back the memories!!! The credits: what is with those clothes! those hats! that whole tap dancing, playboy bunny suit leotard thing, and i agree: "opinionation"???!!!!! And I also agree about the older brothers heartfelt drug message being dragged into every scenario, and Joey's 'whoah!' being just a little bit over used. But hey! I never realised that Six was viewed as such a little hottie. I am a girl and thought that Blossom used to be cute but as time went on you just couldn't get over that whole nose thing, but i did not pick up on the whole Six has a cute ass thing, all i remember is her ability to talk really really fast without ever taking a breath! But Six has the cutest jack on tv?? My god! Never saw that one comin'!! One last comment: Blossom in Paris!!!! Oh yes!! We have had reruns and it is always Blossom in Paris - with vinnie, the show girl mom, oh boy! that was pure adulterated trash - loved it!! what i wanna know is: were they really in Paris or just the back lot at Universal studios like on Beverly Hills. Sneaky old tv, aye?! here i was thinkin' it was one of the perks of the job, but we saw exactly where Brenda was when we went on the Universal Backlot tour - dis-a -ppointing! But hey! good on Mayim! Phd! and here i was just thinkin' she was a good dancer! Also must agree with above comment : her best days were in the early shows shortly after she had gone from Private School to six's high school and also when she was in MacGyver, but as for that screechy thing in Beaches.....!!! Nah! Ah! But hey, look at how much comment Blossom has generated on this site! Makes you think!
Yes. It jumped the shark. It had no choice. That's not what bugs me about this whole topic, though... It's the number of complete *******s who are making all the sexist remarks. I'm male- I'm in my 30's- and I've dated some hotties (as an example, one girl looked just like Cox from "Unhappily Ever After"). I found Mayim Bialik extremely attractive AND I found Jenna Von Oy extremely attractive. Different reasons, of course, but if given a choice between Six and Blossom for a girlfriend or potential wife (were I not now married) I would have to pick Blossom because she was very intelligent, sweet, funny, and attractive. No, she's not a Barbie Doll, but she WAS cute, and looked like a human being instead of a rubber sex toy. Seriously, would you want to be married to Six? She was annoying, kind of dumb, and nowhere near as witty as Blossom. The Six relationship would get boring after a few months, and even if you bore her personality for several years in favor of fantastic sex, you'd eventually be left with a woman approaching her 40's without her teenage looks, and with an annoying personality. Now where are you left? Conversation? Deep emotional connection? Meanwhile, even after she loses her girlish looks, Blossom would be intelligent and fun to talk to. But who am I to judge your taste? By all means, you guys can have all the supermodels and bimbos who will be burned out by 35, and that will leave all the decent girlfriends for those of us who appreciate intelligence and personality in our partners. Trust me, though... When you're older and can't get a new woman because you're middle-aged and stuck with the faded-beauty (and vapid) Prom Queen, you'll be ready to blow your brains out when you have to hear her whine about how she used to be pretty, and how she misses it because it's all she ever had. Mayim Bialik IS cute. Devastatingly so. If I were in her little fictional world, would I have dated her? Sure. Would I have wanted to **** her best friend? Sure. Therein lies the eternal struggle boys... Do you think with your brain or your dick? A few minutes of Six's sweet ass, or the companionship of a woman who can be more than a dick-ornament..? I'll take the clever girl over the sex poodle any time. Give me Janeane Garofalo over Uma Thurman. Give me Ani DiFranco over JLo. Give me the librarian over the model. Keep your pretty manniquins, I'll take the real women. ...And don't embarass yourselves by trying to debate this. You're stupid. You know it, I know it, and the world knows it. MAXIM was made for guys like you. Go jerk off over pictures of Rebecca Romjin Stamos and save yourselves the brain-burn of trying to think of a clever reason why you're right. (and intelligent things like "you must be fat", "shut up dog", or "***" are not responses. They're just ways to make yourself look more ignorant.)
Ted Wass has to be the least talented actor in Hollywood since Todd Bridges. If a better actor had starred, this show might have had a chance. As for the poster above about Blossom or Six, I'm sorry, I'm going to vote for Six. I'd be more than happy to be the Nine to her Six!!! Now here's my opinion. I think Six and I could wild and rampant sex for a few years, then when I was tired of her, I could marry Blossom being that she is so mediocre looking no one would have her. Here I could have my cake and eat it too. Back to the poster above, are you sure you are in your 30's? Men in their 30's do not use the word "hottie." It's a word for the Britney Spears generation!!!
Even though I realize this show was kind of lame, I still vote that it never jumped, it was sort of a guilty pleasure. As for the debate over Blossom or Six, I would have to pick Six, she is just such a babe, and even though she wasnt a rocket scientist, she had a pretty good personality. And for being so hot, she wasnt a snob about it. Don't get me wrong, I thought Blossom was pretty cute, but Blossom or Six, its a no brainer, of course I would always be trying to talk Six into getting Blossom into a three way with us. The above poster that went on and on about why he wouldnt pick a hot girl made some good points, but I don't think they applied to Six, it sounded more like he married a less than attractive woman and was having some issues with that. Dude, it doesnt matter what anyone else thinks, all that matters is how you feel about her.
A show can't jump the shark unless it changes over the years. As with Home Improvement, EVERY episode was the same. Blossom complains about something, Tony talks about his old addict days, Six has a complex about divorce, Joey goes "Woah," the dad preaches and gramps is a horny old toad. Personally, I think it's a second rate Clarissa Explains it All... even if the Incredible Hulk directed some of the episodes.
When Finola Hughes joined the cast with her on screen daughter. (Last Season) I must say about Blossom though that she wasn't model pretty but she was unique and the way she held herself and the CHARACTER made her pretty. I think some of you idiots that call her ugly and stuff need to get away from your computer screens and off the couch and see what people in REAL life look like. Also look in the mirror because I seriously DOUBT that most of you look like a model yourself, in fact I bet it's quite the opposite.
Remember the episode where Joey had to look after a baby and he started singing it a lullaby:"Joeys gonna buy you a mockingbird". Gak.
Was it necessary for Six to "almost" lose her virginity in EVERY episode?
I can't believe no one has pointed out the single worst moment in the shows history! Let me say that this show jumped the day it aired (even though i think the guy that played tony had some potential). The episode where Blossom dressed up and went to a party and as she entered it started playing new age music. As blossom walked past guys they would drop there drinks and ignore there girlfriends just to gawk at blossom! If i saw blossom at a party i'd encourage her to put a vale over her face. I swear this show was made only for the girl that played blossom (maliyk or whatever) to feel better about herself. Well i hope your happy producers! Other thing- Blossom does not have the right to complain about her new mom, that british woman was at least 1000 times more attractive than blossom! If you argue that blossoms looks didnt matter because she had such a great personality, your wrong! Shes one of those people who finds themselves terribly clever yet are just annoying pieces of ****! god it just all makes me so angry.....
The number of comments here on Blossom's appearance is genuinely appalling. It wasn't unrealistic that she'd have dates, it was just poor writing that the guys basically all played like the same, milquetoast character. Judging by these comments, though, man -- it was pretty unrealistic that they were at all human to her. If high school boys thought like the asses who've posted here, we'd be living in a real sit com world... shudder
I watched this show when I was little (I don't know what I was thinking, anything entertained me) and I remember being really annoyed by the British kid Kennedy. I really wanted the character to die and have a funeral then the next week, no one remembers who she was. Its sick, but she was a character, I didn't want the actual kid to die. Everyone wants a character on a TV show to die, more than once.
When Salt and Pepa came on to sign for The video that Blossom was making for her mother, like the mother would even know who Salt and Pepa were.
I could never get past the opening credits of this show. And when she popped up at the end from the bottom of the screen? Scared the crap out of me every friggin time.
I understand Bill Bixby had been directing this tripe before he passed away. What a way for him to go out. The only way this show could have jumped back is if they guest-starred Bixby in an episode and Blossom's whining gets him so pissed off that he turns into The Incredible Hulk, picks up a Toyota Celica and squashes Blossom like a pancake with it. Then Lou Ferrigno and Six get married as their similar intelligence levels lead them to discover they're soul mates. "Hulk like Six." Final episode. End of show.
I don't remember watching Blossom regularly (I was seven or eight when it became popular), but there was this one episode where Blossom wanted to go vegetarian, and she said to Six, (I'm becoming vegetarian-I haven't eaten meat all day!" Then Six was like, "So? I haven't had sex all day, and that doesn't make me a nun!" I mean, WTF?! And who the hell names their kid Six?
"Blossom" jumped shark the minute it aired! But I gotta admit, I often watched it just because it was so bad I kind of got a kick out of it. I mean, could characterization and script writing GET any worse?? It was like they said, "Well, how many social commentaries and how much weirdness can we squeeze into one 30 minute show? Let's see, a recovering addict white guy who encounters racial prejudice with his black wife, and his saintly and oh-so-talented sister who has to go through puberty (in every show) without her mother,who left the family and now writes or something equally vague, in Paris (where else?) and the sister's neurotic little friend named.... SIX??? - who everyone acts like they hate having around most of the time, and the cool and groovy rap and hip hop chicks who come to a GARAGE SALE??? and end up rapping with the sister, and the dad who finally marries a rather cold British bitch with a bratty kid with the worst British accent I have ever heard in my life (except maybe my own, as I live in the South!) - Total weirdness.
The shark leapt out of it's containment tank and bit the ass of "Blossom" at about the tenth time Tony began to whine about his drug problem. It got really old, really fast.
This show was so horrible that the best part was actually the theme song "My Opinionation." Of course, this isn't saying much, considering the theme was so crappy that it actually made the ultra-cool Dr. John (who sang it) seem corny. Therefore, it jumped after the opening theme ended.
Although I LOVE the actor who played Vinnie (he did it well), it sort of left behind the impish quality Blossom had of a girl just out doing her thing. The show jumped as soon as he showed up into the picture. Now, for all the idiots posting comments on Mayim Bialik's personal appearance, I want to tell you this: that girl is now a graduate student at UCLA studying neuroscience. She was accepted in Harvard, but chose to stay in the LA area to be close to her family. She has piles of money from the show which she did NOT blow on a cocaine habit (no pun) nor did she ever turn to doing soft core porn. And to top it off, she has a "Prince Charming" in her life, a fellow grad student at UCLA. She's always been an interesting, funny, charming, charismatic, and beautiful person, and when it comes down to it, she's leading a fulfilling life while the rest of you scratch your asses and pick on her appearance. You f**ks. Get over yourselves.
I see that I am decidedly in the minority here, but this show was so "gag-a-maggot" sickeningly sweet that one episode could cause a diabetic attack. This kid was sooo good she made Mother Teresa look like a skinhead; nothing wrong with being good, but kids that age are not THAT good all the time. (My mother used to use an expression: "she wouldn't say s**t if she had a mouth full of it".) Just once give us a realistic temper tantrum, a childish prank, something to show this wasn't a "Stepford Kid". Her sweetness 'n light attitude was so studied, so designed, that this show bordered on fantasy. But, SoLong Moon Pie did develop into an attractive young lady, so naturally she's not on TV now.
All right, damn it, I've been meaning to get this off my chest for a decade now. That friggin' Blossom Gump episode was the worst, I mean WORST, 1/2 hr. of TV ever. God Almighty. I was a freshman in college and could only receive 1 channel in the dormroom and happened across that infamous episode and to this day, TO THIS DAY, curse mayim balik. oh, see, the writers (after snorting most of the coke in bolivia) decided she should dress as forest gump and go back in time and show madonna how to tear her clothes before appearing on bandstand, and teach michael jackson how to moonwalk, and keep nell carter from devouring joey lawrence as a small child on the set of 'gimme a break'. damn that episode to hell!
I watched a few episodes in syndication, killing time the summer between HS and college ('96). I'm glad I am not the only one who couldn't get enough of that guilty pleasure that was the sweet ass of Six! Whoa! (I'm going to hell for that) Seriously, Blossom had a whiny, feminism outlook that would turn off any man. That coupled with homeliness, how in the hell could she snag the most popular guys in school? Some posters commented about HS guys seeing her inner beauty, but in high school, what popular guy looks for that?!? Pretty, vapid boys get pretty, vapid girls. That is reality, not this bizzarro world the writers created. BTW, did Ted Wass sell his soul to the devil for this?
Is it me or were C'n'C music factory on Blossom once? I'm sure they were and it was possibly the worst thing I've ever seen. Blossom and Six (mmm, Six) were queueing for concert tickets and suddenly the aforementioned music factory turn up and they all start dancing to Blossom's 'beat box'. I'm sure there's a joke in 'beat box' somewhere...
The shark was jumped, rejumped and then ultra-super-rejumped before I ever saw it. I think someone designed this show to jump sharks. I seldom watch TV, when I do I always seem to get on a show that blows ass so bad I have to fight back the puke. That wasn't dancing she did at the start of every show...THAT was shark-jumping. All that silly stomping around was simulated shark-jumping, end of story. No, wait...there's more. I think that Blossom girl IS PART SHARK. That would explain her NOSE. Think of her jumping over her true-life father, a big-ass LEMON SHARK at the start of each show. I don't know where we are as a society that makes squirting diarrhea-fests like that show. As for people that say that "SIX" was fine, I disagree. Something about her face and voice makes me think that her crotch and ass smell super-bad.
I'll admit that I was the one person who watched week after week and waited and waited for Joey and Six to hook up. I realized I was waisting my time when they did nothing in that hotel. After that I simply quit watching all together
Blossom is the kind of show that jumped about eight hundred times during their run, however the ultimate jump this show made was when "Salt and Pepa" guest starred at the end of one of their episodes. First of all by this time "Salt and Pepa" were has beens, and secondly why the hell would the mother even know who "Salt and Pepa" are? She Wouldn't... Anyway this was one of the lamest endings i've ever seen for an episode and this will go down in history as the worst guest star EVER.
If all of you people disliked BLOSSOM so much, why are you making it your life's mission to discuss it? Me? I loved it!! Joey was my first crush since he walked into Sarge's living room on 'Gimme A Break" when I was 5. I was thrilled with Blossom because it made me laugh. I was a teenager... that is what the show was geared for. I didn't think Mayim was pretty, but I loved her hair...and the way she stood up for herself...that made her cool. I didn't like Six, because she was so into Joey, and I always feared Joey would hook up with her... But she was cute and crazy, now that I look back.
I curse Joey Lawrence and the scriptwriter who thought that "Whoa" would be a nice catchword to this day. My second grade teacher probally used this and several other things to commit me to counseling (i.e. learning how to deal with people). I've never been the same since.
The episode where Dad gets Blossom and her brothers to make a videotape to send to their Mom in Paris. I thought to myself "I sure hope they're using SECAM equipment. NTSC tapes won't play in French VCR's".
This show jumped as soon as they played that theme song. If you forgot how bad it was, go to http://www.sitcomsonline.com and listen to it. Insipid......oh yeah, Joey sucked ass. Remember when they showed his music video at the end of the one show? I thought I died and went to hell.
Blossom started out as a pilot with Barrie Youngfellow as her mother. This pilot did well. (In case you don't recall...Barrie was that annoying waitress with red hair from It's a Living") It was explained their parents were hippies and thus the names Blossom and Six. This makes no sense as the hippie movement was outdated by 1971 if not before, and even if the hippies had babies they would not have named their child names that weren't "in" [look at the girl's name Madison -- that was the 2nd most popular name for a girl three years back] So keeping Joey Lawrence they basically recast and changed the show. They first added a segment where Blossom talked to people like Carla from "cheers" and "alf" Then they dropped this in favour of a more conventional format. Then they added Bernard Hughes. This makes me mad. Why is it every MAN in a sitcom is so dumb they can't raise a child alone. No a grandfather always has to be there. Look at Gimme A break or My Three Sons (uncle charlie or bub) or My TWO dads or Full House had not two but THREE dads. That said Blossom was a stupid show. Myiam Blech should have been her name BLECH. She was BUTT ugly. She could UG herself to death. She look like she was beat with an ugly stick. You could dip her in a creek and skim ugly for two weeks. When she walks into a room mice jump on chairs. If she jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge they wouldn't call it suicide they would call it pollution. Her brother TONY was also ugly. The father WAS goodlooking on Soap and would have been OK here if he wore clothes his age. An earring on a man over 30 looks dumb. Finally Joey Lawrence what ever you think about him did turn out to be a VERY good-looking man.
I am mesmerized reading the comments for this show and how many people seemed to hate it, yet how many of them can cite examples from it to illustrate their point. Most of them seemed to have watched the entire run. How could these people dislike something so much yet continue to watch it? I guess Bialik and Co. have to get the last laugh on this one. Possibly it's the viewers who have jumped the shark here.
Blossom was a stupid show, and to everyone who keeps asking why so many people hated it but know so much about it, it was on after Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and there were no other family sitcoms on at 8:30 on Monday. The grandpa's name was Buzz, what the hell kind of name is Buzz anyway? That theme song is still in my head, really bizarre stuff. I think the dad was supposed to be some successful pop songwriter; if the theme song was the best he could do, I'm surprised they didn't all live in cardboard boxes. This show had more special episodes than any other show i can think of, the worst was when Six almost slept with an older man when she was underage. Those horrible Joey Lawrence music videos at the end sent chills of horror up my spine, "whoa oh oh, theres nothing this love can't fix for you baby." SNL did a dead on parody of this show where the dad was looking thru Blossom's purse, and every item he'd find in there would lead to a serious corny speech. After every item, Mike Myers would have this blank stare on his face and say "whoa!" It ended with a video where Joey just repeats "whoa" over and over to dance music. I laughed harder at that skit than i did throughout the entire run of Blossom.
Third season, when Buzz (the grandfather) ran off to Vegas and came back the next day with some French movie star as his new wife. I was sure that at the end of the episode, Blossom would wake up, and that the day's events would turn out to have been a dream. No dream. The show made little sense after that.
I never watched any episode of "Blossom" except for one (and of course she got her period - what else?) but I have been laughing at your posts for 20 minutes now. Her looks/voice grated on me, and I'm female. The show was **** from the start - the actress may be a perfectly lovely person in real life, but that doesn't exonerate this train wreck of a TV series, which made many of my pre-teen classmates Blossom clones in personality and dress, with corresponding drops in IQ. "Bad taste leads to crimes" - Blossom makes me want to kick a small animal or rob a liquor store!
I watched a season or two of this...er...wonderful show, when it first aired and a few episodes in reruns recently. I liked it to some extent when it originally aired, looking back on it, it was pretty heavily moralistic nonsense. I am very surprised with the stunning amount of vigor with which so many attack Ms. Bialik's appearance. I think this has to be a side effect of the shock of seeing someone of average, or more accurately only slightly above average looks on television. Even in instances where the character is supposed to be unattractive, television and films tend to cast an attractive actor or actress and give them an unflattering hairstyle and glasses. I love Sara Rue as a "fat" girl on Less than Perfect...my God she is a couple dress sizes bigger than Courtney Cox...but I have dated several women who could have eaten her entire body and still had room for several dozen McNuggets.
The people who created Blossom knew they were working in dangerous territory. There is a science to choosing girls who will "Blossom" as they hit puberty. The people who created Blossom simply failed at the above task....It's not as sick as it sounds. The Soviet Union used to do this sort of thing all the time. A youngster came to the attention of the Soviet authorities due to their great strength, height, intelligence, agility...whatever. Said young'un was then enlisted into the Red Army, where they would get focused training in their particular sport/industry/science. This got them numerous Olympic gold medals and subordinate sattelite nations until the USSR itself jumped the shark in 1990......Imagine that you have this great idea for a show- teen girl hits puberty with no Ma Dukes in the house, and gets through life with the help of her effeminate father, her punk-ass brother, her clean-cut yet dark-past-having otha brotha, and her insipid, clotheshorse friend. The show seems like a winner, but there is one obstacle they have to overcome- they have to choose a kid who looks innocent in 1989, yet who will be hot by 1991 or so...Please remember that Blossom probably spent some time in development before making it to the air. It is indeed quite possible that Blossom was a "gorgeous" 10 year old when they started to make the show, and that her looks jumped the shark as she hit 12 or so. The producers were then faced with a problem- either train some other kid to be Blossom, or just bite the bullet and trot out some girl with a snout that a border collie would laugh at. They chose the latter course of action, and tried to cover their tracks with clever makeup, a lot of hats, and tight jeans. They failed.
I live in LA and I've seen Joey Lawrence and his brother Matt (he shouted "Matty" at him) in my grocery store. I remember when this show was around and I think it was the Blossom show's repeated turn to reverence that really made the phrase "a very special xxx" iconic in the first place. I was astonished to see that the votes didn't quite reflect that. Everybody knows what "A Very Special Blossom" means... it's afterschool special time. Although it may just be how I remember it.
Oh my god, can you believe Salt N Pepa were in her house singing "Let's Talk About Sex"?! I was a teen watching that show with my dad...I wanted to crawl out of my skin.
Soared over the shark when NBC hyped "...THE MOST POWERFUL BLOSSOM EVER!" That was it, for me.
I think the show JTS when the older brother got married, had a baby and left the show. Right then I think I would have quit watching, but stupid me kept hoping that Six and Joey would hook up. So I kept watching and wishing like the stupid idiot I was. They totally had a chance to do something in that hotel in that storm. BUT NOOOOOO!
Why did I watch this show? It’s the same reason why I used to watch “Cheers,” “The Simpsons,” “Seinfeld,” and yes, “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” I thought the show was funny. I thought Joey was a very funny character. I also thought the episode where the kids show videos they made for high school was hilarious. (Actually, Joey’s video was the one that was hilarious. Blossom had made a stupid and unfunny art film(!), but the videos made by Six and Tony were somewhat amusing.) This, however, was the same episode which featured Joey Lawrence’s idiotic music video. I don’t have a problem with a sitcom actor trying to branch out into a music career; I have a major problem when something that should be on MTV somehow winds up on something that should have nothing to do with music videos (in this case, a sitcom episode). This is a textbook case of business compromising artistry (I know people will argue the “art” was never good in the first place); someone decided dedicate several minutes of a sitcom episode, which should be used to make the audience laugh, to jump-start Joey Lawrence’s music career by appealing to his built-in audience. Unforgivable.
This show jumped at the opening theme. The music was awful and that poor rhytm-less little girl. Why did they make her dance when she was clearly injured? The lyrics of the theme song were horrific, though it did match the "dancing". My tribute to Blossom...I re-wrote her theme Revised “Blossom” theme Why they made this show, that’s anybody’s guess, A problem family that makes you all depressed. Please just change the channel; this show is such a waste of your time. In my “OPINIONATION”, this crap will make you lose your mind. Grab your remote. Please change the dial. This junk will be on the air for a while. You know that feeling, the one where you can taste your own bile? In my “OPINIONATION” you'll be there in a very short while.
When Salt-N-Pepa rapped on a video for the mother. Like she'll know who Salt-N-Pepa are.
I just have three words to say when "Blossom" JTS...A very special. Talk about your oversentimental tripe.
Once the "very special" episodes started every week, it really signified Fonzie passing over top of the show! It was somewhat clever originally, though. Likeable characters, some laughs, mindless fun. Then every episode has Blossom in some major trauma, or Six was halfway to rehab on either booze or pills or sex.....I do have to say that Jenna Von Oy had the tightest, hottest ass on tv at the time, and that alone, kept me tuning in long after the vapor trail from the Fonz had cleared the Russo household.....WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For me the show jumped the shark when everyone started "changing" and breaking out of their fixed molds. Nick (and Tony) get married, Blossom finally lives up to her billing (instead of being a hard-luck case with monologues), Joey (with the exception of a possible career in baseball)... doesn't. Tony leaves the show in a fashion similar to Bonanza's Adam Cartwright (another shark-hurdling experience) after getting married. On shark #2: Should Joey have done it with Six? I would have, but good TV (at least they felt it was) has to take the honorable and moral path despite what they or their viewers want to happen. (This is not so much a shark as it is some smaller fish clinging to the underbelly of a great white above.)
I used to think that Blossom was a cute show. But I lost interest in it, when Blossom started dating those loser boyfriends, and then putting up with their garbage (like taking the street thug guy back, after she caught him kissing some other girl). I would think to myself "Blossom is suppose to be a smart girl. Why is she acting so stupid?" I lost track of when it was on, then one night I was channel surfing and I tuned in for the first three minutes, there was a huge dog and a little girl with a bad British accent both were pouting into the camera *click!* and I never watched it, again.
This was always a lousy show. The name of the show was the most cutesy, pretentious name ever for a show. The intro...unwatchable. This intro had Mayim Bialek in some hideous-supposed-to-be-cute-flowery-outfit-with-a-hat dancing around like she was imbecile. The less said about the theme song, the better. I actually felt sorry for this actress, as she should have sued the producers for forcing her to do that - not to mention having to act in this piece of crap. It's unfair that so many make fun of her looks. No, she was not beautiful, but it was nice to see a non supermodel on tv who was smart, if at times more smart alecky that smart. Bialik did get the last laugh. While the rest of the cast and crew was probably sitting around the house getting fatter, older, and less employable by the minute (their money from Blossom long spent..waiting no doubt for the call back for that bit part on some straight to video or some Where Are They Now type show), Mayim basically said to-heck-with-this and left Hollywood to get her Ph.D in Neuroscience. She may still work in Hollywood but if Hollywood decides to turn its back on her (and it probably will), she at least has something really strong to fall back on. Way to go, Mayim! You rule! She is one of the few in Hollywood whom you can admire. Smart lady.
I cannot believe all of the bashing that is going on here. When I was little I LOVED watching Blossom. Personally, I thought she was very attractive. I honestly don't know what you all are talking about. To me the show jumped the shark when Finola Hughes joined. Nothing against Ms. Hughs, just didn't think the show needed a new character. Loved Six and Six's mom. Hated the episodes when Blossom visited her mom in Paris. Vinnie was annoying, but not as annoying as Joey. I don't like stupid charcters. Who was the older brother, the recovering addict? Really liked him. Anyway, all in all one of my fave shows growing up. And to all you haters the girl who played the titular character Blossom (can't remember her name, lol) is now a brilliant SCIENTIST.
The episode in which they visited Walt Disney World. It made my teeth fall out.
'Blossom' never jumped, it was always funny. What I would've liked to see more of was when Blossom played her trumpet. The only extended time we saw her doin' that was when she played 'Taps' to 'cheer herself up.' Incidentally, Mayim originally wanted to play trombone, but her arms were too short, accordin' to TV Guide, so she settled on trumpet. Her arms are probably long enough, now, where she COULD try the trombone. Mayim, feel free to write in, and tell us if you've done that.
This show was ok for what it was. Neither good nor bad. It did, however, have one episode that was one of the funniest that I've ever seen. When Blossom went to bed sick and dreamed she was a singer. It was a parady of Madonna's Truth or Dare. It was very smart and well played. Actually made me laugh out loud
Agreed with so many here -- the preachy nature of the show with no nuance, no grey area, had it jumping at episode 1. comments: Regarding this whole "looks" debate. Can people stop being defensive long enough to realize that commentators were not saying that the show was bad simply because Blossom was ugly? They were making a point about *realism* (getting all those hot guys). I suppose those unhappy with these comments wouldn't mind a show about a homely geeky boy who gets and constantly ditches the best looking girls in school? I know that tv is supposed to serve as wish-fulfillment for some, but *come on*...
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09-24-2013, 06:43 PM
Blossom Boned the Fish When...
