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RetroGuy2000 · 07-15-2017, 02:24 PM

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Oh yeah! Nat's sister! And Tootie's brother! Two other classic examples...Natalie having a sister should have been explored more since Natalie was adopted into that family, but by season 2 it seemed as if she were an only child. And Tootie, there was an entire episode built all around her brother Marshall whom she ADORED and was ECSTATIC about seeing, yet it was NEVER mentioned outside of that episode that Tootie was anything but an only child. Ugh! If they had made Marshal a favorite cousin instead of an immediate brother I wouldn't have had nearly this big a problem with this, lol.

YES. Make them cousins, so they can at least never be mentioned again. I believe Natalie even mentions later on that she's an "only child", as if she lied about her sister existing in the first place. Ugh!

I'd completely forgotten about Tootie's brother.

RetroGuy2000 · 07-15-2017, 02:31 PM

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Julie Piekarski was very pretty

Well, at least we can agree on that.

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She later appeared in an episode of Three's Company.

Yep, and Quincy, and afterschool specials, and TV movies, and now she's back to doing film!

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Molly Ringwald was much better on the Breakfast Club than on FOL.

Oh, she had definitely grown as an actress.

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Thank goodness they got rid of those four and brought in Jo.

They didn't need Female Fonzie.

It's funny, to me, that people will denigrate the Lost Girls' acting skills while completely ignoring the fact that Mindy Cohn had never acted a day in her life before coming into the show, and delivered lines while laughing at them.

TMC · 06-20-2018, 12:28 AM

The early seasons were actually quite edgy for their time. It was a Norman Lear show afterall, TFOL and One Day at a Time shared writers and producers. In the pilot, they even dealt with a character who might be a lesbian (Cindy). I think that the show got watered down though around the time George Clooney showed up (1985).

RetroGuy2000 · 06-20-2018, 12:37 AM

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The early seasons were actually quite edgy for their time. It was a Norman Lear show afterall, TFOL and One Day at a Time shared writers and producers. In the pilot, they even dealt with a character who might be a lesbian (Cindy). I think that the The show got watered down though around the time George Clooney showed up (1985).

I agree about the show originally being edgy for its time. As you say, in later years, it became conventional and watered down. The show became more and more about the 1980s fashions and fads: big hair, shoulder pads, trendy clothes, pop stars, Australian... everything.

Can you imagine Pippa possibly being a lesbian? No way would that have ever happened. And yet, eight years earlier, they weren't afraid to tackle that type of controversial subject.

'80sSitcoms · 06-20-2018, 11:00 AM

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Can you imagine Pippa possibly being a lesbian?

As bland and useless as she was, can anyone imagine Pippa being anything? lol

RetroGuy2000 · 06-20-2018, 05:45 PM

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As bland and useless as she was, can anyone imagine Pippa being anything? lol

BWAHAH!!!

I can imagine them giving her a boomerang, or maybe a skateboard, as a weekly prop.

I can imagine them giving her an outrageous haircut, or a storyline where she's doing badly in school.

But a plot involving anything serious? No way.

Pippa's storylines were strictly B-plot.

'80sSitcoms · 06-21-2018, 04:42 PM

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Pippa's storylines were strictly B-plot.

Not even! That's an insult to the term "B-plot"!

RetroGuy2000 · 06-21-2018, 05:56 PM

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Not even! That's an insult to the term "B-plot"!

I guess I should have said D-plot!

'80sSitcoms · 06-22-2018, 11:08 AM

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I guess I should have said D-plot!

That sounds closer, lol.

RetroGuy2000 · 06-22-2018, 02:07 PM

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That sounds closer, lol.

For me, a big part of the later seasons felt that way: of little substance, with more focus on fashion and hair than on the actual scripts. Pippa was emblematic of a larger issue. The only episodes I can abide in the later seasons are the Eastland-centric ones.

80s Dude · 12-11-2021, 10:48 AM

Many positive things about the 1st Season. Seemed more like a school. More diversity. All 7 girls were different. Kim's one liners. Blair being so different from late series Blair. They were not reluctant to discuss many issues.

Dr. Thong · 12-19-2021, 08:56 AM

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Many positive things about the 1st Season. Seemed more like a school. More diversity. All 7 girls were different. Kim's one liners. Blair being so different from late series Blair. They were not reluctant to discuss many issues.

I like the first season best for those reasons.

Plus, they axed Felice after season 1 and well...my 14 year old heart was broken.

RetroGuy2000 · 12-19-2021, 02:00 PM

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I like the first season best for those reasons.

Plus, they axed Felice after season 1 and well...my 14 year old heart was broken.

I was much younger than fourteen, but my heart was broken as well. I couldn't understand what had happened to my favorite characters. Where did they go?

valentina warner · 12-19-2021, 05:03 PM

Season 1 was without a doubt, the best, and after we lost the LOST GIRLS we also lost the roots where it all began.....

FOREVER SEASON 1!!!!

'80sSitcoms · 12-20-2021, 12:10 PM

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The only episodes I can abide in the later seasons are the Eastland-centric ones.

But that's hardly any episodes.

06-20-2018, 12:28 AM	#93
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 124,387	The early seasons were actually quite edgy for their time. It was a Norman Lear show afterall, TFOL and One Day at a Time shared writers and producers. In the pilot, they even dealt with a character who might be a lesbian (Cindy). I think that the show got watered down though around the time George Clooney showed up (1985).
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12-19-2021, 05:03 PM	#104
valentina warner Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 31, 2020 Location: The Uk Posts: 3,154	SEASON 1 Season 1 was without a doubt, the best, and after we lost the LOST GIRLS we also lost the *roots* where it all began..... FOREVER SEASON 1!!!!

12-11-2021, 10:48 AM	#101
80s Dude Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 24, 2019 Location: Toronto Posts: 3,810	Many positive things about the 1st Season. Seemed more like a school. More diversity. All 7 girls were different. Kim's one liners. Blair being so different from late series Blair. They were not reluctant to discuss many issues.