Was Cindy Webster a fan of retro things?

[RetroGuy2000]

So, thinking back to the Season One episode where we discover Blair's father's company is involved in making sexy women's lingerie, Cindy mentions how she wants to try on the 1940s look, and she's insistent that Blair has promised her she gets to try on the '40s look.

Then, in Season Two, Cindy makes the Frank Sinatra joke about Natalie, referring to the line "Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week", from Sinatra's 1945 hit "Saturday Night".

Is it possible that until now, we hadn't spotted another facet to Cindy's character? That she was into 1940s culture? And was this hobby or interest ever explored in any other episode?

[Lorimar Television]

Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

So, thinking back to the Season One episode where we discover Blair's father's company is involved in making sexy women's lingerie, Cindy mentions how she wants to try on the 1940s look, and she's insistent that Blair has promised her she gets to try on the '40s look.

Then, in Season Two, Cindy makes the Frank Sinatra joke about Natalie, referring to the line "Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week", from Sinatra's 1945 hit "Saturday Night".

Is it possible that until now, we hadn't spotted another facet to Cindy's character? That she was into 1940s culture? And was this hobby or interest ever explored in any other episode?

Hmmm it’s possible. She was only in 2 more eps. Idt TLC has any ref.

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

So, thinking back to the Season One episode where we discover Blair's father's company is involved in making sexy women's lingerie, Cindy mentions how she wants to try on the 1940s look, and she's insistent that Blair has promised her she gets to try on the '40s look.

Then, in Season Two, Cindy makes the Frank Sinatra joke about Natalie, referring to the line "Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week", from Sinatra's 1945 hit "Saturday Night".

Is it possible that until now, we hadn't spotted another facet to Cindy's character? That she was into 1940s culture? And was this hobby or interest ever explored in any other episode?

I don't think she had a retro interest (no offense "Retro", ha). I think the '40s fashion look is some ODD fluke that writer did for "Adoption". A one-time strange thing that doesn't seem to fit her character at all. Indeed, every time that line comes up when I watch I'm like: Now, if she'd said something like, "Now, I get to wear the '40s tennis look, you promised!", then that would make sense.

You can read into the "Saturday night" line if you want to, but I think she more likely was used to hearing her parents or her grandparents utter that as an altered saying, as she did here.

Heck, if Cindy didn't know who Margaret Thatcher was, maybe she didn't even know who "Frank Sinatra" was! (kinda kidding there, haha)

Originally Posted by Lorimar Television

Hmmm it’s possible. She was only in 2 more eps. Idt TLC has any ref.

Silly Lorsie, he meant any other episode in the entire series (meaning mostly season 1), not just any other episode after SS.

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

I don't think she had a retro interest (no offense "Retro", ha). I think the '40s fashion look is some ODD fluke that writer did for "Adoption". A one-time strange thing that doesn't seem to fit her character at all. Indeed, every time that line comes up when I watch I'm like: Now, if she'd said something like, "Now, I get to wear the '40s tennis look, you promised!", then that would make sense.

You can read into the "Saturday night" line if you want to, but I think she more likely was used to hearing her parents or her grandparents utter that as an altered saying, as she did here.

Heck, if Cindy didn't know who Margaret Thatcher was, maybe she didn't even know who "Frank Sinatra" was! (kinda kidding there, haha)

I'd always thought of the "'40s look" line as odd, too, but now, combined with the Sinatra reference, I'm not so sure anymore...

[Lorimar Television]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

Silly Lorsie, he meant any other episode in the entire series (meaning mostly season 1), not just any other episode after SS.

Well excuuuuuse me!

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by Lorimar Television

Well excuuuuuse me!

Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

I'd always thought of the "'40s look" line as odd, too, but now, combined with the Sinatra reference, I'm not so sure anymore...

But it might not be a Sinatra reference---knowingly, on her part, I mean. I knew that was a phrase of some type, but I never knew it started with ol' Blue Eyes.

I I -- ol' Blue "I"s!