Jean Smart guest starred!

[cfr1970]

Wow, i'm watching where she plays the mother of a latchkey kid. (I was one and it really was no big deal)...but my God she's a giant standing next to Tootie LOL. I had no idea she guest starred on this! I'm sure I saw it when it originally aired, but didn't recognize her since it was before Designing Woman and she was still a "nobody".

Now I wonder how many other "nobodies" guested on FOL before going on to their own hit shows? (No need to mention Loony Clooney since his stint was well known)

[80s Dude]

Originally Posted by cfr1970

Wow, i'm watching where she plays the mother of a latchkey kid. (I was one and it really was no big deal)...but my God she's a giant standing next to Tootie LOL. I had no idea she guest starred on this! I'm sure I saw it when it originally aired, but didn't recognize her since it was before Designing Woman and she was still a "nobody".

Now I wonder how many other "nobodies" guested on FOL before going on to their own hit shows? (No need to mention Loony Clooney since his stint was well known)

Let's count the ways. There are many so I may have missed a few.

1. Helen Hunt in "Dope"
2. Richard Dean Anderson (original McGiver) in Brian and Sylvia
3. David Spade in "Big Apple Blues".
4. Juliette Lewis and Seth Green (who was flashed by Natalie's tatas when he was 14) in the finale.

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by cfr1970

Wow, i'm watching where she plays the mother of a latchkey kid. (I was one and it really was no big deal)

Originally Posted by cfr1970

...but my God she's a giant standing next to Tootie LOL.

YES! Honest, my first thought when I saw this thread title was, "haha, I'm gonna have to post first of all she is an absolute GIANTESS towering over Tootie and Mrs. Garrett!"

Originally Posted by cfr1970

I had no idea she guest starred on this!

Yup!

Originally Posted by cfr1970

I'm sure I saw it when it originally aired, but didn't recognize her since it was before Designing Woman and she was still a "nobody".

Yeah, DW (by the way, make sure you say "Designing Women", not "Woman", or else Molly Parker will ream you out for discounting 3 women!) would hit the air waves in the autumn of 1986.

Originally Posted by cfr1970

Now I wonder how many other "nobodies" guested on FOL before going on to their own hit shows? (No need to mention Loony Clooney since his stint was well known)

lol, that is a fun question. Well, Helen Hunt was the first future biggie, in episode 13 of season 1!

[cfr1970]

Originally Posted by 80s Dude

Let's count the ways. There are many so I may have missed a few.

1. Helen Hunt in "Dope"
2. Richard Dean Anderson (original McGiver) in Brian and Sylvia
3. David Spade in "Big Apple Blues".
4. Juliette Lewis and Seth Green (who was flashed by Natalie's tatas when he was 14) in the finale.

I remember the first 3 but it's been so long since I saw the finale so i'll look out for that one.

[cfr1970]

These Edna Edible years are SO new to me! It's like i'm seeing them for the very first time. and I love it!

The episode that played after Jean Smart is a serious one where Natalie goes out with Tootie's cousin and they delve into racism. Wow, it was handled so well and mature. I cried at the end scene between Nat & Tootie it was done that well. You don't see that kind of raw honesty depicted on TV today because everything now has to have an agenda.

If this episode was done today, everyone would be bashing Natalie and she'd probably be banned from the group and forever labeled a racist LOL. God I miss the 80's!

['80sSitcoms]

You'll also see Tom Eplin carry Blair into either the living room or the girls' room, I think in "Working It Out" (not a household name, but he would go on to soap stardom as "bad boy" Jake McKinnon on NBC's "Another World" from the mid-'80s to 1999).

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by cfr1970

These Edna Edible years are SO new to me! It's like i'm seeing them for the very first time. and I love it!

Such fun!

Originally Posted by cfr1970

The episode that played after Jean Smart is a serious one where Natalie goes out with Tootie's cousin and they delve into racism. Wow, it was handled so well and mature. I cried at the end scene between Nat & Tootie it was done that well. You don't see that kind of raw honesty depicted on TV today because everything now has to have an agenda.

If this episode was done today, everyone would be bashing Natalie and she'd probably be banned from the group and forever labeled a racist LOL. God I miss the 80's!

Lol, I do too. and yes, it is a good episode, only, in my re-written episode guide, it's Molly who dates Tootie's cousin.

[cfr1970]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

You'll also see Tom Eplin carry Blair into either the living room or the girls' room, I think in "Working It Out" (not a household name, but he would go on to soap stardom as "bad boy" Jake McKinnon on NBC's "Another World" from the mid-'80s to 1999).

GET OUT!! Jake McKinnon was on this?! I was HOOKED on AW all through the 80's and 90's. He was a bad boy who dated the good and evil twins on that show. Talk about your stereotypical daytime soap plot...but it was so good!

I have to see that episode now.

[cfr1970]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

Such fun!




Lol, I do too. and yes, it is a good episode, only, in my re-written episode guide, it's Molly who dates Tootie's cousin.

I don't understand---you re-wrote the episodes?! Like an alternate FOL reality?

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by cfr1970

GET OUT!! Jake McKinnon was on this?! I was HOOKED on AW all through the 80's and 90's. He was a bad boy who dated the good and evil twins on that show. Talk about your stereotypical daytime soap plot...but it was so good!

I have to see that episode now.

HAHA OMG yes! I LOVE '80s and '90s AW, and in fact, the first few months of this year I've BINGED on January to November 1992! LOVE the late '80s and early '90s of this show.

Now, he has maybe ONE line in his appearance, so just be warned he's definitely treated as a "nobody", lol. But it's definitely him!

(and man, he could be such a JERK in Bay City! LOL)

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by cfr1970

I don't understand---you re-wrote the episodes?! Like an alternate FOL reality?

Well, just the episode "guide"------it's the link in the bottom of most of my posts.


(I don't know why it doesn't appear in every post though---I'm kinda tech-advanced, but not that tech-advanced )

[80s Dude]

Mayim Bialik of Blossom was one of the students in the finale.

[cfr1970]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

HAHA OMG yes! I LOVE '80s and '90s AW, and in fact, the first few months of this year I've BINGED on January to November 1992! LOVE the late '80s and early '90s of this show.

Now, he has maybe ONE line in his appearance, so just be warned he's definitely treated as a "nobody", lol. But it's definitely him!

(and man, he could be such a JERK in Bay City! LOL)

I think the "Who Shot Jake" storyline and that whole year was AW's absolute best and peak. I found episodes on You Tube a couple years ago from that era and binged on the episodes from 90-92...after that year they seem to get less and less. But it was so fun to revisit that show again.

If you can post a link to the episode guide, i'd love to see it.

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by cfr1970

I think the "Who Shot Jake" storyline and that whole year was AW's absolute best and peak.

Oh yeah, and that ushered in 1991, what I LOVE to call "The Year of Frankie"---Frankie's my favorite character! And she was all over the place that year, with the Frankie/Cass/Kathleen triangle, her P.I. partnership with Ryan, her helping her aunt Sharlene & John with whacko Dr. Taylor Benson, man---such good stuff!! (my 2nd favorite is Iris Cory Wheeler and her delicious "Cultivated Australian" accent! )

Originally Posted by cfr1970

I found episodes on You Tube a couple years ago from that era and binged on the episodes from 90-92...after that year they seem to get less and less. But it was so fun to revisit that show again.

Yup, there are TONS of episodes on YT, thank goodness (I've made my own DVDs by downloading tons of YT vids and editing them together).

Originally Posted by cfr1970

If you can post a link to the episode guide, i'd love to see it.

It's my "signature" here, a blue link, so just look for it in one of my posts. If it doesn't appear in this one, t's definitely in one of mine further up on this page.

[cfr1970]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

Oh yeah, and that ushered in 1991, what I LOVE to call "The Year of Frankie"---Frankie's my favorite character! And she was all over the place that year, with the Frankie/Cass/Kathleen triangle, her P.I. partnership with Ryan, her helping her aunt Sharlene & John with whacko Dr. Taylor Benson, man---such good stuff!! (my 2nd favorite is Iris Cory Wheeler and her delicious "Cultivated Australian" accent! )



Yup, there are TONS of episodes on YT, thank goodness (I've made my own DVDs by downloading tons of YT vids and editing them together).




It's my "signature" here, a blue link, so just look for it in one of my posts. If it doesn't appear in this one, t's definitely in one of mine further up on this page.

All of it 100% agree about AW. I loved every single thing about 1991. The Cass/Frankie/Kathleen story was so well done, while you rooted for Frankie, you couldn't help but also root for Kathleen too because of the past history. Oh God I could go on and on and on about it all...Sharlene and crazy Taylor, Lorna, Carl Hutchins...oh the memories!...And yes, Iris Wheeler who I called the Alexis Carrington of Daytime because of that accent, even though it was Australian and not British lol.


I'll look for that signature up thread. It's not showing in the later posts.