The show started declining when Tootie got rid of her mushroom haircut

[TV Guy]

I’m not claiming causation, just correlation. Think about it.

['80sSitcoms]

Well by that argument you could say the same thing about Natalie and her extra-long pigtails, or "when the show went to Edna's Edibles" because they both got new hairstyles for season 5 when they left Eastland for Edna's Edibles. And EE's were still some good times.

[RetroGuy2000]

Yeah, there definitely was a decline. But I think the causation was actually Mrs. G gradually being put out to pasture.

['80sSitcoms]

I don't think there was yet. Mrs. Garrett was heavily involved with EE and her girls.

[Wawwie]

The major causation is when Edna's Edibles burned down and was replaced with the horrendous Over Our Heads

[cfr1970]

I totally disagree. As hideous as that haircut was on her, she did some of her best scenes wearing it. The Jermaine Jackson episode if one of my favorite with her. I love how hysterical she gets with Mrs. Garret over seeing him, and in the end when she has her realization moment. One of Kim's best episodes of the series imo.

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by 50-year-old cfr1970

I totally disagree. As hideous as that haircut was on her, she did some of her best scenes wearing it. The Jermaine Jackson episode if one of my favorite with her. I love how hysterical she gets with Mrs. Garret over seeing him, and in the end when she has her realization moment. One of Kim's best episodes of the series imo.

No no no cfr, he said when she got rid of it, not when she got it---put your monocle on and read your screen right!

[cfr1970]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

No no no cfr, he said when she got rid of it, not when she got it---put your monocle on and read your screen right!

LOL! OHHHHH! I read it as when she GOT her mushroom cut!

I need to up the number on my readers LOL.

Well now i'll answer the actual post now.

I have to agree then. She did look SO much better when she got rid of it, but I can see it starting to go off the rails a little in the 6th season. But there are some really great episodes still....I'm just dreading the final 3 seasons because people don't seem to like them at all. (valentina i'm looking at you!)

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by cfr1970

I totally disagree.

Originally Posted by cfr1970

I have to agree then.

[cfr1970]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

Well changing just one little word in that thread title does change things completely!! I zoomed my little Chromebook at 120% so I won't make that mistake again!

Now get off my lawn!

['80sSitcoms]

Yes, sir!

[runs off mischievously with other younger posters]

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by cfr1970

LOL! OHHHHH! I read it as when she GOT her mushroom cut!

I need to up the number on my readers LOL.

Well now i'll answer the actual post now.

I have to agree then. She did look SO much better when she got rid of it, but I can see it starting to go off the rails a little in the 6th season. But there are some really great episodes still....I'm just dreading the final 3 seasons because people don't seem to like them at all. (valentina i'm looking at you!)

I feel similarly to Valentina... However, there are some good episodes mixed in with the other episodes. 8-01, 8-02, and 8-06 are classics, and I also enjoy 9-23 and 9-24. I can't find anything redeemable in Season 7. Except maybe 7-01.

[Impressions]

This is the most ridiculous statement I’ve read in awhile

The show has plenty of great episodes in the later years. The writing was hit or miss in the later years but a haircut being a jump the shark moment seems preposterous to me.

['80sSitcoms]

^---Well, in his defense, he was claiming the correlation as a coincidence.

[Lorimar Television]

I prefer Tootie with pigtails myself, the mushroom cut was my least fav of her hairstyles