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Old 06-15-2020, 03:27 PM   #1
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Default Looking at the Different Strokes crossover "Bought and Sold" and how did Jo know who

Willis was when he came inside carrying the boxes for Blair? They never met based on the eps I saw. Only Arnold was in New girl during season 2 not willis. Plus Jo never appeared on DS, only Blair, Natalie, Tootie out of the main 4 girls. So how would she know who willis was???

Goof by writers? Remember this is Jo's first season and this is her very first scene with Willis
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Blair must have introduced Jo and Willis offscreen. That's the only logical explanation that I can think of.
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or on NBC in 1981
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Old 06-15-2020, 03:44 PM   #4
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Blair must have introduced Jo and Willis offscreen. That's the only logical explanation that I can think of.
Exactly. So many things happened off-screen we're not shown. Jo meeting Willis, more Lost Girl visits, morer parental visits, other story lines of the girls we have no idea of.
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Willis was helping Jo unpack boxes of Blair's makeup. Blair must have introduced them Blair took a page out of Mr. Howell's book and says only the commoners do manual labor.

Plus Jo met Arnold in the season opener of Season 2.
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I hated when the DS kids were forced into FOL episodes. The only one who would make sense was Kimberly and she only appeared once. I was glad when that nonsense stopped.
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Really? Several of us wish it had continued. And vice versa, with FOL appearing on DS.
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Really? Several of us wish it had continued. And vice versa, with FOL appearing on DS.
I know I believe it all stopped after 1981
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Willis was helping Jo unpack boxes of Blair's makeup. Blair must have introduced them Blair took a page out of Mr. Howell's book and says only the commoners do manual labor.

Plus Jo met Arnold in the season opener of Season 2.
Must be on the uncut version because I dont remember him in a scene with Jo
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Must be on the uncut version because I dont remember him in a scene with Jo
Never was part of the scene. The only thing that we know was that Blair had Jo and Willis unpack packages for her Countess cosmetics.
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Never was part of the scene. The only thing that we know was that Blair had Jo and Willis unpack packages for her Countess cosmetics.
I was talking about arnold's appearance
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I was talking about arnold's appearance
They do meet when Tootie and Arnold shows up in the room that Blair and Jo were getting to know one another. Arnold introduces Tootie to Blair's new roommate Molly style.

You can see the scene at the 11:54 mark here.
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They do meet when Tootie and Arnold shows up in the room that Blair and Jo were getting to know one another. Arnold introduces Tootie to Blair's new roommate Molly style.

You can see the scene at the 11:54 mark here.
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Thanks I remembered the part with Arnold leaving but him introducing tootie to Jo and Blair
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