All 9 Season of Facts of Life to be released on DVD

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by Bachu

I watched the episode were Bev adopted Andy. Some OTT moments with Andy acting out and it probably would have benefitted from being a two parter but good none the less.

Was it ever mentioned before that Andy was living with foster parents?

No. In "Write and Wrong" he had parents and a grandmother. Now, suddenly, they are foster parents and there's apparently no grandmother. Baaaad continuity.

[Bachu]

Perhaps they thought, a few throwaway lines; nobody will notice.

I assume they did this storyline to perhaps give Andy and Bev a bit more purpose perhaps??? More of a reason for Andy to always be around.

I can't imagine the Jo from the Eastman years wearing the clothes Jo does now. She seems way to stylish with her blazers.

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

No. In "Write and Wrong" he had parents and a grandmother. Now, suddenly, they are foster parents and there's apparently no grandmother. Baaaad continuity.

No continuity! lol

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by Bachu

Perhaps they thought, a few throwaway lines; nobody will notice.

I assume they did this storyline to perhaps give Andy and Bev a bit more purpose perhaps??? More of a reason for Andy to always be around.

Yep. I think that totally made sense. But don't do it within months of telling us he DOES have family.

I can't imagine the Jo from the Eastman years wearing the clothes Jo does now. She seems way to stylish with her blazers.

It actually gets worse...

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

No continuity! lol

True.

Even as a kid, I was shocked they would do this. I was all, "he had a grandmother!"

[Bachu]

I am now about 6 episodes into season 9 and I am quite enjoying it despite many here saying it is the worst season ever. And that producer Irma something or other who many of you would happily make vanish like the lost girls.

I quite like Pippa. I assume she and Andy will get into scrapes together.

The kitchen looks new. And like it is where the shop once was. Also seems to have staircase and the placing of it suggests it is almost next to/behind the one in the living room.

Where does Andy sleep? The basement?

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by Bachu

The kitchen looks new. And like it is where the shop once was. Also seems to have staircase and the placing of it suggests it is almost next to/behind the one in the living room.

The kitchen is actually "behind" where the shop was, on the other side of the staircase. The store space becomes Pippa and Andy's separate sleeping quarters (which we never see).

Originally Posted by Bachu

Where does Andy sleep? The basement?

Good question for before season 9, lol.

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by Bachu

I am now about 6 episodes into season 9 and I am quite enjoying it despite many here saying it is the worst season ever. And that producer Irma something or other who many of you would happily make vanish like the lost girls.

I quite like Pippa. I assume she and Andy will get into scrapes together.

The kitchen looks new. And like it is where the shop once was. Also seems to have staircase and the placing of it suggests it is almost next to/behind the one in the living room.

Where does Andy sleep? The basement?

There's actually a reference to where Andy sleeps in Season 8. In "Boy About the House", Andy says his room is right next to the boiler, indicating it's somewhere behind the staircase, or down in the basement. But in the same episode, Andy goes upstairs and to the left several times to change clothes. So I got the impression the boiler and his room is upstairs on the left. Of course, this doesn't make much sense as Beverly Anne's room is also to the left, and I doubt there's enough space for two bedrooms on the left.

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

There's actually a reference to where Andy sleeps in Season 8. In "Boy About the House", Andy says his room is right next to the boiler, indicating it's somewhere behind the staircase, or down in the basement. But in the same episode, Andy goes upstairs and to the left several times to change clothes. So I got the impression the boiler and his room is upstairs on the left. Of course, this doesn't make much sense as Beverly Anne's room is also to the left, and I doubt there's enough space for two bedrooms on the left.

Perhaps there's yet another hallway in there that leads to two bedrooms. One could continue going "to the left" over the kitchen, and maybe there's an adjacent bedroom over the store. Who knows with that house? lol

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

Perhaps there's yet another hallway in there that leads to two bedrooms. One could continue going "to the left" over the kitchen, and maybe there's an adjacent bedroom over the store. Who knows with that house? lol

I thought there might be a bedroom over the store, and the exterior shots clearly show there are windows above the shop on the second floor. But the interior shots seem to show a raftered ceiling in the store part of Edna's Edibles.

But the house, as cfr1970 said, was a black hole of rooms, especially in the later seasons: full of rooms we'd never heard of before, and never would again. Architecture that appeared and disappeared. In BAtH, Andy had a bedroom. Then they needed store space for Andy and Pippa's bedrooms. None of it made any sense.

[Bachu]

I am about 2/3 of the way through season 9. From what I have read, most here do not like it. Personally, I am guite enjoying. More than other seasons I would say. I read some of you found it sometimes to much focusing on the drama and I get and see that complaint though for me, a bit of drama in a comedy can then make the comedy line that comes next all the more funnier.

Why was Pippa sleeping in the couch? She could have shared with Jo and Blair. I mean, Natalie and Tootie did.

I am really liking Beverly-Ann.

I would rate my liking of the girls as starting with Natalie, Tootie, Blair and then Jo.

The new kitchen set; is that supposed to be in place of the one they had when the shop sold food? To me, the layout of the new kitchen would clearly intrude on where the rear of the shop was that looked out on the street. Mind, as viewers we are not supposed to look into these things to much. Mind, looks like they have not got rid of the shop and will turn it into two bedrooms that I think others have said we will never see.

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by Bachu

I am about 2/3 of the way through season 9. From what I have read, most here do not like it. Personally, I am guite enjoying. More than other seasons I would say.

I'm glad this season can bring a smile to your face, and keep some folks entertained. I remember thinking, even as a kid, that the 9th season felt very low-energy. I didn't know, at the time, that Nancy and Mindy had both decided this would be their last season. I was also really excited by the two-part finale.

Why was Pippa sleeping in the couch? She could have shared with Jo and Blair. I mean, Natalie and Tootie did.

The girls had only recently gotten their own rooms, after having to share with three other girls for seven years. They could have... but I'm kind of glad they didn't.

The addition of Andy and Pippa's bedroom made little sense to me. Andy already had a bedroom next to the boiler room, according to "Boy About the House". They couldn't decide if his bedroom was in a basement, downstairs, or upstairs. In BAtH, he goes upstairs to change clothes and study. But would a boiler room be upstairs? And Andy doesn't point upstairs when he talks about the room: he points across.

Does Andy's old room still exist in Season 9? It seems unclear. If so, they have a six-bedroom house.

I am really liking Beverly-Ann.

I would rate my liking of the girls as starting with Natalie, Tootie, Blair and then Jo.

The new kitchen set; is that supposed to be in place of the one they had when the shop sold food? To me, the layout of the new kitchen would clearly intrude on where the rear of the shop was that looked out on the street. Mind, as viewers we are not supposed to look into these things to much. Mind, looks like they have not got rid of the shop and will turn it into two bedrooms that I think others have said we will never see.

Yes, the layout of the new kitchen is odd. If they had put the entrance to the kitchen in the "northeast" corner, it would have fit better with the existing layout of the house. But by this point, the producers didn't seem to care much about continuity, and bedrooms, doors, and basic layouts were changing on a regular basis. It's a good thing the show was cancelled because in a few more seasons, that house would have been a palace!

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

The addition of Andy and Pippa's bedroom made little sense to me. Andy already had a bedroom next to the boiler room, according to "Boy About the House".

Did they say it was an actual room? I thought they said he just slept beside the boiler. But I haven't watched that one in a long time.

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

Did they say it was an actual room? I thought they said he just slept beside the boiler. But I haven't watched that one in a long time.

Andy says BA fixed up a "great room" for him, right next to the boiler. This indicates there's an actual room, rather than him sleeping in the same room as the boiler. Of course, BAtH doesn't mesh well with the continuity of previous episodes, where he had parents and a grandmother, so maybe it's BAtH that should be ignored. But if we ignore BAtH, then Andy never gets adopted, and yet is still living with the girls and Beverly Ann, so...

[Bachu]

I watched the episode were Natalie and Snake make love. Quite a good episode I thought. It handled the subject well and I enjoyed the serious bits which make the characters a little more three dimensional.

I wonder if they used Blairs pay cheque this week, seeing as she didn't appear, to pay for Natalie and Tooties bedroom set? It looked great. Cosy. Shame it was mostly seen in shadows.

Not sure how much I like Snake. Cannot work out if it is the actor or his performance that I am not warming to.