The Facts Of Life (The Lady Who Came To Dinner S7/E20 Full Episode)

[80s Dude]

Originally Posted by James28

Yes, it is, because it was a mistake, and it just ruined the whole series for me.

If you had been Mindy Cohn's agent back in '86, I would have to say, "I'm sorry. No More Natalie Absences. End Of Discussion."

The reason Mindy missed this episode was that she was filming the movie "The Boy Who Could Fly". Her agent (Suzanne Schachter) pressured the Facts of Life producers and NBC execs to allow her time off so she could do a movie.

[James28]

Okay, this has to be asked sooner or later: How would you have fixed "The Lady Who Came to Dinner" to avoid Natalie's absence ENTIRELY? I would just do a cameo appearance at the very least.

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by James28

Okay, this has to be asked sooner or later: How would you have fixed "The Lady Who Came to Dinner" to avoid Natalie's absence ENTIRELY? I would just do a cameo appearance at the very least.

Have her at the house, off screen the whole time. Maybe she's sick and Tootie keeps taking her chicken soup and extra pillows and other things with jokey dialogue as she goes.

[James28]

I just discovered on YouTube that the closed-captioning for The Boy Who Could Fly is in all-uppercase. It's entirely the fault of horrible Warner Bros. Lorimar Productions produced the film for release by 20th Century Fox; WB's acquisition of Lorimar is the reason why The Boy Who Could Fly is part of WB's library and not 20th Century Fox's. This film can't already have its CC converted to mixed-case because of this?! Such a conversion would have already been taken care of if The Boy Who Could Fly had somehow stayed under Fox ownership instead, regardless of its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company. This just goes to show how far behind Warner Bros. has really fallen on converting the CC of their old films from uppercase to lowercase compared to the other major film studios. This only makes Mindy Cohn's absence from that "The Lady Who Came to Dinner" episode a bigger mistake than it already is, and it also makes me even more angry at whoever came up with the suggestion that Ms. Cohn be completely MIA from that episode.

[JamesG]

I don't see what the issue is regarding the closed captioning font.

Also, what does that have to do with Mindy Cohn?

[James28]

^^I'm going to make you see if you had just bothered to read my post right here. Here is one significant sentence from it:

Originally Posted by James28

All-capitals CC and the sound of Natalie Green's voice just DO NOT MIX!

I swear, I did not know beforehand that the current distribution for "The Boy Who Could Fly" was going to end up at Warner Bros.. It's all a matter of certain untrustworthy distributors who want to preserve decades-old all-capitals closed-captioning on SVoD platforms like Tubi and The Roku Channel and not being willing to convert the CC of their old movies and TV shows from uppercase to lowercase.