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catlover79 · 08-29-2010, 12:12 AM

I'm not that far into the series yet, and I know we have a couple of more months before the release of S5 on DVD. I was just wondering how these couples met. I know that in the 2001 reunion movie, Rick was still married to Jo (although Scott Bryce was no longer playing the role). Jeff had since died, although he and Tootie had a daughter together. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks.

Smartboy · 08-29-2010, 12:37 AM

I am not sure about Jo and Rick, but I do know the situation with Jeff and Tootie. They met during the first year of the Edna's Edibles era. He walked into the store and she flirted with him. At this stage in the game, he was a senior in high school. They remained together during his first year at college which was at Penn State. They were then on again, off again for a few seasons. I believe that it was in the second to last season that they finely got engaged.

Mr. Television · 08-29-2010, 12:43 AM

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I am not sure about Jo and Rick, but I do know the situation with Jeff and Tootie. They met during the first year of the Edna's Edibles era. He walked into the store and she flirted with him. At this stage in the game, he was a senior in high school. They remained together during his first year at college which was at Penn State. They were then on again, off again for a few seasons. I believe that it was in the second to last season that they finely got engaged.

She also found out he couldn't read when they first met. That was another one of those special episodes that the FOL was famous for.

I can't really remember how Jo and Rick met either. It's been a long time since I saw these episodes.

catlover79 · 08-29-2010, 12:59 AM

Thanks, guys!! S5, to be released on DVD on November 2, is actually the beginning of the Edna's Edibles era. So it won't be long until we get to see Tootie and Jeff's meeting. Rick, I believe, doesn't show up until the final season.

JoPol_wannabe · 08-29-2010, 03:56 PM

How did Rick and Jo meet. Well Rick would frequently come hang out at the childrens center that Jo worked at but it wasn't till the ep where Rick thought he was going to die by his 30th birthday like all the other male members of his family that you saw him and Jo really starting to like each other.

catlover79 · 08-29-2010, 03:59 PM

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How did Rick and Jo meet. Well Rick would frequently come hang out at the childrens center that Jo worked at but it wasn't till the ep where Rick thought he was going to die by his 30th birthday like all the other male members of his family that you saw him and Jo really starting to like each other.

Thanks!! Was that in the last season? I know their wedding was the third-to-last episode, or something close to that. I also read somewhere that Nancy McKeon really lobbied for Scott Bryce to get the role, because she was a big fan of his work (as Craig Montgomery) on the soon-to-be-defunct soap opera, As The World Turns.

Johnny be good! · 08-31-2010, 02:02 PM

They later got married in the same season.

catlover79 · 09-01-2010, 12:31 AM

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They later got married in the same season.

Yup - I caught the wedding episode on YouTube. I thought it was very touching that Jo chose Blair to be her maid-of-honor.

Johnny be good! · 09-01-2010, 04:59 PM

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Yup - I caught the wedding episode on YouTube. I thought it was very touching that Jo chose Blair to be her maid-of-honor.

It really was.

ZeldaGilroy · 09-04-2010, 09:37 PM

The episode where Rick thinks he is going to die before his 30th birthday is actually the first episode he appears in. He is in one more episode after that where Jo's dad hates him because he is worried about his daughter being with a good-for-nothing musician. The next episode he appears in is the one where they get married. A little too rushed of a romance if you ask me, but then again I have never been a huge Rick fan.

catlover79 · 09-04-2010, 09:41 PM

Well, at least we know their marriage lasted and produced a daughter, even though neither Nancy McKeon nor Scott Bryce showed up for the reunion movie. Now back to Tootie and Jeff - it sounds like their courtship was longer and much more drawn out. Was Jeff always played by the same actor?

ZeldaGilroy · 09-04-2010, 09:46 PM

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Well, at least we know their marriage lasted and produced a daughter, even though neither Nancy McKeon nor Scott Bryce showed up for the reunion movie. Now back to Tootie and Jeff - it sounds like their courtship was longer and much more drawn out. Was Jeff always played by the same actor?

Jeff was always played by the same actor. Tootie and Jeff met when he was a senior and like someone else mentioned she discovered he was illiterate. He went off to college (apparently he learned to read very quickly) and he ended up breaking up with Tootie who was still in highschool. Later, Jeff came back to town to visit and he and Tootie started seeing each other again. They had a long distance relationship while he was in college studying marine biology and she finished Eastland and started school at Langley. Jeff proposed to her at I believe the beginning of the last season, but they did not actually get married on the show. I was so sad they killed him off in the reunion. I would rather they had killed off Rick, especially since Scott Bryce didn't appear in the movie anyway.

catlover79 · 09-04-2010, 09:48 PM

Thank you, Billie!!!

ZeldaGilroy · 09-04-2010, 09:52 PM

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Thank you, Billie!!!

You're welcome! I love this show so much and I know a lot about it if you have any other questions. I think I've pretty much memorized all 9 seasons.

catlover79 · 09-04-2010, 09:56 PM

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You're welcome! I love this show so much and I know a lot about it if you have any other questions. I think I've pretty much memorized all 9 seasons.

S5, which comes out on DVD in November, is the beginning of the Edna's Edibles era, if I'm not mistaken. That should be where we first meet Jeff, right?

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Smartboy Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 06, 2007 Location: South Orange, NJ Posts: 4,231	I am not sure about Jo and Rick, but I do know the situation with Jeff and Tootie. They met during the first year of the Edna's Edibles era. He walked into the store and she flirted with him. At this stage in the game, he was a senior in high school. They remained together during his first year at college which was at Penn State. They were then on again, off again for a few seasons. I believe that it was in the second to last season that they finely got engaged.

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catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,376	Thanks, guys!! S5, to be released on DVD on November 2, is actually the beginning of the Edna's Edibles era. So it won't be long until we get to see Tootie and Jeff's meeting. Rick, I believe, doesn't show up until the final season.

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JoPol_wannabe Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 11, 2001 Location: Nebraska Posts: 3,036	How did Rick and Jo meet. Well Rick would frequently come hang out at the childrens center that Jo worked at but it wasn't till the ep where Rick thought he was going to die by his 30th birthday like all the other male members of his family that you saw him and Jo really starting to like each other.

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catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,376	Well, at least we know their marriage lasted and produced a daughter, even though neither Nancy McKeon nor Scott Bryce showed up for the reunion movie. Now back to Tootie and Jeff - it sounds like their courtship was longer and much more drawn out. Was Jeff always played by the same actor?

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catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,376	Thank you, Billie!!!