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Warner520 · 01-01-2001, 09:07 PM

Hey - what do your friends think of The Facts of Life ?? My best friend cannot stand the show ! She has only seen one episode, and that wasn't such a great one. She won't give The Facts of Life another chance !

Cokies · 01-01-2001, 09:15 PM

My best friend says she can't stand it, but she can tolerate it, and laugh at an episode here and then. Some of my other friends make fun of me all the time that I watch the show, but they watch it too! Just like my parents, they think it's just a 'phase'.

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"It was just like Saturday Night Fever, except it was a Friday."

Jo_Polniaczek · 01-01-2001, 09:20 PM

My friends don't watch it either....
One of my friends used to watch it but know she thinks she's to old to watch it.
My parents hate it and want nothing to do with it

Michele35 · 01-01-2001, 09:23 PM

Back when I was a teenager during FOL original run on NBC I thought I was too 'mature' for it during most of its run and my friends and I didn't watch it. Now 15 years later I love it and most of my old friends would think I'm crazy! I guess I'm not too cool now to admit that I like FOL

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Tootie: Muffy? Her name is Muffy? What kind of person is named Muffy?

Jo: Beats me, Tootie.

coily2 · 01-01-2001, 09:33 PM

I watched it religiously when it was originally on NBC until the last couple of seasons, because I also felt that I was too cool. Now I watch it with several friends who are all N@N junkies. My husband thinks I'm crazy though....

01-01-2001, 09:34 PM

My two best friends absolutely HATE the show. If I say one thing about it, they tell me to shut up. They refuse to watch it. They're always telling me how dumb it is. Once, they even made a joke and compared it to Sesame Street.

The Obsolete Man · 01-01-2001, 09:47 PM

I hooked a guy I know on FOL (I even call him Tootie), and the rest can deal with the show.

TVaddict · 01-01-2001, 10:07 PM

One of my best friends likes the show a lot (probably not as much as I do) we never watched it together, but when I came back after being away for like 3 months it just came up that we had both been watching it a lot. I wasn't surprised though, we seem to like all the same shows. And while I was away I got my roommate, who never owned a TV and claims to hate TV, interested in the show. She wasn't around much to watch it, but I caught her singing along to the theme song after a while. She just couldn't get enough of Natalie. And we used to make fun of Jo's bad 80's outfits. (post army jacket, into the time when she was wearing suits and ties, or those awful one-piece things like when they were in Ft. Lauderdale) Anyway, Not too sure about my other friends yet, haven't seen them in a while. I'll get them hooked soon enough.

ks · 01-01-2001, 10:09 PM

My friends aren't too crazy about it and a few of them haven't even seen it. Of course they know about it though because I'm always talking about it!
My parents don't care for it either, saying it wasn't one of their favorites...they really just sorta brush it off and say that I'm only going through a "phase".
I LOVE it though!

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[Jo to Blair]

Jo: Do you know that when you shake hands your lips 'pucker'?
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Beverly Ann: Let's see. It's tomorrow in Africa so if I want to talk to Edna today then I should have called her yesterday...
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Natalie: It's a busy day for me. I have to go down to the newspaper office, get a lung transplant...
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Jo-Po Rox · 01-01-2001, 10:16 PM

Well, my friends think Im nuts for totally loving a show that last aired an original episode 13 years ago. O well, forget them!

LaverneShirley · 01-01-2001, 10:22 PM

One of my best friend's used to watch it on USA, and now she watches it occasionally. She likes it, it's just not one of her favorite shows. My other best friend loved it when it came on, but she goes to bed at 9:30 so rarely sees it. I need to let her borrow my tapes, lol... other than that, I really don't have any close friends that know what I watch. I live in a neighborhood full of ex-best friends who are now bitches who have become "too good for me"

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"Well, Laverne is sort of childish" -Shirley

"Childish? Childish? Coming from a grown woman who throws tea parties for her stuffed cat!" -Laverne

"Well at least I don't sew L's on everything I wear!" -Shirley

"Well that would be pretty stupid considering your name's Shirley!" -Laverne

iluvfacts14 · 01-01-2001, 10:55 PM

My best friends has 'disowned' me. She cannot stand the show! Her exact words are, "How can you sit in front of the TV and watch people who act soooo STUPID?!?" Shoe obviously saw a really bad episode, or one of the "make-believe" ones!! LOL Her loss.

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Mr. Bradley: .....and that girls is the thrill of victory!

Tootie: Or the agony of DA FEET!

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Natalie: Who wants to be a skinny pencil? I'd rather be a happy magic marker!

01-02-2001, 06:36 AM

I guess I'm lucky. My friends who've seen the show all loved it. At first that got annoyed with me because we'd be sitting around then I'd scream for everyone to shut up because FOL was coming on and demanded silence until the end of the credits, but now I've got almost everybody hooked. My friends have excepted that if they're at my house (or even at their house) when FOL comes on if they don't want to be strangled, they sit and watch silently. My best friend's only seen the show a few times and 'doesn't have an opinion on it', but I say she's in denial. She loves it as much as me (Well... close to as much) and just can't admit it.

JPolniaczek01 · 01-02-2001, 10:19 AM

me and one of my friends watch it all the time and we got our entire history class watcing it! it is so cool cause we all talk about it durin class... but all my other friends just laugh at me about it! : )

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Roy:Whats wrong my little cucumber?
Jo

on't call me vegetables Roy!
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Tootie:Muffy? What Kind of name is Muffy?
Jo:I dont know, Tootie
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Jo:Heres to those who wish me well, all the rest can go to...Jersey

foljbnt101 · 01-02-2001, 04:29 PM

yea my best friend watched it ONCE and hated it, im not sure what episode she saw thought, but proabley one of the messed up ones...so i know a girl who i am kinda friends with but not really who lioves the fol~i have to share my obbsession wirth my teachers cuz all my friends have no clue really about FOL! i am sort of obssessed with 80's (music, movies, tv) but my favortie thing of all time from the 80'ds is obvious FOL and my friends make fun of me and my obbsession.

01-01-2001, 09:07 PM	#1
Warner520 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Dec 05, 2000 Location: Eastland Academy for Girls, Michigan Posts: 488	I'm just wondering . . . Hey - what do your friends think of The Facts of Life ?? My best friend cannot stand the show ! She has only seen one episode, and that wasn't such a great one. She won't give The Facts of Life another chance !

01-01-2001, 09:34 PM	#6
A.J. Guest Posts: n/a	My two best friends absolutely HATE the show. If I say one thing about it, they tell me to shut up. They refuse to watch it. They're always telling me how dumb it is. Once, they even made a joke and compared it to Sesame Street.
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01-02-2001, 06:36 AM	#13
EastlandCutie Guest Posts: n/a	I guess I'm lucky. My friends who've seen the show all loved it. At first that got annoyed with me because we'd be sitting around then I'd scream for everyone to shut up because FOL was coming on and demanded silence until the end of the credits, but now I've got almost everybody hooked. My friends have excepted that if they're at my house (or even at their house) when FOL comes on if they don't want to be strangled, they sit and watch silently. My best friend's only seen the show a few times and 'doesn't have an opinion on it', but I say she's in denial. She loves it as much as me (Well... close to as much) and just can't admit it.
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01-02-2001, 10:19 AM	#14
JPolniaczek01 Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jan 02, 2001 Location: Illinois Posts: 35	me and one of my friends watch it all the time and we got our entire history class watcing it! it is so cool cause we all talk about it durin class... but all my other friends just laugh at me about it! : ) ------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~* Roy:Whats wrong my little cucumber? Joon't call me vegetables Roy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tootie:Muffy? What Kind of name is Muffy? Jo:I dont know, Tootie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jo:Heres to those who wish me well, all the rest can go to...Jersey

01-01-2001, 09:15 PM	#2
Cokies Head Goonie Senior Member Join Date: Oct 28, 2000 Location: Benicia, CA USA Posts: 1,719	My best friend says she can't stand it, but she can tolerate it, and laugh at an episode here and then. Some of my other friends make fun of me all the time that I watch the show, but they watch it too! Just like my parents, they think it's just a 'phase'. ------------------ "It was just like Saturday Night Fever, except it was a Friday."

01-01-2001, 09:20 PM	#3
Jo_Polniaczek Professional Lurker Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 07, 2000 Location: The middle of Nowhere Posts: 783	My friends don't watch it either.... One of my friends used to watch it but know she thinks she's to old to watch it. My parents hate it and want nothing to do with it

01-01-2001, 09:23 PM	#4
Michele35 Jazz Girl Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 08, 2000 Location: Los Angeles,CA Posts: 804	Back when I was a teenager during FOL original run on NBC I thought I was too 'mature' for it during most of its run and my friends and I didn't watch it. Now 15 years later I love it and most of my old friends would think I'm crazy! I guess I'm not too cool now to admit that I like FOL ------------------ Tootie: Muffy? Her name is Muffy? What kind of person is named Muffy? Jo: Beats me, Tootie.

01-01-2001, 09:33 PM	#5
coily2 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 28, 2000 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 969	I watched it religiously when it was originally on NBC until the last couple of seasons, because I also felt that I was too cool. Now I watch it with several friends who are all N@N junkies. My husband thinks I'm crazy though....

01-01-2001, 09:47 PM	#7
The Obsolete Man Member Forum Regular Join Date: Nov 18, 2000 Location: Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, Earth Prime Posts: 567	I hooked a guy I know on FOL (I even call him Tootie), and the rest can deal with the show.

01-01-2001, 10:07 PM	#8
TVaddict Member Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 30, 2000 Location: NH Posts: 562	One of my best friends likes the show a lot (probably not as much as I do) we never watched it together, but when I came back after being away for like 3 months it just came up that we had both been watching it a lot. I wasn't surprised though, we seem to like all the same shows. And while I was away I got my roommate, who never owned a TV and claims to hate TV, interested in the show. She wasn't around much to watch it, but I caught her singing along to the theme song after a while. She just couldn't get enough of Natalie. And we used to make fun of Jo's bad 80's outfits. (post army jacket, into the time when she was wearing suits and ties, or those awful one-piece things like when they were in Ft. Lauderdale) Anyway, Not too sure about my other friends yet, haven't seen them in a while. I'll get them hooked soon enough.

01-01-2001, 10:09 PM	#9
ks Certifiably Insane Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 21, 2000 Location: I live in my hole... Posts: 5,501	My friends aren't too crazy about it and a few of them haven't even seen it. Of course they know about it though because I'm always talking about it! My parents don't care for it either, saying it wasn't one of their favorites...they really just sorta brush it off and say that I'm only going through a "phase". I LOVE it though! ------------------ *********************** [Jo to Blair] Jo: Do you know that when you shake hands your lips 'pucker'? ********************* Beverly Ann: Let's see. It's tomorrow in Africa so if I want to talk to Edna today then I should have called her yesterday... ********************* Natalie: It's a busy day for me. I have to go down to the newspaper office, get a lung transplant... ***********************

01-01-2001, 10:16 PM	#10
Jo-Po Rox Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Dec 17, 2000 Location: Bronx, NY, USA Posts: 171	Well, my friends think Im nuts for totally loving a show that last aired an original episode 13 years ago. O well, forget them!

01-01-2001, 10:22 PM	#11
LaverneShirley Mission Doll Senior Member Join Date: Jul 26, 2000 Location: Liberty Twp, OH Posts: 1,552	One of my best friend's used to watch it on USA, and now she watches it occasionally. She likes it, it's just not one of her favorite shows. My other best friend loved it when it came on, but she goes to bed at 9:30 so rarely sees it. I need to let her borrow my tapes, lol... other than that, I really don't have any close friends that know what I watch. I live in a neighborhood full of ex-best friends who are now bitches who have become "too good for me" ------------------ "Well, Laverne is sort of childish" -Shirley "Childish? Childish? Coming from a grown woman who throws tea parties for her stuffed cat!" -Laverne "Well at least I don't sew L's on everything I wear!" -Shirley "Well that would be pretty stupid considering your name's Shirley!" -Laverne

01-01-2001, 10:55 PM	#12
iluvfacts14 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Dec 23, 2000 Location: Eastland School for Girls, Peekskill, NY, U.S.A. Posts: 256	My best friends has 'disowned' me. She cannot stand the show! Her exact words are, "How can you sit in front of the TV and watch people who act soooo STUPID?!?" Shoe obviously saw a really bad episode, or one of the "make-believe" ones!! LOL Her loss. ------------------ Mr. Bradley: .....and that girls is the thrill of victory! Tootie: Or the agony of DA FEET! -------------* Natalie: Who wants to be a skinny pencil? I'd rather be a happy magic marker!

01-02-2001, 04:29 PM	#15
foljbnt101 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Dec 16, 2000 Posts: 107	yea my best friend watched it ONCE and hated it, im not sure what episode she saw thought, but proabley one of the messed up ones...so i know a girl who i am kinda friends with but not really who lioves the fol~i have to share my obbsession wirth my teachers cuz all my friends have no clue really about FOL! i am sort of obssessed with 80's (music, movies, tv) but my favortie thing of all time from the 80'ds is obvious FOL and my friends make fun of me and my obbsession.