Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs So I saw this in the Best Buy ads, and then looked it up on Amazon... will the Tall One be adding this to his Collection O' 80s TV DVDs? <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EQ45BU/qid=1147041206/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/104-1286206-6950354?n=130" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ ct/B000EQ45BU/qid=1147041206/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/104-1286206-6950354?n=130</a>
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I am sure you will.. But why the first season?? It was horrendous!!! Only Molly Ringwall fans would run for it. Is that why they threw season 2 in that package as well?? And where is my "Charlie's Angels, seasons 3,4, and 5" dvd sets???
Originally Posted By AladdinAZ Usually, when Seasons 1 and 2 are on the same set, season 1 was a midseason replacement, so season 1 is probably 10 or fewer episodes.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy I'll be goin' to Wal-Mart Tuesday mornin' at 3:30 a.m. to snatch my copy!! Been countin' down the days, baby! And TDLFAN, some fans don't like season 1, but I have to respectfully disagree; some fans love it, and I'm one of those. I LOVE season 1, it is so dear to my heart. Cindy Webster *rocks!* She was my favorite girl of the season 1 cast (and the only tomboy at Eastland before Jo was a speck in the writers' minds yet), and I was so disappointed that she was one of the ones axed...so afterwards I'd have to relish her cameos with the other axed girls in the next few seasons, lol. Two of my favorite episodes are the ones where Cindy and Sue Ann got into a fight over track, and the flood episode. I liked the whole dorm setting, too. After season 1 Blair is my favorite all the way, although she was mean to Cindy in the first episode and tried to make her think she was a lesbian when she wasn't (Blair even smoked a cigarette in a "Diff'rent Strokes" episode, lol). I love seasons 1, 2, 3, and 4 the best because I grew up with those in morning re-runs as a kid at my grandparents' house in the mid-80s, and in afternoons at 1:00 home from school in the summer with my sister. Mrs. Garrett is at her most *hilarious* in season 1! I love how she's tryin' to "find her niche" in the school and she's so uninhibited---wait'll you see her tipsy in episode 4, lol! <Usually, when Seasons 1 and 2 are on the same set, season 1 was a midseason replacement, so season 1 is probably 10 or fewer episodes.> Season 1 debuted in September 1979, then was yanked, then came back a bit re-tooled in early 1980. There were 13 episodes, 4 "original" ones, then the 9 others. Some of us fans were afraid they might not put season 1 on DVD, but I think what they're doing is *brilliant*---putting seasons 1 *and* 2 in the same package, so those of us who love the entire "Facts" history have the more obscure/rarer season 1, and, for more casual fans or people "out of the know", we're segued right into season 2 and the "classic cafeteria years" as I like to call 'em. I think they thought if they put season 1 out it wouldn't sell well and might spell doom for future "Facts" DVDs, but if they started with season 2, enough fans would be P.O.ed that they'd get earfuls of anger. So this makes *everybody* happy! :-D And yes, all the Molly Ringwald fans too, lol.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Both Arnold and Willis would make cameos during the second season of Facts of Life... whilst Blair, Tootie and Natalie would guest star on Diff'rent Strokes. As one customer on Amazon had mentioned, Eastland was Kimberly's school too, so shouldn't she have more cameos now and then?
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Curses... I forgot that Mrs. Garrett also made a cameo on DS when Mr. Drummond married Maggie. To keep continuity, Willis and Kimberly asked her "how the gourmet food shop was going".
Originally Posted By DlandDug Hear that whistling sound? It's all the preceding exposition, hurtling through space just above my head!
Originally Posted By MomofPrincess Oh, MAN! I *loved* Facts of Life! I always wanted to BE Blair. LOL Interestingly enough, she was my favorite mouseketeer, as well. Anyone remember her on the "New" Mickey Mouse Club (mid-70's)? I remember seeing her live at Disneyland during that time and being totally star-struck. LOL
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <Anyone remember her on the "New" Mickey Mouse Club (mid-70's)?> FBR would have been a little tyke (if he was born yet), but I'm sure he'll chime in! lol ;-) And MoP, how cool---Tootie used to be my favorite (after Season 1), but now it's Blair all the way! lol I just love her vanity and obsession with wealth---yet under all that shallowness is a heart of indeed pure "gold", lol.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF >>Anyone remember her on the "New" Mickey Mouse Club (mid-70's)?<< Oh yeah, her and Julie Piekarski. Julie was from my neck of the woods, and her being on the program was a Big Deal.
Originally Posted By MomofPrincess YES! Julie was from Buena Park, if I remember correctly. My parents, in some remote way, knew her parents. Crazy thing was, I was obsessed with the MMC for *years* prior to that, and used to run around the neighborhood wearing a blue skirt, a white t-shirt that my mom had written "SUSAN" in bold black ink across, and my mouse ears. I used to tell my parents, "If there's ever a new MMC, I want to try out for it!" Then the NMMC *did* happen and it was too late! I was crushed, really! Not like I ever had a chance in you-know-what of becoming a mouseketeer, but it was the idea that I couldn't even TRY OUT that KILLED me. LOL TDG, I liked Blair for the very same reasons! (Kinda like Delta Burke's character on Designing Women.)
Originally Posted By jasmine7 Until I read this thread, I hadn't realized Facts was coming out on DVD. I immediately added it to my Netflix queue, and, hopefully, I'll get it by this weekend. I was a huge fan of Facts when I was growing up as a kid. I think Jo & Natalie were probably my favorite characters, but I liked Blair, too. I can't wait to watch these episodes again.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I don't no much...but I do know this: You take the good You take the bad You take them both and there you have... well, you guessed it.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy I drove to 2 different Wal-Marts at 3:30 a.m. to get my Eastland girls, but neither one had it. Worse yet, I had to ask a burly masculine man at each one if they had "The Facts of Life" in boxes that may not have gotten unpacked yet. *blush*
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <TDG, I liked Blair for the very same reasons! (Kinda like Delta Burke's character on Designing Women.)> Yeah...Blair, Suzanne, and Blanche all have similarities, but differences too. Suzanne is childish and inappropriate, where Blair and Blanche is not. Blanche is SEXSEX*SEX* where the other two are not. And Blair rests on her laurels of thinking how utterly brilliant she is, where the other two don't. And LOL@"Mousketeer Susan"---man, I wish that woulda worked out, that woulda been cool to see our very own MoP on MMC DVDs!
Originally Posted By MomofPrincess ^LOL, you're so funny, TDG!!! Now you've got me wanting to track down the Facts of Life set! I *need* it! LOL How come your Wal-marts didn't have it, I wonder? Do you have any place else you can look? Target, maybe? Do you need me to send it to you if I find it first?
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <Suzanne is childish and inappropriate, where Blair and Blanche is not.> And apparently JohnS1 is a seasoned and experienced writer, where TDG is not. lol Yeah MoP, Wal-Mart will have it, it's just that don't always get every title on the day of its release---of course at 3:30 a.m. they had about all the new 5/9 titles *but* FoL! (This happened before with "The Golden Girls" Season 1) Best Buy here has it for $29.99, and I'm on the phone with the nearest Target as we speak! lol *****time passes***** Same price! I'm goin' to Best Buy cause it's closer so's I won't have to take a tardy at work, lol! See ya at Eastland!! "I just had another one of my BRILLLIANT ideas!" LOL!
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy It's sittin' right here in my work bag and I just wanna run home and pop 'em in! Dang the time clock! lol
