Tina Yothers RUINED "Family Ties"

Just ruined it.

Her character was so unnecessary and she was so awful as an actor.

Even her fellow actor brothers "Poindexter" and "Bumpers" were better than her

by Anonymousreply 267September 14, 2022 7:15 PM

No wonder she was reduced to judging a kids' Halloween costume contest at South Park Elementary.

by Anonymousreply 1April 10, 2022 12:33 PM

Agree. Awful in every way. How could everyone involved not know this?

by Anonymousreply 2April 10, 2022 12:37 PM

She nailed the role of Tonya Harding, making Margot Robie look amateurish.

by Anonymousreply 3April 10, 2022 12:38 PM

Michael J. Fox was an over-rated midget.

by Anonymousreply 4April 10, 2022 1:00 PM

She was just hired for her looks.

by Anonymousreply 5April 10, 2022 1:14 PM

[quote] She was just hired for her looks.

Was the casting director visually impaired?

by Anonymousreply 6April 10, 2022 1:26 PM

She was like the Jeremy Miller from the other family sitcom GROWING PAINS. Both started out cute as the youngest sibling, but grew into not-so-cute adolescents. I don't know what happened on FAMILY TIES, but they did Miller dirty by bringing in Leonardo DiCaprio as the show's new teen heartthrob to replace Kirk Cameron.

by Anonymousreply 7April 10, 2022 1:34 PM

Jeremy looked better than Tina as they grew up.

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by Anonymousreply 9April 10, 2022 1:47 PM

"Mallory"/Justine Bateman was no better. Her "dumb" or dense schtick on the show got tired very quickly. Even as a young gayling I could sense how one note the character was.

by Anonymousreply 10April 10, 2022 1:52 PM

They needed an extra sibling for when Justine grew-up.

by Anonymousreply 11April 10, 2022 1:59 PM

She never didn’t have an awkward age, she’s still probably in one now.

by Anonymousreply 12April 10, 2022 2:10 PM

As soon as I saw that look in her eyes, I knew she was a mouth breather. The nose and chin were in a race.

by Anonymousreply 13April 10, 2022 2:13 PM

R8 beat me to it. She got prettier as she got older. Always loved this scene.

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by Anonymousreply 14April 10, 2022 2:17 PM

She didn't ruin this. Tina singing L-O-V-E International in a Rome ice cream shop was an ultimate 80s moment.

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by Anonymousreply 16April 10, 2022 2:27 PM

One of the weakest '80s sitcoms. Even Gimme a Break! was better than this.

If MJF hadn't have become a huge star this show would have been relegated to the dustbin long ago.

by Anonymousreply 17April 10, 2022 2:32 PM

There was never a question of whether she was safe with Meredith.

A “BamBam Baby”, she looked like somebody picked her up by the feet and hit concrete with her face a few times.

by Anonymousreply 18April 10, 2022 2:34 PM

Nick was hot enough to make up for Yothers, the Dorse.

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by Anonymousreply 20April 10, 2022 2:38 PM

They cast her to build on the popularity of cabbage patch dolls that year.

by Anonymousreply 21April 10, 2022 2:39 PM

It was an awful show. And I say that as somebody who watched it as a child. But coming back to it in adulthood... *shudder*

Michael Gross was a bit of a hot daddy, though. But not reason enough to watch. If course it was the other Michael who made the show such a hit.

by Anonymousreply 22April 10, 2022 2:39 PM

Why is it ALWAYS the Tina's?

by Anonymousreply 23April 10, 2022 2:40 PM

I don’t remember her character having a personality.

by Anonymousreply 24April 10, 2022 2:40 PM

Her hair got so 80s big as the show went on

by Anonymousreply 25April 10, 2022 3:15 PM

R20 I forgot about him - he was very hot.

by Anonymousreply 26April 10, 2022 3:20 PM

I remember reading (and likely on Datalounge, now that I think about it) that the show was supposed to be a vehicle for the parents, but that Fox's Young Republican quickly became a fan favorite so the show was rejiggered to focus on him. Which resulted in some unhappy parents.

The other DL-related reason I am aware of this show is Meredith Baxter-Lesbian always struck me as the most DL of nicknames

by Anonymousreply 27April 10, 2022 3:23 PM

Didn't Mallory's boyfriend get a spin-off?

by Anonymousreply 28April 10, 2022 3:23 PM

She really didn't act much after the show. A couple of TV movies including Laker Girls '90 and a Tonya Harding movie '93

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by Anonymousreply 29April 10, 2022 3:29 PM

Someone besides me remembers Laker Girls! Yessssssss

by Anonymousreply 30April 10, 2022 3:31 PM

^ she looks like a Mark McKinney KITH character

by Anonymousreply 31April 10, 2022 3:35 PM

Meredith had a great agent who negotiated that she’d always be the top-paid cast member.

As FOX’s quote rose with his popularity, so did Meredith’s

by Anonymousreply 33April 10, 2022 3:39 PM

R38 is that why she wasn't a bitch a la Valerie Harper to Jason Bateman?

by Anonymousreply 35April 10, 2022 3:44 PM

His ear jewelry... both very 80s and pretty edgy for the time.

by Anonymousreply 36April 10, 2022 3:46 PM

I’m guessing so. I think Meredith made like 1K more an episode than FOX.

by Anonymousreply 37April 10, 2022 3:47 PM

[quote]"Mallory"/Justine Bateman was no better.

No, she was a great foil for Alex/MJF

Tina was no actress and her character really had nothing to do. In a way Meredith Baxter also had nothing to do and was boring.

The dad, Michael Gross was a great reactor to situations. The show could've got along fine with just Mallory, Steven and Alex and Skippy

by Anonymousreply 38April 10, 2022 3:50 PM

I thought Mallory’s boyfriend was named Skippy?

by Anonymousreply 39April 10, 2022 3:54 PM

Wasn't Skippy a neighbor and a good kid Mallory isn't in to? and then Nick is the real boyfriend

by Anonymousreply 40April 10, 2022 4:00 PM

Skippy appears a lot in seasons 3 and 4 and Nick is seasons 4-7 according to this so I think the characters were probably played off of each other.

by Anonymousreply 41April 10, 2022 4:34 PM

Skippy was so unattractive …he looked like someone’s autistic lesbian maiden aunt

by Anonymousreply 42April 10, 2022 4:50 PM

This is why I loved Married with Children. They had two kids who played each other well. Most married couples stop at two. They tried to write in a pregnancy but made it just a dream and then add a younger kid in season 7 but wrote him off after a few episodes because nobody liked it. At least they acknowledged it wasn't going to add anything

I hate how every family sitcom needed to have a younger cutesy child who is just annoying and unfunny. Or they throw in a baby storyline and they age them up to a little 5 year old and insult the audience's intelligence.

by Anonymousreply 43April 10, 2022 4:52 PM

R42, he was a notch above Cousin Geri.

by Anonymousreply 44April 10, 2022 4:53 PM

Yothers' character didn't have enough to do. She starts the show as the cute little kid who just has to bother her older siblings once in a while. They didn't give her a ton of personality.

By the end of the series.. that hair and she was getting big too. Late 80s Facts of Life big if you know what I mean.

by Anonymousreply 45April 10, 2022 4:56 PM

As messed up to say. Family Matters also benefited from dropping the third child Judy because she was also there to be just cute and sweet. I do feel bad for her actress but I think it just shows a lot of sitcoms don't need to have the two teens and little kid dynamic. Teen characters are able to do more and express more personality, so writers will naturally have more to do with them. Once the little kid becomes a teen, the show already used up all the typical teen plots on the older child characters

by Anonymousreply 46April 10, 2022 4:58 PM

[quote]They tried to write in a pregnancy but made it just a dream and then add a younger kid in season 7 but wrote him off after a few episodes because nobody liked it

A lot of written in pregnancies are because the actress got pregnant in real life, such as Meredith Baxter or Cindy Williams.

by Anonymousreply 47April 10, 2022 5:01 PM

R47 Did they write in the pregnancy on Laverne & Shirley?

by Anonymousreply 48April 10, 2022 5:02 PM

[quote]Skippy was so unattractive …he looked like someone’s autistic lesbian maiden aunt

😂 I always thought he looked like a Saturday morning cartoon character, but yours works, too. Especially as a toon. 🤣

by Anonymousreply 49April 10, 2022 5:05 PM

Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross were/are good actors. The banter between the parents was often really good.

by Anonymousreply 50April 10, 2022 5:08 PM

[quote]Did they write in the pregnancy on Laverne & Shirley?

Yes, they originally planned to have Shirley give birth after she married her husband who was in Vietnam. She went from Shirley Feeney to Shirley Meaney. But then like the next episode, Cindy left and it was written she went to be with her husband.

by Anonymousreply 51April 10, 2022 5:12 PM

Skippy (Marc Price) turned into John Goodman

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by Anonymousreply 52April 10, 2022 5:14 PM

[quote]As messed up to say. Family Matters also benefited from dropping the third child Judy because she was also there to be just cute and sweet. I do feel bad for her actress but I think it just shows a lot of sitcoms don't need to have the two teens and little kid dynamic.

And by the time of Judy's disappearance, her cousin Richie was already fulfilling the role of cute kid and was old enough to get lines of his own.

by Anonymousreply 53April 10, 2022 5:14 PM

Skippy was cute you heathens

by Anonymousreply 54April 10, 2022 5:18 PM

Yothers was definitely the weakest link. The Jennifer-focused episodes were to be dreaded.

Family Ties undoubtedly benefited from the Cosby Show lead-in and maybe never was a GREAT show, but as far as family-friendly "hugging and learning" sitcoms go, it was miles better than some that came before. Watch a Diff'rent Strokes from any period of its long run and marvel that this was a hit in its day. Godawful.

by Anonymousreply 55April 10, 2022 5:21 PM

Does anyone else remember her saf attempt at a goth rock career?

by Anonymousreply 56April 10, 2022 5:25 PM

Actually Skippy's name was Baby Boy Doe

by Anonymousreply 57April 10, 2022 5:27 PM

[quote] Does anyone else remember her saf attempt at a goth rock career?

No!

by Anonymousreply 58April 10, 2022 5:30 PM

The only Tina centered episode I remember was when she wanted to join the popular girls and added "like" to every sentence. I got a few laughs from the other girls, but she was just dreadful.

by Anonymousreply 59April 10, 2022 5:34 PM

I remember a Tina episode about book censorship, and her character defies the school by writing a book report about Huckleberry Finn. So brave!

by Anonymousreply 60April 10, 2022 5:42 PM

She didn't have any defining characteristic. Alex was the smart conservative rebeling against his liberal parents. Mallory was the airhead obsessed with fashion and boys. They should have just phased her character out, like they did with the daughter in Family Matters.

by Anonymousreply 61April 10, 2022 5:42 PM

Boarding school! Eastland perhaps

by Anonymousreply 62April 10, 2022 5:49 PM

She was the weak link on FT but loved her on Celebrity Fit Club! She seemed like a cool person.

by Anonymousreply 63April 10, 2022 5:52 PM

Tina had one memorable episode where she wanted to be one of the popular girls, so she started talking like a Valley Girl.

I don't think she was a terrible actress, it's just that the show didn't give her much to do. SNL used to do Family Ties sketches where Victoria Jackson would play Jennifer and all she would do is pipe up with a "Yeah" at the end of everyone's conversation.

by Anonymousreply 64April 10, 2022 5:56 PM

[quote]Family Ties undoubtedly benefited from the Cosby Show lead-in

All the shows on NBC Thursdays benefitted from Cosby. Shit, NBC itself greatly benefitted from Cosby. Prior to that, it was commonly said that the only two things keeping NBC afloat were Johnny Carson and Gary Coleman.

Cosby made NBC the number one network for the first time in history. And it's Thursday night lineup (Cheers, Cobsy, Family Ties, Night Court, Hill Street Blues) would create a winning night of TV that NBC would hold on to for the next twenty years.

by Anonymousreply 65April 10, 2022 6:00 PM

She was limited but okay in her role. She just didn't excel in her role like Michael J Fox or Justine Bateman.

by Anonymousreply 66April 10, 2022 6:02 PM

[quote]All the shows on NBC Thursdays benefitted from Cosby

Yeah it was amazing after Cosby ended how A Different World just tanked right to the bottom. At least Family TIes held its own on it's move to Sunday.

by Anonymousreply 67April 10, 2022 6:15 PM

Michael Gross was the underrated glue on that show. “There’s a kangaroo … in my living room.” Tina was ok. It’s hard to go through your awkward years on camera. She was a cute kid who had some decent episodes, like the one where she has a crush on the guy who likes Mallory, the driving episode. By the end she was reduced to saying, “come on, Andy,” and leading the annoying one out after he’d overacted his “cutesy” lines.

The show should have ended when Alex graduated high school or at least spun off where he was away at college. It never made sense he’d settle for some no name college and live at home.

by Anonymousreply 68April 10, 2022 6:28 PM

[quote]A lot of written in pregnancies are because the actress got pregnant in real life, such as Meredith Baxter or Cindy Williams.

Surprisingly, not Clair Huxatable/Phylicia Rashad. There was that season early on when she was constantly standing behind counters, sitting at a desk, or in bed with a comforter over her.

That would have seemed a natural show for a "new addition to the family" story. Cliff was even an OB. I think they said the reason was that the show already had so many kids on it, but then they started adding new ones anyway. Just not Clair's.

by Anonymousreply 69April 10, 2022 6:30 PM

[quote]The only Tina centered episode I remember was when she wanted to join the popular girls and added "like" to every sentence. I got a few laughs from the other girls, but she was just dreadful.

I remember the one where she beat up a bully who was picking on her boyfriend, and then the boyfriend got weird with her because he was embarrassed, blah blah blah gender roles. But the subplot in that one is probably better remembered: Mallory and Alex took an IQ test and she scored higher than he did, and it rocked Alex's world, and Mallory was rubbing it in.

They were wise enough to always have a strong B plot when it was a Jennifer week.

by Anonymousreply 70April 10, 2022 6:37 PM

Permanent Waves! (with Christina Applegate on synth)

by Anonymousreply 71April 10, 2022 6:41 PM

r69

Neither Shelly Long or Susan Saint James had their pregnancies written into the show. They were always hiding behind things. In one episode Diane is stuck BENEATH a floor and on Kate and Ally, they do a flashback and make Jane Curtin pregnant.

by Anonymousreply 72April 10, 2022 6:43 PM

[quote] His ear jewelry... both very 80s and pretty edgy for the time.

Extensive ear jewelry is both timeless and always edgy!

by Anonymousreply 73April 10, 2022 6:47 PM

Skippy was the type who would make up for years of being mocked for being a nerd by being a tiger in bed, voraciously slurping down cum and allowing himself to be gangbanged by a bunch of horny hs jocks.

by Anonymousreply 74April 10, 2022 6:48 PM

[quote] Leonardo DiCaprio as the show's new teen heartthrob to replace Kirk Cameron.

Leo at peak hotness. Hubba hubba

by Anonymousreply 75April 10, 2022 6:50 PM

In 2003 Yothers was approached by producers to play Linda Lovelace in a stage musical about her Deep Throat fame years. She was apparently in a rock band for ten years in LA at that point. She workshopped the role (the play also featured Mink Stole and had songs written by a member of The Go-Go’s) but didn’t take it. The play had a limited run and there were several later attempts to turn it into a film (one as a vehicle for Lindsay Lohan) that didn't pan out.

by Anonymousreply 76April 10, 2022 6:53 PM

What bothers me about this show is how all the kids looked adopted. Maybe only Michael J Fox looked like he could be the son of Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter. Same with 7th Heaven. Casting directors didn't attempt at really choosing kids that looked like the parents.

by Anonymousreply 79April 10, 2022 6:59 PM

Both shows were cast by Helen Keller Casting.

by Anonymousreply 80April 10, 2022 7:03 PM

R74 How did I miss that very special Skippy gangbang episode?

by Anonymousreply 82April 10, 2022 7:21 PM

She looked like an Eastern European peasant woman.

by Anonymousreply 84April 10, 2022 7:32 PM

[quote]Skippy was so unattractive …he looked like someone’s autistic lesbian maiden aunt

He looks like a cross between Rachel Maddow and Vicki Lawrence's Thelma Harper!

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by Anonymousreply 85April 10, 2022 7:36 PM

Her nose resembles a corn dog

by Anonymousreply 86April 10, 2022 7:49 PM

[quote]In 2003 Yothers was approached by producers to play Linda Lovelace

No, it was Linda Lavin

by Anonymousreply 87April 10, 2022 7:52 PM

Thank you R22. This gets attention because of MJF (whom I like) and because it had Tom Hanks on as Uncle Ned one time. Otherwise it's poo.

by Anonymousreply 88April 10, 2022 8:17 PM

Nah, she was fine, it was Meredith whazzherfaace, God, I could not stand her condescending attitude. Didn't she hate Fox for getting all the press?

by Anonymousreply 89April 10, 2022 8:29 PM

[quote] Today, one of the parents would be black and the kids would all be light-skinned black.

by Anonymousreply 90April 10, 2022 8:38 PM

R89 well like someone said she was the highest paid woman on TV (like even more than Joan Collins) so I guess she learned to live with it.

And she was a good actress - better than most moms on sitcoms certainly, she just couldn’t do comedy.

I agree with r55 - maybe not one of the “greats” but still way ahead (quality wise) of other family or family type sitcoms of its time.

by Anonymousreply 91April 10, 2022 8:38 PM

[quote]And she was a good actress - better than most moms on sitcoms certainly, she just couldn’t do comedy.

I could do both comedy and drama, and much better than her

by Anonymousreply 92April 10, 2022 10:03 PM

Michael and Nancy McKeon were dating each other in the middle of the shows run. It was quite a big deal in the press at the time. It was right before he did Back to the Future.

He also dated Kari Michaelsen.

by Anonymousreply 93April 10, 2022 10:21 PM

Alex and Jo at the White House with Ronnie and Nancy

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by Anonymousreply 94April 10, 2022 10:23 PM

Some TV sitcoms I watched when I was a young, I've noticed they did phase out the younger child. Family Matters (twice with Judy and Richie as both were useless compared to Urkel), Married with Children (the unpopular Seven who went missing and showed up on a milk carton in a later episode), Step by Step (there's a creepy Reddit post that DLers connected to the youngest boy of the cast) and Grounded for Life (youngest son disappeared in the last season).

by Anonymousreply 95April 10, 2022 10:25 PM

That "Cabbage Patch Kid" face ruins everything. Only one that did not suck, in a hard way, was Meredith. I still have nightmare of the "Back To The Future, Troll" suck stain.

by Anonymousreply 96April 10, 2022 10:56 PM

I’m assuming Tina’s mother had a C- section right?

by Anonymousreply 97April 10, 2022 11:15 PM

She had an A-section(ass).

by Anonymousreply 98April 10, 2022 11:17 PM

I saw Tina on the VH1 Celebrity Fit Club show in the mid-2000s, she had long, jet black hair, & looked like a Chola. I remember she mentioned she's part Hispanic (WTF?) & did some boxing on the show for weight loss.

by Anonymousreply 99April 10, 2022 11:40 PM

As someone else mentioned upthread, Tina and Growing Pains Jeremy Miller suffered what is referred to in the world of child actors as Gremlin syndrome, wherein they go to bed one night as cute and cuddly as Gizmo the Mogwi and then clearly eat after midnight and you wake up with a monster! Tina was cute the first season or two, she had already appeared in the feature Shoot the Moon playing one of Albert Finney and Diane Keaton's daughters (along with Tracey Gold and DL icon Dana Hill (RIP)). I'm sure no one behind the scenes of Family Ties could have predicted the direction the show would take, essentially the MJF show, but why anyone thought to focus a sitcom around Meredith Baxter Lez in the first place is beyond comprehension. The weird thing for me about Yothers on FT is that as she struggled through puberty it also appears she gave up even attempting to act, which to be fair, is better than the usual child actor overdone schtick that's usually done. But it seriously looked from about season three that she didn't even want to be there.

by Anonymousreply 100April 11, 2022 12:03 AM

[QUOTE] but why anyone thought to focus a sitcom around Meredith Baxter Lez in the first place is beyond comprehension.

Didn't the same thing happen with Muriel? TCFC was originally supposed to be focused on her.

by Anonymousreply 101April 11, 2022 12:05 AM

The one who really became hideous as he grew older was Chip on "Kate & Allie." He was an adorable chubby cheeked small child when the show started, but by the last season he was a horrifying chubby-cheeked lanky goliath.

by Anonymousreply 102April 11, 2022 12:09 AM

R102, yep, Freddie Koehler yet another Gremlin. Though he did grow up to be cute when I saw him on Strangers with Candy playing the son Jerri gave up for adoption who she tries to have sex with.

by Anonymousreply 103April 11, 2022 12:16 AM

Mr Garrison, didn't like her either!

by Anonymousreply 104April 11, 2022 12:22 AM

"And there aint no nuthin, we can't love each other through. What would we do baby, without us? Sha-na-na-na." They were really phoning it in.

by Anonymousreply 105April 11, 2022 12:25 AM

The dad seemed desperate for cock. Am I right?

by Anonymousreply 106April 11, 2022 12:26 AM

R70, that episode had Noah Hathaway as the boyfriend and Danny Nucci as the bully. She also tutored school jock Wil Wheaton and was River Phoenix's date when he was a 14 year old college student. They had Jennifer definitely dating "out of her league."

by Anonymousreply 107April 11, 2022 12:35 AM

R79 I thought the blond boy and the mom from 7th Heaven looked a lot alike. That was great casting.

The older guy and Jessica Biel not so much.

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by Anonymousreply 108April 11, 2022 12:56 AM

R108 What about Ruthie, the mocha child? Was she the result of some hot BBC action Mom was getting on the side?

by Anonymousreply 109April 11, 2022 1:00 AM

[quote]Some TV sitcoms I watched when I was a young, I've noticed they did phase out the younger child.

Sometimes the oldest, too.

by Anonymousreply 110April 11, 2022 1:02 AM

Speaking of Too Close for Comfort, was Nancy Dussault really pregnant?

by Anonymousreply 111April 11, 2022 1:03 AM

I'm the same age as Jeremy Miller and thought he was hot back in the day.

Certainly moreso than Kirk UGH! Cameron or Leo (who I didn't find remotely attractive til that Romeo & Juliet film).

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by Anonymousreply 112April 11, 2022 1:04 AM

R112 I didn't think he was ugly, either. He certainly had more masculine features than the other two, but t(w)een girls tend to like boys with feminine features.

by Anonymousreply 113April 11, 2022 1:08 AM

Michael Gross was funny looking in Season 1 and hot in Season 2. The beard really, really helped.

by Anonymousreply 114April 11, 2022 1:11 AM

R113, I can see that. I didn't realize until later that Leo was actually older than Jeremy/myself and part of the reason I never found him attractive was that I thought he was like 11 or 12, which was gross to my 14yr old self.

by Anonymousreply 115April 11, 2022 1:11 AM

R108 incidentally, I've always thought that David Gallagher (the blond boy) and actor Peter Gallagher would've made a great father/son in a movie or something., despite the hair color differences. Certainly a more convincing pairing than Peter Gallagher and Adam Brody on THE O.C.

by Anonymousreply 116April 11, 2022 1:12 AM

Another great photo of Jeremy...

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by Anonymousreply 117April 11, 2022 1:13 AM

The Conners were a convincing family, IMO. DJ definitely looks like Roseanne. You can see the Roseanne resemblance on Darlene, too. And Becky looks like she takes after Dan.

Not sure about Roseanne and Laurie Metcalf as sisters, though.

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by Anonymousreply 119April 11, 2022 1:18 AM

She was adorable the first two seasons. After that, she got ugly and couldn’t act. She was annoying too. Ben wasn’t as bad, but he was replaced by a younger sibling and DiCaprio. Come to think of it, so was TY. That’s when the show really went down. Nick was the final nail on the FT coffin.

by Anonymousreply 120April 11, 2022 1:21 AM

Her mother Elyse wasn't setting the best example, I'm afraid.

by Anonymousreply 121April 11, 2022 1:25 AM

When Justine hosted SNL they did a sketch of Family Ties and basically made fun of Tina’s character as completely useless. I think she was played by Victoria Jackson.

Too bad, as Tina seems like a much cooler person these days than bitter Justine.

by Anonymousreply 122April 11, 2022 1:27 AM

I like Family TIes. It may not be as good as I remember but when it was funny, it could be really funny. Like Michael Gross' speech about the Kangaroo, or Nick's first dinner at the Keaton household, or the Tom Hanks and Geena Davis guest spots.

by Anonymousreply 123April 11, 2022 1:33 AM

At least she didn't disappear after *her* show's 4th season!

by Anonymousreply 124April 11, 2022 1:45 AM

I think there needs to be a child actors who became gremlins thread!

by Anonymousreply 125April 11, 2022 1:46 AM

Married With Children made Peggy pregnant because Katey Segal was. She really lost the baby so it became a dream. The child Chrissy on Growing Pains brought Cousin Oliver Syndrome to a whole new awful level.

by Anonymousreply 126April 11, 2022 2:01 AM

[quote]The one who really became hideous as he grew older was Chip on "Kate & Allie." He was an adorable chubby cheeked small child when the show started, but by the last season he was a horrifying chubby-cheeked lanky goliath.

I remember seeing "Chip" (Frederick Koehler) as a mentally disturbed would-be school shooter in an episode of Joan of Arcadia. He was still playing a high school kid, although he would have been pushing 30.

by Anonymousreply 127April 11, 2022 2:03 AM

Koehler also guested on OZ in his twenties, even went full frontal.

by Anonymousreply 128April 11, 2022 2:09 AM

For R123

“Is this how you guys always eat?”

“You mean with utensils?”

by Anonymousreply 129April 11, 2022 2:10 AM

[quote] I'm the same age as Jeremy Miller and thought he was hot back in the day. Certainly moreso than Kirk UGH! Cameron or Leo (who I didn't find remotely attractive til that Romeo & Juliet film).

Also same age, but I would have passed on all three and fucked Alan Thicke instead.

by Anonymousreply 130April 11, 2022 2:48 AM

I would have passed on all four and fucked Boner.

by Anonymousreply 131April 11, 2022 2:59 AM

I can't believe Alan Thicke has a hit series, but that doesn't mean it isn't so.

by Anonymousreply 132April 11, 2022 3:01 AM

Fred Kohler is hot, I tried to seduce him in my car, until he revealed he was my SON!

by Anonymousreply 133April 11, 2022 5:23 AM

Regarding 7th Heaven. Matt, Mary and Ruthie were either adopted or crazy Annie was fucking the milkman. Both theories work. Two blue-eyed pale-skinned parents making olive-skinned brown-eyed kids? Casting directors clearly disregarded how genetics worked. Also the writers wanted Mary and Matt to kiss in the first episode but The WB said no.

by Anonymousreply 134April 11, 2022 9:03 AM

Maybe that's why Lucy on 7th Heaven was so unpleasant, and just got worse and worse as she grew older. She was one of the few "real" kids born to that couple, and she still got ignored in favor of the ones from their extramarital affairs and black-market Mexican adoptions.

Party of Five did a pretty good job of making me believe the kids were brothers and sisters. The four main ones who got all the stories, anyway. Owen was an unfortunate recast, when he changed over the summer from mute twins to a giant kid who talked all the time.

by Anonymousreply 135April 11, 2022 10:18 AM

Lucy was also very plain in looks. BUT she also got the hottest guys on the show plus Lucy was pretty successful in her life. She became a minister and all. Mary the former golden child, star athlete and the pretty one ended up a delinquent, kicked out of the house, a hot mess and shacked up with losers. If you watch the show from a different lens as a rebellious kid from an Evangelical family, the most sympathetic characters are the "strayed ones" Mary and Simon. Same reason many people sympathized with Theo, Vanessa and Denise from The Cosby Show, they got a lot of flack from their parents for being normal teens.

by Anonymousreply 136April 11, 2022 12:00 PM

He looks pretty cute in R117 and has a nice lean body by the looks of that tighter shirt.

by Anonymousreply 137April 11, 2022 12:15 PM

Leo was cute on Growing Pains but he wasn't on Kirk level who would have older teens and young women swooning. Leo was pretty young looking (despite being older than Jeremy) and I can't see him being competition for Kirk. Leo was probably brought in because the littlest girl lacked charm and was just a prop. Kirk was too old for teen storylines and plus Kirk was difficult to work. So the writers wanted another teen to play off Jeremy and give him a friendly rival of sorts.

by Anonymousreply 138April 11, 2022 12:19 PM

Skippy looks like Thorgy Thor

by Anonymousreply 139April 11, 2022 12:54 PM

[quote] Some TV sitcoms I watched when I was a young, I've noticed they did phase out the younger child.

Tell me about it.

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by Anonymousreply 140April 11, 2022 1:19 PM

Things I learned from TV: families that already have plenty of kids just love to (quasi) adopt additional ones. See: The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Little House on the Prairie, Married with Children, Seventh Heaven, etc.

by Anonymousreply 141April 11, 2022 1:54 PM

In 80s sitcoms the youngest sibling was always the most Gen X of the Gen X. Neglected, forgotten, unremarkable.

by Anonymousreply 142April 11, 2022 1:59 PM

ROSEANNE did it a little differently. Instead of bringing in another cutesy kid after DJ entered his teens, Becky's boyfriend became a regular in Season 5 and Darlene's boyfriend was also introduced and moved in with the family full-time. I was a teen then and remember that the actor who played Mark was a heartthrob and was in all of the teen magazines. The actor who played David was anything but, so I don't know why he was brought into the show.

by Anonymousreply 143April 11, 2022 2:02 PM

R141: It's even an even older cliche than that: for example, My Three Sons and The Donna Reed Show. I'm sure they were even doing it in the 50s and they probably did it on radio, Adding a kid was a network/sponsor cliche much like having a wedding or giving the lead a steady boy/girlfiend.

by Anonymousreply 144April 11, 2022 2:04 PM

[quote]The child Chrissy on Growing Pains brought Cousin Oliver Syndrome to a whole new awful level.

Fuck you!

That was one piece of hot snatch right there.

by Anonymousreply 145April 11, 2022 2:55 PM

I though David was a good match looks wise for Darlene. I couldn’t see her with a conventionally hot guy like Mark.

Johnny Galecki was kind of cute. I liked his floppy, curly hair and the fact that he wasn’t a typical macho asshole. David was a good character.

I haven’t watched The Conners- does he show up much? I know he and Darlene aren’t together, but what happened with David?

by Anonymousreply 146April 11, 2022 3:09 PM

[quote]Lucy was also very plain in looks. BUT she also got the hottest guys on the show plus Lucy was pretty successful in her life. She became a minister and all. Mary the former golden child, star athlete and the pretty one ended up a delinquent, kicked out of the house, a hot mess and shacked up with losers.

Maybe Lucy was show creator/runner Brenda Hampton's author insertion character, and she was using the show to give herself some kind of win over girls she grew up around and envied. I don't know, but that happens.

Another WB show of that same era, Everwood. was generally better than 7Heave, but if I'd never read a word about what was going on behind the scenes, I'd still know there was a different showrunner for the later seasons, and she was a woman. A new girl was introduced who was geeky, brainy, compassionate, very virtuous and moral, cute without being a "beauty"...and a talented writer. She got more and more prominent, I would say excessively. All the existing characters were completely enthralled by her. She became so important in everyone's life, to the point where they were saying "Where's Hannah?" "Is Hannah okay?" "I'm disgusted with you! How could you do that to Hannah?" Even the adults turned to this Hannah for advice. I wouldn't be shocked to learn that the female showrunner was having the actress styled to look like her as a teenager.

That actress, Sarah Drew, later played Mad Men's Kitty, who was married to Sal and didn't understand why he never wanted to have sex, until she saw his Ann-Margret imitation.

by Anonymousreply 147April 11, 2022 3:23 PM

So was it Tina’s subpar work that lead to cancellation as her attitude was bringing everyone down?

by Anonymousreply 148April 11, 2022 4:16 PM

Family Ties' ratings fell a lot in the last two seasons, when it was moved to Sunday so A Different World could have the slot after Cosby. But it's unlikely that some of the cast members would have signed for more years anyway, even if it were still in the top 10.

It was such an '80s show. It was fitting for it to end just a few months after the Reagan presidency.

by Anonymousreply 149April 11, 2022 4:37 PM

[quote] And let's face it, Tina Yothers went through some tough times as a young actress. By age twelve, she looked about thirty two, towered over her siblings (although we know Michael J Fox's stature didn't help things) and had hair like a straw factory exploded. I'm not one to be negative about a young woman's looks, but it IS hard to deal with puberty on national television.

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by Anonymousreply 150April 11, 2022 4:40 PM

Like everyone else, the only episodes I remember are the kangaroo one (wasn't Iola Boylan in that?) and the Valley Girl birthday party.

Like OhMaGod, purple is like such a like lame like color.

by Anonymousreply 151April 11, 2022 5:11 PM

The only episode that I remember is the one with Mr. Tedescho, Alex's mean teacher.

by Anonymousreply 152April 11, 2022 6:43 PM

I just remember Mallory’s report on the Revolutionary War: “The British dressed formal, we went casual.”

by Anonymousreply 153April 11, 2022 6:56 PM

I think with 7th Heaven. Mary, Matt and Simon's actors all wanted to leave the show, so the writers wrote them off eventually. Mary got the worse of it all because Jessica Biel purposely wanted to get fired. She posed provocatively for a men's magazine which the show runners didn't like because it was against the show's "abstinence" image. So they had Mary's character devolve from being a mature and responsible teen who sometimes rebelled but ended up doing the right thing to being a dysfunctional, selfish mess who got dishonorably written off due to being kicked out of her home to live with relatives because of her bad behavior. And even when Mary comes back, she's an airhead who can't get things right. Simon ended up also being the rebellious one who lost his virginity before marriage and later killed someone. Matt got written off in a traditional way, left to become a doctor after graduating and married a Jewish girl.

Mary's treatment is very similar to how The Cosby Show treated Denise. Lisa left to helm the spinoff A Different World but decided to leave to do a movie Angel Heart which included nudity and a sex scene. Cosby didn't like that and when Lisa came back after her movie flipped, the writers turned Denise from cool, laid-back and outspoken to braindead and flighty. Now, also a mother to little Raven Symone who stole the spotlight. Lisa left again probably to save her dignity.

by Anonymousreply 154April 11, 2022 7:31 PM

Poindexter Yothers her actor brother

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by Anonymousreply 155April 11, 2022 7:46 PM

Bumper Yothers, the other brother

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by Anonymousreply 156April 11, 2022 7:48 PM

Dewey from "Malcolm In The Middle" grew up to be a HIDEOUS adult

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by Anonymousreply 157April 11, 2022 7:51 PM

There used to be a category on the game show Remote Control called Inside Tina Yothers.

by Anonymousreply 158April 11, 2022 7:56 PM

154 Simon killed someone? Lol! Did they write him going to prison when he left the show?

by Anonymousreply 159April 11, 2022 8:37 PM

R159 If I remember it was vehicular manslaughter. He accidentally hit someone by car. And was overwhelmed by guilt and felt the need to repent for his rebellious attitude. Then went off to college. But yet he didn't get any charges from the state or family? The writers ignored the law here in a convoluted way to push a moral.

by Anonymousreply 160April 11, 2022 8:42 PM

Was Tina ever on Circus of the Stars?

by Anonymousreply 161April 11, 2022 9:14 PM

No but she was on Battle of the Network Star and was captain of the field hockey team.

by Anonymousreply 162April 11, 2022 9:40 PM

[quote]Family Ties' ratings fell a lot in the last two seasons, when it was moved to Sunday so A Different World could have the slot after Cosby. But it's unlikely that some of the cast members would have signed for more years anyway, even if it were still in the top 10.

I doubt Michael and Justine would have signed on for two more seasons. Michael wanted to concentrate on making movies. Justine wanted to go to college after the fourth season and have the show work around her schedule, but they refused, because they felt she was too much of an audience draw. Both were done with it by the final episode.

by Anonymousreply 163April 11, 2022 10:51 PM

Poor Tina.

She didn't even get a plot in the big Family Ties Vacation movie...

[quote]The Keaton family goes on a family vacation to be remembered. After Alex wins a scholarship to Oxford University in London, the Keaton family makes an entire vacation out of it. However, a mysterious man on the plane ride to London plants a brush in Elyse's bag, it containing top secret microfilm. The Keatons are completely oblivious of what the brush contains, but after unexpected things keep on happening to them, they start to realize that it might not be just a coincidence. After arriving at Oxford, Alex struggles with tough classes and even tougher classmates, Mallory finds romance, and Elyse and Steven get embroiled in international espionage.

by Anonymousreply 164April 11, 2022 11:59 PM

No espionage for Tina Yothers!

by Anonymousreply 165April 12, 2022 12:03 AM

I preferred Blair & Jo's international espionage in The Facts of Life Down Under.

by Anonymousreply 166April 12, 2022 12:54 AM

R166 Did they get sent to Prisoner Cellblock H?

by Anonymousreply 167April 12, 2022 12:57 AM

r166 I thought it was called THE FACTS OF LIFE GOES TO AUSTRALIA?

by Anonymousreply 168April 12, 2022 12:58 AM

No, it was definitely "Down Under". For me anyway.

by Anonymousreply 169April 12, 2022 1:11 AM

According to Wikipedia and IMDb, it's "Down Under."

by Anonymousreply 170April 12, 2022 1:30 AM

R170 Yeah, I was joking. That's how Dorothy referred to it on an episode of THE GOLDEN GIRLS.

DOROTHY: I just want to forget the whole incident. It's been a terrible night and I am very upset.

ROSE: You mean because Gil dropped out of the election and Blanche hates us.

DOROTHY: No, I'm upset because they haven't rerun THE FACTS OF LIFE GOES TO AUSTRALIA.

😂🤣

by Anonymousreply 171April 12, 2022 1:39 AM

The Facts of Life also "Go to Paris". But did Tina?

by Anonymousreply 172April 12, 2022 2:45 AM

I wasn’t as bothered by her bad acting and uselessness as I was by her being blonde and taller than Alex and Mallory. I think Alex and Mallory were the milkman’s children.

by Anonymousreply 173April 12, 2022 2:50 AM

Yeah, but at least the mom was blonde and Alex and Mallory were brunette like that dad. On Everyone Loves Raymond the kids were super blonde while neither of the parents were.

I love the Mr. Tedesco episode mentioned above. The was hysterical.

by Anonymousreply 174April 12, 2022 3:02 AM

What would we we do, bae, without us

by Anonymousreply 176April 12, 2022 3:16 AM

Am I the only one who watched [R29]’s link in its entirety? TY definitely has the “it’ factor. She’s captivating. She performed well in the linked driving scene upthread. I don’t really remember much about FT, but I can’t imagine going through puberty on screen. That would be pure torture. I imagine she struggled with self esteem, depression, body image issues, etc. that could have effected her performance on FT, as some have said she seemed checked out - antidepressants maybe?

She should write a book. She’s had an interesting life.

by Anonymousreply 177April 12, 2022 3:35 AM

Full House had very Jewish black-haired Danny Tanner with three blonde Aryan poster child daughters. And their mother was Greek too. At least the actress who played Danny's late wife in the home video was blonde though she looked nothing like her brother Jesse who has dark hair and olive skin. I headcanon that Joey was secretly the girls' father.

by Anonymousreply 178April 12, 2022 3:43 AM

R174 me too. And the one (I think it’s the first season) where Alex invests his parents money in stock which then plunges due to a typhoon.

by Anonymousreply 180April 12, 2022 3:47 AM

Here’s the SNL skit with Justine.

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by Anonymousreply 181April 12, 2022 3:56 AM

Tina got whacked with the Ugly Stick.

by Anonymousreply 182April 12, 2022 4:04 AM

Michael J Fox was the prettiest person on that show.

by Anonymousreply 183April 12, 2022 4:06 AM

R181. That was brilliant. I laughed pretty hard. Thank you.

by Anonymousreply 184April 12, 2022 5:46 AM

That was some Inception like shit there.

by Anonymousreply 185April 12, 2022 5:57 AM

That clip was hilarious. Wow, I had forgotten SNL used to have talented writers and cast members.

by Anonymousreply 187April 12, 2022 2:01 PM

Blonde hair is recessive, so two brown hairs can have a blonde. And Meredith is clearly a brunette

by Anonymousreply 188April 12, 2022 2:43 PM

Justine was excellent playing the straight man(lady) in "Men Behaving Badly" (American version)

by Anonymousreply 189April 12, 2022 2:52 PM

Late '80s was one of the great SNL periods. I actually found that era (with Hartman, Hooks, Carvey, Dunn, Jackson, Lovitz, Miller, etc.) funnier than the show's "golden age" of the '70s. More consistent, anyway. Those early seasons had high highs but very low lows.

That's such a closely observed Family Ties parody. It's the kind where, if you've seen the show that's being skewered, you recognize things you might not have been consciously aware of, like the way Meredith Baxter would sort of skip to answer the phone or the door. Jan Hooks nails it.

by Anonymousreply 190April 12, 2022 2:52 PM

I can’t believe no one has posted this yet.

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by Anonymousreply 191April 12, 2022 3:05 PM

I didn't know she had siblings . Cory has guest spots on some well known shows. Tina was the kid of the family who hit big.

by Anonymousreply 192April 12, 2022 3:10 PM

R190 or the way Alex jumped up on the kitchen counter. He must’ve done that a lot on the show because it got a good laugh from the audience.

by Anonymousreply 193April 12, 2022 3:16 PM

That SNL skit was hilarious! They really nailed the formulaic vapidity of Family Ties. And Dana Carney channeled coked-out MJF in all his twitchy glory!

by Anonymousreply 195April 12, 2022 3:24 PM

The Jeffersons flashback clip made it all the more meta.

by Anonymousreply 196April 12, 2022 3:28 PM

They really should have given her character some upswept or bouffant hair in the style of The Supremes, as it would've added some spice to her character, the show, the family dynamic!

by Anonymousreply 197April 13, 2022 1:30 AM

[quote] Late '80s was one of the great SNL periods. I actually found that era (with Hartman, Hooks, Carvey, Dunn, Jackson, Lovitz, Miller, etc.) funnier than the show's "golden age" of the '70s. More consistent, anyway. Those early seasons had high highs but very low lows.

I thought I wrote this for a minute. I may have written that almost exact thing on here before. Agree completely.

by Anonymousreply 198April 13, 2022 3:16 AM

Fox did seem so manic on that show

by Anonymousreply 199April 13, 2022 6:03 AM

Why did that SNL clip have Comedy Central watermarks?

by Anonymousreply 200April 13, 2022 7:33 AM

"From 1990 until 2004, and again since 2015, Comedy Central and its predecessor Ha! aired reruns of the series, after which E! signed a deal to carry reruns."

by Anonymousreply 201April 13, 2022 8:31 AM

So they gained ownership of them?

by Anonymousreply 202April 13, 2022 8:39 AM

They should have built the show around Tina's adolescent growing pains and called it "Fam".

by Anonymousreply 203April 13, 2022 8:41 AM

Early on she should have developed an eating disorder and been shipped off to a residential treatment program never to have returned.

by Anonymousreply 204April 13, 2022 8:46 AM

I liked her on celebrity fit club, she lost 40 lbs

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by Anonymousreply 206April 13, 2022 10:31 AM

Why has Aaron Rodgers Rick Rolled DL?

by Anonymousreply 207April 13, 2022 11:16 AM

R181 Thanks for posting that SNL sketch, I enjoyed it. *sigh* It’s from an entire other era of television and culture that seems forgotten now. I remember it well.

I think the MJF jumping on the counter but got a laugh because he did that a lot on the show. It was perceived he did so because he was short.

by Anonymousreply 208April 13, 2022 11:38 AM

R203 what does his being short got to do with it?

by Anonymousreply 209April 13, 2022 11:41 AM

Fox had such a sweet spot with that manic, croaky-voiced comedic style that he couldn't escape it. He actually gave good performances in dramatic movies like Bright Lights Big City and Casualties of War in the late '80s, but his non-comedy movies bombed at the box office. Audiences just didn't want to see him being serious.

by Anonymousreply 210April 13, 2022 11:43 AM

Wasn't Alex also grabbing something to drink out of the fridge all of the time?

by Anonymousreply 211April 13, 2022 11:58 AM

On THE COSBY SHOW, it was always apple juice -- or cran-apple, as they sometimes called it.

by Anonymousreply 213April 13, 2022 12:21 PM

[quote] Fox had such a sweet spot with that manic, croaky-voiced comedic style that he couldn't escape it.

I found his sweet spot in the back of a limousine in 1987. Or was that me?

by Anonymousreply 214April 13, 2022 12:57 PM

[quote] I think the MJF jumping on the counter but got a laugh because he did that a lot on the show. It was perceived he did so because he was short.

He was covertly advertising his skills as a pass around bottom.

by Anonymousreply 215April 13, 2022 1:27 PM

Michael J Fox went from low-budget Canadian TV to packing up his bags at age 18 to go to LA just to get on a hit sitcom a few years later. With no connections, I'm sure he may have had to do "favors" while being a starving actor.

by Anonymousreply 216April 13, 2022 1:38 PM

[quote], I'm sure he may have had to do "favors" while being a starving actor.

He sure did

by Anonymousreply 217April 13, 2022 3:43 PM

R209 He was establishing dominance by trying to be physically higher then everyone else by sitting on the counter. Classic insecure short guy Napoleonic move.

by Anonymousreply 218April 13, 2022 3:47 PM

He should’ve stood on the counter, then.

by Anonymousreply 219April 13, 2022 4:19 PM

He filmed Family Ties and Back to the Future at the same time. One guess what powdered substance he used to help him make that manic schedule.

by Anonymousreply 220April 13, 2022 5:02 PM

R229 that's right. BTTF was released around July 4th 1985 but was filmed early in the year in the midst of FT's 3rd season.. Back then, TV sitcoms were taped from Fall to Spring, with a month-break in between for the Christmas holidays, The summer was usually when TV actors had off to pursue other projects, because the sitcom schedule was Monday-Friday, morning to evening, so MJF probably filmed most of his BTTF overnight. It's a good thing he wasn't doing a regular single-camera drama, because those hours are waaay longer! He wouldn't have been able to do BTTF then.

by Anonymousreply 221April 13, 2022 5:14 PM

I BTTF-ed Michael J. Fox in the back of a limo in 1987.

by Anonymousreply 222April 13, 2022 5:20 PM

There's a theory that MJ Fox contracted Parkinson's because of a little-known family sitcom he did in Canada in the late 70s. Multiple people who worked on that show have gotten Parkinson's, way over the expected population norms. Parkinson's has been linked both to certain strains of flu and to environmental factors, and it's possible that either one affected that particular production.

by Anonymousreply 223April 13, 2022 5:30 PM

Come to think of it, BTTF has a lot of night scenes or scenes that were filmed indoors and could have been done at night.

by Anonymousreply 224April 13, 2022 5:31 PM

MJF claims the cause of his Parkinson's came from drinking too much Diet Pepsi.

by Anonymousreply 225April 13, 2022 7:29 PM

You really think he did cocaine to get through both Family Ties and Back to the Future shootings?

by Anonymousreply 227April 13, 2022 11:16 PM

MJF was smart to do Back to The Future because it stood the test of time. Family Ties was very much a product of its time. I doubt if Eric Stoltz stayed on to play Marty it would have been the same. MJF's popularity also sold the hell out of that movie.

by Anonymousreply 228April 13, 2022 11:20 PM

the two sequels Part II and Part III were in production from February 1989 until January 1990 with only a three-week break in principal photography between films and some of the filming of the third film overlapping with the second.

by Anonymousreply 229April 13, 2022 11:32 PM

Christopher Lloyd hated MJF and wanted Eric Stoltz to remain in the movie. He admits he had chemistry with MJF but wanted Stoltz.. Sounds like a homosex thing to me.

by Anonymousreply 230April 13, 2022 11:34 PM

Stoltz was a much better actor. It might have been more fun to work with someone like that.

by Anonymousreply 231April 13, 2022 11:52 PM

Stolz probably had a much bigger dick.

by Anonymousreply 232April 14, 2022 12:13 AM

But MJF was by far a better bottom.

by Anonymousreply 233April 14, 2022 12:18 AM

Something tells me when Fox came on, he got the star treatment on the BTTF set. They knew Fox was the main ingredient to the film’s success. Lloyd may have been a bit envious.

by Anonymousreply 234April 14, 2022 12:34 AM

[quote] MJF claims the cause of his Parkinson's came from drinking too much Diet Pepsi.

And you bitches scoff at my claim I got HIV through oral sex?

by Anonymousreply 235April 14, 2022 1:36 AM

The River Phoenix episode is on right now. Even playing a nerd, she couldn’t hold a candle to him. Ironically, Martha Plimpton also guested on the show.

by Anonymousreply 236April 17, 2022 7:41 PM

R237 Because later they would become lovers and she’d be there when he died.

by Anonymousreply 238April 17, 2022 8:03 PM

Brian Bonsall was worse. That stupid bowl-haircut kid they acquired when the ratings started to sag

by Anonymousreply 239April 17, 2022 8:09 PM

I thought it was Samantha Mathis who was there when River died.

by Anonymousreply 240April 17, 2022 8:14 PM

It was Samantha Mathis and his siblings, Rain and Joaquin, who were with him that fateful night.

by Anonymousreply 241April 17, 2022 8:18 PM

Okay, two actors guest starred on a popular sitcom and later they would date. Where’s the irony?

It’s more of an interestingly/trivia fact than ironic.

by Anonymousreply 242April 17, 2022 8:26 PM

She ruined the show just by having that stupid name

by Anonymousreply 244April 17, 2022 8:32 PM

She made me hate the name Jennifer. Missy Reeves on DOOL made me hate the name Jennifer even more.

by Anonymousreply 247April 17, 2022 9:05 PM

Jennifer is one of those names I can see going the way of Gertie, Beatrice, Etta, Agnes and Betty. It's becoming increasingly a middle aged Karen name along with Amanda, Tiffany, Nicole and Kate.

by Anonymousreply 248April 18, 2022 12:38 AM

[quote]Brian Bonsall was worse. That stupid bowl-haircut kid they acquired when the ratings started to sag

The character of Andy was bad because he wasn't it in enough. Bonsall turned out to be handsome but then ruined his looks with piercings, tattoos, and got into drugs and wife beating.

From 2010

[quote]Former "Family Ties" actor Brian Bonsall has been sentenced to two years probation after pleading guilty to charges connected to a fight with a friend last year in Colorado.

[quote]The 28-year-old actor entered his plea Thursday in Boulder to felony menacing and third-degree assault.

[quote]Bonsall also pleaded guilty to violating terms of probation stemming from a 2007 assault on his girlfriend and was sentenced to five days in a work-release program and 40 hours of community service.

by Anonymousreply 249April 18, 2022 3:14 PM

I was born in 1974 and Jennifer was THE most popular name for girls when I was growing up, there were always at least two Jennifers in every class at school.

by Anonymousreply 250April 18, 2022 3:19 PM

I was born around the same time. Every other girl in my high school was named Amy, Jennifer, Michelle, or Christine. The boys were all Christopher, Jason, Jeffrey, and Michael.

by Anonymousreply 251April 18, 2022 3:26 PM

Same at my school, only Lisa instead of Christine.

by Anonymousreply 252April 19, 2022 5:04 PM

tina is short or christina

by Anonymousreply 253April 22, 2022 6:09 AM

They shoulda done a crossover epi where Tina Yothers gets her asshole rimmed out from that super butch dude from The Facts of Life, Jo I think his name was.

by Anonymousreply 254April 22, 2022 6:13 AM

Isn’t it possible with today’s technology that they could go back and edited her out of the show and rerelease it to large acclaim?

by Anonymousreply 255April 22, 2022 6:49 AM

R255 how will they explain the River Phoenix episode in which he crushes on Jennifer big time?

by Anonymousreply 256April 22, 2022 11:42 AM

I thought it was Ashley Olsen

by Anonymousreply 258August 22, 2022 8:55 PM

What will we do baby, without us?

by Anonymousreply 259September 14, 2022 5:49 PM

[quote]Christopher Lloyd hated MJF and wanted Eric Stoltz to remain in the movie. He admits he had chemistry with MJF but wanted Stoltz.. Sounds like a homosex thing to me.

No, no, Lloyd wanted Matthew Broderick to play Marty but with Broderick's driving record that wasn't gonna happen

by Anonymousreply 261September 14, 2022 6:22 PM

If you are referring to Broderick's fatal car crash in Ireland that happened in 1987. The first Back to the Future started filming in 1984.

by Anonymousreply 262September 14, 2022 6:48 PM

r262

It's called Back to the FUTURE for gosh sake

by Anonymousreply 263September 14, 2022 6:50 PM

I’ve been watching this a lot on Pluto (no idea why it basically plays on loop) and TY was sooooooooo bad. Like when she delivered what were supposed to be funny lines I just cringed. They should’ve sent her off to boarding school.

by Anonymousreply 264September 14, 2022 6:51 PM

[quote]If you are referring to Broderick's fatal car crash in Ireland that happened in 1987. The first Back to the Future started filming in 1984.

Never let a little continuity stand in the way of a good joke

by Anonymousreply 265September 14, 2022 6:51 PM

The kid that played Hanks’s best friend in Big always reminded me of a Yothers, but y’know…with talent.

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by Anonymousreply 266September 14, 2022 7:10 PM

Aww, r157

I think he looks cute - like a Rankin-Bass stop-motion character.

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by Anonymousreply 267September 14, 2022 7:15 PM

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