The world always lives up to my dreams. I just have lousy dreams.

Well, I gave up.  I finally found one of my machines that can play DVDs - it took a lot more work than it should have, but I finally found the tiny DVD player I got way back when - and started playing other Facts of Life episodes.  That's how I saw the introduction from Different Strokes yesterday.

I've still gotta say, the show is very 'of its time' and that isn't a compliment.  It's also not very good but there are some odd exceptions.  Most episodes have a couple of genuinely funny moments.  I do have to wonder how much of it is genuine humor and how much is just enjoying the girls interacting.

I did see the final two-parter.  Odd how it had almost nothing to do with Natalie, Tootie or Jo, it was all about setting up a potential spin-off for Blair running Eastland.  It wasn't horrible.  I can't really point to anything that wasn't genuinely good but it definitely wasn't horrible.  If the spin-off had happened, I probably would have watched it then and if it was included in the DVD collection, I'd probably have gone through at least one episode now.

This episode also included Pippa, the first time I'd seen her since this episode aired.  It's possible she might have worked better as a character surrounded by other girls her age, I dunno.  At some point I'll probably get back to another episode with her but I'm not planning to do so any time soon.

Another thing that surprised me was how many things the 'new kids' at Eastland got into after this show never happened and how many things they've done that I've seen.  The most obvious example is Seth Green, of Austin Powers and Family Guy, but looking up his credits, he's done more stuff that I've seen and stuff that I haven't but am not sure why.  He's now the voice of Howard the Duck!  I did see My Stepmother Is An Alien [for Kim Basinger] and Can't Buy Me Love [don't know why] when they came out.

Juliette Lewis was also in My Stepmother Is An Alien, as well as National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and Cape Fear.  She was also in Natural Born Killers which I never saw but am not sure why, it always sounded like something I would have seen when it was new.

Kathleen Freeman had a long career.  She was in the original The Fly, the original The Nutty Professor, the very original 1952 Dragnet.  She was also in The Seven Year Itch which I know I've seen but remember nothing about.  The first movie I actually remember seeing that she was in was the Dragnet remake and she's probably best known as Ma Dillon from Naked Gun 33 1/2.

Others also have done some stuff I've heard of, but nothing I've seen so they don't matter.  It is making me wonder how much of this was about just trying to carry on Facts of Life and how much the original show was about churning out child slaves actors.  It's also making me wonder how 

Anyway, I obviously prefer the Eastland School years because really there's no point in these girls being together although I will admit that they were able to do more interesting things as adults.

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