Crap TV Flashbacks: Facts of Life

Author: The Troll

Now this show is one for the ages. A bunch of goofy girls at an all girsl school. At first it would seem that this is the ultimate in male fantasy. At first. Then when you are exposed to the likes of Mindy Cohn, you begin to scratch out your eyes in horror, and bang your head against your home furniture trying to knock yourself out.

You had the hot, uppity chick in Blair Warner, that fatso in Natalie Green, the cute braces wearing Tootie Ramsey, and the tomboy with the leather jacket in Jo Polniaczek. All had some appeal for young males obviously, except for tubby.

The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC network from August 24, 1979 to September 13, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, the series’ original premise focused on the character, Edna Garrett (played by Charlotte Rae), as she becomes housemother (and later, dietitian as well) to seven young girls at the fictional Eastland School, a prestigious all-girls’ school in Peekskill, New York. The Pilot for the show originally aired as the last episode of Diff’rent Strokes first season and was called “The Girls’ School (aka Garrett’s Girls).”The Pilot for the show originally aired as the last episode of Diff’rent Strokes first season and was called “The Girls’ School (aka Garrett’s Girls).”

The show was obviously quite popular, but looking back it was clearly crap. The show even had now big time celebrity George Clooney (Video Below) appear on it as well as many others.

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