Family - An Apple for the Teacher (1979 with Steve Guttenberg)

A disruptive music student (Steve Guttenberg) makes Kate question her career choice; Annie tries to repay Buddy for a lost ring.

[@MsLane61]

The older you become, the more you will appreciate and understand the beauty and uniqueness of this program and its characters.

[@MovingHawaii]

I can vouche for that. Good wholesome 📺

[@alexkennedy1820]

Agree 100%.

[@UTRose45]

@@MovingHawaii except for all the philandering willie and Nancy do. Good honks

[@thurmanwatson5954]

Started watching because of pandemic and keep wanting to watch it even more. Think there's something wrong with me, wanting these ole days when my family was around... kinda funny LOL

[@lunakat5763]

@@thurmanwatson5954 Nothing wrong with you I feel the same. Life is so different now truthfully I would love to go back in time. I never thought the world would be the way it is.

[@ChieftuckabuckawaysWife]

Wonderful storyline. Having successfully fielded marriage, motherhood, and guardianship, Kate reached into her dreams. Kate completed her education in order to teach, we watched some hurdles and the day is her triumphant realization she belongs in the classroom teaching music to those who want to learn. The WE of ME...😊😊. My mother never wore pants or slacks, always dresses. Kate reminded me of my mother in every sense of the word. My friends always went to her for advice. Love this show and the memories it invokes. ❤

[@NickoletArvanites]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉

[@juliajacklin5584]

I truly admire Kates ability to maintain the will to live. She has gracefully carried the weight of the world since the show began and I can't remember hearing her complain. What a beautiful example of style, grace and staying power. Thank you for sharing this video. ♥️

[@XxowendanxX]

She's the greatest :-)

[@sleepingwithcats5121]

Yes, and it helps to have such amazing support from her husband and kids.

[@laurabentzinger200]

Her character is wonderful she had the episode where she gets locked in a condo with a pregnant woman, Anyway she was upset and ready to run away from home bc of her family.

[@SnazzyDetritus]

I have tried to integrate some semblance of her classy, witty way of speaking and replying in my daily life, but I fail badly. I need a script like she has.

[@terridemaio7334]

This was verry well Done they All Are

[@TheDetroitblack]

I'm lovin every Episode of Family....it never gets too old to watch,They need to bring back more shows like ,"little house on the prairie" "The Jeffersons" "Fame" "Room 222" and "James at 16"

[@bobs1356]

There was something about Kate. She was very wise. Loving and caring. She wasn't like any of the other TV moms, and she wore dresses and heel shoes like the other moms like Beavers mom and Dennis the Menece even though they where comedies. But there was just something so unique about her.

[@NickoletArvanites]

She was the kind of mom you wanted to cuddle up to have her reaßuring arms around you she was strong and enduring always there for you and so fuĺ of love shall I go on CAUSE I CAN

[@rodneysexton1034]

I like how Buddy helps her mother overcome her fears of teaching. Great episode.

[@judycoulter4556]

This was one of my favorite shows when it was airing. They always had an interesting story line and stellar guest stars.

[@nealbfinn]

I've been a music professor most of my adult life in some capacity and remember seeing this episode. I have taught Music Appreciation for non-music majors. At the beginning of the course we attempt to answer the question, "What Is Music?" And the first thing I do is pick up a textbook and slam it on the desk, as Steve Guttenberg does. Followed by the question, "Is that music?" This episode was my inspiration.

[@debra13]

where do you teach? Nice story.

[@nealbfinn]

@@debra13 I'm at a small university on N. Carolina

[@debra13]

@@nealbfinn Cool.. I remember decades ago reading a woman author named Gail Godwin and she used Okracoke (?) Island as several areas in her book and it sounded really lovely... of course that was a long time ago.

[@vivianpowell1732]

When Family was on television in the 1970s I was a high school teacher. I was Nancy Lawrence's age. I had taught elementary school during my first few years, so when I started teaching high school I felt wobbly just like Kate the first year. There was a jerk like the Ogden kid in one of my classes. Kate's right about students like that, it's hard to explain how they can get the upper hand and make you feel bad about yourself. Kate's principal might not always have backed teachers up when they were trying to deal with problem students, and that makes the situation even worse. I empathized with Kate in this episode. And I still remember the name of that kid who was like Philip Ogden.

[@karenedmiston5964]

My mom had a coffee pot like the family did. It got a lot of use. I like Corning wear. You go Kate!

[@ravenpoe7093]

My family had one too but it wasnt used everyday. It was mostly used when we had family dinners and holidays when we ate in the dining room and had dessert. My mom would bring out that coffee pot so they could have coffee in the dining room

[@vivianpowell1732]

The CorningWare coffee pot came in two styles, stove-top and electric. Looks like the one the Lawrences have is the stove-top. Both of those pots were percolators, my favorite type of coffee maker.

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

...My Mom had a clear one etched with gold...green lid & tempered green handle, electric. She filled it with coffee stored in the brown tupperware coffee and tea storage canisters etched in gold. Her other tupperware storage canisters, tumblers, & containers were Harvest Gold, matching the refrigerator, wallpaper, & cafe curtains & valances. I do miss my early childhood of the 1970's. My paternal grandmother had the stove top tea kettle, white with tempered black handle, orange & yellow floral & bird trim. Her table ware & glassware were white Corning with green floral trim purchased largely with S&H Green Stamps. I still have some Corning ware coffee mugs of my own purchased at an estate sale.

[@vivianpowell1732]

@@user-mj8nf2vp7q I think you might be referring to the CorningWare Drip-o-Lator coffeepot that was introduced in the 1960s. It had 3 sections stacked top to bottom: a clear glass bowl for heated water, a metal coffee receptacle, and the white ceramic pot for the brewed coffee. The Drip-o-Lator worked on the same principle as today's pour-over or electric drip coffee makers. You put ground coffee in the metal coffee receptacle that fits between the glass bowl and white pot. Heat water in a teakettle on the stove. Then pour the hot water into the glass bowl. The hot water drips down through the coffee in the receptacle and into the white ceramic pot below, then the coffee is ready to be served. The white pot came with either a golden wheat or blue cornflower design on it.

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

@@vivianpowell1732 ...Now that I think of it, Mom's glass electric coffee pot was a Sunbeam not Corning. Otherwise I got it right according to Mom, who's now 73 & has a memory like an elephant. : ) Incidentally, she now cringes at having owned a Harvest Gold fridge; matching eyelet cafe curtains, & Tupperware with avocado green Congoleum flooring, & laminate counter tops.

[@MsLane61]

Sada and Kristy adored each other. That is easy to see. Such great chemistry.

[@rodneysexton1034]

You are right. Kristy adored both Sara Thompson and Jim Broderick. When both Sara and Jim both died it devastated Kristy. She loved them both.

[@molliemae6855]

If Buddy loved her Mom so much she would have walked to school with her on her first day.

[@XxowendanxX]

I heard Sada always looked out for Kristy. She was like a second mom.

[@lisalewis5664]

When Willie & Buddy leave to go get pizza, they leave a sandwich, glass of milk, open jar of mayo, open jar of mustard and the milk container sitting out on the table/island. And they are worried their mother is stressed. Can you imagine when she walks into the kitchen and sees that? LOL

[@pattyblevins2765]

I noticed that too.

[@CarolynSmith-ld5dz]

I thought that too

[@gerrytorres4635]

And they never wash hands😉

[@sydney13ism]

@@gerrytorres4635 It's a fictional TV show, folks.

[@sueyardley7489]

Willie and Buddy are always pouring glasses of milk or juice and then walked out of the house leaving a full glass. A mother like Kate would not have put up with that.

[@1962pjh]

When I was that age and something went down the drain, you used a piece of chewed gum on the end of a pencil and if that didn't work you called the janitor.

[@theresa42213]

1962pjih ~ Hahaa! YUP! l was thinking that EXACT same thing! l was born in '65. Were you born in '62? That would be about right! xD

[@Exotic3000]

Wow! This series was a real gem! ❤

[@peggywelty5139]

This was one of my favorite family shows when I had my family thanks for putting this on Iv'e missed it.

[@powerofloveism]

That little girl Annie is such a good little girl after what her story line was all about in the beginning it is amazing she didn't give Kate and Doug any grief , as my grandmother used to call it when kids would test the adults.

[@sueyardley7489]

That is what I dislike about the addition of the Annie character to the show. Very unrealistic from the word go. The child's lack of any type of acting out after such a huge trauma, and the way she behaves like a pompous college professor. I know she is supposed to be a little genius and this is supposed to be funny but I just find it so unrealistic. They really missed the boat with this character, there was a world of good storylines that could have been done if they'd had her behave the way a real child would have.

[@audreyann1975]

Steve Guttenburg is so young. I miss this show and TV in general when it was like this.

[@59skupe]

He was playing a jack-off.

[@Exotic3000]

It was the best TV ...ever! ❤

[@jeffreymacintyre2711]

I was 14 in 1979. I can relate to this show

[@MsBamafanatic]

That's about the same support from administration that teachers are still receiving today.

[@karenreynolds349]

Seems odd looking at a corded phone - but I remember having one with the cords reaching to the next room! Haha hahaha!!!!

[@annehajdu8654]

Philip Ogden looks 35, not 17

[@sueyardley7489]

I absolutely loved Kate in this episode. I knew that she would find a way to sort that rotten kid out.

[@j.t.masters1934]

Thank you for posting another great episode.

[@cami42874]

I would never treat one of my teachers with disrespect that’s not right

[@alexkennedy1820]

I know what you mean. It is so sad that some teachers are sworn at, verbally abused, assaulted and are the victims of false allegations. I know that it is not like that in all schools, but it is amazing what some teachers put up with and this is why some people do not want to go into teaching.

[@ApartmentKing66]

@@alexkennedy1820 So do I. But it's not just teachers that get this abuse. I was a school bus driver for 11 years, and I saw anyone who was in the immediate vicinity of certain kids get it. Instructional assistants (fancy terminology for "teacher's aide"), we as bus drivers, our bus attendants, sometimes even custodians got abused. People just don't realize how evil some kids are because they're never in a position where they have to face that fact. I've driven kids who are just plain savages. No sense of boundaries instilled in them. You might as well be driving an animal to school. That's all some of them are except in human bodies. As far as "what some teachers put up with," they do so because they have to: they and we as drivers have such restrictions put upon us as professionals, we face serious consequences if we do anything more than just "write the kid up." We have bills to pay and families to feed too, and the job we're doing (when I still did it) is what we're qualified and licensed to do, and at which, *we earn the most*. So, just walking away from the job usually isn't an option. So, we miserably keep at it while trying to better ourselves financially in other ways.

[@ShawnBen]

The parents should be charged with negligence. People don't want to deal with other people's deranged children. A write up is just another sheet of paper.

[@farhanarahman9009]

KRISTY Mchnicol was so rad in the 1970s.

[@rodneysexton1034]

She sure was. She is retired from acting but she works as a professional teacher. I am a huge Kristy fan.

[@KA-mq4wj]

I was 12 and wanted to be her

[@XxowendanxX]

She had a sublime beauty both inside and out

[@clairedelune2011]

Thank you for posting. This is great.

[@thinkmirror8507]

Goodness I love stairs off the kitchen!

[@LannieLord]

Yeah BUT nobody has those in real life .

[@constancestinger5976]

Kate did a great job as her character.

[@Magazinelady]

The ring going down the drain in the bathroom floor happened in a Walton's episode, too. Mary Ellen had purchased an evening bag from the man who sold things second hand. There was a beautiful ring in the bag. Mary Ellen wanted to wear it to the dance and then she would return it to the rightful owner.

[@rodneysexton1034]

Family was great!

[@girlgeniusnyc272]

1. Don't lend money you can't afford to lose 2. Don't lend an item you ever want to see again

[@rosarosalia845]

Im a teacher and there's always that one smart up in the class.

[@janasimon7780]

No one in their right mind would want to teach High School...those days and even less now days!🥴 I loved learning but that was a very long time ago!

[@citydweller99]

Kate is what I envisioned my grandmother being like had she decided to complete her education and become a music teacher.

[@rodneysexton1034]

I love it when Buddy gets really mad at Annie for losing her ring. Buddy is also furious that her mother is being mistreated badly by everybody in school!

[@95KIPPIE]

My mother scary as she was too much like Kate and she passed much wisdom to us children our whole lives. It’s amazing as you get older how much you remember, and how much it really does apply to you as a person, and the roads that you travel in life

[@scottgrunow5201]

now it is classes are a pit stop between texting

[@SkyBlue-qn8me]

Was it that hard for Kate to send the brat to the principal's office, put him in detention and call his parents?

[@chevydude658]

If I would have ever spoken to my mother like Buddy did in this episode I would have had the taste slapped outta my mouth. "I don't think it's right that you ask me questions about another student...myah myah myah." Incredibly snotty attitude.

[@SnazzyDetritus]

Yeah, she's a little pissant.

[@XxowendanxX]

Kate was an embarrassment to her daughter for letting that demon seed walk all over her. I don't blame her for being pissed at the entire situation. Kate needed to grow a pair Buddy was a hundred percent right, gave Kate the talking to that she needed.

[@rodneysexton1034]

Exactly T Price! Buddy was angry about her mother being treated badly in school! I used to back talk my teachers in school but I respected them though! My parents would have had a long talk with me about bullying teachers!

[@dandiacal]

Steve Guttenberg about right before he was in production on CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC.

[@scottgrunow5201]

he was very hot then. he did not age well. so imagine that jerk Philip Ogden suffering the same fate

[@vcrcooking]

Kate and Doug are always squeezed into that twin bed. Maybe it’s a full size but no bigger. They need a bigger bed in which to have angst and fret over things.

[@XxowendanxX]

Kate needs to go on a diet

[@pattyblevins2765]

I think most couples slept in full size beds back then.

[@kerrymueller9123]

That would never happen in my day....I mean what the students did to Kate.

[@sydney13ism]

Why didn't Quinn and her friend notify the janitor when Kristy's ring fell into the grate in the bathroom? There are ways to retrieve it. You should have left it on and not effed around with it, Quinn.

[@sueyardley7489]

That was bugging me too. If the child didn't think of asking a adult at the school for help, then Willie should have thought of it when Annie told him what happened to the ring.

[@nancyrhm2094]

Kate doesn't understand why Buddy doesn't want to walk to school with her or have lunch together?

[@sueyardley7489]

I thought it was terrible of Buddy at first, but my son walked through the room and explained it to me. Good writing of the Buddy character in this episode.

[@scottgrunow5201]

stop it! stop it! she has lost control of the class

[@michaelleary9233]

Me too Xanthas, the side stories were usually less serious for all of them, just relief from the drama I guess. I'm sure Annie wouldve gotten some better ones as she got older, too.

[@cindeed4422]

I was 10 when this show started. My favorite show! What great acting I remember thinking even then. Such great actors and cast all around. Cheryl Ladd almost got the role of Nancy. I thought Meredith Baxter was great. Aaron Spelling loved Cheryl so much he remembered her for Charlie’s Angels when a role opened up. Steve Guttenberg was a jerk! He looked like Potsie Weber from Happy Days.

[@ApartmentKing66]

If Aaron Spelling loved Cheryl Ladd so much, why did the role of Nancy go to Elayne Heilveil when the show went into production? Farrah Fawcett was cast in Charlie's Angels, not her, until Fawcett left.

[@rodneysexton1034]

Buddy sure is mad! Buddy now knows Annie lost her lucky ring! Annie should tell Buddy the truth!

[@SnazzyDetritus]

guttenberg's weird lopsided smile always creeps me out.

[@cedricliggins7528]

I never liked him

[@XxowendanxX]

He sniffs women's hair, too

[@SnazzyDetritus]

@@XxowendanxX Ew

[@scottgrunow5201]

Kate should report Philip Ogden to the administration, but perhaps she is afraid by doing so it will make her look incompetent.

[@Monorail-Beyond-the-Veil]

First of all, Kristy was (originally) the ONLY reason I watched this show growing up. :-O Now, time for some criticism - If that MY high school, and that kid (Guttenberg) actually SAT in the teacher's chair and took command of the class, one of the MALE teachers would have quickly escorted him out in the hall and it would never happen again! Why would that man (was he the principal, I don't remember) walk in and blame KATE for all the noise they were making, slamming their books against the desk? I don't believe that would EVER happen, it was draw instant attention for being so LOUD. So I don't think that's realistic at all. But the same thing happened on Little House, when the female teacher was FIRED for allowing a male bully to disrupt the class. So...

[@ApartmentKing66]

Yeah, the writing in this episode was quite stupid in a lot of places. But the teacher, as I remember, quit in Little House. She wasn't fired.

[@Monorail-Beyond-the-Veil]

@@ApartmentKing66 Yes, but didn't that Oleson b*** threaten to fire her?

[@rodneysexton6090]

Groundbreaking!

[@maggieb369]

Phillip looks old for high school

[@trevorbarnhill3399]

Steve Guttenberg was 21 years old when this episode was made, and then came out.

[@novim9]

Hey! Nice work so far! Do you have the episode ‘When The Bough Breaks’ and if so: could you upload it?

[@pamelahurt8168]

Kate should find out if she could put that rude student out of her class...those that follow him will get a..F...for the Day period.

[@rodneysexton1034]

Happy New Year!

[@LEIGHPFOSI]

"What I am going to do when I get up in front of my first class to teach and I can't even remember who wrote the Beethoven Fifth?" [How about go with, I don't know, Beethoven?}

[@theartofwar7806]

Knowledge is the least of your worries as a teacher.The first is what she experienced: classroom management. First and foremost.

[@SnazzyDetritus]

It's supposed to be obvious - that's the joke she's making.

[@alisonboulding185]

Didn't Buddy said put a tape round the ring😢😂

[@pattyblevins2765]

I figured it was going to get lost.

[@reneebraxton1032]

He is pissing me off. "Don't break, don't bend, don't back down!"🙂

[@cedricliggins7528]

I think it's cute that they call her Buddy. That's what Richard Nixon use to call Pat Nixon.

[@kprieto2655]

Oh sure, Nixon was such a "great' role model (eyes rolling)

[@XxowendanxX]

You should hear what Bill used to call Hillary but I can't type that here

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

-Actress Sada Thompson accepts her Emmy Award as Outstanding Lead Actress In a Dramatic Series for: family, at the 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (Sun. Sept. 17, 1978). Broadcast on CBS from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium just ten days prior to Thompson's 51st birthday. Presenter: Henry Winkler. Nominees: Susan Sullivan, Fionnula Flanagan, Melissa Sue Anderson, Kate Jackson, Michael Learned. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHXEm5mKa6uJnbc

[@mario-qi3yw]

Thank you❤

[@AstralPixie]

Early role for Steve Guttenberg as the obnoxious guy

[@LRS905]

Has he ever had any other role?

[@LRS905]

Has he ever had another type of role?

[@AstralPixie]

@@LRS905 He was typically a nice guy and starred in a lot of popular movies: Diner, Cocoon, Police Academy, Short Circuit, The Bedroom Window, 3 Men and a Baby, High Spirits, etc.

[@larryshaver3568]

@@AstralPixie and in home for the holidays[1995]

[@theartofwar7806]

He made his career about being a smarmy asshole in Police Academy. You can see the undertones of it here.

[@marisolperez4584]

When the mother is depressed, nobody eat

[@SnazzyDetritus]

i love this show, but, man, i'd just really like to slap buddy sometimes.

[@richardherbst8081]

Let me go first, she was bratty and sullen at the same time.

[@XxowendanxX]

She was right on both counts. Kate needed to man up and put that ahole in his place. And those other two were scoundrels for trying to deceive Buddy with a fake replacement

[@SnazzyDetritus]

@@XxowendanxX Buddy is a sanctimonious brat who takes Kate's good and loving nature for granted most of the time. Also it was really funny that Buddy claimed that Kate would never let she, Nancy or Willie walk all over her, but all Kate did was let her kids walk all over her!

[@XxowendanxX]

@@SnazzyDetritus Buddy was right 99 percent of the time because she was trapped in a house with a bunch of nudniks

[@SnazzyDetritus]

@@XxowendanxX Well then Buddy was in excellent company - she was nudnik number one in that house!

[@angelawood7653]

Wow Guttenberg. Lots of stars b4 they were stars

[@MichaelLantz]

Yes, Mahoney from Police Academy

[@LindaPongetti]

He acted like a DOUCHE!

[@sheiladaniels9552]

Buddy had a phone in her room?! I was never allowed a phone or tv in my room!

[@alisonperry4170]

It was probably the hallway phone that could reach

[@trevorbarnhill3399]

I got to have a TV and phone in my room when I was a teen. I had a TV, stereo, Nintendo, and phone in my room.

[@rodneysexton1034]

5 stars!

[@carolcremer6235]

The high school I went to the troublemakers didn't dress as nice as that guy

[@fernandasantiago3]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@peterdurkin8980]

The principal forgot to say. We all are corrupt also

[@kathrynoneill5862]

Sada was a pretty lady her hairstyle and clothes made her look older she really wasn't that old.

[@jrpacer6355]

That was the style back then in the 70s my mom had the same style 😊

[@dannystargazer]

quinn (annie) was the original Debbie downer

[@guffmanvansickle8386]

That made me LOL

[@LindaPongetti]

She has her charm!

[@_ms.mannequin_]

Why couldn't she have called his parents?!

[@trevorbarnhill3399]

Exactly. Unless his parents were part of the problem as well.

[@scottgrunow5201]

​@trevorbarnhill3399 definitely. probably a rich spoiled narcissistic brat because they let him do as he wants and probably think his behavior is funny

[@larryshaver3568]

Wasn't the principal on the Waltons asJD Pickett?

[@pinksparkle258]

JD Pickett was played by Lewis Arquette (real life father to David, Rosanna and Patrica)

[@scottgrunow5201]

Doug, leave me alone with the chicken. Then, in a deleted scene, she goes mad and starts throwing aound the pieces and screaming as in an operatic mad scene.

[@larryshaver3568]

just like Mahoney in Police Academy

[@Sheila02181]

Willie's mother-in-law has taken up teaching, too!

[@gracebressi8622]

Although I remember enjoying watching these when I was younger Jesus Christ when were the shot the 40s all the lamps in the house look old Timey and exactly the same the mother and father look like they’re about 60 something years old everything is so dated😂

[@trevorbarnhill3399]

The decor was more 1940s than 1970s, that's for sure. When the show started in 1976, James Broderick who played Doug was 49. And Sada Thompson, who played Kate, she was 48 when the show first aired. People just looked older back then than they do now.

[@rodneysexton1034]

Annie should have been careful with Buddy"s ring. She knew Buddy would find out about her ring. Buddy was real mad about her ring being lost.

[@JodiSmith-iu4nh]

I think Steve guttenburg is a real jerk… in this episode

[@magnus1001]

Lavalantula!

[@vanealmorrow6024]

Willie should have handled this situation for his mother.

[@olympedegouges1789]

Do you have any episodes to download from season one

[@LindaPongetti]

Search for seasons 1&2 in KZbin

[@lisaryan4362]

Willie was best brother

[@lisamccall3258]

Kate was such a good mother and not used to being challenged by her children, that's odd behavior for her to back down and take to the bed. I loved Buddy but she could be prissy sometimes,lol.

[@lgempet2869]

Lisa Mccall Yeah, Buddy had several bad moments in this one.....”not a good look” on her.😏

[@XxowendanxX]

@@lgempet2869 if it wasn't for Buddy instilling some backbone into Kate she would've dropped out of teaching and Steve gutterberg would be terrorizing the next teacher and not allowing those kids to learn about music. Kate made that fool look like a clown thanks to Buddy. And she was right about those other two goofs Annie was careless with the lucky ring and they conspired to deceive her, buy a fake one and lie to her about the whereabouts of the real one so someone explain to me what she did wrong

[@scottgrunow5201]

I am teaching because I need the money. In three more years I can retire. For me unlike many of my supposed colleagues it is not the second income needed to live middle class

[@deborahgolias5666]

I forgot why they brought Quinn Cummings on.

[@fleurmartin]

Probably because Kristy was no longer the cute kid. A lot of shows do that mess.

[@robertkahan3826]

@@fleurmartin Right. Family Ties did it too. Another Meredith Baxter show!

[@XxowendanxX]

Kristy was hot 💩 in the entertainment industry and the producers were worried that she would leave the show in order to pursue opportunities elsewhere.

[@scottgrunow5201]

jump the shark

[@pamnamisniak3158]

The minute Annie opens her mouth I am annoyed.

[@lisatrautner9426]

😂😂

[@MsLane61]

She could only be who she was. As I have gotten older, I have found she has a unique and certain charm. You have to get old to appreciate people for their idiosyncrasies, I guess.

[@ROBERTC160658]

Annie was the most sucky character I ever saw on television. I skipped by every scene in which she appeared.

[@ApartmentKing66]

@@ROBERTC160658 We get it.

[@ApartmentKing66]

@@MsLane61 Agreed. Quinn had a certain precocity that put a lot of people off, apparently. But movie and TV producers liked it. And talk show talent coordinators. But you nailed it: she could only be who she was.

[@rodneysexton1034]

How did the kids have their own money? When I was a kid I had my own money. I worked around the house to earn money.

[@johnhartsock1891]

Heard Willie was given an allowance at 23!!

[@rodneysexton1034]

That is not surprising about Willie!

[@rodneysexton1034]

I am 53 years old today! I never thought I would live to be in my 39s! But I am still alive today! I am great ful for my life!

[@LannieLord]

Kate' s HAIR looks terrible

[@elizabethmelnychuk6034]

This woman was educated and had four children one died. Why on earth would she want to go back to school at her age? Was she that insecure?

[@scottgrunow5201]

mid life crisis. rich woman needs to do something with her life

[@Ilostmyfob]

When Kate cried,I did too! I know what it feels like to be abused mentally at work... also. Kristy is at her best here. I loved this episode!

[@alexkennedy1820]

It's horrible, especially when no one realises how much a person is bullying you. Every time you open your mouth, they make you look ridiculous. Every time you suggest something, they shoot you down and think that they are superior. Yet, they are popular in the work environment. I do not know why people feel the need to be so vicious, vile and mean. It is a disgusting way to treat people. They push people too far and I am sure that they would be horrified if someone had the audacity to treat them in the same manner as they bully others.

[@Ilostmyfob]

@@alexkennedy1820 write to me any time. I've been there.... also, follow The Empowered Employee. Read her story. Her name is Janice White. And, like I said...write me anytime. I'm here and will listen!

[@alexkennedy1820]

@@Ilostmyfob Thanks for replying to me. It all happened quite some time ago, but I am sure that it happens frequently in office environments (although maybe not so much now). Some people are just so good at bullying (ie the eye rolls, making people feel inferior etc).

[@Ilostmyfob]

@@alexkennedy1820 been there..coworkers tortured me.

[@alexkennedy1820]

@@Ilostmyfob I guess no one ever found out the extent of it and the co-workers were never punished or caught.

[@rodneysexton1034]

When Buddy angrily tells at her mom for letting a student run over her Late knew Buddy is right and she told Buddy she would tell her everything.

[@scottgrunow5201]

the subplot about the ring is not interesting

[@debbievaldez168]

The woman coworker of Kate's, was the mother of the dying woman Willie married

[@mastertyper1571]

HOW DARE THAT PRINCIPAL COME INTO THE SCENE AND ROBBED KATE OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE STRICT WITH UNRULY STUDENTS!!! KUNG SA FLORDELUNA O ESPERANZA PA ITO TINAPUNAN TALAGA NI KATE NG ERASER ANG MGA PASAWAY NA ESTUDYANTE PARA DI NA SILA PUMALAG!!!!

[@michaeljordan6008]

I always thought Quinn Cummings was the most annoying person on television. Loved Kristy McNichol.

[@MsLane61]

Poor kid; everyone makes negative comments about her. A very different kid. At least she is memorable!

[@ROBERTC160658]

Quinn Cummings/Annie single handedly ruined this show. Her character was nothing more than filler. I skip by EVERY scene in which she appears. Huge mistake adding her to the cast.

[@judyholiday1794]

I believe by the time they added Quinn the show was starting to loose some ratings..Just like with all of the other shows they tried to add another kid and it didn't work

[@Ilostmyfob]

She was wonderful in The Goodbye Girl...and is a sharp cookie in real life. Plus. Hilarious!

[@Monorail-Beyond-the-Veil]

@@ROBERTC160658 Maybe she wouldn't have been so annoying if she weren't such a know-it-all. I don't know, just my opinion. :-O

[@peterbedford2610]

Unwatchable

[@ariasalvarezpeter1336]

kriisty mc nichol was my favourite i do not understand why she did not continue . SHE DID BUT why did she quit . SHE IS THE SAME GENERATION OF JODY FOSTER maybe younger . SHE HAS THE SAME TALENT . she is grreat.

[@JimimIsMyJamot7]

Kristy is my crush

[@trevorbarnhill3399]

Kristy was my first ever crush as a kid. She was fine as hell back in the day.