The Facts Of Life | The Drummonds Pay A Visit To Mrs. Garrett | The Norman Lear Effect

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Yes!!! yes!! Yes!!! Post all the Facts of Life episodes you want!!! I am stationed @ Fort Hood right now and I left all my "Facts of Life" dvds at home. Didnt think a badass soldier would watch them, but I need them :)

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i just Subscribed now upload episode teacher teacher please

[@Justinpg284]

R.I.P. Dana Plato, Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain, and Charlotte Rae 🙏🏻❤️😢

[@marleighbonner]

The only person from different strokes who is still alive is Todd Bridges.

[@jordanrobinson1301]

Aw gee that’s real sad

[@marleighbonner]

@@jordanrobinson1301 sure is!

[@dennisvalverde3909]

Loved all of them They will be missed.

[@missyadams]

​@@jordanrobinson1301 he kept close touch with Charlotte Rae , more so after the others passed away. He was heartbtoken after Rae died. He said, according to reports, "I'm the only one left,"

[@df5295]

I was waiting for Arnold to say: "Whatcha talking about, Tootie!". 🤣

[@videox222ify]

This is the first ep of the FOL, on the pilot which was the S1 finale of DS there were some cast differences. For example there was a different head master and Natalie and Cindy were not on the pilot and neither was the Jenny O'Hara character (who was quickly dropped after the first 4 eps) and there was another girl that sort of resembled Natalie that was included. According to the cast interviews from the S1 DVD the main character was originally supposed to be Nancy but after the pilot that was changed.

[@nassauguy48]

The character of Blair was just too dynamic, and that is why Nancy faded into the background. Felice Schachter (Nancy) said in an interview that she was disappointed from the very start when she saw what was happening to her character. Jenny O'Hara (Miss Mahoney) was simply not necessary to the show, as more than two adult characters proved to be too much.

[@hadihatab3126]

The original headmaster was Mr Crocker and Blair played guitar and smoked.

[@OverlordZeroULTIMA]

Man, Arnold was just so good! I loved his character, and his voice honestly gives me joy. I thought he was a little boy the whole time, but in reality, he's older.

[@tviq]

He’s 11 here ...

[@jeffgalus8454]

The smartest thing is giving Mrs Garrett her television show

[@JeffK1980]

This was from an episode titled "Rough Housing" (Season 1 - Episode 1) which aired on August 24, 1979

[@frankieclayton9303]

My favorite TV shows growing up

[@Mxyzptlksac]

Notice they left the door open for Mrs Garrett to come back to Diff’rent Strokes if Facts of Life didn’t work out

[@needles1987]

Facts of Life ended up being more successful.

[@robinorlowski2449]

@@needles1987 yes it did. Even with the 'meh' later seasons and Beverly Ann, nobody from FOL got in trouble with the law etc off camera.

[@babevan4998]

Cindy's hair was the best!

[@keithburley7767]

Mr. Drummond and His Daughter Kimberly, Willis & Arnold

[@tjames9698]

I always found it odd that Kimberly was never seen at school on TFOL after this. Arnold and Willis were, but no Kimberly - even though she went to Eastland.

[@nassauguy48]

In later DS episodes, Kimberly was attending a non-boarding school in the city.

[@Diostillrocks]

Dana Plato had behavior issues that kept her off the show. I don't think Charlotte liked her much and thought she could be a bad influence on her girls.

[@scottthorn6858]

@@nassauguy48 yes she was attending New York City Public School with Willis.

[@nassauguy48]

@@scottthorn6858 Which I never found to be realistic. Okay, the public school in their neighborhood was probably very good, but a man with Mr. Drummond's money would still have sent them to a posh private school. Unless he was trying to teach them to be humble?

[@robinorlowski2449]

@@nassauguy48 Yeah I'm sure they could have found a coed private school for everyone to attend.

[@kumada84]

It's amazing that things have changed so much that the description of this episode can now explicitly say that Blair thinks Cindy is a lesbian... 😂😂 The actual episode is very vague about it. But the best thing about this episode is that it doesn't just vaguely imply that Blair thinks Cindy is a lesbian, but also implies that Mrs. Garrett is aware of it too, that Cindy thinks she might be a lesbian herself, and that she might actually BE a lesbian but that it doesn't matter 👀👀👀 And they did it all so vaguely that people who might not have been open to that subject probably just missed it.

[@mochagelatocreme23]

I missed it entirely.

[@kumada84]

@@mochagelatocreme23 That's probably for the best ❤️

[@williamberry4615]

I thought diffrent strokes came before facts of life

[@breckrichardson390]

It did.

[@williamberry4615]

@@breckrichardson390 Arnold is still a lil kid how long this lady play a role on diffrent strokes? 1 season?

[@williamberry4615]

@@nah....6151 in the back of my mind and this is like 36 yrs ago. I was 4. 1 of the 2 shows had a short haired old lady.

[@hoagie1978]

@@williamberry4615 You may be talking about Mrs. Garret's sister Beverly Ann (played by Cloris Leachman). Mrs. Garrett got married later on in Facts Of Life and left the show and Beverly Ann came on.

[@willpate5365]

Different Strokes Cross of The Facts of Life

[@popoff21]

I wish I had been Arnold I would’ve loved to have gotten kissed by Blair

[@4nlover635]

I wish they would have kept all of the girls.

[@nassauguy48]

I think more could have been done with Cindy and Sue Ann, but Molly and Nancy were sort of dead weight.

[@lamontyaboy718]

It was probably too expensive to pay all the cast members so they had to cut down. That's my guess anyway.

[@4nlover635]

@@lamontyaboy718, I wish they would have made more guest appearances, the 4 other girls. I didn't care for Jo.

[@hadihatab3126]

@@lamontyaboy718 there’s a documentary about what happened, it was just that there were too many girls on the show and they all had similar personalities, so they got rid of 4, ironically Felice Schachter who was hired first was let go but they made appearances here and there in seasons following but they ended up being replaced by Jo in season two to sort of be the opposite of Blair.

[@garycollins7750]

The problem was NBC was in such a hurry to get the show on the air it wasn’t really planned out very well. Originally it was pitched with Edna Garrett as the starring character and adult figure, but also added were a female teacher, a male administrator and 7 largely undefined female students the usual TV tropes the tomboy, the spoiled princess, the blabber mouth etc and they all started to overlap.

[@kaitiscarlett9022]

Yet, she never did go back to work for the Drummonds/Jacksons

[@Diostillrocks]

That was because the Facts of Life was successful.

[@fivebearrugs]

Mrs. Garrett made an appearance when Mr. Drummond got married; she was still running the gourmet food shop at the time.

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Funny man

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😆yessss!!! I'm first!!!!

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Willis: *IT'S OKAY ARNOLD THEY AIN'T NO GIRLS IN HERE* Mrs. Garrett: HEY! *Arnold comes in* Girls: *HI ARNOLD!* Arnold: OH! You lied to me, we ain't brothers anymore from now on we're distant cousins! Mrs. Garrett: Oh Come Here Arnold *MWAH!* Now what's this sudden diversion to girls? Arnold: you call my whole life sudden?

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