The Facts of Life

A mean girl gets a pie right in the face - SPLAT!

[@nassauguy48]

Blair had more money than all the girls at that school combined, yet she had a heart of gold.

[@stebaer]

Yes Right! As we can see even Mrs.Garett knew that Margot deserved what Blair did give to her but as the Housemother she still had to refrain just the same.

[@nassauguy48]

At this point, she was no longer a housemother. She had been promoted to the position of school dietitian.

[@stebaer]

@@nassauguy48 :Quite Right!

[@Mr.EmeraldTheGreen]

I love Blair!! Always have always will! Thank you so much Lisa for such an outstanding performance with such hear and class with bitchiness and a caring soul all in one

[@valorik]

She definitely had it coming.

[@michaelglass7047]

Blair let her have it, I love it 👍

[@maryammure5151]

Goes to show you blair was a diva but she was a diva not to mess with lol. She gave it to her good. She deserved it.

[@stebaer]

Here we see Molly in her last app.on the show and it was still good that she got to meet Jo as we see here even w/o a formal introduction.

[@author]

If anything, I thought Jo would do the pie smashing. Instead, Blair did it.

[@redmr2na]

Now see, if there was any doubt that these two are a couple this should clear it up. Jo and Blair had instant chemistry right from the get go. From the first time Jo threatened another bigger tougher girl in her first appearance on Facts of Life where all 4 girls went to jail over Blair's watch, the seed of friendship + was planted. From then on if anyone messed with Blair, Jo was quick to defend her honor. On the rare occasion such as this that someone went after Jo, Blair was equally quick to come to her womens aid. In this case the spoiled rich bitch attacked Jo, and Blair told Jo, no sweetheart, allow ME. SMACK pie to the face.

[@janellirving4625]

Jo would have done worse damage, if Mrs. Garrett would let her.

[@nprvictim2951]

Blair is a good girlfriend

[@reddiva1544]

She would of done that n a lot more, Blaire stopped her that’s y she done it!..

[@nassauguy48]

Blair could get away with it as a result of her pedigree. Had Jo done it, the mean girl would have said how typical that was of someone from her background.

[@cynthiastines698]

Sweet justice I never thought Blair had it in her

[@richardnogalez8772]

Love BLAIR!!!!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🤪

[@nassauguy48]

Like so many of the cameo characters in FOL, the girl playing Margo (the mean one) was 20 years old when she played this role. Meanwhile, Molly Ringwald (whom, I guess, was playing her friend and possible roommate) was only 12 or 13 at the time. A lot of the "other students" in FOL were actually a good number of years older than the four stars of the show.

[@Diostillrocks]

Molly was 12. Season 1 Molly would not have been friends with this girl and would have spoken up and not be mute.

[@nassauguy48]

@@Diostillrocks Exactly, she was a firebrand. In actuality, as Molly Ringwald later admitted, she was not in the best frame of mind when she did this scene, having still been bitter about being fired from the show as a regular. After this episode, unlike the three other girls who had been fired, she never appeared on FOL again. The character of Tootie also really mellowed out after Season 2. She also became naive, sweet and timid.

[@creativewriter3887]

@@nassauguy48 Yes.. but getting fired from "Facts" was probably the best thing that happened to Molly.. she went on to be "THE" teen of the 80s with all those string of movies! :)

[@nassauguy48]

@@creativewriter3887 Which is why she must have been laughing when asked to do the reunion episode in Season 8 and turned the producers down.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Isn’t that Madeline Stowe? It reminds me of her anyway. :)

[@tjames9698]

It was very odd to have Molly make this cameo.

[@nassauguy48]

She later said it was the toughest thing she ever did. (She was one of the four girls from the previous season who were dropped from the show). Unlike the other three girls who were dropped, she never again made another FOL appearance.

[@Diostillrocks]

@@nassauguy48 worse job ever.

[@travisjames3517]

Notice how Molly glares at Jo and no words are exchanged between them?

[@latoya19771]

reminds me of the snobby chic from Gilmore Girls

[@travisjames1437]

Molly in Season 02 was so awkward.....

[@needles1987]

That's Molly Ringwald sitting next to the mean girl.

[@nassauguy48]

This was right after she and three other actresses had been cut from the regular cast. Molly later said it was one of the worst things she had ever done, and she never appeared in another FOL episode. You could tell she was suffering from a bit of angst in this scene.

[@Diostillrocks]

@@nassauguy48 She looked like she could not wait to leave that dump, Eastland.

[@felix121984]

atlantic1119 This was when the show needed more depth. After all 1980 was a newer time and 7 females with so much similarities seemed too prosaic.

[@nassauguy48]

@@felix121984 Perhaps so, but Molly would later make fools out of everybody by becoming a 1980s big screen star as part of the Brat Pack.

[@mikebattista7491]

I thought it was her, didnt realize she made appearances after the first season. 40

[@jasonryan3689]

hee haw

[@usa02]

This was Molly Ringwald's last appearance on "The Facts of Life", although she didn't seem too happy in this episode.

[@jeremyud]

I read that they wanted to keep her (and her character had a feminist niche) but she chose to leave because she got a movie offer.

[@janellirving4625]

@@jeremyud Yes, she was in that movie Tempest.

[@nassauguy48]

@@jeremyud Well, according to "The Lost Girls" documentary about FOL, she was actually let go, and she was none too happy about it. Her really big break as part of the Brat Pack would not happen for a few years afterward.

[@tjames9698]

@@jeremyud She was the last of the original girls to be fired. In order, the firings were Nancy, Sue Ann, Cindy, and Molly.

[@nassauguy48]

@@tjames9698 No, it was actually Nancy, Sue Ann, Molly and Cindy.

[@jerricablackcat4303]

🥧

[@Mark-xl1ze]

The mean girl was in the movie, "Airplane!", playing the girl saying goodbye to her boyfriend while knocking over some "poles" as the plane takes off.

[@scottw6704]

Finally an "Airplane" factoid I never knew! "Oh, goodbye, goodbye..." SLAM lol

[@stacystoltz8722]

🌹🌹🌹🎈♥️

[@waynehoxit6160]

Was there a main reason jo felt a lot of extreme rage just asking

[@Diostillrocks]

The girl just insulted her mother.

[@stacystoltz8722]

😎😃♥️🎈🌹🏵🔥

[@SexySaxon]

Who plays the mean girl?

[@christianbrown85]

Saxon Webb Amy Gibson good actress was on the young and the restless she played a mobsters daughter and a black cop faked his apperance by making himself white to work undercover and they started a relationship and he revealed his identity at the end of the storyline she was also on General Hospital I believe in 1987 playing a villain who was a spy she wore different wigs Collette was the characters name I was a huge fan of hers back then . In her personal life a gossip magazine accused her of stealing her child and leaving the country Amy appeared on a talk show to reveal it was another woman with the same name and being this woman was an actress as well the rag paper assumed it was Amy a woman actually punched her in the face when she was in a restaurant because she believed the story was true and of course it was not

[@nassauguy48]

@@christianbrown85 She was actually 20 when she appeared in this episode of FOL. A lot of the guest actors and actresses in FOL were older, even though they portrayed high school students.

[@janellirving4625]

She also played on Airplane. She was the soldier's girl who was knocking things down as she was running.

[@Mark-xl1ze]

@@janellirving4625 This

[@Diostillrocks]

Amy Gibson also played a character like Home Run Helen in One Day at a Time. She suffers from the same autoimmune disease that Will Smith's wife suffers from and lost all her hair.

[@chocolatebar1592]

Have the facts of life girls always been living in eastland with Mrs garett?

[@nassauguy48]

This was the start of Mrs. Garrett's second year at Eastland. She started out as a housemother in one of the residence halls, then got promoted to being the school dietician. So she herself was relatively new to Eastland, having just left the Drummond household in Diff'rent Strokes.

[@PioneerGrrrl]

Mrs. Garrett came to Eastland after she decided she did not want to be a housekeeper. She apparently had a background in nursing. But she leaves at the beginning of the 8th season (two parter) Basically the 8th and the 9th season just kinda try to go on without her. It's not the same though. They should have just pulled it then.

[@nassauguy48]

@@PioneerGrrrl Yes, I could never understand why she had been a housekeeper while having a nursing diploma.

[@peacebeyondpassion2]

​@PioneerGrrrl If you were a nurse you would understand. She loved the girls and lo Ed what she was doing there.

[@jukodebu]

whats funny about assault

[@nassauguy48]

Is a pie in the face really a case of assault? Especially after that person was being verbally abusive?

[@gretchennelson7056]

Assault?😂😂

[@scottw6704]

You must be hella fun at parties

[@EphemeralProductions]

@@scottw6704😂. Exactly