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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 13, 2021 14:43:36 GMT
Any fans of this early 80's sitcom?  Patty (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Lauren (Amy Linker...what ever became of her?) are desperate to fit in with the cool kids in their school. Every episode is pretty much about their efforts to do so. What makes this memorable is how perfectly it captures the new wave music of the era and the accurate valley girl speak that this only helped spawn. It feels like a show that is trying recreate the era, and then you realize, this WAS the era and it knew enough to capture it then.   It even had Bill Murray and Devo as guest stars. Like, totally, oh my Gawd!   I'm watching it in Canada on the CTV app for free. |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 14, 2021 17:14:04 GMT
I watched every ep when it first ran
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Post by millar70 on Jan 14, 2021 20:28:10 GMT
I watched it quite a bit, that was right around the beginning of my high school days, so I could relate to that show.
Too bad it didn't run enough to get into syndication, it would probably have been more popular as the years went on.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Jan 18, 2021 16:36:14 GMT
I recently binged the entire series after not having watched it since it originally aired. Even in the early 80's it rang a bit false, set in a New Wave moment that never quite happened in real life, at least in my experience. That part of the show predictably has not aged that well, and the laugh track doesn't help. But I was impressed by the smart humor and the character development towards the end of the series. It would have gotten better with a second season, I'm sure.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 18, 2021 17:04:59 GMT
I recently binged the entire series after not having watched it since it originally aired. Even in the early 80's it rang a bit false, set in a New Wave moment that never quite happened in real life, at least in my experience. That part of the show predictably has not aged that well, and the laugh track doesn't help. But I was impressed by the smart humor and the character development towards the end of the series. It would have gotten better with a second season, I'm sure. The New Wave thing was a thing, at least among my friends, but there's no way it was loved everywhere. That laugh track was so dated and unnecessary. It was finding a real groove towards the end, but it was probably going to always be short lived anyway. It was about New Wave and set in high school, the life span was always going to be brief.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 18, 2021 17:10:34 GMT
It's interesting reading up on this show now. I assumed, like most people did, that it got cancelled because of low ratings, but the ratings actually grew with each episode. Apparently, the reason it got cancelled is because an executive visited the set and witnessed rampant drug usage by various cast or crew.  |
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