“Bless his heart."

This is why I never got into them! So many people recommended it on here so I tried to listen. Just kept fast forwarding to find the actual content and then gave up. 

Ooh, brag time...I grew up next to Terry Kiser’s brother and got to meet him about a year after this came out. He was very nice and very “Hollywood”. I think I was 8 and 100% expecting that he would show up with Andrew McCarthy, whom I had a huge crush on. 

Stupid, sexy Flanders!

Thank you for the snort-laugh in the middle of this garbage fire. 

Yep that’s exactly when I quit too.

Oooh what’s your favorite brand of sheets overall? And best on a budget?

Is this a good place to bring a doll though?

Yikes

I can hear this perfectly in her voice. And she might giggle at the end. 

Oh God, Sandra. I guarantee that wherever she is right now someone is getting screamed at to "do their fucking job!!" I really dislike her as a person. 

As someone with a diagnosed immune deficiency, this truly scares the shit out of me and causes so much anxiety. I will absolutely be among the first to go if/when a new disease spreads.

35 years later and I still think about this show all the time. The nightmares! My parents probably shouldn’t have let five-year-old me watch it.

Reminds me of Nigella Lawson’s ex who used to say he preferred beans and toast to her cooking. Like, really dude?

Thank you. That image made me laugh. 

I’m embarrassed that I know this but he let his state license lapse, presumably to protect him from malpractice suits. He makes a point of announcing that sometimes on the show. I like to hate watch clips from his show on YouTube. 

My littlest used to wear princess dresses when he played pretend. He put one on at his first day of preschool and a dad glared at him. He ripped it off and never wore one again. Asshole dad.

If he suggested that she do it and left himself out of the equation completely, he still would have likely been charged with something.

I think you’ve articulated it well here: that certain movies lean so hard on gendered cliches that when they act to subvert them they actually just reinforce the stereotype, i.e. women don’t like sports (wtf?) so one that does is some kind of unicorn + movie script = profit! (I think that is probably what the actual…

I hate every adult in this story, including Rogers mother, who helped harbor the girl. Anyone with an ounce of compassion and two brain cells to rub together would have alerted the authorities.