#Mindy Cohn (Facts of Life).

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the facts of life |1985|

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The Facts Of Life: Blair Warner (being a mood)

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Facts of Life

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The Facts of Life Down Under - NBC - February 15, 1987

Comedy

Running Time: 120 minutes

Stars:

Cloris Leachman as Beverly Ann Stickle

Lisa Whelchel as Blair Warner

Mindy Cohn as Natalie Green

Kim Fields as Tootie Ramsey

Nancy McKeon as Jo Polniaczek

Mackenzie Astin as Andy Moffett

Mario Van Peebles as David Johnson

Joss McWilliam as Nick Aintree

Jay Hackett as Kevin Colton

Andrew McKaige as Ren Calley

Noel Trevarthen as Roger Pitt

Misty Bernard as Jane Willis

Barbara-Jane Cole as Miss Carstairs

Nicholas Opolski

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Mindy Cohn in The Facts of Life “Flash Flood” (1980).

Photographed by Paul Drinkwater.

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This is going to be a great podcast topic for our next show on Monday!

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classic natalie |1981|

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Well well well, I’ve finally finished the Facts of Life and man it really went out with a whimper didn’t it 😭.

As much as I enjoyed some parts of season 9, I definitely think I’d rather have the finale for Season 8 be the ending of the show since it fit so well. A bonus to that would be not having to see Jo and Rick get married which I did not enjoy.

Going into the show knowing that Jo was going to get married at the end, I already knew disappointment was in store but I thought it’d be better than this! Jo and Rick’s relationship isn’t fleshed out AT ALL and I have no idea why Jo likes this guy, we didn’t even see them get together, they just start dating out of the blue!!! Having Tootie and Jeff get married in that episode is would’ve made much more sense and I think I would’ve really liked that.

I also really didn’t enjoy them femming Jo up so much this season. As a sort of masc presenting person myself, it really grinds my gears when female masculinity is treated as a phase that you’ll eventually grow out of. More than that, I just don’t think it made sense for Jo as a character to start dressing this way all of a sudden. Also, knowing that Jo becomes a cop in the reunion movie makes absolutely no sense when looking at the person she’s become by season 9.

I didn’t have any big problems with Natalie or Tootie’s storylines this season, in fact I really enjoyed them and I think they made it through to the end of the show pretty in tact as characters.

I do wish Blair had been able to consistently keep some of the character development she gained over the years. They have so many instances of her being ignorant and stuck up when she’s really grown more than that by now. I know it’s for comedy but it still makes me a little sad.

Finally, Jo and Blair’s dynamic. The premiere of season 9 had me hopeful but sadly, it didn’t maintain. Oh how I long for the casual intimacy they had in seasons 5 and 6. Those girls were together every second back then!!! They’d enter the store together, hang out together, go to events together, study together, and we get very little of that this season. It’s back to the old pretending like we hate each other shtick, which, I guess I understand, it’s a sitcom and people eat that stuff up, but man, if character continuity mattered more, I think they’d be just as amiable as in their early college days.

All that said and grievances aside, I’m still so glad I found this show. It’s made me super happy over the past few months and I think that happiness will carry on even longer . Though I’m sad to think about what the later seasons could have been, I still have the episodes where it was in its prime to rewatch and that’s good enough for me 😌

P.S if I were in charge, I never would’ve moved to Over Our Heads, Edna’s Edibles was my favorite era of the show



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i'm not sure if you're interested in this, but i was wondering if you are aware of the drama between the ladies from TFOL recently and your thoughts on it? Well, most of it it's just from Mindy actually. She's given some interviews in the past months and talked about an alleged reboot of TFOL that was ruined because of one of the other girls, and it's very obvious that she means Lisa, although she's not willing to name names. If you google Mindy you'll see an interview from today where she calls that co-star a "greedy bitch", and in past podcast interviews she's talked about not being willing to work with someone who hasn't acted in ages. Anyway, I may sound harsh but I don't trust Mindy, she always seemed a little petty and now it looks like she just wants attention. She's always the one stirring up drama while the other 3 don't seem to care lol and i think that says a lot about the whole situation.

wow! strong words. I hadn't heard about that. :( as much as I like TFOL, I'm not the type to follow a show's cast elsewhere for interviews or other projects so I'm always out of the loop until someone else fills me in.

having said that, I remember around 2017 or 2018 there were articles where mindy was publicly attempting to secure the rights to the show. Idk how much string-pulling that requires or how close she came to doing so but this suggests to me that she's always cared more about this than the others. then when leo dicaprio's company bought the rights instead, I thought the project was sure to be shelved since it was out of her hands. I'm just now learning with this video that she somehow became re-involved and it was still in the works for a while after.

my impression has always been that mindy is okay with being messy in interviews because she's ~being real~ so I don't think she's fabricating anything. I think she's just pissed about losing out on this thing that she put time and effort into because of someone she trusted and finds catharsis in airing their dirty laundry. it's not a good look to essentially spit on your own brand regardless of the in-fighting, but she's still landing acting gigs so maybe she doesn't care to preserve that image.

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1983 Justine Bateman's 17th birthday party with Sarah Jessica Parker (Square Pegs), Kari Michaelsen (Give Me A Break), Jason Bateman (Silver Spoons), Michael J. Fox (Family Ties), Mindy Cohn (Facts of Life).