{"id":23,"date":"2005-01-15T18:40:48","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T16:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=23"},"modified":"2010-02-02T21:36:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:36:55","slug":"you-take-the-good-you-take-the-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/23","title":{"rendered":"You take the good, you take the bad&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.. You take them both and then you have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitcomsonline.com\/thefactsoflife.html\">Facts of Life<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/factsoflife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2802\" title=\"factsoflife\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/factsoflife.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/factsoflife.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/factsoflife-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My god how I loved this show when I was younger.  Edna and her girls, all so different from each other, which looking back makes sense since every young girl could relate to at least one of them.  Basically the story was that Edna ran a boarding house for girls and pretty much raised them.  They were all neglected by their own parents, and were sent to live with Edna while they were in school.  The main girls were:<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nBlair<\/strong>: The snobby blond<br \/>\n<strong>Natalie<\/strong>: The chubby but funny chick<br \/>\n<strong>Jo<\/strong>: The tomboy<br \/>\n<strong>Tootie<\/strong>: The black girl<\/p>\n<p>There were other girls along the way but these four were there for the long haul.  Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000208\/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9bW9sbHkgcmluZ3dhbGR8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=2\">Molly Ringwald<\/a> was in the show for a short while.  Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000123\/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9Z2VvcmdlIGNsb29uZXl8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=6\">George Clooney<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0040015\/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9TWNrZW56aWUgYXVzdGlufGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=2;ft=2;fm=1\">MacKenzie Astin<\/a> (Brother of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000276\/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9c2VhbiBhc3RpbnxodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1\">Sean Astin<\/a>, from Lord of the Rings) made their starts there.<\/p>\n<p>It was just your typical show about teenage girls growing up, but it was so different back then.  The drama was so less, dramatic..  it was so much more simple than the TV shows of today are.  I wish my kids would get the chance to grow up on shows like this, rather than the OC&#8217;s and One Tree Hill&#8217;s of today.<\/p>\n<p>If you grew up watching this show, then the should bring you back in time too.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k_GxXRbSFDg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k_GxXRbSFDg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Maybe one day the Dutch will get their hands on this show and start showing re-runs. I mean they show ALF and V, anything is possible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.. You take them both and then you have the Facts of Life! My god how I loved this show when I was younger. Edna and her girls, all so different from each other, which looking back makes sense since every young girl could relate to at least one of them. Basically the story was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-memory-lane","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}