Gothamist: V

Spanky

Fri, 06 Feb 2004 19:36:22 -0500

You got that right!

Sam

Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:59:45 -0500

V totally rocked. Man, I'm going over old posts since i missed a whole bunch. I don't like this whole not being in NY without a computer business. I'm getting a bloody mary.

Aserdaten

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 22:19:25 -0500

You know, there's actually a tremendous opportunity here for a genre switch. What if the three fatties from "Facts of Life" got together, and they formed a bounty-hunting agency, or a private investigations firm? It could be like "VIP", or "Walker, Texas Ranger", or "Charlie's Angels" except grittier, and with more food. Every week they could have a special guest star who was a TV star in the 70s or early 80s, and who's in trouble with the law, a loanshark, or his landlord, and he needs help from the girls to get out of trouble. In the first episode, Emmanuel Lewis could show up--he needs the girls' help because he's being stalked by a woman who runs a midget-fetish Internet site. Tragically, Blair mistakes him for an hors d'oeuvre.

Greg S.

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:26:41 -0500

Didn't you guys see the Facts of Life Reunion? Mrs. Garrett owns a B&B upstate and Tutti, Blair and Natalie visits and hijinks abound. Jo wasn't there, she's busy filming her show on Lifetime, but her "daughter" was able to be there, and she's just as spunky as ever! Really, I saw this on Channel 14 (Family Network) I think.

Jen

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:51:11 -0500

Blair is now a born-again Christian, from what I hear.

Aserdaten

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:17:46 -0500

You'd think the producers of Facts of Life would have cut off the catering at some point. Natalie was supposed to be the token fat girl, but three seasons in she was looking pretty svelte compared with Blair and Tootie.

jake

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 07:53:48 -0500

what about the facts of life reunion? i bet blaire has become a crack whore by now.

Greg S.

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:52:26 -0500

Aw... Hell, when will it stop? Of all the shows to remake, why V? The only 80's remake I want to see is Different Strokes.

Mindy

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 01:05:23 -0500

So which came first, V or Michael Jackson's Thriller? Seems like they had the same clothing designer...

Melissa

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:58:39 -0500

V is the best. But I have to agree seeing that picture is a let down... Holy camel toe!

Aserdaten

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:05:04 -0500

Well, they wore cheesy M:I style latex masks to cover their reptilian faces. Robert Englund (of Freddy Kruger fame) played a pacifist reptile. I rarely got to see the show, since it was on at the same time as Dallas or Knot's Landing or something my mother liked to watch. The really creepy thing was the hybrid girl, who grew to foxy adulthood in about four episodes. It was never explained to my satisfaction how alien reptiles and people could interbreed, since technically humans are more closely related to oak trees than any alien species. I always got a kick out that old Larry Niven essay, "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex", which also deals with the problem of aliens and humans interbreeding: http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html

Jen

Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:35:24 -0500

Red, you made this post worth it! I was so freaked by their tongues...they looked human, but then the tongue...eeeee....scary.

red

Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:20:30 -0500

V rules!