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The Facts of Life

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The Facts of Life	comment	A sitcom (with some teen drama elements) on NBC from 1979 to 1988, about the heartwarming adventures of a group of female students. Initially they were students at a boarding school. In later seasons, they went to college and beyond, but kept living together under the watchful eye of Edna Garrett (Charlotte Rae), formerly of Diff'rent Strokes, and in later seasons her Suspiciously Similar Substitute sister, Beverly Ann Stickle (Cloris Leachman).During its first season, the show had a large ensemble cast of seven girls, including one played by a very young Molly Ringwald. Starting in Season 2, though, the show was retooled. The cast was thinned down to four "core" girls, and almost nothing was ever seen again of their classmates. The canon reason for the cast change was that the four core girls were caught getting up to some illegal activities, and rather than expelling them the school placed them on probation by working with Mrs. Garrett in the cafeteria and sleeping in a spare room next to hers. Just go with it.The main girls after the first season were: Blair Warner (Lisa Whelchel), the Rich Bitch turned Lovable Alpha Bitch Funny but insecure Natalie Green (Mindy Cohn) Troubled, but Cute tomboy Jo Polniaczek (Nancy McKeon) Tootie Ramsey (Kim Fields), the youngest gossip girl of the group (who lost her trademark rollerskates as part of the retool, but kept her braces and pigtails)The show aired long enough to use just about every Sitcom trope in existence, including Blair's Inspirationally Disadvantaged cousin Geri, who had cerebral palsy, and many Very Special Episodes. A reunion movie, featuring the entire cast except for Nancy McKeon's Jo, aired in 2001.
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The Facts of Life / int_10ca13e4	type	Stereotype Flip
The Facts of Life / int_10ca13e4	comment	Stereotype Flip: The writers had planned to have Blair lose her virginity to boost ratings. Lisa Whelchel decided not to go along with it because she couldn't reconcile premarital sex with her religious beliefs. Mindy Cohn, on the other hand, thought it was about time one of these women in their twenties be allowed to have sex, so she volunteered Natalie to be given the story line in Blair's place. So it was Funny fat girl Natalie who lost her virginity first rather than the more conventionally attractive and ultra-popular Blair.
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The Facts of Life / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
The Facts of Life / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Blair and Jo have many of these moments when they stop sniping. Blair nearly punches out a guy who assaulted Jo. Blair secretly helps Jo get a scholarship so that she can stay in school. Jo replaces a childhood toy of Blair's after it is ruined. Jo jumps to her defense after a disgruntled wife accuses Blair of sleeping with her husband. Blair skips a ski trip to spend Christmas with Jo, etc., etc.
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The Facts of Life / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
The Facts of Life / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Tootie was treated like this in earlier seasons.
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The Facts of Life / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
The Facts of Life / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: The girls having an adult care giver. It made sense in the early seasons since they were still kids and needed adult guidance from Mrs. Garrett. It made less sense once they became adults and there was still being cared for by Beverly Ann.
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The Facts of Life / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Facts of Life / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: While there were some adult themes in Season 1, Season 2 is where the more darker storylines began to take shape. Season 3 in particular really puts the girls through the wringer as they face several dramatic situations such as Blair discovering her beloved grandfather and namesake was a member of the KKK, Tootie is almost kidnapped and turned into a prostitute, Jo ruins her teacher's life with a damaging school article only to discover after the fact that the man did nothing wrong, and Natalie is attacked and almost raped by a maniac while walking home from a Halloween Party.
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The Facts of Life / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
The Facts of Life / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: Strongly downplayed with Blair; while not every member of her family is a mess, it's obvious that the early divorce of her parents and other behavior and learned secrets had a great affect on her. The divorce itself caused her to lose her faith in God to the point that she tried everything in her power to stop her stepsister from becoming a nun. Her father and paternal grandfather have their own demons that she was either horrified or heartbroken to discover; whereas the former's relationship with her is strongly tested by the revelations that he used her as a tax shelter and was guilty of insider trading and will have to do prison time, the latter, whom she was named after, was a grand wizard of The Klan. She also gains several stepmothers and stepfathers through both of her parents' many remarriages that left her groundedless and her mother's latest husband divorced her shortly after she told her daughter that she was pregnant with his child—and that he wasn't coming back.
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The Facts of Life / int_174ea6a7	type	The Dutiful Son
The Facts of Life / int_174ea6a7	comment	The Dutiful Son: Mrs. Garrett's son Raymond, the stuffy accountant who buys her the building for Edna's Edibles. Complete with Prodigal brother, Alex, an unsuccessful musician who was always asking for money.
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The Facts of Life / int_186c2c62	type	Diet Episode
The Facts of Life / int_186c2c62	comment	Diet Episode: In season 1 Sue Ann goes on a starvation diet for a date Blair fixed her up with.
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The Facts of Life / int_18f2b2b	type	Hypocritical Heartwarming
The Facts of Life / int_18f2b2b	comment	Hypocritical Heartwarming: The girls frequently insult each other and think little of it, but as per True Companions, insulting one of them from outside the group is not a good idea. After Blair’s friend Harrison assaults Jo:
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The Facts of Life / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Facts of Life / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: There really was no point to George Clooney's character in seasons 7 and 8 other than to have a hot guy hanging around the set to appeal to the show's largely female audience. Jo and Blair's college dorm-mate, Guy, had a memorable scene wearing only a Modesty Towel. Male-model-turned-actor Richard Grieco in the backdoor pilot "Big Apple Blues". And let's not forget the strippers in "I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can." Subverted in the case of Natalie's dating-service boyfriend Rex Winchester, whose good looks are totally cancelled out by his dweebie personality (including his own Catchphrase, "It works for me!")
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The Facts of Life / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Facts of Life / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Nancy's boyfriend Roger.
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The Facts of Life / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
The Facts of Life / int_1bf94a24	comment	The Movie: The Facts of Life Goes to Paris; The Facts of Life Down Under - both made for TV.
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The Facts of Life / int_1c3d047e	type	The Rival
The Facts of Life / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival:
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The Facts of Life / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Facts of Life / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Actually the name of an episode in which Tootie gets the part of Nellie Forbush in the school production of South Pacific, and Natalie is deeply jealous. Jo lampshades the trope by explaining what the Green-Eyed Monster does to a person. This ends up reversed in "Who's On First?" when Tootie gets jealous of Natalie's new boyfriend, Gil, and ends up lying about him both canceling their study date and apparently having another girl there with him. In the end, he cheats on her, ultimately ending their relationship.
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The Facts of Life / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Facts of Life / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Blair and Jo are a textbook example, right down to having dialogue that could easily be used by a genuine old married couple. Tootie and Natalie were this long before the show began, it just didn't cause as much conflict as Jo and Blair.
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The Facts of Life / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The Facts of Life / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Season 8's "Cupid's Revenge" has Blair accusing Natalie of making up her boyfriend Snake (who was a ghost at this point), when he finally shows up at the end (but still not shown), Natalie looks at the audience and says "you'll just have to take my word for it".
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The Facts of Life / int_1f07a8bd	type	Who's Watching the Store?
The Facts of Life / int_1f07a8bd	comment	Who's Watching the Store?: By seasons 8 and 9, the girls are rarely ever seen working there...despite continuing to live right upstairs. Eventually they choose to close the store to utilize the space for rooms for Andy and Pippa.
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The Facts of Life / int_1fb4d915	type	The Stool Pigeon
The Facts of Life / int_1fb4d915	comment	The Stool Pigeon: This was Tootie's primary function for the early seasons, and she retains it to a lesser extent as an adult. Combine her with Natalie and you get Gossipy Hens.
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The Facts of Life / int_20314beb	type	Cousin Oliver
The Facts of Life / int_20314beb	comment	In Season 5, after Blair and Jo graduate from Eastland, the whole main setting changes to a store Mrs. Garett obtains called Edna's Edibles, and introduce a Cousin Oliver in the form of Kelly, a punk kid. Season 6 replaces her with Andy, an orphan and employee.
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The Facts of Life / int_20b5cce7	type	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune
The Facts of Life / int_20b5cce7	comment	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Charlotte Rae (Mrs. Garrett) provided vocals for the season 1 theme.
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The Facts of Life / int_21c95ce9	type	Anti-Alcohol Aesop
The Facts of Life / int_21c95ce9	comment	Anti-Alcohol Aesop: Tootie's older brother comes to visit and invites the girls to hang out with his friends who are drinking alcohol. While the others are concerned with his drinking problem, Tootie doesn't see any issues. It's only when they are almost in a car accident while he was intoxicated that Tootie finally realized how bad his drinking is.
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The Facts of Life / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Facts of Life / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Jamie is the spitting image of Jo when she stomps in and peels off her motorcycle. She then proceeds to get in trouble the same way Jo did. The arresting cop remembers the girls from nearly 20 years before.
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The Facts of Life / int_25c7875f	type	Practically Different Generations
The Facts of Life / int_25c7875f	comment	Practically Different Generations: Blair is in her early 20s by the time younger sister Bailey is born.
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The Facts of Life / int_279dbf1a	type	Date Rape Averted
The Facts of Life / int_279dbf1a	comment	Date Rape Averted: Jo, who managed to fight her way out in the nick of time. Is also implied to have occurred in a Season 1 episode with Blair.
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The Facts of Life / int_27ebe639	type	Prince Charming
The Facts of Life / int_27ebe639	comment	Prince Charming: Blair's steady boyfriend Cliff is a modern version of this, but she ends up falling out of love with him for an unknown reason and calls the relationship off.
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The Facts of Life / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
The Facts of Life / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: In one, the girls begin to suspect that Mrs. Garrett has been possessed by a murderous ghost who grinds up people into Bratwurst. It was all a prank by Natalie for her acting class. The episode where Natalie is attacked also counts. We get to see everyone in costume but not the party, as it's a Very Special Episode about self-defense.
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The Facts of Life / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Facts of Life / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Done in a late season episode when Tootie digs up and shows off the rollerskates that were her trademark in the first season. It also occurs in the reunion movie when Natalie's fiancé expresses doubt that Mrs. Garrett can pull Thanksgiving dinner together:
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The Facts of Life / int_2b88f42	type	Chain Letter
The Facts of Life / int_2b88f42	comment	Chain Letter: One episode saw the girls neglect the store's upcoming health inspection because they were so involved with a chain letter. Jo also accidentally sent the money for the chain letter to the health inspector, who thought it was a bribe.
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The Facts of Life / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
The Facts of Life / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Jo and Blair.
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The Facts of Life / int_2dd7a113	type	French Jerk
The Facts of Life / int_2dd7a113	comment	French Jerk: Chef Antoine from the The Facts of Life Goes to Paris special; he makes a return appearance with his jerky family the following season. Downplayed with Gauguin by the time of the reunion movie.
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The Facts of Life / int_3287773c	type	Lovable Alpha Bitch
The Facts of Life / int_3287773c	comment	Lovable Alpha Bitch: Despite more than a few snobby and ignorant moments, Blair is popular, a reliable friend, academically smart and business savvy, and has a strong set of ethics and morals she abides by (most noticeable when it clashes against her own family members' or other elite friends' less-than-savory behaviors)
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The Facts of Life / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
The Facts of Life / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Despite Kimberly Drummond from Diff'rent Strokes attending Eastland, she only appears in the first episode, while the rest of the series focuses on the main cast members.
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The Facts of Life / int_3549f04d	type	Fell Asleep Driving
The Facts of Life / int_3549f04d	comment	Fell Asleep Driving: The episode "Less Than Perfect" has Blair getting into a car accident after leaving her boyfriend's house and falling sleep whilst driving. The episode entails her having to undergo surgery to repair a disfiguring scar she received from it and her feelings of regret and insecurity over the scenario.
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The Facts of Life / int_38b05ae7	type	Poorly Disguised Pilot
The Facts of Life / int_38b05ae7	comment	Poorly-Disguised Pilot: Several, including one featuring Tootie's aunt and uncle, and another at the end of the series setting up Blair as the new headmistress of the school. In addition, the show itself started as a Poorly-Disguised Pilot (the final episode of the first season of Diff'rent Strokes). In fact, there were no fewer than six attempted spinoffs over the course of the show: beyond the aforementioned ones featuring Tootie's mixed-marriage aunt and uncle ("Brian and Sylvia") and Blair as a headmistress ("The Beginning of the End"), there was "The Academy" (about four military academy cadets who were pretty much the girls' male alter egos), the cadets would then get a rare second attempt with the episode "The Big Fight", "Jo's Cousin" (which is self-explanatory), "Rumor Has It" (featuring Blair's law professor), and "Big Apple Blues" (in which Natalie joins up with a bunch of wacky twentysomethings trying to make it in New York City). Not a single one of these turned into a series.
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The Facts of Life / int_38bb862f	type	Don't You Dare Pity Me!
The Facts of Life / int_38bb862f	comment	Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Jo reacts with hostility every time someone attempts to take pity on her due to her poor upbringing.
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The Facts of Life / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Facts of Life / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: "Teacher's Pet" has Jo's English professor and close friend, Gail Gallagher, leave Eastland. While Jo initially believed it was because another school had offered her more money, she was really leaving due to being terminally ill and going into hospice care. Before she leaves, she assures Jo that she's accepted her fate and she'll be okay.
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The Facts of Life / int_39e41f39	type	Tomboyish Ponytail
The Facts of Life / int_39e41f39	comment	Tomboyish Ponytail: Jo.
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The Facts of Life / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Facts of Life / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Mrs. Garrett serves as this to most of the girls. Her sister Beverly Ann fills this role when Mrs. Garrett leaves the show, but to a lesser extent.
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The Facts of Life / int_3ff57e4b	type	Required Spinoff Crossover
The Facts of Life / int_3ff57e4b	comment	Required Spinoff Crossover: The very first episode has the Drummonds from Diff'rent Strokes turn up. Arnold and Willis both return separately during the second season.
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The Facts of Life / int_42b99897	type	White Gangbangers
The Facts of Life / int_42b99897	comment	Also, when troublemaker Kelly enters the cast, she claims to be a member of the (fake) local gang the Lords of Discipline, who specialize in vandalizing Edna's Edibles and dress like the guys in the "Beat It" video.
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The Facts of Life / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
The Facts of Life / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: In her introductory episode, Pippa and her father were such cartoony Australian stereotypes that you half-expected them to start throwing boomerangs and have pet kangaroos. Much of the humor was derived from the fact that 90% of their dialogue was Aussie slang that left everyone confused. America was obsessed with anything Australian in the mid to late 80s which probably explains the character's inclusion.
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The Facts of Life / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
The Facts of Life / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Jo, Blair, and Natalie all hailed from New York City, but only Jo actually sounded like it (Lisa Whelchel had a Texas twang and Mindy Cohn had a California accent). Conversely, Kim Fields had a New York accent, but Tootie was supposed to be a Washington, D.C. native. According to one featurette called "The Facts of Life: The Lost Girls"note mainly focused on the cast members dropped between seasons 1 and 2; it's suggested that with Blair's accent at least, this could have been combined with the Throw It In trope. Lisa Whelchel mentioned in the interview that the Blair Warner character was originally written as a naive, fast-talking Texan; only for the characterization to be changed entirely after Whelchel read one line in a snotty, condescending tone just for the fun of it.
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The Facts of Life / int_44e64e96	type	Female Gaze
The Facts of Life / int_44e64e96	comment	Female Gaze: "Have you seen my Basic Anatomy?" It's also the main reason Natalie watches Men's sporting events. One episode is devoted to Natalie insisting the shop sell a "Men of Langley" swimsuit calendar. She eventually breaks up with her swimming team boyfriend because she realizes she's dating him because he turns heads, not because there's anything in his head.
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The Facts of Life / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Blair possesses about a zoo's worth of fur coats.
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The Facts of Life / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
The Facts of Life / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: Used on a few episodes later in the show's run; often for the wackier episodes. One prominent example is 3,2,1 (in which Blair and Jo are handcuffed together due to a dispute over a story on their college newscast) — as the credits roll we see someone attempting to saw the handcuff chain off.
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The Facts of Life / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Facts of Life / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Happens A LOT, typically in a Very Special Episode focusing on one character.
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The Facts of Life / int_4b9fa3a	type	Taking the Veil
The Facts of Life / int_4b9fa3a	comment	Taking the Veil: In the two-parter episode "Best Sister", Blair's stepsister Meg decides to become a nun, which shocks her parents and disgusts Blair to the point of repeatedly trying to talk/shame her out of it. Eventually though, Mrs. Garrett gets down to the root of her true issues with it: her residual anger at God for not saving her divorcing parents' marriage.
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The Facts of Life / int_4c961994	comment	Acquired Situational Narcissism: In "All or Nothing," Jo is elected to Langley College's board of regents. The power goes to her head rather quickly, starting a struggle over $500,000 donated to the school for a new fancy scoreboard. Even when a cheaper scoreboard and $100,000 for scholarships are offered, Jo acts like she's being bribed. When the board votes down the $500,000 donation, Blair points out Jo turned down $100,000 in scholarships.
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The Facts of Life / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Facts of Life / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: In Season 3 episode "Front Page" after her essay gets trashed by her journalism teacher, Jo spitefully writes a school newspaper article after hearing that the teacher was present during a drug bust. Without doing extra research, the detail that the teacher was cleared of suspicions and released that same night isn't included, resulting in the teacher losing his job. Jo tries to make up for it, but the damage to his reputation is done. The episode "Runaway." As Tootie ends her adventure safely when her friends come to pick her up, she leaves behind teen prostitute Kristie, who spent most of the episode trying to bring Tootie into the fold; it's implied that Kristie will later suffer at the hands of her pimp. The episode "With a Little Help From My Friends" has Blair and her boyfriend, Nick, missing a double date with Jo and her squeeze because the former's boyfriend is waiting up for a drug dealer. She tries to convince him to stop, but the episode ends with her locking him out of Edna's Edibles for the night and him still waiting for the man. "Daddy's Girl" has Blair being able to confront her father about him using her as a tax shelter, but he still refuses to give up his cheating on his taxes, is unable to make time for her and overall doesn't comprehend that what he did was wrong or why it hurts his daughter so much. Needless to say, their relationship remains strained throughout the rest of the series.
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The Facts of Life / int_4e3dee88	type	Their First Time
The Facts of Life / int_4e3dee88	comment	Their First Time: One popular episode in a later season involved Natalie choosing to have sex with her boyfriend for the first time.
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The Facts of Life / int_4f362a27	type	Implied Rape
The Facts of Life / int_4f362a27	comment	Implied Rape: The second season has Jo going on a date with a boy who attempted to force himself on her. When explaining the incident to Mrs. Garrett, she never once said he tried to rape her.
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The Facts of Life / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Facts of Life / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The series was set in a dormitory at Eastland school, which housed seven girls, under the care of Mrs. Garrett as housemother. The headmaster Mr. Bradley was a regular character in the first season. The premise changed in the second season when three of these girls, and a new student Jo were put on probation, and as stated above, were forced to work in the cafeteria (becoming the show's new setting), and live in a small room next to that of newly-promoted dietician Mrs. Garrett. The show also introduced a lot more somber Very Special Episode and there was also a lot less Fanservice than before (see that entry below).
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The Facts of Life / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
The Facts of Life / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: The first episode of season 7 involves Edna's Edibles getting destroyed in a fire. It gets replaced by a new store, Over Our Heads, in the next episode.
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The Facts of Life / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
The Facts of Life / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: Played for Drama in "We Get Letters". Mrs. Garrett's lifelong friend accuses her of having an affair with her late husband by confronting her with the "love letters" he purportedly wrote her. It turned out that he was a writer who specialized in poetry which the wife did not care for namely because her own father was a failed writer who usually left the family broke and he wrote Edna love poetry for his wife to gage her reaction, leading to the misunderstanding that Mrs. Garrett was eventually able to clear up and retain the friendship. Unfortunately, Andy overheard everything out of context and told everyone what happened, leading to the others starting to look down on her and in particular Natalie, who was still angry over her father's affair from several seasons back, angrily confronting her about the misunderstanding. Andy never ends up apologizing for his mistake or informing the others the truth.
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The Facts of Life / int_55884325	type	"Stuck at the Airport" Plot
The Facts of Life / int_55884325	comment	"Stuck at the Airport" Plot: Blair and Jo get stuck in a podunk town bus station. Blair is pleasantly surprised to discover that the newspaper stand sells French and Italian Vogue among others.
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The Facts of Life / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
The Facts of Life / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: In the first episode, Cindy, a rather affectionate tomboy, is accused by Blair of being, as per 1979 standards, "not normal".
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The Facts of Life / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
The Facts of Life / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: Blair and Jo constantly snark each other.
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The Facts of Life / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
The Facts of Life / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: Although several episodes had Aesops relating to smoking, Rich Bitch Blair can be seen puffing on a cigarette in the pilot episode, "The Girls School." By the time the show's first true episode aired, Blair was a non-smoker (reflecting real life, as Welchel was a non-smoker).
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The Facts of Life / int_5a2d2d5c	type	Visit by Divorced Dad
The Facts of Life / int_5a2d2d5c	comment	Visit by Divorced Dad: Jo has a couple of these after he's released from prison. Blair also has one or two.
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The Facts of Life / int_5b88d4c4	type	A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted
The Facts of Life / int_5b88d4c4	comment	A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Jo's father once got $300,000 and blew it all in a few days.
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The Facts of Life / int_5b9cf82b	type	Education Mama
The Facts of Life / int_5b9cf82b	comment	Education Mama: Natalie constantly refers to her parents as these, but it mostly seems to be an Informed Attribute.
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The Facts of Life / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
The Facts of Life / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Natalie aspires to become a journalist. Many episodes feature her talking about her latest scoop. Jo was this until her big scoop got her journalism teacher fired.
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The Facts of Life / int_618dc1ea	type	Parent with New Paramour
The Facts of Life / int_618dc1ea	comment	Parent with New Paramour: Jo becomes way too attached to her boyfriend's son way too fast. Blair is quick to remind her that this can be pretty traumatic for the child.
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The Facts of Life / int_6220d661	type	Loony Fan
The Facts of Life / int_6220d661	comment	Loony Fan: There was an episode where Tootie was obsessed with Jermaine Jackson to the point of it overtaking everything else in her life and she cried and whined until Mrs. Garrett agreed to take her to his out of town concert. Over the protests of the other girls (who were holding a fair for a friend of Jo's and she had previously agreed to help out at). Upon getting there and having to convince the security guards to let her through (as she was the president of one of his many fan clubs and was given a free ticket to his show by his business manager), although she was excited to meet him, believed herself to be special to him and made a clay bust of him to present for his birthday, the other guards took the gift away (believing it to be a bomb; they didn't know as it was put inside a box) and twisted her arm behind her back, he himself was only able to sit down and talk with her for a few moments due to how busy he was and the same manager who called her to give her a ticket called someone else to use the same line that he used on her. And the bust was ruined due to it being placed in the shower to "defuse" it.
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The Facts of Life / int_63575aae	type	Smitten Teenage Girl
The Facts of Life / int_63575aae	comment	Smitten Teenage Girl: "Natalie, have you been writing to prisoners again?"
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The Facts of Life / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
The Facts of Life / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Blair, although she's the rare Hidden Heart of Gold subtype.
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The Facts of Life / int_66835c91	type	The One Guy
The Facts of Life / int_66835c91	comment	The One Guy: George was probably the most famous (being played by a young George Clooney helped), but Andy lasted longer. Ryan Cassidy (brother of Shaun and David) as Kevin was the proto-George. Added to the cast at the end of the sixth season as the son of Mrs. Garrett's high school sweetheart who enrolls at Langley with the girls. After the show was retooled with "Over Our Heads", he was brother-Chucked and replaced by George.
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The Facts of Life / int_668d2146	type	Progressively Prettier
The Facts of Life / int_668d2146	comment	Progressively Prettier: All of the girls got hit with this (except arguably Blair, who was already noticeably pretty to begin with and made sure everyone knew it!), but Natalie in particular stood out, as later seasons viewed her as sporting make-up, cutting her hair a more flattering length and wearing clothing to suit her more shapely figure.
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The Facts of Life / int_6afefa62	type	My Girl Is a Slut
The Facts of Life / int_6afefa62	comment	My Girl Is a Slut: In "Sex Symbol," a boy spreads some lies about Natalie's promiscuity. At first, she's offended, but when the other girls laugh at the idea of her being a sex symbol, she decides to perpetuate them just to prove she's desirable. Also inverted when Blair finds out her boyfriend Cliff works as a stripper to pay his way through medical school.
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The Facts of Life / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
The Facts of Life / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: The first season was made at the height of the "Jiggle TV" era codified by then-NBC president and CEO Fred Silverman during his previous tenure as president of ABC Entertainment, so the older girls ran around in skimpy shorts for large portions of every episode. When new producers Linda Marsh and Margie Peters arrived to do the second season Retool, they insisted on less exploitative wardrobes.
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The Facts of Life / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Facts of Life / int_6d332aea	comment	The ill-fated Cynthia character in "Breaking Point" is this to Blair; she's more intelligent, more attractive, more worldly, more popular, and more fluent in French.
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The Facts of Life / int_6d892421	type	Teacher/Student Romance
The Facts of Life / int_6d892421	comment	Teacher/Student Romance: Jo had one with her college photography instructor.
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The Facts of Life / int_6e872753	type	Sexiness Score
The Facts of Life / int_6e872753	comment	Sexiness Score: "The Rating Game" reveals Blair has a rating system for men, and the episode has her transferring all that "data" into a computer, so she develops her own dating system. The other girls are shocked by how in-depth it is.
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The Facts of Life / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
The Facts of Life / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: Several, including one featuring It's a Wonderful Plot.
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The Facts of Life / int_71fa50b5	type	New Transfer Student
The Facts of Life / int_71fa50b5	comment	New Transfer Student: Pippa, who is from Australia. Also Alex, the princess of something-in-Europe. Miko was a temporary Japanese exchange student.
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The Facts of Life / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Facts of Life / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Tootie in "Let's Party". She idolizes her older brother Marshall to the point of completely covering for him after he drives drunk with her, Natalie and Blair in the car and previously bullied her friends into accepting the ride with him. Even with the evidence of his alcoholism and his ignorance over the situation, she flat out refuses to admit he did anything wrong until Mrs. Garrett had to sit her down to face the reality/gravity of the situation.
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The Facts of Life / int_73f51de7	type	Jerkass Ball
The Facts of Life / int_73f51de7	comment	Jerkass Ball: All of the girls at various points during the series.
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The Facts of Life / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
The Facts of Life / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Tootie is the only black member of the cast. Also Natalie, who stated that she is Jewish.
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The Facts of Life / int_75196a1d	type	Translation by Volume
The Facts of Life / int_75196a1d	comment	Translation by Volume: One episode had the girls attempting to speak to a Spanish-speaking Latina woman very loudly. She does the exact same thing to them, in Spanish.
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The Facts of Life / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Facts of Life / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Season 8 begins with the two-parter "Out of Peekskill", in which Mrs. Garrett gets married and joins the Peace Corps to serve in Africa with her new husband. A tour bus in George's case. When the producers decided not to keep George Clooney on as a regular, they brought him back in season 8 and had his character quit his job and go on tour with Tootie's friend Cinnamon.
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The Facts of Life / int_76db0ef5	type	Slobs Versus Snobs
The Facts of Life / int_76db0ef5	comment	Slobs Versus Snobs: Again, Jo and Blair, respectively.
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The Facts of Life / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
The Facts of Life / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: In "The Candidate," Natalie is going to meet with a secret political source (named "Sore Throat") at the store at midnight. Jo, Tootie and Andy hide behind the counter with baseball bats, as they were worried about Natalie being alone with a stranger at midnight. Even when Natalie pushes them into the living room, they still listen in while holding the bats. It turns out "Sore Throat" is really Blair in a kangaroo costume. It Makes Sense in Context.
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The Facts of Life / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
The Facts of Life / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Happens often—the show has a revolving door of relatives and former best friends who appear out of nowhere—but the most notable example is Blair's instant boyfriend, the starving med-school student Cliff. He is introduced in Season 5 having already endeared himself to everyone and having (apparently) received lots of free meals from Mrs. Garrett. Blair is still reeling from her stunned discovery that Cliff is working as a stripper to make ends meet while the audience is still trying to figure out whether they missed an episode.
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The Facts of Life / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
The Facts of Life / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: "The First Time" - the script originally called for Blair to lose her virginity, but Lisa Whelchel refused to be involved on religious grounds (see Hollywood Atheist below). As a result - in addition to this being the only episode of the entire series in which Blair/Lisa doesn't appearnote Kim Fields/Tootie also only misses one episode of the entire run, "Something In Common" - it was rewritten so that the Eastland girl to lose her virginity was Natalie.
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The Facts of Life / int_797d10	type	Celebrity Star
The Facts of Life / int_797d10	comment	Celebrity Star: One example being Eve Plumb, formerly of The Brady Bunch. Also Zsa Zsa Gabor, 80s pop icon Stacy Q, El Debarge, and Jermaine Jackson.
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The Facts of Life / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
The Facts of Life / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: In Season 5, after Blair and Jo graduate from Eastland, the whole main setting changes to a store Mrs. Garett obtains called Edna's Edibles, and introduce a Cousin Oliver in the form of Kelly, a punk kid. Season 6 replaces her with Andy, an orphan and employee. Season 7 was where the biggest changes took place. A novelty store called Over Our Heads replaces Edna's Edibles as the main setting, the addition of George to the main cast, and a rerecorded theme song. Seasons 8 and 9 continued to add new characters, such as Beverly Ann, who becomes the girls' new housemother and Pippa, a foreign exchange student from Australia. In addition, Mrs. Garrett was Put on the Bus.
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The Facts of Life / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
The Facts of Life / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Jo reacts with hostility every time she is accused of having a "sensitive side." This dies down in the last seasons.
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The Facts of Life / int_82a82993	type	Because You Can Cope
The Facts of Life / int_82a82993	comment	Because You Can Cope: "Geri's Cousin" is a deconstruction. The episode focuses on the arrival of Blair's cousin Geri, who has cerebral palsy. Geri hits it off with all the other girls, but Blair seems to not like her very much; she eventually confesses to Mrs. Garrett that she's envious of Geri; Blair keeps trying to impress her relatives with her apparent perfection and always gets ignored while Geri gets all the attention. Mrs. Garrett calls Blair out on being insensitive, causing Blair to realize her mistake and make amends with Geri.
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The Facts of Life / int_82d57ef5	type	Boarding School
The Facts of Life / int_82d57ef5	comment	Boarding School: Eastland is a boarding school for girls, and the first half of the series takes place there.
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The Facts of Life / int_8355aa1b	type	Revenge Is Not Justice
The Facts of Life / int_8355aa1b	comment	Revenge Is Not Justice: "Front Page" and on a lesser note "Kids Can Be Cruel"
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The Facts of Life / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Blair's mother visits and tells Blair that she's pregnant but not going to go through with it, but Blair convinces her to keep the baby. Averted in an earlier episode, where Natalie fabricates an article for the Eastland paper, saying that one of the students at Eastland had secretly had an abortion; she later finds out that such an event did, in fact, occur.
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The Facts of Life / int_83cef301	comment	This ends up reversed in "Who's On First?" when Tootie gets jealous of Natalie's new boyfriend, Gil, and ends up lying about him both canceling their study date and apparently having another girl there with him. In the end, he cheats on her, ultimately ending their relationship.
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The Facts of Life / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Facts of Life / int_890d4ef2	comment	Another episode has Tootie becoming obsessed with Jermaine Jackson, getting it into her head that she was special to him and throwing a fit until Mrs. Garrett caved in and took her into the city to his concert, although she had already promised to help out at a charity function. Upon sneaking into his dressing room afterwards, she gets detained by his bodyguards, the gift she made for his birthday (a clay bust of him) is ruined and she was more or less just treated as another faceless fan. She ended up slinking away back to Mrs. Garrett to go home, too embarrassed to admit what happened to her.
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The Facts of Life / int_8a48681	type	Casino Episode
The Facts of Life / int_8a48681	comment	Casino Episode: The B-plot for Season 7's "Atlantic City" (where the girls visit Flyman - who Jo had dated during the spring - performing at a casino) has Blair unable to win anything at the slot machines to the point where she gives up, lets an elderly woman take her spot (using the coin Blair was going to use); with the episode ending with the elderly woman hitting the jackpot only for Blair to rush in and shake the woman yelling "My money!" as the episode ends.
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The Facts of Life / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
The Facts of Life / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: And how. The first season was toned down with a lot of late 1970s hairstyles including Molly Ringwold sporting the Dorothy Hamill wedge. But as the 80s rolled on we ended up with more poof than a Whitesnake concert. Blair herself went through the entire decade of different 1980s hairstyles with each season her hair getting bigger. Jo started out with a very simple pulled back hairstyle before also puffing her hair out and then going for a big rockstar mullet and then later a shorter power mullet. George Clooney sported a blow-dried mullet.
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The Facts of Life / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
The Facts of Life / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Roy has a crush on Jo, although this is a comedic version of the trope. Still creepy, as he kept ignoring Jo every time she made it clear she wasn't interested.
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The Facts of Life / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
The Facts of Life / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: The dean Mr. Parker. Also Cindy, Sue Ann, and Nancy who make fun of Natalie and "Homerun" Helen in "Sex Symbol".
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The Facts of Life / int_8e054b09	type	College Radio
The Facts of Life / int_8e054b09	comment	College Radio: Jo once filled in for a radio DJ after he got drunk and passed out. The rest of the cast come by to help her.
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The Facts of Life / int_8e92e125	comment	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: A balloon resembling Goggle Red appeared in all episodes in the Over Our Heads Store.
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The Facts of Life / int_8ed6b4cb	comment	California University: Langley which is conveniently located near Eastland (so close that Natalie even takes classes at both schools at the same time in one episode) and conveniently just as good as Harvard and Yale to justify why students as smart and/or rich as the girls would choose Langley over the more well-known prestigious schools.
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The Facts of Life / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Facts of Life / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: One episode has high school senior Natalie taking A.P. classes at Langley College. Unfortunately, she ends up hanging out with some older, popular alumni, neglecting her duties at the shop and worst of all, talking down to her old friends. In the end, she ends up with a smaller paycheck and flunking out of the classes/school itself. When she then has to admit what happened, the other girls are quick to rub it in her face. Another episode has Tootie becoming obsessed with Jermaine Jackson, getting it into her head that she was special to him and throwing a fit until Mrs. Garrett caved in and took her into the city to his concert, although she had already promised to help out at a charity function. Upon sneaking into his dressing room afterwards, she gets detained by his bodyguards, the gift she made for his birthday (a clay bust of him) is ruined and she was more or less just treated as another faceless fan. She ended up slinking away back to Mrs. Garrett to go home, too embarrassed to admit what happened to her.
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The Facts of Life / int_92420773	type	Thematic Theme Tune
The Facts of Life / int_92420773	comment	Thematic Theme Tune: As well as a Title Theme Tune.
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The Facts of Life / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
The Facts of Life / int_927b2f11	comment	Initially averted with the other students from Season 1, who made sporadic guest appearances during the second and third seasons after the Retool focused the show on the four main girls
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The Facts of Life / int_95f92a7b	type	Interclass Friendship
The Facts of Life / int_95f92a7b	comment	Interclass Friendship: Jo and Blair are the Vitriolic Best Buddies type. Jo comes from a single home from the Bronx while Blair comes from old money family. The two were the most likely to bicker with one another among the four girls with many jokes directed at their social status. Despite that, the two ended up being very close to one another. This was best demonstrated in a episode that had the two going back home and each of them hanging out with a old friend. At first the two were excited to get away from each other. But after learning their old friends' bad personalities, they realized internally that they were actually good friends.
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The Facts of Life / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
The Facts of Life / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: The diner waitress Bernice is the reason Tootie didn't end up a teen prostitute in "Runaway". She's not only able to secretly warn Tootie what Tootie's new New York "friends" have planned for her, they never find out it was her that made Tootie changer her mind.
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The Facts of Life / int_9838d681	type	DudeMagnet
The Facts of Life / int_9838d681	comment	Dude Magnet: Despite being the funny fat girl, who are often portrayed as dateless and secretly unhappy, Natalie in particular tended to have a LOT of boyfriends during the show's run and was the first girl to lose her virginity.
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The Facts of Life / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Facts of Life / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: After Blair's friend Harrison assaults Jo: An unstated lesson in "Breaking Point": Blair considers a classmate, Cynthia, to be inferior to her, but as the episode progresses, many of Blair's life experiences — moving around a lot, trouble keeping long-lasting friends, divorced parents (acrimoniously) — are those that Cynthia had been experiencing.
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The Facts of Life / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Facts of Life / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In "Seven Little Indians", after Tootie,Jo,and Beverly Ann discover Blair when she's been moussed to death, the scene ends with a close up of her. Though her back is turned to the audience, we can see her reflection in the mirror she's holding, its looking directly at the camera. Implying she's Faking the Dead
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The Facts of Life / int_9d5dad72	type	Blaming the Victim
The Facts of Life / int_9d5dad72	comment	Blaming the Victim: Natalie had a Near-Rape Experience that traumatized her. At the end, she goes to a self defense class in which the instructor goes into detail on how Natalie could have prevented the encounter. The way he was phrasing it comes across as if he was blaming her for not being better prepared.
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The Facts of Life / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Facts of Life / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Mrs. Garrett's sister Beverly Ann, who joined the cast in Season 8, was first mentioned all the way back in the first season of Diff'rent Strokes.
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The Facts of Life / int_9dd2af4a	type	Inspirationally Disadvantaged
The Facts of Life / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Blair's cousin Geri, who has cerebral palsy.
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The Facts of Life / int_a1605a7f	type	I Have Brothers
The Facts of Life / int_a1605a7f	comment	I Have Brothers: Averted. Jo, who does traditionally "manly" things grew up an only child with a single mother. And a boyfriend. She does have several older, male cousins who work in a garage, though. Possibly an influence on her.
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The Facts of Life / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Facts of Life / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: In "A Friend in Deed," Blair discovers her mom has been hiding her breast cancer. There's a tense scene where an emotionally drained Blair implies Tootie will tell the whole school about it; Tootie stands her ground and swears on their friendship that she'd never do such a thing. They hug. A second later, Jo, back from an obviously unsuccessful job interview at the motorcycle store, bursts into the room and starts tearing it apart looking for a clock and a fuse, followed by a desperate Natalie trying to stop her. Also, anytime the episode ended on an emotional note only to cut to the end credits and the upbeat closing theme. Probably the worst example is "Front Page", in which Jo accidentally ruins her professor career by publishing a story about him without the full facts and the audience is treated to the lyric "you better get 'em [the facts of life] right." Occurs during rehearsals for the school production of "South Pacific":
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The Facts of Life / int_a7016efe	type	Lonely Rich Kid
The Facts of Life / int_a7016efe	comment	Lonely Rich Kid: Blair, whose snotty behavior tends to cover up her deep-seated parental abandonment issues. She has few real friends outside of the main cast.
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The Facts of Life / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Facts of Life / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Joanne "Jo" Polniaczek, Dorothy "Tootie" Ramsey. Natalie's boyfriend, Snake, until his name is later revealed to be Norbert.
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The Facts of Life / int_a79671cc	type	KidAnova
The Facts of Life / int_a79671cc	comment	KidAnova: Blair, remaining boy crazy yet chaste into her twenties. Partially Enforced Trope due to Lisa Whelchel's Religious beliefs.
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The Facts of Life / int_ab1064b3	type	Modesty Towel
The Facts of Life / int_ab1064b3	comment	Jo and Blair's college dorm-mate, Guy, had a memorable scene wearing only a Modesty Towel.
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The Facts of Life / int_ab802f4b	type	Work Off the Debt
The Facts of Life / int_ab802f4b	comment	Work Off the Debt: From Season 2-4, The girls end up having to work in the kitchen to pay off damages done to the school.
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The Facts of Life / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Facts of Life / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Just end the episode with a breakup, a death, or one of the main cast in tears? Here comes that perky theme song again! (See also the parent show.)
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The Facts of Life / int_ad03437f	type	Reverse Cerebus Syndrome
The Facts of Life / int_ad03437f	comment	Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: Seasons 2-4, right after the re-tool faced the girls with some rather harsh situations (teen suicide, child prostitution, racial tensions, elopement, censorship. poverty, cancer...) that wouldn't feel out of place in a typical Norman Lear sitcom like All in the Family, Maude, or Good Times. As the characters grew up and learned to take on more responsibility, they began to play less off of hot button teen issues and more off each other's personalities.
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The Facts of Life / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Facts of Life / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Jo and Natalie.
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The Facts of Life / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Facts of Life / int_aed65980	comment	One episode has high school senior Natalie taking A.P. classes at Langley College. Unfortunately, she ends up hanging out with some older, popular alumni, neglecting her duties at the shop and worst of all, talking down to her old friends. In the end, she ends up with a smaller paycheck and flunking out of the classes/school itself. When she then has to admit what happened, the other girls are quick to rub it in her face.
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The Facts of Life / int_afab5e94	type	Reunion Show
The Facts of Life / int_afab5e94	comment	Reunion Show: Aired in 2001.
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The Facts of Life / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Facts of Life / int_b01abe4f	comment	Subverted in the case of Natalie's dating-service boyfriend Rex Winchester, whose good looks are totally cancelled out by his dweebie personality (including his own Catchphrase, "It works for me!")
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The Facts of Life / int_b24ce4b2	type	Rearrange the Song
The Facts of Life / int_b24ce4b2	comment	Rearrange the Song: The theme song was redone at least twice during the show's run, with the best-known opening lyrics ("You take the good, you take the bad...") debuting in Season 2.
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The Facts of Life / int_b4a44588	type	Tough Love
The Facts of Life / int_b4a44588	comment	Mr. Gideon, the journalism teacher from "Front Page" who singles out Jo for apparently her own good (which equates to him routinely embarrassing her in class and dismissing her efforts, in addition to giving her low grades). After she writes an ill-researched paper that tarnishes his reputation, he ends up fired.
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The Facts of Life / int_b61b755f	type	Tomboy
The Facts of Life / int_b61b755f	comment	Tomboy: Cindy in season 1, Jo after.
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The Facts of Life / int_b7e74b77	type	Five-Token Band
The Facts of Life / int_b7e74b77	comment	Five-Token Band: A ruling-class White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (Blair), a working-class girl from The Bronx (Jo), a black Genki Girl from Washington, D.C. (Tootie), a happy-go-lucky nice Jewish girl (Natalie), and a middle-aged housemother from the rural Midwest (Mrs. Garrett).
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The Facts of Life / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Facts of Life / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Mrs. Garrett during seasons 6 and 7. She was absent for a good portion of both seasons before finally leaving the series. The few times she did appear, her character had been flanderized into an absent-minded sidekick. George's role was reduced to recurring guest during season 8 before being put on a bus.
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The Facts of Life / int_b9561236	type	A Good Name for a Rock Band
The Facts of Life / int_b9561236	comment	A Good Name for a Rock Band: Subverted in "Doo Wah," in which the girls are entered (unknowingly, at first) in a contest where the winning group gets to sing with El Debarge. Only when they make it to the final round do the girls discover that they are called Sexy Lingerie. Inverted with The Sha-La-la-la-la-la-la-la-las. By the third or fourth time someone tries to say it, it's shortened to "Sha-la-la-whatever."
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The Facts of Life / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: Inverted. Jo claims children have always been uncomfortable with her, even when she was one.
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The Facts of Life / int_be9392d	type	The Quincy Punk
The Facts of Life / int_be9392d	comment	The Quincy Punk: In "The Americanization of Miko," the writers demonstrated total ignorance about the Stray Cats. Based on the characters' dialogue—specifically, the adults' horror about this crazy new music and the girls' references to wild concerts wherein Brian Setzer evidently ate his guitar—the writers seemed to think the band put out earsplitting punk tunes rather than what really amounted to old-time rockabilly. Also, when troublemaker Kelly enters the cast, she claims to be a member of the (fake) local gang the Lords of Discipline, who specialize in vandalizing Edna's Edibles and dress like the guys in the "Beat It" video. In the episode "Let's Face the Music," Pippa joins an all-girl band. They call themselves "heavy metal," and are the farthest thing from it. The girls later fantasize about playing a fundraiser as the band, including weird wigs, key-tar, and studded leather. Still not heavy metal.
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The Facts of Life / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
The Facts of Life / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: Takes place in Peekskill, but NYC is frequently mentioned, most of their outings end up there and three of the main cast are from there.
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The Facts of Life / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
The Facts of Life / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: Pretty much one of the definitive shows of the 1980s. The show ran from 1979 to 1988 and is a time capsule of every 80s fashion trend, hairstyle, what was popular in pop culture, slang, etc. Given it ended in 1988 it also doesn't have any of the hints of the 90s that sitcoms that lasted well into the very late 80s and early 90s did. The Facts of Life was pure 1980s. Once they opened up "Over Our Heads" boutique it was just an explosion of sheer 'Eightiesness'.
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The Facts of Life / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Facts of Life / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The main cast is essentially this because they seldom see their real families or have trouble at home.
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The Facts of Life / int_c8548756	comment	Hero with an F in Good: Blair could come off as so condescending, it often hurt when she was trying to be genuinely nice.
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The Facts of Life / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Mr. Bradley, Eastland's headmaster from season one. Even when the girls weren't doing anything mischievous or potentially dangerous, he's still unnecessarily abrasive and snarky and seems to care more about Eastland's reputation than the students themselves. Thankfully, he's gone by season two. Mr. Gideon, the journalism teacher from "Front Page" who singles out Jo for apparently her own good (which equates to him routinely embarrassing her in class and dismissing her efforts, in addition to giving her low grades). After she writes an ill-researched paper that tarnishes his reputation, he ends up fired.
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The Facts of Life / int_eefce6c6	comment	Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts: Would you believe this is the Trope Namer? S8's "Seven Little Indians". Good thing it was All Just a Dream, because the entire group died.
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