Product: The Facts of Life - The Complete Third Season (1979)
Rating: 5.0
A necessity for growing up.
Facts of Life tickled my funny bone the way it likes to be tickled. Not too aggressively and all in your face, but gently and lightly like a warm spring breeze when all you've got is your smile and the knowledge that life is about sundowns and sadness. But not the sadness that gets you down, the sadness in knowing that the moment you're living is temporary.I came up with a little saying that I hope you'll like, it's: "Don't get so caught up in the past that you can't catch up with the present." I submitted it to Reader's Digest but they rejected it thinking people would mistake "catch up" with "ketchup." I was like: Wha? How would anyone make a connection between my adage and condiments? What's the expression? That just didn't retain water.Anyhoo, speaking of retaining water, season three is when the ladies really came into their own. No longer are the performances stiff and wooden. I can actually stomach Natalie's overacting. As for Joe and Tutti, I'm afraid they never really got any better. Charlotte Rae the seasoned pro is what held this show together like a big sack of industrial strength glue, but not the kind of glue that's made from horses -- because Facts of Life had a conscience. No animals were ever hurt in the filming of the show. But did Blair break her arm once?