Now this show is one for the ages. A bunch of goofy girls at an all girsl school. At first it would seem that this is the ultimate in male fantasy. At first. Then when you are exposed to the likes of Mindy Cohn, you begin to scratch out your eyes in horror, and bang your head against your home furniture trying to knock yourself out.

You had the hot, uppity chick in Blair Warner, that fatso in Natalie Green, the cute braces wearing Tootie Ramsey, and the tomboy with the leather jacket in Jo Polniaczek. All had some appeal for young males obviously, except for tubby.

The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC network from August 24, 1979 to September 13, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, the series’ original premise focused on the character, Edna Garrett (played by Charlotte Rae), as she becomes housemother (and later, dietitian as well) to seven young girls at the fictional Eastland School, a prestigious all-girls’ school in Peekskill, New York. The Pilot for the show originally aired as the last episode of Diff’rent Strokes first season and was called “The Girls’ School (aka Garrett’s Girls).”The Pilot for the show originally aired as the last episode of Diff’rent Strokes first season and was called “The Girls’ School (aka Garrett’s Girls).”

The show was obviously quite popular, but looking back it was clearly crap. The show even had now big time celebrity George Clooney (Video Below) appear on it as well as many others.

Facts of Life Intro:

George Clooney on The Facts of Life:

Herman’s Head aired on Fox from 1991-1994. The premise of the show was actually pretty clever, but the show itself was rather stale after a season or two. The whole idea of the show was to take the personalities of the main character, Herman Brooks, and show them as other characters who played out the process in his head when he was making decisions. Herman went on his daily life, but when something was going on, they would cut to 4 other characters who represented sensitivity (Angel), lust (Animal), anxiety (Wimp), and intellect (Genius). The characters were either naive, gluttons forcing Herman to find some way to fatten himself up before the ability to get Phentermine 37.5 mg easily, a total wimp, and a guy that was a know it all.

Interestingly enough, the cast had a few people you may recognize. Hank Azaria has been in many places you have probably seen. Most notably you have seen his name plastered a crossed the credits of The Simpsons as one of the voice actors who does the voices of Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and numerous other characters. Jane Sibbett, you would recognize from the show Friends where she played Ross’ ex-wife.

Herman’s Head Intro:

The great sheep herder from Mypos, Balki Bartokomaus moves in with his Cousin Larry Appleton. Balki is a complete moron that only knows about America from television in his home country. In fact, the more that I think about it, Fez from That 70s Show is a complete rip-off of Balki.

Balki is known for his great “Dance of Joy” that is pretty much is nothing more than what cartoonish people do if they are pretending to be Russian.

Balki and Cousin (Balki says it like cooosin) Larry performed many great hijinks like going crazy when things like ostrich feathers fly out of their pillows. They fear their fat boss (E)rnie Sabella who actually is the boss on Saved By the Bell when they work at the beach club as well.

A fun loving show for sure, but still crap. Basically just like Bosom Buddies, except with out the dresses, and the ferner, and well I guess, everything except 2 guys living together. More like the movie Twin for TV or something.

Perfect Strangers ran for eight seasons from 1986 through 1993 on ABC.

Perfect Strangers Intro

Another classic show worthy of frying your brain, Mr. Belvedere. Mr. Belvedere is an American sitcom based on the Lynn Belvedere character created by Gwen Davenport for her 1947 novel Belvedere. Originally aired on ABC from March 15, 1985 until July 8, 1990.. Actually I was never aware that this was based upon a book, but Wiki has a detailed write up on the subject if you are interested here.

This show actually had people you have heard of before so it had that going for it. Like a lot of shows in that era they had washed up athletes taking on roles in a family. In this case it is the infamous Bob Euker playing the part of George Owens, a sportswriter (big stretch eh?). The series stars Christopher Hewett as Mr. Belvedere, who takes a job with an American family as a butler. Of course he was much more than a butler as you can imagine.

Much like every other show in the era some stranger rolls in off the street to fix every family problem that arises in a hilarious way. From finding the best acne treatment for the teenage daughter, to talking to the kids about all the lessons of life that only a stranger could do.

Of course these shows from back then had much better theme music than most you are going to get now. They are happy little tunes that aren’t just jacked songs from recording artists.

Mr. Belvedere Opening Theme and Closing Outro:

You really can’t mention the Mr. Belveder theme without at least mentioning the Family Guy take on the show. Not only am I going to mention it, but I am going to give you the video of Stewie of Family Guy doing Mr. Belvedere.

Now this show was truly terrible. I don’t even know any of the actors that were in it off the top of my head, but I do know that when it was on I thought it was the dumbest show I had ever seen. Of course I probably watched it as re-runs a few times, but I can’t be positive.

This show was about some goon named Ted Lawson, a professional Roboticist and cybernetic architect, has secretly built V.I.C.I (Voice Input Child Identicant), a Domestic robot and Gynoid. V.I.C.I. (Vicki) was engineered to perform house work at Superhuman speed like she was hopped up on diet pills and designed in the guise of a 10-year-old Caucasian female. Ted had originally intended for V.I.C.I. to help out the lives of disabled veterans, but he fears his boss would steal his work so he pretended that she was his adopted daughter. Pervert.

Small Wonder Intro:

Just terrible. Of course the crap television writers back then were still probably better than the writers we have for the rubbish we see on our televisions today.