# Can anyone identify this 80s sitcom about two female roommates? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-sitcom-about-two-female-roommates/804172 "2017-12-11T04:35:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-sitcom-about-two-female-roommates/804172/1 "2017-12-11T04:35:33Z")
I believe that the show that I would like help identifying was a summer fill in. I also think that it might have aired for two short seasons. I was quite young when it was on so I will guess that it was on some time between 1982 and 1987. Other than where I was when I saw it which is of no use to anyone trying to identify it, literally the only thing that I remember about this show was that it was about a pair of mismatched roommates: a young black woman and an elderly white woman. They of course had different world views. Ring any bells? ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-sitcom-about-two-female-roommates/804172/2 "2017-12-11T05:25:23Z")
It rang no bells, but googling _sitcom with a young black woman and an elderly white woman_ turned up [Me and Mrs. C.,](http://nbc.wikia.com/wiki/Me_and_Mrs._C.) which ran in the summers of 1986 and 1987. Here are its [opening credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHOtFcr8yGY) and [IMDb page](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090482/). Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-sitcom-about-two-female-roommates/804172/3 "2017-12-11T05:25:52Z")
Bosom Buddies? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-sitcom-about-two-female-roommates/804172/4 "2017-12-11T06:31:46Z")
> [@Kimble](#): > > Here are its [opening credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHOtFcr8yGY) Wow! That’s so formulaic it looks like a parody. Even the song is full of lame clichés. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-sitcom-about-two-female-roommates/804172/5 "2017-12-11T11:36:37Z")
> [@Kimble](#): > > It rang no bells, but googling _sitcom with a young black woman and an elderly white woman_ turned up [Me and Mrs. C.,](http://nbc.wikia.com/wiki/Me_and_Mrs._C.) which ran in the summers of 1986 and 1987. Here are its [opening credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHOtFcr8yGY) and [IMDb page](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090482/). Enjoy! That is definitely it. Thanks 😃 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-sitcom-about-two-female-roommates/804172/6 "2017-12-11T12:40:18Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Wow! That’s so formulaic it looks like a parody. Even the song is full of lame clichés. Just like **this one** : [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IWSCJ28Vp6w/maxresdefault.jpg "My Black Son Family Guy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWSCJ28Vp6w) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-sitcom-about-two-female-roommates/804172/7 "2017-12-13T17:09:01Z")
I dunno, but I bet it was fairly trite. HAHA the old white lady obviously with dementia doesn’t get the sassy black lady’s culture, she so raciss. They’re the original Odd Couple! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-sitcom-about-two-female-roommates/804172/8 "2017-12-13T18:44:57Z")
Too late but I thought you were talking about the short lived **[Bagdad Cafe](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098746/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_25)** with Jean Stapleton & Whoopi Goldberg. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-80s-sitcom-about-two-female-roommates/804172/9 "2017-12-13T18:55:34Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > I dunno, but I bet it was fairly trite. HAHA the old white lady obviously with dementia doesn’t get the sassy black lady’s culture, she so raciss. They’re the original Odd Couple! The Odd Couple was wayyyy before that.