What ones really get up your nose?
1, This is gender essentialism, but i don’t care - Ricky on The Partridge Family had hair so long that you’d expect him to be offered dolls and dresses and perfume and flowers.
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The ones where they have a baby one season, the next season the kid is four or five already!
I absolutely loved “Married with Children”, but they laid an egg when they added the child called “Seven” to the show. He bombed so bad that they wrote him out of the show by having an episode where Al woke up and realized the whole thing had been just a dream.
My Three Sons is a great show! It’s on either MeTV or Antenna TV - don’t remember which early in the morning. I record it every day. I loved it when I was a kid and love it even more now. Ernie and Uncle Charlie have some great lines.
But back to added kids…Dodie ruined the show. All added kids ruined the shows. Kind of like “jumping the shark”. It’s pretty much over when random kids get added.
Thank God M3S didn’t last long enough for a Dodie’s frst bra episode shudders
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I could easily live without Joe on Modern Family. I had praised how the show handled the pregnancy story arch, a thing that usually marks the end of my viewing. Now that he’s old enough to interact I wish Gloria’s sister would kidnap him.
Olivia on The Cosby Show was a blatant attempt to infuse cute and precocious but it had the opposite effect on me.
Stephanie on All in the Family. When you put a kid on a show that isn’t a kid show, it never works.
In Duet, Laura gave birth in the season two finale. In season three, they fast-forwarded three years, so the baby was three (and the lives of all the characters had undergone changes). It didn’t help much, but the show spun off a couple of characters into a new show, Open House
Still, props for thinking of the continuity.
His gawdawful “singing” grated on me far more than his adorable appearance or sickeningly sweet precociousness. Yeccch! :mad:
What he was expected to bring to the show, I have no idea.
Family Ties pulled this one. Not that they didn’t have other crimes under their belt (they were the king of clip shows :rolleyes: ), but this one was so blatant. Baby one season, four-year-old the next. Blammo.
Worf’s kid on Star Trek TNG was a whiny brat that didn’t want to be warrior. Klingons are warriors! sheesh
Thankfully they shipped his butt off to Worf’s parents on earth.
I wish they’d gone for a daughter in Family Ties. Cast Judith Barsi or Heidi Zeigler.
Peg’s pregnancy was written off as a dream, but Seven just disappeared without a reason.
In later episodes, he would occasionally appear on a milk carton.
Thank Lucille Ball for that idea - Little Ricky is the one who started this trend. There’s a reasonably good explanation for why shows do this; it’s pretty much impossible to cast kids to be in their “terrible twos.”
It also happened on, among other shows, Growing Pains and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (where Will did a double-take when he saw his nephew three years older than in the previous season). As for explaining it away with a time jump, Parks & Recreation did this with its last season, and New Girl is doing the same thing this season (so we don’t have to sit through Cece’s pregnancy - we just have to sit through Winston’s new wife’s pregnancy).
And back to the original thought, adding kids - Ralph Macchio pretty much got his start as the “added kid” on Eight is Enough to fill the “high school gap” after Tommy graduated and Nicholas was still in elementary school. Note that he wasn’t even mentioned, much less appeared, in the two reunion movies. Also, Crystal Bernard was the “added kid” on Happy Days when Erin Moran went off to do Joanie Loves Chachi.
The most (only) interesting thing about Seven was that his parents were Bobcat Goldthwait and Linda Blair.
I don’t understand the point of Howard & Bernadette’s baby on The Big Bang Theory, you never see the kid anyway!
And now there are two of them.