Let's Be Gimme A Break!

When did that little shit steal by best wig and dye it dirty blond?

I'm Samantha, even though i look 16, i act like i'm 10

I'm Jonathan Silverman's enormous cock.

I'm the pile of cocaine in the trailer that's waiting for Nell Carter in between takes.

I'm everyone in season one who can't figure out if Sam is a male or female.

I'm John Hoyt entertaining the set design crew in my trailer.

I'm the elevator (enough said)

I am the earplugs everyone uses in their scenes with Nell Carter.

I'm Laurie Hendler's ginormous coke bottle glasses!

I am Count Stovall who played Nells ex-husband.

I'm Rosie O'Donnell as Maggie in my first big role during the final season

I'm brought in to complete the shark jumping of the show

I also hate Nell Carter

Was Samantha disabled? Remember that episode where she kissed a boy and thought she was pregnant?

I'm the two episodes where Samantha called Nell the n word.

I'm the fish that die in the opening credits.

I’m the intro where Nell saunters down the staircase and shakes her enormous tits.

R12 There was only room for one closeted lez on the show you stupid cunt! You ruined everything!

I'm Loretta--Neil's sister who married the weatherman and tried to dump our mother Maybelle on her cause I'm moving to New York.

I’m the dramatic makeover that Nell had going into season 3.

I’m Katy’s SUPER tight season 1 jeans.

I'm that FUCKING swinging door in the kitchen of the Kanisky house.

I'm the electrical shock that Nell miraculously didn't experience when vacuuming a fish tank.

I'm young guest star Elizabeth Berkley, long before I licked a cooter pole and had epileptic sex seizures in the pool with Kyle McLachlan!

I'm Joey Lawrence. Can somebody loan me a few thousand?

I’m Thelma Hopkins, formerly from Tony Orlando and Dawn.

I am Nell Carter, Tootie, Mrs. Garrett, AND Bea Arthur!

R28, that was magnificent.

Old white people ruin Dreamgirls songs.

I’m the fish.... DAMMIT, R16!

I’m the catering truck. Between Nell and Dolph, I was very busy.

I’m a cover of “Up Where We Belong”.

I was better than the original at the time.

In hindsight, I’m pretty sad.

I'm the song that Nell pressures the producers and writers to add to the script so that she can show off her singing skills. Nell was like Linda Lavin and Dixie Carter that way.

I'm the updated theme song from 1985, with the chimes intro. I'm dated but catchy as hell.

I'm the studio audience member who can be heard saying "She gon' grub" when Nell contemplates breaking her diet.

I'm the couch that bears the brunt of Nell and Addie's wrestling matches.

I'm the song "Let's Hear it for the Boy" that Sam keeps singing when William Zabka guest stars as her boyfriend. I do want to hear more about Zabka, but I don't want to hear Samantha singing.

I'm the talking scale that Nell tries to strangle in the credits.

I'm the inscription that Addie made in Nell's book, leading to a misunderstanding that led them to be estranged for several years. Addie had written, "You're sure to be a blockbuster." Nell thought Addie had called her a "black bastard". Addie must have sloppy handwriting.

I'm Julie's dirty T-shirt, which the chief says will still be dirty after Nell washes it. The graphic design has two illustrated hands, each covering a breast.

The E! True Hollywood Story of Gimme a Break was fascinating.

First and foremost, Nell's drug addiction was a problem. When she failed to show up on set, the producers went to her house and found her passed out and completely naked.

The blackface episode reflected the true feelings of the actress who played Samantha. In the early days of the show, Nell used to take her to fast food restaurants during lunch breaks. But after Joey Lawrence was added to the show, Nell dumped the girl for Joey, who was younger and cuter.

When the show was retooled to relocate the setting to New York, the character of Samantha was downgraded to a recurring guest role, and the two older girls were dumped unceremoniously. Laurie Hendler's response when the producers told her: "I just bought a house."

Every once in awhile, on the blog on Rosie O'Donnell's website, a fan asks Rosie about the show and Nell Carter. Rosie only gives responses that are negative and vague, such as "I don't think she was very happy."

Joey went for the matte black.

I’m Richard Page from Mr. Mister, who sings background on and composed the music for the improved synth version of the theme song.

R45 Richard Page also worked with Madonna on her hit 1994 single, I'll Remember

^And Gladys Knight sang the theme song for License To Kill. What’s your point?

I'm Whitney's TWA (tinnie weenie afro) in my cameo as Katie's college friend.

I'm Nell Carter and Chris Farley and other enormously fat people who are also addicts of cocaine and crack and whatever. How the hell can one do so many drugs and still be so heavy? Most of us are just one of the other. How many addictions can you have at one time?

Personally, I’m going for a record, r49.

I love this show so much. A couple of years ago, I watched every episode on youtube (except for the New York City season).

Nell was a true star. She didn't fit the mode for what a star looks like, but she was magnetic, and the camera loved her. In spite of her size, she was energetic and could move gracefully and handle physical comedy. When she was on camera, warmth came out of my TV screen. If she was as miserable as Rosie O says, then Nell must have been one hell of an actress. Someone who looks like her probably wouldn't be given a starring role in a sitcom today.

In addition to her weight and drug problems, she had a lot of other personal problems. At 16, she was raped at gunpoint and became pregnant. She gave the baby to her sister to raise. In later years, divorced twice and had three miscarriages before she adopted two sons. (She tried to adopt other kids, but the adoptions fell through. She had even had even let a pregnant woman live in her home so she could adopt the woman's baby, but the woman changed her mind and kept the baby after giving birth.) She had surgery to repair two aneurysms and she went bankrupt twice. Her brother died of AIDS. (No wonder she wasn't always happy, Rosie...)

After she passed away, it was revealed that she had been in a long-term relationship with a female partner. If only she had come to that realization earlier in her life--and society had been OK with it--then maybe things would have been different for her.

I love how obsessed the DL is with this show. Nobody talks about it anywhere else. It’s just one of the many things that make this place special. I always used to think I was the only person who remembered it. I just get blank stares when I mention it to most people in real life.

[quote] She didn't fit the mode for what a star looks like

Oh, dear!

Nell was very talented as the poster above pointed out. Natural charisma hat made potentially hokey plots seem warm and funny. And then of course her musical talent.

I loved Addie. Whatever happened to her? She was so beautiful and her baby voice was a fun contrast

Nell had it all. She could sing, dance, and act. And she had excellent chemistry onscreen with Dolph Sweet and Telma Hopkins. And, of course, with the child actors.

R55, I think you mean Angie. Addie didn't have a baby voice.

The show was also ahead of its time with episodes that were in support of LGBT.

In one episode, the Chief is on a stakeout with another officer who reveals he's gay. The Chief talks about his childhood experience with a gay teacher who helped him lose his stutter and a homophobic uncle who didn't like the teacher. (It was reminiscent of the All in the Family scene where Archie explains why he's racist.) At the end of the episode, the gay officer turns out to be a badass, bravely running into a crime scene and getting shot...while the Chief was in the bathroom. Back at home, the chief debriefs with Nell and says that the gay cop is "one hell of a guy". Nell responds, "It takes one to know one." The Chief sheepishly says, "Well, I wish you wouldn't have put it exactly like that.". Positive. And funny instead of preachy.

In another episode, Nell plays matchmaker, and she sets up the Chief with a woman named Melissa. The Chief falls hard for Melissa. Melissa tells Nell that she doesn't want a commitment...and she used to be a man before her sex change operation. Melissa takes off, leaving Nell to explain the situation to the Chief. There are a few laughs, but they aren't mean spirited. The Chief actually seems to mourn the loss. "I'll never find another woman like him."

[quote] [R55], I think you mean Angie. Addie didn't have a baby voice.

Yes yes! I’m sorry I meant Angie. I loved how she said her own name too... “Annnnnn gee”

I love Telma Hopkins and she was good as Addie but I wonder whatever happened to the actress that played Angie. She was very pretty and good comic relief for the time/context but I never saw her again and they just dropped her once Addie cake on as a regular.

[quote]I'm the updated theme song from 1985, with the chimes intro. I'm dated but catchy as hell.

I'm the Casio keyboard!

Who can forget the Chief's meltdown when Samantha refused to give up her imaginary friend, Debbie Jo? He flipped the hell out. It was scary...but also hilarious. Today the networks wouldn't air such a "problematic" scene.

I tried to set up the attached clip to start at the scene. But if it doesn't work, and it posts the entire 25-minute episode, then the scene begins at 17:05.

I'm the running wrong-number gag.

I'm the mashup with Breaking Bad!

I'm the living room has a very similar layout to Married with Children.

R45 Richard Page also sang Golden Dream for the American Adventure show at Epcot. He and Siedah Garrett (Michael Jackson's former backup singer). They really had great harmonies in that. I think they updated the song recently with newer artists.

R42 I watched the E! True Hollywood Story a few months ago. It was riveting. I didn’t realize so much drama had happened behind the scenes. I couldn’t believe how much money Nell was getting paid at that time and how she blew it on drugs just as fast as she made it. Those True Hollywood Stories are so addictive. I wish they still made them. I always used to watch them. Behind the Music on VH1 was also a favorite. They don’t even have the A&E Biographies anymore. I miss all of those shows.

We’re the sets shaking as Dolph Sweet bangs on Samantha’s door to let her in.

I'm the episode where the Chief and Nell break their diets and spend the night binge eating. It shows us that sometimes fat people aren't jolly and have a lot of pain in their lives. Sometimes we eat because life hurts and food is our only escape. We're not bad people, we're not weak, we just don't know how to deal with our pain.

Did they ever do a flashback episode where they show how Nell met their mom and ended up living with them?

Not to my knowledge. I wish they had.

because it would've helped be a counterpoint to the then-common stereotype of black woman=maid when Nell Harper as I recall just happened to be their mom's friend who promised to take care of them because she loved the mom and the girls, not a servant.

[quote] Sometimes we eat because life hurts and food is our only escape. We're not bad people, we're not weak, we just don't know how to deal with our pain.

Not all of us drink to be poets. Some of us drink because we’re not poets.

R68, yes. The title of the episode was "Flashback", ironically.

Nell visits the mom, and the mom tells Nell she's sick, and she asks Nell to raise the kids. She invites Nell to spend the night without telling the Chief (who has never met Nell). When the Chief gets home late, he gets into the bed that Nell is sleeping in. They're lying butt-to-butt when each realizes they're not alone in the bed. They see each other and start screaming.

Thanks R71. I watched in on Youtube. it was great!

LOVE the courtroom scene from the season 2 episode called The Custody Suit. Nell promptly dresses down the Chief’s racist sister in law, who wants to take custody of the girls because she feels that Nell is an “unsuitable” influence. Starts 20 minutes in...

I loved the season 1 episode, Do or Diet. Nell joins a weight loss support group, and she hosts a group meeting in her and the Chief's home. The group welcomes new members by serenading them with a song:

You're a disgusting fatso.

Your belly is much too big.

No one can even stand the sight of you,

You look like Porky Pig.

When the Chief comes home and walks in the door, the group mistakes him for a new member, and they start to sing the song to him. Of course, he becomes enraged. This scene starts at 19:18 in the attached clip. The Chief joins Nell on her diet, and towards the end of the episode, Nell and the Chief engage in an epic binge eating session.

Oops, I meant the fun starts at 9:18 (not 19:18).

R74 There's no way this could be produced today-the political correctness police wouldn't allow it.

[quote]I love Telma Hopkins and she was good as Addie but I wonder whatever happened to the actress that played Angie

I met her briefly 20 years ago. She was working as a legal secretary in Century City IIRC. The voice is very real.

Also, was Sam retarded?

Why did they dress her in those jumpers?

I'm still Joey Lawrence and I still need some cash bitches!!

Sam wasn't retarded. I think the actress was playing a character several years younger than the actress' true age. To make the character seem younger, the actress went a little overboard on the mugging for the camera. She would mug while she was delivering her line...and again after she had delivered the line.

I’m the long-lost original pilot that had Tracey Gold as Samantha and a son named Matthew as the youngest Kanisky child.

Thanks for that clip, R82. Those two performers had great chemistry together.

I'm glad the show ultimately decided that the Chief would have just the three daughters. (Well, until they brought in Joey a couple years later...) I'm not sure why they replaced Tracey Gold with Lara Jill Miller.

The problem with hiring teens is that they grow up. And when these kids grew up, then the premise of the show was undermined. (Nell was there to help the Chief raise his kids.) One thing they did was slow down time. The first three seasons covered about a year's worth of time in the GAB universe.

Samantha was an odd character the first few seasons until she grew her hair out and became a real teen.

Tracey Gold's character on Growing Pains was replaced by her so it was kind of a Karma thing in a way.

I'm the paradox that Nell got louder and angrier as she got skinnier.

R33 I loved that performance.

That happens, r86.

Lack of food can piss you off.

We're the gospel choir who backed Nell on "How Great Thou Art" in the blackface episode.

I'm the piece of cake Nell can't find in the first season's intro.

I'm Kari Michaelsen's anorexia that went under the radar in all the attention given to Nell's fluctuations in weight and sobriety.

I'm everybody yelling at llil Joey for playing with the train set Carl gave him for his birthday in his room after he died.

I just came across the episode with Paul WIlliams playing a secretly-racist kids show host who received Nell's blood for a life-saving transfusion. Williams definitely had some good blow and you know he and Nell were tootin' it up together in their dressing rooms.

They are always white racists who refuse blood transfusions in these type of sitcom episodes. Wouldn't it be novel if it was a black man who was horrified to get a white man's blood?

Cue the lost special episode of Three's Company.

Special guest star, Cleavon Little!

[quote]I'm John Hoyt entertaining the set design crew in my trailer.

I don’t get this joke. What’s this mean? Why would he be entertaining the set design crew?

[quote]Every once in awhile, on the blog on Rosie O'Donnell's website, a fan asks Rosie about the show and Nell Carter. Rosie only gives responses that are negative and vague, such as "I don't think she was very happy."

Oh and Rosie is just a JOY to be around, isn’t she?🙄

Considering what former staffers have said about Ro’s behavior, I’m not surprised Nell didn’t like her.

[quote]I couldn’t believe how much money Nell was getting paid at that time and how she blew it on drugs just as fast as she made it.

And she was broke by the time she died.

R96, good point! Rosie herself has admitted to (and tried to justify) yelling at interns who brought back the wrong type of bagel for Rosie's breakfast. And let's not forget when she was running McCall's magazine. A worker claimed that Rosie inferred she was a liar and that the worker would contract cancer because of it. (This worker's mother had recently died of cancer.) And of course, last year's book about the View revealed some other examples of Rosie's bad behind the scenes behavior. And she complains that Nell was rude to her? Gimme a break!

Nell addressed Rosie's complaints in an interview. Rosie had complained publicly that on the GAB set, Nell had called Rosie by Rosie's character's name instead of her real name. In the interview, Nell looked directly into the camera and said "I'm sorry you feel that way." She explained that she didn't do it to be rude. She did it to help the child actors avoid flubbing their lines.

[quote]Nell addressed Rosie's complaints in an interview. Rosie had complained publicly that on the GAB set, Nell had called Rosie by Rosie's character's name instead of her real name. In the interview, Nell looked directly into the camera and said "I'm sorry you feel that way." She explained that she didn't do it to be rude. She did it to help the child actors avoid flubbing their lines.

It was in the Gimme a Break True Hollywood Story where Nell said that and you could tell Nell was trying hard to keep her cool because Rosie had the nerve to try to make herself look sweet and innocent when she was anything but.

Here's the E! True Hollywood Story.

Thank you for posting that, r100!!

I really look forward to seeing it. Never would’ve thought to look on YouTube for something like that. Then again, I’m old!

Thank you again.

I’m a cloud of cannabis smoke over the writers room to counteract the smog from the morning commute.

I watched the whole E True Hollywood Story with one thought in mind. I hate Rosie O'Donnell and I love Nell Carter!

[quote][R96], good point! Rosie herself has admitted to (and tried to justify) yelling at interns who brought back the wrong type of bagel for Rosie's breakfast.

Nell converted to Judaism but Rosie was the one kvetching about bagels!

Honestly, Rosie O'Donnell is so freaking sensitive. So what if Nell Carter the star of the show wants to call her by her character's name. She's a newbie on a show with a big star just suck it up and be grateful.

Especially when the boys' names were the same in real life.

Wouldn't it be juicy if Rosie and Nell Carter we're actually secretl lovers?

R109, Nell could do much better than Rosie.

I'm not a Rosie fan but she was pretty good looking back then.

I worked as a waiter next door to a lesbian bar. West village. The place i worked at had a screened in porch with booths. Anyway, Nell would come in with this blonde lady & sit in the booth that look out at the entrance to the lesbian bar. She’d drink & watch the ladies go in next door. Sometimes she would have her blonde friend go next door & come back with a girl or girls. Was a regular thing with her.. She was fine to wait on..She might of stopped snorting but not drinking.

She really seemed to love the first husband

Watching some of those YT videos- Man this was a terrible show. Painfully unfunny. How did this tripe last 6 seasons?

I'm Jonathan Silverman acting like a 60 year old Jewish man.

I"m Whitney Houston, seducing Nell Carter to get some really good coke.

[quote]The place i worked at

Oh, dear!

[quote]She might of stopped snorting but not drinking.

Oh, DEAR!!

I’m Eugene Roche playing a gay cop whom the Chief belittles while they’re on a stakeout. Since there were enough gays dying on the evening news in 1982, I at least survive getting shot in the line of duty. “Bury Your Gays” trope avoided. Take THAT, [italic]St. Elsewhere[/italic], [italic]LA Law[/italic], and [italic]Designing Women[/italic]!

I am the poor fish that everybody forgot about.

I'm the freeze-frame when Nell jumps up in the air with her old doll!

I am the lack of information about the Kaniski girls on the internets.

How did Nell do all that coke and still stay so fat?

R122 she followed the John Belushi diet

Chris Farley too

We’re NBC’s joy over its ratings comeback diminished by having to bury not only Dolph Sweet, but also Nicholas Colasanto, Selma Diamond, and the voice of one of the Gummi Bears.

I am Blake Hunter confused by Rosie coming on to me between takes.

Substitute Paul Sand for Blake Hunter.

I confused Blake Clarke with Blake Hunter.

Interesting thing about Paul Sand's involvement with this show: he was also in [italic]Can't Stop the Music[/italic], and one of the songs from the film not sung by Village People was a Ritchie Family song called "Give Me A Break:"

I’m the person calling and asking to speak with Julio.

I was Nell Carter a registered Republican who supported Bush ironically.

I just finished watched an episode on Antenna TV and Rosie O'Donnell and her THICK NY accent was featured heavily in this episode

We're all the cops in Glenlawn other than Kanisky and Simpson. After season 2, you almost never see us.

[quote] I was Nell Carter a registered Republican who supported Bush ironically.

Your point?

I was a lesbian who supported Bush!

R122 Cocaine and milkshakes.

I'm the missed opportunity for Nell's sister moving to NY in the last season but never seeing her. Lynn Thigpen was a great actress. Then we would've been treated to more scenes like this:

R42, it wasn't that huge of a deal. Kari Michaelsen had already asked for a reduced number of appearances in the fifth season. She was elated to be let go. And Lara Jill Miller was originally fired but she ended up in 5 or 6 episodes so it was a better situation than expected. Plus she had law school on the brain. The only one really affected was Lauri Hendler who thought there was much more to explore with her character since she just became a mother.

I'm the mostly Jewish cast trying to get through another Christmas episode.

Seasons 3-5 are truly funny

Telma Hopkins was a great addition to the cast

Show quickly went to shit during the NYC episodes/cast slashing in season 6

R136: She was in the movie [italic]Hello Again[/italic] with Shelley Long in a small part as a reporter around that time. The role was miniscule.

I'm John Hoyt. I somehow miraculously avoid being fired during the major overhaul.

I am Nell Carter at Dolph Sweet's bedside as he passed away. She was a good friend to him.

Gimme a steak, I sure am hungry,

Put some sautéed onions on the top.

Gimme a steak and some A1 sauce

I can pour on with a hefty glop.

I want a baked potato,

No lettuce or tomato,

With butter pats and bread for free,

Whoa whoa whoa,

Gimme a steak and hamburger patty,

Gimme a steak that’s juicy and fatty.

Gimme a steak, a chocolate shake,

A sundae and a big velvet cake,

Gimme a steak!

I'm Tony Danza stealing the idea for this show (but leaving out black people, fat people, characters with more than one dimension, and actually funny jokes) after the cancellation of [italic]Taxi[/italic].

I'm the inherent racism of white America as proved by the fact that inarguably inferior shows such as the one alluded to at R144, [italic]Growing Pains[/italic], [italic]Full House[/italic], and especially [italic]Friends[/italic], got better ratings.

I am Joey being lauded as a boy genius for one episode.

I'm that God-awful backdoor pilot with the two Greek guys running a restaurant. It will be 2 years before Empty Nest outdoors us.

R145 you're joking right, the same so called racist white America that helped make The Cosby Show a ratings bonanza at that SAME time, GAB was on

#1 show for FIVE seasons (85-90) in the ratings

And then A Different World becomes the #2 most watched show after Cosby upon it's debut in 1987 in supposedly white racist America

The reason why GAB's ratings weren't higher was because it was on the LAST place rated NBC network in 1981 and sitcoms were dead at the time, in fact the two majorly successful NBC sitcoms at that time, Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life also features black people

Cosby brought sitcoms and NBC back in 1984 but by then GAB was in the process of jumping the shark and by 1985 had already jumped it

I'm the not-terrible backdoor pilot with Don Rickles taking care of a runaway black girl. NBC chose [italic]Mr. Smth[/italic] over it.

I am the prop gun that shot Nell.

I'm Kari Michaelsen's obvious weight gain in seasons 4 and 5.

I’m George Memmoli making up for the failure of [italic]Hello, Larry [/italic] by playing one of the members of PORKO. I’m also Dennis Burkley making up for the failures of [italic]Hanging In[/italic] and [italic]Sanford [/italic] by playing its founder who gained all his weight back.

I'm Mary Jo Cattlet, fellow PORKO's member and I'm about to break out!

I love this show and agree that one of the reasons I love DL is that it appreciates a show like this.

Nell Carter was a gem and it's a shame she never received an Emmy for this show.

Moving the show to NYC was stupid. It's like the last season of Roseanne (original run) - I can't watch it.

She was nominated twice for this show's first two seasons and didn't win — Carol Kane won for [italic]Taxi[/italic] in 1981-1982 and Shelley Long won for [italic]Cheers[/italic] in 1982-1983 — but she won for the TV version of [italic]Ain't Misbehavin'[/italic], as did Andre DeShields. That's on YouTube, but Sony owns the rights and doesn't want to fork over cash for any official home media release. I think they only cleared the rights for broadcast

One of her other co-stars there, Armelia McQueen, was the Red Queen on The Disney Channel's [italic]Adventures in Wonderland[/italic] in the 1990s around the same time Lynne Thigpen was on [italic]Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego[/italic] and Joey Lawrence was, of course, on [italic]Blossom[/italic].

Interesting how she wasn't nominated after the show changed directions in the third season. I thought she was great in seasons 3-5. The earlier seasons are unwatchable.

They were better than the New York season.

I didn't like the addition of Joey Lawrence, however, it didn't really hurt the show. As r158 said, she was great in seasons 3-5. I thought she did a great job with the reaction to the Chief's death.

One thing I liked about Gimme a Break is that it never had that cloying music that the other '80s sitcoms had. I think that's why some of the episodes still hold up. And I loved Nell's bitchy, sarcastic comebacks to the kids.

I didn't like the addition of Joey either.

I am Telma Hopkins gratefully cashing my check each week.

I am Howard Morton taking over the role of Grandpa Munster after this show ends.

I'm the episode where Nell teaches the girls how to cut lines like a Benihana chef.

Was Howard Morton family?

[quote] Was Howard Morton family?

His obituary mentioned no wife and children. All his other roles before this we are as effete salesbottoms.

Wonder if Joey has BBC, too.

Jesus Christ, r33. Nell Carter and Andy Gibb - can you imagine how much coke was vacuumed up on set that week?

They must’ve cut more lines than a cripple kid at Disney World.

How did Joey end up with the family?

Then, inexplicably, later his little brother???

[quote]Nell Carter and Andy Gibb - can you imagine how much coke was vacuumed up on set that week?

NBC nearly went bankrupt.

R172, he was a con artist collecting money for his grifter uncle. He was going to run away so the Kanisky's adopted him. When the show moved to NY, Joey's irresponsible father showed up with Matthew. He wanted to go back to sea instead of a desk job with the Navy and Nell took Matthew in.

I'm Helen Hunt as one of Katie's friends who is knocked up and single. Since I'll be doing ABC's [italic]It Takes Two[/italic] next season, Bonnie Urseth will take my place despite already having played Doris, one of the singers of the Hot Muffins.

Kari Michaelson has said that the role of Katy came down to herself and Helen Hunt. Helen had just beat her out foR another role, and she said that she wasn’t going to let that happen a second time.

[quote] came down to herself and Helen Hunt.

*eyeroll*

I'm Samantha's Smurf doll that she gives to Maxine the ex-hooker as "something blue" when she marries Uncle Ed.

R176, so which producer did she fuck? Mort Lachman? Sy Rosen? See, it wasn't just me.

I'm Julie Piekarski watching in distress and anger as fellow [italic]Facts of Life[/italic] cast-off Julie Anne Haddock gets a guest shot on this show when I don't. And I'm actually of Polish descent!

[quote] Wonder if Joey has BBC, too.

I don't think Joey has the talent to be in any BBC production.

You're right. He's too skinny to be a Teletubby.

[quote]I don't think Joey has the talent to be in any BBC production.

Except for this.

I'm the vase that fell off the fridge during the LIVE episode

We're the cast curtain call for the live episode that gets cut off just as Nell is about to take the stage.

I'm Danny Glover, Nell's one night stand. I sure made The Chief nervous!

Please stop bumping this thread. The picture of that kid in blackface is awful. And, no, I'm not a Mary. Using a child like that is disgusting.

We're the Chicken and the Egg from the Captain Jerk show helping our host in his secret plans to ethnically cleanse America.

I am Andy Gibb making love to Kari Michaelson whilst thinking of Victoria Principal.

I'm Roslyn Kind bearding this show's gay casting director in exchange for a walk-on in the episode where Nell gets her high school diploma.

I’m the absolute moral authority of gays, Jews, and black people which this show establishes permanently.

I'm Katie's Korner, filled with fabulous 80's couture.

We're the few actually decent episodes from Season 6. None of them had Rosie or Paul Sand.

I am the seventh season that would have brought Simpson back for shiggles.

I'm Gretchen Wyler suing the Chief for custody of the girls.

I'm the utter hypocrisy of their endorsing womanface and using Katie as a virtual punching bag while condemning blackface and the word nigger.

So an unmarried black maid, working for a widower in a middle class household, adopts a white child. Got it!

I am Paul Sand telling Joey there's no Santa Claus.

I'm Jane Dulo, filing for unemployment in '83.

I'm Howard Morton, hanging around the set the week William Zabka guest stars, even though I'm not in the episode.

I'm Frank Bonner in drag — and dressed better than Herb Tarlek ever was — in a Very Special Episode about a gay cop in the Glenlawn Police Department going on a stakeout. That wasn't me, though; that was Eugene Roche. Even the gay people on this show are fat! At least they let him live to see the end of the episode; I guess they felt there were enough gay men dying in 1982.

I'm the diamond necklace that gets stolen off of Nell's neck

I'm actress Constance Ford wondering why in the hell my friend and former co-star did this stupid show.

We're P&G reinforcing the Dolph Sweet connection to AW, intended or not, by hiring one of this show's producers, Terri Guarnieri, who also worked on [italic]The Cosby Show[/italic], to revamp its sagging ratings in the 1990s. It doesn't work and the show won't live to see another century.

I'm the shitty backdoor pilots.

I'm the old perv seeing this after beating off to Joey in "Blossom" and feeling like hanging myself.

I’m the photo album for sale on eBay from the 1983-84 season featuring dL fave Andy gibb

I'm the hot sexual tension between the Chief and Nell.

I'm Skipper Dwayne's, Glenlawn's only restaurant.

I'm that first terrible moment when we saw how sick Dolph Sweet (the Chief) was, and how much weight he'd lost (stomach cancer).

RiP Dolph Sweet. Soldier. POW. Husband, Father. Teacher. Actor.

I'm the irony that throughout her career in showbusiness, Rosie O'Donnell was never skinnier than she was on this show.

I'm Lara Jill Miller's very awkward stage in the first two seasons.

I'll be the spin-off sisters Angie & Jackie should have gotten...And if that doesn't work out I'd gladly be Mrs. Fong. Funny, I don't look like a Fong.

BTW...Any word on the whereabouts of Alvernette Jiminez? Too bad her acting career never was. Angie was a great character.

We're the three backdoor pilots they actually did try: one that featured Don Rickles and a Black girl living with him, another that had Ray Walston and Gwen Verdon reunited at the Glenlawn community center, and another set in a Greek restaurant. None of them sold.

Rightfully so. I think those were the only 3.

I'm the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from 1983 where Lara Jill Miller sings to the Care Bears.

I'm Telma Hopkins. Relieved that FINALLY my income isn't dependent on how many times I can make Tony Orlando's smelly, uncut Mexican cock disappear in my neck in some lousy Las Vegas dressing room! Fuck you, Tony!

I'm the bowl for the Lawrence Brothers haircuts.

I'm Nell's sister Loretta. Even thought I move to NY in season 6, you'll never see me. I'm a missed opportunity.

I'm Maggie's husband played by Blake Clark who later inherited the voice of Slinky Dog in the [italic]Toy Story[/italic] franchise from Jim Varney.

I've never watched an episode of Gimme a Break growing up, but this thread has me in stiches! This show sounds insane.

R61 I laughed so hard at the father "killing" that girl's imaginary friend. 🤣

Well played R217. Bits of the Twizzler I was eating seconds ago, are now unfortunately all over my laptop.

R217 Telma would help Tony trim his stache by pushing his face into the garbage disposal.

I'm Nell Carter's betrayal of Blacks, Jews, and the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ community by being a Republican and the transphobia of them casting a cisbitch as a transwoman. That makes "her" and Christopher Hewett the same person. Ever see them in the same room? My point exactly.

I’m the vase on the fridge that fell over during the “live” episode... ohhhhh the drama....

I'm the transphobic cisracist slur "Blackface" used to attack Joey at his coming out ceremony at Nell's church. Transblacks are Black, just like trans-Mexicans such as Marty/Esteban the restaurant owner are Mexican.

This is why Tracey Gold was better off on my show. At least there she could actually be a girl, albeit a very fat one. Thanks for letting us have your fat jokes since you stopped using them when Nell lost weight and [italic]What's Happening Now!![/italic] ran out of them once Rerun left.

Look, you spent your childhood years in front of a TV. No skiing, no hockey, no lacrosse

Just sitting home in Brooklyn w/your lazy abusive mom

I'm do sorry for you

I'm Julio. And I ain't here.

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