After they left Eastland in Season 4 the episodes were really hit or miss for me. When they opened up Over Our Heads, the episodes started going down hill and picking up speed.
shareThe setups for the girls being together just got more and more contrived, from doing probabation over the cafeteria to Edna's Edibles to Over Our Heads.
The last two years are unwatchable. There was no reason for the girls to be living with the sister of their housemother. I don't get why they did the gift shop during season 7, when it was clear that Charlotte Rae was only signed for half the season and she was on her way out. They should have reformatted the show at that point - move the timeline ahead a couple of years so that Tootie was out of high school and Jo and Blair had graduated from Langley. They could have had the four girls share an apartment in NYC or something like that. Would have been better than living with Beverly Ann and Andy and Pimppa.
Agree--they didn't need those three characters. The four girls in a NYC apartment would have been more intriguing. Oh and with their 'exclusive' education shouldn't they have had the ability to make it beyond Peekskill and a small independent business?
Unless it's a cautionary take that no, private schooling doesn't necessarily guarantee you get everything you want after all.
Kinda backtracking from the beginning of the series where viewers were supposed to idolize the girls because they DID get an exclusive private school education. Well, it doesn't/didn't mean they were better off in the end.
You don't even need to attend college to get hired these places...and I'm sure a local business doesn't have to require you complete high school at least not in the mid 1980's. So what was the point of them having attended eastland and at least Jo and Blair (college).