RIP Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
#27
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Re: RIP Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
So sudden! Those are the hardest deaths to accept. Like it takes me a few minutes of contemplation that I could be next.
I was born in 1983. I kind-of watched Growing Pains, and remember the Seavers. But not really. Now when 90's-ABC TGIF stars being passing away...
I was born in 1983. I kind-of watched Growing Pains, and remember the Seavers. But not really. Now when 90's-ABC TGIF stars being passing away...
#28
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Re: RIP Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
I think I watched every episode of Growing Pains, but what really had made me a modern fan was his appearances on HIMYM. Very funny stuff.
#29
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Shitheads live forever it seems.
I was never a huge fan of Growing Pains but I always enjoyed his performance the few times I watched it. He seemed to be the best part of that show.
Growing Pains always came across as a poor man's Family Ties. It just never registered with me the way Family Ties did.
#33
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Re: RIP Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
I never understood the "[Beloved Person] is dead and gone but we're still stuck with [Loathed Celebrity]..."-styled lamentations. I'm no Kirk Cameron fan but wishing you could swap his life for another's is kind of morally abominable.
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Re: RIP Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
Sucks
#36
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Yeah both were good shows but I liked Family Ties more. Still I think I watched every episode of Growing Pains when Disney Channel aired it. I grew to like it a bit less when I found out what a douche Kirk Cameron is.
#37
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Re: RIP Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
Tonight's episode of The Goldbergs began with an "In Memorium" to Thicke, and then I noticed that the epsisode was directed by Joanna Kerns, Thicke's on-screen wife in Growing Pains.
#38
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Re: RIP Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
I find Cameron, in many of the stances he has taken publicly, to be morally abominable. Regardless, my comment was a joke; I don't actually have the power to swap one life for another. Apologies if you found it to be in poor taste.
#39
Re: RIP Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
So sudden! Those are the hardest deaths to accept. Like it takes me a few minutes of contemplation that I could be next.
I was born in 1983. I kind-of watched Growing Pains, and remember the Seavers. But not really. Now when 90's-ABC TGIF stars being passing away...
I was born in 1983. I kind-of watched Growing Pains, and remember the Seavers. But not really. Now when 90's-ABC TGIF stars being passing away...
#40
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Re: RIP Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
It wasn't ever part of TGIF, but "Just the Ten of Us" which was a spinoff of GP, was.
#41
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Re: RIP Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
I believe it was on Wednesdays which is why I likely missed it since my parents made me go to church every Weds night. I would rush home to catch Newhart at 8:30 and then Magnum P.I. at 9pm back then.
ABC had GP so I think it was more around a 7pm show (CST), right?
ABC had GP so I think it was more around a 7pm show (CST), right?
#42
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Re: RIP Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
Aha! I wondered about that. I did not notice the director, I thought it was just because it was an 80s sitcom and the show is an homage to the 80s. I didn't watch Growing Pains too often, but I remember a few episodes that were funny.
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#44
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Yea, I recall he was the coach of the school that Mike went to.. was fired.. Mike got a protest together.. didnt work... and during a dinner with the coach and family at the Seaver household it was decided they were going to move to California. I remember watching this episode wondering why we're introduced to this family on Growing Pains - and then realized it was a spin-off in the making. Back then they really tried to force spinoffs based on very little.
#46
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Re: RIP Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
Yea, I recall he was the coach of the school that Mike went to.. was fired.. Mike got a protest together.. didnt work... and during a dinner with the coach and family at the Seaver household it was decided they were going to move to California. I remember watching this episode wondering why we're introduced to this family on Growing Pains - and then realized it was a spin-off in the making. Back then they really tried to force spinoffs based on very little.
Mostly I just remember Jamie Luner.
#47
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Re: RIP Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
Yea, I recall he was the coach of the school that Mike went to.. was fired.. Mike got a protest together.. didnt work... and during a dinner with the coach and family at the Seaver household it was decided they were going to move to California. I remember watching this episode wondering why we're introduced to this family on Growing Pains - and then realized it was a spin-off in the making. Back then they really tried to force spinoffs based on very little.
#48
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Re: RIP Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
Yay human nature!
#49
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Notice all the animosity towards Kirk Cameron in this thread for classic examples of virtue signalling.
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