No, I am not 13 years old. Yes, I am aware it is not 1991.
Now that I have cleared that up I must share with you that I have fallen back in love with Blossom. The HUB has just started showing this ode to the 90s weeknights at 9 (CST) and 9:30. (Excluding this week because it is Dog Week.....whatever) I tune in every night or DVR it for the next day and have enjoyed almost every episode (excluding "Student Films").
When you watch a show at 14 and then again at 37 you pick up on so many things you missed as a young teen. Blossom is still awesome and completely independent, Joey is hilarious and Anthony is so dry and sarcastic in the perfect way. What I have said over and over as I watch it is...I just really holds up. It isn't like going back at 37 to watch an episode of Alf, which I loved at whatever pre-teen age but can't stomach now.
When you watch a show at 14 and then again at 37 you pick up on so many things you missed as a young teen. Blossom is still awesome and completely independent, Joey is hilarious and Anthony is so dry and sarcastic in the perfect way. What I have said over and over as I watch it is...I just really holds up. It isn't like going back at 37 to watch an episode of Alf, which I loved at whatever pre-teen age but can't stomach now.
I was about the same age as Blossom and Six when the show came out so it is a glorious trip down memory lane for me. One of my favorite things about this time and that duo is that they had no cel phones. They sat in Blossom's room, talked, danced to tapes or Top 40 on the awesome Sharp QT 50 and just had fun. Maybe calling a boy on the land line (which was just called a phone back then) every once in a while. It really was like that! Random though but here is another little thing that I didn't notice quite as much then as I do now - Joey was hot!
I follow Mayim Bialik on FB and she has clearly become academically and professionally very successful. There seem to be a lot of parallels to character of Blossom and how Mayim really is, intelligent, bold, confident and thoughtful. It is very interesting to see the actors that played the main characters have all grown up. Each has become successful in their own ways. I will list their individual sites, twitter, imdb, etc so you can catch up with them at the bottom of this post.
So, if you love the 90s like I did or even if you just love a well written sitcoms check out Blossom on the HUB.
Blossom - http://www.mayimbialik.net
Joey - http://www.joeylawrence.net
Anthony - https://twitter.com/MikeStoyanov
Rhonda - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206236/
Update - The above information pertains to season 1 & 2, maybe season 3 here and there. After that...not so much.
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