"Hi-yeee!!! Bye-yeee!!!" Oh, the humanity! -As if Harriet wasn't bad enough, there was Mrs. She wasn't just annoying, she was ***ANNOYING***.
I do agree with SW haters about at least one thing: Harriet Brindle (Emily Schulman). Speaking of Jamie, whatever happened to Jerry Supiran? Like Brissette, he showed a lot of promise, but apparently dropped off the face of the Earth when the show was canceled.
He was always able to score with the girls through his smooth and confident demeanor, while Jamie always ended up looking like a dork. Scott), Jamie's best friend and the show's token black character. Some other comments about SW: -My favorite supporting character was easily Reggie (Paul C.
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It is unfortunate that the talented Brissette did not have any other major TV or film roles during her acting career.
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In response to those unjust criticisms, I say this: it's a light sitcom about a robot girl! A 10-year-old robot girl! This isn't groundbreaking television (though the special effects were decent for a low budget TV series from the 1980s), it's "Small Wonder"! One of the main reasons why I enjoyed this series was Tiffany Brissette as Vicki, she did not express much emotion (because of her role as a robot, of course), but she still displayed enough charm and good comic timing to keep you watching. Over the years, I have heard and read quite a few negative comments about SW, both here at IMDB and elsewhere. "Small Wonder" was a show I enjoyed watching when I was a little kid, and I would probably enjoy it today unfortunately, I haven't seen it in reruns since 1995 or so. I put it up there with ALF and Charles In Charge when I talk about my favorite 80's sitcoms. When I watch reruns nowadays, I laugh at myself for actually loving this show back in the day. Throw in a wisecracking son and a boy-crazy girl next door (Harriet) and you have yourself a classic sitcom! In season 3 they "humanized" her more, as Ted put a chip in Vicki so she could talk like "normal" people do, and they bought her actual clothes so she wouldn't look like a doll anymore (it was typical 80's garb mind you). It didn't help that Ted dressed her up in the same Raggedy Ann-type dress with the high socks for the first couple of seasons, or that she spoke in a monotonic robot voice. The problem is each week they go through stunt after stunt to keep Vicki's robot identity a secret and to make their neighbors believe she's a real little girl. Vicki is a robot Ted Lawson created (this was back in the early computer boom of the mid 80's, so the show fit in with its pop culture surroundings) since Ted and his wife always wanted a little girl.
It has the same formula plots that "Full House" would use later, only there's two kids (if you can call Vicki a kid) instead of 3. But sometimes you just can't beat the nostalgia of these classic '80s family shows.I had a crush on Vicki.when I was 7 years old! Small Wonder, whenever I see it, reminds me of my childhood glory years from 1985-1989.
There’s nothing wrong with today’s family shows and I’m guilty of eating those up too. Even if you were a toddler for the better part of the '80s, chances are, you can still totally appreciate the value in seeing Who’s the Boss? or Family Ties in present day form. They were the ultimate after school TV and, in some cases later on down the line, made up our Friday nights thanks to T.G.I.F. They could get a total revival like Fuller House or even a one-off episode to show fans where all of their favorite characters from shows like Family Matters would be now.īut I think we are all in need of some '80s family sitcom revivals. And there are a ton of family shows from the '80s that need a comeback like right now. Some of them stayed in the decade while others melted into the '90s, but in both cases, they sort of paved the way for some of the great TV we have today. Or, more specifically, family sitcoms that were kind of everything back in the day. Maybe it’s all of those ultra '80s Stranger Things trailers that have come out recently, but I have been itching for some '80s nostalgia in the form of TV shows.
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