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I will right now.

LOL! The twins annoyed the hell out of me.

How was that story with Vanessa and her fiancee' resolved? They broke up right?

This is what I read on Wikipedia Season 1: #2 Season 2: #3 Season 3: #4 Season 4: #4 Season 5: #17 Season 6: #86

Whatever. I'm done. You can think whatever you want. It was moved to Thursdays at 8pm in its last season. It flopped, and they tried to move it back to 8:30pm until they finally canned in January 1993. They aired the series finale in May on a Friday Night, and then burned the rest if the leftover episodes on Friday Nights during the summer of 1993. I got this info from here: Link

No doubt. Everything about that last season was just akward. It was just the show's time to end. Television was getting edgier, and The Cosby Show couldn't keep up. It ended at the right time, thank god Bill Cosby ended it when he did. It would have only gotten worse.... Too bad that A Different World suffered without it though. Just think of how many critics they proved right when they floundered without their Cosby lead in. LMAO. This opening is hilariously cheesy.

Pam sucked. But if it wasn't for her we wouldn't have gotten Charmaine and Lance. Who I loved.

What facts am I supposed to present? I wasn't in the room, while they were shooting out at ideas so I have no ideaa if they were purposely writing whites as racist. I never claimed anything I said was fact, just how I felt. Just becuase you showed me some supposed facts, doesn't mean I'm going to change my opinion. Everything I have said about this subject in this thread has been an OPINION.

So because you don't agree with what I said, my opinion is incorrect? Maybe they weren't painting whites as racist all the time, but I still felt that show was preachy at times, and you felt they were being topical. That's our opinions END OF STORY.

LOVE this episode! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSu2MhNmr8s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lipsj9VPYc

Had Lisa Bonet stayed there would have been no Kim, Freddie, or character expansion for Ron. It would have been all about Denise. They were forced to turn it into an ensemble show after she left. LOL! I loved Relax! Relate! Release! Remember that Season 2 episode where Freddie got drunk. I loved that crush she had on Dwayne that season, it was so cute.

I don't remember that one. Which episode was it? I also loved the Whitley/Dwayne/Kinu triangle. It was full of LOL moments.

Does anyone remember when En Vogue appeared as Mr. Gaines' quiet, church going nieces? Love that episode too. And well I did like Ron/Freddie I hated that they ended up together at the end. I always thought it would be Ron/Kim, but she ended getting engaged to some random nobody, whose name I can't even remember.

I don't think so. They did plan on bringing Charmaine's boyfriend Lance to ADW. The actor's name escapes me right now, but he turned down the offer to pursue a movie career. Charmaine and Lance appeared in a Season 5 episode as well. I guess it was to test out how they work on the show the next year.

Never mind. I never said they were only preachy and showing racist whites in the last season anyway. Just about everytime a white person was brought on, it was just to show how racist they were, but we should just agree to disagree. And I also never said the show was anti-white, I said that I felt like they were painting a picture of blacks being opressed upon by whites all the time. (pro black, anti white) Which may be the case, but not every white person is racist. I am not a racist, that is just how I feel. Nothing was wrong with the show putting a spotlight on the struggles in the black community, but this was a sitcom not the evening news. You see it your way, and I see it mine. I really don't feel like continuing to debate this. All in all, I still love the show, and will respect it for what it tried to do, by having these social issue episodes. I still stand by what I said that in Season 5 & 6 they were preachy throwing social issues at us almost every week. Some of these examples aren't even doom and gloom/social issues.

Hated seson 6 Lena but she was ok in season 5. I did like those episodes where she was making chili from her dorm room, and it set off a fire and when her friends from Baltimore came to visit. Her relationship with Dorian was SO dull.

Did anyone else want Ron/Whitley at one point? I sure did.

Didnt she say something about wanting to get the college experience she never had? Which included living in dorms? Havent seen the first season in a LONG time.

The racist store clerk in the episode Whitley went to go buy a present for her dad's birthday party. The white men that Dwayne and Ron got into a fight with in the parking lot of the football game. The white women who were looting during the LA riots, and were making remarks about blacks bringing it on themselves. When Charmaine and Terel got ran down people automatically assumed it was whites until Charmaine told them it was a rainbow coalition of idiots. Those are the only ones I can think of since I haven't watched most of the show in nearly 5 years. On the subject of being topical and preachy being two different things I beg to differ. They kept referencing the 92 election, which isnt a bad thing but this was a sitcom. I dont think we need to be told the importance of voting over and over again. Dwayne mentoring the two gang members was just corny and too much, never cared for that episode. They put alot of emphasis on the struggles of the black community, which was a very good thing, but they came at us with it episode after episode. I preferred the style of Season 2-4 where we would have episodes like that, but everything wasnt so doom and gloom. It was never anything that bothered me as a child, just something I noticed as an adult. I respect your opinion though.

What was the name of that girl who was Whitley's sidekick in Season 1? I have totally forgot.

Loved that! I wish they had developed Gina's character more. She was my fave of the "new generation", but she never really got any episodes to have her character fleshed out. I absolutely love the episode where she wrote DIGIT HO on a piece of paper and put on Charmaine's back. LOL that episode was good, and when it was revealed that Gina did it wasn't she put on academic probation? Dean Davenport then said: "If i tell you to jump you better say how high?!" I wouldn't have minded the new class but the male characters just weren't working for me. I loved Jennifer Lewis as Dean Davenport. I will always say that Dwayne and Whitley shouldve gotten their own show, and let Kim, Ron, and Freddie stay on A Different World and be that link that connected the past and present. It may have flopped just the same, but it was a worth a try.

That isn't the only example. Most of the time they portrayed whites as racist, ignorant, and evil which seemed to me as they were pushing an agenda that whites are horrible people with no respect for blacks. While I had no major problems with it, I just seemed like they were overdoing it. I enjoyed most of the episodes where they taught us a lesson, but the show got too preachy. In season 6 they dealt with the LA riots, the 92 election, Whitley working at a school with underpriviliged kids, Dwayne mentoring two gang members, Lena's friends visiting Hillman and accusing her of selling out, Terel bringing a gun to school after someone ran him and Charmaine down, Gina's abusive boyfriend returning, etc. It was just too much, but as a whole Season 6 is one of the better seasons. I think the only white people who weren't racist were Maggie and Freddie's cousin Matthew (?). I also liked that episode where Billy Dee Williams guest starred. It was at the end of season 6 so it was only a one time thing. It would have been cool if he had became a recurring character and was integrated into the Hillman campus as a professor or something.

I love that Mammy episode one of my favorites. The best scene is when she breaks down and told Mr. Gaines the whole story. This is also the episode where Whitley found out her family owned slaves. She tried to call one of the descendants of her familys slaves and they hung up.

I just rewatched the episodes where Dwayne and Whitley tell everyone about their honeymoon in LA during the riots and some of those comments were totally eyeroll worthy. Lena said something along the lines that the problem is white people who don't understand and dont want to understand blacks. And that black people should have their own nation. The show overdid it with the preachiness ESPECIALLY in season 6.

Jaleesa had the baby while the results from Byron's election were coming in. I loved that hurricane episode though and the ones where Phylicia Rashad guest starred.