I always laughed about the last episode having the host of Supermarket Sweep as a doggie minister.

There was something touching about the show, I will admit. I feel that way about a lot of 80s sitcoms. Aside from Roseanne I never felt that in any 90s sitcoms, they just feel plastic.

Punky Brewster . . . the show where my aunt picked out my name. From the dog of course.

I lived for this show. Adore it. My childhood.

I watched that growing up too and the cartoon. The NBC channel was nice enough to show the cartoon around lunchtime on Saturdays so I could sleep in

I am in the same age group as Soleil Moon Frye so I was watching Punky Brewster. A few years ago, I Soleil and Cheri Johnson remain close friends. Very cool to realize this.

I never understood why she wasn't interviewed for any of the DVD bonus features. She has ALWAYS seemed willing to talk about the show and loves her fans. Cherie and Ami did for the first season, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Rfb2392As

I watched as well in the 80s.....the show was very corny...lol....

I watched the cartoon too, singing the theme song in my head as I type. "Glomer!"

Do you all remember the episode where they imagined what they would be like when they were old and they all had on crap '80s old-age makeup (except for Margo who hadn't aged a bit)? The Facts of Life and Full House did similar "when we are old" episodes.

For some reason, we had 3 random Punky Brewster episodes on tape that my sister and I would watch a lot. One was I think the 2nd episode of a 2-parter story where Punky was taken away from Henry and went to live with a snooty rich family where the wife was stuck up and ran the house while her subservient husband begrudgingly went along with everything she did... until the very end when he finally stood up to her and let Punky return to Henry and divorced the wife.

We also had a Halloween episode where they do a shaving-cream-in-a-bag-under-the-door trick to an old lady living in their apartment complex that they believed to be a witch. Punky got caught, Brandon the dog ended up in the old lady's apartment, and she had to retrieve him with... Mike (was that T K Carter's character's name?) they ended up making friends with the woman after she fell and broke her hip.

And another one was where Punky somehow tracked down Mike's biological mother by accident. It was actually pretty well acted when Mike and the mom reunited in his classroom.

Random memories. That's basically all the episodes I remember other than one where Cherry gets stuck and almost suffocates in an old abandoned refrigerator. haha.

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The one that made me upset as a kid was when Brandon was sick/injured and they didn't know if he would live. What really got me was the older black lady at the vet's office who was there with her own dog. Her dog doesn't make it and she breaks down. I guess my mother saw the look on my face and reminded me that this was "just a show". Years later, I saw that episode again and realized the actress was Beah Richards who has choked me up on more than one occasion in her television appearances.

I was thinking about this episode the other night.

How did the show end? Did Punky's mom ever return?

OMG, remember the episode with the female janitor at school whom all the students made fun of? I remember she collected stickers.

One scene from this show that has always stuck out in my mind, when Brandon got hurt and she's crying to him "Brandon WAKEUP!!" that always got to me

OMG, I'm having flashbacks. Remember this one:

"I must, I must, I must increase my bust. A bust, a bust, a bust is just a must."

I was thinking about this episode the other night.

How did the show end? Did Punky's mom ever return?

The last episode was the dog marrying another dog.

"Every time I turn around. Her spirit's lifting me right off the ground. What's gonna be ? Guess we'll just wait and see."