Can we talk about the show Silver Spoons?

I love the episode where Ricky loses a bet to Derrick and he has to dress like a girl and then they fuck.

I loved the show as a boy, too and had several of my first masturbatory experiences thinking about Ricky and Jason Bateman. Now Rick looks like a catcher's mitt, but Jason Bateman became even more handsome as an adult man. I prided myself in dressing likd Ricky at the time. All those silly pastel and gray sweaters...

Don't forget the jelly bracelets R2!

And lest we forget, Derek was a young Jason Bateman.

Ricky Schroeder was totally my first and most intense prepubescent gayling crush at around 7-8 years old. So blonde, so adorable. I wanted to live in that mansion with him so badly but wouldn't fully understand why for a few more years. He matured nicely and I recall a few later season episodes where he wore nothing but a towel or a swimsuit and by then I had matured to the point of fully understanding why I liked it.

And funny you mention this now because I totally saw Joel Higgins (Mr. Stratton) on the street in NYC just the other day and was taken right back.

God I loved this show. It introduced me to Jason Bateman. I was about 2 years younger and lusted after all of them. I'm wondering if adults watched this stuff? Besides pedophiles

I had a crush on Erin Gray... She did not age well...

I loved Erin Grey and Joel Higgins too. WHET? And did they ever get together on the show? I'm surprised they didn't have a baby that magically aged 5 years. It's been so long since I've seen this. I loved Ricky's bitchy mom too. Who was that actress? It's been so long. Wasn't there a butler too? Was it John Houseman?

I love your post R4! I was the same age as Ricky Schroder and as he got older so did I and only then did the realization of why I was so intensely attracted to him dawn on me.

Ricky's mom was played by Christine Belford, who later played Rose Nylon's daughter on Golden Girls.

John Houseman played the Grandfather. I vividly remember the scene where they go deer hunting and Ricky is traumatized. There wasn't a butler, but there was a black assistant type who was around a lot and was kind of stuffy. Two different ones, if I recall correctly, and the second brought along his nephew Alfonso Ribeiro.

I seem to remember this coming on after Diff'rent Strokes. Or maybe right after Punky Brewster?

I watched the show religiously & also had a crush on Ricky...too bad he grew up to be a right-wing douche. Most of my memories of the show are for the music-related episodes - Alfonso pretending like he knew Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston serenading Dexter with "Savin' All My Love," Ricky lying heartbroken in his race-car bed listening to "Broken Wings" by Mr. Mister...

Rumor had it that the Ricker's stage mother had Jason Bateman fired. Too much cute, heartthrob competition for her son apparently.

[quote]I seem to remember this coming on after Diff'rent Strokes

I don't think that's accurate. Silver Spoons was on NBC, Diff'rent Strokes was on ABC. Unless you meant it just aired after Diff'Rent Strokes did.

I heard that too R12. TPTB claimed it was because Jason was getting his own show, but he only got he show after Mama Schroder had Jason bounced from SS. Apparently he was getting more fan mail than Ricky and that pissed Ricky off.

All I know is that Silver Spoons no longer get you automatically elected.

R13, Wrong...sort-of. Diff'rent Strokes was on NBC originally. They cancelled it and ABC picked it up for a season or maybe two.

Diff'rent Strokes switched networks and was originally on NBC. I just looked it up - in 82-83 Saturday night on NBC was DS at 8 and SS at 8:30. I would have indeed been 7-8.

It was Different Strokes, Silver Spoons and then Facts of Life. Later on it was Amen, 227 and Golden Girls after FoL. I loved them all.

Did Silver Spoons ever switch to Sunday nights?

[quote]Mama Schroder had Jason bounced from SS

If she had him bounced she sure took a long time to do it. He lasted two years!

Bateman was a scene stealer for sure. The biy had natural comedic timing, like Jonathan Taylor Thomas did later. Anyway, I was partial to Ricky's friend J.T. played by Bobby Fite.

I recall a scene where Ricky was on the phone with the leader of Russia and he ended the call with:

"Yuri, why don't you walk to the edge of a cliff....Andropov!"

The audience went wild. So weird, so 80s.

[quote] I love the episode where Ricky loses a bet to Derrick and he has to dress like a girl and then they fuck.

Yes. Isn't this the episode?

Erin Gray and Meredith Viera look like sisters.

It moved to Sundays at 7 (right before Punky Brewster) after two seasons.

Joel Higgins was a hot daddy.

God, Joel Higgins.

Growing up, my best friend's dad looked just like Joel. It was when Joel starred in the TV show "Best of the West". Dave (my friend) invited me to go skiing for school vacation week with his dad and his brother & brother's friend. Dave & I were in a bedroom that shared a bathroom with his dad's bedroom. It was a straight shot across, so we could see across the bathroom into his dad's bedroom. The first night, I see "Joel" get completely undressed and walk into the bathroom to brush his teeth. Completely. Naked. I was 13, so I got a lump in my throat and started sweating as I watched him. He was thin, muscular, cock was probably average, but flopped around as he walked and brushed his teeth. I said something stupid to my friend, like "Gee, Dave, your dad is naked." Over 30 years later, I remember his response "Yeah, he doesn't wear anything when he sleeps." I can't count the number of times I jacked off to that memory with that phrase in my head. (Nowadays a man would get reported for walking around naked in front of his son's friends.)

God, Joel Higgins.

I always thought Joel Higgins was gay since I first saw him on Search For Tomorrow.

Ricky's nose was always too small for him. One of the blacks guys died of AIDS, or was it both?

I liked that very special episode where young Ricky Stratton learned the fate of his runaway mother, Dorothy.

When they got rid of Bateman, they brought in Alfonso Ribeiro to be his new best friend. Remember when Alfonso's fussy bachelor uncle Dexter Stuffins, played by the late Franklyn Seales, fell hard for Whitney Houston and wanted to run off with her? He probably would've been a better match than Bobby Brown.

Remember when Ricky found a homeless family on his many acres living in a cave at Christmas?

I remember when RIcky stole the key to the cable box to watch dirty movies. The Ricker turned into The Jacker that night.

[quote]I recall a few later season episodes where he wore nothing but a towel or a swimsuit

Are they, um, showing syndicated repeats of this series anywhere?

Where did the show supposedly take place?

Connecticut I think.

I always imagined some tony suburb of NYC.

And nobody answered my question. Did adults watch this stuff?

Some adults did, R38.

I just got out of a relationship with a 39-year-old man with the mind of a 12-year-old boy (after a car accident and coma), and it made me think of this show and how many other shows have bizarre parallels to my own life. Joel Higgins was 39 when it started and Ricky was 12.

[quote] I always imagined some tony suburb of NYC.

I assumed they were on Long Island. They're too rich for Staten Island but that's where Ricky's accent comes from.

Gary Coleman played Arnold once, so they live in the same universe as the [italic]Diff'rent Strokes[/italic] characters (and by proxy [italic]The Facts of Life[/italic]) and [italic]Hello Larry[/italic] but none of them ever appear).

Can we talk about some of the silver spoons Whitney brought to the set? They weren't for stirring tea…

He went to my elementary school. Sand Shore in NJ.

Sounds like Jason Bateman on both SS and Valerie pissed off the leads when unwittingly he became more popular. He is a natural and it's easy to see why he's lasted so long.

[quote]Did adults watch this stuff?

This show changed the definition of adulthood. In 1982, the idea of video games in your home was absurd because they were as big as refrigerators and most played only one game. Now nearly every kid plays video games at home.

You just know JT grew up to throw a mean fuck... and then ended up on hard times, having to film scenes on Sean Cody.

Also in the early 80s the concept of a man child raising a kid was unique. Now manchildren are commonplace.

R46 I was in an antique mall this morning wandering around and I heard an adult male voice saying, "No you can't touch. These are daddy's toys and not for you." As I rounded the corner I saw a grown man with an arm full of still packaged GI Joe action figures and a very dejected looking kid of about 4 or 5 trailing behind him. What a fucking douchebag.

Ricky hated Jason more than Joyce hated Suzanne and that is saying a lot.

Interesting. They've both talked about each other in interviews:

GQ: Were you friendly during that period?

Jason Bateman: Very friendly. We hung out a lot. We’d ride our bikes around the lot for ercise, or fucking around, and we’d hold on to the back of one of those trams [gestures at a tram full of tourists on the tour], and we’d let the tram pull us along this route right here with the people in the back of the tram going, "Oooh, it’s those two kids from Silver Spoons!" We’d have the tram pull us all the way up to Jaws Lake, where we’d roll up our pants and wade in and net a bunch of goldfish and put ’em in a plastic bag to take back to Ricky’s fish tank in the schoolroom. He had a bunch of fish-eating fish, you know, like big fish that all they ate was fish? Eventually the tram people sent a letter to our parents saying, "Can you please have your kids stop wading in Jaws Lake? They’re ruining the effect. You know, ’cause people are supposed to be afraid of this great white shark—"

AVC: What was Jason Bateman like at that age?

RS: Jason was so talented, and he was part of the show from the very beginning. He was in the pilot, and they liked him so much that he went on to get his own spinoff. Jason was my only friend in L.A. because I was from New York and didn’t know anybody. So Jason and I were buddies, and unfortunately our friendship never kept up over the years, but I’m really happy when I see Jason’s success.

[quote]I just got out of a relationship with a 39-year-old man with the mind of a 12-year-old boy (after a car accident and coma)

Were you with him before or after the accident?

I'm surprised the remember their time on the show so fondly. I always figured they hated each other since Ricky never appeared on "Arrested Development" for a reunion.

Like other posters here, Ricky's developing teenage body was one of the joys of my own puberty.

Why don't they reunite? Other than Stuffins and Houseman, aren't they all still alive?

Here they all are "reunited" on The Today Show in 2013

R35, I believe the show took place in fictional Shallow Springs, New York, a town on Long Island. Sick sad me knew that from memory, but the link confirms my memory.

[quote]unfortunately our friendship never kept up over the years, but I’m really happy when I see Jason’s success.

Sounds like William Frawley trying to be nice, when he said, about Vivian Vance, "Not a nicer girl ever came out of Kansas, but sometimes I wished she'd go back there."

Ricky was also MY first crush. I have the super cool sneaker roller skates with the yellow wheels that Ricky wore. I bought them brand new on eBay a few years ago because when I was a kid my mom wouldn't buy them for me. I like to look at them and skate around the apt in them, but that's it.

Aside from also having a crush on Ricky I was--even at a young age--enthralled with his wardrobe. I couldn't imagine having so many different outfits. When I started my first job as a teen I became a serious clothes horse.

All my friends were obsessed with Ricky, but I had a thing for Dexter Stuffins (!)

It was all about that train. Without the train no one would have cared.

Hey bro, wassup?

Jesus, that whole show must have been Michael Jackson's wet dream come true.

I was a small child when that show was on tv. i wasn't into ricky schroder. i instead was whacking off to pierce brosnan on remington steele.

Train, schmain! I had a Victorian mansion full of secret passages AND Chad Allen. Top that bitch!

[quote]Top that bitch!

Are you implying you're a top, Webster?

As a gayling, I had a major thing for cute blonde boys.. so Ricky Shroder was the epitome of a "cute boy" to me. Webster's Dictionary should have put his face next to the word "cute" - that's how I used to think lol.

WEHT Leonard Lightfoot, the guy Franklyn Seales replaced? Any truth to the rumor he was fired for bringing a gun to the set?

I've never been into blond guys so Ricky never did much for me - until the last season or so of the show when he went through puberty and got a rocking bod. (We're the same age so chill out.)

Silver Spoons was all about the guest stars. Remember when Menudo (pre Ricky Martin) went on the show and performed their smash hit "Gotta Get On Moving".

Dance your cares away and get moving now!

Pearl Bailey guest starred and I think that they killed her character off.

I thought I had completely blocked out most memories of this show but every time someone mentions an episode or guest star I'm like, Oh yeah, I totally remember that!

No one has mentioned Ricky's nerdy friend Freddy yet. He looked like Froggy from the Little Rascals. For some reason I've always remembered his full name: Frederick March Lippencottleman.

As someone mentioned earlier, J.T. was very hot.

But I had masturbatory fantasies about Ricky and Derek also, of course.

I neve thought Ricky Schroder was cute as a kid but when he "grew up" he got hot.

They should have run one more season because then Ricky would have finally turned eighteen by that point. His daddy was no slouch in the looks department, either. And when Ricky's birth mother remarried, the fiancée was played by John Matuszak! Now I'm starting to wonder who gave HIV to Franklyn Seales!

The show must have really ceased to be a priority for what was left of Embassy under Coca-Cola after NBC threw it and [italic]Punky Brewster[/italic], whose taste in men I can find no fault with, on the sword for [italic]Our House[/italic], which took Chad Allen away from [italic]Webster[/italic] since regular roles pay better than recurring ones. NBC knew Disney, which had that same time slot for twenty years, was going to take much of those shows' audience away from them when it came back on ABC in 1986, so they cut their losses and let them live out the rest of their days in first-run syndication. Columbia got another two seasons out of [italic]Punky[/italic] for a total of four, but Embassy only gave this show another season before they let it end, since it had five seasons total, more than enough to syndicate. By the end of 1987, Embassy was folded into Columbia Pictures Television and ceased to exist as a production company.

Oh, how I love you, R57.

I want to live in the parallel universe where Rick is now a black man's snowbunny.

I always suspected that Chad Allen was supposed to be the new Ricky Schroeder... he just didn't have the IT that the Rickster had!

i wanted to fuck/suck ricky so bad.

Get in line, R78.

[quote] I always suspected that Chad Allen was supposed to be the new Ricky Schroeder... he just didn't have the IT that the Rickster had!

You mean a wife and four kids?

I think this show is a perfect example of how the 1980s were all about gimmicks--sitcoms, wrestling, music. You had to have some quirky gimmick to keep an audience amused like Webster and his house with secret passages and Ricky with his manchild father with a model train in the house.

[quote]You had to have some quirky gimmick to keep an audience amused

Or Cosby where black people weren't on welfare

Or gay characters who weren't flaming queens and didn't have AIDS

[quote] Or gay characters who weren't flaming queens and didn't have AIDS

Name one from a pre-1990 show other than [italic]Soap[italic]'s Jodie Dallas.

[/italic]Please.

Isn't Pricky Schroeder also a big old Mor(m)on?

R86, google "Mama Dragon."

Five'll get you ten many of you crying "pedo" over fond, nostalgic remembrances of childhood crushes are secretly counting the days until Nolan Gould turns 18.

Fuck Nolan Gould, I'm counting the days till Shawn Mendes turns 18!

[quote]Name one from a pre-1990 show other than Soap's Jodie Dallas.

Sidney Shorr from Love, Sidney!

Who's crying "pedo" on this thread? I haven't seen one post saying that.

Maybe I've finally blocked the right assholes? If so, yay!

Am I the only one who was around the same age as Ricky and his friends, but who found the father more attractive?

I mean, Ricky was cute, and Derek was adorable, but who wants a boy when there's a handsome man around?

God, I used to buff the muffin to Joel Higgins, Bob Crane, John Schneider and Tom Wopat, Christopher Reeve... *sigh*

Is your muffin male or female, r92?

[quote] Who's crying "pedo" on this thread? I haven't seen one post saying that.

R91, meet R5.

I guess in retrospect I can see that Joel Higgins was attractive but on the show he was so goofy and asexual I never gave him a second thought.

No pedo here, I was a year younger than Ricky. No interest in boys now whatsoever, I like older guys. And Ewww GROSS, Nolan Gould?!?!? Are you trying to make is sick? That kid is fugly as hell.

Silver Vibrator.

[quote]Is your muffin male or female, [R92]?

Female, obviously.

Don't you think I would've said "jack/jerk/beat off" instead, if I were male?

R94, the poster at R5 didn't "cry 'pedo'", they said the word in the context of asking if adults used to watch Silver Spoons when it initially aired.

Totally different from "crying 'pedo'".

Ricky is very conservative and religious. He just played Dolly Parton's father in Coat of Many Colours which had plenty of references to faith.

Linwood Boomer, who created [italic]Malcolm in the Middle[/italic], also wrote for this show.

Like The Greatest American Hero, Perfect Strangers, Angie and The Golden Girls, Silver Spoons' theme song was good enough be an 80s radio hit single.

[quote]The Golden Girls..........theme song was good enough be an 80s radio hit single.

You know that it was right (prior to being the GG Theme)?

They tried to make the Family Ties show theme a hit but it didn't work.

Well, OUR theme song could have been a Broadway musical number!

According to Sitcoms Online, LOGO just brought it back in reruns along with [italic]Gilligan's Island[/italic] of all things.

Queer we are,

Face to ass

Disgusted by tits and poons,

Hoping to find

Dick in my behind,

Then have a blow,

Making dick grow

Together

We’re gonna find we’re gay

Together

Taking a cock each day

To learn that we’re really

Gay and not just bi,

But better use some condoms

So we don’t die - e - e - e - e - e - e - e - e - e - e - e - e - e - e - e - e!

The woman had some big ones.

Hold me Derek, I'm scared.

Mm Jason Bateman -

I always felt bad that rick Schroeder had such bad acne. Too bad his parents didn't get him on accutane. I think his acne was why he disappeared for about 10 years.

I always love Ricky's chest. He had nice tits

The only episode I remember was where they went hunting and Ricky cried over shooting the deer.

I loathed that show. Utter crap.

r66, I am the same age too and I still have a major thing for cute blonde boys.

I am amazed Michael Jackson never got a hold of him. I suppose he was luckily too old by the time MJ was fooling the world as fucked or tried to fuck every cute young boy in show business.

As a kid, the “dine and dash” episode really freaked me out. I was so scared for Ricky, on the edge of my seat.

I’m way too much of a wuss to DnD.

Well, he certainly developed a very fine ass................ :13

R115: If MJ had his eye on any blond child actor it was probably Chad Allen, since he was on [italic]Webster[/italic] until they cancelled this show and [italic]Punky Brewster[/italic] for his show [italic]Our House[/italic] (and also because the Disney Sunday night show came back under new management and NBC could live with losing the adults to [italic]60 Minutes[/italic] that was going to split the kid audience in half) which in turn got cancelled when Disney moved back to NBC.

Ironically, it was this show and [italic]Diff'rent Strokes[/italic] that got Disney cancelled; NBC put them up against Disney when it was on CBS on Saturdays at 8 PM. Ironically, Ricky had been in a Disney movie called [italic]The Last Flight of Noah's Ark[/italic] with Elliott Gould, and also in this special that revealed both that Dana Plato could sing and that he couldn't:

I always hated that friend of Ricky that was supposed to be cool, he had a southern twang to his voice. And the Freddy the nerd was a complete waste of space.

[quote] I always hated that friend of Ricky that was supposed to be cool, he had a southern twang to his voice.

You mean J.T.? He was the one who actually was fooled by Ricky in drag in that one particular episode.

I hated the show and I despise Ricky Schroeder. This thread is creepy.

[quote] This thread is creepy.

THIS thread is creepy? [bold]THIS[/bold] thread is creepy? At least there's only one thread about it, unlike a certain movie out now distributed by the company that is successor-in-interest once removed to the company that produced this show. Said movie happens to be set when this show was on the air.

Anybody who finds Ricky hot before his voiced changed is a pedo. After this show went off the air, go for it.

I used to party hard with Ricky Schroeder. We snorted lots of coke together many many years ago. Never hooked up. We were more like brother and sister who liked the same drugs. That’s all I’ve got.

I’ve never watched Silver Spoons and I haven’t seen Ricky in decades. He was a really nice person to me, and he was pretty addicted and very lonely.

I’m doing really well and turned everything thing around, and hopefully he has too.

I love it when my old threads get bumped!

Ricky got divorced last year! After 24 years of marriage and 4 kids, maybe he's had all the pussy possible and is ready for dick.

No str8 man could cry like that. I never saw my father cry like that.

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Meanwhile, an actually gay black man was a co-star on the show. And he knew John Houseman from his days at Julliard, so that obviously helped him get cast.

When I saw the thread title, I immediately thought of my childhood best friend's dad, who looked like Joel Higgins, and who made me realize I was into guys. Then as I read through the thread, I see I already posted the story back at R27.

So much mastabatory fuel from that five minute experience...

You want to talk about gay male jealousy of heterosexual women, Erin Gray would be on the Top 10.

Franklyn Seales is gay R130? I have to say I honestly didn't know.

Was gay. He died of AIDS in 1990.

He was also in [italic]The Onion Fields[/italic] with James Woods.

r133

I'm sorry you lost your eyesight, but it's nice you found a way to participate in this forum despite that disability.

I remember watching as a kid when my religious, immigrant father passed by and started yelling about these young people kissing and going on dates and how immoral the show was. I knew then that our relationship was going to be hard.

On the other hand, he also hated Bill Cosby and made me turn off the tv when The Cosby Show was on. So maybe he could read some people.

I loved all the tween starlets that played Ricky's girlfriends like Christina Applegate, Tracy Wells, Robyn Lively, Sydney Penny, Amanda Peterson, Allison Smith, Shawnee Smith, Elizabeth Berkley, Erika Eleniak, and Martika as Kiki

I was too young for that r138 but I did play a girl who sexually harassed Wesley on Mr. Belvedere.

r139

Yeah right, like he's sexually harass a WOMAN.

No she harassed him r140, it was actually a good one.

Wesley was too busy getting his ass pumped by the camp counselor.

Rob Stone was on this show, too, on the episode that had Matthew Perry (whom even then and on [italic]Empty Nest[/italic] was a repellent toad) and Elizabeth Berkeley in it.

R142 i would of like to pump wesley when i was his age. As mr Belvedere was watching from the window

I thought Ricky topped Gary Coleman in the trailer when he guest star on one episode

There's already a [italic]Mr. Belvedere[/italic] thread here.

The jokes write themselves with this one.

Ricky couldn't play the bassoon because it reminded him too much of cock.

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R149 Robin looks like Cameron Bancroft, best known as Donna 's boyfriend Joe during season 6 of Beverly Hills 90210, in drag.

Google him!

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No

Such a great show.

Ricky just shot a deer!😣

Same age the RICKSTER but had the hots sooo bad for the dad - his butt in those chinos on that train. Cemented my love of rich older daddies that stays to this day!

What happened to Lenny Lightfoot?

COULD YOU NOT DO A SEARCH FIRST FOR THE PREVIOUS THREAD? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

I never got love in my childhood.

[quote]What happened to Lenny Lightfoot?

[italic]She’s the Sheriff[/italic] happened, that’s what.