Let's be "Living Single"

I’m Tootie’s weight, which changes more than the wigs she uses to hide her fat face and double chins.

I'm woo woo woo!

This show was full on lesbian

I'm Queen Latifah. I provide most of the lesbian undercurrent.

R4 That Maxime woman seemed like a full on dyke as well.

Im the SJWs claiming that FRIENDS ripped the show off dispite the fact even the creators admits she based this show off the Golden Girls.

I'm the mommy jeans

I’m the alien in outer space, with a good view of T.C. Carter’s flames 🔥

I'm the 90's kinda world.

I am the dancing lady silhouette with the Tootie hair in the opening.

All of the women were drooling over men nonstop.

Despite Latifah’s presence, it was nowhere near being a lesbian show.

We’re the 4 white people that watched the show.

I'm Overton's fine ass.......

I'm the cool theme song.

I'm Felice Schacter, happy Kim got another successful series. No, really. I am. I think it's JUST great.

I'm the recycled Family Matters bathroom set.

[quote]I’m the alien in outer space, with a good view of T.C. Carter’s flames 🔥

Did he ever come out? He played gay in an ensemble movie but last I saw he was mostly militant about how racism 'hurt' his career.

I'm Queen Latifah's rap in teh theme song (loved!)..... still wondering if she's doing the sung parts too? (Latifah can sing!)

I’m Bobby Bonilla, and I need change for the office toilet.

Whoops.

I'm the right shade of black.

R6: So what? Yvette Lee Bowser used the Golden Girls, and Friends used Living Single. One does not disprove the other, dear.

As an aside, I guess that makes Kyle the black Max Weinstock, since Max is Sophia...

TC Carter alluded to a male partner around the time he made that awful film about the guy who became a television news reporter.

I'm Kim Fields. I get the vanity "AND" billing this time around!

AND billing is so old hat, toots.

At least I didn't get cut from the Blossom pilot like you did, Barrie. You could've had a house in Brentwood instead of a shack in Valley Village.

I’m the grand mommy jeans on the men??

[quote]I’m the alien in outer space, with a good view of T.C. Carter’s flames

His name is CARSON.

You too, R17 and r23.

I sat in front of him at a VERY gay-themed play one time. He has such a sexy voice.

Loved this show!

I'm the alternating "Leads" in the opening credits..... (Queen Latifah/Kim ColesI)

R28

Thank you! Was wondering who the fuck these old queens were talking about. Googling T.C. Carter turned up some white kid who I know wasn't on Living Single.

Racism didn't hurt T.C. Carson's career, he either didn't have "it" for other roles, and or there just wasn't something out there that suited.

That being said 1990's was sort of a heyday for African American television programming (sitcoms mostly). Living Single, Martin, Hanging With Mr. Cooper....

I'm that Brooklyn brownstone duplex apartment with full kitchen and four bedrooms that rents for $4k-$6k per month today. Back in the 1990's you could have rented me for far less.

R5

That's Maxine "Max" Felice Shaw to you pal. I grew up in Mount Airy, PA so don't try anything....

R33

Sorry, wrong link.

Wasn't there some rumor that Erika Alexander's husband was running around on her and gave her HIV?

"Wasn't there some rumor that Erika Alexander's husband was running around on her and gave her HIV?"

You mean Cousin Pam? I tapped that.

I'm the impossible choice of who's more mentally challenged, Overton or Synclair.

I’m the Caesar haircut on the fierce dancer lady’s head in the opening sequence.

I'm The Golden Girls, which this sitcom was modeled after:

Kadijah/Dorothy

Sinclair/Rose

Regine/Blanche

Max/Sophia

[quote] That being said 1990's was sort of a heyday for African American television programming (sitcoms mostly). Living Single, Martin, Hanging With Mr. Cooper....

along with Family Matters, In Living Color, and A Different World.

The 1970s was sort of a heyday for good African American television programming - The Jeffersons, Good Times, What's Happening, Sanford & Son

The Jeffersons started off so strong, but eventually it degraded into a pedestrian sitcom. Near the end, the twenty year age difference between Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford was too obvious.

What killed the Jeffersons was the changing of George's character from loud mouth hot headed upstart to bumbling, foolish idiot. Though Florence's insults were very funny, they diminished the very essence of George Jefferson. Watch episodes from the first few seasons as well as the last few seasons for comparison.

[quote] That being said 1990's was sort of a heyday for African American television programming (sitcoms mostly). Living Single, Martin, Hanging With Mr. Cooper....

[quote] along with Family Matters, In Living Color, and A Different World.

And....Moesha, The Hughleys, Malcolm & Eddie, Parent 'Hood, In the House, Wayans Brothers Show, Jamie Foxx Show, Steve Harvey Show,

Don't forget "Homeboys in Outer Space" and "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer!"

[quote] AND billing is so old hat, toots. —Barrie Youngfellow

Sure, Barrie. I got mine. Are you jealous, or something?

R46 I loved Moesha and The Parkers as a kid. We know what became of Mo,nique and Brandy, but WHET Countess Vaughn? She had great comic timing!

I'm all the food Max ate.

R46 You forgot “Cops”

Honestly one of the best American sitcoms ever made. Have already rewatched seasons a few times since it came out on Hulu. LOVE every character.

R49

Countess Vaughn is another one whose acting career (if you could call it that" pretty much was over after after a television show. She's done some reality TV, but that's pretty much about all.

If you go down that list in R36 and look at ensemble casts, few if many did much afterwards. UPN network was responsible for a good part of television aimed at AA audiences back then, and it has gone away.

WEHT UPN television network.

I’m Flava magazine, which Oprah would later rip off as her own, the exception being that Oprah changed the flava to vanilla so she could get white folks money while she did a little coon dance for them each month.

r54 It merged with the WB to become The CW.

Kim Fields Story- I knew a guy who dated her in the mid 90s right at the end of LS. He worked in sports marketing in Atlanta. Nice, black brother with a deep voice. Anyway, she apparently was a wildcat in the sack, but very religious at the same time. He couldn’t cum on any part of her body and she would look away when he got off. She made them go to church each Sunday, then wanted him to fuck her in the backseat of her car down the street after services were over.

Apparently, Kim’s pussy really did stink a lot of the time they were together. You could smell it on him, his car, and in his house. He would laugh and say he didn’t mind, because she was that good in bed and gave head like no one he ever had been with. They broke up after a few months- mostly because he didn’t want more than what they had and she did.

R57 All pussy stinks though.

Just because the last pussy you were in little gay boy, didn’t smell so great, doesn’t mean all female clams smell bad.

R59 you have gotten so used to the rotting smell of yours..

All pussy does NOT stink! It's pussy being hit hard and often without the benefit of belonging to a woman fastidious in her feminine care that stinks! It should smell faintly like the ocean - just like fresh sea food - haha. I knew several women who took Zinc to help in that department.

Didn’t Kim have to pay alimony to her first husband?

Hot story, R57.

Ive tried to binge on it but find Synclair and Overton so annoying before too long that I want to scream. Both of them are portrayed as mildly challenged and gratingly cutesy. So offputting.

I'm the poster who always likes to pretend that Friends wasn't based on this show, but avoids the fact that the Friends creators initially wanted Nancy McKeon and Lisa Whelchel for roles.

Martin was way funnier than Living Single.

[quote]I'm the poster who always likes to pretend that Friends wasn't based on this show, but avoids the fact that the Friends creators initially wanted Nancy McKeon and Lisa Whelchel for roles.

How was Friends based on Living Single? As already stated, there are parallels between LS and Golden Girls ( you can match each character), and same with Sex and the City (Dorothy=Carrie, Blanche=Samantha, Rose=Charlotte, Miranda=Sophia).

Friends doesn't fit the model. It's 3 women and 3 men. Joey is kind of like Rose but not really. None are sexpots/man-crazy like Blanche/Regine/Samantha.

Don't get it