Bonnie Franklin does not mean as much to kids today as she did to those even a generation ago

huh?

Dammit, OP!

I think Bonnie is getting the recognition she deserves.

That is, none at all.

The dowdy intro is awful

I know she’s tapping in heaven right now...

She’s no longer a gypsy.

She was no Ann Miller, that's for sure.

Where was the glamour? Where was the mystique?

OP, get with it! The new crop of LGBTQIA kids are totes into Marilu Henner and TAXI!

They groove on Elaine Nardo's aspirational late-disco era New Yawk glamour stylings and camp bitchiness. They have all her better routines committed to memory and are doing Tik-Tok homage mash-ups even as I type.

“Hold me David, I’m scared!”

She’s wearing suspenders to keep her saggy tits from flopping around

This seriously cracked me up - good one, OP

If you truly loved her OP you’d buy this sweater.

Her costars remember her fondly.

R12 here she is wearing that sweater with no bra

She looked like Mason Reese.

Not a compliment.

Bonnie Franklin was one of the luckiest moderate talents in the history of show Biz.

Oooohhh myyyyy goodddd!

She did it for...applause, applause! Cavorting around the stage in her striped bell-bottoms!

(The pic OP used makes me LOL.)

SHUT your LYIN' hooker MOUTH. OP!

I was just thinking about this the other day when I was sitting on the toilet constipated.

How come the mushroom haircut never came back in?

Clearly, DL has not done enough. Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa.

r19 Hard to believe, but she got a Tony nomination for that travesty.

Well I never in all my life.

I'm a Gen X'er and Bonnie meant shit to me.

Joan Van Ark, however...

Its too stupid to even bother voting.

Bonnie Franklin means nothing to anyone with even minimal intelligence.

OP types OLD

R25 that photo of Bonnie rocking a Joe Dirt wig is epic

Hey OP, fuck you for the idiotic way you have of asking a poll question. It’s not even a question with all the added on info.

If Bonnie were here, she'd slap the hell out of OP.

Dammit DL!!!

No idea who that is.

Get out, r32.

Her show must’ve lasted nine years due to sheer force of will.

Is she like a Bonnie Raitt? Bonnie Hunt? Is there anyone under 50 named Bonnie?

Me!

Schneider, DAMMMIT!!

Julie, DAMMMIT!!!

Dammit!

She reakly set the stage for acceptance of divorced mothers from Logansport through her critical work.

Think of where we'd be without it.

This thread is a parody of that Beatles post/poll isn't it?

It's quite clever OP. Nicely done. Not sure how many others have picked it up.

The show sucked when it aired and it doesn’t wear well now.

She's no Linda Lavin.

The worst episode had to be the one where she turned thirty-six. It was obviously written as Emmy-bait; and her performance was hammy and contrived. The second consisted mostly of Ann giving an interminable monologue to the mirror, so lengthy it’s unimaginable today, while she had locked herself in her bedroom.

What is significant about 36 compared to 37 or 38? Seems random.

‘Over 35’ was considered more of a landmark term in the ‘70s.

Ah ok. It just seemed like a strange number.

I think Bonnie lost interest in ODAAT as it ran on. During the early seasons she was constantly haranguing the producers to write more dramatic Very Special Episodes for her; there were fewer of those in the later seasons.

Interestingly, many fans seem to enjoy the final season.

Is it normal for tap dancers to die before the age of 70?

She got pancreatic cancer. Which is a death sentence.

Her mother outlived her and died only a few years ago at 103.

She hated exercising (and wearing a bra) but loved to tap.

She was one of the most annoying actresses in television history. Why she got the lead in a sitcom, of all things, is bizarre.

You don’t think Linda Lavin was more annoying?

[quote] Her mother outlived her

As did her sister Connie.

Linda Lavin had a more annoying voice than Bonnie Franklin, certainly. But although the character of Alice Hyatt may have been a bit of a weenie, she was basically a nice person, and her character made sense. Ann Romano's character was deeply annoying, and she made no sense. Why was she so angry all the time and yelling at her daughters when it just made her relations with them worse? Why did she get a nice job in advertising with no background or skills, and yet never move out of that crappy apartment with the sleazy superintendent lingering around her teenage daughters all the time? Why did she take up all that space in the huge alcove with hanging plants? Why was she on a sitcom and yet never delivered a single joke?

The problems with ODAAT then and now begin and end with Norman Lear's closet misogyny.

OP, I find your notion bizarre and inconceivable.

OP. I am not sure if your post is the summary of a Phd Thesis or you need to go outside and talk a walk see the world outside of DL for at least a quarter of an hour.

Did Schneider ever diddle with either of the daughters or did he just use his pass key to come in while they were at school sniff their panties and wank off in their beds?

^^Probably both.

For r56 and r57:

I was the first to say "this is it!" They owe me royalties.

I wish Linda and Bonnie had performed together:. Linda Sings/Bonnie Taps. It would be an hour of show tunes with Linda at the piano - and a single spotlight with Bonnie tapping away to each song tediously sung by Ms Lavin.

Mary Louise Wilson hated ODAAT and Bonnie Franklin so much she asked to be released from her contract.

Linda coud turn "Tap Your Troubles Away" into a slow-paced torch song.

I think Bonnie cunted her off the show

Linda and Bonnie In an homage to Lady Day in:

Lady Taps The Blues

I'd rather take my chances with either of them than sit through anything Judith Light is in. Talk about overrated.

Thanks to DL, "fried egg titties" entered my vocabulary.

We just want to clarify that our product does not smell like her when not washed.

Her middle name was Gail.

R60, yes, I know. I thought my reaction was over-the-top enough to make it clear that I was playing along with the joke.

[quote]Why was she so angry all the time and yelling at her daughters when it just made her relations with them worse?

DAMNIT R54!!! I'M THIRTY FIVE YEARS OLD AND DIVORCED WITH TWO DAUGHTERS!!! DAMNIT!!!

Bonnie does Shirley Valentine!

In a British/Irish accent!

It's a shame she didn't do more theater.

Bonnie was one of the most wannabe triple threats ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good 'dammit!', which is hard to encounter in Hollywood. At a time when gay people were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with her struggles and she theirs.

I often remember Bonnie as the poor man's me. Of course, for many reasons I am in a position to do that, not least of which is that I'm alive.

I love R3

[quote] How come the mushroom haircut never came back in?

The only reason it was the thing was because the recession made haircuts more expensive along with everything else.

[quote] Hey OP, fuck you for the idiotic way you have of asking a poll question. It’s not even a question with all the added on info.

This was a parody of another post from the time this was first posted, you blithering gormless idiot. It was obviously not meant to be a real poll.

She didn’t mean a thing to me. Then, or now.

This is the original thread this thread parodied.

Look at the wording of the poll question.

She means much more to me than the eternally overrated Judith Lightweight.

Even as I was cracking up at this post, which for some reason I missed last year, I knew this had to be a parody of something, so thanks to R40, R78, R80 and everyone else. I do recall the original, but the parody is hilarious.

So long as she didn't sing, I could tolerate her.

OP, I would love if you started more threads.

We all aspired to be Ann Romano, back in that golden age. Some gaylings even got the mushroom head.

Nancy Dussault stole her thunder.

Mrs. Garrett was a better role model. At least she wasn't in a state of blind rage all the time.

A gift for you

Did she ever mean much?

How was Hal in The Rothschilds?

After Bonnie's performance of Applause on the Tonys, didn't most Americans forget the Beatles and became rabid Bonnie Franklin fans?

It is a good thing DLers have such great memories

I think most Millenials and Gen Z are aware of ODAAT.

I remember reading an interview with Norman Lear shortly after Franklin passed away. He said back in 1977, he had written a script that had 'Ann Romano' alone in her apartment, ready to go to a 36th birthday party being given for her at a restaurant by her daughters, when a rapist breaks into the apartment and attempts to rape her. It was to be a two-part episode and in the second episode she manages to escape him unharmed. Franklin loved the idea - thought it would be perfect for her character and really tell a story to the fans of the show.

At the same time, he wrote a script for Edith Bunker's 50th birthday, where Edith locks herself in her bedroom and doesn't want to come out to the party her daughter and son-in-law are having for her - contemplating on what she had done in her life for the past 50 years, and what the future held for her now that she was an 'old lady'.

Somewhere along the lines, before production started on the episodes, it was suggested the scripts get switched - ODAT would have the birthday girl locked in her room, and AITF would have the attempted rape. The idea was that fans would be more disturbed yet have more compassion for the sweet 'Edith Bunker' than 'Ann Romano'. Not sure who suggested the switch (he never said) but it seemed to work out for the best.

I was born in 69 and she held no interest among anyone I knew. The show had some fans but no one ever singled her out. It was all about Valerie Bertanelli.

Yeah she was made out to be some big feminist hero. She was ok.

In 1980 the only name bigger than Bonnie Franklin was Terri Gibbs.

Kathleen Beller was a huge star, too !

I'm Gen X and was 7 years old when the show debuted. We watched the show more for the characters of Julie and Barbara. Most kids I knew could not stand Bonnie Franklin as Ann Romano. We'd always laugh that they tried to present Ann as some sexy lady and Julie as some hot teen when Valerie Bertinelli was the only attractive woman on the show. I watched an old episode a few months ago and had the same reaction.

The few times I watched ODAAT, the superintendent character played by Pat Harrington, always tapped danced on my last nerve.

Bonnie got to kiss a lot of guest stars. Bonnie got to slap a lot of people. She lived a full life.

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