What was Edna Garrett's greatest challenge?

Beauty.

Learning that women's hairstyles had progressed beyond the Edwardian period.

That bouffant was a major major achievement!

Keeping Jo from touching Tootie’s titties.

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Who is this cow?!

Controlling her massive tits, and keeping them from swinging around, knocking over small children.

Her 18 hour bra only lasted for 20 minutes.

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Joan Collins........everyone knows she’s a bitch! lol

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That her parents actually named her sister Beverly Ann, and that STILL was a better first name than her own.

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Being Mr. Drummond's Indentured Sex Servant for years.

Transitioning from a pastry shop to Edna's Edibles dispensary.

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Eiffel Towering with Arnold and Willis.

R15, actually it could have happened regardless if those orphans were around or not.

Getting a cupcake to the dining room. (She’d eat them herself in the kitchen!)

I imagine Mrs. Garrett had a hard time keeping enough Aqua Net on hand to maintain that giant hairdo!

"Beverly Ann's scheming destroyed any chance of happiness I had as a child or adult."

trying to control herself with blair's stripper boyfriend CLIff and then the other male strippers at the club jo and blair took her to see for her birthday...

at least ole Edna DID kiss CLIFF ON THE LIPS?! earlier! (seriously what was up with that?!)..

Edna was a trail-blazing cougar.

R4, "Touching Tootie’s Titties" is my new favorite fantasy indie band hit song! Always played in tandem with "Gotta Get Over Greta" by The Nields.

Planning Mrs. Parker's birthday dinner EVERY year.

Having the talk with Andy after catching him in the stock room of “Over Our Heads” sniffing a pair of George’s used underwear.

The time she had to switch from Aqua Net to White Rain. That could have been "A Very Special Episode."

Making sure her cunt was throughly scrubbed and clean.

Making those peanut butter croissants her son loved so much!

KEEPING THE BEES OUT of that piled up conical shaped hive.

Morphing from a maid in Manhattan into aprofessional dietician and then business owner, all the while keeping four girls hostage as her unpaid workers for years.

Her head looks like an inflated bag of jiffy pop.

…she never lived long enough to open an eponymous dispensary with all the aptly named strains.

Dealing with the guilt of abandoning her infant daughter Kelly at an orphanage in the spring of 1947!😢😢😢

Convincing Eastland to keep The Girls as indentured servants long after their debts (totaled van and later remodeled room) had been paid off.

Her gambling husband.

Beverly Ann Stickle was a much better human being.

Trying to get Cousin Geri to keep her knickers on.

Explaining to the girls why George will most likely be a confirmed bachelor.

Letting Mr Drummond hit it from behind while she hand washed the dishes. He always wanted it while she did the dishes!

Trying to stop Jo from hitting Blair with a wrench.

Trying to keep a straight face and not bust out laughing when Tootie was promoted to be the next supermodel.

[quote] Trying to keep a straight face and not bust out laughing when Tootie was promoted to be the next supermodel.

Ironically that’s the only time I WAS able to keep a straight face and not bust out laughing!

Keeping cousin Jeri from diddling Jo.

Yeast.

The fact that she’s a fictional character.

Restauratrice. Not restaurateuse. Restaurant is a French word OP.

Trying to get Jo out of her Field Hockey gear and into a frilly flowery Laura Ashley date nite ensemble

[quote]What was Edna Garrett's greatest challenge?

Fleet Week.

The penis envy inherent in systemic Lesbianism

Hitting that high note in "Oh Holy Night" during the prison Christmas show.

Mrs Garrett definitely seems to have had a challenge with keeping her hair a consistent colour. It's baffling to binge the show (which I did in quarantine) and see the drastic changes in the red hue from one ep to the next. It would go from Ronald McDonald red one ep, to the next ep being almost a tangerine colour. I guess the Eastland pharmacy didn't have a wide selection of henna products for her to choose from.

I think hair & makeup was the better part of her day

Keeping her snatch clean. She couldn’t reach down to clean it.

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Hiding Jimmy Hoffa under all that hair.

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Because of this thread, I watched the S5 premiere ep on PlutoTV...they definitely must've gotten new writers for the new season, as it's very much a dramedy with the girls (girls, girls!) and Mrs. G herself. I'll have to remind myself by continuing to watch, but I believe she's about to leave Eastland and open Edna's Edibles.

Trying to not scream at Natalie for breaking before she finished delivering the punch line.

Cousin Jeri licked Jo’s snatch and fingered her.

Cleaning up all the cum rags hidden under Jo’s bed.

Luring Miss Mahoney to her untimely death in the fall of 1979.

One less competitor for Mr. Bradley’s affection...and his thick uncut cock!

There's a place you gotta go for learnin' all you oughta know about the FACTS OF DEATH, bitch!

Eddie thought Jo looked real classy.

Keeping Mr. Bradley from impregnating Blair... again.

Too late! Blair’s in trubbb-llle!

Her biggest challenge was hiding Jo's trans status.

Her biggest challenge was concocting the scheme to cover up Kim, I mean Tootie's pregnancy.

Very clever of her to come up with the, "baby sister," angle!

Dealing with Tootie's excruciating boob pain — first, as they came in, then as carting around those DDs every day destroyed her back.

They all had huge knockers. The set was half tit meat.

Yeah, but Kim's took up half the set...

But that's what happens when you're a teen mom!

Dealing with lezzy Cousin Jeri and her desire to eat out Jo’s snatch.

Losing weight. Dietician, my ass.

Not warning Natalie that Chaplin drag is a rape magnet.

She had to be a BDSM sub for Mr. Parker — anal included.

No one with her girth would have been hired as a dietitian.

Especially in evidence of how fat her four charges got in the space of two years.

Thanks for giving us 100 episodes, for no reason other than TV sucked at that point!

Clearly, her biggest challenge was deciding on a weight and hair color.

They were all over the place during her time on the series.

Her best look was the massive weight loss and dark-red dye job of Season 3:

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Keeping Jo out of Natalie’s Banana Nut Bush City Limits

R51 so funny and so true — you also notice it big time in the OOH era opening credits when they flash back to all the seasons for each cast member.

R65 I just noticed that says episode 9 and it aired in May? How bizarre. Was there sort of season 1 hiatus?

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Coming to terms with what the fuck was on her head

I think that squirrels lived on her head.

Tootie was desperate to go to the Jermaine Jackson concert in NYC. Mrs. G had no choice other than to cancel scheduled extra curricular activity and accompany Toots to the show. Tootie was shittin’ bricks!

speaking of mr. bradley from season 1 i always thought the character (and the actor?) came off as snarky effeminate FOP!....

in my mind, he really had the hots for blair's gorgeous feathered blond hair hunky boyfriend in snug t-shirt and even more snug blue jeans, the actor/male model greg bradford! yummy he was!...

[quote] [R65] I just noticed that says episode 9 and it aired in May? How bizarre. Was there sort of season 1 hiatus?

No, FoL was a summer replacement in its first season and premiered in the late summer of '79 for about a month before the '79-80 season launched. It was then brought back in the Spring of 1980 as a mid-season replacement. I don't understand the strategy, because when they brought it back in Spring of 1980, it still had all the girls on it. It didn't get re-tooled until its 80-81 season.

Convincing George to drop his "You know what I mean" catchphrase.

Mrs G’s dirty clam bar kept getting shut down for health violations

I have no idea why I started that with "No..." when I totally confirmed your speculation was correct, R79. Whoops.

Did Greg Bradford do porn after his Facts of Life appearances?

Hey boys!

Not giving side eye to the “boys” from nearby Bates Academy who clearly looked to be at least in their 20s.

Making Chester Tate forget about his ex-wife Jessica....and her big boobies!

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Bridesmaids Jo and Natalie are clearly undressing each other with their eyes and very much looking forward to the post-wedding scissoring session. Was Geri not invited?

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My sister had to deal with a bunch of teenage girls? Big deal.

Trying raising a teenage BOY with his constant erections. And dried semen in every nook and cranny!

Maybe it was "her" refusal to recognize the inherent TERFery of telling tomboys that they're not actually boys.

Or was it "her" refusal to help Nat treat his gender dysphoria after coming out as a man in the Halloween episode and being subject to a transphobic attack?

Or was it "her" refusal to tell Cousin Jerry that lesbians are actually men?

Either way, it all impacted Blair (which is a man's name, as Blair Underwood proved) as in the last episode "she" took over Eastland and let boys in because of a transgirl named Eve. That was her saying the quiet part out loud: there are no non-men so you might as well let cismen in with the transmen.

This show is racist transphobic TERF propaganda. Just as all Disney movies without Julie Andrews have failed the test of time miserably, absolutely everything from Embassy Television has also failed the test of time miserably with the exception of [italic]Who's The Boss[/italic].