Does anyone remember that little minx Kathy from Diff'rent Strokes

"I'm handi-CAPABLE, turkey!"

R2 in the position in OP's pic, she definitely looks like she could be served on a Thanksgiving table.

One word, OP...karma.

Look out, OP! You may be in trouble because of r5's vague threats of powers of magical thinking!

I heard one Thanksgiving, Nedra Volz stuck her head up Kathy's ass and wore her like a pilgrim diorama.

I remember thinking she was a rude handicapped cunt.

She later changed her name to Eric and was a regular Howard Stern caller.

At least she realized early on she would never get any dick and dressed appropriately in lesbian garb and mannish glasses.

'70s dykes would eat anything.

Is she dead?

I dunno, R11. Dropkick her and see if she makes noise.

My favorite episode was "Balcony Party". After enjoying way too much champagne, Willis and Mr Drummond spit-roast Kathy on the balcony. While dusting the curtains, Pearl sees the action and "accidentally" walks in to eagerly finish Willis off.

Conrad Bain used to spin her on his dick while he was in the makeup chair. One day as a practical joke, they replaced her with a broasted chicken from craft services and it took him 10 minutes to notice.

From which movie or show is the video at R4?

“ She’s Now 55 Years Old and the Founder/Executive Director of Train Rite, an Organization that Trains Shelter Dogs to Serve the Disabled.”

She pretty much looks the same then as now. Cripple don’t ripple!

What a whore.

R16 Good for her!

I didn't think they lived that long.

She’s not disabled, she’s empowered!

And speaking of living long, I am just checking out the cast of Night Court. Four of them are dead already with only John Larroquette and Marsha Warfield left. Died between the ages of 65-80, from 2018-2023.

I'm still here.

little minx

LMAO

Who is E Folley?

Nedra Volz used to give Todd Bridges blowjobs in his dressing room.

Op is a horrible individual

Come on!

Hop Tap! Hop Tap!

Hop Tippy-Tap Hop!!!

Regarding longevity:

She’s outlived the entire original main cast except Todd Bridges - and in the ensuing years , Mary Jo Catlett (already reverentially saluted at r13) and that hideous leprechaun who played Sam when the show was in its death throes after Gary Coleman had turned into an awkward teenager ill-suited to the cutesy catch phrases that made him a star. Recurring best friend and nearly molested (crow away, Lorna!) Dudley (Shavar Ross) is still with us.

It sounds as if minx Melanie has led a happy and purposeful life well beyond entertainment.

[quote] I didn't think they lived that long.

Is this the future for Alec and Caleb from the Shriners’ ads?

The costume department always dressed her as a goblin for the Halloween episodes.

R31 they had to pretty her up to get to goblin.

A lot of sick people on this thread.

R15, it’s a clip from Mac and Me, a low-rent ET ripoff.

Paul Rudd spent a quarter of a century trolling Conan O’Brien with it, always claiming to have clip from whatever project he was promoting, only to spring the wheelchair-cliff scene. It was gold every time. Here’s the final one. There’s a long, elaborate setup to make the sting work.

Yeah, r33. Ain't it great?

Bitch lost the 2016 election and was disqualified for some reason in 2020. She obviously is a triathlete trying to stay on the "dole."

R35 It is awful and depraved.

Thank you, R34.

R37. Yet you called many people bitches and told them to "fuck off" in numerous other threads. Isn't that awful?

Her mouth looks awfully inviting!

Good thing Kathy never went into horny old Gordon Jump's bike shop.

Kathy's bike didn't have the right parts, if you catch my drift.

I can't remember, did Mr. Dudley actually succeed in sucking off Willis or did the cops get to the bike shop in the nick of time?

R43. Dudley was Arnold's friend.

The bike shop owner was Mr. Horton, or as he was known around the neighborhood "Horny Horton."

Dudley was drunk and probably molested, as his shirt was off.

Poor Dudley!

Molested by the bike shop owner then nearly offed by a faux Jason Voorhees!

Where did casting find all the deformed people for this show?

I guess it’s good she’s not dead

When Helen Lawson guest starred on Diff'rent Strokes she bellowed to the writers "I'm not doing any scenes with that little crippled dwarf!"

I remember her character. A quick search reveals training shelter dogs for the disabled in Carlsbad, CA. Move to Colorado Springs. Failed Colorado Senate run. Now a new business training shelter dogs for the disabled.

Wait, is she the only Diff'rent Strokes person alive?

R52, see R29.

OP replies to herself a lot

[quote] A lot of sick people on this thread.—HolierThanThou

And yet you snort meth on the regular and lie all the time about being black. Go figure.

She trains shelter dogs? Do they throw her into a field and see if the dogs can find her and carry her back in their mouths?

[quote] OP replies to herself a lot

No, shithead, it's called participating in the conversation, like normal people do. Show me where I've responded to myself?

r56 you're an evil bitch and I love you.

Wasn’t she in “A League of Their Own?” I swear she played the part of second base.

Yes. They put her in a box and sang "This Used to Be My Playground" to her on her birthday.

R59. Nah, she played Geena Davis' catcher's mask.

I was just watching a DS repeat with her the other day on the Grio. Arnold was feeling sorry for himself because he was not going to grow much more, so Kathy wheels in and basically tells him bitch look what I have to contend with every day. So stop feeling for yourself. You’ve got money and opportunity out the ass so stfu. Glad she’s had a good life. Ironically better than the child actors on the show.

And then Arnold put her in a shallow pot in the oven on 450 for an hour, and everyone had roast Kathy for dinner.

R63 it wasn't that hard to truss her legs what with them all bent like a pair of crazy straws.

R64. Not a lot of meat though on those drumsticks...

You save those and make stock for winter soup R65.

This thread is the definition of demented.

[quote] This thread is the definition of demented.

For which I am very thankful.

R67. Thank God! Who knew something so repulsive could illicit such joy!

OP’s post made me laugh and hate myself at the same time.

Oh change your tampons you pearl clutching cunts

They were going to do a Kathy spinoff, ‘I Dream of Kathy.’ It was basically ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ with Kathy cast as a sassy, handicapped genie living with Shirley Hemphill

R72. But I heard the show, much like Kathy, couldn't "get off the ground."

And the best thing was- they didn't have to build a life-sized bottle. She fit in a 2-liter Mr. Pibb.

Kathy....I got your number, hussy!

When Nancy Reagan guest starred on Diff'rent Strokes she side-eyed Kathy and said to Dana Plato "is that one of those Cabbage Patch Dolls that are so popular with you kids right now?"

Dana, woozy from having just done an eight ball in the ladies' room, could only nod her head and wipe the drool from her chin.

R76. The Drummonds had the UGLIEST living room set on television. Definitely not Home Show quality material.

It was scotch guarded. Kathy could not control her flow once the curse arrived.

R78. That chair looked like a red chocolate fondue fountain

Paul Rudd looked hot in that tuxedo.

Todd Bridges is still alive.

Kathy couldn’t do stand-up!

This thread has me in stitches

This is the epi-tome of DL. No finer work has been done anywhere. You can’t find this anywhere else or I don’t know.

Missing a foot?

It's under her right one in your pic OP.

Who's the dumb one now?

As a child I vividly remembered the episode where she was made hall monitor for her and Arnold's school.

She was drunk on power and quite the hardnosed bitch writing everyone demerits with reckless abandon.

That episode really stuck with me so much that as an adult I have always denied any handicapped employee a position of power in the workplace. Kathy proved they cannot be trusted and will become quite the tyrant with a chip on their shoulder due to their inadequacies and limitations.

At the end-of-the-season cast picnic, she ran the three-legged race all on her own. It was quite moving when she crawled across the finish line 2 days later.

We called her Bob

r84 One mustn't hyphenate epitome in that manner.

R76 that's a weird-ass pic, lol.

Not to hijack the thread, but RIP Dana Plato. Although obviously fucked up, she always came across as a very sweet person in interviews.

Between this thread and the Facts of Life one it's been a glorious month at the DL

It seems like Dif’RUNT (ha) Strokes was rerun 24 hours a day. This show just ran and ran on every independent station non-stop through about 1990.

Kathy needs a comeback. Are they still producing Ice Road Truckers?

Why were those kids always getting kidnapped, or molested, or held hostage? Why didn’t that Drummond asshole hire bodyguards for the midget and his drug addict siblings?

Yes, the kids were always having bad shit happen to them. Wasn't there an episode where Kimberly almost became a prostitiute or was that one of the Facts Of Life girls?

Was anyone else here stressed and frustrated when no one aside from Big Bird could see Mr. Snuffleupagus?

^^^It was a source of anxiety for me as a child^^^ No one believed Big Bird that Snuffy was real, and looking back i think I identified with him and those overwhelming feelings of knowing when adults were patronizing and belittling me.

Few people are aware but after her run on Different Strokes Melanie really got to stretch her talent in her star turn as Jambi the Genie on Pee-Wes’s Playhouse

[quote] really got to stretch her talent

Apparently that's the only thing about her that stretched.

Mary Jo Catlett used to get Kathy drunk on the cooking sherry and would laugh and laugh.

If I remember correctly, the premise of Nancy Reagan’s guest appearance was she was friendly with Pearl the maid, who worked as a housekeeper at the White House.

Like that old cocksucker would fraternize with the help.

R99. She would laugh as she basted her in the roasting pan.

I love that you all are carrying this thread forward in the spirit I intended it.

Which was that Kathy was the female (barely) version of Belial from Basket Case with an even cuntier chip on her shoulder and should be remembered and characterized as such.

Thank you.

Show off!

The hardest part about eating a vegetable?

The wheelchair!

R104. Cousin Geri? Is that you?