The 80s - Diff'rent Strokes #3 - "The world don't move to the beat of just one drum...." - Page 3

**Barrybgb** · 04-28-2018, 06:28 AM

To which Arnold replied, "That's okay. He's never seen a rich white man before."

**Melis** · 04-28-2018, 02:50 PM

You wouldn't have that on TV now.

**Barrybgb** · 04-29-2018, 06:58 AM

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You wouldn't have that on TV now.

Have you ever seen "Black*ish"? I wouldn't be surprised if they ever said something like that. It's a very good show that goes on hard topics a lot.

**Melis** · 04-29-2018, 09:19 AM

No, I don't watch it.

**Barrybgb** · 04-30-2018, 08:10 AM

**Melis** · 04-30-2018, 06:11 PM

Oh, I bet that was scary for the kids.

**Barrybgb** · 05-01-2018, 08:20 AM

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Oh, I bet that was scary for the kids.

I am sure. For one thing, they have the date wrong. It aired in December of 1980. Anyways, they were supposed to be going to Disney World when it occurred. Mr. D had amnesia as a result of it. If he couldn't recover his memory, he could lose his assets and custody of the children. They try to help him. He begins to remember about Kimberly, but not the boys. Of course, it comes back.

reason to believe · 05-01-2018, 12:29 PM

I watched an episode the other day where Mr. Drummond asked Arnold how old he was since sleeping in his bedroom and Arnold said he was 6

so his character was 6 yrs old? I though he was older cause Gary himself was about 10 when it started, I didn't know he was playing that much younger. That meant when he was 15 on the show, he was playing Arnold as a 9 yr old?

**Melis** · 05-01-2018, 05:41 PM

Of course it came back. Always in sitcoms

I didn't know either.

**Barrybgb** · 05-02-2018, 07:13 AM

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I watched an episode the other day where Mr. Drummond asked Arnold how old he was since sleeping in his bedroom and Arnold said he was 6

so his character was 6 yrs old? I though he was older cause Gary himself was about 10 when it started, I didn't know he was playing that much younger. That meant when he was 15 on the show, he was playing Arnold as a 9 yr old?

Are you sure he said 6? According to Wikipedia, the Arnold Jackson character was born in 1970. The show premiered in 1978. So, the character would of been 8 when the show started. Gary Coleman himself was born in 1968, so he was two years older in real life than his character.