Joanna Kearns also played in the mimseries "V" as the lead's ex wife Also Fun fact: Robert England got famous for his role in "V" , he play Freddy Krueger a year later
FYI… Tracey Golds sister is Missy Gold from Benson. Alan Thicke is the father of Robin thicke Alan Thicke did alot of songs in the 80’s… one of them was Different Strokes!
@@Maki-00 Oh I knew it cause my aunt told me when I was kid I was shocked and went "Dr Seaver can sing" 😂 His wife Robin's mom also sang "The facts of life" intro Both Alan and his wife are great composers and wrote many intros to tv shows
even not knowing what we know now. you could tell tracey gold was going through something as she got super skinny. the jokes were obvious a contributing factor. mike would call her fat and a pig throughout the series and tracey was by no means overweight. that had to mess with her mentally.
She actually admitted that she was dealing with anorexia at the time. I'm sure Kirt Cameron felt bad because his character often made fun of her in the earlier seasons.
Yes! It was called For the love of Nancy, I remember my health teacher in high school who used to tape lifetime movies for us to watch so he could go to the fieldhouse (he was a coach and also assistant principal) showed us this one. it was heartbreaking. I remember some behind the scenes commentary by Tracey where she talked about giving a lot of input into her behavior with body checking and her mental state then that they used in the film & how she felt it was important to do the film if it meant others could possibly be helped and that is was somewhat healing to confront her struggles head on by doing this film. It had to be very triggering. @@melissacooper8724
I went to school with a kid whose last name is Bone and we called him "Boner" until he realized what it meant. Then he just wanted to be called "Bone." That wasn't much better. 😅 We also had some students whose last name is Peede. So it was like Ryan Peede. One of the teachers where I lived once was called Gay Burnette 😅
The chokehold this show had on me as a child! That's really sad aout Tracy. I knew she'd had anoxeria IRL, but didn't remember the jokes in universe. I knew Kirk was a Christian, but I did not know he was this ridiculous and delusional. Jesus sat with the tax collectors and prostitutes. He didn't judge anyone's past
Go back and watch, mike would call her a gross fat pig throughout the series. yes she’s an actor and they are just lines. BUT SHE WAS A TEENAGER!!! That definitely messed with her head
Yeah she wasn't fat and she was very pretty. I always took it as just siblings teasing each other. Had no idea about her prior history of having an eating disorder.
Just the Ten of Us was an awesome show. It was in the top 10 in the ratings, but ABC couldn't find a spot on their schedule for it after the third season so it went away. It was actually never even officially cancelled.
@@joseph-dg1hg there were repeated fat jokes about Carol Seaver (Tracey's character) in the scripts, which indirectly affected and possibly led Tracey's struggle with anorexia. She managed to overcome it, thankfully.
@@kerry-j4mSpeaking of Head Of The Class, a subject on the show's breakout star Robin Givens would also be a good episode for Juicy Pop. And we could ask the question: Was she really considered a gold digger when she married Mike Tyson or was the media too hard on her?
@@donaldwilson2620 Both. LOL.She and her mother made Tyson drive on of his cars into a tree or was it a fence ??? She got with Mike for the glitz,glamor and wealth,but,found out Mike was kinda-CRAZY-LOL.
Although I watched in the 80s, it's strange that I barely remember Growing Pains. I remember when Leonardo arrived, though. He stole the show! I immediately knew that he would be a major STAR and that everyone would know his name eventually.
He's made a mega fortune because of it. His religious faith based entertainment channel and movies have made him oprah rich. And it's all tax free cuz of the church status of his llc. 100s of millions of dollars tax free. No one ever talks about it. Guy wipes his rear with 100 bills
His net worth is 10 million dollars. Hardly Oprah money. I am happy he is overzealous in his faith. One should be if they truly believe what they believe about Jesus.
Wouldn't surprise me if Kirk was the reason Julie was kicked off the show. Hardcore bible thumpers tend to be massive hypocrites and try to prove their piety by being very vocally against stuff they are guiltily into.
So Kirk posed for a magazine too? You have proof? That’s what a hypocrisy is. Calling out someone else while you’re committing the same wrong. You’re out of line with only speculation on all accounts, I’m afraid.
@@kellyanne7225 He never had to have posed for a magazine to prove his hypocrisy. He had a young lady fired from Growing Pains for simply posing nude ( a decision he very likely still stands behind) and yet he supports a former president who recently lost a sexual assault civil case and publicly bragged about grabbing women by their privates. Cameron also did an interview for Newsmax claiming the left wants to cancel his library promotions when he had a an actress cancelled for reasons I just described.
@@waverlyking6045 That’s not hypocrisy. Did you not just read the definition? There is nothing wrong with calling out wrong behavior. It’s when you’re doing the exact same behavior and pointing fingers to get someone else in trouble for it. Don’t even get me started on former Presidents and their sexual issues. The left has a lot to answer for on this while their guys were President. 🙄 Not to mention the walking freak show in office now. You’re in no place to judge! Your example is also out of context. Nice try, though.
@@tonyfelder1206 My ex had a crush on him at first she just thought it was "cool" then the rest of his shilling left behind came and she just completely lost her attraction to him Candace is a christian yet she isn't nearly as fanatic of a christian as Kirk is
@thepubknight6144 um, I don't think you have been paying that much attention to Candice. She hid it better, until recently, but she is as bad as her brother
You mean how he got a slap on the wrist for Pedophilia while the WHITE MSM was all over Bill Cosby because of WHITE Women accusing him of drugging and raping them?
Kirk has a right to his religious beliefs, he's a strong Christian who knew the evils of Hollywood and walked away, we need more people like him in this world
@@swolfe9668 right, we need more deluded fools that use lies and misinformation and bully tactics to force their ridiculous beliefs on the masses, since they are Ill equipped to actually persuade others to follow their ways 😆. In case you haven’t realized it, that nonsense is dying as it should. Get educated.
@@kellyanne7225 yeah victim girl, cause he’s a Christian 🙄. No, because he is an insufferable prick. You think just because someone is a Christian that makes them bad? Horrible outlook.
One of my favorite episodes was when Brad Pitt was a music star and Leo's character was star struck only to find out his idol was a prick and asshole Leo's acting throughout the episode made me realize how great of an actor Leo is
@@CharlesChristinaWHThat wasn't Leo's character that was star struck by Brad Pitt. That was Ben played by Jeremy Miller. I have the complete DVD set of the show and just recently watched that episode.😊
After doing these episodes on family shows, you guys should do a future episode on "Married With Children", the first successful show for the then upstart Fox Network. The show was groundbreaking because it wasn't the stereotypical wholesome family show that was popular at the time(it was basically The "anti" Cosby Show), and the show dealt with lewd and controversial subject matters that were considered taboo at the time.
I remember the one when Boner joined the marines. My brother has just left for boot camp a little before that episode and it really hit home when I was a wee lad.
I grew up in a Christian household and minimal shows were allowed such as Growing Pains. I remember when he switched to Christian projects like Left Behind (which was a decent movie). He was one of my TV crushes for sure.
B.J. Thomas and Jennifer Warnes sang the theme song, Dusty Springfield would sing the theme with B.J. Thomas on the season 4 rendition of the theme song!😉📺📼👍
@@SuperMarioBrosIII thank you so much for being so kind as to answer! I realized after hitting send that I could have just googled it, so I appreciate you being a kind internet citizen 🙏🏻💞
Andrew Koenig's father was Walter Koenig Pavel Chekov of Star Trek. Joanna Kerns went on to star in the true crime Blind Faith as murdered victim Maria Marshall. She felt that one of the real life sons was perfect for Tracey Gold and Tracey would go on to marry him.
I never liked Growing Pains much. It felt too much like Family Ties-Lite. Also, Tracey Gold got done really badly on that show. Its a shame what happened to her. Honestly I saw nothing wrong with her shape.
Nailed it...Growing Pains was a flimsy facsimile of Family Ties more so than the Cosby Show. Also agree that Tracey Gold was hot and never needed to lose weight
In one of the last episodes of the show "the five fingers of ben", after standing up to school bully, a girl at school shows interest in him. The actress name is Gina Phillips. She was one of our tenants (a real estate company I worked for in Philadelphia) and a UPENN student She informed us she was leaving school for an acting role in L.A. "I got a gig in a popular show called Growing Pains". When we watched the episode and she appeared we immediately recognized her.
I loved this show as a kid. If you go watch, in the later season, Tracy (Carol) suddenly develops a very raspy voice. Years later, I read this was a side effect of bulimia. The constant forced vomiting was damaging her voice.
I always thought it was weird that his best friend was named boner. Even as a kid i thought that was crazy. Loved the character and was sad to see him leave. I also saw the reunion movies. They were terrible. I couldnt even finish the second one. They weren't funny at all
So sad Tracy went through what she did with her weight. Kirk went very crazy with his religion ans is still a bit of a fanatic; his sister, actress Candace Cameron Bure, is also a bit fanatic sometimes. Never liked how the series changed so drastically -especially the character of Ben in the later seasons RIP Alan Thicke and Andrew Koenig
Brian Peck was also in the background helping the kids with dialogue. In "An Open Secret" Brian is with Leo talking about each other and the coaching on "Growing Pains". Brian was convicted as a child predator.
I watched this when it was new (I so wanted Thicke to be my dad! Take that for what you will) and now, my kids enjoy watching it. The 90s nostalgia gets me every time. This show makes me happy.
Jeremy Miller was the subject of a stalker. They kept it from the actor who didn't find out until years later. It was very disturbing what the stalker said he wanted to do to the young boy.
I saw a Good MOrning segment with the adult actors, and there didn't seem to be any hostility at all from KIrk, Tracy, or Jeremy as they had fond memories of Alan Thicke their TV dad after his death. And the final of Growing Pains did have Kirk's character doing the wedding again to his wife so that his TV family was involved, and there were TWO reunion movies made before Alan Thicke's death that had THE ENTIRE cast reunited. Only Luke was never in the reunion movies.
Yeah this show was on all the time in my house, my mom watching it more than I did. It was a background piece, really lol. Meaning, we always had a TV on somewhere in the house, so guaranteed you were going to hear this show on in the background at one point or another during the day/night. Those were certainly different times...
I thought Carol's name was simply Carol. Carol listened to a tape her parents made back in 1971 when her mom was giving birth to her. Maggie called her baby Carol and Jason agreed to it.
I'm glad you mentioned Andrew Koenig (aka "Boner"), as he and Mike were inseparable characters on the show. I think it's funny that in the sad part about his passing you mention "his father" without hinting that his father is sci-fi star of Star Trek and Babylon 5 Walter Koenig. I watched the heck out of this show, and it was such a fun sitcom too. I loved how each season they tweaked the opening, and even changed the theme song towards the end.
...I'll admit ....I always thought Alan Thicke was One of TV's most *SMOKIN' HOT* Dads (2:19), and opened the Doors to the "Daddy" phenom we are in, in Today's Culture...he actually was believable as a S-xually active 80's 'Dad' (w/ Joanna Kerns), unlike "Family Ties" & "C0sby".... (10:28)
As a closeted gay teen in the 80s, I had a HUGE crush on Kirk Cameron; years later I found out that he became a sanctimonious asshole (a.k.a. Fundamentalist Christian). It brings me great joy to imagine him freaking out every time he realizes he was the subject of oh so many gay teen's fantasies. Yes, Kirk, you were a groomer!
I wasn’t a fan of The Cosby show, but Growing Pains was one of my favorite shows when I was a teenager in the 80’s. Also Punky Brewster was a great show to me.
@@JCStorm76 are you sure how do you know that because according to the cast and everyone else behind the scenes say that kirk would always push his religion onto them and even got his on screen wife fired because she posed for playboy and replaced her with his actual wife
I loved this show as I grew up. I absoluteky hated it when the series ended. I always chalked it up to ratings, the execs, and most likely the younger ones wanting to do other things in their lives....or at least thats how I rationalized it all. Never saw the movies. Early 2000s were a mess for me. Dark times :/ I wish they'd show TGIF shows on regular tv. And by regular I mean antenna. And yes, people still use antennas....albeit with digital boxes. I miss how they'd show reruns during the 80s. Big Valley, Gumby, etc. You know, the classics of 60s and 70s shows...alas, they stopped doing that in the mid 90s. All went to cable / satellite. Mrrrh.
The show was great but when Kirk dove headfirst in religion he became a nightmare cause instead of just making it one aspect of his life he let it become the ruling factor to where eventually he stoped do regular acting and only did faith based movies and his sister Candace became the same way but was as outspoken about what was wrong with society placing a lot of the blame on the lgbtq community doing the whole hide behind religion to demonize a community type thing and u can feel a change in mike after this happened cause it’s like mike is a completely different character after he went deeper into religion to remember watching the show when it was on and was cool after they started showing the cast’s younger pictures that the last one in the house was who the episode was to be focused on that week I just didn’t that for the episode where Chrissy was born they broke the 4th wall by connecting the actual episode to the opening having Maggie going into labor in the opening cause to me it’s not the characters standing there in front of the house it’s the cast and they could have had her slow to go in due to being pregnant singling to us the viewers this will be a Maggie episode and have her go into labor a few minutes into the actual episode
I'm really down with you guys covering popular shows from back in the day. I'm really learning a lot of behind the scenes stuff I never knew.
Yes I find them interesting
Joanna Kearns also played in the mimseries "V" as the lead's ex wife
Also Fun fact:
Robert England got famous for his role in "V" , he play Freddy Krueger a year later
It is nice that Tracey is doing better.😊😊
FYI…
Tracey Golds sister is Missy Gold from Benson.
Alan Thicke is the father of Robin thicke
Alan Thicke did alot of songs in the 80’s… one of them was Different Strokes!
I just found out a couple weeks that he sang the Different Strokes theme!
He was Canadian born.
@@Maki-00he wrote the theme
@@Maki-00
Oh I knew it cause my aunt told me when I was kid I was shocked and went "Dr Seaver can sing" 😂
His wife Robin's mom also sang "The facts of life" intro
Both Alan and his wife are great composers and wrote many intros to tv shows
Olympic athlete Donna DeVarona is Joanna Kerns's sister.
Tracey was my girl on the show. I loved how she stood up to Kirk.
Kirk had a bit of attitude
@@lexkanyima2195 most religious zealots do
even not knowing what we know now. you could tell tracey gold was going through something as she got super skinny. the jokes were obvious a contributing factor. mike would call her fat and a pig throughout the series and tracey was by no means overweight. that had to mess with her mentally.
I think Tracy had a eating disorder
She actually admitted that she was dealing with anorexia at the time. I'm sure Kirt Cameron felt bad because his character often made fun of her in the earlier seasons.
Yeah the jokes ended with her having an eating disorder she wrote a book "Room To Grow" about what she was going through.
I remember that Tracy Gold did a TV movie about a girl struggling with anorexia when she was struggling with it in real life.
Yes! It was called For the love of Nancy, I remember my health teacher in high school who used to tape lifetime movies for us to watch so he could go to the fieldhouse (he was a coach and also assistant principal) showed us this one. it was heartbreaking.
I remember some behind the scenes commentary by Tracey where she talked about giving a lot of input into her behavior with body checking and her mental state then that they used in the film & how she felt it was important to do the film if it meant others could possibly be helped and that is was somewhat healing to confront her struggles head on by doing this film. It had to be very triggering. @@melissacooper8724
Still can’t believe they got away with having a character named ‘Boner’ on an 80s sitcom.
Surprised Kirk didn't have a fit about that.
Boner was also synonymous with doing something stupid.
*Laughs* "His name is Boner..."
I went to school with a kid whose last name is Bone and we called him "Boner" until he realized what it meant. Then he just wanted to be called "Bone." That wasn't much better. 😅 We also had some students whose last name is Peede. So it was like Ryan Peede. One of the teachers where I lived once was called Gay Burnette 😅
The chokehold this show had on me as a child!
That's really sad aout Tracy. I knew she'd had anoxeria IRL, but didn't remember the jokes in universe.
I knew Kirk was a Christian, but I did not know he was this ridiculous and delusional. Jesus sat with the tax collectors and prostitutes. He didn't judge anyone's past
Go back and watch, mike would call her a gross fat pig throughout the series. yes she’s an actor and they are just lines. BUT SHE WAS A TEENAGER!!! That definitely messed with her head
Exactly! He's one of those Christians that judge everything!
Cameron was a selfish little bastard.
@@ferox965he still is, just like his sister Candace.
@@stingrey1571😮
The 80s and 90s television shows were simply marvelous masterpieces. Salute. Rest in Heaven Alan Thicke. We love you and miss you immensely.
The eight o’clock shows are unwatchable as an adult.
Tracy was not fat at all! By today's standards, she would've been called beautiful with a helluva shape!
Yeah she wasn't fat and she was very pretty. I always took it as just siblings teasing each other. Had no idea about her prior history of having an eating disorder.
RIP Alan. 🙏🏽
Ashley Johnson also went on to do voice acting on cartoons such as Recess and Teen Titans
And the character Patterson on the series Blindspot.
@@tonyfelder1206
And the scene of her in "Avengers" that got famous, I love how she embraced the meme from it
And the lead in one of the top video games ever The Last of Us
According to her IMDB, she's done a lot of guest roles and some supporting roles over the years and is still working today.
Just the Ten of Us was an awesome show. It was in the top 10 in the ratings, but ABC couldn't find a spot on their schedule for it after the third season so it went away. It was actually never even officially cancelled.
I loved that show!
I loved it too. Few familiar faces came from that show. ❤
A little weird that Leo was basically the Cousin Oliver of the show.
Jeremy Miller did not turn out as cute as they had hoped and they needed to bring in a good looking kid for the young girls who watched.
That’s when both shows jumped the shark
@@bltvdIt failed miserably the ratings plummeted even further
I was young so I don't remember much about the show itself but the theme song gets stuck in my head to this day.
Sadly The show didn't do Tracey right.
?
How so? I wasn't a fan of the show.
What happened? Please enlighten me.
@@joseph-dg1hg there were repeated fat jokes about Carol Seaver (Tracey's character) in the scripts, which indirectly affected and possibly led Tracey's struggle with anorexia. She managed to overcome it, thankfully.
@zuichiang5088 great 4her I'm proud of her
Juicy pop is back with another fire video 🔥.
You should do videos on Head of the Class, Fraiser, and The King of Queens.
I loved head of the class. Good show.
Head of the Class was my show back in the day !!!! Been watching this show on Amazon Prime for a while now. LOL.
@@kerry-j4mSpeaking of Head Of The Class, a subject on the show's breakout star Robin Givens would also be a good episode for Juicy Pop. And we could ask the question: Was she really considered a gold digger when she married Mike Tyson or was the media too hard on her?
@@donaldwilson2620 Both. LOL.She and her mother made Tyson drive on of his cars into a tree or was it a fence ??? She got with Mike for the glitz,glamor and wealth,but,found out Mike was kinda-CRAZY-LOL.
"Head of the Class" would be interesting, and would allow for a spinoff video on Dan Schneider alone, if they wish to tackle a topic that dark.
RIP Alan Thicke
You do such a great job .... I love your research, and I love your speaking voice
Thank you so much 🥰
@@JuicyPopEntertainment2:38 You're welcome, again.
@@JuicyPopEntertainment
Keep em coming
I loved growing pains ,when the show ended I was sad. The show was a big part of my life...
I loved it too.
Although I watched in the 80s, it's strange that I barely remember Growing Pains. I remember when Leonardo arrived, though. He stole the show! I immediately knew that he would be a major STAR and that everyone would know his name eventually.
The Matthew Perry episode...you know... _that_ episode... kind of brutal to watch before...now may be impossible 😢
Sandy. 😭😭
Too many parallels to real life. 😢💔
Kirk seemed a little overzealous with his faith.
He's made a mega fortune because of it. His religious faith based entertainment channel and movies have made him oprah rich. And it's all tax free cuz of the church status of his llc. 100s of millions of dollars tax free. No one ever talks about it. Guy wipes his rear with 100 bills
@@ericgaskins571 WOW.Didn't know this,good for him and-SMART-too.A lot of pastors have been doing the exact,same thing,it's called-MEGA-churches. LOL.
He's made a tax-free mint grifting vulnerable people.
His net worth is 10 million dollars. Hardly Oprah money. I am happy he is overzealous in his faith. One should be if they truly believe what they believe about Jesus.
Both him and his sister are.
Wouldn't surprise me if Kirk was the reason Julie was kicked off the show. Hardcore bible thumpers tend to be massive hypocrites and try to prove their piety by being very vocally against stuff they are guiltily into.
He did get her fired
So Kirk posed for a magazine too? You have proof? That’s what a hypocrisy is. Calling out someone else while you’re committing the same wrong.
You’re out of line with only speculation on all accounts, I’m afraid.
@@kellyanne7225 He never had to have posed for a magazine to prove his hypocrisy. He had a young lady fired from Growing Pains for simply posing nude ( a decision he very likely still stands behind) and yet he supports a former president who recently lost a sexual assault civil case and publicly bragged about grabbing women by their privates. Cameron also did an interview for Newsmax claiming the left wants to cancel his library promotions when he had a an actress cancelled for reasons I just described.
@@waverlyking6045 That’s not hypocrisy. Did you not just read the definition?
There is nothing wrong with calling out wrong behavior. It’s when you’re doing the exact same behavior and pointing fingers to get someone else in trouble for it.
Don’t even get me started on former Presidents and their sexual issues. The left has a lot to answer for on this while their guys were President. 🙄
Not to mention the walking freak show in office now. You’re in no place to judge!
Your example is also out of context. Nice try, though.
Not a hypocrite just someone trying to serve Jesus
Kirk Cameron was very sanctimonious....
AGREED.He turned into a prick after the studio gave him TOO much power,which often happens on sitcoms when an actor/actress becomes very popular.
@@kerry-j4mletting fame go to your head
He's gotten worse as he's gotten older. He's the ultra conservative-religious type that's totally disliked.
@@tonyfelder1206
My ex had a crush on him at first she just thought it was "cool" then the rest of his shilling left behind came and she just completely lost her attraction to him
Candace is a christian yet she isn't nearly as fanatic of a christian as Kirk is
@thepubknight6144 um, I don't think you have been paying that much attention to Candice. She hid it better, until recently, but she is as bad as her brother
This was my favorite show growing up. I don’t think I watched it since it went off the air so this was a nice throwback.
Can you do 7th heaven, and how unfortunate Stephen Collins ruined the WB's most successful show forever..
That story was so messed up. I mean I didn't see that coming at all. Totally blind sided.
You mean how he got a slap on the wrist for Pedophilia while the WHITE MSM was all over Bill Cosby because of WHITE Women accusing him of drugging and raping them?
I love when you do a deep dive, this was gold
Is it possible that Kirk's problem with ol' girl being a Playboy bunny happened AFTER his Christian awakening.
One of my favorite shows in the 1980s.
Kirk couldn’t handle his own lustful feelings for Julie, so she had to go and he’s been an insufferable prick ever since.
Kirk has a right to his religious beliefs, he's a strong Christian who knew the evils of Hollywood and walked away, we need more people like him in this world
@@swolfe9668 right, we need more deluded fools that use lies and misinformation and bully tactics to force their ridiculous beliefs on the masses, since they are Ill equipped to actually persuade others to follow their ways 😆. In case you haven’t realized it, that nonsense is dying as it should. Get educated.
Really? How so? Just because he is a Christian right?
@@kellyanne7225 yeah victim girl, cause he’s a Christian 🙄. No, because he is an insufferable prick. You think just because someone is a Christian that makes them bad? Horrible outlook.
the Growing Pains them didnt have to SLAP so hard tho fr
I loved this show, I had a crush on Kirk and Leonardo when he was on there 😂 I still love Leo 🥰🫣
Lol meanwhile, Ben was it for me
One of my favorite episodes was when Brad Pitt was a music star and Leo's character was star struck only to find out his idol was a prick and asshole
Leo's acting throughout the episode made me realize how great of an actor Leo is
@@kaybee5445I always liked Ben too.😊
@@CharlesChristinaWHThat wasn't Leo's character that was star struck by Brad Pitt. That was Ben played by Jeremy Miller. I have the complete DVD set of the show and just recently watched that episode.😊
After doing these episodes on family shows, you guys should do a future episode on "Married With Children", the first successful show for the then upstart Fox Network. The show was groundbreaking because it wasn't the stereotypical wholesome family show that was popular at the time(it was basically The "anti" Cosby Show), and the show dealt with lewd and controversial subject matters that were considered taboo at the time.
Don't forget the tv show "Roseanne" came out before "Married With Children" and it wasn't the stereotypical wholesome family sitcom.
@@IceManLikeGervin Actually, Rosanne came out in 1988, which was one year after Married With Children first aired. Both shows were funny though.
Of all the 80s TV moms, I crushed on Joanna Kerns the most. ❤️❤️😍😍
I think I liked “Just the Ten of Us” more than Growing Pains. The four oldest sisters made that show.
Agreed
Thank you I was just thinking about Growing Pains 😊
I remember the one when Boner joined the marines. My brother has just left for boot camp a little before that episode and it really hit home when I was a wee lad.
Alan was also great as the host of "Animal Miracles" you could tell on the show that he loved animals...he is missed.😢😊😢😊
I grew up in a Christian household and minimal shows were allowed such as Growing Pains. I remember when he switched to Christian projects like Left Behind (which was a decent movie). He was one of my TV crushes for sure.
Loving these behind the scene sitcom videos.
Kirk Cameron eventually became a growing pain in the ass.
Use to Watch this with My❤ Grandma!!❤
Don't blame Kirk for her eating disorder, blame her parents, producers, managers and so on
Parents 100%
How about you blame Tracey. She CHOSE to starve herself to get attention
@@swolfe9668 why not the devil? 🤷🏻♂️
Great piece! I loved that show.
B.J. Thomas and Jennifer Warnes sang the theme song, Dusty Springfield would sing the theme with B.J. Thomas on the season 4 rendition of the theme song!😉📺📼👍
Jennifer Warnes' name sounds familiar - is she the female half of "Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong" with Joe Cocker?
@@JennaLeigh Yes that's her. 🤗♥🙏📺
@@SuperMarioBrosIII thank you so much for being so kind as to answer! I realized after hitting send that I could have just googled it, so I appreciate you being a kind internet citizen 🙏🏻💞
@@JennaLeigh You are very welcome Jenna Leigh take care and God bless. 👼♥🙏🕊
You know Jesus, how he completely ignored people that society deemed imperfect. Way to go, Kirk! 🤣 Hypocrite.
Can you do the show “smart guy “
Used to watch this on Disney Channel in the 90s
Kirk's career was never the same after this show. Good riddance.
He CHOSE being a Christian over Hollywood and thank God for that, we need more people like him and Candace in this world
He became the banana man
Andrew Koenig's father was Walter Koenig Pavel Chekov of Star Trek. Joanna Kerns went on to star in the true crime Blind Faith as murdered victim Maria Marshall. She felt that one of the real life sons was perfect for Tracey Gold and Tracey would go on to marry him.
I never liked Growing Pains much. It felt too much like Family Ties-Lite.
Also, Tracey Gold got done really badly on that show. Its a shame what happened to her. Honestly I saw nothing wrong with her shape.
Me either, she was great looking 2me.
Nailed it...Growing Pains was a flimsy facsimile of Family Ties more so than the Cosby Show. Also agree that Tracey Gold was hot and never needed to lose weight
In one of the last episodes of the show "the five fingers of ben", after standing up to school bully, a girl at school shows interest in him. The actress name is Gina Phillips. She was one of our tenants (a real estate company I worked for in Philadelphia) and a UPENN student She informed us she was leaving school for an acting role in L.A. "I got a gig in a popular show called Growing Pains". When we watched the episode and she appeared we immediately recognized her.
1 of my favorite shows but I did had a crush on Carol(Tracey Gold)
Great story on Growing Pains
I loved this show as a kid. If you go watch, in the later season, Tracy (Carol) suddenly develops a very raspy voice. Years later, I read this was a side effect of bulimia. The constant forced vomiting was damaging her voice.
This was my favorite show
I always thought it was weird that his best friend was named boner. Even as a kid i thought that was crazy. Loved the character and was sad to see him leave. I also saw the reunion movies. They were terrible. I couldnt even finish the second one. They weren't funny at all
TOO bad about the actor who played Boner killing himself.
So sad Tracy went through what she did with her weight.
Kirk went very crazy with his religion ans is still a bit of a fanatic; his sister, actress Candace Cameron Bure, is also a bit fanatic sometimes.
Never liked how the series changed so drastically -especially the character of Ben in the later seasons
RIP Alan Thicke and Andrew Koenig
Kirk did NOT go crazy with religion. He found the love and positivity that God offered him and started to live a good life
@@swolfe9668 blah blah blah
Why does the youngest male child in this type of show always end looking like a Walmart department manager.
The curse of child actors
So Kirk was a douchebag from the start. Huh…not surprising.
Wrong. So wrong
Good times! Alan Thick sang Diff'rent Strokes
Love these so much
Thank you! 🥰
@@JuicyPopEntertainment1:39 You're welcome.
Brian Peck was also in the background helping the kids with dialogue. In "An Open Secret" Brian is with Leo talking about each other and the coaching on "Growing Pains". Brian was convicted as a child predator.
I forgot how southern the beautiful Texan Julie McCullough's speaking voice is.
I love it!! I’m watching that part of the video now 😂😂
Kirk was too much to handle. Leo did just fine. That executive producer was a moron
I wasn’t into a lot of family sitcoms, but Alan Thicke and Joanna Kerns were talented and so likable. Endearing.
I Loved this show in High School. I hate that it has been ruined by Kirk's Sycophant behavior!
I watched this when it was new (I so wanted Thicke to be my dad! Take that for what you will) and now, my kids enjoy watching it. The 90s nostalgia gets me every time. This show makes me happy.
Jeremy Miller was the subject of a stalker. They kept it from the actor who didn't find out until years later. It was very disturbing what the stalker said he wanted to do to the young boy.
I saw a Good MOrning segment with the adult actors, and there didn't seem to be any hostility at all from KIrk, Tracy, or Jeremy as they had fond memories of Alan Thicke their TV dad after his death. And the final of Growing Pains did have Kirk's character doing the wedding again to his wife so that his TV family was involved, and there were TWO reunion movies made before Alan Thicke's death that had THE ENTIRE cast reunited. Only Luke was never in the reunion movies.
The theme song❤❤
Chelsea Noble also appeared on an episode of Full House titled The Seven Month Itch Part 1 and 2
Omgosh is she one of Jesse's ski lodge friends?
Robin sounds just like his dad.😊😊😅😅😂😂
Great work 👍👍
Yeah this show was on all the time in my house, my mom watching it more than I did. It was a background piece, really lol. Meaning, we always had a TV on somewhere in the house, so guaranteed you were going to hear this show on in the background at one point or another during the day/night. Those were certainly different times...
Since when did Julie have a southern accent? 🤔🙄🤨🤷
She kicked it for a while when she was acting.
I Miss Kirk Cameron. Growing Pains Leonardo DiCaprio’s First TV 📺 Show.
I thought Carol's name was simply Carol. Carol listened to a tape her parents made back in 1971 when her mom was giving birth to her. Maggie called her baby Carol and Jason agreed to it.
I agree. I've never heard that her name was Caroline.
I'm glad you mentioned Andrew Koenig (aka "Boner"), as he and Mike were inseparable characters on the show. I think it's funny that in the sad part about his passing you mention "his father" without hinting that his father is sci-fi star of Star Trek and Babylon 5 Walter Koenig.
I watched the heck out of this show, and it was such a fun sitcom too. I loved how each season they tweaked the opening, and even changed the theme song towards the end.
...I'll admit ....I always thought Alan Thicke was One of TV's most *SMOKIN' HOT* Dads (2:19), and opened the Doors to the "Daddy" phenom we are in, in Today's Culture...he actually was believable as a S-xually active 80's 'Dad' (w/ Joanna Kerns), unlike "Family Ties" & "C0sby".... (10:28)
As a closeted gay teen in the 80s, I had a HUGE crush on Kirk Cameron; years later I found out that he became a sanctimonious asshole (a.k.a. Fundamentalist Christian). It brings me great joy to imagine him freaking out every time he realizes he was the subject of oh so many gay teen's fantasies. Yes, Kirk, you were a groomer!
You should do Roseanne
I wasn’t a fan of The Cosby show, but Growing Pains was one of my favorite shows when I was a teenager in the 80’s. Also Punky Brewster was a great show to me.
I've never seen this show but from what I know kirk was a pain and still is
Not true
@@JCStorm76 are you sure how do you know that because according to the cast and everyone else behind the scenes say that kirk would always push his religion onto them and even got his on screen wife fired because she posed for playboy and replaced her with his actual wife
I loved this show as I grew up. I absoluteky hated it when the series ended. I always chalked it up to ratings, the execs, and most likely the younger ones wanting to do other things in their lives....or at least thats how I rationalized it all.
Never saw the movies. Early 2000s were a mess for me. Dark times :/
I wish they'd show TGIF shows on regular tv. And by regular I mean antenna. And yes, people still use antennas....albeit with digital boxes.
I miss how they'd show reruns during the 80s. Big Valley, Gumby, etc. You know, the classics of 60s and 70s shows...alas, they stopped doing that in the mid 90s. All went to cable / satellite. Mrrrh.
I always thought Alan Thicke was fine as hell. RIP ❤❤
Loved him too, he is the father of Robin Thicke.
Uh, ma'am.... No.
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9:48 His father played Chekov on Star Trek
They just tore that house down to make room for more studio space. That whole fake neighborhood is gone now
Also streams on Philo and Tubi I think
Tracy was Gold! She made Carol a hilarious and worthy advisory to brother Mike.
I feel bad for Toby and Leo. And likely all the young kids on the show. Steven Marshall had his way no doubt. 😢
Same old story. Drag in a younger cast member to save the show. Remind you of anything? My 3 Sons maybe? Brady Bunch maybe?
The Cosby Show did the same thing with Raven Simone joining the cast as Rudy got older.
@@kerry-j4mRudy wasn't as funner when older
On the Brady Bunch version of the game show “The Weakest Link”, Cousin Oliver was the first one to be voted off.😂
The show was great but when Kirk dove headfirst in religion he became a nightmare cause instead of just making it one aspect of his life he let it become the ruling factor to where eventually he stoped do regular acting and only did faith based movies and his sister Candace became the same way but was as outspoken about what was wrong with society placing a lot of the blame on the lgbtq community doing the whole hide behind religion to demonize a community type thing and u can feel a change in mike after this happened cause it’s like mike is a completely different character after he went deeper into religion to remember watching the show when it was on and was cool after they started showing the cast’s younger pictures that the last one in the house was who the episode was to be focused on that week I just didn’t that for the episode where Chrissy was born they broke the 4th wall by connecting the actual episode to the opening having Maggie going into labor in the opening cause to me it’s not the characters standing there in front of the house it’s the cast and they could have had her slow to go in due to being pregnant singling to us the viewers this will be a Maggie episode and have her go into labor a few minutes into the actual episode
Did you record the narration in the bathroom?
Did I miss the part about Matthew Perry - Carol's boyfriend who died in the show? Or wasn't it mentioned? I HEARD that Kirk Cameron got him fired.
It got better when Urkle and Tony Danza was put in to replace Kirk Cameron.
Did I do that?
Never happened
Kirk Cameron and Tracy Gold physically looked like they could be siblings. Alan Thicke also looked like he could be their father.
He has a right to his beliefs
What a stupid comment section
Poor Jeremy. He didn’t have a chance to be a teen heartthrob as he grew up. He couldn’t compete with Kirk Cameron.