I recently went to the Family house in Pasadena and took a photo in front of it. My husband didn’t watch the show so he didn’t quite get it, but I was thrilled 😂🎉
When Family aired, I wouldn't miss a show. Now thanks to you, I am watching the series and really enjoying it again. It has been such a negative year for not only myself, but so many others. It is a lovely escape.
Watching these series growing up and getting a chance to see them again after all these years is just Wonderful.. Thank you for bring back great Memories like these when Families we always held together with understanding, trust and Love. A time when life was looked at so positively. Always looking forward to the next day and new thing's that come.
I was born in 1970. I longed for parents who would listen and understand me. This show is exactly how us Gen X built the Millennials. Hollywood did it again!
I watch this to escape every single day! There’s others that said that too! I’m really needing my life to change. I long to go back to the 70s and 80s. But, time is funny that way. Can’t go backward. Only future. Sucks I’m gonna keep escaping with the show family!!!!❤❤
One thing I love about this show is the flawed characters. Willie is acting lchildish, but that's how people are at times. He talks back, makes snarky comments, but he's also trying in his own way by accompanying his dad for food, which may be a way to feel better, though he'd likely not admit it. The characters are not one-dimensional, but rather people with depth and a range of emotions all at once. I also like the pauses that I guess are edited out of typical, cleanly-edited dramas of today... as they're sitting at the diner, a random guy walks by and the father looks over at him with vague interest for a moment... just like a natural, real life scene. Not perfect and not scripted. The imperfections make it perfect.
Don't see Willie as entitled here. He was upset because his attempt to take responsibility for his life failed him. Not 100% mature in his reaction, but not entitled. In fact, Willie's whole attitude was against thinking his family and life owed him anything. He wanted to achieve something on his own. And personally know the feeling.
Thank you! Finally, someone who doesn't worship Willie in the comments. This show is fun to watch, but it's hard for people who grew up in a dysfunctional family to like these 3 bratty, spoiled upper-middle class kids who have been given everything plus lots of love and support, when they constantly throw fits over nothing.
@@Andregrindle Except he insists on living at home rather than going out on his own and won't finish his GED so he can get a job to support himself while he writes, so I disagree that he doesn't think his family and life owed him anything.
It's disturbing and yet satisfying that even if Willie goes all the way across town to escape his family his father still finds him. On the other hand if Willie gets lost his father can still find him.
I think Willie is a good guy (regardless of how many seem to dislike him) I share your sentiment regarding him...he’s a great brother & a very good son, he gives the impression of an endearing person/character.
@@impoppypanda Yeah, here he is, blaming his father and his family for "keeping him a child by making him dependent on them". And yes, his parents are partially to blame for his weenie-ness, but come on.
70 is the best ,aa i was born i .1962 , so 70 is my air as a child , love this show ,miss there time,s ,not keen on there times ,thinf change to quink , thung mlre eser than.,😊
Willie is not happy with where he is right now in his life. When your birthday comes and you don't see your life what you pictured it be you get down. I can totally relate to that.
Family tradition. The tradition of becoming a man. The tradition of becoming an adult. The father wants Willie to celebrate his 21 st birthday then when Willie wants his first legal drink in the striptease club, the father ironically doesn't want Willie to drink when the father is ALWAYS drinking.
@@rdred8693 Darrin Stevens was married to a witch. Nobody blamed him for drinking ALL THE TIME! Darrin Stevens' mother-in-law was literally and figuratively a WITCH! He got the double whammy! If I were in his shoes I wouldn't sleep. Second, Doug drinks in almost every episode. Not just this one. This episode really fits into analyzing family patterns of behavior and rites of passage. Doug drinks all the time and now his son wants to start drinking. Doug took his son to a strip bar but doesn't let him indulge in the entire experience including drinking. That's like a man pulling out right before the woman orgasms.
Can you imagine if you were at a gathering with Marjoe Gortner, Willie Aames, Gary Frank,, John Rubinstein and Leo Sayer in the same room? You wouldn't tell any of them apart.
8:44 I can understand Willie another year older and still not happy with what you're doing and your life is not where you want it to be. Totally relate to that feeling. 41:47 that's all they have left the three of them ate that much.
...This is Willie at his most hammy and self-indulgent. He could be a real boor at times. This and the story-line where he married were amongst the "throwaway" episodes of this otherwise fine series. 👍🏽💯🙄
Amazing how this great show can attract such judgmental and bitchy people. I like Willy a great deal. He'd be a great friend to have. He doesn't have the Wisdom of Kate, but he hasn't led her life either.
@@echt114 ...Fortunately for us both; we've the presence of mind to keep this long since cancelled fictional television drama, & it's fictional characters, within their proper perspective. We'll agree to disagree. 👍🏽💯🤗
Willy was so sensitive. I get this though. Back then there was so much pressure on us to grow up, make money, move out. He wanted to be a writer. A hard career, a calling! I remember being in college and living at home and how my sister tortured me- called me a moocher and a sponge. I felt like such a loser but I could not afford to move out. Once I did, I was gone! But in between it was very hard.
Buddy: You ate the Z! Nancy: No, I didn't. Buddy (indignantly): The Z was here this afternoon! Nancy: All I ate was this little piece that was stuck to the inside, I went like this and... Buddy: Aha. The Z. Nancy: Well, I didn't mean to eat the Z. I didn't do it on purpose. Buddy: I bet. I bet. How was it? Nancy: Oh, it was... Buddy: Come on, Nancy! Nancy: Well, we're not celebrating a birthday -- Buddy: Leave the cake alone. [storms off upstairs] Nancy (looking at the cake longingly): Some zealot would miss the backspace...
Ha, it was the day before Willie's birthday and it's the day before mine. His was a milestone birthday and so is mine. Only not the same year, not by a long shot lol. Willie needed to realize that the party meant a lot to his family even if he wasn't in the mood for it. Their faces were crestfallen when he said he didn't want it. Loved the typewriter cake. I wish he'd stuck around so they didn't go out and meet that flaky Bambi person. She was so annoying!
Everyone in this family does what they want with no regard for what the person directly affected wants or needs. These are individually selfish people who do things when it fits into their schedules.
Although this mirrors the trammels of the 70's, it lacks reality. Willie, so they say, encompassed the struggles of a young man, but his character did not. My brothers and sisters were hippy drug addicts, our parents were inept copdependent alchoholics. I love this show of what it Could have been, but it wasn't. TV.
@@59skupe Peter Falk died in his eighties from Alzheimer's disease. There was a legal battle between Danese and Falk's family which was very intricate and on which I am no expert. I believe there was a Peter Falk' law that has been passed in some states that Catherine Falk was instrumental in helping create. That is all I know.
@@dandiacal I read that when Falk was sick before his death, she barred his daughters from seeing their father and cut them off on Peter's health information. Since then this Shera Danese left a bad taste in my mouth. Irrespective of what happened between them, it's totally wrong and malicious for any step parents to do that. Falk's daughters later helped to pass the Peter Falk's Law preventing the same thing happening to other families.
Twenty first birthday...Living at home, high school drop out, married at 18, widower at 19, can't hold down a job taking pictures, not paying for a thing, daddy buys him a new motorbike, sisters plan a party with a special cake, he storms off to play video games and all dad says, repeatedly, "Willie!" and then takes him to a strip club?!? ...most 70s dad's would have told him to get a job or join the military! Those 21 year old guys are the ones who ended up being real men!!
Aw poor guy-character, can’t catch a break from all the criticism but he’s just a thought(s) on paper in the form of a script but enough so that the actor, Gary Frank, won an Emmy for his portrayal of Willie. There must’ve been something about Willie to have got some kind of acclaim. 😊
I know it's just a script, but I cannot help to feel exactly what you just said. As a parent, if my kids want to quit school, I'd want them to get a job and pay for room and board.
I never felt sorry for him, successful attorney, beautiful home, children that adore him and a wife who waits on him hand and foot ! He had a great life if you ask me !
We never watched The Waltons when I was growing up, but Caroline Ingalls reminded me of my Mom. My Mom was not a fan of Sada Thompson in this show though. She thought she was too cold and stuffy. 🤷♀️😁
I can’t wait for the episode where Buddy turns 21 and Kate takes her to see some New Orleans male strippers- they stay out all night and then Buddy has her favorite stripper come to her birthday. Doug will be cool with that.
i have the answer for willie here ,,yes crossover is the appropiate title here at 21 years of age ,,,yes independence is a wonderful thing to discover ,,but you know ,,,in this difficult time in his life ,,,family is the one thing to help you find the RIGHT direction ,,,lean on them ,,,and true friends as well ,,,and you ll go there ,,,in the right direction
Willie could be a real spoiled brat at times. And Buddy was a pain in the azz. Each of them could be a real pill when they wanted to. That's family. They can be a bunch of schmucks but you love em anyway.
@@johnhartsock1891 I thought I saw her on another show where she was working for him. She seemed like a dumb ditz and first but now I find her to be a sweetie and for whatever reason she seems to really like Willie so more power to her. Everyone needs somebody and if Willie had it going on enough to attract a stripper then good for him. How they make it work financially after gravity does its work and she gets too old to strip is anyone's guess
I’ve been having a “Family” marathon as of late - to escape the trash that’s on tv nowadays But as I’ve been watching them - I’m appalled. Willy sleeps with everyone he meets, the children are disrespectful to the parents. They make excuses for lies & other deception The parents drink every night … & I thought this used to be a wholesome show - guess not
@@janettemcgregor5712 This is a fictional Family during the 1970s reflecting all the social and political issues of the time, many of which still apply today.. It reflects the realities of family life, warts and all, the good, bad and indifferent. Maybe Little House on the Prairie would be more to your liking.
I used to watch this growing up & with all the crap on TV nowadays… I’ve been having a marathon with this show Then I watched this one & I gotta say I was appalled Yep, nothing shouts ‘wholesome’ more than a father & son sitting at a strip joint, while gawking at the woman on the stage. & why, b/c he’s uptight about turning 21 Meanwhile he celebrates it willingly at the strip joint, while ignoring his family at home Then they hang out with the hooker & she just happens to go to their house later on This entire episode couldn’t have been more twisted So I guess shows & movies back when - weren’t any better than they are now 😭
Gary Frank in this series … ugggh. He sounds like a New Yorker from vaudeville. He sounds like he doesn’t belong. Maybe like a Groucho Marx … “that’s the silliest thing I ever heard”, wave the cigar.
Did not like this episode. What a way to ring in 21 with your son...take him to a strip club. I can just imagine if it was Buddy's 21st birthday and Mom takes her to a male strip club.
I don't have anything to do with Greece however when we are looking at a screen with a group of people and a person is in front of your view of that screen then says it would help if you looked at the screen when you can't see the screen for that person being in front of the screen and that person new that having said that it would help if you looked at the screen that is being rude and circastic . Provoking a reaction . It's got nothing to do with me being circastic or rude but that of person that said it and the same person that was in the way of that view .
I’ve been having a “Family” marathon as of late - to escape the trash that’s on tv nowadays But as I’ve been watching them - I’m appalled. Willy sleeps with everyone he meets, the children are disrespectful to the parents. They make excuses for lies & other deception The parents drink every night … & I thought this used to be a wholesome show - guess not
A wholesome show? Guess again! I was 13 when it came on in 1976, and my uptight parents didn't want me watching it. But my Dad was general manager for WFAA-TV, Channel 8 (Dallas/Ft.Worth), Family was an ABC property and my father's station was an ABC affiliate. My father knew Aaron Spelling quite well, I met him when I was a child and I later worked in Hollywood with people who knew him in life. The stories I heard about Mr. Spelling and his real family would shock you. Look how Tori turned out! No, the people who work in the industry are just as flawed as everybody else and are in no position to teach the rest of us anything about how to live, then or now. Quite the contrary! Then again, I don't have space here to go into the details, the booze, the drugs, the money, the sex, the excess, the murder, the pedophilia, the perversion, the weirdness, drinking human blood, etc. Hollywood is the Devil's playground on Earth, and you'd do well to kill your television and free your mind instead. Don't look to TV for wholesomeness; you won't find it there...
