When I started watching this, I was younger than Dorothy Jane, today I am the age Millicent is in this episode. Talk about feeling old. Talk about missing my mom. (She passed in 2017) I miss my childhood and everything it was SO MUCH. My momma made it amazing, along with many other people, and most of them are gone forever. I wish life would get easier and more amazing again. My childhood was simple but amazing. Grew up in a little town in Arkansas. Arkansas doesn't have much, it never has and probably never will, but it was good.
I’m 40 and I still think this show and it’s other counter part were taken for great granted. I wanted to see Mill and Brian dealing with Randy when he turns up in Seattle Washington.
I’m 48 and I lost my mom 4 yrs ago. I was thinking how much I miss her and how much it hurts. Yes I watched this too. Life was simple and nice. Now it doesn’t have as much joy. This show was beautiful.
Same I use to watch this with my mom who is now in hospice. She would take my sister and I shopping for groceries and we would come home and watch this show. Now I am 37 and can relate to this far to much.
This is such a great show that it is a damn shame it wasn't on for 10 years! Thank you NBC, for mistreating it! I know I keep saying it on here but I need to keep stressing this as much as I can.
This is sad what with Randy leaving and all but Bootsie is hilarious. "I understand perfectly well that I have given birth to a rat. But, I still love him, 'cause he's my rat-son." LOL
Man lately with the whole covid this show has been such a blessing to watch! I appreciate it more then I did as a kid! Makes me shed tears! Thank you so much for uploading the show! You truly are an angel! ❤️❤️❤️
This was such a well done episode! I love the hug/kiss from both at the end knowing it was goodbye. Interesting how they kind of let the dad play out his last hurrah with the kids, didn’t even have to waste energy/words to kick him out knowing he wouldn’t last long anyway.
I'm confused.. if the Dad is taking all these well paying jobs, why are his wife and kids struggling? He could send the mom a decent check every once in awhile...
Not all men are good with money. You can tell how much he wasted when he got home, kept saying to the kids to use the money vs giving to the mom. Bet he doesn't do anything for his mom. He doesn't write or call so he wouldn't remember to send home money. He left for his hope and dream for himself, vs a better future for the family. You can tell by how much he showed off.
My baby’s father is very inconsistent with sending money. I’m struggling so much and when I tell him his daughter needs diapers he tells me he doesn’t have money but has for weed.
Well, the way I see it is that she is a very mature and wise woman. She is perfectly aware of what kind of person his son is. Now, the guy is an adult, so it's not on her to educate, discipline or give him unsolicited advice. She understands that the marriage issues are not hers to learn, give an opinion on or solve. And finally, she loves his son so she is genuinely happy to see him and she lets him know how he feels about his behaviour, but just expressing her feelings, not her thoughts and judgement. It's actually very mature.
An apt parable for all we men to realize that if we fail at home, to quote Metallica, "nothing else matters." Yes, I juxtaposed The Torkelsons and heavy metal rock. It's one of my gifts :)
We all know why Millicent made Dorothy Jane kiss her dad. That's the one thing that's good about tv now that they show a parent might not be the best. Millicent is one damn good mama. The last things those kids need is the trauma of a dad coming and going in and out of their lives not giving a hoot about them. In the 90s we were all about sugarcoating, in real life and television. Now family is who loves you.
I am sorry to hear that I hope u heard from your dad now. I have my dad but at times he has been on and off drugs esp last yr. things r somewhat better now he has of who he cares for.me n my dad loved going to the movies. I have always been a dad girl. n my dad has disappointed me a lot of times. smh. but we all have a lovely heavenly father in heaven.
@@MsDisneylandloverI know it’s been 4 years but I hope it’s gotten better for you and your dad. He is so lucky to have a daughter who thinks of him even when he isn’t always there.
I don't understand how people leave their children. It never made sense to me. My daddy was in the Army, he was gon alot. But, when he left I knew he would come home.
I wish this show had gone longer. I like to think Randy would’ve come back for good at some point and Dorothy Jane would’ve got the guy once he came back from college.
It’s weird that they hated their home. I live in a small condo and I can only dream of living in a house like that. Now that kind of home is no longer affordable.
My biological father left us when I was 2 weeks old when I met him when I was 12 I wish that I would listen to my mom about him now I am 25 I have a good father my biological father is dead to me
**Continuity error in this episode (i think) Millicent says that she will be 36 on her next birthday and Dorthy Jane is 14. Presumably, this makes them 21 years apart. But in Educating Millicent DJ says that Milicent was pregnant with her in high school
It’s a very real possibility Millicent has been lying about her age to her own children and everyone else so nobody would know just how young a mother she really is. But when everybody started going thru her high school yearbooks that’s when the jig was up. 😔
When Dorothy Jane said "Goodbye Daddy" from the top of the stairs, I got a little choked up and then she wanted to ride the Ferris Wheel with her mom, a couple tears found their way out.
This episode is probably my all-time favorite. The actress who plays Dorothy Jane was so talented. Her facial expression as she's watching her father dial the phone in the kitchen is just perfect, in my opinion. She has that same crestfallen look in the episode where her classmate shames her about wearing a Salvation Army dress (my second favorite episode!) She's also one of my all-time favorite TV characters. I would've loved to be friends with her at that age. She's bookish and sensitive, like I was at that age.
I keep reading that people think the writers missed a plot hole with Millicents age but don't realize that Millicent always lied about her age so Dorothy Jane never found out her mom didn't finish high school because she was pregnant with her. It was actually well written.
He's not a bad man, just not a good son, husband, and dad materials. The mom could tell that DJ still love her dad, she is just upset about him always leaving them. If her mom didn't tell her to hug and kiss her dad, that would be a bad example, that her mom is encouraging her to continue to hold a grudge against her dad. The mom knew he would leave so without hug and kiss, they would always have something to regret about.
this isn't about making the laundry something wrong. In this case they already knew both parents come remember people to be ready to spray wild animals people. People can be adopted people are social. Biological both boys and girls are who their mother is, it is the older than me see that becomes the new being. And nobody watches a show with the main and support of character both girls to listen to the drama.
i feel it was about respect. i feel the mom was right. god said we are supposed to honor parents. at the if they are right or wrong he was deal with them.
I wouldn’t force her either. I told myself that if my daughter doesn’t feel comfortable hugging someone or being around someone I’m not going to force her. I used to hate it especially when I’d had to be around my abuser...
Well, if he was going to leave anyway, why did he turn the job down on the phone? I think what happened was he realized he wasn't really welcome there and "you can't go home again". That's why he signed the divorce papers. Now, what he still can do is be a father to them and visit and keep in touch with them. But he doesn't even do that apparently.
I think if this show would've lasted longer people would think that the dad had a substance abuse problem. Yes, he worked outside of the home. I think that he was going out a lot before he left. She got sick of his shit. The show hinted but never really addressed that he may have had a drinking or drug problem and to keep quite in front of the kids. Maybe the networks probably didn't want to go that far. It was weird how he just leaves, working far away and not sending money for the kids. Another thing I don't understand is this is a poor family but, they're in this beautiful big Victorian house
And She Was In The ABC TV Movie "Backfield In Motion" And Some More TV Movies as Well And Then Starred In "An Eye For An Eye" With Sally Field and Disney Channel's Up, Up, & Away.
I REALLY don’t understand this man. He makes all this noise about wanting to provide for his family, raise his children and actually live in the house with them every day. He makes a big show of it til he’s blue in the face. The only thing he says that explains his actions is that rant about the light bulb. Pyramid Corners is a coffin to this man, a deathtrap he’s desperate to escape. Something DJ has in common with him. There’s likely no good work in that town so it makes sense he would go out of state to chase good paying jobs. He may rationalize his actions in his head and maintain a certain attitude and performance; he even makes a point to show up during the carnival just so he can spoil and indulge his kids and tell himself he’s being a good dad to them and at least giving them good memories. But deep deep down I think the idea of spending the rest of his life in Pyramid Corners makes him want to kill himself and those 5 children are simply not enough reason for him to accept that fate. And I’m sure he hates himself for feeling that way.
Ouch. These are all actors after all and they aren’t trying to maintain a consistent resemblance while casting. Millicent was never that kind of person.
After ending its first season on June 16, 1992, the series was retooled and renamed Almost Home. Premiering on February 6, 1993, the second incarnation features the Torkelsons relocating to Seattle after Millicent accepts a job as a nanny. In this series, Steven Floyd and Ruth Ann did not appear nor were they mentioned. Millicent took the other three children to live with Brian Morgan (Perry King) and his two kids; Gregory (Jason Marsden) and Molly (Brittany Murphy). Brian ran a successful clothing catalog/magazine titled Molly Gregory, a business started by his late wife and so-named after both his children.
Minkus ? Chucky Lee? He's hardly an Urkel rip off they were created around the same time. In fact Steve Urkel was originally meant to be a temporary comic relief.
Well I don't thinkg she's not overreacting (i'm 35). She's just feeling time passing by as sometimes we feel it when we realized what we've gone through and what we can expect from us should time goes by as it has.
@@okutaviof how dare you destroy my utopia? :) I know why women feel that way. That just means we men have to be more gentlemanly. No one likes getting older.
were you single with kids? cuz I've been single with 2 kind since I was 30 and no one even looks at me twice no man wants a 31 yo woman with 2 kids trust me ....
@@UnashamedCaliforniagirl I personally dont care my dear what you agree with or not. Im giving my opinion on a fictional show altho this does happen in real life. Run along now and stop stalking my posts . Weirdo
